Eureka!!!

[zavodilaterrarium]

Yesterday and today, I grinded FATES in Eureka Pyros (third area of the Stormblood field op) with Honguito. When we first started Eureka like a year ago, I shot straight to EL57 because I was obsessed, even though Honguito stopped at the late 30s due to hand-pain and lack of motivation. Then neither of us touched it for at least several months until Del got into it for a day or two. That got me to EL58, then we didn't touch it again until yesterday. Eureka is this blend of boring and "teehee haha logograms :D". Honestly, I like a certain level of grinding; repetitive stuff is a bit soothing, especially if it's social or novel in the context of the larger game.

I should probably engage in more "thank you for the FATE pop" etiquette because I find it very pleasant to be on the receiving end of, but I've been forgetting to these two days because we've been doing 90% of the pops in our instances. That was like... 12 hours of FATE grinding, phew. Now I'm EL60! After dying once during today's grind XD

Most of my time in Eureka 'solo' was spent levelling while I let others work on popping FATES (ones that I didn't always benefit from due to said lack of EXP), so I had a lot more Fundamental Mnemes from kill chains than any other type. Now I have a similar number of Conceptual Mnemes, but not much of anything else. At least common Logograms aren't like, bad by any means, they can still make very useful Logos Actions. (Logogram = raw general material, Mneme = refined and specific material, Logos Action = ability created from refined material)

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[althea_valara]

Been a while since I did Eureka myself. I spent most of my time in the first two zones, because I adored Eureka enough that I decided to get ALL the weapons; they're all finished through Pagos already, so I was pretty high EL level by the time I hit Pyros. I'm capped EL now.

I had intended to grind all the Pyros weapons before going into Hydatos, but then I read that the grind gets easier if you have the fancier Eurekan gear, which requires BA, so I hopped into Hydatos pretty soon after finished my Pyros RDM weapon (I play RDM in Eureka, most of the time). I've probably spent about equal time in Pyros and Hydatos.

Since it's been a while (probably a year?) I've forgotten most of what I know about logograms. I never did understand them all that well, either. I've been thinking of getting back to Eureka casually, and so I'll need to read up on them again.

On the Crystal DC, it is very common for folks who pop NMs to shout that they're popped, and then we wait 2-3 minutes for others to arrive. Usually three, unless people get antsy, or they're doing crab chains in instances or something. I don't remember if folks really thanked for popping the NMs; definitely for inviting folks to a party, though, and if I was going to do Eureka again, I'd have to change my settings back to show others' nameplates so I can see if folks were in parties or not and invite those that aren't. Have to admit, I got pretty used to not having nameplates on because of streaming, but sometimes I do miss seeing common names about that aren't on my friends list (thinking of you, Janey).

I am sure you're already aware of https://ffxiv-eureka.com ? It's such a lifesaver. And it just occured to me that I haven't done Eureka since I got my second monitor, because I used to have to load the trackers on my tablet, and that is a pain and a half if I'm trying to be the tracker updater. It'd be easier to do now because of the second monitor!

Hell, maybe I'll play around on Windy in Eureka again. I think she's finished her Anemos weapon/capped EL there. I can't recall how many weapons I was going for on her. I was partially doing it for story reasons, too... wanted to document the story, because I am that kind of crazy.

[zavodilaterrarium]

I've only done a bit of the PLD set cause it wasn't a big priority for me.

My class of choice tends to switch between WHM, WAR, SCH, and RDM. Only downside of RDM is that it's not very fun to need a target to cast on when prepping for low-level FATES since the enemies die during your casts a lot... but dualcasting Logos Actions is kinda funny XD

I've been religiously looking at the Eureka Tracker for Logogram stuff since there's just too many combos to think about! I used just switch between windows since I'm on PC, but now I can use my laptop as the second monitor lmao. I find it entertaining whenever someone says there's no tracker up, just because they forgot to check if the silent players knew anything.

In my experience on the Light and Materia DCs, it's sort of 50/50 on if people announce the NM pops, with it being somewhat influenced by free trial players like myself also setting up NMs. Standard wait time is 2-3min too, but can go up to 6min if we know there are silent/free trial players who are actively joining NMs, especially if they're solo/not max level and might struggle safely getting to higher-level areas of the map. "tyfp" is definitely much more common than thanking for the pop itself, but I don't tend to encounter full-fledged NM trains much (instances are pretty sparse at my play times), so there is sort of a idea of "you were at this alone/in a small group, which was probably harder/more frustrating, thank you for the effort".

Story documentation, the kind of crazy that makes you fun to talk to XD