What's your first impression of Eureka?

[Arkdra]

This is a real dumpster fire. It isn't even the length of the grind, because it's a relic and those are always grindy and we don't have much information on bad the grind is at higher levels. For all anyone knows the total amount of time might work out similarly to atma.

It's just insanely boring and I cannot believe anyone greenlit this in 2018. This is EQ/FF11 tier tedious and only a tiny portion of players actually want that content, even if all of them won't stop posting about it here. Here is my pro-tip development team; the time where it's cool to ask players to just grind on trash mobs for hours on end has passed, and despite what you may think from the 2.0 days, people don't actually like fates either. Please stop trying to force this on us.

[internalconstrife]

What is this? a generic korean mmorpg? christ I had more fun staring at a wall. Grindfest yes, all previous relics were grindy too BUT THEY HAD VARIATIONS AND YOU ACTUALLY HAD TO DO SOMETHING RELEVANT. NOT KILL XX MOB FOR 1 EXP OR HOPE FOR A CHEST. If it was delayed because the team was trying to come up with new models, I can understand and would even accept it in its current state. But the reality is, we have freaking reskins, after reskins of crafted relic weapons to boot. Not to mention, was this mode made specifically for bots?

[Lambdafish]

Noted! I got some friends to go into it after work.
We'll see how it is when we try it.

Try not to listen to the negativity, and go in with an open mind, expecting a grind. I've been in for about 2 hours and have some made some progress north, ninja'd through some areas we shouldn't have been able to get to, farmed on some powerful enemies and tried to spawn an NM. The content is what you make of it IMO.

[Akor]

i think its fine, it feels like im playing lineage 2 again

[Nestama]

we farmed during about 2hours and got 6 "tokens" !! (with 4 ppl )

Definitely go in with a full group. Find an area to farm in and pretty much kill anything your puller(s) bring. I'm actually unsure if it was even an hour now (maybe an hour and a half), but I eventually left Eureka with around 18-19 crystals and even gained a level.
Also make sure you're killing mobs your group pulls and not mobs that have already been claimed by others. Drop rate is lower.

[ToniRomo]

This is really bad. It's just a bunch of mindlessly hitting mobs and progressing really slow. I am not sure why this got delayed so many times.

I spent most of my playtime during HW making a bunch of relics. I didn't mind the tomestone grind because you got tomestones for most activities so I could do what I wanted to do. I don't really want to spend much time in Eureka.

[Powercow]

It might get more fun at higher levels, or if there's a bunch of secret stuff.

It makes a great first impression -- then 10 minutes later, it's a bad impression. After 3 hours I feel no real urge to go back in at all. It's just too slow and repetitive for such a minor reward. If the stuff was legitimately good, I'd be more willing to overlook some of its flaws. The carrot on a stick is a great motivator, but in this case the carrot is a wax one.

[Lambdafish]

Definitely go in with a full group. Find an area to farm in and pretty much kill anything your puller(s) bring. I'm actually unsure if it was even an hour now (maybe an hour and a half), but I eventually left Eureka with around 18-19 crystals and even gained a level.
Also make sure you're killing mobs your group pulls and not mobs that have already been claimed by others. Drop rate is lower.

This right here. What I've learned from these past few hours is what I already knew about the XIV community, that being that nobody wants to learn, and nobody wants to figure things out. Most of the complaints here echo my first 5 minutes in the content, being level 1 on the beach having no idea what im doing and mindlessly hitting mobs. There is more strategy there, more communication that can be had, and planned expeditions into the deeper parts of the map that are actually quite fun and challenging if you approach them with the right mindset, and get over this hurdle.

[AlphaSonic]

Diadem was better. It's not supposed to be a compliment.

[Gleipni]

Well,if i want to grind for hours,i will play ragnarok or ToS,not FF14.