T.E.R.A.

[Foxer]

K-TERA Patch Notes | 3.3.11

-Monsters

* Added three new named monsters to the open world.
* Each new monster drops a legendary item. If a party dies while in combat with any of these monsters, the monster will reset.
* Below are the monster's background stories and in-game information.



* Name: Anansha the Greedy
Location: Ancient Forest
Lore: Anansha was a goddess favored by Arachne, the Goddess of Spiders. Unfortunately, Anansha was abandoned by Arachne when she gave her a mission and failed it because of her greed.

Anansha regretted her decision soon after she was abandoned by Arachne. Her goal is to regain her favor by trying to expose Arachne's enemy, Shakan’s weakness. To this day Anansha wonders the Ancient Forest where Shakan sleeps looking for clues, however she is so greedy that she often forgets her original purpose. She is most often found attacking travelers and looting their gold.

* Name: Karagos the Furious
Location: Frozen Prairie
Lore: Karagos was one of the Dragonkin Alkus, dragons who were born from the blood of the Ancient Dragon Vergos. Karagos carried the will of Vergos, who was a devoted follower of the Ancient God Sharleron, however Vergos was killed by other Gods. Karagos’ lair is found in the Frozen Prairies which is full of the ancient god's ruins. Kargos has an alliance with another dragonkin, Pandurus Sabraniac, and the two work together to attempt to free Sharleron.

Name: Sabraniac the Slaughterer
Location: Frozen Prairie
Lore: Sabraniac was another of the dragonkin born from the corpse of the Ancient Dragon Vergos. Sabraniac’s personality is greedy and sadistic and he likes to attack and pillage the nearby villages.



Village of Savagery

* “Gigania”’s healing skill was fixed to heal for 10% rather than 100%.


Frozen Shores

* Fixed some abnormal AI issues.



-Class Balance

* The effect "reflect damage back at attacker" can now stack.



-Party

* “Party Invite” Menu now changed to “Party Request”.
* You can now type [/파티초대 or /파티신청 or /초대] to invite people to your party.

* Party Request menu’s functions are as follows.
1) An individual person can now request to join a through any of the party members, not just the leader.
2) Party can request to an individual or an individual to party, also individual to individual can request to party.
3) Party to Party request can’t be made if the party is full.

First one is probably just a spider BAM like the very first WB, seen before.
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/9058/88993515.png

Also, I believe this is the 2nd and/or 3rd of the new bosses added. Haven't seen this mob type before and it matches the description some.
http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/3282/...456504sghf.png

Constantly surprised at the amount of bug fixes, PVP balances, PVE class balances and mini content patches coming out for this game. EME better take some notes because when this hits the states, it's going to be flooded with content already, and EME better patch like BHS does!

[Foxer]

GameSpot Eglish commentary or narration on TERA.



This would be a level 30 BAM, I believe. A normal PT Elite.


Edit; To summarize the whole bunch of nothing that was GDC this year, these are all the 3rd party sites with some pretty shitty/not-so-bad/decent/good interviews, commentaries, videos and screens;

MMOgamesvs

Massively



GamePro

TenTonHammer

DualShockers

ZAM

Shacknews



As far CPE invites go, I belieeeeeeeeve they go out on the 9th or 10th so gonna have to wait a while on that.


Again, another year with nothing but details from EME it seems!

[plue]

First one is probably just a spider BAM like the very first WB, seen before.

Looks awesome IMO, finally shit that doesn't look like a cheap reskin (afaik), and isn't so cutesy it wants to make you throw up. FUCK YOU SE!

[avelle]

En Masse really blows ass when it comes to marketing a hot new mmo that is supposed to be out this year. They should be hyping the shit out of people with videos, concrete beta dates, new information, etc.

[Deathgazer]

Yeah they should. Apparently that's going to be one of their main focuses for the North American beta, raising 'awareness and hype'. We'll see how that goes.

They're making good progress though. Thanks for the links!

[Rulke]

En Masse really blows ass when it comes to marketing a hot new mmo that is supposed to be out this year. They should be hyping the shit out of people with videos, concrete beta dates, new information, etc.

