What's your first impression of Eureka?

[Babakin]

What was everybody's expectations for Eureka?

From the information that was given and my limited way to understand it, I thought Eureka was going to be a combination of PotD and Diadem.

Maybe taking the idea of aetheral gear from PoTD but calling it elemental gear that you enhance as you explore through Eureka. And then putting in missions and fates similar to Diadem in to help enhance the elemental gear. Once the elemental gear is maxed out you can trade it for the physical relic gear or upgrade to another tier of elemental gear.

I recall a mission in Diadem where we protect a party member as they transport an egg, that was pretty fun to do and different from just zerging a fate or killing x-amount of enemies. In Trials of the Matron you can finish up missions by gathering which was a nice change of pace.

I even thought the puzzle instance they had during the Valentine's Day event was them testing out doing puzzles in the game for Eureka and that'd play a role.

And the weather influx that was originally talked about sounded like different monsters will appear during certain conditions and maybe working to take advantage of when the weather changes occur. Like leading mobs into tornados that toss them up into the air giving them wind weakness. Maybe that's in there, the group I was with mostly stayed in one area killing monsters. So far with the elemental board I haven't noticed too much of a buff then again when your mindlessly grinding mobs in a group its hard to notice a real difference.

The current Eureka just seems like a normal map with HP-bloated monsters in it and no other substance. Monsters are just crowded together and doesn't give it a natural feel to the island and is just another reminder that this is a MMO.

I haven't had the chance to really explore the map since I'm only level 4 and further in enemies get to level 10 and above so its been fairly intimidating. I'm generally disappointed with Eureka. Having to re-level my character up just to take part in NM fates just seems tiring to me. If Eureka was just going to be kill mobs and collect crystals, they could've just done that with the Fates in Othard and Doma. There's no need for a whole new map.

Everybody here on the forums have come up with some fun idea that Eureka could've done like making and protecting settlements, aiding in monster research, and whatnot. I'll probably only do Eureka if my FC is doing it or if I have free time so I can advance the story in there. Else for relic farming I'll probably just wait until a year passes and SE ends up buffing how much crystal and exp you get for it.