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Improving Tera
I’ve been playing Tera EU for a few years before coming to NA and despite a few frustrations I may encounter, I love playing Tera. I have enjoyed playing this game since I first started so many years ago, but there are things that I would like to see improved or changed. My suggestions to improve Tera are:
First priority should be to fix the lag and random server disconnects. Before any new patches and new end game content this should be the first item on the agenda to patch. The rest of my suggestions are in no particular order. But seriously, a major overhaul for stable game performance and NO lag disconnects, long loading screens, etc. Optimize the game already! I know my PC isn’t the best, but if I can play other games without a hitch, then why can’t I play Tera without all these issues? Hasn’t the cash shop made enough money yet for some improvements to the game?
We need better character customization, to have more ability to be able to create/change our character and have a more unique look. Introduce new features on the customization screen like height, body type, eye color, etc. Let us create the character we want to play and not have to choose the same pre-generated ones offered. Maybe I want a certain hair style, but different horns or ears and tails. Let us be able to have more customization over features like tattoos, scars, makeup, body paint, piercings, and more. Why can’t we change the color of the Elin’s and Popori’s ears and tails? Being able to increase muscles or make reductions and additional voice options to choose from would be nice too. Customization is my favorite part of any game and the more customization the better. I can spend hours on character creations and I would love to have an extensive customization options in Tera. The ability to change hairstyles, ears types, tattoos, eye color, makeup, war paint, scars, more color options, horns, tails, Body builds/types like height & weight, muscles, etc. separately and not have to choose a pre-generated character are what should be added to the game customization screen as there is very little difference in what you can do now.
Since the new beginner island was updated, it’s about time the rest of Tera and the quests/story were updated as well. However, I do miss the old Island of Dawn, which reminds me the reason I enjoyed it was for the fact that it felt more open and engaging than the new island, plus it didn’t force me to solo things. I like to play with friends, so all this solo content needs to be replaced. If I want to play solo, I’ll choose for myself, please don’t force it on me. If that can’t happen, how about having a different starting area for each race, like the reaper does. It would give a bit more backstory to the race you play and it would make it more interesting at least when replaying as different classes.
I also feel like the whole game needs to be redone/redesigned as you level way too quickly, you don't need to explore the world and miss many of the beautiful areas in the game. Slow down leveling, so players can play the game and not be forced to rush to level 65. What’s the point in having a bunch of new players not knowing how to play the game when they hit level 65? If players really wanted to reach the end game content quickly then all they would need to do should be queue for instances and battlegrounds. Decrease the experience given out and less XP scrolls. Maybe choose whether you want the experience or perhaps something else like gold for completing a quest and let the player choose. While some people may want to get to the max level as quickly as possible, many people new to the game or people that actually enjoy slowly questing and leveling don’t want to be rushed to 65. I am a casual gamer and don’t really care for end game content. Many of my friends tried the game and felt lost as they were thrown into the game and didn’t know what to do. A few stayed on and I helped them through the game, but many quit due to frustration. Why do I need to explain how to do things or what to do or even worse send them links to guides? Shouldn’t the game be more user friendly and find a way to explain how to play the game or the controls and many features throughout their playthrough? There should be quests to teach new players more about the game and for experienced players they should be able to skip these quests. Maybe make them a new color to distinguish them from the other quests? Don’t keep catering to the veterans that have been playing the game for years and know what to do, try to make it more user friendly to new players so they don’t feel lost and maybe you’ll gain more people that won’t quit early. I’m tired of handing out my buddy-up code to people that will quit or give up on the game.
As for the buddy-up code, I think it’s time that was updated as well. Why not give a permanent costume and mount instead of temporary ones? I don’t see why they can’t have the zebra mount for free and maybe some fashion coupons to be able to get an armor or weapon skin. Update game gear, so that each item for new players isn’t the same chest piece but with a different color. Make each one unique, so they feel like they are getting better equipment as they progress. Same with weapons. It’s just a little touch for the people that aren’t going to spend money buying a costume right off the bat and want to enjoy progressing through the game from level 1 to 65. Also, older mounts should be purchasable with gold and maybe be bought from different stables throughout Tera’s cities or exchanged with coupons. With flying mounts out, the older mounts should become available for those that want them or can’t afford a flying mount or maybe some people like to collect them like Pokémon.
NO MORE RNG BOXES! There will always be players throwing money at the game, so stop with the boxes please. Bring back old mounts and make them available as Account Bound and maybe make some loot pets and/or costumes Account Bound. I’d pay more for Account Bound items, so that I know I can always have it available in case I delete a character or make another on a different server. Make old weapon skins available for all new classes. Maybe have a contest for who can create some designs for them? Another thing I would like to see would be a permanent firery halo. EU has them, so why can’t NA? More free emotes and NOT locked to any conditions such as having to wear specific outfits or gender based. Can someone make the hat that the Flight Manager wears an item in game? I’d purchase a few of them! Player housing would be a nice touch too. You can make some money by selling items to furnish the houses, just remember to get rid of RNG loot boxes and just sell things outright, even if you need to raise prices. What about those empty sky castles? Couldn’t you create more of those sky castles and have the sky castles as player houses? Put a price tag on it and someone will pay for it.
New story/quest and open world. The whole game needs to be revamped as you can play for a few hours and level from 0 to 65 and not know how to play your class. Where's the progression, questing, leveling and learning? Tera has some amazing places and it’s a shame that it’s being forgotten and left behind. Make use of these areas and bring people back to the open world, and not just during events like mongo hunting. Maybe introduce new quests throughout the world, more PvE achievements and rewards. No more empty zones. You have so many areas that are not being explored. Make use of them! Open world content with no hidden walls/barriers or flight limits. No forced soloing in an MMO game! If I am with a group of friends, why do I need to leave my party to advance certain quests? Why not add casinos in Castanica? Slot machines, wheel of fortune, card games, etc. Add things to do in areas/towns to make players want to venture and explore! Mini games would be fun and updated reputation credit items. More advanced reputation system with more achievable items that can be traded. Maybe mini games can help gain reputation points or coupons to spend?
Ability to fly without bumping into invisible walls or altitude limits. If I see a tall buildings or mountain, I want to be able to fly up to it not hit an invisible wall. Height limits are fine, if they are at least higher than the highest structure/landmark. I want to be able to fly over and not into things. Get rid of the limit on flying and if it’s an issue with PvP, then make it a PvE server exclusive. Also, why can I be shot down from my dragon while flying when my archer can’t even shoot that far? Why can the Pegasus Flight take us across a continent, but our own flying mounts can’t stay aloft to even make it across a quarter of the terrain?
Now that we have flying mounts, where are the floating cities and cloud areas to explore? Besides areas to traverse and quest on land, maybe have more areas above as well as below? What about having water mounts? Aquatic mounts and the ability to dive under water and maybe even have underwater cities to visit? Have some sort of magic item that you can acquire/buy to be able to breathe underwater or something that can make the characters turn into aquatic versions of their race while in the sea. This could also be the introduction to new non-gender locked races. Please stop gender/race locking new classes. Make a flying race like a Faerie. There are faeries in Tera, why not have them as a playable race? The one I saw in Dragonfall,Felar, she was just a bit shorter than my Popori. They don’t have to be “flying” but hovering off the ground. That would be a cute race to play. Not sure what an aquatic race could be, but maybe have a contest to see what the community can come up with?
Update/fix crafting and make it a part of the game again. Perhaps, instead of collecting the same old ore, plants, and energy, it could be more open with different items to collect from the environment. What about the ability to go fishing or catch those toads, pigs and lizards found around Tera? Bring back item/gold drops from killing mobs/BAMS without a level limit. They could drop new items just for crafting. Please try to reinvent crafting and make it something enjoyable and maybe add other professions like cooking. I want something other to do than just combat in dungeons and/or battlegrounds. Also, instances can take hours if nobody is queuing it, especially at lower levels. Maybe allow higher level players to queue for lower dungeons and have their gear/levels change to match the dungeon level and maybe some sort of loot/reward as an incentive to do these dungeons and help out new players.
