Story time!The amount of Gear sets in 1 story arc is silly

Darkshneider · July 2016

So,The lvl 65 patch hits,the dakuryon storyline arc,brave heroes arm themselves to the teeth after the tragic death of ((spolier and spoiler)).Something amazing is discovered,ancient blueprints and technology finding a way to push your gear beyond the max of +12,up to +15.Generation equipment! So these heroes of the newest generation embark to unlock the legendary power of this gear to finally get rid of dakuryon once and for all...right? The heroes join up with the legenday blacksmith muhrak to unlock this legendary power..stuff of legends he says.
*Our braves heroes,brave the hardest trials in the skycruiser,battling the legendary golem of Bathysmal rise ruins,to gather the materials for this legendary power to end dakyuron,after much toil,blood and sweat,with the final fall of muhraks hammer and much failure upgrades,our hero is full +15,brimming with power,wings coming out of her weapon,ready to face dakyuron.....or is she?
Hero:*Flexes and looks at the brimming power of her new gear* So,now its time to face dakyuron!
Muhrak:U...uhm not quite..
Hero:huh?!
Muhrak:The devans have opened a portal between dimensions,ripping the fabric of space time,and a new material has been discovered! using this material that usesfragments of space time,i can make an equipment BEYOND the power of the ancient technology thats generation.You will have the power of space time at your fingertips,and unwordly protection coming from bending time and space itself!
Hero:...huh..i finishes this not long ago..but SPACE AND TIME?!?1 SIGN ME UP!
*So the heroes embark into rifts of time space,battling yana,and aquiring ores from the dephts of akerons inferno,after much toil blood and sweat,falling the latest hammerfal of Muhrak,our hero is wrapped by SPACE AND TIME ITSELF with..LUCID gear*
Hero:*The hero flexes and looks at the brimming power of his gear,with slight bends of light at his surroundings cause he is bending time and space itself*!
Dakuryon will be no match for the power of time and space! time to get rid of him once and for all!
Muhrak:u..uhm...not...quite *scatches one of his horns*
Hero:WHAT?!
Muhrak:A meteor has fallen! bringing a material thats from the deepest reaches of the cosmos! using an ethereal star blueprint that can barely exist in this plane of existence,I have unlocked the secrets of making this legendary piece of equipment done with the STUFF OF THE STARS AND COSMOS ITSELF,THE POWER OF THE COSMOS WILL BE AT YOUR FINGERTIPS,ITS A POWER...B....BEYOND TIME AND SPACE! ITS COSMIC POWER!!
Hero:B-eyond time and space?! how is that possi--
Muhrak:*interrups* COSMICC POWWEEERRR *he lets fall his mighty hammer*
Hero:O-ok OK! its Ill aquire this cosmic power!! and ill finally be able to end dakyuron once and for ALLL
*so the heroes embark into Kalivans dreadnought,and the dark depths of forsaken island,and climbing the dreadspire,after much toil blood and sweat,falling the latetst hammerfal of muhraks legendary hammer,the hero is wrapped by small stars as he dons a gear of COSMIC POWER...STARFALL GEAR!
Hero: *Takes a deep breath,as tiny shootign stars fly around the edges of her gear* I am...COSMIC!.Now...ill be finally be able to put an end to dakyuron...once and FOR ALLL!!
Muhrak:N....not quite..
Hero:WHAT NOW??!
Muhrak:Dakyuron,using the power of the bloodstone,had unlocked the supreme power of a new gear.a power..BEYOND SPACE AND TIME! A POWER,BEYOND COSMOS ITSELF!!
Hero:BEYOND COSMOS AND TIME SPACE?! HOW IS THAT POSS---
Muhrak:*interrupts* BEYOND EVERYTHING,IMPERATOR! YOU WILL BE THE EMPEROR OF..BEYOND...SPACE AND TIME AND.....COSMIC..ONCE YOU WEAR THIS!
Hero:*tosses her weapon to the floor* BUT I FINISHED +15ING THIS LESS THAN 1 MONTH AGO!!!!!!!!!!!! I JUST WANT TO DEFEAT DAKYURON GOD DAMNIT! I
Muhrak:You have to match dakyurons power,and cosmic power and time and space dosent cut it,you need to be an IMPERATORRRR *thunder rumbles*
Hero:*sighs* alright alright *tosses his old equipment in the pile on his other glowing equipment on bank*
*so the heroes embark into the demokron factory,and the deepest depths of shadow sanguinary,aquiring pieces of the legendary IMPERATOR equipment and with the last of muhraks hammerfals,finally obtains it*
Hero:I am..BEYOND cosmic..BEYOND space and time itself im..IMPERATORRR!! now I can finally put an end to dakyuron ONCE AND FOR ALLL
*so the heroess finally get rid of dakyuron,but the bloodstone dissapears*
We have to get the bloodstone! we have the power to do it!
Muhrak:N...not quite..
Hero:WHAT DO YOU MEAN NOT QUITE?! I JUST FINISHED THIS 3 DAYS AGO! *the hero notices a paper besides muhraks anvil and grabs it*
Muhrak:N--NO DONT READ THAT!!!
Hero:WHAT THE HELL IS THIS LIST...*hero reads and starts skimming through different entries* tier 17 gear Blackhole equipment..spcial ability,Blacksmiths blackest hole..tier 38 Gear Demonic equipment,special ability,Blaskmiths passionate fire?!..TIER 69 GEAR,ELIN HONEY SET,SPECIAL ABILITY....BLACKSMITHS...STICKYNES?!? WHATS THE MEANING OF THIS?! ARE YOU MAKING ALL THIS UP AS WE GO?!? WHY?!?
Muhrak:*looks down,letting drop the hammer to the floor, a fiery tear comin down his eye that quickly evaporates on his cheek* I..I just get lonely if you finish your gear forever I wont see you again and I need you T_T.

