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TERA |OT| F2P starting in February! Were you expecting a parade?
- Thread starter ROBOKITTYZILLA
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More like everyone who bought the game before got a huge headstart.
Mowell, guess they have a hard time getting new subscribers?
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
Just found this interesting post off of reddit talking about rumored upcoming features to the Korean (and thus the Western) clients:
Src
Some really interesting stuff looking into the future of TERA.
TLDR Warning, also upcoming content infoz. Read at your own risk.
None. We are currently equal to them in terms of content. There are 2 major content patches for the game, which is Destruction of Beasts, and Queen of Argons, but QoA is in 2 parts. We both currently have DoB and both have QoA part 1, and are both scheduled to get QoA part 2 sometime this summer from what I have heard. The game has been out just a hair over a year there, and has 2 major content patches, so that's decent I'd say. EME is not merely translating, but I don't think they have the power to just totally go in a different direction on their own. But I do think they have the power to have Bluehole implement specific things at their request.
According to this picture, they release a content patch quarterly.
We have most of the stuff up until 2012, and they are about a quarter behind on a few things. According to the pic and other sources, we are still due to get
-Level cap increase
-A new class
-Server vs Server
-Battlegrounds
-20 man raids
-Guild housing
-More guild levels
-Cross server neutral city
-PVP invasions of other servers
-Improved political system
-Floating capital city that can be moved and effects the entire server with buffs/bonuses. Can be parked in SvS area as a drop point for reinforcements.
-Revamped tradeskills
-New armor and weapons models and tier
-PVP Honor like system with purchasable pvp gear
-Ranked battlegrounds? (group matching)
-Warrior and Lancer buffs for tanking
Server invasions & a huge aerial city will be implemented by early next year.
The Demonic Beast of Destruction patch will introduce teamwork, opposition and resistance. If the current TERA is about 5 man PvE parties, for the future it will be about server vs server opposition and large scale battles. BHS mentioned 4 updates that will bring this to life.
The server neutral city of Agaia will open up frequently and will be a place multiple servers will share. This area will provide different kinds of PvE and PvP experiences. Each servers Archons will have to fight off the other servers in order to provide a better experience for their own server players.
Through Agaia, players can also invade other servers, allowing them to collect Dream Shards. To balance out the power, the server matching will change depending on how many shards a server has.
Lastly, early next year, the fourth major city called Juras Ark will be revealed. Juras Ark can only be acquired through politics and the policies made through Juras will be server wide, affecting more than one continent. If Dream Shard and Agaia is about power, Juras is about how to use that power.
For example, if you are in a server that takes great care at PvP and server vs server wars, you can move Juras to the middle of Agaia, to use as a floating fortress. Along with the Juras Ark patch, TERAs ninth class will be revealed.
K-TERA Press Conference: Demon Beast of Destruction - TERA Fans Online Forums
...The 20 man party aka Raid Party will be added.
10vs10 BGs are being actively worked on, also PvP balance is being analyzed. Additionally, monsters will be placed on the maps for a more strategic battle, by defeating the monsters the party will get additional buffs. BG party matching also being worked on. (We also know they are adding other BG's without monsters, such as deathmatch style and Arathi Basin node capture/defense style).
Part 2 of the Argon Queen update will feature major changes for our tankers.
Warriors as tankers proove to be a difficult issue to handle but the second part of Argon Queen update aims to solve these problems. Various balance restoring plans will be tested out.
One of them is the Stamina Bar/Gauge you can see above (I assume the current stamina will revert back to condition as it was referred to previously). If a Lancer successfully blocks an attack no MP will be consumed but Stamina instead. This will ensure that Lancers will have better resources.
Warriors on the other hand will be able to continually evade and dodge attacks while they have Stamina so as long as you have stamina, no cooldown will be applied to the skill.
The formal introduction of the Stamina Gauge is yet to be finalized but the current internal tester's feedback was positive so far.
