Quote Originally Posted by purgatori View Post
I eventually made my way to Pagos and the whole 'soft reset' thing where you lose your mount and everything aggros and kills you hit me harder than I expected. I just wanted to get on with NM's and light farming, but the map was extremely difficult to navigate and I lost a level attempting to get the aetherytes unlocked. That was enough to drive me away from Eureka forever, as it meant going back to doing accursed CL's to make up for lost XP.
This was pretty much my experience too. The map design is terrible, everything is so spread out and with higher level mobs killing you in like one to two hits it just makes the experience of even getting to a NM just utterly miserable. After Anemos it really feels like you're always back to square one, you finally unlock your mount in there, only to have it taken away until the later levels of the current map, there's a new level cap, and after Anemos you don't really even unlock the elemental points anymore aside from the 1 in Pyros and the elemental level system in Hydatos. This constant loop of crawling to the top, getting to enjoy it for a minute and when the new zone comes out, you're back to feeling like absolute trash is something I don't enjoy at all, at least within the actual game it's always justified when it's a new expansion and you only have that every 2 years, not every few months. I didn't even get to the light grinding in Pagos and I already hated the idea, at least with the previous light grinds you'd always get some light, now you have to fight RNG to even get any light from killing a mob.