T.E.R.A.

[Charismatic]

If I can't beat it, it's OP.

[Priran]

I'm scissors, nerf rock, paper is fine

[Rulke]

Yeah it drops like diablo, but I dunno if its locked to you or not.

I'll try to remember to check if its locked or not next play event, but I believe it is. I don't remember any 'loot stealing' problems last test but that was a while ago and most people were pretty cool during it anyway so I dont think it would have been a problem.

[Foxer]

Mind posting the other racials? Elin's sound... really good actually. I didn't even know they would be so significant but I assume given how good Elin's are that other races get some cool shit too.

On it

From that crab video, it seems like loot is just dropped on the ground like in Diablo II and anybody can pick it up? Do they lock the loot to you or your party?

Yes, they drop like D2 and are bound solely to PT.

Rumor is NA/EU racials wil be/could be different than KR ones. I havent followed this notion in a while though.

If enough people keep crying, they will do just that. I believe the argument is that they want complete freedom when choosing a character.

[Foxer]

Racial Skills


1. Human

Expert Duelist (Active Skill): For 3 minutes, it will lower the chance of reactions during PVP by 50%.

Will of Humans (Passive Skill): When your HP goes below 30% you will take 10% less damage during PVP.

Dilligence (Passive Skill): It takes 10% less time to craft Light Armor.


2. High Elf

Activate Core (Active Skill): Instantly fully restore your MP.

Core's Blessing (Passive Skill): When resurrected from death, you get MP regeneration buff.

Essence Collector (Passive): You take 15% less time to collect Essences.


3. Castanic

Runic Awakening (Active): When in combat your movement speed will be increased by 35 for 3 minutes, but when attacked your reaction time will be increased and after the reaction, the effect will be canceled.

Master of Ambush (Passive): When attacking from behind, your critical chance is increased by 1%.

Acrobatic (Passive): Decreases fall damage by 50%.


4. Aman

Veteran Fighter (Active): For 30 seconds, lowers the chance to get knocked down / paralyzed by 70%.

Descendant of Davan (Passive): When your HP goes below 30%, your defense increases.

Strength (Passive): Increases the chance to resist status ailments.


5. Popori/Elin

Friend of Nature (Active): When used before you are in combat, you will not be attacked first by monsters for 3 minutes. The effect disappears when you enter combat and cannot be used during combat.

Joy of traveling (Active): When used, for 3 minutes your out of combat movement speed is increased.

Child of the Lake (Passive): Swimming speed increased by 50%.


6. Baraka

Nature Fuse (Active): Instantly heal 100% of your maximum HP.

Optimist (Passive): Lowest percentage of your condition is 20% instead of 0%.

Keeping Calm (Passive): Raises the chance to resist movement impairing effect.

[Foxer]

ya, I remember reading that a while ago also. the racials in Korean retail are pretty OP to the extent where your a fool not to pick your specific class w/the correct race combo. I don't think it will go over well w/ the NA/EU crowd. It doesn't bother me... if you want to to better at your class then you pick the race that has the best synergy w/it... it's not like any race looks ugly or bad lol. It's a conscious choice your gonna make, but ppl will be pissy when they get constantly beat by (lets say) a ranger who is "X" race when they can kill a ranger who is "Y" race easily.

That's the argument, yeah. Coming from 7 years of XI, I'm fine with a Galka WHM and Taru MNK. There is no attribute difference between races in this game, there is only racial traits, where if you think about it, they're all useful in their own way and the amount of times you actually use them, they're not overwhelming in comparison to other traits.

Also, you can level 8 characters per account, and there are 8 classes, so! Yeah!

[Foxer]

Damn I can't wait to play this. Hope by the time it comes to NA the first expansion is out. What are the specs of your pc Fenux? Are those taken at max settings?

No, not at all. That's 1680 x 1050 on 5/6 textures, 1/2 smooth. Video card set to 0 AA. The game actually look spectacular with mediocre PCs.

My specs are
Q6600 @2.8GHz CPU
8GB 1066 DDR2 Memory
9800 GTX SC @740 Core

My brother has an
i7 920 @3.0GHz
4GB DR 1333
GTS 450 SC @ 890 Core.

