What's your first impression of Eureka?

[Vocal_Night]

Well, to be fair, griding over and over again expecting things will be different at lv 20 is kinda insane.

It's written in the patch notes that higher level mobs have higher chances to drop crystals, couple that with the chain bonus = Increased drop rate.
It's already been confirmed by screenshots and people above level 13 that higher level fates drop more crystals and more lootboxes.
By level 17 (Eureka discord information) you will be able to use mounts, making traversing the map and farming NM easier and faster.

So... Yeah it will be different?

[Stanelis]

So...how was getting from 1-70 on an alt class(or character) really any different? You were grinding to get there, whether it be grinding dungeons, FATEs, Leviquests, main story, or side quests, it's still grinding over and over again. And a lot of the time, you're grinding the highest possible dungeon for your current level.

Difference between eureka leveling and ""vanilla" leveling is that during vanilla leveling :

a) you were unlocking new areas,
b) you were unlocking new abilities,
c) you were unlocking new quests,
d) you were unlocking new dungeons/trials/etc.

Leveling for the sake of leveling is nonsense.

[ManuelBravo]

Once you know the mechanics and how NMS work it makes it more interesting and fun. Currently working on finishing my +2 weapons and reallyw ant to see how the Anemos weapons are.

[Avatre]

Am I the only who feels like they had much bigger plans for Eureka but for whatever reason didn’t go through with them? Idk it just feels like something important is missing.

Could be that they are building to that, which might make sense for them, but seems to be hurting a fair sized chunk of their player base. It will probably become more apparent as we progress through the Eureka story, and the subsequent patches that deal with Eureka.

[Nariel]

So...how was getting from 1-70 on an alt class(or character) really any different? You were grinding to get there, whether it be grinding dungeons, FATEs, Leviquests, main story, or side quests, it's still grinding over and over again. And a lot of the time, you're grinding the highest possible dungeon for your current level.

As for my first job the story and secondary quest push me lv 70, other class well... You know... New spell to use, gameplay to learn... I find it boring too but, at least I don't fall asleep during dugeon.

[BillyKaplan]

By level 17 (Eureka discord information) you will be able to use mounts

Ha ha ha ha I knew it was a good idea to pack comfortable boots Q_Q

[Lord_Zlatan]

It's written in the patch notes that higher level mobs have higher chances to drop crystals, couple that with the chain bonus = Increased drop rate.
It's already been confirmed by screenshots and people above level 13 that higher level fates drop more crystals and more lootboxes.
By level 17 (Eureka discord information) you will be able to use mounts, making traversing the map and farming NM easier and faster.

So... Yeah it will be different?

Different in terms of QoL, which I dont think anyone will have an issue with. But the fact remains its just Valkurm Dunes/Bahflau Thickets

[Iplewhelmed]

This is pretty much the moment I gave up on Eureka.

https://imgur.com/4dPD3Bx

I'll probably log in just for lockboxes every now and then (because that dinosaur mount was the only thing I looked forward to about this shole fiasco), but that's it. There is nothing more disheartening than having what little progress you made actively taken away from you because lol oldschool mmo please be excited.

[Reinha]

My first impressions:

1. The elemental wheel is stupid. The fact that you can lose xp is really stupid.

2. The quest seems nice but I wish it wasn't locked behind a mob grind. I also wish the Aetherytes weren't locked behind a mob grind. Leveling is boring.

3. We should be able to gather the tokens and boxes from the ground and gain experience doing so. This would make the content more solo friendly.

4. It's hard to find people at levels 1-3 and it will only get harder over time. It's silly that a relic becomes harder and harder to obtain the more time passes, it should be the opposite.

5. Some of the weapons look nice so I guess I'm doing this content.

[Krotoan]

Went back for another dose.. still don't like it. I may keep playing it for the items that drop (mithra windup plz) but Its going to be even more mindless than low level roulettes.
I'm not encouraged by the idea that higher levels will drop more crystals, they could have easily made the lower levels drop DIFFERENT crystals for the first couple tiers and then the higher level mobs drop tier 2 or 3 crystals instead of having this weird ramp up effect. Oh.. and why are the crystals items? It could have been another currency, that'd be nice.
The most efficient way to play is to follow the giant group of people murdering things till an NM spawns and then zerging that. Each NM has 2 or more mechanics that are usually some sort of AOE and one stolen from a dungeon. Once you know them it's just repeating them over and over till the thing is dead and avoiding idiots training in adds that they ran by to get to the now popped NM.

I'm now level 5 and I am ABSOLUTELY DREADING the xp loss system they think people wanted. In ANY game I play, any mechanic that can negate hours of playing with one mistake is unwelcome. Death should have punishments but something so severe is not balanced. If you are part of a party and are zerging, sure it's not a huge loss since someone might be able to res you or you can make it up on the next NM. But if you're soloing like they said you could? Death is a gigantic setback. They've also kept repairs in for some reason along with a time limit so hey, maybe you finally found a good party but look now you've gotta head back and repair or maybe you're out of time and have to ditch the party entirely even if you want to continue.
I walked to both aetherytes while I was level 2 since the mobs use a very easily avoided line of sight aggro and the "blood" aggro doesn't care if you're 20 or 2, just don't be hurt. But I couldn't attune to them for some reason because... level 9 is going to be important... for.. that. It's not dangerous, it's tedious.
Have a party doing an actual XP grind? Killing monsters and chaining like they imply you should be? Better hope nobody walks up and starts tapping the mobs you are! You'll lose nearly all the xp. We've re-introduced kill-steal griefing into the game as well. Better hope the mobs you've decided to kill aren't the spawn mobs for the NM either or your area is going to be flooded with people murdering them for the next 5-10 minutes and you get next to no xp.

There are reasons for me to play this content but all of them are the rewards, not the systems involved.
Elemental attunements are silly. I get to set my dial to "kill" or "tank" and then proceed as usual. No further involvement needed or real advantage gained from splitting points (I understand this may be more important later but right now it's next to ignore-able). I have a limit on how much I can swap my dial, for unknown reasons since i only use one charge to swap to the monsters I'm going to be killing for the next 20 minutes and then another to swap to the NM that spawns nearby and I get charges back every 10 monsters so I never have to worry about how many charges I have.
I was cooled on the tome grind for the past couple weeks since I had monster hunter to keep me amused, but it now looks like I need to catch up because depending on this drudgery for anything other than my relic weapon will drive me mad.


You can count me firmly in the "This content was not made for me." party.