Better UI customization. Combine the mini map and the compass into one to take up less screen space. More pets to adopt, maybe even make some of them available in game to hunt/raise/hatch/breed or something to do rather than always waiting for dungeon runs. The ability to climb down ladders instead of jumping and taking fall damage would be nice. More achievements with more rewards even if it’s a non-loot pet. Maybe we can catch and raise monsters to battle in the Bamarama arena?
Although I doubt that most of this will ever happen in my lifetime, I’d gladly pay a monthly subscription for a Tera that had all of the above!!! Well, that’s my two cents. Thanks.
First priority should be to fix the lag and random server disconnects. Before any new patches and new end game content this should be the first item on the agenda to patch. The rest of my suggestions are in no particular order. But seriously, a major overhaul for stable game performance and NO lag disconnects, long loading screens, etc. Optimize the game already! I know my PC isn’t the best, but if I can play other games without a hitch, then why can’t I play Tera without all these issues? Hasn’t the cash shop made enough money yet for some improvements to the game?
We need better character customization, to have more ability to be able to create/change our character and have a more unique look. Introduce new features on the customization screen like height, body type, eye color, etc. Let us create the character we want to play and not have to choose the same pre-generated ones offered. Maybe I want a certain hair style, but different horns or ears and tails. Let us be able to have more customization over features like tattoos, scars, makeup, body paint, piercings, and more. Why can’t we change the color of the Elin’s and Popori’s ears and tails? Being able to increase muscles or make reductions and additional voice options to choose from would be nice too. Customization is my favorite part of any game and the more customization the better. I can spend hours on character creations and I would love to have an extensive customization options in Tera. The ability to change hairstyles, ears types, tattoos, eye color, makeup, war paint, scars, more color options, horns, tails, Body builds/types like height & weight, muscles, etc. separately and not have to choose a pre-generated character are what should be added to the game customization screen as there is very little difference in what you can do now.
Since the new beginner island was updated, it’s about time the rest of Tera and the quests/story were updated as well. However, I do miss the old Island of Dawn, which reminds me the reason I enjoyed it was for the fact that it felt more open and engaging than the new island, plus it didn’t force me to solo things. I like to play with friends, so all this solo content needs to be replaced. If I want to play solo, I’ll choose for myself, please don’t force it on me. If that can’t happen, how about having a different starting area for each race, like the reaper does. It would give a bit more backstory to the race you play and it would make it more interesting at least when replaying as different classes.
I also feel like the whole game needs to be redone/redesigned as you level way too quickly, you don't need to explore the world and miss many of the beautiful areas in the game. Slow down leveling, so players can play the game and not be forced to rush to level 65. What’s the point in having a bunch of new players not knowing how to play the game when they hit level 65? If players really wanted to reach the end game content quickly then all they would need to do should be queue for instances and battlegrounds. Decrease the experience given out and less XP scrolls. Maybe choose whether you want the experience or perhaps something else like gold for completing a quest and let the player choose. While some people may want to get to the max level as quickly as possible, many people new to the game or people that actually enjoy slowly questing and leveling don’t want to be rushed to 65. I am a casual gamer and don’t really care for end game content. Many of my friends tried the game and felt lost as they were thrown into the game and didn’t know what to do. A few stayed on and I helped them through the game, but many quit due to frustration. Why do I need to explain how to do things or what to do or even worse send them links to guides? Shouldn’t the game be more user friendly and find a way to explain how to play the game or the controls and many features throughout their playthrough? There should be quests to teach new players more about the game and for experienced players they should be able to skip these quests. Maybe make them a new color to distinguish them from the other quests? Don’t keep catering to the veterans that have been playing the game for years and know what to do, try to make it more user friendly to new players so they don’t feel lost and maybe you’ll gain more people that won’t quit early. I’m tired of handing out my buddy-up code to people that will quit or give up on the game.
As for the buddy-up code, I think it’s time that was updated as well. Why not give a permanent costume and mount instead of temporary ones? I don’t see why they can’t have the zebra mount for free and maybe some fashion coupons to be able to get an armor or weapon skin. Update game gear, so that each item for new players isn’t the same chest piece but with a different color. Make each one unique, so they feel like they are getting better equipment as they progress. Same with weapons. It’s just a little touch for the people that aren’t going to spend money buying a costume right off the bat and want to enjoy progressing through the game from level 1 to 65. Also, older mounts should be purchasable with gold and maybe be bought from different stables throughout Tera’s cities or exchanged with coupons. With flying mounts out, the older mounts should become available for those that want them or can’t afford a flying mount or maybe some people like to collect them like Pokémon.
