[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
Comments
The Brawler was and is a masterpiece. The concept of tanking and simultaneously doing damage swept away the whole tanking Problem we had so far. Compared to this, the ninja is a quite stale concept. Not even the funny things have been utilized (ninja cloning is just for fun).
I rather think the Ninja was placed as a strategic defense against Blade and Soul. BnS is developed also in S-Korea and already runs for years there. Just recently (start of this year) they went into NA/EU with the release of a slightly older version. Looking at BnS, it quite resembles Tera. You have the Lyn race, Elin-like creatures (remember the article "How the Elins saved Tera"). You have a Berserker, Sorcerer, Kung-fu-master (similar to Brawler). And you have a ninja. So my guess is that BHS wanted to counter the BnS ninja and this is why we now have a ninja class.