Eureka

[FallenArisen0990]

I'm just expecting it to become a Diadem 3.0.

[Laerad3993]

I'm just expecting it to become a Diadem 3.0.

Same. Which is likely why they are allowing players the ability to do it solo. Enough people quit/hate it, those that don’t wont be shafted from progressing their Relics.

[Reinha]

I just hope entering with a cross world party will be possible and that the armor and weapons will look nice. As someone who didn't mind the first version of Diadem, PotD, hunts and FATEs, I think this content will be enjoyable.

[Altanas]

Eureka seems to be a homage to FF11, but it is a homage to the worser part....

Its a homage to the openworld somewhat randomly spawning NMs, which always led to grief, and which the developers closed off by making drops rare/ex back in the day.

Why is it not a homage to the - more precisely spawning - NMs of Sky, Sea or ZNMs etc.

I do not like NMs with vague 'spawns when certain conditions are met'. I would prefer to farm tiers of NMs each for pop items to go up to the next tier. There is reliability there and players can plan what jobs they want to bring accordingly. Also lower tiers can be solo'd or lowmanned. So theres always something to do.

Having played FF11 for years, while openworld NMs led to a lot of discussion ingame and on forums, in practice most players camped things for a while then got fed up. It was a case of "been there done that, I'l just buy the item off the AH". Players got really fed up of openworld NMs because of drop rates and because of competition with gilsellers/bots. Contrast that to Dynamis or Sky. Those were - reliable -. Yes, it became boring after a while, but you knew what you would accomplish each time.


Also, the elemental weakness thing isnt much of a homage to FF11. Regardless of mobs, everyone just threw out Distortion & Freeze or Light & Thunder IV. Barspells were really never much of a thing, and a lot of WHMs never bothered casting them >.>

Element Weakness just seems to add a layer of nothingness. It doesn't add to the gameplay beneficially. It sort of reminds me of "stances", which are "set and forget".

I would have preferred a more interactive version of element weakness in the form of the "Element Field" from Chrono Cross, tweaked somewhat so players and mob battle to fill the element field to allow use of all their abilities.

[FallenArisen0990]

So Eureka is basically a nicer version of XI? The penalties aren't nearly as harsh as it was in XI. At least I can finally shout," Gobs to Zone!"

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