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En Masse / Bluehole studio meeting. / Talk about class distribution
I had to make forum account here just to post this. :awesome: , I'm European player who returned to Tera after two years and what do I find? 5 new classes. At first I was like OMG great. Then I noticed 4 of them are DPS. Like seriously who thought this is a great idea?
I can already see the group finder struggling with group matchmaking. But I suppose you already realized you messed up right?
At the moment I'm hesitant to spend time on Tera.
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And LOL @ the pic
when the tanks was released she was more dps than the dps themselve
mark my words!
also elin locked
or at least female human/elf/castanic.
this is a given.
i didn't mention it cause of redundancy.
Game has 4 tanks already so......the lack of tanks is b/c well der are no "tanks" in this game
Closer to 3.5. As competent as zerk can be at tanking, they still lack a proper tanking loadout. A block that blocks the least damage of all of them, and no enrage skill that's practically a must for a tank these days. Majority also don't roll zerks to tank, they just can. If it wasn't something BHS just tacked on at end-game as a stop-gap "not enough tanks.. lets add tanking to the only other class with a block" before brawler came out.. it might've been better.
Most wars don't tank at all since they rolled warrior to dps, so you can't count the majority of them either.
Zerk and war are good as secondary tank... if your primary goes down it's not too big of a problem for them to go into tank mode for a bit to distract the boss if the primary tank went down in a bad place and might be down for a while. Not saying zerk and war can't be primary tank... it's just rare.
As for lancer/brawler.. there's a shortage there because everyone likes to blame the still-gearing/learning tank when things go wrong, turning them off to wanting to tank any further. People need to remember that 1-64 teaches nothing anymore, and the "low" end-game dungeons have mostly geared DPS that faceroll it which also doesn't help teach tanks how to tank. If your tank is in Guile and unskilled in VHNM, try cutting them some slack. If they're in +15 Behemoth and dying left and right in VHNM.. THEN you can complain.
This goes for healers, too.. people expect fresh 65s in Idoneal and no master glyphs to heal you like they're in +15 with every glyph and have been healing for years. That turned me off to wanting to priest.. first time in Sabex with others who were all under 65 (myself included) and getting complaints at plant for not healing the people too lazy to dodge or kill potatoes bombs (which was basically everyone) as well as someone in +15... and then it's my fault when you die. It's like.. excuse me for not being able to crit heal the group for 150k in starter gear that can barely crit heal 40-50k...
When you enter dungeon matchmaking, do you also get that pop up where they ask you to find a party beyond normal setup? :proud:
That's my footing. Run around towns and count on on hand how many healers you see. Tanks are a bit better because they have brawler now.
Also Zerk is not tank, Warrior tank was and is extremely rare, Brawler tank, I cannot comment on that because I don't know that class. Lancer is freaking rare because its old class.
If you have old mmo and you want to keep it fresh adding classes, is great. But adding basically only DPS is [filtered] and nightmare for leveling up.
Look at FFXIV , their Heavensward added 3 classes. Tank , Healer , DPS. You know why? :pleased: