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Bozja, like Eureka before it, is a zone and stable of content in FFXIV separate from the main world in its progression system and progress. It is an entertaining story, that fleshes out another nation’s fight against the Garleans, and is the primary point of progression through the relic weapon unlocks for your ilvl 535 weapon. Any job above lvl 70 can be used, and will gain an asston of exp while inside, meaning it’s a great place to level from 71 to 80. Before the tips, here are the basics: Character progression takes place as a ranking system, where you earn mettle for completing skirmishes and critical engagements and report milestones to an NPC to receive a rank promotion. The higher you promote the more areas you have access to, the more abilities you can use, and the more battles you can join. From wildlife enemies that are free roaming, you can collect memory fragments for abilities, and from robotic enemies you can get clusters.Like Eureka the system has gone through some changes to allow for easier access, and will likely face some more changes after Endwalker is released, but it’s at a very stable point right now where it will remain for the next 5 months, so here are tips to improve your experience in Bozja.  

1. Focus on Skirmishes and Critical Engagements and not solo enemies in the field. The best way to tackle Bozja and work toward your relic weapon is to rank up as fast as possible. You can snag claims on field enemies near the FATEs if you want to supplement income of clusters and fragments.
2. Save your clusters, don’t save your fragments. You’ll want to buy the riding maps for 25 clusters each to speed up your mount in the areas, but otherwise save your clusters for the items you want. Appraise all the fragments you get as you progress through the content so you have a large stock of the lost abilities you’ll want to have for Castrum, Delubrum Reginae, and Dalriada runs. This is especially important if you want to clear DR extreme. 
3. You can farm fragments from the free roaming notorious mobs, or star mobs, very easily. As a healer class, use the essence of the ordained, and Lost Death. When you find the star mobs, sleep them, then cast Lost Death. If death misses, run away to break aggro, wait for the death cooldown to reset, and try again. This will one shot monsters that usually require a raid’s worth of people to bring down, and will net you 10 or more fragments for a few seconds of work. By using the essence of the ordained you increase the death’s success rate and most of the time you will only need to try 2 or three times to kill them.
4. If you are not playing with a group of friends, it is easiest to queue into the CEs solo and then use /say to ask for an invite. This is because people leaving or joining a party prior to entering the CE will cause the registration to be cancelled, meaning that each change the party leader will have to re-register for the entire group. If there is a party member that is ranked too low to enter it will prevent the whole group from registering.
5. Keep a Lost Reraise or Resistance Reraiser, or Lost Cures and Raisers in your holster just in case you end up in a party with no heals or raises. 
6. Collect your weekly quests in Gangos for Castrum, DR, and Dalriada to speed up the process of getting your sweet FF12 inspired armor sets.
7. Be cautious at night time. When the sun goes down many areas have additional, super-powered undead enemies spawn.

Bozja is a lot of fun, I really enjoyed finally getting to be on a large battlefield battling armies of Garleans, since we didn’t really get that in Stormblood. The instances are fun, the gear looks great, and the extra abilities let you really bend your character’s roles and capabilities into some fun experiences. 

That will be it for now, if you have any other helpful tips put them in the comments.