[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
Comments
I think that if BHS makes older dungeons into Solo content for those new players (and make older gear avaliable throught them) this could keep some players interested in the game.
Even with the changes in dificulty on lower dungeons this game is fast to catch up, maybe one month for a new player and a week for a returnee.
The 1st point should be the priority for EME, I don't think this is something that BHS could fix because it would mean for them to release every single patch a solution for NA servers. My opinion in that matter is that EME should start to think about splitting the player base in servers according to geographical location instead names. ie, if servers are located at Florida most of the players from NA East Coast, South America Players and EU Players could get better ping and if EME locate also a server at California then NA West Coast players, Oceania and Asian players will get better ping.
However I don't think this will be done becuase this game as a real bussiness won't last 2 more years becuase the new projects from BHS themselves. If lucky this game could be bought for another developer later and maybe will get most of those issues fixed but for now is not a priority for EME and the least to do for BHS.
stop recycling content* also
The problem with that is that BHS made Tera too streamlined to endgame, skipping the rest of the game. Made it easier because the community complained about it being too hard, so passed out Avatar weapons and pushed everyone to IMS / skip low-level gameplay to make it to afk in Highwatch as quick as possible.
Not to mention that they ruined so many open world aspects for this game such as farming world bams (made them easier by a LOT while also removing their gold drops and good rare item drops as well). They claimed that there was a horrendous bot problem farming gold from bams and the like in open world and so removed gold drops from them. There's more to that that actually makes EME/BHS the villain in that situation but if you want more on that you can PM me about it.
Endgame turns out to be more elitists and cliques than not making it impossible for new players or returning vets to really enjoy any of the dungeons and in turn gives them even less incentive to play as it becomes harder for them to learn the dungeons effectively and turning them away into casual players or just straight up making them regret coming back and leaving again.
Not that I personally care, but most of the whiny community cares about race/gender locked classes, so that of course, turns a lot of people off etc etc.As well as PVP being kinda bunk and highly unbalanced now. On top of the fact that BHS has hit a level of lazy that they won't even create a new character for us under the highly unbelievable excuse of it's "hard work" while they can go ahead and release Elin gunner (yawn as hell), that alone will cause a lot of people to just burn what little bridges they have left in any interest to repopularizing this game.
I'm sure I've missed some stuff but that's the gist of it. I don't think I need to go on in detail about management of the game in general and the lack of the biggest plea of optimization since the games general release. No one wants to publicize that. If they wouldn't fix Tera at it's true height of popularity, why would they bother now?
This. Above all else. Dear Hell.
I get gold drops from low level bams so I don't understand that "removed gold drops from them".
Those pics were taken at CH in this month.
I made this post on another thread:
In terms of EME, they have had a decline in terms of their relationship with the community. When Minea, Tonka, and Treeshark were here they each provided some part in the foundation for Tera. Minea did an amazing job moderating the forums and was professional about it. Tonka had a great relationship with the community with streams that people actually wanted to watch as opposed to now. He hosted streams where experienced players could teach people to learn their class and even hosted pvp tournaments, something that is a thing of the past. Treeshark seemed to me at least like a great leader in the Tera community, communicated as best he could (despite miscommunication from time to time) and overall I felt his producer letters left me with a sense of hope for Tera's bright future.
The new team, unfortunately, doesn't have that same essence as those three did. Spacecats has done great things for Tera but he definitely has had more than his share of miscommunication and occasionally distasteful comments towards players in the community when they have real concerns. In addition, the streams sometimes are utterly pointless aside for codes that we can just get off of reddit.
It's sad how the game has become what it is. It makes you think what went wrong, who went wrong, what choices led to this point that the game is no longer enjoyable, that the community I once knew is no more. They are just faces that have sustained the fold for so long, clinging for something to keep them to stay. The "combat system" just isn't enough to keep us intact when there is content that doesn't do our combat system justice, lag/poor optimization/desyncing that ruin the combat, and a flawed pvp system that doesn't seem to get much attention.
I hope Tera continues to live on, and I mean LIVE, not this state of illness that seems to be neglected.
You must not have been around before "that". You used to could farm a decent amount of gold from bams as an alternative to dungeons a long time ago. WAY WAY beyond 1g drops etc. Older players know exactly what I'm talking about.
As a new player, I understand exactly what you mean. I heard NA was not p2w like EU and was 'easier' to gear up but each day I spend here makes me want to quit more and more. Today I got rejected by like 5 vsnm parties despite being skilled in that dungeon, all because I am not +15.
But hey .. its not a problem because according to forums getting vm +15 is a cakewalk and it should be made more harder.
Yeah, I am not a Beta player, 4 years and I don't remember killing low level bams were worth enought the time spent on them and I was playing before BAMs were nerfed, you needed a group of players around your level to kill a bam in a decent amount of time.
However I remember how even mobs droped gold in small amounts, mobs from the lvl 40 droped something like 1 gold and bams around that lvl droped like 30 gold.
I remember how I get lvl 60 with almost no gold becuase spending the gold on glyps and alks to enchant gear, gold farming would be only good for high lvl bots but in masses. Just think about this, the player who amassed the most gold in the first year got 2 million gold, I can do that amount in one month now without selling EMP, just from stuff that you get from BGs and Dungeons (and Vanguards).
For the time you can kill a bam now you get almos the same amount of gold in time/proportion than you got killing a bam 4 years ago.
they dont need 2.0 crit dragon, and you can get "Free" iron from 400 unluky scales
new players/palomos dont need +15 vm9 anyways, you must be go to vm8, im hope you no broken for do this.................
As someone who began playing recently and thus does not have enough resources to acquire +15 and as someone who has been victim of +15 elitism toxicity, I can't agree with you more. But as much as I would love to see it happen , its not going to happen and its very impractical to do it as well.
There are people who legit worked for their +15. Then there are those who spent real money to get +15. Removing +15 suddenly won't be fair to such people. I think eme can improve awakening enchanting success rate % or reduce the amount of fs/mwa needed per try. Although 'hardcore' players will cry
Believe me that now getting +15 is like getting +12 several years ago.
Is not something for a new player to get in a month but something to get when you get the gits of it.
If you are strugling to get BiS and +15 then is proof that you lack "the social" aspect of the game.
Pls don't be that greedy to say that only elitist can run the HM dungeons becuase they only want +15, your real issue is that you lack of friends to play those dungeons. That is the same issue for me as most of my friends that could run mid tier and hard mode dungeons don't play anymore and if I want to do a HM dungeon I have to wait aroun 1 hour in Q or +30 minutes in a LFG, amount of time that I can't spent only for waiting to do a dungeon.
I am wating for some guild mates to catch with me on gear and skill to run HM dungeons in this patch, I just hope they don't quit before this patch end.
I would love to see bams drop gear and gold again. I would love to see everything listed come back to the game. when you keep removing content and not replace it with anything permanent, you are going to lose players.
I would love to see someone buy out tera and make it great again. bring back all removed content. they could make nexus once a week also. maybe they could have decent servers and do something about the lag. I think people would come back. then they could work on expansion packs.
unless bhs comes out with another true action combat game like tera, I don't expect much from them.
I hate to see this game slowly go downhill, but we will have to see how they do the console servers to see how much life is still left in it, if it ever comes out for consoles. theres no info at all and its like no one knows anything. if it were me, I would be giving out info and promoting the dickens out of it. get that excitement churning out. I feel like they have a " meh " attitude about their game know.