[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
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Man come back to game forget these who discouraging you cause they still playing or they won't be on the forums there is so much to do in tera now come give it a try there some problems still but the game is fun forget them come back.
Why we should lie about the current state of the game just so we get new players but they end losing a lot of time and quitting, just like what we did?
BHS/EME is the ONLY one contributing to the death of this game.
Btw OP, you can try esp if you wanna stay casual but imho just forget real endgame unless you wanna swipe.
They made so many HORRIBLE changes/revamps in the last year or so that's almost impossible for a new/returning player starting now to catch to endgame gear just playing the game, i just can't see a new player with no or few resources even reaching 456 iLVL before BHS release another new gear bs in the game..
Anyway, overral 2018~2019 Tera is WAY worse than VM days Tera and the few player pop spread only across 2 servers speak for itself.
So, having said all of that, no, I don't think you should come back. The game takes ages to install unless you go through steam. If you live outside of the U.S., your ping will be terrible unless you use third party tools which is a whole other thing to learn about. If you live in the U.S. your ping might STILL be terrible because of routing issues that seem borderline unique to tera at this point. All of these issues are relevant because they subtract from the game's single redeeming factor: the combat. When the combat works, which is rare, it's really really fun just like it was two years ago. But this single good thing is marred by lag and repetition. I'll come back to that repetition point later.
The gearing starts off really nice and intuitive. If you end up playing again, you'll probably be tempted to call us all liars for harping on it so much. But when you get a few tiers into it, the problems arise. Multiple resources are needed for a single enchanting attempt. When starting from 0, as you may as well be in terms of materials, that alone can be a massive undertaking. However, a single resource called "talents" are needed for every step of the enchanting process, and sure enough there is a massive bottleneck on those. There are two kinds, gold and silver. The gold ones are rare; the silver ones barely exist. Together, they only really drop from the bottom tiers of content, so you can have fun spamming the mind numbing boring stuff again and again to get these necessary items for your gear, which is what I meant about repetition earlier. You'll be doing these boring dungeons for literally months while you slowly crawl your way up the gear ladder. People keep bringing up EU because the European version of the game created a really simple solution to that bottleneck, where all dungeons give coins that can be exchanged for a box with lots of talents in it. With that simple change alone, many NA players (myself included) who left everything behind to play on EU were able to catch up to a year of NA progress in a matter of months.
Someone's gonna tell you that you can pvp for talents. Don't listen to them. You'll be booted from the raid for having low gear every time you try to join. People will also tell you that gearing isn't an issue, and that item xp exists to boost your success rate to 100%. Those people who claim 100% success rates on gear have barely tasted endgame; at relevant gear tiers, the 100% success rate goes away completely, and the highest % success rate you can get decreases massively the higher you go. People will also tell you that a level 70 patch is coming up which will breathe life into the game, but everyone I talk to is dreading it since it looks like more grind. Someone will call this post an EU shill; I don't even want you to play there, because no matter where you go, Bluehole Studios will force their will on the game's direction and take it further into the toilet.
TL;DR being 300% brutally honest when I say don't come back. If you don't believe me, then at least download it through steam so you don't waste too much time on the reinstall.
if he goes to another mmo is the same mess all mmo have problems and tera has the best combat ever. Why you think he's asking cause he has not found another game to make him otherwise he won't be here asking. come back find a guild make some friends have fun that's some to hurry to reach endgame there are ways to hit frost in week without p2w but that takes time anyways as for me been playing for 3+years none stop few hrs everyday and I overlook the issues cause i enjoy this game hell tera till I die lol cause there is no other mmo in my book like this and that me i don't want hear about what mmo you like, I love tera. OP the ball in your park up to you.
If noone believes then you're welcome to visit EU server and check it yourself.
The game is dying since long time but before we could barely see it, this what we see today is final stage and not just on NA and EU but also KR, TH, JP, RU population is bleeding off hard. Bluehole screwed up a lot introducing modern design to the game. It's simply bad and doesn't work for other regions and i believe KTera as well. Effects of that mistake we have today because this design was made to milk $ as much as possible from consumers after they throwed most their resources to their new MMO (A:IR) so now they need somehow recover these...that's how bussines work on this planet unfortunately and it's very wrong because people are very sensitive these days to pay-to-win, grind content + pay-to-progress-faster, RNG systems in MMO games because this means nothing more but scam. Players and their wallets are very careful on what they play in today's day and age and Bluehole didn't predict this matter.
Only because the game is still hosted doesn't mean it's popular. If a game has almost no activites especially in an MMORPG it's dead. No matter which time/day LFG is empty. I was always running with the same people on EU. I didn't even had to inspect these peeps anymore because everbody knew each other.
Maybe it looks good from outside view but deep in the root this game is corrupted. People even running End content via IM nowdays on EU because there are barely any players left. This wasn't a real thing back in VM9 and before.
Also 90% of the game is solo content (which it is) this game is also considered as dead. I mean you could easily just host a TERA P-Server and do your daily stuff there you won't notice any difference except that HW would be empty.