Please no more Eureka!

[Barraind]

Eureka actually had an interesting start in Anemos.

The map was dense enough to make getting to some areas a challenge, but sparse in areas so it didnt feel like you had to be solid snake to get anywhere. Riding didnt feel required early on, but should have been unlocked by the time you had both aetherytes.

The lockboxes had plenty of rewards, and the dual crystal system was, outside needing to get one of the completely random ones to do ANYTHING in the zone (this was a terrible idea), rewarding. You could get gear both by grinding mobs in parties and by nm training, and you could do either of those things in short or long bursts.

Obtaining weapons was pretty easy too, outside that "sometimes I dont spawn this weekend" pazuzu trolling. But every pazuzu kill meant a weapon.

I had high hopes we would go into the second stage and have two tiers of crystals, one overlapped with anemos (especially since they said we werent upgrading the armor in pagos, it would have let us finish collections off with those while working on weapons with the new one).


And then pagos happened and eureka went off the deep end.

You had to solid snake it everywhere at all times, density was terrible, rewards were significantly worse, you had to sit and grind light to grind light to grind light, and it was a terrible experience for most people.

And several rounds of nerfs later, ugh.

Hope you dont want the emote or hair. Have fun with the worst grinding in a mmo to date. No, I dont mean farming light. I mean farming things that sometimes remember to transform and then sometimes drop a different chest. It's an exercise in remembering why mmos stopped using this kind of content as actual content.

And then theres other stuff locked behind the bunnies, which maybe there might be a group for sometimes, but you cant really under-man.