Warriors will get additional tanking skills and Lancers will get some skills to enhance solo gameplay.
https://forum.tera-europe.com/showthread.php?t=54718
If they can pull all this shit off and get some raids in there, hoooooly shit, they can have my dollars. Really though, if they can pull this SvS stuff off and whatnot, this game will be king of PvP and have solid PvE. It sounds so much more promising to me than GW2 PvP even.
Src
Some really interesting stuff looking into the future of TERA.
YesNOnoNOYes
Member
Did my first run of BoL yesterday. I was playing my mystic and had no idea what I was doing but thankfully the team just told me to spam balls, and that I did.
I don;t really like doing group stuff until I know how to really play my class. but all the hoping between characters stopped my bleeding edge skills from being honed
I spend today refining my shortcuts and rotations on some basilisks. I think I have a better control of the mystic core abilities for group and bam fighting. Gonna test it out on another run later.
Also paid close attention to the tank and they had no regard for any positioning or threat holding. I'm not sure if thats just how this game works (monsters naturally just freak out all over the place like monster hunter) or he was just being super lazy.
We didn't wipe so I'm guessing he was either being lax because he was OP or this first dungeon is stupidly easy.
BoL is sort of an introductory dungeon, it's relatively small and most groups survive it without getting wipe. You seem to be doing the right things with how you're observing and analysing and thinking over the aspects of group-fighting, like your observation with the tank in your group. Some tanks are really good, some don't really grasp their class well. Actually this goes for almost every class, lol.
Jumping between character class does disrupt play style. This is so true. When I jump between my priest and my mystic, I get so confused that the buttons are not doing what they are supposed to be doing..... haha.
Anyway, I really enjoy reading your reflections of TERA in the thread so far : )
So I'm 55 and the game is starting to get grindy. It used to be that I had a continuous chain of quests going from 1-50, and many times I skipped a lot of quests because I outleveled them. Now I'm clearing entire subzones without even breaking 50% to next level. Is this true for everyone else or am I just doing something wrong?
Also did the mobs suddenly get a lot stronger and more resistant to crits?
Also did the mobs suddenly get a lot stronger and more resistant to crits?
riceandbeans
Member
Is the community pretty large and strong at this point? The game seems to be getting cheaper and cheaper, and right now it's $35 on Amazon and next week it'll be $25 which has me worried.
I've always wanted to try a MMO, but I'm not sure if I want to pay a subscription to this if there's a chance it's going to go free to play like DC Universe and there's always PSO2 coming up.
I've always wanted to try a MMO, but I'm not sure if I want to pay a subscription to this if there's a chance it's going to go free to play like DC Universe and there's always PSO2 coming up.
Wolfgunblood Garopa
Member
There's a lot of players, def no problem there.
I've hit a similar wall, though it was a tad higher since I almost never skip quests. About halfway to 57 I just ran out of normal quests. I still had two story quests to finish up in instances and I'm guessing after I do one of them it will open up more normal quests, but it still felt a bit odd I had no other options.
What I did was just start going to zones I hadn't been to yet, even if no one told me to go there. I'm in Seeliewood right now and even if I'm missing the main story quest line it seems like I'm able to get most every other quest.
And mobs did seem like they got stronger for the past few levels, although I personally just chalked it up to me being overleveled before and things evening out as you get higher.
Ragingnight
Member
quest in the 58 area such as the Northern Kaitor regions. The mobs have much lower hp and do a lot less dmg.
Its very apparent that the old cap was 58 considering how easy it is to go from 58-60 compares to 56-58
Dead Prince
Banned
it will be. what other sex would i be ;P
THE BETTER SEX
You need alkahests, sold by the generic Merchants in all the major cities. You'll need a bunch of them, the number of which is determined by the tier of the item you are trying to enchant (tier 2 requires 2 alkahests per attempt, for example). Each attempt will require those alkahests, and a throwaway item of the same tier that will get destroyed.
You need special alkahests once you get over +6, I believe.
