What is good about Eureka?

[Redname]

I would like to ask something so i finally understand. What are Eureka good points? Why people do it? I went there and tried a bit. But its the only content in this game that I feel neutral about it. Its like im washing dishes or sweeping the floor. It leaves me cold.

Why the developers did this? I imagine there are two things to consider. Rewards and fun doing it. But i dont understand either of them so i would like if someone please can explain it to me

[Aster_E]

This is my opinion on what's "good" about Eureka, but:

1) most of Anemos' landscape and aesthetic design.

2) when we are in there having fun as NOT INTENDED, you can see, in shout chat, how the best of the community brightens up, because we're making so many jokes, trying to keep one another alive when someone falls, and so forth.

3) puns, puns, puns, especially in Anemos (but Pagos isn't sleeping on the job either)

4) Vast potential for content that COULD be fun for most people, instead of "fun" for a select few. It's a shame that that's all it is, however - potential.

5) It finally provoked some people to say what some of us have been thinking since the end of the Animas line; enough is enough with Gerolt. Let the man pay his dues so we can move on without his damned bar tab. *Glares at Rowena* For that matter, it'd be nice to move on without her.

6) The Notorious Monsters, especially in Anemos, are a quick-ish way to cap weekly tomes if your level is high enough.

[RubyScarlett]

Aesthetically, it's beautiful.
It's also helping me get caught up on all the Netflix shows I've ever wanted to see.

But it's really the only thing that makes it slightly tolerable to me is that I can go in with my friends and we can all laugh and hang out together. I mean, we're all developing arthritis simultaneously from light farming, and we'd have fun no matter where we are in the game, but at least in Eureka we get to laugh at each other's deaths more.

[einschwartz]

I don't know about others, but to me it's the fastest way to cap mendacity.
Also much quicker to farm crystal and upgrade gear (at least in anemos, I haven't stepped into pagos) instead collecting tomes for 100 years.

[NessaWyvern]

I quite like the treasure hunting it bit of Pagos, not so much the overly-long fate you have to do to get the bunny though. (also, it needs better rewards.)

[TheMightyMollusk]

Anemos is a beautiful zone, once you can walk around it a bit without getting brutally murdered every three steps.

[Hazama999]

It looks pretty :]

[AmemeAmeklin]

1) Capping mendacity (in anemos on the NM fate train)

2) Socializing with people!! You shout for groups, and usually invites are instantaneous. Then if you have a particularly friendly group, you can have a fantastic time making jokes and chatting with everyone. I've made a ton of cross-server friends in Eureka. (I may not talk to them often since it's impossible to tell when someone is available if you're not on their server, but I remember them!!)

3) It's an adventure, especially if you're not at level cap. Eureka is incredibly dangerous if you're traveling. Coming from EverQuest, where one wrong move could end in a brutal corpse run on top of exp loss, I enjoy the challenge of exploring the map. Anemos wasn't terrible for travel but Pagos is even less forgiving, so I do find myself wanting to stay put even if I also want to help people who need a rez.

4) Scenery. So pretty!

5) Part of me hates it but I always hold out hope for some cool stuff from lockboxes. :<

6) Relic upgrades.

7) Bear puns. Or unbearable puns. Take your pick. I love puns. 10/10, would joke again.

8) I'm one of the people who occasionally conducts the trains in Anemos. It's actually quite fun to do with the right set-up. (Fellow train conductors, I salute you!) The FFXIV community has some tremendous coding talent and the tracker site is incredible.

[Ad_Hoc]

Helping people has never been so important and fun. I could spend the entire session running around raising people and porting them from NM to NM.

[MuseTraveller]

I decided to give up on Pagos but I had fun in Anemos!

- I liked the map design, I thought it was beautiful and odd/bizarre but in a good way!
- I loved the fact that the whole instance had common goal, instead of breaking into small groups and camping.
- I loved that my level didn't matter and that I could take lowbies with me without damaging my gameplay.
- I loved that no matter in what forgotten place you died, someone would come to res you, me included That was always so heartwarming.
- All the shouts and chats going on!
- Bear puns, all the puns!
- The truckload of lockboxes. I play a lala, I'm a greedy lala. I like treasure.
- I could easily cap tomes there, so I didn't feel like I had to sacrifice a weekly in order to do Eureka.
- I loved that I could idle... -hides from a tomato!- Wait, hear me out! As someone who works full time in the art industry, I found that active play in Eureka caused me a really bad wrist pain in roughly 2 days. I couldn't afford an aching hand the next day when I needed my right hand in perfect shape! I hate being idle in game but yes eventually reached a point where I had to be one of those idle ones who /cheerjump while their hands rest. Despite going as healer, I loved helping collect mobs or throwing dots around but I learned to take it easy and I loved that I could take break without damaging anyone's gameplay. I would stay aside and heal/res, throw aeros where I could or go save some unfortunate dead soul somewhere in the middle of the map.