Eureka - The Time Sink

[Vstarstruck]

I'm not trying to be rude when I say this.
People who say things similar to this simply do not know how Eureka works.
Before you panic, try and find real information, ask around or google it.

Not to mention; your concern is about content that is designed to take time, something you are poor in, of course you will take longer.
So the natural conclusion is that you need to fit in as much progression as you can in a limited amount of time. Now luckily for you, you can get EXP bombs in the form of NMs (The way everyone else has leveled by the way)

Simply put: You want to spawn an NM, you need to kill its placeholders.
Who are the place holders? Google (And Reddit) to the rescue, thanks to many players testing and figuring it all out~!

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...n_eureka_kill/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...and_locations/

Personally I prefer to use the map.

Just kill whatever placeholder monster you can (solo or in a group) until the NM appears, invite the people who inevitably shout for invites and kill it together! BAM! A chunk of Crystals, Lockboxes and an Experience bomb will be your reward! Don't forget to change your element to suit the boss, and don't be afraid to change to Defence if the NM is a bit higher then you are, you'll still get gold if you are in a party.

And this is current and before the next update, where they will bring in Level sync, a new solo content and sync down everyone's elemental wheel with the NMs lvl

^^)/ So don't feel disheartened people. Eureka is a hunt!

That is a big problem with it though, it has very slow start up time, then at the end grinding is a joke, it is the complete reverse what progress is.

For example, lets say it takes someone 9 days, 2 hrs per day to get level 20, then 1 day to farm
What it should be is get max level in 1.5-2 days then farming for the relics 7.5-8 days.

Even though the total time is the same, situation 2 will appeal to more people then situation 1. You shouldn't be presenting players a mountain to start off with (Come to think of it i learned such analogy on the Japanese forum) It is not good to give players a mountain to climb to start off on. I have seen NO GAME be it main (like FFXI leveling) or sub event (side content like it is in ffxiv) that does this. That is why a lot of people are turned off by it, HELL even music has rules like this:
https://youtu.be/2lQVG7Gf7I4?t=342
This is a major turn off because you are presenting too much of a grind at the start, you need to introduce a small bit at a time, in all the games I played in everything I seen, this is the first time I seen a problem like this.