TERA Online General : Now Free to Play

I just did the new Nexus stuff...it's a lot more rewarding than the old one, tons of high quality items dropped, but...the lag...ugh. I had a constant fps of 1 or less for that entire HOUR. You couldn't even call it a slideshow.

That sounds bad...

What is Nexus anyway? Is it just some massive mob fighting event?

Pretty much. Hundreds of people taking part in a slideshow fight for an hour.

Kind of wondering how Nexus will be on w7; all of my framerate issues are solved and the game just feels so much more fluid. On that note, working on my 4th 60 now, I'll either power through lancer or level priest since it's already at 43. Lancer is SO EASY now after revamp, though...but the thing I like more than all of the DPS buffs and mana gain buffs is that BLOCK HAS NO COOLDOWN, my god it's wonderful. I hate block even with a 1 second cooldown, because I wait until the very last fraction of a second before blocking to maximize efficiency, and doing that with 1s CD block is a good way to get yourself killed.

the new block system sounds great then. Gonna alt it for sure eventually.

... I'm heavily distracted by Legasista right now, whoops.

the new block system sounds great then. Gonna alt it for sure eventually.

... I'm heavily distracted by Legasista right now, whoops.

I was looking at that, but no money as usual.

I was looking at that, but no money as usual.

I had to cash in my jar of change to get it while staying on budget myself!

Looking really good so far, don't know if you've played Cladun X2 but seems now rather than forcing grind for levels to power through dungeons, the endgame is going to be about finding OP gear. Seems they have higher capabilities too, I've heard of armor pieces with 3k hp, compared to cladun's 999 limits.

the main characters in this so far though seem a bit more generic to me, compared to the last 2, but the art style is nice in my opinion <3 Really looking forward to being able to get into drawing my own characters by hand instead of spriting, might take me a few tries though.

I think i'll just pick a day next week to really no-life TERA though. Blah, life's got me stuck with so little free-time lately.

Fucking hell, they are merging a ton of servers and their currently solution to name collisions is unacceptable. They said they are working on a compromise, but anything that makes me lose my names will result in ragequit, and most of playerbase feels the same. There are thousands of locked threads on the forums already complaining about it...

Oh gosh, i've seen the rage. All the way down to ONE server is waaay too extreme, they should have just did 2 servers at LEAST.

On the upside I can unite with my DF friends once it happens.

K so, my static group has created a guide to Sirjuka Gallery; there are a few up now, but we scored very close to 240K (top tier rewards) so it's a decent run. Next run we scored higher but had a few deaths, so we decided to use this one. Lancer perspective, me on healan.
Part 1 (first platform)

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[video=youtube;4Iwur5b9Uyc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Iwur5b9Uyc[/video]

Part 2 (second platform)

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[video=youtube;wFybcPj6mB4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFybcPj6mB4[/video]

Part 3 (boss)

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[video=youtube;5_sAC6uCobI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_sAC6uCobI[/video]

If you need specific tips, just ask, but the basics are, platform 1 you need to be using crowd controls as much as possible, but if you notice, the Elite mobs and the Ghilleds are immune to stun, so you need to slow those as much as possible; if an elite lands a hit, it WILL do about 40% crystal damage in 1 hit as well as 1shotting anyone standing closeby. The jockeys do a bit of damage to crystal too so the lancer or warrior needs to burn those asap. KEY note; last hit on anything in plat 1 yields 1K points. For platform 2, the way to make points is NOT killing the teraliths and KDing teraliths. Each knockdown on a teralith=100 points, and with 3 out that's going to give you a good amount by the end. Problem with this plat and boss plat is that the BAMs aside from those teras reagro on crystal every 3-4 seconds, so the lancer needs to be shouting a LOT in order to keep agro, while still blocking a lot in order to not get 2-3shot by the high boss damage. Also, you can see we kill the BAMs on plat2 with the explosives; that gives more points and is faster, BUT if a player is standing closeby they will get 1shot by it.

They now have announced they will be giving an appeal process for names. They won't say what it is, though...

More importantly though, KTera is getting a patch on the 16th, http://tera-forums.enmasse.com/forums/ge...atch-notes
Most importantly, they are finally caving and revamping the terrible enchant system. Also, new CS costumes, oh boy oh boy I can dress up my lolis more. Huge nerfs on Balder's HM for some reason...OHO, just saw this little gem, too; "* Multiplied drop rate of named monsters in lvl 58 dungeons by 2". Killian farming ahoy! 6 MES a run instead of only 3 makes me excited.

