What's your first impression of Eureka?

[Marluxia]

It is far too early to compare SB's take on relic compared to HW and ARR. With Eureka we have access to only the first part of many.

That being said while the old relics gave you options, it was in content you had already done to death. At least Eureka is a completely new zone. It really needs more activities but I'd still rather that than "go grind boring fates in questing zones with rng drops, do beast tribe dailies even though you're already capped on reputation, and do this old dungeon".

I get the point you're making here, but Eureka is only a new zone in the sense that it looks marginally different. Functionally it's identical to FATE grinding, Hunts, and Dino-Island Diadem, only made way, way worse by the lack of level sync, unreasonably low XP gains, and all the worst parts of zerging like the NM disappearing and being unable to contribute with anything other than healing and raises.