What's your first impression of Eureka?

[Pireco]

I dont believe i am saying this but i prefer diadem (both incarnations) over this thing, also i prefer any steps of both past "relics" , at launch, better, and i tougth i hated those

[Namida-Hikari]

It's more like a real MMO.

Yes ! A Free To Play one !

[Nariel]

My genuine reaction after my first hour in it :

[Innocuous]

Diadem 1.5 "Surely relic can carry it" edition.

[Bobs]

How is that remotely fun or interesting?

I'm not saying that this is your new life now. Currently dailies can be finished in 1 day? 2?
Now there is something else. Hopefully they add to it. The zone itself is fairly small currently.

I mean from my perspective this thread is the same as people coming on here to say Savage is hard, you see that right?

All of the sudden the devs don't know what they are doing? It's one or the other guys.

[AyelaArcenstyle]

Is this really their new method of doing the relic?

So far, after about 5hrs in this hell. I spent most of it healing. Anyone else try healing in there? I thought it would be fun. I even looked forward to it.

So, what have we learnt? You can, IF you can put up with the most boring and stupid grind in XIV, get the gear that you can one day meld 4 pieces of materia to...

Not, customise the weapons so the stats suit your play style. No, just meld, and dye... That's it...

It's only ilv 350, Savage gives 370... (I haven't started Savage yet, but I feel I could get a full set of my desired gear long before completing this hell)
I feel like this is the worst possible addition to XIV ever.

I said to my friends as we were just hitting level 3 "It's like they took a page out of those F2P MMO's"

Oh, and also, don't think for a second you can run off to one of those other Aetherytes and unlock them.. No no no, they're level locked...

Bad content, give me my relic

[Jijifli]

Wow there is a lot of "I gave up after an hour" in this thread.
This isn't like Savage instances where the game just hands you high level gear. It's more like a real MMO.

I feel like it could be a start of something good. They just need to stick with it and not give up like everyone in this thread did, after an hour.

I can't stress the reason why this is crap enough.

If I wanted to play a game where I just beat up a bunch of braindead enemies, I have much better options. I can do BDO, and have a blast. I can do BnS and have a blast. I can't with FFXIV's system. It is boring. So boring that I actually nearly fell asleep doing it. If the content is lulling people to sleep, it's probably boring as bricks.

Actually, wait. I'd rather stare at bricks than do this.

[EdwinLi]

Honestly, I think they miss the mark on this.

Design wise, Eureka is made to be like the old school MMOs where the only way to level up is to find a party through shout and zerg a single spot until you get enough exp to level up.

Leveling wise, they made it far too slow even by old school leveling standards in my opinion (despite max level being 20). I know they want Eureka to be like the old days when players could only level up by grinding hours on end just to get 1 level per week but they forgotten that people have moved on from that time and people did not find mindlessly grinding 0.01% exp per mob kill fun but just relieved it was over so they can get into endgame content.

Only reason I will risk my sanity going through this is to learn the full storyline of Eureka which goes back to a past 2.X MSQ event mentioned but remained unanswered until now.

[NovaLevossida]

First experience: I went in there and put my flag up and shouted, but no one wanted a level 1 DPS.

I ended up starting a group with another person, and it took us a while to fill it up. We killed basic mobs in the style of Diadem 1.0 for an hour. A tank had to leave at that point, and then the group disbanded.

What I got out of this was Diadem 1.0 as my first experience. Based on the experience of others who have done it much more than just an hour, it doesn't seem like it fundamentally changes much. I can't imagine doing this for 3 hours. Or even another hour on another day. It was dreadfully boring.

[Bobs]

I can't stress the reason why this is crap enough.

If I wanted to play a game where I just beat up a bunch of braindead enemies, I have much better options. I can do BDO, and have a blast. I can do BnS and have a blast. I can't with FFXIV's system. It is boring. So boring that I actually nearly fell asleep doing it. If the content is lulling people to sleep, it's probably boring as bricks.

Actually, wait. I'd rather stare at bricks than do this.

What level are you currently 1? 4? Do you expect end game content at level 1 in any other game?