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I got to Val Elenium last week and I sent out "hey just got here, does anyone want to party up for quests?" into area chat. Had a full group in 5 minutes and we blew through the entire place in about 2 hours.
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TERA |OT| F2P starting in February! Were you expecting a parade?
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cartoon_soldier
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I would group up, but right now I am playing, working, doing shit around the house all at the same time. I like to keep it at my own pace
Guess this is what happens when you get a company that's never made an MMO (or a game before) trying to publish a AAA MMO. You run into a few little snags.
Yeah that's my kinda situation. Haven't really had a chance to party up forreals in a while.
Are they charging your creditcard, without allowing you to play?
NeOak
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They haven't released time cards in the US afaik
No, they hadn't charged it. But i woke up today and saw the email confirming the charge, so thats fixed now.
what do you mean?
every single time I have ran it only one weapon drops multiple times. 3 x lance in one run. I have ran it about 12-15 times and have seen 3 different weapons. I haven't seen any armor in that instance that isn't heavy. I don't see how it isn't a code issue.
Gold weapon for my class at that level is cheap enough, but I haven't seen my armor listed once, and I am guess they will want ~300g for it. Not paying that much.
edit: more lances....sweet...
oh yeah, I have noticed that about NT. I wouldn't worry too much about it tho, you will get gold quest armor that matches the NT drop a level later, I could have saved a 100g if I knew that before lol
also think this is pretty bad design. stats on blue / gold aren't that much better than green / quest items. Super decision.
ROBOKITTYZILLA
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You're in luck. Though it is in almost no way indicative of the what the full game is like, there is now a free demo that you can try which consists of the playable prologue:
I actually wouldn't be surprised if instance drops were determined by the party's average item level.
Thanks. It's currently down for server maintenance but I'll check it out when I can.
Just realized there was a PVE GAF guild and it was on a different server so I transferred to Dragonfall to apply...already at member limit. Fail 
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Made it to level 25 now on my Lancer...after 6 months of hardcore PVPing/raiding in SWTOR, this is a nice change of pace. I love the combat. Grouping up for BAMs was a pretty good time, and the first dungeon (while bland) was pretty good for beginners. I also love the speed at which I am leveling.
.Made it to level 25 now on my Lancer...after 6 months of hardcore PVPing/raiding in SWTOR, this is a nice change of pace. I love the combat. Grouping up for BAMs was a pretty good time, and the first dungeon (while bland) was pretty good for beginners. I also love the speed at which I am leveling.
NeOak
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Just realized there was a PVE GAF guild and it was on a different server so I transferred to Dragonfall to apply...already at member limit. Fail
Made it to level 25 now on my Lancer...after 6 months of hardcore PVPing/raiding in SWTOR, this is a nice change of pace. I love the combat. Grouping up for BAMs was a pretty good time, and the first dungeon (while bland) was pretty good for beginners. I also love the speed at which I am leveling.
Message "Serena" in-game
So, whilst it's down can any human female light armor players give me a steer on what in-game armor this is:
http://tera-online.cc/gallery/human-fl/2726-human_f_l16.html
I know it's 'render 16' but is this a template-able, or a high level drop? if so, anyone know what it's called in-game?
http://tera-online.cc/gallery/human-fl/2726-human_f_l16.html
I know it's 'render 16' but is this a template-able, or a high level drop? if so, anyone know what it's called in-game?
I don't have human but looks like a human version of the royalist/boss robes dropped in SM for castanic female for around lvl 30ish.
I don't have human but looks like a human version of the royalist/boss robes dropped in SM for castanic female for around lvl 30ish.
Aha, thanks! Yep, looks similar.
If it's synchronous to how the castanic robes are sorted on that website, it's the robe you can get at around lvl 50. I think it's tier 9 or 10.
Thanks!
Played a mystic in K-Tera, but I'm liking the healer a lot more this time around
It's been fun so far. Last two days I've been in a lot of random groups to kill big mobs quickly. Trying to level faster but I keep stopping every time I see something I can gather, just compulsive that way.
Guild chat is great to have around but I have to say global chat is the worst global chat I've ever had the displeasure to read in any mmo. It is just so bad.
Other than that, it's been pretty manageable playing and healing with a controller, haven't had any problems, even with the overflow of skills.
