What's your first impression of Eureka?

[Risvertasashi]

it seems it will be a long grind for a weapon and armor that will be outdated on the next patch (and tome weapons and armors)

It's already outdated.

I actually like it a lot more than a lot of others here seem to, but... yeah, the artifact upgrades are bad.

[Aniya_Estlihn]

It's shows they've learned nothing. We complained about Dino Island so instead they give us Monster Island and make the solo/party participation penalty even worse than its ever been in this game before.
Dyable AF1 and AF2 were simple enough to get, but this is the only way to upgrade AF3; which is locked behind three bloody gear tiers for no reason, and its absolutely disgusting in every sense of the word.

[TarynH]

It's already outdated.

I actually like it a lot more than a lot of others here seem to, but... yeah, the artifact upgrades are bad.

Especially when you consider some people might have wanted to gear all 15 jobs with new AF. I personally don't mind a grind, but hmm... Now it just seems like pick and choose the best glamour pieces.

[Recaldy]

So with "third time's a charm" being a flop for the New New content. Can they just remake XIV AGAIN and make it an action MMORPG? They'd get more subs...

[Kohdo]

I started playing about a year ago, so I've never done any Diadem stuff. My first impression of Eureka is not so great. I'm still optimistic that there's more to it or more that will be added to it, but disappointed with the initial experience.

So far I've run around in a party spamming scatter and moulinet for 20 minutes and received 10 crystals. That's not a bad drop rate, but the problem is that the content is completely unengaging. When I heard of Eureka and that it "definitely most certainly won't be anything like Diadem, honest" I imagined some kind of wilderness full of mobs and tough bosses, caves to explore, items to find, underwater exploration, maybe some puzzles to solve, some daily quests - engaging, repeatable content that doesn't become obsolete and deserted after 90% give up on the grind and the remaining 10% grind out their reward and never come back.

They've seemingly crafted a beautiful zone, filled it with re-named morbols and told us to kill six million of them to make our AF weapon sparkle. What's worse is that the devs know this kind of grind isn't appreciated, it isn't enjoyable, and somehow it was still delayed to 4.25. I haven't seen anything in Eureka that would justify that extra development time and resources.

I'm really hoping it'll prove me wrong because I really want to enjoy it, but there's nothing engaging about killing an endless stream of mobs for an hour.

Please SE, go back to the drawing board, fill Eureka with things to do and make it a place people want to explore. It's really disheartening to admit but I can't see myself doing much more in Eureka, and I had some pretty high hopes for it.

[ChewieFlakes]

i don't think i've seen an update this horrible in any mmo in an very long time...

I am actually blown away by how horrible this is.

It's like they took everything bad about the game and rolled it into a content update

[AyelaArcenstyle]

Is this really their new method of doing the relic?

So far, after about 5hrs in this hell. I spent most of it healing. Anyone else try healing in there? I thought it would be fun. I even looked forward to it.

So, what have we learnt? You can, IF you can put up with the most boring and stupid grind in XIV, get the gear that you can one day meld 4 pieces of materia to...

Not, customise the weapons so the stats suit your play style. No, just meld, and dye... That's it...

It's only ilv 350, Savage gives 370... (I haven't started Savage yet, but I feel I could get a full set of my desired gear long before completing this hell)
I feel like this is the worst possible addition to XIV ever.

I said to my friends as we were just hitting level 3 "It's like they took a page out of those F2P MMO's"

Oh, and also, don't think for a second you can run off to one of those other Aetherytes and unlock them.. No no no, they're level locked...

Bad content, give me my relic

[Vivi_Bushido]

Is this really their new method of doing the relic?

So far, after about 5hrs in this hell. I spent most of it healing. Anyone else try healing in there? I thought it would be fun. I even looked forward to it.

So, what have we learnt? You can, IF you can put up with the most boring and stupid grind in XIV, get the gear that you can one day meld 4 pieces of materia to...

Not, customise the weapons so the stats suit your play style. No, just meld, and dye... That's it...

It's only ilv 350, Savage gives 370... (I haven't started Savage yet, but I feel I could get a full set of my desired gear long before completing this hell)
I feel like this is the worst possible addition to XIV ever.

I said to my friends as we were just hitting level 3 "It's like they took a page out of those F2P MMO's"

Oh, and also, don't think for a second you can run off to one of those other Aetherytes and unlock them.. No no no, they're level locked...

Bad content, give me my relic

Relics were never made to be for Savage. It's casual content, not raid content, and they don't want it to be used as an excuse to keep people from raiding hence the low levels to begin with. All relics are is over glorified glamours. From ARR to HW. SB will be no different. Relics are never even BiS until the final patch before the next expac. This is nothing new and will never change. Relics are for gearing alt jobs and glamour. If they made relic gear any better than it already is, then nobody would raid as raid gear would be obsolete.

[Suetan124]

Relics were never made to be for Savage. It's casual content, not raid content, and they don't want it to be used as an excuse to keep people from raiding hence the low levels to begin with. All relics are is over glorified glamours. From ARR to HW. SB will be no different. Relics are never even BiS until the final patch before the next expac. This is nothing new and will never change. Relics are for gearing alt jobs and glamour. If they made relic gear any better than it already is, then nobody would raid as raid gear would be obsolete.

Raiding isn't the be all, end all. If you don't want it, don't do it. Relic/Eureka may be a big grind but it's far less frustrating than having people scream at you because you're a few points lower than they expect on their BS parser.

[Rinuko]

I havn't even done Eureka yet, no rush imo.

But why is there so many people being so salty about it?
What is so bad?
Are people complaining about relic is a grind (really?) ?