Grinding fast in Eureka

[Hyperia]

I rode the train to 11 today, but I still cant do any of the quests because I haven't got the protean crystal drop. I now have 300 Anemos crystals but cant convert them. To the Devs, please remove the blocks on the first quests, yes we know players are not running the content the way you intended but its happened and I hope you can adjust it so people who are struggling to level up can do the content.

[BillyKaplan]

I rode the train to 11 today, but I still cant do any of the quests because I haven't got the protean crystal drop. I now have 300 Anemos crystals but cant convert them. To the Devs, please remove the blocks on the first quests, yes we know players are not running the content the way you intended but its happened and I hope you can adjust it so people who are struggling to level up can do the content.

If that's your problem stock up on Eureka potions and go kill some on-level adds on a dps-adequate job. It's a boring grind but it's more than possible to get a chain going even solo.

[Hyperia]

If that's your problem stock up on Eureka potions and go kill some on-level adds on a dps-adequate job. It's a boring grind but it's more than possible to get a chain going even solo.

I was told that it took up to 3 hours to get a drop, I'm not interested in grinding for that long solo and WHM is the only job I have at a high enough level to play in Eureka. Its a knock down drag out fight for me to kill a single mob with many of my stones landing for 0 on same level targets. There is no easy way for me to maintain a chain more than one before it expires. At this point, I'd rather buy the darn protean thing from the Mog Station.

[Vahlnir]

I was told that it took up to 3 hours to get a drop, I'm not interested in grinding for that long solo.

It shouldn't take anywhere near that long, but the drop rate of them increases as you gain levels. I'd form/join a chain party so you can reliably farm higher level monsters.

[BillyKaplan]

I was told that it took up to 3 hours to get a drop, I'm not interested in grinding for that long solo.

You're going to wait longer for a change they're likely not going to make until they nerf the thing if at all. You also don't have to do that solo, you can get other lowbies you level to help, maybe while working on a low level NM. There ARE low level trains going choo choo.

[PandaMonium]

I rode the train to 11 today, but I still cant do any of the quests because I haven't got the protean crystal drop. I now have 300 Anemos crystals but cant convert them. To the Devs, please remove the blocks on the first quests, yes we know players are not running the content the way you intended but its happened and I hope you can adjust it so people who are struggling to level up can do the content.

I got my Protean Crystal drop when was already lvl 15 but it didn't stop me from doing any quests or leveling.
First time you need this specific crystal is on the lvl 17 quest, when you have to insert one Protean and a bunch of Anemos to make some mechanism working. And only after this quest I was able to start to convert Anemos -> Protean.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I wasn't able to talk to Geralt before finishing that lvl 17 quest.

[Tridus]

I got my Protean Crystal drop when was already lvl 15 but it didn't stop me from doing any quests or leveling.
First time you need this specific crystal is on the lvl 17 quest, when you have to insert one Protean and a bunch of Anemos to make some mechanism working. And only after this quest I was able to start to convert Anemos -> Protean.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I wasn't able to talk to Geralt before finishing that lvl 17 quest.

You are. The very first quest in Eureka is to hand in one Protean Crystal. You can't do ANYTHING quest wise until you do that. That means no magicite, no materia board, and no conversion from Anamos crystals. All the NPCs are "setting up" before that.

The level 17 quest is to turn over 99 Anamos crystals. If you couldn't talk to Gerolt until then, you must have done all the quests at the same time.