I had a friend try the demo, he said it streams from your browser and it's terrible? oh well.
It's been fun so far. Last two days I've been in a lot of random groups to kill big mobs quickly. Trying to level faster but I keep stopping every time I see something I can gather, just compulsive that way.
Guild chat is great to have around but I have to say global chat is the worst global chat I've ever had the displeasure to read in any mmo. It is just so bad.
Other than that, it's been pretty manageable playing and healing with a controller, haven't had any problems, even with the overflow of skills.
I had a friend try the demo, he said it streams from your browser and it's terrible? oh well.
It's because I'm blind lol.
Apparently there's a Gaikai Tera demo?
http://tera.enmasse.com/demo
edit: Just tried it a bit, it's a singleplayer demo of the intro where you have the lvl 20 char. You can pick from a sorc, lancer or warrior. It looks terrible as well, the latency was decent though.
While interesting, this is perhaps the weirdest way ever to trial run a MMO.
http://tera.enmasse.com/demo
edit: Just tried it a bit, it's a singleplayer demo of the intro where you have the lvl 20 char. You can pick from a sorc, lancer or warrior. It looks terrible as well, the latency was decent though.
While interesting, this is perhaps the weirdest way ever to trial run a MMO.
same amount of thought that went into everything aside from the combat?
Hey! Bluehole, somewhat knows what they're doing. It's EME/Frogster that make these crazy changes and come up with these idea's. It's mostly EME though, Frogster just doesn't give a fuck either way and are busy giving the least possible service as possible.
Unknown Soldier
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EME probably didn't think forcing people to download 25GB just to play a short prologue would be a good idea. For once, I actually agree with them about something.
What's amazing is that so far with the exception of the enchanting no longer able to go down on failure, NONE of the changes EME made have panned out. I mean, most of the time you are hit-or-miss when you change things for localized markets, but EME is literally batting 0-for-whatever at this point except for the enchanting modification. Had they simply released K-Tera as it is right now with just a straight translation of text, the game would be in better shape than it is right now with the NA/EU gameplay changes. I would even take the shitty -1 on enchant failure at this point if it also meant they would revert all the other things they changed.
Good point, but with MMO's you really can't do these tiny demo's. I'd say a 7 day trial would've made more sense.
Yeah I kinda hoped that Frogster would go down that route(of simple translation). When I played Lineage 2(NCsoft title) when in went f2p. The EU division actually implemented content faster than the NA counter part(which was run by NCWest).
That's pretty nice, I really need start lvling(I'm still lvl 50). I play this game with my brother, but his 3d card got fried. We should be ready to go in the weekend though.Played on my EU Slayer last night, finally got her to level 56 and some nice new gear:
I waited for about an hour in queue for an instance yesterday, I thought that wasn't suppose to happen for a healer! People needed lancers though, oh well.
The first instance yesterday the group was ok, one dps was taking on too much damage or the tank wasn't drawing enough agro, don't know which one. I got my first gold drop though, a gold necklace.
The second run through that instance we got an absolutely awesome tank. Knew what to do and instructed the team accordingly. Everything went extremely smooth. No drops though.
After that I grouped with two lancers to kill some bams and we got ks'ed by another group intentionally twice. I don't know what their problem was but my group didn't make it any better because our lancer just started to swear them out instead of changing channels like I suggested.
The first instance yesterday the group was ok, one dps was taking on too much damage or the tank wasn't drawing enough agro, don't know which one. I got my first gold drop though, a gold necklace.
The second run through that instance we got an absolutely awesome tank. Knew what to do and instructed the team accordingly. Everything went extremely smooth. No drops though.
After that I grouped with two lancers to kill some bams and we got ks'ed by another group intentionally twice. I don't know what their problem was but my group didn't make it any better because our lancer just started to swear them out instead of changing channels like I suggested.
Edvardelis
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I can sort of understand removing the eggs, but Alchemy is too expensive to be profitable right now.
I can see why they moved the three instances that were originally level 58 down - they were obsoleted with the first Queen of Argon patch. That just made end-game very boring... at least it's a little better with the new dungeon and the Nexus finally running.