And enchanting is a huuuuuge money sink. I wouldn't bother until you either have a ton of money you want to waste, or max level. The thing is that stats on weapons you get as you level scale up every quickly, so even if you enchant a gold (highest tier) weapon up a couple of times, a blue of the next tier will outdo it in a couple of levels (which you'll likely get as a reward from questing), and greens will be better not long after that.
You can fail at enchanting, but failing will not delevel the target weapon, nor will it break it (you only lose the alkahests and throwaway item). The throwaway item is recommended to be of a certain rarity for certain enchantment levels (ie, using golds to get from +6 to +9 or something), because the higher rarities increase the chance for success. In that way, failure comes with a very high price, and failing at higher levels is much more common. People easily burn thousands of gold trying to go from +6 to +9 on something, because the alkahests themselves can cost sometimes up to 250 gold per attempt.
Just a head's up to the VoT gaffers, I just signed us up for three guild wars, for fun. We declared on Honor Guard, a smallish guild, because one of our members didn't like them for something. We declared on Valhalla, a very large guild, because one of our members saw a bunch of their low level members and thought to get some easy kills (incidentally, said member was killed by the third guild we declared against before anything happened against Valhalla). Finally, we declared against Hello Kitty for DMPrince. Happy leveling!
Just a head's up to the VoT gaffers, I just signed us up for three guild wars, for fun. We declared on Honor Guard, a smallish guild, because one of our members didn't like them for something. We declared on Valhalla, a very large guild, because one of our members saw a bunch of their low level members and thought to get some easy kills (incidentally, said member was killed by the third guild we declared against before anything happened against Valhalla). Finally, we declared against Hello Kitty for DMPrince. Happy leveling!
Dead Prince
Banned
Just a head's up to the VoT gaffers, I just signed us up for three guild wars, for fun. We declared on Honor Guard, a smallish guild, because one of our members didn't like them for something. We declared on Valhalla, a very large guild, because one of our members saw a bunch of their low level members and thought to get some easy kills (incidentally, said member was killed by the third guild we declared against before anything happened against Valhalla). Finally, we declared against Hello Kitty for DMPrince. Happy leveling!
haha. will be good
I wonder if people don't know about the channel system in the game.
Still on the Isle of Dawn was getting annoyed that the inscribed stones kept being taken and then remembered I could change channels. Went to the second channel and had the area to myself. Several others were on the channel but we were pretty spread out I think. Think I'm going to do that for a while. Switch to another channel to do quest and then switch back to the first channel to get a group for other quest or when I'm just in town or city and want to chat. No sense fighting for mobs. Great gathering as well. Only problem is remembering to switch back if I teleport back to town. You get dropped into channel 1 by default anytime you do that.
Still on the Isle of Dawn was getting annoyed that the inscribed stones kept being taken and then remembered I could change channels. Went to the second channel and had the area to myself. Several others were on the channel but we were pretty spread out I think. Think I'm going to do that for a while. Switch to another channel to do quest and then switch back to the first channel to get a group for other quest or when I'm just in town or city and want to chat. No sense fighting for mobs. Great gathering as well. Only problem is remembering to switch back if I teleport back to town. You get dropped into channel 1 by default anytime you do that.
The really nice thing about switching channels for quest items is they're always in the same place, so if you find a nice little group of them you can hop around channels and finish pretty quick.
Also area chat is for all channels as far as I know, so you wont miss anything there by being in another channel than 1.
Dead Prince
Banned
was in velika. Xar (didn't catch what guild he was in) added me to his friend list and right after someone else did too. 2 priest probably watching me right now. lol. i'll leave them on friends list for now and see where this goes.
Ragingnight
Member
How did you get the gold
. At 60 after doing almost all the quest it seems hard to get gold outside of farming mobs.
Ragingnight
Member
I am also interested. Haven't seen it in-game whereas I've seen virtually every other set on the marketplace.
Much obliged, that's a nice tutorial.
