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[Shakerag]

Well, I had started a previous thread about TERA, but that was in reference to the pre-F2P version out in the wild now. 

So, yes, the game is free to play now, and I'm not in the best position to comment on the F2P experience, as I am classified as a "founder" in the game.  Just going off the website, if you sign up today:

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-2 characters per server, can buy more up to 8 per server
-No limitations on race, class, or access to areas in-game
-No limitations on dungeon entry (outside of the standard cooldown)
-Bonus rewards for dungeons and daily quests are the same as founders.
-Limited to 72 slots in character-shared bank, can buy up to 288 slots (mine is full of crap I never use anyway)
-Can only send 10 gold per in-game message
-Can only list 10 items at a time in auction house (founders get 50, which I've never hit)
-Same auction house tax as founders (5% list, 15% on sale)

Okay, that's not as bad as I thought.  So as long as you're not an altoholic or a pack rat, you can do pretty much everything the pre-F2P players could. 

There's an optional Elite status that's a monthly subscription that just gives you tons of extra stuff.  Nothing that would really give you a leg up on other players outside of leveling faster and some conveniences, seems like.  I've never had an Elite subscription and I don't feel like I'm missing out.

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Why should you play?

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Well, in my opinion, it's a pretty fun game.  Yes, there's grinding/fetching/etc./etc. like pretty much every MMO out there, but the world is really, really neat looking.  Combat is real-time with cooldowns on abilities.  There's no auto-attack or anything like that.  Timing seems to be a bit more critical than in something like WoW.  Ranged abilities have to be aimed at what you're shooting/casting at, you can't just auto-lock-on. 

Classes are a little role-restrictive.  Mystics and Priests can pretty much only heal, Lancers can pretty much only tank, and everything else (Archer/Sorceror/Berserker/Slayer) can only DPS, barring Warriors which can tank or DPS.  From what I hear, Warrior tanking is less taking it on the chin, but more evasion tanking. 

Also, Castanic males get eye-candy armor.

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Class features are roughly and briefly:

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Lancer - Tank, big lance and shield, can solo most anything with enough time and knowledge
Warrior - DPS/evasion tank, dual swords
Slayer - DPS, huge-ass sword
Berserker - DPS, maybe off-tank, big-ass poleaxe, big and bursty damage, can also block
Mystic - Healer, has summonable pets, can drop HP/mana balls that players can manually pick up for restoration
Priest - Healer, more AoE-ish heals, easier of the two classes to learn to heal with
Sorceror - Ranged DPS, AoE DPS, more DPS
Archer - Ranged DPS (not very familiar with this class)

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Race rough info:

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Aman - M/F, Dragonoid features, racial abilites tend toward damage and status effect resistance

Baraka - Genderless, Golem-like features, status effect resistance

Castanic - M/F, Horns and sexy (yes, including the males), DPS-oriented racial abilities

Elin - F only, little girls (technically they are nature spirits hand-made by a goddess or something like that) with big weapons, and terrible racial abilities

High Elf - M/F, effeminate (both genders), racial abilities are mana-related

Human - M/F, it's the humans, racial abilities are PVP-ish related

Popori - M only, roly-poly anthromorphic woodland creatures, same racials as Elin

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As for myself, I'm on the RP server (Celestial Hills), and I've got a max (60) level Lancer (tank), and a Mystic (healer) in the mid 40s and rising.  And one of everything else in the 20s-ish. 

[LordSlowpoke]

i officially claim the spot of this board's cutest priest and warrior elin

by the way i have low-level crafted warrior swords for sale starting from lv10 so if you happen to need equipment for that class my bank is full of that shit for some reason and i promise not to apply the typical market prices

[Shakerag]

i officially claim the spot of this board's cutest priest and warrior elin

by the way i have low-level crafted warrior swords for sale starting from lv10 so if you happen to need equipment for that class my bank is full of that shit for some reason and i promise not to apply the typical market prices

I have neither a priest nor warrior Elin, so I'll let this slide. 

You may want to make note of which server you're on, though. 

[LordSlowpoke]

i officially claim the spot of this board's cutest priest and warrior elin

by the way i have low-level crafted warrior swords for sale starting from lv10 so if you happen to need equipment for that class my bank is full of that shit for some reason and i promise not to apply the typical market prices

I have neither a priest nor warrior Elin, so I'll let this slide. 

