What's your first impression of Eureka?

[Riardon]

In the beginning I hated Eureka (all except the place which is far more complex and rich and beautiful than any of the SB or HW zones were and thats how new maps should be like).
The painful slow lvling in the first lvls and the lack of knowledge on how exactly things worked it was discouraging.
Then I decided to press it on. Now I have 6 Relics and I will go for every single one of them.
Seems slow but it's actually fast.
I really liked the feeling of the old school MMORPGs inside Eureka. People actually helping each other inside there more than any other place I've seen.
All relics since 2.0 were supposed to be a grindy option. At least now I did it on a completely new area.
Don't forget many people were asking for a dangerous zone like this and an open world "dungeon".
The next Eureka needs some tweaks though.

Just fix the Horrible game breaking Culling, the painful anemos crystals turn in to protean which takes ages and perhaps the painful slow lvlsing at the first lvls and the next Eureka area will be better.

[MStowastiqVahlshdeh]

I love it so far and I can't get enough of it. Yea I spend way too much time in there and that is not even counting the time I spend actually grinding relic stuff.

[Dragoon4life]

It’s Stormblood Diadum. Which everyone hated and was dead faster then PvP content.

[Dragoon4life]

It’s Stormblood Diadum. Which everyone hated and was dead faster then PvP content. If I wanted to go to lv 1 and not ride mounts and no be able to switch to other Jobs which I spent the last two-three year leveling then I’d just start a new sub. Idk I just really hate the slow leveling. I’m sure I’ll like it at 20...right?

[Fynlar]

So, if I see you dead, should I refrain from raising you because "it wouldn't be solo" ?

That's basically already what happens anyway unless you're still low level and still near the starting town (at which point you arguably save more time by just HPing and not getting weakness), so...

[Wyvernheart]

I like this mode. I would very much like to see relic geat up your ilvl in the zone though. And add more gear with special stats.

[Tridus]

Third impression. A friend of mine is something like level 17, has the animos stuff, and is a pro in there. Since he likes doing it, he offered to come help us out and see if we can catch up some.

And if we're grouped with him, we get zero experience from every single normal mob in the place. The level gap between him and us is so high that grouping with him shuts us down entirely.

Pretty sure I'm not the first person to run into that, but I don't even... it's the first time in several days I even went in there, and now it turns out I can only play with people going as slow as I am.

At this point, I guess it's time to just give up until it's fixed. Meanwhile I can take his levelling BLM into all sorts of content just fine because level sync is a thing. How they broke this so badly is beyond me, but MMO content that says "you can't play with your friends" is failing on a fundamental level.

[Vahlnir]

I've finished everything I wanted to, which includes all NM drops but 1 (dang Strider Boots, but they'd just sit in my retainer anyway and collect dust), all lockbox drops and 2 full relic sets...only planned to do 1, but decided to do a 2nd on a whim. But...I think that's about it for me. I went at it pretty hardcore, and I'm fully aware of this. But this content simply isn't meant to last. Wasn't that much fun to begin with though, imo. It had things we wanted, if not outright needed, so of COURSE people are doing this content regardless of whether they find it fun or not. People are mainly doing it now because they know it'll be dead soon. Some people actually enjoy it too, and that's fine. Admittedly it will probably last longer than Diadem 1.0, but not by much. So...good try, SE? Ish? Kinda?....nah, not really. Maybe one day they'll learn.

[h0tNstilettos]

Can someone please tell me what page the community team response is on? Need to see if any news will make me change my mind about not subbing again. I just logged into game again for the first time since this last Tuesday because the hours I spent in Eureka completely killed my enjoyment of the game as a whole, even making me bored of content outside Eureka. Prior to Eureka I was enjoying my time back in the game having resubbed since early February. I even spent over $40 on mog station and of course $60 or more on Stormblood Collector's Edition. I figured a week away from game might be enough for me to enjoy the non-Eureka content again like I did prior to Eureka, but I still feel the same after logging in after a week. I've never in my 19 year history of MMOs played content so bad that it made me bored to play all other content in the game that I was enjoying before. This is why I wish I had never stepped foot in Eureka. More than $100 wasted.

So I'm letting my sub lapse. But might return if Eureka is overhauled or my mood returns for the non-Eureka stuff. Eureka is probably the single worst and laziest piece of content I've ever played in my 19 year history of MMOs, including f2p, b2p, and p2p MMOs. No single feature/piece of content in any MMO has ever made me lose interest in all other features/content in the game, even stuff I was enjoying. Usually after trying it and not liking it I can just never touch it again and return to playing the parts of game I do enjoy. But not so here and I have no idea why. One theory I have is that it's the fact that Eureka strips all the good away and focuses on the bare-bones worst aspects of FFXIV. It highlights how basic and bare the classes and combat is if you take away the interesting mechanics, objectives, etc and just fight mobs for hours on end. It's like an MMO at its absolute minimum, aka no substance, like a skeleton ripped from its body, or a foundation with no house. So maybe somehow I'm unable to look at any battle content in the game the same now, and battle content is required for most things. Not sure, just a theory on how Eureka killed the entire game for me.

[Toffa]

At first i was livid, I was sick of this kind of thing a decade ago and that they put the relic behind it really chafed.
however I find that I quite enjoy running around in a massive death mob with the entire data center chatting about whatever.
shame it cant be something more fun