[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
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Uhh no. In my opinion the way they apply to farm crimson and iron dragon is already enough, Phoenix just looks too op to be farmed anywhere. farm gold and buy it off broker sure but definitely not like crimson/iron dragon style. i dont want just random ppl to have this exclusive looking mount lol
Yey, We are not getting real content but we are getting newer p2w stuff.
I wouldn't mind it being p2w or cash shop only mount if it was only about the looks but we have a mount here with some pretty good buffs. Keeping it cash shop only is a good example of p2w.
jealous lol im even dying to buy it.
well yeah true i do agree these buffs are kinda.. idk broken? but imo if they were to apply the scales style to avoid being p2w they should probably do it at another mount or something. they gotta have exclusives somehow and this phoenix is their best bet. iron/crimson dragon got boring so fast when they introduced scales. anyways they look like a 800k+ mount to me which is pretty much doable if you catched up with this gear patch and did events.
Always this kind of crying when something good comes. It's the same crying as when the dragons came out.
People will never be able to have anything good. No one forces people to swipe.
That's on your own discretion.
The basis of this game is f2p. You can get around without buying anything it's just more difficult. Spending money just speeds up the process.
These mounts have the SAME effects as the dragons with a few new perks that don't even in ANY way give you an advantage. They're basically a free goddess blessing and ccb.
Quit the crying already.
Tru af i can even hardly see tera nearing p2w. i haven't spent a single cent on this game and i got fully geared deathwrack, 3 dragons, volcanic weap skins, more luxury costumes & mounts and loads of extra mats, like a mil gold is so easy to get now. just gotta grind ppl
braggin? just shuttin out these poor ppl crying always for P2W and i guess you got hit! that's sad but git gud and qq somewhere else
pretty sure you're the one getting triggered by your previous comment lmao i was here to get some info on the mount and here you are qqing. welp whatever cancer. glhf drool on my phoenix soon
It's a slippery slope. People called original dragons pay to win, but nobody gave a [filtered]. Now they're releasing new flying mounts that do everything the old dragons did and more. Invincibility upon ressing is basically the same as using a goddess blessing or a neo res, in that it gives a pretty nice advantage if you slip up and die somewhere unressable like darkan's fire.
While I don't think these particular issues are spectacularly game breaking, it is still unsettling to see the game slowly tipping in this direction since they're only amping up the paid benefits and they don't show any signs of stopping. If the only way to obtain these mounts is through the cash shop, and through notorious multi-tiered RNG lootboxes at that, then it'll set yet another precedent for this game that most people wouldn't want. At least we're not as bad as gameforge, but this is how it starts and it's why people complain early before it can get to that point.
>Just grind money and buy it on the broker
If everyone did this, there wouldn't be anyone to buy from. For "buy it on the broker" to work, it necessitates that someone must spend money at some point to obtain the thing that you want to purchase with gold. It's already bad enough that players can directly exchange real money for in game gold by purchasing cash shop items only to resell them on the broker, but now by introducing feedstock/alk in excess through broken events (read: unscheduled argon events that dumped sooooooo much feed into the game), they've made it so that actually playing the game to earn gold is a much much much slower moneymaking process -- unless you happen to be online for that rare unscheduled event -- than simply selling cash shop items on the broker. Why steadily farm vanguards across multiple characters for months when I can just buy a new [tera store item] and resell it at a 1:50 rate the week it comes out? Or get lucky with some lootboxes and make several months worth of gold in a single day? With VM boxes being a thing too, you can straight up exchange money for the best gear in the game in a fraction of the time it'd take to actually farm the materials with a static. Y'all can say "it's pay to go fast, not pay to win" or use whatever euphemisms you want to make yourselves feel better, but regardless of what you want to call it, Tera allows its players to buy their way to the top tier of gear, while actively introducing content that make standard free-to-play moneymaking methods worthless (eg crafting becoming way less profitable, feed absolutely dipping, mwa going into the gutter, every dungeon giving lakan chests so the prices are halved, vanguard store gives like 1 useful thing, etc).
Tera's only saving grace is that it's so heavily skill based, so that even players who purchased VM will still suck if they don't know how to play. But introducing dragons that act as a free invincibility-resurrection tool is basically a love letter to these kinds of people, and I'm a bit worried that they'll introduce more paid items to cater to this "can pay but can't play" crowd as time goes on.
This is true as well.
It's really not looking good. I've seen this sort of thing happen in other games as well, and it always starts off with something that seems innocent enough, like the original dragons that even had a nice way to earn them in-game, but ends in the developers creating problems that can be conveniently solved or shortened with money. I've grown increasingly skeptical of their development decisions as a result. One example: EU has seen several instances of the rootstock event out of season for whatever reason, allowing players to craft the lamb bulgogi consumable, among others. NA, which now has lamb for sale in the cash shop, has yet to see even a single instance of this event. A year ago I would have just assumed it was because rootstock occurs during a scheduled time of the year. But today, after so much has happened, I'm forced to wonder if they didn't simply withhold the event to make a cash shop item seem more desirable.