Funny story aside,I adore tera very much,i been playing since the beginning,But tera needs some spcie back in the game besides the endless gear treadmill.The overworld besides achievement its completely useless,theres nothing of value there for the endgame in other games there is plenty of ways to keep the players interested in the overworld,alnternate ways to aquire mats,like ore mining that has been forgotten.where are the colluva and dread ores to mine for example? or special rare mats that drop from random overworld mobs? many other mmos keep every piece of the overworld relevant,while still not taking the importance out of endgame dungeons,it just adds alternate ways to aquire thigns,and it keeps the overworld alive and well always populated with hunters and gatherers...not a big and beautiful but deserted paradise.
Tera has become the epitome of a themeparkmmo.they just keep slapping portals in the same areas for 2 years,without bothering to even expand the story arc.And many people like me endure it cause we love the game so much.But it looks like the developers arent interested in keeping old players in,more like luring new players in with every arc,milk em out then when those players leave cause of the exhaustion of having to do everything again,they milk the newcomers.

Im still hopeful with this new renewal of the game that they are doing,they will adress these points.And I hope you enjoy this lil story i cooked up as the maintenance was going on.I play this game a lot with my wife..heck this is where we met.I dont want it to whittle down into a endles themepark.I miss adventuring in the world itself.Please bring it back.

If anyone wants to draw a comic out of this story would be amazing I cant draw anything myself.I hope you gusy liked it.Have a nice day ^.^

@Spacecats @CobaltDragon

Darkshneider · July 2016

I messed the first sentence,no clue that spoiler thing would appear.where the edit buttton? rip T_T its because i blanked out the names of you know who with spoiler tag,didnt know this would happen

SageWindu · July 2016

Darkshneider wrote: »

I messed the first sentence,no clue that spoiler thing would appear.where the edit buttton? rip T_T its because i blanked out the names of you know who with spoiler tag,didnt know this would happen

There should be something that looks like a cog or gear up in I think the upper right corner. You can edit your post from that.

Darkshneider · July 2016

SageWindu wrote: »

Darkshneider wrote: »

I messed the first sentence,no clue that spoiler thing would appear.where the edit buttton? rip T_T its because i blanked out the names of you know who with spoiler tag,didnt know this would happen

There should be something that looks like a cog or gear up in I think the upper right corner. You can edit your post from that.

Thank you ^.^ meow

Nopi · July 2016

The gear threadmill is there because none of these dust bunnies would move a finger if there wasn't any glowing gear at the end, even if you defeated the true last boss of the story for it and you have absolutely nowhere to really use it. But it must be there, or else they won't even go fight the boss. Tera players demand both content and rewards. Not one or the other alone. Must be always both.

cvms3 · July 2016

Lol interesting story

I've been mostly slacking on my gear can't really/don't really want to keep up with the gear tiers. I just take it easy and upgrade on my own pace which seems to work out fine for me right now ^^

ThoseWhoStrive · July 2016

I totally understand your frustration with the endless gear grind though. Aside from all the discussion on MMORPGs and longetivity and content cycles since that's been overdone, I'm quite annoyed with how BHS does not care about lore implementation and consistency in their new dungeons/content. Wonderholme was considered random as [filtered] compared to Shandra Manaya, and it was the definition of a filler patch in terms of both content and lore; Dougal and Jelena simply send you to protect Frontera in Kezzel's Gorge, and investigate Wonderholme and Shattered Fleet, killing anything in it.

When Alliance patch came (which was before WH patch hit,) it worked perfectly in furthering the storyline because after Shandra's death, the lore of the world had moved forward: the Federation had broken apart, and now we were left in this political turmoil and strife in the form of acquiring noctenium.

Wonderholme patch didn't fit in with any of that. BUT, when ABHM/Wounded World patch arrived, the lore was furthered once more. We got a glimpse of demokrons in Abscess, of the renewing powers of the Archdevans in Lakan's Prison, and of the dimensional rift from which Koleogg arrived that would later become a central plot point for arriving in Val Oriyn in the level 65 Fate of Arun expansion.

Fate of Arun patch arrived, and while I do wish we could've explored the research involvement of Bathysmal Rise, of Ravenous Gorge, and seen more story to Sky Cruiser rather than just "Perimos and Darkan are Dakuryon's minions," FoA was still very much lore-fitting content that flowed smoothly.

