Eureka's mind boggling grind

I am not sure what Yoshi-P or Square understands about the term "grind" but congratulations, you hit the nail on the head with Eureka!

With a previous live letter I thought Yoshi acknowledged that previous versions of Atma, or Anima were a tedious grind, and that they received said player feedback and would prevent further steps in the Eureka weapon saga to be "to grindy".

Now why do I find myself mindlessly grinding creatures in a full party with a meager 100 exp reward hoping for a crystal? Oh wait, its not that bad, there are also boss fates with what seems a 1 hour spawn timer.

It wouldn't be so bad if you could grind creatures of your own level by yourself or in party, but 1-7 exp? Come on!

The lack of quests aside from the main story is just mind baffling, this isn't just an improved diadem, its like you took the worst aspects of diadem and then made Eureka with some RNG loot drops to have that carrot on a stick there!

Please add more fates or any kind of activity that is rewarding in terms of exp and crystals!

This was my biggest concern is that it is a grind and forced party play.... I loved grinding relics but I was skeptical Eureka would be Diadem 1.5.

I feel like Eureka was created for bots and not players.

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Originally Posted by Abanamat

I feel like Eureka was created for bots and not players.

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It's basically "FFXIV: Bot simulator 2018"

1 tank, 1 healer, 6 ranged. Find mob a few levels above your group, burn until you level, move to mob 1 lvl up, rinse and repeat, for hours.

Oh and pray an NM spawns. That's the only time you actually need to move your character.

They said eurika would be a grind and it is. What else were u expecting?

"what else was I expecting?" ....hmmmm... Complete English language in both the reddit and official forums for starters. Cuz ... I've searched and searched (even w/ google) but can't find a translation for "NM"

Anyone know what "NM" stands for?

Also, I was going into this blind without any info beforehand. It's a cool map and kinda fun, but the only hold-back I have now - close to 4 levels into it is - the level grind. Wasn't quite expecting that. Lol. Maybe, I'm going about it wrong? Perhaps there's a trick to it? Or a better way? :p

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Originally Posted by Kyonika

Anyone know what "NM" stands for?

Also, I was going into this blind without any info beforehand. It's a cool map and kinda fun, but the only hold-back I have now - close to 4 levels into it is - the level grind. Wasn't quite expecting that. Lol. Maybe, I'm going about it wrong? Perhaps there's a trick to it? Or a better way? :p

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NM is notorious monster, I think. Basically boss mob type things. They give really good rewards in Eureka.

As for levels... form up a full party and fight stuff 3 or more levels higher than you are. It's still a grind (that's the point I think), but far more efficient. Don't attack mobs other parties are attacking, it really cripples your exp income.

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Originally Posted by Kyonika

"what else was I expecting?" ....hmmmm... Complete English language in both the reddit and official forums for starters. Cuz ... I've searched and searched (even w/ google) but can't find a translation for "NM"

Anyone know what "NM" stands for?

Also, I was going into this blind without any info beforehand. It's a cool map and kinda fun, but the only hold-back I have now - close to 4 levels into it is - the level grind. Wasn't quite expecting that. Lol. Maybe, I'm going about it wrong? Perhaps there's a trick to it? Or a better way? :p

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NM stands for Notorious Monster, it was a term for heavy hitting rare spawn mobs that gave better than the average loot in FFXI.

Think Hunts/Fate bosses sort of mob.

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Originally Posted by Risvertasashi

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Originally Posted by Shouko

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OIC... Thank you :)

It feels like FFXI all over again.