Eureka impressions from ex-FF11 player.

[Whocareswhatmynameis]

When I first went into Eureka i didn't like it very much. I thought it was similar to Diadem but with fates that occasionally spawn.

Then a couple days later players found out that you had to force the NMs to spawn, similar to FF11's lottery spawn system. Where killing an enemy had a low chance that a NM would respawn in it's place. I started to like it a little more then.

The things I really liked about Eureka, were that it encouraged players to group up to tackle the NMs. I also liked that the whole instance encourages players to share information with each other to succeed inside. The quests, the NM spawn timers, killing wraiths to spawn pazuzu all needed players to work together to share information. It really felt more like an online RPG than duty findering the dungeons.

Things I didn't like were that it definately felt that it had that FF14 super-casual twist to it. The NMs could be attacked by the entire zone which leads to pretty much every NM monster just getting zerged down easily. You lose xp upon dying but only if you don't get raised. This leads to players just throwing bodies at the NMs until they die. I think there should be a smaller xp penalty for dying and getting raised. This would lead to players only taking on NMs that are around their level. And level 1-20 could be done in just a few days of semi-serious play.

Things i would improve are making the NMs only able to be fought by 1 party or maybe 1 alliance at a time to encourage players to split up and tackle different NMs instead of "the train". A small xp penalty for dying and getting raised to avoid players just throwing bodies at the NMs. Also more interesting ways to spawn the NMs.

Overall the content was a fun nostalgic trip to FFXI NM hunting and it was fun seeing some of the 11 bosses in there like Serket, Valkurm Emporer, and Simurgh. I liked the nod to FF11, but would like to see Eureka improved some more.

[Vonleo]

Hows about posting this in the other billion threads on the front page instead of making another thread? Jesus our general forum is flooded with "impressions" of eureka.

[Whocareswhatmynameis]

Your mad that a few days after patch 4.25 that people are talking about patch 4.25 on the forums???? Looooooooooool

[SDaemon]

Your mad that a few days after patch 4.25 that people are talking about patch 4.25 on the forums???? Looooooooooool

His point just whooshed right over your head.....

[Laerad3993]

“Things i would improve are making the NMs only able to be fought by 1 party or maybe 1 alliance at a time to encourage players to split up and tackle different NMs instead of "the train". ”

It’s annoying enough trying to to do NMs right now, without splitting it further. I was fine with every point but this one. If they actually split the instance into alliances ONLY, maybe. But adding a tagging system to this, absolutely not.

[Pastahnak]

Adding a tagging system would certainly stop campers/afkers but they aren't really that big a deal tbh. (I can live with them and even I sit around sometimes between fates just to take a little break). I also don't know how easy it would be to have party leaders manually make an alliance together so that could be an issue.

[Bacent]

Things I didn't like were that it definately felt that it had that FF14 super-casual twist to it. The NMs could be attacked by the entire zone which leads to pretty much every NM monster just getting zerged down easily. You lose xp upon dying but only if you don't get raised. This leads to players just throwing bodies at the NMs until they die. I think there should be a smaller xp penalty for dying and getting raised. This would lead to players only taking on NMs that are around their level..

Sounds like you're trying to force people who prefer the mechanics of XIV over XI to quit eureka. I absolutely hated that part about the game. Not to mention it sounds like this would just cause another split between players in Eureka. At the least in a fate train people are willing to bring low level players with them to help them level up. This would just make everyone who didn't zerg fest up to the point get flat out ignored.

[Vstarstruck]

Your mad that a few days after patch 4.25 that people are talking about patch 4.25 on the forums???? Looooooooooool

like SDaemon said point over your head, we had a lot of diadem 3.0 threads where a lot got removed, it seems GMs just prefer you post here:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...sion-of-Eureka

btw Diadem is nothing alike with NM farming in ffxi. In FFXI they where time based. then after you killed select monsters called place holders, it had a chance to pop. Some had a max called forced pop, some (maybe most? the ones that people solo farm anyway) had no such thing and was completely rng.

FFXI's Serket was the biggest troll ever, fyi

[Alistaire]

FFXI's Serket was the biggest troll ever, fyi

Nah, the biggest trolls were easily the ones that only spawned when nobody killed any of the placeholders for 24 hours.