While I concur with you on this, from following this game so long, I can tell you they have really increased the amount of articles and interviews theyve given in the past few months. I personally believe that once Closed beta is near (so summer) they will really go 'all out' on advertising and hype for Tera. Several times on the forums they've said that they dont want to hype the game too soon when release is still so far away because they feel it would come across as false hype with no show.

[avelle]

While I concur with you on this, from following this game so long, I can tell you they have really increased the amount of articles and interviews theyve given in the past few months. I personally believe that once Closed beta is near (so summer) they will really go 'all out' on advertising and hype for Tera. Several times on the forums they've said that they dont want to hype the game too soon when release is still so far away because they feel it would come across as false hype with no show.

They've definitely improved over the radio silence they would hold for months at a time but ya, they still have a long way to go. I know they didn't want to overhype too much near Korean release as well because "it was their time to shine," we just need moar!

[Foxer]

No, they're just bad at advertising a game. The more they advertise it here, the more Americans go out of their way to illegally play the Korean version. They were pretty dead set on keeping the Korean version to themselves apparently since we have to go through so such extremes to even play it, so I don't see why EME just doesn't release more info on it period. I think I can pretty much explain everything you guys need to know as far as 1-50 goes outside of lore, simply because I play the Korean version.

Ask yourself how many people know about this game outside of Asia. That's how bad of a job they're doing. Not to mention their -terribly- outdated site isn't helping either. Hype is money, and at times, it seems EME doesn't like money.

[arus2001]

I don't think holding on ads until release date is closer is a bad thing. I know I hate when the movies show and ad for a film coming out the summer of next year when it's only spring the year before. Besides, anyone with their finger on the pulse of the MMO world should've at least heard of the game, so there's a bit of viral marketing going for them. Like it or not, they got the pedobear angle to worry about, too (I don't mind the thighs, but I rather expect their hinted edits to be pants with actual pants).

[CasualPlayer]

Agree with the comment about having a finger on the mmorpg pulse. People who play these games already know about TERA no real reason to start super hyping it just yet.

Also those screenshots of the new NMs look amazing. Seems like TERA is the perfect mix of instanced and open world content.

[Weltall]

I prefer open world so that is great news.

[Foxer]

Yeah level 50 legendary gear makes them the first OW bosses to drop nice gear, since people can't clear GL/AR regularly still.

[Rulke]

Ok, new week! EME's last minute contest for passes to the Community Play Event ends on Wed or Thurs. With that out of the way I really think we'll see invites go out next monday with testing the following weekend.

[Weltall]

How do I get on the list to possibly get an invite @_@? MUST PLAY THIS GAME!!1

[Foxer]

http://www.tera-online.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4380

[Insanecyclone]

http://i55.tinypic.com/21e2qkg.jpg

Fake? Applied to the testing.

[Foxer]

haha. They would have not edited an already old picture if they were trying to be serious about it. They would have just snapped another pic of new gear. Def. fake.

[Rulke]

I realize the "focus" of the CPE this month is the stabilty/capeablilty of EME's new servers, but I expext there to be some questions reguarding Elin's attire/changes in the tester part of the forum (among other things). I know there are outside sources to think about when releasing a game, but player input can and does mean a lot.

[Foxer]

There really isn't much to worry about I would say. If they really wanted censorship, they would have to re-vamp every female race in the game, and that would seriously cause way more damage than it would benefit them.

Lower level High Elf Female Priest:
http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/6261/...2443362789.png

Higher level Baraka Priest:
http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/885/barakamr18.jpg

Mid-high level High Elf Female Lancer(plate):
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/8...2445089484.png

Mid-high level Human Male Lancer(plate):
http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/8858/humanmh17.jpg

E; Posted this to show that pretty much every female race is more eye candy than the Elin race, so it's basically just a group of select awesome people that QQ up a storm trying to ruin in for the little pedo in all of us. : (

[Foxer]

I realize the "focus" of the CPE this month is the stabilty/capeablilty of EME's new servers, but I expext there to be some questions reguarding Elin's attire/changes in the tester part of the forum (among other thigns). I know there are outside sources to think about when releasing a game, but player input can and does mean a lot.

Which is why Elin isn't changing much at all.