NO MORE RNG BOXES! There will always be players throwing money at the game, so stop with the boxes please. Bring back old mounts and make them available as Account Bound and maybe make some loot pets and/or costumes Account Bound. I’d pay more for Account Bound items, so that I know I can always have it available in case I delete a character or make another on a different server. Make old weapon skins available for all new classes. Maybe have a contest for who can create some designs for them? Another thing I would like to see would be a permanent firery halo. EU has them, so why can’t NA? More free emotes and NOT locked to any conditions such as having to wear specific outfits or gender based. Can someone make the hat that the Flight Manager wears an item in game? I’d purchase a few of them! Player housing would be a nice touch too. You can make some money by selling items to furnish the houses, just remember to get rid of RNG loot boxes and just sell things outright, even if you need to raise prices. What about those empty sky castles? Couldn’t you create more of those sky castles and have the sky castles as player houses? Put a price tag on it and someone will pay for it.
New story/quest and open world. The whole game needs to be revamped as you can play for a few hours and level from 0 to 65 and not know how to play your class. Where's the progression, questing, leveling and learning? Tera has some amazing places and it’s a shame that it’s being forgotten and left behind. Make use of these areas and bring people back to the open world, and not just during events like mongo hunting. Maybe introduce new quests throughout the world, more PvE achievements and rewards. No more empty zones. You have so many areas that are not being explored. Make use of them! Open world content with no hidden walls/barriers or flight limits. No forced soloing in an MMO game! If I am with a group of friends, why do I need to leave my party to advance certain quests? Why not add casinos in Castanica? Slot machines, wheel of fortune, card games, etc. Add things to do in areas/towns to make players want to venture and explore! Mini games would be fun and updated reputation credit items. More advanced reputation system with more achievable items that can be traded. Maybe mini games can help gain reputation points or coupons to spend?
Ability to fly without bumping into invisible walls or altitude limits. If I see a tall buildings or mountain, I want to be able to fly up to it not hit an invisible wall. Height limits are fine, if they are at least higher than the highest structure/landmark. I want to be able to fly over and not into things. Get rid of the limit on flying and if it’s an issue with PvP, then make it a PvE server exclusive. Also, why can I be shot down from my dragon while flying when my archer can’t even shoot that far? Why can the Pegasus Flight take us across a continent, but our own flying mounts can’t stay aloft to even make it across a quarter of the terrain?
Now that we have flying mounts, where are the floating cities and cloud areas to explore? Besides areas to traverse and quest on land, maybe have more areas above as well as below? What about having water mounts? Aquatic mounts and the ability to dive under water and maybe even have underwater cities to visit? Have some sort of magic item that you can acquire/buy to be able to breathe underwater or something that can make the characters turn into aquatic versions of their race while in the sea. This could also be the introduction to new non-gender locked races. Please stop gender/race locking new classes. Make a flying race like a Faerie. There are faeries in Tera, why not have them as a playable race? The one I saw in Dragonfall,Felar, she was just a bit shorter than my Popori. They don’t have to be “flying” but hovering off the ground. That would be a cute race to play. Not sure what an aquatic race could be, but maybe have a contest to see what the community can come up with?
Update/fix crafting and make it a part of the game again. Perhaps, instead of collecting the same old ore, plants, and energy, it could be more open with different items to collect from the environment. What about the ability to go fishing or catch those toads, pigs and lizards found around Tera? Bring back item/gold drops from killing mobs/BAMS without a level limit. They could drop new items just for crafting. Please try to reinvent crafting and make it something enjoyable and maybe add other professions like cooking. I want something other to do than just combat in dungeons and/or battlegrounds. Also, instances can take hours if nobody is queuing it, especially at lower levels. Maybe allow higher level players to queue for lower dungeons and have their gear/levels change to match the dungeon level and maybe some sort of loot/reward as an incentive to do these dungeons and help out new players.