The other stuff - the crafting quests, the engines of mischief were removed but there's nothing to replace them. It makes getting the right crystals much harder than it needs to be, and it makes raising crafting pretty much impossible, especially since there's zero reason to do it outside of using what you made as a template.
I got 29 last night on my lancer thanks to BAMs and two SM runs. Got gold boots in one and my gold lance in the second, very nice. I was stoked. I do have questions if we have any experienced lancers though...
Basically, in a vacuum tanking isn't difficult. I've done it in other games, know the routine, and for TERA I feel like I have a good grasp on our abilities, the combat system, and how to position myself to properly use them...however SM showed me, unlike BOL, what a huge pain in the ass 4+ normal mob packs can be without patient DPS and or targeting. Boss fights and BAMs are simple enough, spend most of those fights with 2 or 3 mobs chasing me while I chase the mob chasing the sorc. Not fun and it makes me look bad.
Ive done SM 3 times and it seems like there's always some sorcerer aoeing or melee deeps charging in on the exact opposite mob/group I attack. Shout is great if I can get em together and once I can shout a time or two it's no big deal, but piling them up is rough without being first in for a few seconds.
I've had no complaints, no deaths, and no near death experiences...so should I not worry about it at this level range, or should I lay down the law? Maybe I should L2P? Lol
Also, lancer shortage confirmed. I've instant queued/grouped every time I've tried.
Basically, in a vacuum tanking isn't difficult. I've done it in other games, know the routine, and for TERA I feel like I have a good grasp on our abilities, the combat system, and how to position myself to properly use them...however SM showed me, unlike BOL, what a huge pain in the ass 4+ normal mob packs can be without patient DPS and or targeting. Boss fights and BAMs are simple enough, spend most of those fights with 2 or 3 mobs chasing me while I chase the mob chasing the sorc. Not fun and it makes me look bad.
Ive done SM 3 times and it seems like there's always some sorcerer aoeing or melee deeps charging in on the exact opposite mob/group I attack. Shout is great if I can get em together and once I can shout a time or two it's no big deal, but piling them up is rough without being first in for a few seconds.
I've had no complaints, no deaths, and no near death experiences...so should I not worry about it at this level range, or should I lay down the law? Maybe I should L2P? Lol
Also, lancer shortage confirmed. I've instant queued/grouped every time I've tried.
Edvardelis
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They need to wait. Eventually you get leash so you can yank an errant mob back, but they need to wait until you have everything under control.
Yeah I do need to get in the habit of using my Leash on a regular basis as well.
This has been epic so far, but this was a particularly awesome instance run. Rifkind, one of our guild level 60's in a break from endgame raiding helped me through a dungeon (Sinestral Manor) I needed to progress the story, making it look like an absolute cakewalk.
After we got done another guildie needed help clearing out an earler optional dungeon (Bastion of Lok) that I'd happened to miss and as I hadn't been before I went along for the ride.
Rifkind preceeded to sprint to the first boss, take it down to open the passageway to the dungeon proper, then aggro every mob left standing in the place creatng a huge mob train headed for the final boss...
We get to the final boss of the instance, I cant keep up so I'm somewhere in the middle of the train and I think our other party member is somewhere at the back, and Rifkind turns around and lays down the smack on everything in the place...
The screen doesn't really do it justice, I was laughing so much I missed the mob train at it's peak, he'd finished off about 1/3 of them by the time I took the second screenie.
Absolutely awesome times
After we got done another guildie needed help clearing out an earler optional dungeon (Bastion of Lok) that I'd happened to miss and as I hadn't been before I went along for the ride.
Rifkind preceeded to sprint to the first boss, take it down to open the passageway to the dungeon proper, then aggro every mob left standing in the place creatng a huge mob train headed for the final boss...
We get to the final boss of the instance, I cant keep up so I'm somewhere in the middle of the train and I think our other party member is somewhere at the back, and Rifkind turns around and lays down the smack on everything in the place...
The screen doesn't really do it justice, I was laughing so much I missed the mob train at it's peak, he'd finished off about 1/3 of them by the time I took the second screenie.
Absolutely awesome times
do they really think bare chests / stomachs appeal to the western audience?
Unknown Soldier
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It appeals to Koreans, you know, the audience for which this game was originally made.
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