What's your first impression of Eureka?

[Yojimzo]

...I find it hilarious how many people are complaining, but then again, this requires the old fashioned grind mindset you'd have back at WoW launch, this is some actually time demanding content, unlike the constant weekly handholding 14 has done till now. It ain't for everyone, I agree, the fact it's purely for glamours and the like is problematic, sure, but I've only solo'd till now and find it a great way to just throw something on in the background and just grind without much to worry about. To each their own. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Sieben79]

...I find it hilarious how many people are complaining, but then again, this requires the old fashioned grind mindset you'd have back at WoW launch, this is some actually time demanding content, unlike the constant weekly handholding 14 has done till now. It ain't for everyone, I agree, the fact it's purely for glamours and the like is problematic, sure, but I've only solo'd till now and find it a great way to just throw something on in the background and just grind without much to worry about. To each their own. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If new content need external distractions (like music, netflix or chatter on discord) to be fun, then the new content is boring. Furthermore WoW launched 2004, so 14 years later I'll expect something new

[SpeckledBurd]

I've noticed that actions that require the player to be in combat sometimes won't work while fighting Notorious Monsters. While I was on Warrior I couldn't activate Infuriate, which was pretty annoying. When playing both Machinist however, I found that I wouldn't build heat from using Flamethrower and I couldn't even activate barrel stabilizer which flat out breaks the job.

[Fourbestintoner]

it's a nice grind once you start farming nm, but having to upgrade the set piece by piece is retarded and suffering, weapon and gear should upgrade together

[Erudito]

Before it launched, I honestly thought it would be terrible. Just as bad, or if not worse, than Diadem.

First day, I spent a bit over an hour there and got to level 3. While repetitive, it was somewhat entertaining and oddly relaxing. I also used it to hammer some rotations to my muscle memory so that was a plus. I was looking forward to a repeat performance of this on future log ins.

Second day, I skip out. Did not feel like playing or watching anything.

Third day (today, 3/15/2018) Worse FFXIV play session of my life. To put it bluntly, the level disparity between me and just about everyone else made it so I received zero (0, big fat nothing) exp from the mobs. The FATEs help but not by much. And the level disparity made it so that I got no loot from FATEs either.

Will try to go back tonight, hoping to at least get some progress in before the place dies. Once the great deal of people get what the want from the place, population will wither making FATE spawning and clearing a truly difficult task, inevitable killing Euraka.

[Vahlnir]

Will try to go back tonight, hoping to at least get some progress in before the place dies. Once the great deal of people get what the want from the place, population will wither making FATE spawning and clearing a truly difficult task, inevitable killing Euraka.

It's not even 3 days old, and starting to die off a bit. By the end of week 1 or week 2 it will be a ghost town. Do people not see how this is a huge problem? It took them how long to push this to live, and this is all they have to show for it? As I've said before, grinding itself doesn't bother me at all. If they want me to work hard for something for 3 months I will happily do it. But this grind is, as a friend put it, "literally Abyssea". Only they somehow made it more monotonous. It's Diadem with a fresh coat of paint...with an elemental wheel attached. Something needs to be done to make the zone more than just "kill all the things to kill the bigger thing". Dailies, more quests, maybe hidden collectibles or rewards just for exploring. There are more that people have already listed, so I won't sound like a broken record and let people read through things. Eureka could be so much more than it is. I want it to be. I don't want it to fail, I want it to flourish.

[Vstarstruck]

...I find it hilarious how many people are complaining, but then again, this requires the old fashioned grind mindset you'd have back at WoW launch, this is some actually time demanding content, unlike the constant weekly handholding 14 has done till now. It ain't for everyone, I agree, the fact it's purely for glamours and the like is problematic, sure, but I've only solo'd till now and find it a great way to just throw something on in the background and just grind without much to worry about. To each their own. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Lol, implying Eureka is not handholding. Something that takes a long time from having arbitrary count of items does not define what is hand holding. FFXIV in general is handholding, outside hiding weapon tome upgrades behind menu mazes. Eureka is hand holding, it tells you where to go, what to do, follow the scary face fate icon on the map, etc.

Alright, after a few days of trying it out, my thoughts:

- This is NOT solo friendly content. Gaining xp is long enough in a party, I can't imagine how long it will take to level alone. The hp bloated monsters 2-3 shot at my level (potion mashing and all), and chaining them, again, will take so long it's ridiculous. To top it off, the threat of losing an obscene amount of xp WHEN you die, if you can't call for some god-sent healer to come save you? Seriously, calling this solo friendly content is a flat out lie.

when and where did they call it solo friendly?

[MrSmiley]

Getting kicked form groups when higher lv healer shouts lfg, group pulling lots of enemies, hardcore healing to keep them up, but get 0 exp cause I guess I did no damage? Me and other healer were constantly missing out on at least half the exp. Not good impressions. Just mindless button mashing.

[Tiraelina]

when and where did they call it solo friendly?

Basically everywhere it was mentioned?

Solo to 8 players.

[Avatre]

but get 0 exp cause I guess I did no damage?

This I think is one of the main issues that will cause Eureka to completely die out for most people that actually want to do it. Even as a RDM the EXP I was getting per kill(in mass pulling situations none the less while doing AoE spam) was drastically varying. It was usually a variation of about +/-50% the EXP gain from the exact same monsters across all the pulls.