Eureka CONSTRUCTIVE suggestions thread - no negativity

[Javey]

I would like an alternative way to get crystals as a hand/land disciple. I don't expect it to be easy but I can only take so much button mashing. Maintaining an optimal rotation is exhausting. I want to rest but work towards the relic while I listen to a podcast or something.

Make me excavate or contribute to a project FC airship style (no leves or moogles >:0).

[Lambdafish]

Please please please make tank and healer XP scale to the same point as DPS, I'm getting 40XP per kill on my lvl 56 NIN which does less damage than my lvl 70 PLD which only gets 10XP per kill. I'm actively being discouraged from playing a role that is necessary within parties.

[duvvvv]

- I love the design of the map but, I find certain areas a bit "glitchy", like the elevation on the ground (rocks, roots, mounds) are not consistent. I think SE tried to give them dimensions but the construction isn't polished. sometimes it would look like you can jump over, then you hit this invisible wall and have to go around. I guess it's WAI because it's an additional predicament?
- lack of achievement/logs so we have an idea how we're progressing outside of the duty. or maybe I missed it, but when my party and I were on break we were all "how many exp do you still need?" "dunno I think I'm halfway to 5?" I don't expect fully detailed logs like the journal, just a meter perhaps, like a tab on the character window?
- I like the suggestion on variety of activities, like based on the weather, people can take advantage of certain elementals, and we get to do defend an area etc. right now, it seems people camp on one spot and wait for NM. just to make the area more interactive outside of one's party.
- also support a shorter spawn time for NMs.

[ElazulHP]

More notorious monsters and variety in objectives is needed. Perhaps some sort of daily and weekly bonus for people that just want to casually grind on top of it all. At the very least there needs to be something else to do besides constantly fighting the same mobs over and over until your brain explodes.

[Karathix]

One big thing i'd like to see is more quests! not necessarily for magicite, even just for stuff like XP. I'm really enjoying having a group of friends run around and spread out and seeing a bunch of other people running around too.

[Marluxia]

I think that Eureka (and Diadem before it, and FATE grinding before that) shows a fundamental problem with FFXIV: outside of raids, the combat isn't fun. Monster Hunter for example is incredibly grindy, but the combat is intrinsically fun and satisfying, at least for the first 20 hours or so.

Now, I'm not expecting any revamps to the combat or anything like that, but improving Eureka means diversifying the range of activities and not just putting a microscope on the fact that FFXIV's combat is boring. Like delivering supplies to camps or other settlements, or defending bases, maybe crafting usable turrets or something

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

- More quests. It'd not only make the area feel a bit more "active" beyond mindless zerging on mobs, but also give people something to do more often than "every level or so, go talk to Krile for 2 seconds about something vague and go back to grinding."

- Up the XP. No, seriously - up the freakin' XP. Level 3 characters getting only 20 XP for level 5 mobs per kill is atrocious. If there was more to do than simply zerg monsters, the XP being so low and on-par with the true overworld would be fine. But given there is literally nothing else to do but endlessly kill things, the XP should be upped by at least 25% per kill for mobs 2-3 levels above you. Nothing crazy, especially if the grind was part of the desired play, but... something better than what it is now. It's horrible as it is now, grindfest intended or no.

- More dynamic monster spawns/fates. Make the area feel alive and exciting, make the challenge feel real instead of an arbitrary "Bash your head on the wall until crystals pop out" brick road.

- Up the crystal drop rate or at least the amount of crystals per drop.


Something like Hamlet defense would also be really cool, honestly.

[loreleidiangelo]

Rewards are just too bad, tbh. Gears in this game are boring vertical stat sticks and adding the ever-elusive "extra effects" or "gear set bonuses" to this tripe would have made it reasonably palatable despite the mediocre implementation (previous relic quests were garbage too past the initial step, let's not mince words here). No decent carrot? I'll just slap that stick out of your hands and snap it in two then, thank you very much.

[Remedi]

I'm positive that crystals have more likelyhood to drop on mobs of about your level, been farming exp with bears as lv 5-6 and got extremely low, went to do some lv 6 mobs and like it rained

Besides I have the feeling that NM spawns is related to certain types of enemies killed rather than just time

[Rufalus]

Two concerns. First the notorious monsters. You need them for certain items so how is that going to work when most people move on and stop playing anemos? Like a year from now or two years, if there aren't enough people playing to be able to beat NMs, need alternative progression for solo play.
And other concern about the exp loss / level down system. Seems like an unfair punishment for an online game where lag or server error could erase a lot of work. I don't think people get nostalgia about level down; we can leave big death penalties in the past.