NeOak
Member
I posted what was gonna be discussed in the meeting on the Community Thread. Vanarchy here we come.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=37984667#post37984667
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=37984667#post37984667
ROBOKITTYZILLA
Member
LTTP: WOOO! Finally hit 60 last night. Going to run instances all weekend and get geared up.
It's not even a price cut. It's just a discounted sale which is only good for two days. Amazon is currently having a large DD sale so it could be related to that. The standard edition retail copy on Amazon was discounted to around $39.99 a while ago, but they are probably looking to unload any retail boxes left over, especially with Atari's recent financial issues.
F2P? Not a chance. Now is the time to jump in. The game isn't likely to get another discount this low for some time. At about $25 with 30 days included, you're not going to get a much better deal than that, even if you decide to unsubscribe after the free trial. The community is very strong right now and if you are interested in PVP, those servers seem to be the most densely populated (players are more spread out due to PVE server numbers). If you decide to go PVE, join Dragonfall as there are a lot of gaffers there currently.
There is still an over abundance of quests but it definitely takes longer to level from 50-60. You may need to do a little zone exploring as not all the zone quests are in areas where story quests take place. I hit 60 tonight and had a metric ton of quests that I have yet to complete worth tons of experience. Also, the story quests give you insane amounts of experience at that level. It will take longer but it shouldn't feel grindy, especially in comparison to other MMOs. It will go much faster if you find someone to group with.
As Paprika said, everything starts to even out around 55, since you are getting close to cap. This is a good thing in my opinion. This was probably the first time I wasn't able to run around one-shotting everything due to being over-leveled so much.
Pretty much. I think the gear disparity is even worse. Even at level 59 or level 60, I still get wiped by anyone fully geared with tier 9+ equipment. I don't stand a chance.
It's not even a price cut. It's just a discounted sale which is only good for two days. Amazon is currently having a large DD sale so it could be related to that. The standard edition retail copy on Amazon was discounted to around $39.99 a while ago, but they are probably looking to unload any retail boxes left over, especially with Atari's recent financial issues.
F2P? Not a chance. Now is the time to jump in. The game isn't likely to get another discount this low for some time. At about $25 with 30 days included, you're not going to get a much better deal than that, even if you decide to unsubscribe after the free trial. The community is very strong right now and if you are interested in PVP, those servers seem to be the most densely populated (players are more spread out due to PVE server numbers). If you decide to go PVE, join Dragonfall as there are a lot of gaffers there currently.
There is still an over abundance of quests but it definitely takes longer to level from 50-60. You may need to do a little zone exploring as not all the zone quests are in areas where story quests take place. I hit 60 tonight and had a metric ton of quests that I have yet to complete worth tons of experience. Also, the story quests give you insane amounts of experience at that level. It will take longer but it shouldn't feel grindy, especially in comparison to other MMOs. It will go much faster if you find someone to group with.
As Paprika said, everything starts to even out around 55, since you are getting close to cap. This is a good thing in my opinion. This was probably the first time I wasn't able to run around one-shotting everything due to being over-leveled so much.
Pretty much. I think the gear disparity is even worse. Even at level 59 or level 60, I still get wiped by anyone fully geared with tier 9+ equipment. I don't stand a chance.
ROBOKITTYZILLA
Member
Baldurs Temple and Fane of Kaprima for the level 60, tier 12, enigmatics. All the hard mode dungeons drop the tier 13 items but I would recommend going for the tier 12 and enchanting that up first. As for how I'm spending my time endgame, I just hit 60 so I'm about to start gearing up and farming gold by running instances. In between that I'll be crafting and doing daily quests. There are a ton of daily quests and some interesting rewards. My guild is also getting ready for the Vanarchy campaign and forming various alliances. Oh, also PVP.
<3 Valley of Titans.
Wolfgunblood Garopa
Member
I'd be curious what you think of those settings. It looks better without the injector for me, especially if I used the settings in that pic from the youtube link.
