[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
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If you want me to be honest anything teaches more than Kumas.
The big problem with Kumas is that it is spammed for its free exp. Meaning it is pretty much as good as a tedious level 60 scroll. It was so bad that at the beginning nobody runs levelling dungeons because levelling dungeons gives a way lower exp rate than Kumas (the very fact you said it gives 2 levels a run says by itself).
Difference between us and KTERA is that we actually have bonanza boxes while they don't. In KTera it is already made known that you shouldn't be getting so much free gold just for levelling, due to the servers tendency to get bots running around. So to be really really honest, in KTera Kumas' Royale rewards are reworked and tailored to the needs of the newbie players rather than an extra avenue of free VM mats. Of course EME and us NA players have to bite that bullet and accept that bonanza boxes will have to go soon.
Once you understand this, you will realise that Kumas was actually KILLING the diversity in KTERA rather than promoting it. The reason for the "nerf" in rewards is precisely this and as of now, Kumas is almost strictly an extra curricular activity with random rewards to help you in your progress rather than being a free exp tool that can allow you to get even more gold than dungeons.
aw man that sucks,, i just found out abt bonaza boxes and how good they were (also sell for p good gold) and was actually gonna start doing bgs on all my charas and grinding the tokens in bgs for boxes. now i dont really want to do any bg really anymore
Though I will give the token rewards a chance to prove their merit. That wasn't so much my point.
Though the point of the rewards needing to be higher for the minigames is a fair one. Tier 4 feedstock should at least be large enough quantities to do a full enchantment level. I can appreciate what they're trying to do regarding the attempt to equal things out and prevent power leveling; I just think there are better ways to do it.
You can't. They have strongbox events with smart dyads sometimes or special events where they drop, but it is rare. Its not unusual for players to burn through 200k gold + to get a 4 dyad set. I remember when FWC was completely dead, and KS credits were almost non-existent from lvl 30 CS. During these days, the BC credit shop was pretty much useless unless you wanted glyph boxes. If you had full dyads, it was way more prestigious than it is now.
I also just collected the exp from my last win, it took me from about 10% on lvl 51 to 5% on lvl 52. I don't want to level that quickly. There's no point. The gear cannot keep up with it, there's no point in enchanting it, I'm missing the stories everywhere (Not gonna say I'm a lorefreak, but saying the opposite would be false).
I suppose I shouldn't complain about there not being any idea to enchant items, since the equips obtained from the new vanguard rewards are NOT enchantable, like the bellicarium credits equips were. (Yes, that is mockery of the lack of enchantability.)
In case I'm too late to the party for these news, I recently came back to the game, that's why. Wonderful surprise to be on a pvp65 server indeed, yuck. Transferring would cost a fortune and leave me without bank space etc. I'll tell myself there's not much reason to lvl past 64 anyway.
Good gamings to y'all.
I can't tell if you are praising or critiquing the change.
If you are complaining about the credit removal, well EME had nothing to do with the change. Learn Korean and talk to BHS. The system was changed I imagine because of exploiting the cap system to make gold using new chars and an easy to win BG. You could powerlevel to enter the BG, then spam it all day, delete the character when you reached capped credits. If you could play mom well, this could be done in a few hours.
If you are complaining about exp, queuing for dungeons and doing vanguards is faster, and rewards more exp. You can still win kumas very easily every single time if you learn how to play mom. If you don't want to level quickly from kumas... then don't do kumas??? Also, non-enchantable equipment from vanguards? I just leveled an alt this week, and unless they changed it in the last 24 hours, there were definitely enchantable equipment from vanguard tokens. The very first set of gear you get at 22 is all enchantable to +9.
As for PVP65... That literally means nothing at level 65. No one can attack you in the solo areas. The non-solo areas are also empty, so there is no one to attack you anyways. The only places people pvp are rally and civil unrest.
Anyways, it seems like Tera is not the game for you. See you!
I am not complaining about exp, I have long since understood players' opinions don't matter to developers.
It seems the lvl 34 equipment is indeed enchantable, but 38 and up is not. I'd like to say my point still stands.