[TERA PC & Console] En Masse is closing, but TERA lives on! We will continue to support TERA PC (NA) and TERA Console until service is transferred. Stay tuned for more information.
[TERA Console] The Grotto of Lost Souls update (v85) is now live! Read the patch notes here: https://bit.ly/TERACon_v85
[TERA PC] The 64-bit update (v97) is now live. Check out all the changes delivered on August 11 here: https://bit.ly/tera64_patchnotes
[TERA PC & CONSOLE] Summerfest Part 2: The Beach Bash is on from August 11 until September 1! Participate in event activities to earn tokens redeemable for costumes, consumables, mounts, and more! Details: https://bit.ly/tera_sf20
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Here are some questions you should answer by yourself, no need to reply:
1) What will you spend on with your gold?
2) What are other people typically spending on gold?
3) Are the vanguard daily gold enough for a newbie player to advance at this current stage?
The truth in Tera is as long as there is no real function for gold outside from broker trading, you don't really need it if you get everything. There is as of now no meaning to gold for anyone who has enough resources for the next patch. The only price that will eventually rise would be the rare costumes, and those are usually only sought for by the minority of the community.
The problem right now isn't making gold really, but rather that everything is spoonfed to anyone who just mass grind the entire week, and was so overflowing that even people who missed the events can get materials cheaply still, making the necessity to grind "gold" much lesser than it was previously, which is a good thing. The bad thing however, is that there is not much other content to keep the average player interested after they get their midtier gear: higher tiers are out of reach for many players who either don't have good reflexes or bad pc specifications (when in doubt, try playing hm dungeons at 3fps average and you get my current situation right now), and the reason of grinding gold has also been thrown out of the window. No more content to run = players looking out for other games.
in fact, every strongbox in the game should have an aurum inside, and everytime you open a box you should receive 1 Aurum.