What's going to happen with Eureka's "The Baldesion Arsenal" 1 to 2 years from now?

[TalithaSolarien]

My guess for any post 5.0 Eureka changes (not BA) would be drastically reduced amounts of crystals, mobs or Challenge Logs giving crystal and light as well and changes which monsters will give Logos. Basically removing the necessity of doing NM's.

[Ceasaria]

I think they could add bonus elemental to all magia board from time to time.
It will be like adding Echo in a way.

[Kurando]

I think they could add bonus elemental to all magia board from time to time.
It will be like adding Echo in a way.

I wondered about the Magia, is SE expecting all players to have every single Magacite in order to make the Arsenal runs somewhat easier? Personally I still have 5 as the effort to go through getting all the materials to unlock 7 just wasn't worth it, so perhaps have an Echo-type Element bonus could be the way to go in the future when the content is older.

[BillyKaplan]

I'd like to see them adding elemental bonuses to the AF3 sets. Sort of like what you can get eventually at +2 Hydatos gear, but the AF3 sets you have from the very start so it gives you an edge. Suddenly leveling is not as time consuming and impossible solo, and you can even take on some NMs because your elemental level is effectively higher than what it actually is. Increase the bonus as you upgrade the gear, and make it so you get upgrades in Pagos as well (maybe tied to story progression, or bonuses as you upgrade your weapon while wearing the fully upgraded Anemos set).
That bonus should last you until you get the Pyros gear, at which point it's the same progression as we have now (given nerfs, ofc). but in that case you won't have to have gotten +2 Hydatos gear just to progress solo through Anemos...

[Neophyte]

Imo Eureka should be one of the contents most easy to nerf.

Not only can they just raise the base elemental level, they can also slab elemental bonusses on potions of harmony, a new buff food and fairy buffs, they can give out fragments on Fates, raise the item level so ppl have more substats, defense and HP and of course the stuff they already do, like lower the level of aetherites and reduce needed amounts of crystals, make stuff tradeable for other stuff.

[TalithaSolarien]

I enjoy Eureka and I think the BA is a fun idea and would not mind seeing more of this style of content.

However, I do not like there is story locked behind this content precisely because it is going to die and no one will have access to its true ending in the future.

There's a reason why SE added a story mode to 8 man raids.

The story died for me the moment they introduced the level 35 quest in Pagos where you will get murdered if you dare to watch the cutscene. For me Eureka has no story anymore and I will skip any cutscenes. And no, watching the scenes in an inn doesn't count.

[Burningskull]

Someone in another tread pointed out that the Chimera and Hydra fights for the ARR relic weapon were overworld fights at one time. Maybe they will make BA a Trial when Eureka dies out. Or not. They never made the emergency mission a trial.

[Bright-Flower]

Aside from any nerfs to Eureka/buffs to drops they could do, I suspect that just removing level and ilvl sync will go a long way towards making Eureka viable to do in ShB onwards. We've been limited to ilvl 300 all expansion. What happens when you let people in with ilvl 400? Or at level 80 with ilvl 500 or so?

[Krojack]

Currently, all of Eureka is scaled based on the number of people present in the zone. I would not be at all surprised if The Baldesion Arsenal worked the same way.

If it does scale based on the number of people, then it's probably all doable if you get a handful of people together. With that said, I'm not sure how we'll find out one way or the other for quite some time.

...or they'll just nerf it once it's no longer relevant.

Diadem wasn't nerfed all that much and wasn't nerfed at all after 4.0 so I don't expect Eureka to be either. I'm going to try to get the Ozma mount now while I know it's possible. I'm worried that once 5.0 comes out trying to get enough people for BA AND to remain in Hydatos to do the support NM will be near impossible.