TERA is super easy to get back into.

holdenhamlet

Just wanted to let people know that TERA is super easy to get back into.  If you played before and were thinking of getting back into it, the re-introduction program is very well done.  I had a max level character but I hadn't played in a really long time.  Within a day I was set up with dungeon ready gear and introduced to all the new features.

Game still strikes me as one of the best, despite it being so old.  Graphics stand up to today's MMORPGs, combat is still one of the best in the genre, and there are Elins, which of course as everyone knows is a great thing.

So if you haven't played in awhile and are bored with what you got, I suggest giving it a whirl.  Still free and still sporting the most fair f2p cash shop monetization model around.

azurrei

holdenhamlet said:

Just wanted to let people know that TERA is super easy to get back into.  If you played before and were thinking of getting back into it, the re-introduction program is very well done.  I had a max level character but I hadn't played in a really long time.  Within a day I was set up with dungeon ready gear and introduced to all the new features.

Game still strikes me as one of the best, despite it being so old.  Graphics stand up to today's MMORPGs, combat is still one of the best in the genre, and there are Elins, which of course as everyone knows is a great thing.

So if you haven't played in awhile and are bored with what you got, I suggest giving it a whirl.  Still free and still sporting the most fair f2p cash shop monetization model around.

Are you in the advertising industry? if you are not you should be...lol.  I think a lot of people would disagree with you about Elins...if anything, they drive more people away than attract - especially considering two of the newest classes are locked to being only Elin.

sumdumguy1

azurrei said:

holdenhamlet said:

Just wanted to let people know that TERA is super easy to get back into.  If you played before and were thinking of getting back into it, the re-introduction program is very well done.  I had a max level character but I hadn't played in a really long time.  Within a day I was set up with dungeon ready gear and introduced to all the new features.

Game still strikes me as one of the best, despite it being so old.  Graphics stand up to today's MMORPGs, combat is still one of the best in the genre, and there are Elins, which of course as everyone knows is a great thing.

So if you haven't played in awhile and are bored with what you got, I suggest giving it a whirl.  Still free and still sporting the most fair f2p cash shop monetization model around.

Are you in the advertising industry? if you are not you should be...lol.  I think a lot of people would disagree with you about Elins...if anything, they drive more people away than attract - especially considering two of the newest classes are locked to being only Elin.

Agreed, I was turned off by the new class announcement and have seen and heard nothing which entices me to go back.

holdenhamlet

Well, if you don't like Elins, I assume you weren't playing the game to begin with.  This notice is for people that played the game before and enjoyed it, but stopped for whatever reason.

NAER

I stopped playing BECAUSE of Elins.

holdenhamlet

NAER said:

I stopped playing BECAUSE of Elins.

Elins are in the game from the start...  it's not like they blindsided you with Elins.

I mean, we can turn this into an Elin debate, which every thread on TERA tends to be, and I can gladly expound the virtues of a fun and lively race that's not an absurdly boring orc, elf or dwarf, but really I'm just trying to let people know it's super easy to get back into the game if you left.

NAER

holdenhamlet said:

NAER said:

I stopped playing BECAUSE of Elins.

Elins are in the game from the start...  it's not like they blindsided you with Elins.

I mean, we can turn this into an Elin debate, which every thread on TERA tends to be, and I can gladly expound the virtues of a fun and lively race that's not an absurdly boring orc, elf or dwarf, but really I'm just trying to let people know it's super easy to get back into the game if you left.

Yeah i'm just being a bit spiteful that isn't quite the reason why I left though it is a contributing factor.

eddieg50

I liked Tera and I lvled a character to 32, the combat is very good, the graphics are fine, but to me there has to be a reason you are fighting mobs and I could not find that in Tera like I could in SWTOR or TWS. If you are into mindless grinding of mobs than I guess Tera is for you but it was not enough for me

NAER

eddieg50 said:

I liked Tera and I lvled a character to 32, the combat is very good, the graphics are fine, but to me there has to be a reason you are fighting mobs and I could not find that in Tera like I could in SWTOR or TWS. If you are into mindless grinding of mobs than I guess Tera is for you but it was not enough for me

Mindless grinding of mobs? Might i suggest Vindictus then? 

holdenhamlet

eddieg50 said:

I liked Tera and I lvled a character to 32, the combat is very good, the graphics are fine, but to me there has to be a reason you are fighting mobs and I could not find that in Tera like I could in SWTOR or TWS. If you are into mindless grinding of mobs than I guess Tera is for you but it was not enough for me

Yep, TERA definitely has one of the blandest leveling treadmills around, no doubt about that.  End game is very nice, though, with lots to do and real challenge at the top end.

I think they did make some adjustments so you level faster, but there's no way around having to slog through some of it to get to the good stuff.

Dragnelus

First im gonna try archeage revelation, maybr after tera. Liked to do bgs but the fps was soo low.

