Patch 5.45 | Preparation Checklist – FFXIV



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12 thoughts on “Patch 5.45 | Preparation Checklist – FFXIV”

  1. For other peoples sake I hope they don't require castrum completion for the weapon. For those of us that were lucky enough to complete it, that's fine for us, but I know so many people that gave up trying to get a clear because its just not rewarding enough for anyone to have the slightest interest in doing it.
    This is entirely SE's fault for the design language of Castrum, because it virtually had no longevity at all and has just left players endlessly searching for a chance to clear it. Its hard to convince people to spend their time/risk their mettle in castrum when the rewards are virtually non-existent compared to anything else.

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  2. Glad my checklist currently consists of "Get crafting skills to 60, work on new gathering equipment, finish HW (when you feel like it), try and level DRK to 60 so you have options in SB"

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  3. Bozja/Castrum is kind of a mess. They made it WAY faster to get your relic outside than inside. I get that they didn't want it to be like Eureka where you have to grind hardcore inside for a relic and have no other options, but a 100% chance on gold for a memory in HW Fates vs like a 10-20% chance within Bozja – the content the relic is attached to itself – is just strange.

    Add to that the HIGH PENALTY of death in Bozja to your mettle vs the meager gain in coins, the low drop rate for gear upgrade boxes, and the ludicrous upgrade cost for the gear – especially when coins ONLY dropped from Castrum – AND that Castrum is required for story progression and it's just a total mess. And I say this as someone who did it early, got a couple of Castrum clears, had enough coins to buy all the pieces of my healing set (not upgrade, just the base pieces – which, admittedly, WERE cheap relatively speaking) and is level 15 in there. They should have made it where you incurred no mettle penalty for death in there and increased the coin payout and droprates for the items CONSIDERABLY. The upgrade token costs should also probably be about 1/10th of what they are. 50 for a hat/glove/boot one and 100 for a chest/leg one seems reasonable since it's sort of a "if you have bad luck on Castrum drops or just want to farm coins from Fates (now that coins have been added to Fates)" seems far more reasonable.

    Instead, they made it punitive to run Castrum, and with meager rewards, then are surprised Pikachu face when no one will run them and people still needing their clear for the story get upset.

    I'm just hoping they consider these things going forward and make the second part better, and maybe go back and hotfix/patch in for the first section to help people out there.

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  4. Oh, as for my checklist:

    I finished getting my DoH all to 80 (already had DoL) using Ishgard Resto. Not sure if this is needed, but it's a good optional thing. Other than that…

    …have capped Poetics and maybe Allegory, as well as capped gatherer/crafter scripts (this is REALLY easy if you have at least one DoH and one DoL at level cap since you can get most of the way to 2,000 scripts of each kind just by doing the weekly turn-ins). After that, do Beast Tribe dailies or have some tokens stored up for them.

    I say this just in case they do something like HW where you need a lot of parts (this is about where we tend to get to the grind-heavy part of past relics) and if you're able to buy them from a variety of sources (think the Unidenfied parts phase of the HW relic), so having a good stock of various scripts, tomes, and tokens can help get a leg up. The relic has also already used Poetics…

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  5. Hope they learned their lesson with Bozja and never again give an EASIER, FASTER option to grind the main reward of the content outside of said content.

    I literally can NOT get memories in Bozja almost at all because nobody is playing it. I'm forced to do fates outside, even though I hate that and want to do bozja.

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