Better UI customization. Combine the mini map and the compass into one to take up less screen space. More pets to adopt, maybe even make some of them available in game to hunt/raise/hatch/breed or something to do rather than always waiting for dungeon runs. The ability to climb down ladders instead of jumping and taking fall damage would be nice. More achievements with more rewards even if it’s a non-loot pet. Maybe we can catch and raise monsters to battle in the Bamarama arena?
Although I doubt that most of this will ever happen in my lifetime, I’d gladly pay a monthly subscription for a Tera that had all of the above!!! Well, that’s my two cents. Thanks.
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Tera's a beautiful game and I believe most of the new players don't even know most of it because there's no reason for them to just go around and explore like it was before.
The system it has now basically gives you everything for free and right in your face for you to reach 65 quickly and that is a proof that something is not right, specially in a MMO.
2. Get rid of the leveling weapons, it broke the market and its stupid
3. Make leveling harder like it used to be instead of getting from level 1 to max level in a day
4. Stop [edited] gender locking classes as that's one of the number 1 reasons why your game lost hundreds and thousands of players
5. Make things interesting again, add new content that's well made, even if it takes awhile that's okay
6. Balance your game and make all the classes equal (or near equal)
7. Stop releasing broken classes that makes the game easy mode and fix class rotations so that they actually require effort
• fix the lag and the UI – we need optimization
• NO gender/race locking
• more character customization
• revamp/update quests and story and allow for more open world exploration via quests
• make leveling harder or slow down leveling
• offer better rewards for new players using buddy-up codes
• remove RNG boxes
• bring back older costumes/mounts to be purchased through coupons/credits/EMP store
• offer more account bound items in the EMP store
• more FREE emotes for ALL classes and not gender/costume locked - idle animations; ability to sit in chairs or to lay on the beach
• create older weapon skins for newer classes
• player housing
• open world content with NO hidden walls, barriers or flight limits
• add mini games, battle arenas, collectible card game and casino
• add fishing, farming, cooking, and digging for treasure
• advanced reputation system
• fix, update, and bring back crafting
• Aquatic mounts and possible aquatic story content and locations
• New playable male/female race (possibly a fairy)
• Combine mini map and compass into one map
• monster breeding, raising, catching
• bring back item/gold drops from killing BAMS
• bring back old island of dawn
• have a different starting location/story for each race / add more immersion into races (possible race wars)
• race specific leveling from level 1-20
• update fashion coupon and federation bill store
• remove avatar weapons
• add new engaging content and use the empty areas for both PvE and PvP
• more open world content for all level ranges
• balance the game and make all classes equal
• remove +15 system
• customizable guild housing
• not able to be knocked off mount when flying
• all items and currency are tradeable and no soulbinding
• all achievements have material rewards of some kind
• batch pickup
• ability to climb down ladders
• all quests able to be turned in remotely and done in any order
• lore libraries in Velika, Allemantheia, Kaiator and Highwatch
• gear balancing to remove unused tiers
• secret villages and hidden quests/towns
• other opportunities to make gold
• customize skill bars for flying mounts
• sell permanent fire halo, bring back Hello Kitty outfits and bring over Alice dress
• make the chupathingy a pet (possibly put wings on it for a fairy lizard pet)
• mini basilisk as a pet
• make a male elin or at least a race male & female that are adult versions of the elin
• child popori playable character
• loot is sent to remaining/last player if everyone leaves party
• bring back campfires
• bring back nexus, 20 man raid content, and crusades
• events that don’t break economy
• dyeable weapon skins
• invisible back slot item that would hide weapons without obscuring the costume
• ability to marry another player and have a permanent couples buff
• flying mounts such as: reindeer, griffin, wolf, unicorn, flying carpets, nine tailed fox, broomstick
• elite discounts that are worth paying for
• ability to sell duplicate glyphs and useless items for gold at the merchant
• item that can unbind bound items/costumes
• non-bankable items should become bankable
• bring back the “blast from the past” instance matching dungeons
• mount racing / betting
@Spacecats Also add more styles to fashion coupons... In my opinion, all styles of equipment in game should be available in fashion shop. right now Gunner and other classes has like over 10 styles while Archer and other old classes has only 3 styles...
