[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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Is Tera still the best free mmorpg?
I have played a ton of free mmorpgs in the past and imo Tera is the best one. But I have been out of the game lately because I have been living life but I'm interested to start playing again. However while I love the quality and content in Tera and exciting updates I do like the more casual lock on combat of other mmos but those just don't have the same fun content.
I realize though that some new free mmorpgs could have come out in recent months that are better than Tera, and maybe I should play those instead? Or is Tera still king?
I realize though that some new free mmorpgs could have come out in recent months that are better than Tera, and maybe I should play those instead? Or is Tera still king?
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nice gameplay, cute elin, [filtered], no too much crazy farm, 99% of items you can get with only golds, the pvp is good, the graphic is fine
No, this game uses the trinity unlike Blade and Soul and Blade and Soul had nearly no features either. Not really sure why Blade and Soul got so much attention when the game is old (and looks old) and had little to do. The game also wasn't really optimized that well, it only looked optimized if you compared it to Tera. The game I was referring to is also developed by a large Chinese company and not a Korean company.
Ok what is the game -.-
Well, in Blade and Soul you can't really blame the healer or the tank for your own mistakes... also, the open world in there is relevant, unlike Tera.
The PvP there had a lot of potential, but it came out absurd crap (it's totaly ping dependent, and the amount of macros is beyond even for the most radical estimates).
PvE content wise the game is 10 times larger than Tera, and the idea of being able to get costumes doing in game dungeons is pretty attractive...
Optimization there is as bad as Tera's
In the end, it's about players preference. I'd rather fight a hard to win battle against a competent mob in BnS than one shot a group of 50 mobs in Tera
With or without tanks/healers ragers will still rage. I've played a few games that didn't follow the trinity and people just use some other excuse to yell at you. Korean mmos also tend to be ping dependent because most of them are made specifically for Korea, the western market is just an after thought that they do not focus on unless the game ends up being successful in the west.
I mainly didn't like BnS because I actually like the trinity, and the game looked pretty 'meh' visually. Combat didn't really feel as great either. Then again the game is a few years behind anyways.
TERA has had a lot of good reviews, a lot of bad reviews, and a lot of in between reviews. Sites like MMORPG, Massively Overpowered, Gamespot and similars, have given TERA a fair score, and they also list the bad things of this game.
The main issue that this game faces as of now, and is been the same since release in NA, is game optimization, which after 4 years has not been addressed properly by the devs. Other thing that has been happening a lot in TERA, which do not happen in any other mmo that i know, is content removal. Only TERA devs constantly keep removing content from the game, which is replaced by other type of content, most of the times less than the old one. A lot of players will also complain, at least the ones that been here from the start, that the quality of content of the game has decreased since the Queen of Argon patch, catering more to casuals instead of giving an actual challenge, not to mention the lack of PvP content, which hopefully will be addressed more in the future with the release of the GvG content that will replace the crusades and alliances.
Another thing to note, is that players are currently divided into those who think the game is 100% P2W and those who don't. I am one of the ones who do not think this game is P2W, because i do not base the definition of P2W in a single aspect of the game like the others do, which is the selling of EMP, the currency used in the shop to buy costumes and other things.
Put it bluntly, by selling EMP for gold in game, you technically can buy your way to max level, and get the best gear possible, and still have loads of gold to spend. This by definition would be P2W, but is just part of it. Spending money in the game will tremendously accelerate your progress, but when is time for you to test that shiny gear you just bought, you pretty much will be kicked out of every single dungeon or BG for not having played your class and learned it like the others did. You have the gear and the resources. but without player skill, you are only dead weight.
In the end, if you seek for a game with fast and free combat (no more tab target and no restrictions on skills), gorgeous graphics, and that it offers pretty much everything to progress all the way to end game without spending a single dime, cause even Elite service can be bought now with in game gold, and if you can handle the poor optimization, then TERA is the game for you. I would say TERA is still unique in the market, even with its top competitors which are BnS, BDO and GW2, TERA has managed to stay at its place as one of the best current MMOs.
Entire gearing process goes through itemshop as you can't do anything without it and recently they released new chapter and as every Gameforge game have, is the wheel. Quote i found in forum
Making one piece requires around 8-10 jewels and there are 14-15 items you can use +20 jewels on.
I know i got offtopic here, but showing how different publisher for different region can mess up the game(s) so bad.
As for the people saying BnS has more open world content, that's very debatable considering the majority of said content is just dailies which get very old very fast. There is a trinity to an extent for example summoners were the sort of healers and KFMs were the main tanks, so it isn't fair to say that there wasn't a trinity.
If you want no trinity, take a look at GW lol
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since than other publishers suck
and anyway it is not easy to find mmorpg with same gameplay than tera, so yes tera has a lot problem, but unfortunally the others have bigger problem than tera
guild war is not free and if i remember to be competitive you need to buy the original game and its expansion
BnS: Combat isn't quite as refined, PvP outside 1v1 is very limited. Comes the closest so far but not quite.
BDO: Excellent gameplay with a great open world, lack of endgame content and direction is a huge downside. Solo grind the game.
Revelation online: Amazing game. Does everything BnS/BDO/Tera does and better. Incredible art. Extremely good performance and optimization. Content that is actually challenging...it's pay2win. Rip. Dead on arrival game.
My favorite thing in Tera is getting a group together to do quests, does BDO or Revelation online have that?
Making an hybrid MMO will make you unable to dodge attacks on Action Combat Mode (ACM) because the Tab-Tageting Combat Mode (TTCM) cannot do that, this forces the attack to reach you no matter what, so you can't even iframe them because TTCM games are based on a "Evasion" or "Dodge" stat, if you get rid of this you'll have to force TTCM players to play more into ACM way, thus making their game different and so not giving them what you're advertising.
Best way to build a combat system is to choose one and stick to it just like WoW, TERA, BDO and all those successful MMOs out there in the games market. Even Skyrim/Elders Scrolls kept their combat system both in solo games and into ESO (Elders Scrolls Online).
And while TERA's player base is lower than it used to be, we still have more than enough players to grind everything you want. So yeah, TERA is still the best choice even with the devs, publisher and misc. issues.