You may want to make note of which server you're on, though.

i may or may not be on arcadia

as i've noted in the rage thread i have no way of checking and never really needed to memorize that

[Ozyton]

Someone attempted to get me into this a while ago, but as with all MMOs you really need friends to enjoy it, I feel.

[MadMalkavian]

I'll be getting a new computer in September at the earliest and Tera was one of the games I wanted to try, and if I can get a machine that is able to run Tera on a budget of $250 USD you might be able to count me in as a Sorcerer of some kind since I like DPS magi and/or glass cannons.

[PrimusRibbus]

My buddy tried to get me into this. Came in expecting tactical and action-oriented combat, got ludicrous amounts of fetch quests

[MadMalkavian]

My buddy tried to get me into this. Came in expecting tactical and action-oriented combat, got ludicrous amounts of fetch quests

I'll take fetch quests to Everquest any day. Anyone here know if there is some specific racial requirements for Sorcerer? I kind of want to play either an Elin or High Elf Sorcerer if I'm able to get into this game when September comes around and was wondering if there were said racial requirements.

[Neonivek]

I will say TERA is one of those MMORPGs that is absolutely boring 90% of the time.

If you play you are playing for that 10% because it is one heck of a 10%

[BuriBuriZaemon]

How does this compare to Guild Wars 2?

[Jelle]

Compared to gw2 the combat is very nice but the quests are bland and unimmersive, as you'd expect from an asian mmorpg I guess.

[Zangi]

Compared to gw2 the combat is very nice but the quests are bland and unimmersive, as you'd expect from an asian mmorpg I guess.

Yea, if I remember correctly, you gotta pick up and turn in the quests, which is irritating compared to GW2.
The combat is pretty nice and a bit a little flashy.

Spoiler: Warrior Tank Rant/Info (click to show/hide)

Classes are a little role-restrictive.  Mystics and Priests can pretty much only heal, Lancers can pretty much only tank, and everything else (Archer/Sorceror/Berserker/Slayer) can only DPS, barring Warriors which can tank or DPS.  From what I hear, Warrior tanking is less taking it on the chin, but more evasion tanking. 

My main was a Warrior and I think I left around the time that EnMasse tried to make Warrior tanking easier.  Yes, it is all about 'evasive' tanking.  But, it does not mean running around everywhere with the boss in tow, cleaving the faces off of your party members as it passes em by.  Your main job is to keep the boss from moving too much and positioning it, so that everyone else can hit it till it dies.  While avoiding as many attacks as possiblethe more dangerous attacks, keeping aggro and managing your energy bar.
Life as a Warrior Tank was actually satisfying, but you faced prejudice cause many more idjiots can't and actually Q up in the dungeon finder as a tank, while not expecting to tank.  (Well, horror stories I heard when mention/consideration of Warrior Tank comes up in a dungeon party anyways...)
I usually didn't main tank until I ran the dungeons a few time first, so I'd at least know the fights beforehand.  Though, some dungeons I considered impossible for me to tank...
Anyways, a few times the party ends up having the tank ragequit or fail hard.  I end up becoming tank and we make it through.  Mostly cause lancer tanks are at a premium and the other party members were game enough to try it out.

Of course, I don't know how that has changed overtime.

EDIT: Also...  Warrior DPS is on the low end.  Doesn't really have burst either.  At least that is how I feel it was.

For reference, got bored of the grinding and jumped ship around level 40-ish.  My grind toleranceawareness to 'this is boring treadmill grinding' just gets lower and lower after every MMO I try out.

[Shakerag]

I'll be getting a new computer in September at the earliest and Tera was one of the games I wanted to try, and if I can get a machine that is able to run Tera on a budget of $250 USD you might be able to count me in as a Sorcerer of some kind since I like DPS magi and/or glass cannons.

Well, it certainly is an eye-candy game (in more ways than one), but if you turn down the settings, on a $250 machine, I have no idea whether it'll work or not.  Check the system requirements on the web page for the game?

