Eureka: The Fine Print

[Puremallace]

Only thing I have learned about Eureka is it is a grindfest equivalent to Aion 1.0 which is sure saying a lot. The penalties are extreme for dying and it is EXTREMELY punishing to new players with little to no explanation of what is going on. The people are extremely rude from what I have seen with little to no patience to explain to new players what is going on. These veterans are extremely mean and very quick to ostracize new players who violate multiple unwritten rules that only apply to this content that are never explained until you violate them and learn the hard way.

There is very little to this content that even qualifies as fun. Some long time people might dispute my opinion but that is what it is and this content is not made for me. From Anemos to Pagos is just horrible. Level 40 dragons placed in key places that one shot you and an Experience curve that just shoots up at an exponential rate.

The level of anger I have seen from people in this content is crazy. It is antithetical to every other mmo philosophy I have seen in FF14 and more equivalent to a lineage Korean style grind area designed for an extreme niche player base. FF14 would have a fraction of the current playerbase if anything outside of Eureka was designed like this content.

TL'DR: It is dry grindy content with no clear reward or direction leading the players in the areas to be extremely rude and only seeing other players as a way to achieve their own goal with no thought given to how they treat other people.

[Doozer]

Only thing I have learned about Eureka is it is a grindfest equivalent to Aion 1.0 which is sure saying a lot. The penalties are extreme for dying and it is EXTREMELY punishing to new players with little to no explanation of what is going on. The people are extremely rude from what I have seen with little to no patience to explain to new players what is going on. These veterans are extremely mean and very quick to ostracize new players who violate multiple unwritten rules that only apply to this content that are never explained until you violate them and learn the hard way.

There is very little to this content that even qualifies as fun. Some long time people might dispute my opinion but that is what it is and this content is not made for me. From Anemos to Pagos is just horrible. Level 40 dragons placed in key places that one shot you and an Experience curve that just shoots up at an exponential rate.

The level of anger I have seen from people in this content is crazy. It is antithetical to every other mmo philosophy I have seen in FF14 and more equivalent to a lineage Korean style grind area designed for an extreme niche player base. FF14 would have a fraction of the current playerbase if anything outside of Eureka was designed like this content.

TL'DR: It is dry grindy content with no clear reward or direction leading the players in the areas to be extremely rude and only seeing other players as a way to achieve their own goal with no thought given to how they treat other people.

I don't know what it's like on your data center, but your experiences are not universal.

In my time spent in Eureka (from Anemos all the way to Hydatos), people were generally somewhere between neutral and friendly. Everyone sort of did their own thing but usually they were interested in NM trains and would look for people to party with. I didn't see anyone be actually rude, and I think the only time I got irritated by other people was when I was playing exclusively with my partner while levelling up, and some random solo DPS player would come up and hit something we were fight just once in order to get credit. But that was easily dealt with.

And... "no clear reward"? Besides just completing content and enjoying it, there's also the relic weapons and artifact armour. I feel like maybe you aren't fully informed on what Eureka is even for?

[ItMe]

As far as clear rewards goes, don't forget about the mount and minions in the Baldesion Arsenal (I think they have a title too?)

[MrThinker]

As far as clear rewards goes, don't forget about the mount and minions in the Baldesion Arsenal (I think they have a title too?)

There is no title associated with clearing BA, the clear achievement reward is just the mount... and the extra story epilogue.