What's your first impression of Eureka?

[Nestama]

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I was talking about YoKai Watch, which is the equivalent of Atma farming and since Eureka is tied to Relics (specifically the first few steps), is why I mentioned it. I also find it to be more fair in comparing the first few steps of both Relic and Anima to Eureka's Anemos weapon, rather than the later stages.

Base, Relic, Zenith, Atma
Animated, Awoken, Anima, Hyperconductive.
Base, +1, +2, Anemos.

In the Relic chain, the steps from Base-Zenith are arguably the best, as they required us to do some dungeons, kill some Beastmen, Relic specific Trials and then fight Primals (and Coil, if people hadn't beaten Titan HM yet). From then on, though, the Relic weapon quests turned into the unusual grind. I've already gone over the Atma step and some details on Animus.

For the HW Relics, you could skip the first step of the Anima if you already had a Zeta and getting the Awoken weapon was much faster than the Zodiac(?) step (oh lord, I just remembered the Zodiac step. Doing dungeons over and over again for an RNG drop). The Anima step was... exhausting (and I chose to not do the Anima quest until this particular step was nerfed. Did you know 1 star Specialists were required? and that the crafted items were not sold by GC's?). Hyperconductive I don't remember all that well, but I think it required you to do the Crystal Tower raids once a week... (or spamming dungeons until you have 1800 tomes to buy the material)?

Fun fact: NM's give you Mendacity, so I haven't touched Expert Roulette at all :P