My buddy tried to get me into this. Came in expecting tactical and action-oriented combat, got ludicrous amounts of fetch quests

You forgot the "kill 10 x" quests.  But, yeah, questing is crap.  My latest character (Mystic) I'm pretty much just doing the main storyline quests and running dungeons back to back. 

I'll take fetch quests to Everquest any day. Anyone here know if there is some specific racial requirements for Sorcerer? I kind of want to play either an Elin or High Elf Sorcerer if I'm able to get into this game when September comes around and was wondering if there were said racial requirements.

Any race can be any class.  The racial abilities are on such long cooldowns as to not really factor into decision making.  Except for any passive abilities, that is.  If you're really trying to min/max, then I'd say:
Aman - Lancer
Castanic - Slayer/DPS

The other races don't really give significant enough bonuses to factor in to class picking.  Yeah, High Elves seem to be the mana-oriented race, but they have a 2-hour cooldown ability to refill your mana bar, and an ability to regen mana faster ... after you've died and been rezzed.  Not exactly game breaking.

I will say TERA is one of those MMORPGs that is absolutely boring 90% of the time.

If you play you are playing for that 10% because it is one heck of a 10%

Maybe more 70/30, but yeah.  Dungeons and BAMs are the big draw.  Oh, and art.  Oh, and maybe PvP if you're into that.  They have battlegrounds and stuff now.

How does this compare to Guild Wars 2?

I heard a lot of people leave TERA for GW2 when it came out.  From the people I heard back from, they sounded a bit unhappy for switching over.  I can't remember the exact reasons why anymore though

Yea, if I remember correctly, you gotta pick up and turn in the quests, which is irritating compared to GW2.
The combat is pretty nice and a bit a little flashy.

True, but they're concentrated in little hubs throughout the zone.  Pick up half a dozen, commit small-scale genocide, turn 'em all back in at the same place and pick up your breadcrum quest to the next hub. 

So, yes, don't play TERA for the quests.  Although the main storyline quest is kind of cool.

[Shakerag]

I'm tempted to give it a whirl, but... Will it bore me as badly as RIFT did? I'm sure the action-combat whatever will be a step above the other, but.

Edit: System requirements is asking for 50GB free hard drive space. Just how large is this download?

1- Well, the combat is different.  Think Dynasty Warriors with skill cooldown times.  Ish.
2- I thought I remembered it being 30GB.  It's a beast.  I'm guessing for all of the graphics/textures?  *shrug*

[MadMalkavian]

I'll be getting a new computer in September at the earliest and Tera was one of the games I wanted to try, and if I can get a machine that is able to run Tera on a budget of $250 USD you might be able to count me in as a Sorcerer of some kind since I like DPS magi and/or glass cannons.

Well, it certainly is an eye-candy game (in more ways than one), but if you turn down the settings, on a $250 machine, I have no idea whether it'll work or not.  Check the system requirements on the web page for the game?

I'm getting a refurbished Windows 7 gaming desktop or laptop for $250 at most so hopefully I can get something which has good hardware for a change. I mean if I can at least meet the minimum specifications and exceed them I'll be okay to get into TERA but if not then at least I'll be able to play other games I want to play. I'm just saying that if I can get a machine which can get into TERA then count me in as a Sorcerer of either the High Elf or Elin persuasion.

I'll take fetch quests to Everquest any day. Anyone here know if there is some specific racial requirements for Sorcerer? I kind of want to play either an Elin or High Elf Sorcerer if I'm able to get into this game when September comes around and was wondering if there were said racial requirements.

Any race can be any class.  The racial abilities are on such long cooldowns as to not really factor into decision making.  Except for any passive abilities, that is.  If you're really trying to min/max, then I'd say:
Aman - Lancer
Castanic - Slayer/DPS

The other races don't really give significant enough bonuses to factor in to class picking.  Yeah, High Elves seem to be the mana-oriented race, but they have a 2-hour cooldown ability to refill your mana bar, and an ability to regen mana faster ... after you've died and been rezzed.  Not exactly game breaking.

I just want to play something that is cute and aesthetically pleasing, which is really my preference for most races in MMOs when favored classes aren't available or are not part of the mechanic. Hence why you'll see me play either an Elin or High Elf Sorcerer if I'm able to get into TERA.