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Kuvo posted:Probably going to pick this up, a few questions first - TERA takes up 25 GB on my HD right now. - Mostly just animations, hit boxes and armor styles. Armor in particular varies greatly from race to race. There are racial skills, but they're pretty negligible. Definitely not something to consider when picking your race. - Very high burst damage. The block mechanic. AoE CC. Best class at defending healers. Best class for setting up kills with Mystics and Priests. - Archer, yes. Sorcerer, no. Archer uses a lot of directly targeted abilities. For the most part you just need to be aiming at the person when they fire. Sorcerer uses primarily AoE abilities centered 10 meters in front of you.
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Kuvo posted:Probably going to pick this up, a few questions first Install is about a 27gb download, balloons up to 50gb during install then back down to ~20gb. Race differences are mostly cosmetic, there are hitbox, range, and racial differences but they're mostly minor so play what you like. I have a berserker up in the 50's but haven't played a slayer or warrior past 10, so I'm not really familiar with the differences but I do know that the zerker is the slower, harder hitting variant of the three. Zerker is mostly just spamming thunder strike on the back of a boss. It can be a little boring but then you crit for some obscene number like 75k and it's hard not to giggle like an idiot in glee. Ranged classes do not play like a psuedo-fps. They are their own unique beast and very hard to describe.
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Translated KTera Dev Diary posted:Part 2 of the Argon Queen update will feature major changes for our tankers. Hot drat, no rolling cooldown!
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Crafting can be a good source of enchant fodder, it's I think the only source for a lot of template-able models, and it can be good for gearing alts as was mentioned. If those benefits are unappealing then there's no reason to bother with crafting. I think part of why it is currently unappealing is because nobody has any idea what anything is worth (except hides, gently caress their horrendous drop rates) so you can find fantastic stuff for absolutely nothing. There probably aren't enough people at high levels to be buying all the high level gear on the broker yet, either. I'm not really sure whether crafting being somewhat unappealing and unnecessary is a good or a bad thing, but it's a consequence of non-Korean drop rates and the game still being extremely young. If they want to make crafting more relevant I think the best thing to do would be to implement models that are unique to crafting for template purposes. I'd be fine with leveling up something that isn't really practical if I get to look cool from doing it. And speaking of looks, female Castanic robes have got to be the worst armor in the game. There's like one good one early, one good one in the mid-game, and maybe three decent high level ones. The rest are basically just a pick among trash bags, broken umbrellas, or pajamas they outgrew 10 years ago. Edit: A question while I'm thinking about it. What colors does the dye with the ridiculous list of components give? I assume there's more to it than just having the color selection that the individual components would have. chumbler fucked around with this message at May 7, 2012 around 20:51 |
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The issue with crafting gear is that everything takes runes. They're of limited supply and once you start hitting the late level 40 stuff, you're paying way more to craft something good than to just buy an equivalent item from the trade broker. It will stabilize itself once a lot of people are level 60 with plenty of money to waste. The best crafted items are currently on par with the level 60 hard mode drops. It's not a side thing that is quickly forgotten once you start doing max level content.
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Why would anyone roll a female castanic caster? The male caster armor is amazing. Male Castanics are generally at least 100% cooler than the females 
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Transfers to VoT are up! https://tera-support.enmasse.com/ap...ampaign=support
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| # ? May 7, 2012 21:20 |
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So, uh...I just got a BSOD in the middle of Noob Island about 20 minutes ago. Tried to boot up TERA again and my computer spontaneously powered off. Tried it again, same result. Other games work fine. I, uh, think I'm gonna go get some new drivers. 
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Lizard Wizard posted:So, uh...I just got a BSOD in the middle of Noob Island about 20 minutes ago. Tried to boot up TERA again and my computer spontaneously powered off. Tried it again, same result. Other games work fine. This is a skill based MMO, don't expect to just power up your computer. No tab target POST'ing here.
