Eureka! The grind is on - Juxta is a community figure

[Yuri-G]

So is this the same Eureka grind as the first, just with a snow covered paint?

no, apparently the grind this time is a light grind. I haven't gotten that far yet; unlocks at 25

so... yeah, that should be fun

[Gokulo]

So you need to get 5 levels in Anemos first to unlock Pagos? Lol

Dunno why they locked mounts again, I thought they said they will work on improving what was annoying and slow...
Well I guess it would be a good time to come back to this grind while people are getting their levels, I think I made it up to like lv 13 before wanting to gouge my eyes out

[Fiye]

I wanted to gouge my eyes out in the first 5 mins because people wanted to blow their fucking weeklies on the first day.

[Jiyo]

Haven't started up Pagos yet, is there a quick rundown of how to best run it yet? I'm reading some things of people still leveling in anemos, only a few fates discovered in Pagos, etc so I'm not sure where to start with this grind.

[Yuri-G]

So you need to get 5 levels in Anemos first to unlock Pagos? Lol

Dunno why they locked mounts again, I thought they said they will work on improving what was annoying and slow...
Well I guess it would be a good time to come back to this grind while people are getting their levels, I think I made it up to like lv 13 before wanting to gouge my eyes out

nah, the relic grind doesn't start until 25. you can start in pagos at 20.

[Enygma55]

Only advice I can give is clear out your challenge log to gain xp. Should be able to hit 22 with an NM or 2 thrown in.
Then maybe hop between Pagos and Anemos to hunt NMs if you dont want to do XP grinding parties.

The gap between levels are large so leveling up is slower. 500-700k TNL. It will take time until everyone gets their average level up enough to pop NMs in a timely manner.

You wont see any Polar Express parties until next week.

[Silenka]

Haven't started up Pagos yet, is there a quick rundown of how to best run it yet? I'm reading some things of people still leveling in anemos, only a few fates discovered in Pagos, etc so I'm not sure where to start with this grind.

I honestly have no fuckin clue, information is all over the place, it's very frustrating. Can you or can't you gain xp past 20 in Anemos? Half say yes, half say no. And if you can, how many fates do you need to gain a level?

People are actually making Pagos grind parties getting 1k xp at a time, which isn't even a tiny sliver of a bar. I did this for a while on worms last night. If it's supposed to emulate leveling in XI, it's doing a shit job, because grinding in XI was actually a lot faster as long as you knew what you were doing. If this is the intended method of leveling, it's a giant waste of time the likes of which I've never seen in this game (barring Yokai watch event and pre-nerf Atmas). I'm not doing it.

Now that it seems like NMs take 3x as long or more to spawn, the challenge log is the only thing I have found that gives a guaranteed payoff of XP per time spent, but you can only do it once a week so that's not a sustainable leveling strategy. Anemos sucked at the beginning too, but nothing like this.

[Enygma55]

Yes you can gain xp in Anemos. You are sync'd to 20 but the cap for Eureka in general is 35. You still gain the same xp per fate as usual. Try to target the higher levels ones to get 20k+ xp per fate, otherwise you will be looking at 10-15k per at a more rapid pace if you find a good train.

Only real issue now is that your TNL is going to be 600k instead of the 150k you are use to. Progress will feel slower and I doubt you will gain more than a level a day regardless of what you do.

Everyone is low level right now. No one can deal dmg to kill stuff fast enough unlike in Anemos where everyone has outleveled most mobs.
Stuff will die slow. NMs will take time to pop and die slow. You just have to accept this until the average level of the public is higher.

If you dont want to deal with this, wait a week or 2 and take it slow.

[Silenka]

Thanks for the info, maybe I will try an Anemos party.

[Destinye]

I leveled to 25 in anemos cuz fuck the pagos spawn rates on NMs lol.

[Eleven19]

This is probs an obvious one but do you need to be on the job weilding the weapon you wanna upgrade? Or is it like a key item or special item you gather lights on? I play RDM almost exclusively in this nonsense for versatility but I'll want the Samurai weapon.

[Yuri-G]

you do not need to be on the job for which you want the weapon (thankfully)

[Fiye]

Your job needs to have the level70 quest complete. Otherwise all you gotta do is turn a buttload of items in.

Apparently the secret to leveling up in Pagos is chaining monsters and letting them mutate. So relive your FFXI days of killing IT mobs.

[Scythiroth]

If they really want us to level that way, I have no idea why they don't have any form of level sync in Eureka for making parties the same level.

[Yuri-G]

nobody is chaining tho lol. you join a "chain" group and they just head to a NM camp

I might start doing my own parties, IDK. otherwise it's 200 xp per mob and the occasional NM boost, which at level 21 is not much

[Yuri-G]

edit: fuuuuuuuuuuuu double post

[Prothescar]

Some crazy dudes in Elysium hit 35 from chaining mutated mobs a few hrs ago. I didn't follow the streams or anything but secondhand info saying they slept like 3 hrs in the last 2 days or something to achieve it, so expect this to take a long fucking time for all us normies. Mutated chains were giving 10-15k xp.

[Eleven19]

Some crazy dudes in Elysium hit 35 from chaining mutated mobs a few hrs ago. I didn't follow the streams or anything but secondhand info saying they slept like 3 hrs in the last 2 days or something to achieve it, so expect this to take a long fucking time for all us normies. Mutated chains were giving 10-15k xp.

I saw a few last night while grinding. Couple mantis mobs used Adaptation and got huge. But this wasnt every fight. I wonder if there is a trigger.

[Eleven19]

Fff phone double..

[Fondue]

do you need to do the old eureka relic to get the new one?