NAER

holdenhamlet said:

eddieg50 said:

I liked Tera and I lvled a character to 32, the combat is very good, the graphics are fine, but to me there has to be a reason you are fighting mobs and I could not find that in Tera like I could in SWTOR or TWS. If you are into mindless grinding of mobs than I guess Tera is for you but it was not enough for me

Yep, TERA definitely has one of the blandest leveling treadmills around, no doubt about that.  End game is very nice, though, with lots to do and real challenge at the top end.

I think they did make some adjustments so you level faster, but there's no way around having to slog through some of it to get to the good stuff.

That there is the real reason why I decided to quit, I miss the old Tera when leveling was actually challenging. I don't think i'll able forget the experience i had back when those level 20 basilisks would 2 shot you if you didn't bother to dodge their every move.

eddieg50

NAER said:

holdenhamlet said:

eddieg50 said:

I liked Tera and I lvled a character to 32, the combat is very good, the graphics are fine, but to me there has to be a reason you are fighting mobs and I could not find that in Tera like I could in SWTOR or TWS. If you are into mindless grinding of mobs than I guess Tera is for you but it was not enough for me

Yep, TERA definitely has one of the blandest leveling treadmills around, no doubt about that.  End game is very nice, though, with lots to do and real challenge at the top end.

I think they did make some adjustments so you level faster, but there's no way around having to slog through some of it to get to the good stuff.

That there is the real reason why I decided to quit, I miss the old Tera when leveling was actually challenging. I don't think i'll able forget the experience i had back when those level 20 basilisks would 2 shot you if you didn't bother to dodge their every move.

The same thing happened with WOW, EQ2 and Lotro, the just made the mobs to easy to kill . Lotro had great lore and story so I could live with it 

NAER

eddieg50 said:

The same thing happened with WOW, EQ2 and Lotro, they just made the mobs to easy to kill . Lotro had great lore and story so I could live with it 

Unfortunately Tera doesn't have good story to fall back on...

anemo

The combat was so good for me.   I loved being able to drift up/down the "expected leveling scale" to just cruise through or challenge content.

If everything else like the questing, crafting, and progression...  Wasn't a WoW game done in the most boring way I'd still be playing it.

holdenhamlet

Ppiper said:

holdenhamlet said:

Just wanted to let people know that TERA is super easy to get back into.  If you played before and were thinking of getting back into it, the re-introduction program is very well done.  I had a max level character but I hadn't played in a really long time.  Within a day I was set up with dungeon ready gear and introduced to all the new features.

Game still strikes me as one of the best, despite it being so old.  Graphics stand up to today's MMORPGs, combat is still one of the best in the genre, and there are Elins, which of course as everyone knows is a great thing.

So if you haven't played in awhile and are bored with what you got, I suggest giving it a whirl.  Still free and still sporting the most fair f2p cash shop monetization model around.

what is the reintroduction program you speak of?

Just quests and pop-ups.  The quests give you all the gear you need and the materials to enchant them so you're ready to hit up dungeons pretty much after just a day.  Assuming you had a 65 character at some point.  But I wouldn't imagine it being too much longer if you had a 60.  There's also pages dedicated to explaining "what's new", and I think it covers everything in the past few years.

"That there is the real reason why I decided to quit, I miss the old Tera when leveling was actually challenging. I don't think i'll able forget the experience i had back when those level 20 basilisks would 2 shot you if you didn't bother to dodge their every move."

Can't really argue with that either.  Old style BAMs were like the coolest thing in MMOs ever.  I loved farming the heck out of them.

But there was real challenge still in the top PVE dungeons.  I'm assuming there still is, although I haven't gotten to try it yet (obviously, just 1 day back).  Dungeons so far have been retardedly easy with the gear they give you, but that's OK since I'm relearning how to play.

There are some new features though that can put you to the test solo.  They aren't difficult, but they are timed and rewarded based on how you do.  Basically a couple solo dungeons and another area that just spawns different waves of mobs with different mechanics.  You get scored based on amount of combos, how many times you got hit by a BAM, stuff like that.

It's not the same as the "omg one false move and i'm dead to this giant dinosaur" kind of excitement of the old BAMs before they were nerfed, but you still get to challenge yourself and indulge in the awesome combat system.

FlyByKnight

Elins were fine before the weirdo weabo fap squad made a "thing" out of it. Most obnoxious group of humans in MMORPG culture IMO.

What I remember:

• The combat was/is cool (except with how dumb trash mobs are, and projectiles chasing you around)
• The story was absolute butchered gutter trash.
• Bunch of who GAF quests that you'd just mass accept and go kill and collect whatever was shiny
• Badly translated (not sure if they ever fixed any of that mess)
• The world is "open"
• Crafting was boo boo and pointless while leveling
• Mount + spacebar spam probably was never fixed
• It was never optmized (probably still hasn't been)
• Nexus events used to muck up the entire server (did they fix this?)
• Events turned to slide shows regardless of what hardware you were running (and had been since beta during "tests")

Octagon7711

It is easy to get back into but doesn't hold my interest.  It's an ok game.