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| # ? May 7, 2012 21:33 |
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For the inevitable alt, I want a good end-game melee PvP (both group and 1v1). The ones that appealed to be best were either Warrior or Slayer. But I can't decide which! (Just read some recent discussion, which helped, but...) No, I don't have time to play both. How fast a class gets powers doesn't matter to me, I'd eventually get to 60 with either one (So Slayer getting their backstab later than Warrior isn't a factor for me.) IMO: Knockdowns (Slayer) > Stuns (Warrior) Some armor types have less KD resistance. All armor types gives the same stun resistance (excluding special stats). Warrior backstab range > Slayer backstab range Slayer backstab CD > Warrior backstab CD Warrior attacks faster/weaker Slayer attacks slower/stronger Warrior more survivable Slayer more damaging Any advocates for either one?
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| # ? May 7, 2012 21:34 |
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Zzulu posted:Why would anyone roll a female castanic caster? The male caster armor is amazing. Male Castanics are generally at least 100% cooler than the females
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Slayers get their own share of stuns, too. I'd say warriors edge out once they get Staggering Counter, though. Also, the main difference between the backstabs is Warrior's stuns, Slayer's immobilizes.Mr. Wookums posted:Dodge animation is able to dodge over, something other races or genders cannot do. I'm pretty 100% sure the only difference between dodges/backsteps between races is the way the animation looks, not any functionality.
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An Unoriginal Name posted:Ok Valley of Titans guild folks, here's the deal. We're gonna start sweeping more inactive/pubbie people soon so you need to be online in a day or two to respond to a mail I'm sending to everyone of a certain rank. This is important. You will be kicked if you don't respond to it. If you can't make it on to respond then at least post in this thread. If you don't get the mail then you're fine. Please feel free to kick July from DGKK, if you haven't already (I'd been too lazy to upgrade myself from pubbie to goon, and been somewhat inactive to boot thanks to being swamped at work). I'd leave the guild myself if I had an actual active subscription. I'd had a blast in this game but man, I wished either (a) this game didn't come out so close to Diablo 3, which is what all of my friends are playing, or (b) more of my friends played TERA instead. I pre-ordered and received my box copy, but being the cheap person I am, I don't plan on activating my cdkey until I can get all full month's worth of playtime out of it.
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Zzulu posted:Why would anyone roll a female castanic caster? The male caster armor is amazing. Male Castanics are generally at least 100% cooler than the females Personal preference mostly. I personally don't like looking like an oiled up male clothing model with red skin and horns. I'd rather run around as a scanty clad demon chick. All personal preference. If I had to choose a different race to play though it would be popo.
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RunAndGun posted:For the inevitable alt, I want a good end-game melee PvP (both group and 1v1). The ones that appealed to be best were either Warrior or Slayer. But I can't decide which! (Just read some recent discussion, which helped, but...) Knockdowns infrequently work against Berserkers and Lancers, and it's a gamble against Warriors. Stuns are likely to work on everyone, but the spell casters and Archers have higher stun resistance so they get more lucky resists. Backstab CD difference is 6 seconds once both are glyphed. Slayer Backstab immobilizes instead of stunning and its duration is significantly shorter. The range thing matters most when fighting Sorcerers, as you can Backstab through Time Gyre. 15m means they can't burst you down at any range you can Backstab them. Overall I think Warrior is the clear winner here, but it's a matter of opinion. Warrior attacks aren't necessarily weaker. Blade Draw and Traverse Cut both do more damage than the Slayer's most damaging attack, Heart Thrust, ignoring Measured Slice, which has a long animation and may or may not be good for PvP. As I mentioned earlier in the thread, Slayer damage is about the combined effort of multiple attacks, but the top damage per attack is the lowest of any DD class. And Slayers are definitely not more damaging than Warriors. Anyway, Slayer's strengths in my opinion are:
Mr. Wookums posted:Dodge animation is able to dodge over, something other races or genders cannot do. Not true. Dodge works exactly the same way for all races save for the animation. My Aman just jumps to the ground like he's trying to avoid an explosion and he can do everything a Castanic could with his dodge. Not to mention that's not unique to female Castanics. Male Castanics have the jump dodge animation as well. Liberatore fucked around with this message at May 7, 2012 around 22:49 |
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Well then poo poo, I read some misinformation and rolled one of them female... Wonder if their support would give me a sex change.
