Observations From Someone Trying Eureka for the First Time in 2022

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

Eureka was designed to be a lot like FF11, content that many people were requesting at the time, hence why it's so harsh.



Except it has been nerfed into the ground as it used to be much more difficult. Before it was nerfed, you were unable to use mounts until max level and there was no massive echo effect to boost your stats. Even fighting enemies that were the same level as you would likely get you killed without a party, and NMs could 1-shot you with almost any attack if you were not a tank.

I've stuck my toe in Eureka since those nerfs. They aren't enough to get me back in there. The mobs are all still massive hp sponges. I was able to solo single mobs in Eureka when it first launched without any risk of dying. It just took a year and a day. Then there's the whole separate leveling system. When I say "nerfed into the ground" I mean I wanna be able to go in there as a lvl 90 (or higher) and one or two shot packs of mobs with impunity. The experience in Eureka is distasteful. I don't want to be in there any longer than I have to be, and right now, how long I'd have to be in there is too long for me to be willing to subject myself to such an unpleasant experience.

No, I'd rather live without the glams and TT cards (which means I'll never be able to finish my TT collection or certain TT achievements since some cards/npcs are locked behind doing the bulk of Eureka/Bozja) than to spend my precious game time doing things I don't enjoy. As I said, if Eureka and Bozja never reach a point where I can just solo steamroll my way through them at a pace I find palatable, I'll just continue to pretend they don't exist. The aggravation just isn't worth it otherwise.