I fail. I let my free 30 days expire and hardly played over 5 of them. Gah.

I got pretty obsessed with drawing practice, i knew it was a bad time because of that but i really wanted to fulfill my curiosities; but I'm definitely planning on coming back in october I think. I need to finish discovering everything in TERA at the very least, and do at least one Nexus, despite the lag talk.

I just hope the merge doesn't cause you guys and my dragonfall friends to ragequit lol. I was looking forward to not having to choose anymore.

Everything but the forced namechanges and the gold grinding zone overpopulation is fine with me; markets suck ass on TERA currently, I want my Abyss equips ;-;

http://www.amazon.com/s/&hidden-keywords...B007RZT7NC
For the rest of the week, TERA is not only $10/$15 collector's edition, it's ALSO buy one get one free. LOL.
Not sure how I feel about this, but hey, if you want to play, now is the time to get it.

Wowww... That makes me uneasy actually LOL.

But... let me know if they have a sale on subscription prices. I'm down with that.

Nexus is now completely unplayable, to the extent that even people with $10K+ PCs now have 0-5FPS. As for me, I WISH I had 0FPS; I have 1 frame per 10-15 seconds. Literally. SO, I've just quit Nexus entirely until they fix it, and now that the rich kids are vomiting all over the forums like it's something totally new, I'm sure they'll finally do something about it, if only to shut the little shits the hell up.

I'm hoping there's some new content soon...my priest and lancer are both 51 now, and the rest of my characters are closing in too...I'll have all 8 classes to 60 before real content at this rate. I'm looking forward to this week's patch and the next few patches, at least. Halloween event with costumes, if they give us some sort of Etna outfit for Elins, they will have enough money to buy an array of 1000 servers to support Nexus. Next zerker patch puts them at #1 DPS, and that's coming sometime next month. There is also a revamp on the entire enchanting system in the works, which is the most exciting thing for me, because I'm just saving money up too scared to spend it at this point; a friend of mine dropped 60K gold last week and got +6 MW t14 plate. 60 fucking K for an MW and 6 enchants. I'm not saying the enchant system is broken, but...the enchant system is fucking broken, pineapple it.

The funny thing is that it's hardly any different than the Nexus on Dragonfall. It's slightly worse, but everyone in my guild and most people who were from Dragonfall hardly feel a difference. There's always a huge lag spike after we clear the second to last Nexus portal in Argonea because the zerg from Zulfikar arrives now, though.

I actually have okay luck with enchanting. It's harder for me to get +6 than it is to get +9. A guildie who I run with all the time dropped 40k last night on his new T14 Weapon from the Nexus. Masterworked it and got it to +10 in less than 2 hours of getting it. Also tried masterworking his gloves but didn't get it. I so far have tried about 25 times on my weapon and haven't gotten it MW'd yet. That guildie took 18 tries. I've only spent about 1.5k gold so I don't really care.

The funny thing is that it's hardly any different than the Nexus on Dragonfall. It's slightly worse, but everyone in my guild and most people who were from Dragonfall hardly feel a difference. There's always a huge lag spike after we clear the second to last Nexus portal in Argonea because the zerg from Zulfikar arrives now, though.

I actually have okay luck with enchanting. It's harder for me to get +6 than it is to get +9. A guildie who I run with all the time dropped 40k last night on his new T14 Weapon from the Nexus. Masterworked it and got it to +10 in less than 2 hours of getting it. Also tried masterworking his gloves but didn't get it. I so far have tried about 25 times on my weapon and haven't gotten it MW'd yet. That guildie took 18 tries. I've only spent about 1.5k gold so I don't really care.

Some people from DF say that, others from DF say it's way worse. Seems to be completely random levels of lag for people, doesn't matter what your hardware is. My guess is, at this point it's netload, and only the people with huge bandwidth AND decent hardware can stay above 0fps. All the same, just remember, all 3 zones are being cleared now, not just 1; if everyone were together the full time, nobody would even be moving.

If anybody is still interested/still plays this like I do; EME is laying out some enchanting fixes; http://tera-forums.enmasse.com/forums/ge...ost-652947

I'm not sure if I prefer this or the KTera fix. Depends on the 100% dust's price.

That said, either way, they are both great fixes; I would MUCH prefer to pay 50K gold for a 100% alk than enchant normally at +10-12. I could pay 150K on 100%s, or 1M+ on normal enchanting from failing hundreds if not thousands of times.