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Mr. Wookums posted:Well then poo poo, I read some misinformation and rolled one of them female... Wonder if their support would give me a sex change. I wouldn't be surprised if they did. But you probably wouldn't be able to customize your character, so he could end up looking deformed or just plain ugly.
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It seems that the camera controls for y-axis movement are much more sensitive than x-axis movement. This problem seems to be more noticeable when using a controller to play. Is there a way to desensitize y-axis camera movement while keeping x-axis sensitive?
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I said come in! posted:Has anyone mentioned how good the environments are? I don't think anyone has. Here let me tell you about the environments; they are pretty great. I'm working my way through an awesome jungle right now. Sledeau posted:I'm pretty 100% sure the only difference between dodges/backsteps between races is the way the animation looks, not any functionality. Did they ever fix the animation being out of sync with the damage for Popori Warriors? I don't know why, but it bugged the poo poo out of me how the swings were not timed to the damage popups.
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Yeah, for the animation of Evasive Roll, you clip through NPCs and PCs and are invulnerable to any attacks or other harmful effects. Thanks to this, the Castanic Evasive Roll has absolutely no advantage over the other races' Evasive Roll animations. And if you want a cool dodge animation, you go with Popori Slayer. They jump, place their greatsword on the ground and twirl it while using it to propel themselves. Liberatore fucked around with this message at May 7, 2012 around 22:46 |
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Has anyone solo leveled pretty far up with a mystic yet? I have a lancer that I play with people and I'm torn between either mystic or slayer for my solo character. I have a 30-something slayer already, but I don't like the impossible que times for instances. On the other hand, I heard mystics have the worst dps.
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Ahhhh! I hit 50 on my Slayer. Questing is very much slower now because it takes a lot more time to kill the various mobs involved. I reckon it would be much faster if I kept buying new gold weapons and other items at every possible chance, but that feels like a giant money sink. Did you guys that are almost or at 60 spend time getting better gear all the time, or just endured the slog the lack of damage output generates?
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Kuvo posted:Probably going to pick this up, a few questions first Just... try not to think about this. Remember to turn off P2P in the download manager and look away for a while. Zzulu posted:Why would anyone roll a female castanic caster? The male caster armor is amazing. Male Castanics are generally at least 100% cooler than the females Stripper dances when they cast.
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ilifin posted:Ahhhh! I hit 50 on my Slayer. Questing is very much slower now because it takes a lot more time to kill the various mobs involved. I reckon it would be much faster if I kept buying new gold weapons and other items at every possible chance, but that feels like a giant money sink. Any money you spend now will be negligible by level 60. I spent 310g to get a level 47 gold sword rerolled to double attack speed and enchanted to +6. I got lucky so my next one, at level 50, only took one reroll, despite having purchased 30 of each scroll already. That said, to me leveling efficiency and fun are more important than money I'm going to make back in one level.
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Baldbeard posted:Has anyone solo leveled pretty far up with a mystic yet? I have a lancer that I play with people and I'm torn between either mystic or slayer for my solo character. I have a 30-something slayer already, but I don't like the impossible que times for instances. On the other hand, I heard mystics have the worst dps. My mystic is level 42. I've mostly soloed all the way up. My technique is to never just be killing one mob. I'll attempt to fight 2 or more since our only two useful damage abilities are AoE. I'll use Volley of Curses occasionally at the beginning of a fight. I've gotten the useful damage glyphs which make it a little faster to solo. I occasionally play with my Slayer friend when we are at the same point in quests. With my mp aura and power buff, we really go through mobs quickly. I've also had a lot of fun griefing people during PvP. Putting someone to sleep and then having the BAM one shot them followed by the hate tells is hilarious.