Lastly, bring back permadye. who the **** would buy a dye that only lasts for 1 hour??? I definitely wouldn't.
Yeah, I only get the 1 hour dye to give to buddies since they can use it on their temporary outfit or if I want to get the dye achievement (if that achievement is still around), but other than that I prefer the permanent dye.
Firstly, for a game such as Tera, which is relatively large, there have been zero visible graphical updates. Sure, new costumes and such, which i personally like, i think they're great. But, let's say the addition of Draconic wings. Why aren't they animated? Why aren't any of the wings animated? I feel like I am playing a [filtered] version of RuneScape (if anyone knows, example: [filtered] RsPs's and what not).
Secondly, areas. Two years ago I went through most of the map to get my character up to level 58 and then I stopped playing simply because it felt too easy and i got more hooked on Eso. I just leveled up an another char to level 65 and i basically teleported to up to 3 locations. It just feels like you skip through everything.
Thirdly, tutorial island. What the [filtered] is this? I believe it hasn't changed since the freaking beginning of the game.
Fourthly, dungeons. They were made artificially harder, simply more HP in bosses, heavier hits. Nothing else, no new mechanics which you have to dodge, learn paterns. Well, alright, some have this, but still feel artificial, like there was zero effort put into them.
Lastly, i will be getting back to the first point. Graphics. Making new textures is hard, graphics are expensive, but would repay themselves because you would make the game more beautiful and what you are currently selling in it for EMP is - beauty.
P.S. Merging servers would be quite nice as well, though they will get overpopulated in certain areas like IOD, but there's so much free space in which you can put BAMS, make some accessible only by flight. Make Tera Great Again.
Snipped the first portion out since there's a lot of discussion about the first few points.
The aquatic/floating city thing would be amazing to have since it opens up the oceans in between arun/shara and doubles the amount of area they can work with for expansions. Imagine the argons developing a massive fleet and us fighting back in the sky. I'm all for airborne content. Or maybe they've had some sort of secret HQ in the water or something and we have to go there to sabotage it. Simple ideas that can expand the game and add a new interesting element to the gameplay. Introducing the new areas could also introduce a new race that has benefits derived from the new areas. Faeries could have an added 10% flight time or speed while the water-like race could have improved regen underwater.
Crafting is getting revamped around October and it'll be tied with fortifying. Everything in crafting has a good purpose with that new update. A side profession like cooking or fishing that could play off of each other would be great though. A good way to push for high level players queuing with low level players could be a mentorship vanguard that asks them to queue for certain low level dungeons per day. Might not help with the fact that we have too many dps and it actually might not do very well since it would just be a stream of high level dps players queuing with a low level dps players but it's a good start.
An option to switch to a lower duty UI would be amazing. Breeding is a lengthy system to implement since they'll have to add genetics and determine how the hybrids would look like. However, if they ever pushed a pet revamp, breeding+pet arena would be a nice side hobby to do that would bring money since people would try to farm (buy) the best pets and keep farming until the hybrid is up to their standard and good enough to play in the pet arena. Since we play as damn tanks and baby kumas, pet arenas don't sound weird at all at this point.
When I started to play TERA, my 1st toon was a warrior, but didn't like it, so I create a lancer instead. Leveling to 60 (at that time) took me like 2-3 weeks ( playing few hours every day) and it was awesome. At the beginning I didn't know what I should do, so I learned and every level I gained I was better and better (those were the times *sight*). And also I visited ALL of world. From IoD, then Lumbertown (now skipped) up to Baldera and KF/Argonea/Granarkus. I very much enjoyed that leveling system, it let you learn your class and also role in party/raid.
Now I don't even enjoy the leveling. It's no fun anymore. Just fast to 65. You pretty much win some Kumas, do some story or hunt few BAMs and *bam* lvl.65
Also loved party forming for BAM kills for side quests or guild one, where it took like 5 mins to kill basilisk in Oblivion Woods with full party.
With this I absolutely agree. TERA badly need graphical patch and enhancements. It's kinda bad for older game that you are not able to enjoy it visualy on gaming rig on which you play MEA or RotTR at ultimate settings at 50+fps
Nevertheless, I love TERA