#Eureka hydatos

[menphinaswhitemage]

The party approaches the end...The final land.... Eureka Hydatos.

Alt pose

[impossible-rat-babies]

I want to love eureka so bad like I love bozja but man. man……

[wolaymeric]

today i woke up, chose violence and decide to work on eureka by pulling everything

[katarh-mest]

Finally dragged my summoner weapon through Pyros and immediately turned around and upgraded it to Hydatos step one.

Now I just need a couple hundred more crystals and a half dozen BA runs and I'll finally finish one of these things, years later.

[ffxiv-relics]

Pyros Knives share a base model with Elemental Knives, but have an added glow effect when drawn.

They share their model, including dye pattern and glow effects, with several later stages of the relic.

[lifewithcake]

unpopular opinion i think but the scholar hydatos book might actually be my favorite sch weapon LOL and actually one of my favorite weapons in the game!

[demonrice]

provenance watcher. from eureka hydatos

[plounce]

we did it scared and conquered the baldesion arsenal. celebratory eureka hydatos cock and balls pic

[rainofaugustsith]

Relics!

So I finally finished with Eureka. Mostly. I opted to not do Baledsion Arsenal but I did finish the entire story quest chain to level 60. I went as far as getting the final glowing Pyros relic weapon - but since I'm fine with that, i opted not to grind the rest for the Hydatos weapon. I got only one bit of glowy armor - the chest piece you see above- which I have turned into Rigel's Dark Knight glamour. The Shadowbringers relic is gated behind an Alliance raid, so that's a Big Nope, but hopefully the Endwalkers one will be more feasible. I'm trying to get special weapons for the classes I love, but reaper can't get a weapon from the earlier expacs. So we have:

ARR - Dragoon

Heavensward - Summoner

Stormblood - Bard

[farfromdaylight]

i finished ALL of my bozja relics...!! it's been a long grind but i knocked out the last few bits of it this past month and a half. really helped that i had a group to run delubrum reginae with on a regular basis, otherwise i never would have done it lmao. the DR step is so tedious.

that just leaves the eureka and manderville relics for me to finish, and the manderville ones will be easy peasy, i'm already a third done with the last step. eureka though... eureka... e u r e k a .................

i don't mind eureka, tbh, but it's hard to work up the energy to Just Do Eureka And Nothing Else for those relics. anemos is fine, pagos is hell, pyros is chill, hydatos is s l o w. i have one relic finished (all the way to the BA step, even) and a few more on the anemos step but past that, nada.

i dunno if i'm gonna work on it before dawntrail though... eureka has been popping off lately from when i've gone in there, but tbh i need a bit of a break. so, we'll see.

so glad to be done with delubrum reginae though. what a fucking grind. it's a great raid in moderation but when you do it 30 times over a month and a half....... 😩

[wcdonaldo]

ok so only things I know how to ask about are ffxiv so have you done Eureka and if so how did you feel about it? I just got to the last part, Hydatos, and I still don’t know how I feel about it lol.

i'd say i've spent a normal amount of time there

eureka is. the world's biggest mixed bag.

so i think if you're a fan of the old school mmo grind eureka is going to appeal to you a lot, and if you aren't then it's going to be the most draining side activity of the game. i've had friends drop the game after eureka burnout. i've had other friends who think it's peak content. i personally found myself somewhere in the middle.

the thing about hydatos specifically is that all the other zones have had their crystal drop rates buffed, but hydatos has not. it's got the lowest requirements to progress (and finish) your relic but it's the hardest to get, ultimately, because they want you to lean into baldesion arsenal. outside of the support fate (Soup) that spawns when baldesion arsenal is halfway through, you're going to get dogshit drops for crystals. so i think the ultimate question for hydatos is gonna be whether or not you like baldesion arsenal

and i like baldesion arsenal quite a bit. i'm on crystal where eureka is still relatively active so i run with the CAFE group when i'm farming it (taking a break rn to avoid burnout) so it's a lot less scary. i think baldesion arsenal gets a bad rap because of the rez mechanic and the way that all the guides were definitely written when 4.x was current content. it's fun stuff assuming you've got a good raid lead and you bring copies of spirit of the remembered

aside from that no hydatos is pretty stinker. kind of a sad bleak rectangle. and a little uncomfortably wet

[naldthal-thetraders]

Some Eureka, Hydatos shenanigans from a while back! @ars-daemonum

[wind-up-thancred]

apologies for the lack of gposes recently, ive genuinely been meaning to do a couple and have some ideas ready but have unfortunately fallen into the black hole that is eureka. haha get it bc ozma i finished hydatos and i swore thatd be the end of it, and now i find myself back in pagos. out of my own volition. i do feel insane actually. attempting to claw my way out as we speak, wish me luck

[selnyam]

Hopped into Eureka Hydatos today, because I never actually did the last main story quest once i hit Elemental 60, and wanted to farm more crystals to finish the Relic Weapon. I finished the quest, unlocked the Baldesion Arsenal, and right after an army arrived to take on the BA. So I joined up and got a clear! I have very good timing! Thanks to the CAFE discord for the help!!!

[vulcanautus]

The Forbidden Land, Eureka Hydatos.