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ilifin posted:Ahhhh! I hit 50 on my Slayer. Questing is very much slower now because it takes a lot more time to kill the various mobs involved. I reckon it would be much faster if I kept buying new gold weapons and other items at every possible chance, but that feels like a giant money sink.
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As a lancer, I've been pouring every copper I get into having the best weapon possible for my level, because every little bit of improvement in damage and attack speed is noticeable. By the time I've outleveled it, I have enough money saved up to immediately max out the next available weapon.
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| # ? May 7, 2012 23:34 |
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A buddy of mine shares my deep stress at choosing race/class combinations, so he pulled images for the top six tiers of each armor type for every class off that Russian site and assembled them into three handy grids. I found them useful for getting a quick idea of what the higher level armor looks like for each race, and figured others might deem them useful as well. Related: armor in this game looks badass. Robes Light Armor Heavy armor
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So I was walking around Dragonfall and I took some screenshots. Everything was nice and green until this magical tree came from nowhere.  Ahh giant venus flytrap  Finally reaching 300 flower picking for a sunflower!
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Dragonfall has a lot of great vistas. I found myself exploring every corner, not many MMOs make me do that. Has anyone else been having trouble setting up their subscription? I tried setting mine to my Paypal but I keep getting that Payment Authorization Failed message. However, Paypal tells me that they have authorized Digital River (the terrible company EME decided to go with) to withdraw money. EME support hasn't replied to my inquiry in about a week.
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roboticbears posted:A buddy of mine shares my deep stress at choosing race/class combinations, so he pulled images for the top six tiers of each armor type for every class off that Russian site and assembled them into three handy grids. I found them useful for getting a quick idea of what the higher level armor looks like for each race, and figured others might deem them useful as well. Related: armor in this game looks badass. That's... That's the best armor in any game of any type I've ever seen. The detail is staggering.
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roboticbears posted:A buddy of mine shares my deep stress at choosing race/class combinations, so he pulled images for the top six tiers of each armor type for every class off that Russian site and assembled them into three handy grids. I found them useful for getting a quick idea of what the higher level armor looks like for each race, and figured others might deem them useful as well. Related: armor in this game looks badass. Aman supremacy.
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| # ? May 8, 2012 00:44 |
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Had no clue server transfers were happening and free to boot. Moved my warrior over to Dragonfall so I can join you guys while I'm still leveling.
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| # ? May 8, 2012 00:56 |
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Defghanistan posted:That's... Really makes me want a Baraka.
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| # ? May 8, 2012 00:57 |
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roboticbears posted:A buddy of mine shares my deep stress at choosing race/class combinations, so he pulled images for the top six tiers of each armor type for every class off that Russian site and assembled them into three handy grids. I found them useful for getting a quick idea of what the higher level armor looks like for each race, and figured others might deem them useful as well. Related: armor in this game looks badass. Thank you, this makes it much easier to compare than those other pictures. And I now know what my two class and race combos will be!
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| # ? May 8, 2012 00:59 |
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Downloaded and playing. requesting invite to somethingterabile, have applied in game and on the website
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| # ? May 8, 2012 01:28 |
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Well, I caved. The game is currently downloading. I'm looking forward to playing as some sort of...thing.
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| # ? May 8, 2012 01:48 |
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So, uh. Those Warrior changes. How the gently caress is it going to be balanced for PvP if they can dodge forever?
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| # ? May 8, 2012 01:54 |
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I too decided to buy this game. 2 hours to go on the download.
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Nihilist Duck posted:So, uh. Those Warrior changes. How the gently caress is it going to be balanced for PvP if they can dodge forever? They'll have a stamina bar. Using dodge uses up some stamina. The idea is that, as long as the warrior has stamina, they can dodge around like crazy. But the number of times they can dodge in a row is limited because once they run out of stamina they have to wait until their stamina regenerates before dodging again.
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