TERA Online - General Information and Discussion (May 1, 2012)

[Lokus]

Yash, your graphics settings makes me a sad panda.

[Avarice]

Maybe mine will help a little,

[Gulkeeva]

I'm almsot expecting the queen to go down within a week, seeing as videos are out of how to kill her (although most all her big aoe's give a soorta floor directional "TO go where" to avoid" an attack). Even watched one video where the tank just soorta ate a decent amount the aoe's just standing wherever the hell he felt like, only took like 30K hp, then again he might be decked out in T14 MW +10-12 >.>

[Keshad]

Only just got home and now downloading the patch. How are people finding lancer and warrior with the new changes and resolve etc, has much change, is it easy to spam the usual sprts of skills and keep resolve up without too much drama and so on?

[Avarice]

We don't have the same version of Shandra Manaya that's in the videos, Gulk. The version we have still does 300% of your HP over six seconds, implying the unbuffed version (you can't OOR it), but it doesn't have the swapping debuffs that the buffed version does either, meaning we have some sort of inbetween; like we got the harder part of both fights combined. It's pretty hectic, but really fun.

[Lokus]

Mits hits like a girl. :<

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v26/Lokki/BattleG.png

[Avarice]

Haha, there's so many people in there, I didn't pay attention to names. I did notice when I got into a matchup against Praetor and a lot of Man Up and we beat them. Felt pretty good.

[Soho]

So yesterday I got some eggs in the mail for BG achievements. Some of the eggs turned into Gold T13 Fodder gear (the stuff you can buy from the BG Vendor).

I used one of the pieces of hand armor fodder to try to enchant my Masterworked T13 Nexus Gloves. The fodder was the same iLvl as my +8 Gloves. It went through the animation, failed and consumed the fodder piece. The odd thing was it gave me some type of message along with the fail that was something along the lines of "you can't use this item to enchant that level". My apologies for not remembering the exact phrasing or getting a screen shot, but the same thing also happened to a friend of mine who tried to use a weapon he got from an egg as fodder to enchant up his T13 Nexus Swords.

Has anyone else run into this or have any idea what the warning was about? Are we not able to use BG gear to enchant Nexus gear for some reason?

[Demenic]

"you can't use this item to enchant that level".

It seems to be a glitch or mistake with the patch. I tried to enchant a few items with whites last night and failed. The message you are talking about appeared on all of the fails. It'll probably be fixed soon.

[Kipling]

Haha, there's so many people in there, I didn't pay attention to names. I did notice when I got into a matchup against Praetor and a lot of Man Up and we beat them. Felt pretty good.

If you beat Praetor again tell him Nozomi says Ram Elins are inferior.

Also, was anyone else getting massive server lag even until late last night? Wondering if it's just VoT, but all of our skills were rubberbanding us like crazy last night which made trying new content rather interesting...

Edit: Also, anyone know of any successful NA queen kills yet? Supposedly there is a rumor that Reign of Chaos on VoT has a group that killed it, but I highly doubt that since there are far better groups out there.

[AidenCarby]

The lag has been kinda wtf, also fuck grinding money as a mystic.

[shidobu]

The first boss in the Argon Corpus... That AoE poison in HM last for(fucking)ever on the ground. Ends up making the room smaller and smaller. We attempted last night was doing okay by our 3rd attempt but the Servers DC'ed us. Gonna try again tonight anybody else attempt HM?

and thank you based god that BG points can be spent on templates...

[Kipling]

We ran Argon Corpus HM last night but we didn't end up clearing it partly because the server lag was rubberbanding us constantly on the final boss trying to dodge his laser and partly because I went out with the GF.

First Boss - Tank hold him in a corner and when a DPS gets targeted by the circle try to stack it somewhere. We just zerged the shit out of him and tried to stack the poison circles around each other in the same area so that we could continue moving around. Seemed to work on the second try and we beat it.

Second Boss - No text for the dive move in Hard Mode like there is in Easy Mode. Tank it against a wall of the circular arena much like the first boss. This way when it targets someone with the death dive they can run up one of the ramps and range the attack. The only person who got hit by it was me because he stunned me while I was tanking for like 10 seconds and then dove on me, didn't kill me though.

