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

[Katlan]

Um... It's to prevent every fuckin name in existence being taken before retail by a bunch of inactive accts filled w/toons under level 10. I still thinks its stupid to let OB characters carry over, and they are still going to have to do an inactive acount >10 character wipe sometime pretty soon after release since it will still be the case

[Gulkeeva]

The names kept are only preorders. I doubt people with no preorder can just jump in Open beta to reserve a name to never play again.

[Katlan]

pre-orders get early name reservation, but anybody in OB can reserve one name. They can't just delete non preorder names since their hope is ppl who are in OB, who didn't pre-order, will want to play after release

[Dryr]

Depending on class, WoW does basically have up to 3 jobs per character (tank/dps/heals). But, the main reason I didn't like FFXI classes was the NECESSITY of having multiple jobs (they were called jobs, not classes, right? it's been about 3 yrs) available to find a group for any given activity. What really sucked in ffxi is having 3 75s and all subs on a char (a healer,dps and tank) but the 75 YOU have isn't the "right" healer/dps/tank for the activity.

And, the gear... what a pain in the ass... having to not only store it, but transfer entire sets + consumables/ammo from storage to inventory one item at a time every time you did something because everything required using a different job...

Other than that, only being required to do tedious quest/mission chains once was nice. But, the way FFXI worked, you had to do them 15 times anyways to help others.

[Trocian]

I wouldnt worry about things like that, its not 2004 anymore and MMOs nowadays are generally easygoing and balanced, at least compared to FFXI.

[Meresgi]

Yeah, I mean while I like being a unique snowflake in a MMO, I hate it when my class is just bottom of the tier for a certain boss or encounter. It feels like for the most part all classes are pretty reliable in TERA, some might work better then others come 60, but there will always be min/maxing in MMOs, as long as you can get by not min/maxing to the .0000001% i'm fine.

[Elcura]

Yeah, I mean while I like being a unique snowflake in a MMO, I hate it when my class is just bottom of the tier for a certain boss or encounter. It feels like for the most part all classes are pretty reliable in TERA, some might work better then others come 60, but there will always be min/maxing in MMOs, as long as you can get by not min/maxing to the .0000001% i'm fine.

I think this is the case in a lot of MMOs (some more and others less), just that people generally will hover towards what's better (even if it is marginal) or easier.

[Tisi]

Wonder if they will do what they did in korean beta... or whatever event it was I seen screenshots of... it was basically...

1. Find location of many players
2. Drop 100+ bams on the spot
3. ???
4. OMG WHATS HAPPENING

Looks like we're gonna be getting this pretty much lol...

"In this last event, the Valkyon Federation, bolstered by a surge of new soldiers, strikes back at its foes, reestablishing control of troubled realms, and upsetting the meticulous plans of its enemies. In an effort to destabilize the federation and disrupt its momentum, Thulsa has decided to launch attacks at the relatively unprotected capital—Velika. The evil god is gathering a small army of monsters to fling them at the City of Wheels. The Mysterium's arcanists detected Thulsa's plans and alerted Fraya, who sent word to Velika. With little forewarning, will the federation be able to defend the city and thwart Thulsa's machinations? Be ready for a call to action in the evening hours of Friday and Saturday!"

- http://tera.enmasse.com/news/posts/c...n=social_media

[Eddard]

PK'ers will have a field day with this event.

[Ambrosia]

Will be prepared! Sounds like fun.

[Ghost_Wheel22]

Run into the crowds of people fighting the BAM hordes and "whooooops my axe slipped" "whooooops didn't see you there lol" "whooooops my cat is on fire g2g"

The Offishal Forum Collective is collectively shitting themselves over exp gain being too fast, only one character for OB, CE candy doesn't get handed out until launch, and a dozen other superfluous topics. I'm seriously starting to rage harder than from reading FFXI's OF and the game isn't even out yet.

[Gulkeeva]

Run into the crowds of people fighting the BAM hordes and "whooooops my axe slipped" "whooooops didn't see you there lol" "whooooops my cat is on fire g2g"

The Offishal Forum Collective is collectively shitting themselves over exp gain being too fast, only one character for OB, CE candy doesn't get handed out until launch, and a dozen other superfluous topics. I'm seriously starting to rage harder than from reading FFXI's OF and the game isn't even out yet.

I'm sure the PK's will have fun.. rushing into a mass of bam's.. and being the possibly target of any ones aoe/attacks being tossed in

You could say I'll go berserk with my berserker in that mess aoe spam O_o

[Divimise]

I put in a request for information about name reservation and being able to make more characters during obt, and this is what they said.

This is the main question I asked "Once we reserve that character (job/name/class) can we still, once Open Beta starts, make other characters to play?"

I'm more than happy to clarify this information for you! Ok, so the information in our FAQs regarding character reservation is intended to let our community members who have already pre-ordered when they will be able to reserve their character and character name. This is so that you guys get 1st pick at the name you want before anyone else. When Open Beta starts everyone will be able to to create their characters.

Nobody will be forced to play with one solitary character, I mean...that'd suck right?! We know it would and we wouldn't do that to you! We don't want your experiences with TERA and En Masse to be awesome from gameplay to customer support!

The key phrase in the reply is that no one will be forced to play only 1 character. So either this mean something completely different, or we get our open slots to make more charterers if we dont want to use our reserved name character as the main during obt.

[Divimise]

I have to say, it was nice when they increased level capin ffxi, and adjusted all the old zones that used to be low level or endgame with 80+ monsters, brings back memories exping in places you havent seen since the first 1-2 years of the games release. Not sure I know of any other mmo that revamps starting zones to become engames zones, it was a nice idea and I liked it. Low cost to do, and its like a new zone all over again.

As we are 32 in closed beta of tera, it looks like we pretty much are on the edge of leaving the zone to go to the other side of the world. Makes you wonder if there is any reason to ever go back to a "low level" area again other then to fend off pk'er and to do those rift monster things. Least in Ffxi all the zones has some mixup in levels so no matter where you went, some high level has to run by to get to their zone. I dont see that in this game, leaving the starting areas like a ghost town for anyone joining in on a low level.

[Kachiko]

I have to say, it was nice when they increased level capin ffxi, and adjusted all the old zones that used to be low level or endgame with 80+ monsters, brings back memories exping in places you havent seen since the first 1-2 years of the games release. Not sure I know of any other mmo that revamps starting zones to become engames zones, it was a nice idea and I liked it. Low cost to do, and its like a new zone all over again.

As we are 32 in closed beta of tera, it looks like we pretty much are on the edge of leaving the zone to go to the other side of the world. Makes you wonder if there is any reason to ever go back to a "low level" area again other then to fend off pk'er and to do those rift monster things. Least in Ffxi all the zones has some mixup in levels so no matter where you went, some high level has to run by to get to their zone. I dont see that in this game, leaving the starting areas like a ghost town for anyone joining in on a low level.

You haven't seen all of the starting continent yet, so, as you level, you'll be going back to new areas. As far as re-visiting old content zones, there's really no reason to except to finish loose quests/achievements, farm easy treasure box events, or farm eggs, for alts.

QPT: save whatever gathering mats you find, as the final bag expansion quest needs 50 of each level of materials (grass, crystal, & Rock). You could also just spend a few hours and level all of your gathering skills, once you hit 60, but you may just get most/everything you need from monster drops, as you level.

[Ghost_Wheel22]

I dunno but I like rocking the gathering buffs while I level. Plus my Castanic moans when she fails. Win/win.

[Katlan]

Alright all. drop the internet tough guy talk and keep the discussion thread related to TERA. Bringing XI discussion like this can never end well.

[Katlan]

told you all to stop this shit. it wont end well. moving all this shit to a locked thread. don't bring it up again in here

[Rulke]

@Wilfgang: The BG guild is on Jagged Coast, a PvP server. There are other BG members in lumps on other servers as well though.

[Miraun]

Alright all. drop the internet tough guy talk

told you all to stop this shit. it wont end well. moving all this shit to a locked thread. don't bring it up again in here

ANYWAY... Back to Tera. I've been told that there is the main red quest plotline... Are they required in any way to progress in the game, and can they be soloed. Or do they end up being level cap type things later.

Additionally... What's the deal with the low-man content that's been referenced. I thought it was a bunch of instance-grinding at max tier.