And then we have the next year of stupid filler patches. Go Berserk! patch gave us Akeron's Inferno, with a supposed evil twin brother of Saleron, controlling Kezzel Duras as another rock golem BAM, alongside Timescape, which... Was never truly explained? Rift in time... From where?... And how is Yana relevant to the story? Why does she want to kill us all again? (or are we just invading her realm for the hell of it)

We also brought back Shattered Fleet and Fane Vault of Kaprima, which, also, did not have lore consistency and relevancy. Why were those two dungeons in particular bought back, lore-wise? No explanation was given. They just simply reappeared.

The Knockout patch was the same, with FINM and KDNM/HM offering little relevancy to the lore. KD in particular seems like a remake of Shattered Fleet, except with different bosses. FI was... utterly irrelevant. Why does the Federation (more like only Dougal) care about some isolated island who is enslaved by a practitioner of the dark arts? Dakuryon is barely mentioned throughout these last two patches and the next (which included DS3 and FIHM.)

Let's not forget the Island of Dawn revamp that attempts to revive Alliance lore relevancy to the game; why are the heroes constantly shifted from place to place instead of finishing off Dakuryon first? (aside from BHS laziness and lack of direction)

And then, suddenly, when Ninja is released over a year and a half later, the Federation finally finds Dakuryon... outside of Highwatch. Why did it take us so long to chase him down when he's literally ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF A MAJOR CITY?

Gear treadmill is horrendous, and even more horrendous when the content required to sustain it has no lore relevancy or consistency

/rant

Darkshneider · July 2016

But they could like..keep addign story arcs every big update,make other parts of the game relevant too while keeping the gear treadmill maybe spacing it out abit more to give a fuller experience instead of slapping the same area with portals for 2 years

Cezzare · July 2016

I don't mind that much having to grind gear, at some point getting a +15 set, or part of it, it's simply a luxury, that thing you do when you think "Well, to be honest I'm not going to use my gold on anything else and those red wings look kinda cool on a weapon"; what I would like is having more activities to do in between "gear" patches. I mean, PvP players don't really care about that type of content anyway, but having some more alternate storylines (entirely optional, as some complain about even tweaking at least the old faction quests) tailored for level 65 players could be interesting, currently OW maps have no other use for high level players but to farm world bosses, some sporadic PvP and, well, taking screenshots...

On the "gear theme" stuff, I'd surely like if dungeons were tied to the world story in more tangible ways, but in general I'm fine as long as the gear and instances follow a "theme", the Wounded World patch is indeed a cool example, so were the first 2 FoA patches, I really liked how the gear sets reflected the idea of arriving to a new unknown land and finding ancient treasures: "ambit" for ambition, the desire to explore; "discovery" for finding secrets, and "generation" for the idea of representing a whole era (and makes more sense if you think it was the first awakenable PvE set).

The Go Berserk! patch wasn't all that great, lore-wise the devs simply pulled it out of their *sses and the writers team did the best they could to make it look better, but in the end it really felt like a filler patch, even if some of my AINM runs were really fun I didn't enjoy that particular patch so much.

Now, the Knockout! patch didn't feel so out of place to me because the VF was actually present in the zone anyway, the Cutthroat harbor side quests and some parts of the main one tell you the zone is frequently attacked by pirates, you do have a rescue mission in the Rain Cages zone in Mistmoor island, with lots of nagas and pirates, the locals frequently ask the federation to step in. In that sense, KDNM/HM doesn't feel so strange, even if I'm not really a fan of the "pirates" theme. Now, the gear sets tie nicely in my opinion, "dreadnaught" is a very fitting name, makes it sound like you're a sailor getting ready for a battle in the sea. The starfall set has some meaning when you read the quest from the Ancient Stellar Blueprint, and since it dropped from KDHM and FINM I liked to think it probably was something Kalivan's fleet recovered from an sinked ship or an ancient temple, and the final parts needed to complete the design are in a remote island, guarded by recycl- err, cursed spirits.

As for the S&S and the imperator set, it's kinda nice having instances related to the main story again, the only thing I don't really like that much is the name of the mid tier set, "Slaughter" would've sounded nice in a PvP set, acutally.

0Gungrave0 · July 2016

Nopi wrote: »

The gear threadmill is there because none of these dust bunnies would move a finger if there wasn't any glowing gear at the end, even if you defeated the true last boss of the story for it and you have absolutely nowhere to really use it. But it must be there, or else they won't even go fight the boss. Tera players demand both content and rewards. Not one or the other alone. Must be always both.

TL:DR version is go the route of Call of Duty and simply reskin your game content.

Darkshneider · July 2016

It would be so nice if they gave relevance to the forgotten world again ;;

Nopi · July 2016

0Gungrave0 wrote: »

Nopi wrote: »

The gear threadmill is there because none of these dust bunnies would move a finger if there wasn't any glowing gear at the end, even if you defeated the true last boss of the story for it and you have absolutely nowhere to really use it. But it must be there, or else they won't even go fight the boss. Tera players demand both content and rewards. Not one or the other alone. Must be always both.

TL:DR version is go the route of Call of Duty and simply reskin your game content.

Giant crab soup anyone? o3o *gets shot*

Story time!The amount of Gear sets in 1 story arc is silly

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