Ceironx

Problem with Tera, Rift,.. and such games is that there is no real meaning behind what you are doing. If you look at all the games who were successfull, you'll see that each of those games have outstanding lore. For example whenever LoL throws a new character the way they introduce it to the community is 11/11 which creates so much hype. However when you look at Tera it's always an okay-ish way of introducing certain things. 

I mean, Aurelion Sol's preview cinematic was better than Tera's expansion cinematic.

Thevoicefrominside

Well, i played TERA for a while, even bought a game key for it, and everything was more or less fine for a while...
But then the GameForge Live launcher decided to stop working one day, and even the TERA game launcher itself wouldn't start the game anymore.

I tried several solutions mentioned online and from the support, but in the end, i just deleted the launcher and the games behind it at some point.

Anyway, i'm having less issues with Glyph and pretty much all (not going to touch ArcheAge or Atlas Reactor...) the Trion Worlds games inside it, then i had problems with the GameForge Live launcher and TERA plus AION.

I read something about a new GameForge Live launcher, but i'm not sure, if they really fixed all those former issues with it...

waynejr2

I won't play Tera because I dated a women named Tera and she broke my heart.

sumdumguy1

holdenhamlet said:

Well, if you don't like Elins, I assume you weren't playing the game to begin with.  This notice is for people that played the game before and enjoyed it, but stopped for whatever reason.

Wrong assumption and as you can see by the other comments, other share the exact reasons and experiences.  I'm sorry my comments don't fall into the hopeful expectations you wished, but I was being honest with my opinions based upon what someone had said.

Caffynated

I don't know why people hate the story so much. It could have been written better, but I thought it was a very unique, refreshing and interesting change from generic MMO stories. The world is different from the mainstream and the races all have interesting backgrounds.

The whole idea of a world that exists as a dream being invaded by mechanoid creatures from the realm of nightmare is a pretty cool idea.

Then you have the whole second story arc involving the return of the evil gods, their efforts to build armies, corrupt the land and its people, and awaken an eldritch abomination to help return them to power.

Sure the voice acting was often cringe worthy (even from some big name actors), but the story itself was pretty solid with good twists and betrayals.  The main thing that hurt it was being able to play quests out of order and skip whole chapters.

holdenhamlet

sumdumguy1 said:

holdenhamlet said:

Well, if you don't like Elins, I assume you weren't playing the game to begin with.  This notice is for people that played the game before and enjoyed it, but stopped for whatever reason.

Wrong assumption and as you can see by the other comments, other share the exact reasons and experiences.  I'm sorry my comments don't fall into the hopeful expectations you wished, but I was being honest with my opinions based upon what someone had said.

How is it a wrong assumption?  If you hate Elins, how could you possibly play TERA for any period of time?  95% of the population is Elins.

That's nice you were honest with your opinion.  I have noted your irrelevant opinion that you don't like Elins.  Thanks for stopping by the thread.

holdenhamlet

Caffynated said:

I don't know why people hate the story so much. It could have been written better, but I thought it was a very unique, refreshing and interesting change from generic MMO stories. The world is different from the mainstream and the races all have interesting backgrounds.

The whole idea of a world that exists as a dream being invaded by mechanoid creatures from the realm of nightmare is a pretty cool idea.

Then you have the whole second story arc involving the return of the evil gods, their efforts to build armies, corrupt the land and its people, and awaken an eldritch abomination to help return them to power.

Sure the voice acting was often cringe worthy (even from some big name actors), but the story itself was pretty solid with good twists and betrayals.  The main thing that hurt it was being able to play quests out of order and skip whole chapters.

Well, it is kind of like all over the place.  It's not the worst story, but definitely not the best. 

Honestly, I really couldn't tell you exactly what the heck is going on.  Something about Argons and stuff.  I dunno.   I do remember there were some really cool moments, though.

But I do like the general "TERA universe".  It's different and cohesive in it's own really weird way.  

One of my favorite things about TERA is it's just so different from everything else.  When I log on and play it, it's very immersive because it doesn't remind me of anything else.

iixviiiix

Ceironx said:

Problem with Tera, Rift,.. and such games is that there is no real meaning behind what you are doing. If you look at all the games who were successfull, you'll see that each of those games have outstanding lore. For example whenever LoL throws a new character the way they introduce it to the community is 11/11 which creates so much hype. However when you look at Tera it's always an okay-ish way of introducing certain things. 

I mean, Aurelion Sol's preview cinematic was better than Tera's expansion cinematic.

Personally , i wish the game was mindless grind .