Mattdaddy
Gold Member
Ok I will randomly get these pop up messages that say "So and So is trying to contact you! Press Alt to repsond!". And I press alt, but all it does is bring up the little menu. I dont see where I'm being "contacted". I even checked my whispers and the chat... nada. What does this mean? It's probably happened 4 or 5 times. I think it might have something to do with guild invites because one of the guys name I recognized from him spamming chat with his guild.
Also, is there any way to rez closer to the action? Like am I missing some rez points or something? I'm level 20 and when I get ganked I still have to rez all the way back at Lumbertown or Crescentia(sp?), even though my quests are kinda far away. I don't mind getting ganked, but the hike back to my questing areas is kinda far, I feel like Im missing a graveyard or something.
Overall though, game is badass. I'm Bloodynine on Feral Valley if anyone wants to play.
Also, is there any way to rez closer to the action? Like am I missing some rez points or something? I'm level 20 and when I get ganked I still have to rez all the way back at Lumbertown or Crescentia(sp?), even though my quests are kinda far away. I don't mind getting ganked, but the hike back to my questing areas is kinda far, I feel like Im missing a graveyard or something.
Overall though, game is badass. I'm Bloodynine on Feral Valley if anyone wants to play.
You can't rez closer to the action, but you can get back there at lot faster. When you get killed, find two NPCs in the town where you respawn:
1. The Cleric of Restoration can restore your stamina for a relatively small fee. Much faster than waiting by a campfire.
2. The Teleport Master can usually port you pretty close to where you died, assuming you have visited a teleport destination nearby previously.
Both NPCs can be found on the overlay map - just mouse over the icons to find them.
Also, consider transferring to Valley of Titans if you want to play with your close personal GAF buddies. We have a small-but-active* guild there. If you are playing with friends on FV, bring 'em along too. The more the merrier.
*the Streblo family will return this weekend - gotta balance between TERA and D3
Dead Prince
Banned
You can't rez closer to the action, but you can get back there at lot faster. When you get killed, find two NPCs in the town where you respawn:
1. The Cleric of Restoration can restore your stamina for a relatively small fee. Much faster than waiting by a campfire.
2. The Teleport Master can usually port you pretty close to where you died, assuming you have visited a teleport destination nearby previously.
Both NPCs can be found on the overlay map - just mouse over the icons to find them.
Also, consider transferring to Valley of Titans if you want to play with your close personal GAF buddies. We have a small-but-active guild there. If you are playing with friends on FV, bring 'em along too. The more the merrier.
I'll be on tonight. got to at least win one of the guild wars before it's over in 12 hours. Will help out. hopefully to at least hit lvl 52 or better 55.
Mattdaddy
Gold Member
You can't rez closer to the action, but you can get back there at lot faster. When you get killed, find two NPCs in the town where you respawn:
1. The Cleric of Restoration can restore your stamina for a relatively small fee. Much faster than waiting by a campfire.
2. The Teleport Master can usually port you pretty close to where you died, assuming you have visited a teleport destination nearby previously.
Both NPCs can be found on the overlay map - just mouse over the icons to find them.
Also, consider transferring to Valley of Titans if you want to play with your close personal GAF buddies. We have a small-but-active* guild there. If you are playing with friends on FV, bring 'em along too. The more the merrier.
*the Streblo family will return this weekend - gotta balance between TERA and D3
Oh wow good to know, thanks! I might actually xfer over. When I started playing the queue for Valley of Titans was pretty big so I went Feral Valley just out of impatience
Edvardelis
Member
I made some decent money by selling nice drops from BAM/etc on auction. However I sell really cheap to ensure it does get sold.
Oh wow good to know, thanks! I might actually xfer over. When I started playing the queue for Valley of Titans was pretty big so I went Feral Valley just out of impatience
I'd suggest doing it sooner than later - no one knows how long they'll leave the free transfers up. Queues seem to be a thing of the past, now.
Dead Prince
Banned
small bug fixes.
Known issue.
Known issue.
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