Third Boss - This is the fun one. This boss is stationary and never moves, which is a big factor into the mechanics of the fight. You also get no text for the one shot move that starts below 30% in HM. At 80% he spawns three little robots called "observers" that run around the room in a circle. If you get within 8m of them you will wipe because they spawn a suicide bomber-esque mob that will most likely kill you and then your tank. Tank and Melee DPS need to stand on top of the boss at all times except when they need to move out every 60 seconds because it does the one shot move every 60 seconds after 30%. When that happens you move into the open spot between the three, wait for the move to finish, and move back in. Ranged DPS move constantly throughout the whole fight and try not to be detected. The observers have differing speeds so sometimes you need to cut across through the boss and reposition yourself. Supposedly the observers have pre-destined spawn points according to some K-TERA posts but it seemed like they did not match up for us. We ended up just having everyone run in at 81%, doing the push, seeing where the observers spawned, and then had the ranged move out accordingly. For 30% have everyone move out at 31%, have the ranged dps push it past 30, wait for the move, and then run back in if you're a melee/tank. The one shot move seems to be pre-empted by the boss dropping a giant disc onto the ground that seems to be HUGE knockdown rate, so we ended up adopting the strategy of running out early to avoid being knocked down and eventually killed because of said knockdown. If you get the mechanics down the boss actually has tons less HP than all the other bosses in this dungeon and he doesn't hit hard either.

Final - Still working on this one, but I think if we didn't have server lag fucking us over we would've had it. Tons of hp, huge hits. At 80% he starts to spawn worms in the room a bit from where he spawns. The worms need to be zerged ASAP or they will multiply like rabbits and overrun you. They spawn every 90 seconds so save your cooldowns and be mindful.

Tank needs to tank it somewhat against the wall (but not so against the wall as to not let yourself be able to see the laser). If the tank holds it against the right wall the laser can go by and not kill your dps while they try to kill the worms. There are 3 kinds of lasers I have seen: 1) 360 laser - he crouches and his eye glows blue, the tank needs to step to the right and ranged dps need to either run far away to range it or teleport jaunt through the boss to avoid him as he spins, warriors and slayers can dodge roll through it (note: if you are a tank you MUST get to the right before it starts spinning because you simply cannot outrun it or shield block it. You step to the right and run WITH IT). 2) Random laser - he shoots very quickly in front of and to the side of him, behind him seems to be safe. 3) Charging Laser - think cannon from BT HM Boss.

He also has access to a move he does at random where he spawns a huge red AoE circle coupled with a smaller white AoE circle that's closer to him. Close DPS need to be INSIDE the white circle or you might get one shotted. Anyone who is ranged can just run super far away from the red circle and outrange it. It's quick and likes to sneak up on healers in animations, so be careful.




We got it to like 40 something percent before something would go wrong and I or someone else would die due to fucking server lag. As long as you have the laser and worms down you should be fine. You definitely need good DPS though. I just wrote this before my coffee and shortly after waking up, so it might be a bit incoherent.

[Gulkeeva]

The lag has been kinda wtf, also fuck grinding money as a mystic.

Logged in first time in awhile since I actually can now, and that lag was intense, thought it was battlegrounds lag O_o

also, the best.... money grinding class on normal mobs is berserker, can't beat it on nonstop aoe rape ~

although, spamming T14 instances (if the ques are quick?) may be more profitable atm.

There is also...! Farming green crystals. I noticed even after 2 days, green crystal prices haven't fallen much (800g +2 attack crystal down to 600g ish now). I have several characters farming rep/trusted to get me crystals from several factions every 2 days at current credit prices.

Since I have several Lv 60's... this is a "decent" low effort gold farming (if I was doing it for gold) as I can get about 8 crystals per 2 days (you make about 120-140 rep per day at trusted), 30min to do dailies for a faction.

[Avarice]

Edit: Also, anyone know of any successful NA queen kills yet? Supposedly there is a rumor that Reign of Chaos on VoT has a group that killed it, but I highly doubt that since there are far better groups out there.

I can assure you they haven't. Leash's group (same five who had NA first kill of Nightmare Kelsaik) went into Manaya's Core within an hour of the patch releasing and spent 10+ hours in there practicing, learning the tells and her moves. They got her out of incubation phase (the kiting part) consistently, but could not get her below 70%. The fight is extremely hard, and there's no way Reign of Chaos would have the first kill. I am curious as to how G.Father's group and Praetor's group are doing though (or if they've even attempted yet).

[Pilfer]

Praetor was stuck on Argon Corps HM final boss when I went to sleep last night they kept getting swamped with the worms when sub 35% duno how long them kept going or if they beat it. But they did not try queen as of that point. Also I heard one of them say they wanted to sleep soon so I highly doubt they even tried it.

[Serif]

Argon Corpus HM Final Boss is doable with the right setup. One of our groups, Statics, completed it last night. They got somewhat lucky but I think with a little bit more practice we will be farming it by today. The problem is when the beam pillars start popping. It wipes you, usually, if you do not have certain DPS in your group.

[AidenCarby]

Just started hard modes today, fuck FoK :/

[Kayu]

Just started hard modes today, fuck FoK :/

Fok is kinda easy O,o i am more worried into going into BT HM never been there haha