What's your first impression of Eureka?

[TristanBlane]

2 weeks later after jumping in on the Eureka bandwagon, I am now lvl 20 with 4 relics. I still hate how difficult they made the level grinding from 1-10. I still hate that there's really nothing to do in there besides kill NMs. But I powered through it and its done, now I'm in the ranks of the annoying people that pop in every now and again and announce "Is Paz Up?" Because I am done with NM trains and just want my feathers. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Coatl]

So far I have 11 relics complete and I have to say I personally enjoy the gameplay experience Eureka brought to me. However there's very little incentive to keep running eureka if you don't care for multiple relics and it's near impossible to help your low level friends. These two things combined really hurt Eureka and stop me from really recommending it to anyone who wasn't on the 1st day train.

Also, Eureka is a nice way to cap mendacity without having to do your experts.

[Souljacker]

So, SE, there is nothing fun about this event if you didn't hit the train at the start. There just isn't. Soloing isn't really viable with how low the XP is and how dangerously close you've put all the monsters to each other (not to mention how hard-hitting they are), the train isn't viable because the high levels are all using the warp points\mounts to get anywhere, and there's no other options to level up because there is no level sync and you can't use the pf inside.


In all, I don't know who you made this content for. You can't stick a handful of beloved XI nms and glamour gear into a garbage event and call it your tribute to XI. You completely missed the point of what made XI great to begin with.

How to fix?

Give us stealth medicines and spells. This half-baked aggression system where you just time it to walk behind everything or hit \ is silly. It was silly at launch, and it's silly now. If you want to put in content that is XI-like, take ALL the aspects of XI that helped us navigate the world, not just the ones that people HATED (and people HATED this).

Also make it so everyone gets credit for a mob they helped kill, no matter how little the contribution. This is kind of the same problem we had in Campaign where DD got little xp and tanks\healers who did nothing but spam enmity-generating abilities made bank. WHY WOULD YOU COPY THAT SYSTEM WE ALL HATED IT.

Stop gating things behind level. If I can make it to a warp point, I should be able to attune to that warp point. Nothing sucks worse than finally getting to the nm train and seeing them all stop at the aetheryte to go to another part of the map and you can't follow. I'm currently standing all alone waiting for the train to come back my way because there's nothing else I can do.

Either institute level sync or break out the instances by level range, because what it is now just isn't working and whatever you hotfixed isn't enough. I absolutely love so much about this game and was excited to see some XI things coming in, but this isn't XI. This isn't XIV. I don't know WHAT this is, but it's awful and it's making me want to just log off on a day I planned to spend hours online.


As an aside, ENOUGH with the 1000 character limit. Gosh, I'm so angry at spending money on this garbage that is just dragging my nostalgia through the mud.

[Miles_Maelstrom]

It's already starting to die.

The players that had lots of time on their hands have already gotten all the feathers they could ever need. Because these players are the majority of the High level players, doing Pazuzu is becoming increasingly difficult. I finally got Pazuzu level, I went through 5 instance before i was able to get a kill. Had nothing to do with timing I wait for it, the problem with the first 4 instances, the players simply didn't want to do pazuzu. Missed windows in all of them because I couldn't drive up the interest to kill wraiths to spawn him. It's a bad sign of things to come, won;t be long before it's just impossible to get weapons.

[TristanBlane]

It's already starting to die.

. I finally got Pazuzu level, I went through 5 instance before i was able to get a kill. Had nothing to do with timing I wait for it, the problem with the first 4 instances, the players simply didn't want to do pazuzu. Missed windows in all of them because I couldn't drive up the interest to kill wraiths to spawn him. .

This is exactly what I've been experiencing lately. There are still some people doing Paz but not as many and not enough to help kill wraiths in the time frame needed. I guess now its just waiting for the low levels that are running the train to level up enough to do Paz.

[Ceasaria]

The game doesn't tell you that partying is required, so you can't fault someone for venturing out without doing it.

Maybe but SE said the players need to communicate and share their informations to be able to advance in this content like it was in Diadem (ok, you can solo even with that, but it's better together).
They let the players decide how they want to handle things instead of giving goals.
We know that solo PodT is different than with a party (honestly, solo it's boring for me).
So you can come up with this idea : if it's not work (or don't please me) solo, should I try to look for a party (this is where the fun can emerge) ? (after all, it's a mmo).

[ToriiMiyuki]

Pack it up folks. Eureka was a sham. Y'know the Dev Team couldn't care less, right?
Let's just wait for the next decent patch.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Pack it up folks. Eureka was a sham. Y'know the Dev Team couldn't care less, right?
Let's just wait for the next decent patch.

You are right, I guess I was wrong thinking I enjoyed the 10+ hours I put into it solo and with friends. How could I have been so wrong?

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Sorry, but this is exactly how I see it in this thread lol

If I applied this exact argument to something you liked whereas I found it boring, would you agree? You may dislike Eureka, but others enjoy "pointless" grinds just like another subset of players enjoy incredibly difficult content. It's one thing to criticise Eureka, but at least provide some substance. Otherwise, you're just whining.

[BillyKaplan]

Maybe but SE said the players need to communicate and share their informations to be able to advance in this content like it was in Diadem (ok, you can solo even with that, but it's better together).

The only time in which the game itself tells you you need to join forces is when you're trying to upgrade your +2 weapons and it's the standard "we're not going to tell you what you need so you need to either be the lucky first or google it". And even then it doesn't tell you to party up per-se.

They let the players decide how they want to handle things instead of giving goals.

And that is why you'll find a lot of people in this thread are complaining that solo experience is not viable because that's how those players want to "handle things" but they can't

So you can come up with this idea : if it's not work (or don't please me) solo, should I try to look for a party (this is where the fun can emerge) ? (after all, it's a mmo).

Some people play this game for crafting and housing. It being an mmo means very different things to different people. If they have to party up, they simply won't play it.