About Eureka
It’s a grind. Either shut up and deal with it or go do something else. The content just landed and tweaks are expected based on feedback that makes sense.
The design is extremely similar to FFXI Dynamis crossed with the exp camp leveling system. Take a party and go kill mobs about 4-6 levels above you for the highest EXP yield.
Don’t do the content by focusing on the gear. Your primary purpose is leveling first. Crystal allocation will increase as you level. That is your primary focus.
Protean Crystals should be your priority right now. Do not save the Anemos Crystals until you’re close enough for that specific tier of gear/weapon. They can be traded for anywhere between 2-5 Protean Crystals which is why people have already obtained upgraded 335 weapons.
Notorious monsters are the only ones that drop Anemos Crystals. They spawn in a method extremely similar to NM camping in FFXI which is basically killing the same kind of mob over and over until the FATE spawns. Most of them have a weather requirement. This will add strategy to your mob farming and ensure that more NMs spawn. So far from what i’ve seen killing Birds to the South East in wind weather spawns the Siren. Killing Sabotenders to the West during Wind Weather spawns the cactus. Killing dragonflies to the north of town during wind weather spawns Valkurm Emperor. Do not quote me on this.
These enemies are tough, have a good amount of HP as levels go up and hit like trucks. Healers, you will be healing and I advise you either dump your Magia points into defense against your targeted element or split them between attack and defense. If you get accidental hate because of a regen in an efficient party you will get smacked across the zone and no one will save you.
Unless your party is clustering and not roaming, let the tank pull. For the love of god let the tank pull.
Party set ups can vary. I just had a full party of 6 DPS with 1 tank and 1 heals. We were fine only because We had a bard and 2 additional casters to handle MP and 2 melee to handle TP. Our party made it to level 10 Bears before we quit.
I have 170 Protean Crystals after about a total of 6-7 hours of inefficiant play time when I had no idea what the fuck I was doing and my party hopping in and out to pick up FC members. Miss me with that low crystal count BS.
In case none of you have notice every piece of currently capped Eureka gear and weapons have FIVE OPEN MATERIA SLOTS. That means the 355 weapon will literally destroy Nyakko and 360 weapons in terms of secondary stats if you’re minmaxing secondaries when those slots are full. (had to bold this because people can’t read apparently).
This content is only a glamour farm for raiders. If you raid and prefer that gear and don’t want to wait for the expected level increases to the relic gear and weapons as time goes on and don’t care about how the gear looks, then turn your nose up and continue your raiding. This is not for you. This is for everyone else.
Again, this is a grind for all intents and purposes. We are not getting multiple quests like before. We are now getting a full blown area GRIND. Which honestly matches the other relics in tediousness. I’m personally just glad it’s free as fuck and we can keep out levels as long as we get raised and don’t wander off to fuck all away from our parties after level 6.
Have fun.
