What's your first impression of Eureka?

[Hestzhyen]

So I tried it again. They changed a few things, I want to see the zone and do the story, and more than anything, I want to like it. I was level 3 when I started today.

First time, I shouted twice and got in the NM train. It was boring, and I got pittances of EXP when we did high level spawns. Died a couple times due to falling behind people on their mounts and catching the eye of a random mob. Once I got left behind by my own party (the level 17 RDM even walked right over me to keep up, come on!) I left. Got two levels though. This to me feels like the path of least resistance.

Second time, I shouted a bunch of times as a lvl 5 healer LFG. No one replied. Formed a party with other low level people (range 3~6) and started the mob grind. The experience was mind-numbingly boring even though I switched to tank for the group. We helped spawn a NM around our level and got Silver for it since the train was there and we weren't a full party. I even tanked the NM for most of the fight. We went back to trying to spawn another NM around our level but didn't have any luck before people's timers ran out. Didn't level at all.

I don't mind long grinds but this is flat-out awful. Right now there is no way for me to enjoy it. The only chance I have to get to 20 before the heat death of the universe is to follow NM groups that take pity on me as I wait around for them to do all the work. At this point I just want to do the damn story but getting to the level milestones is so god-awful I might not even bother. It pains me because I like Krille, the set-up feels like it was tailored to my interests, and the island itself is gorgeous. But Eureka is all the worst parts of old games with none of the fun or rewards that made them worth the effort.

[BillyKaplan]

At this point I just want to do the damn story

There's hardly any story worth working for right now, anyway, so you're better off waiting until they nerf this and make this more bearable.

[Altanas]

There's hardly any story worth working for right now, anyway, so you're better off waiting until they nerf this and make this more bearable.

That's true, the story went no where. It was more like a Trailer than a Prologue. When they were going to evoke FF11's playstyle, and deal with Krile's backstory etc thats been mentioned so many times since 2.x, I expected some ridiculously long cutscenes ;/ It felt as if instead they intentionally evoked the laughable parody of FF Mystic Quest where the plot and character interaction felt like a jab at the audience's intellect.