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Apex Quest Frustration
The apex quest is the worst quest from any mmo ever made. I spent 3+ hours on that quest, up all night, no sleep...... npcs bugging out and having to restart all god forsaken night. Boss after boss... millions of HP pools, what on earth? I was so excited to start the quest line when i hit ilvl 439 but 3 hours in i was ready to abandon the quest and just ignore the new content altogether. EME cmon really? This is NA Tera, nobody wants do go through that crap. I didn't even bring potions because there was no warning whatsoever that this quest would be abnormally time consuming and difficult. That wasnt even fun.... by the time i got the skills I didnt feel enjoy at all. No happy emotion at all. Well its 8:00 AM im going to get some sleep just needed to rant about that trash that kept me up all night. That didn't even feel like I was playing a game anymore more like doing a job without getting paid. Ok rant over, I'm too tired to proof read this so i hope its readable. GOOD NIGHT.
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If u had to restart at some point during the quest line, that means u've been teleported/resurrected to a nearby outpost with banker and merchant.
You only need to increase the strenght of your characters.
Add valkyion potions, normal potions, nocteniums infusions as you have.
Also use fest and the yellow cheap consumable.
If have canephora or bravery potion also use one.
There are good etchings for free, just killing mid tier bams on the island of dawn, killing 10 them takes you almost 20 min in frost +0, and you can buy one etching per 45 tokens.
Also add a resolute crystal , not only hardy niveons to survive specially against the blue 67 dragons(the only hard part of the quest).
And is done in frosmetal +0.
I did the quest with my 439 frost+0 priest and were able to kill blue dragons without help.
get some focused/savage/spiteful or bitter/pounding niveots (or cruxes if you're cheap af)
put some dps glyphs
utilize iframes to get behind the bosses
finally get a second set of dps rolls on your weapon, those will come in handy for IoD/guardian mission/pit of smallpox as well
if you're trully committed to dps as a healer, get a second set of dps jewelry and glove rolls, and carving vyrsks
long story short - learn your class and git gud
Also something I learned on mystic; don't kill the plants in elenea out of combat or with your thralls, it won't count for the quest and they don't respawn lmao
Having done awakening on all of them I will say this:
- Bring potions, something like 30-40 of the 50% instant restore, or the 75% gradually restore. On zerker, you might want to bring closer to 75-80 potions (seriously lol, but I'm not a great zerker so you might need less.)
- As far as speed, the fastest for me were: Warrior > Brawler/Slayer > Lancer > Mystic > Priest >>>>> Zerk. Wear DPS crystals on priest/mystic. Try tank mode on Zerk if you are getting owned by dracoliths, but DPS mode should be fine for the three bosses.
- Warrior incredibly quick, like 35 minutes, Braw/Slay an hour, Lancer, Mystic, Priest all around 1.5-2 hours, Zerk almost 4 hours because I kept dying and restarting (like I said I'm not a good zerk.)
- Use your potions liberally. If you don't have those two types of potions, you can buy them from ace dungeon for 50 credits each. That's 16 potions per 4x Ace. Run Ace 4x on 2 chars before you go, and you should have plenty of potions.
- The hardest part is the dracoliths. It's tough, but just use your potions liberally and plod through it.
- Don't be scared to pop on a wrathful for those 3 bosses in the spirit realm, as they spin so fast, and it's hard to chase rear. Wrathful can speed it up instead of constantly chasing backtime.
I'll admit I like that it's not a faceroll quest. It's good. So many people forgot that Tera used to be hard, and griped how easy BAMs are now, and suddenly an actual hard quest, and people cry? Think of it as an accomplishment.
^ Quoted for truth.
Sc+2 weapon warrior in twistshard gear took me 1 hr and plenty of pot use lol
Haven't tried the other, but yea it's not easy
- i have a zerk but i dont play him much, seems like very squishy play to me and movement in combat is pretty slow since you'll spend a lot of effort chasing tail
- i always thought i am sux at zerking, but from reading here it seems everyone else also have the same problem
- maybe it's just better to play him as a front attack dps: wrathful, focused, double pounding
Disapointing is the Black Dragon was so easy that you could kill it pressing only one key without moving at all with a Priest u_u
next time be smart, or use more hands or whaterever ( im only find dificult in slayer and berzeker cuz im never used slayer hue )
A good idea would be, if you have to fight a strong bam you almost die to, try to check the world map for weaker versions you can train on. That way you learn their patterns, which should be the same for the most part. Scytheria fae (the ultra bright pink place with the fairies that wear thongs) has dracoloths meant for level 57 players, if that's the enemy you are having most problems with.
All I'm reading is whine whine whine and point misdirection fingers at a company that has no control of this.
Instead of complaining, you and everyone else has to adapt to how Bluehole (the DEVELOPER) wants us to play this game. If it's not to your liking, then get out of here. Adapt or Quit.
The Apex quest is easy if you know how to play your class but for some classes is annoying because the time you need to get it finished. So far Priest has been the class it took me the most but the last boss in there was just disapointing. You could be using one single finger without moving from the same spot and you will defeat it without worries u_u (Priest Frostmetal +0 ilvl 439)