We both run default and the only difference is he has it at force AAx2.

Needless to say that with just his specs, he's running 55-65 FPS with 35-40 FPS under load.
I'm running anywhere from 45-50 FPS with 20-25 FPS under load.

FPS started dropping by 5-10 over time while it got heavily populated, a few weeks in.




Sorry for late reply and thx all for keeping this an active thread. I personally think the more people that play this when it comes out, the better and this, believe it or not, is one of the more active EN speaking forums covering TERA. : )

[Weltall]

Seems some of those races are gimped as hell based on race traits.

Popori/Elin > Baraka (DD) = High Elf (Mage) > All ???

[Kiarax]

Hm, I'd probably put High Elf higher than Popori/Elin for mages, but I guess it depends on cooldowns on the active skill. Elin definitely get the most well rounded ones though, I'm a sucker for movement speed so I'd probably end up using those after all. Castanics sound kind of disappointing, but I don't really understand what the first active skill is saying (movement speed aside, obviously). Guessing they'll make fairly good warrior tanks with that movement speed boost though.

[Katlan]

ya... to be a caster and not a High Elf is a huge disadvantage.
Castatonic would make fun rangers because of the movement speed.. and rangers arent supposed to be getting hit in the first place

[Foxer]

Castanics makes the best DPS in the game VS. PVE.
High Elves make the best mages and -excellent- tanks.
Baraka is just amazing for any tanking job and Priest. The fact that you can't go below 20% as Baraka basically means you will pretty much -never- be in the negatives as far as HP/MP goes.
Popelin is mainly to run away from aggro, PVP, etc.
Humans seems to have the best PVP traits obviously.
Amani have the best tank traits.

[izia]

good looking game

[avelle]

Is there any decent information coming out of GDC yet? Enmasse loves to not release anything other than trailers and screenshots.

[Foxer]

Nothing yet. : (

Admin on TF mentioned the Curse staff meeting up with EME on Thursday so if anything there's going to be an interview page on TF Friday-ish

[Weltall]

This game looks so sick, please tell me there is a solid PvE endgame...will build a new PC just for this game if so.

[Rulke]

This game looks so sick, please tell me there is a solid PvE endgame...will build a new PC just for this game if so.

The PvE I've played so far (which was middle teens level) was awesome. And this was before BHS added in CSs, polished NPC interaction etc. Fighting monsters with this 'no target' system is super fun, and if you have a few friends to play with, it'll be a blast.

EDIT: any week now EME should be announcing the 'community play event' dates and hopefuly we'll see some of you other interested people getting in to try it out!

[Weltall]

No target system? Sorry, a little uneducated about this game aside from the races.

[Rulke]

^Unlilke FFXI, WoW or Rift, you don't target enemies with a tab or mouse click. Ranged classes use a cross hair, sorta like a 3rd person shooter. Melee have cross hairs too but its more like Diablo when it comes to fighting; you have to face your opponent and attack. They can dodge, block etc.

[Foxer]

This game looks so sick, please tell me there is a solid PvE endgame...will build a new PC just for this game if so.

By the time we get it, we should have with a lv.60 cap, as opposed to a lv.50 cap. As far as I know, Akasha's Refuge can't be cleared by anyone group outside of 2(?) guilds out there, both of which are Korean. Golden Labyrinth is still pretty hard and no NA has downed the 4th boss I believe. Those are the 2 hardest dungeons as far as lv.50 goes. There's that and World Bosses which roam certain areas and drop gear, and your typical grind/questing is absolutely -perfect-. By perfect I mean 100% fluid and not boring at all. Once you play the game a few times, you feel you've been playing it for years. It's like picking up a PS3 controller and playing God of War for a few hrs. It just feels natural.

No information at all in regards to any sort of PVE content affecting the politics system or anything on lv-50-60 content yet though.

[Foxer]

From the community manager of the EME page:

On a last note: I'm happy to dispel your Elin rumor. The Elin will still be in the Western version of TERA, and their lack of inclusion on our website is a result of us finalizing their appearance in our version and holding off until it is final.

Elin are here to stay, h0mie.