[yezielmoore]

26. Break a leg (pt. ??)

Because technically the Eurekka AU takes place in the Bunny Hyth verse, so here he is, having a moment to shine.

Edit: here's the song Hyth plays, in case you're like me and had no idea its name before.

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Hythlodaeus sat on a crate outside in the newly dubbed Hydatos, plucking the strings of his harp absently while Krile conferred with the surviving Students, gathering their hard earned knowledge of this zone in order to hatch a plan to take on the eikon trapped here before it could escape and wreck more havoc. 

He didn’t know where Harmony was, her blazing soul nowhere in the camp, but, while he worried about her (of course he did, she was his closest friend and the past two weeks had been especially trying for her), he knew she could take care of herself perfectly well. 

And speaking of blazing souls… 

Hythlodaeus cocked his head slightly to the left, catching sight of a soul that, paradoxically, burned terribly bright even as it was being slowly smothered by… something. Some weight he couldn’t decipher. 

“Come to make a request?” He asked affably, unbothered by her lurking. 

She lurked a lot, all of the surviving Students did, too wary and afraid to openly look for company outside of their tight knit group. So far only Krile, by virtue of being one of them, was allowed amongst them without reserve and she was the only one they searched for if they wanted… anything really.

“You don’t mind my presence?” Athene asked quietly, but not even that could disguise the musical quality that her voice possessed. More than the feathers, talons or the frequent self combustion, it was her voice, truly, that stuck to him the most. He didn’t know how to describe it except heavenly.  

You don’t mind me? 

Hythlodaeus shook his head. 

“I wouldn’t be a very good bard if I minded an audience,” he said with cheer. “Just don’t wish me luck, breaking a leg here would be incredibly inconvenient.”

Athene cocked her head at him in a distinctly predatory manner as she reclined on the furthest edge of the crate he had claimed as a seat. Hythlodaeus suppressed a shiver. He wasn’t afraid of her, not really, but there was something unsettling in being stared as if he was prey. Probably because it reminded him of Zenos without the bloodlust. He wondered if she realized she did that. 

“...I didn’t think the meaning was literal,” she said, dry as a desert. 

At that Hythlodaeus couldn’t help but laugh. 

“It usually isn't, but when you’re ‘The Warrior of Light,’” he said with air quotes, “then the chance of a company of garleans jumping from behind scenes to make a scene is more likely than you’d think.”

She humed. “Sounds tiring.” 

“It can be,” he admitted because it was the truth. Being the Warrior of Light was not something he had sought, not something he wanted. It was a title given to him and in the aftermath all he could do was bear it. So he did, he shouldered the weight of it and tried to make the best with the cards he had left. “It’s not bad, though.”

The places he had visited, the people he met, the lives he improved, Hythlodaeus wouldn’t change any of that, not even for nights devoid of nightmares. 

When she didn’t add anything else, Hythlodaeus turned his attention back to his instrument. He wondered if there was any way he could put her more at ease. There wasn’t much he could realistically do for her, for any of them. Sure, he could (and would) defeat Eureka, but he couldn’t restore them, it sounded like nobody could. All he had to offer was his presence and his music.

He plucked a sweet note and let it reverberate until it faded on its own. There was an idea.

“So, any requests from my audience?”

Athene startled at the sound of his voice, shoulders hunching briefly before she took control of herself and forcefully relaxed her stance.

“You probably don’t know it,” she said with a shake of her head. There was a note of longing in her voice that made him itch to play exactly the song she was thinking of. “Any music is fine.”

“Maybe I don’t know it,” Hythlodaeus conceded. It’s not like he knew every song in the world, even though he was making an honest attempt to collect every orchestrion scroll and music sheet he came across. “Or maybe I do. We won’t know unless you tell me, so which song is it?” He prodded carefully. 

She was silent for so long that Hythlodaeus thought he had gone too far and she wouldn’t answer. So it came as a surprise when she did.

“It’s called The Nautilus Knoweth. It’s pretty popular back… back home.” 

The name didn’t ring a bell, but Hythlodaeus knew a few Sharlayan songs, courtesy of the Scions who taught him the music of their homeland, adopted or otherwise. Despite the man insisting that he wasn’t really a bard, Thancred was the one that knew most of them. 

“Would you hum it for me?” At Athene’s look he rushed to explain. He didn’t want to offend her or send her running for the hills. “You don’t have to, of course! It’s just… I know a few songs from Sharlayan, but I was taught by example so I don’t know most of their names.”

Athene nodded in understanding and perched on the edge of the crate. Despite the space that separated them, Hythlodaeus could feel the heat that radiated from her.

She cleared her throat and hesitantly started to hum a lovely melody that actually pinged in his memory. It wasn’t exactly as he remembered it, but it was similar enough that he should have no trouble replicating it. As Athene kept humming, he started accompanying her a few notes at a time, taking care to not eclipse her voice, until they were harmonizing the whole song.

They continued in a loop for a while, that song transitioning smoothly to the melody he had actually known and back again, until Athene’s voice faded into silence with a cough. 

“Don’t force it,” he said softly, slowing down but not stopping his playing. “That was beautiful.”

Athene nodded, a smile on her face despite the tears that flowed down her cheeks. 

“Thank you.” 

“It was my pleasure.”