Quote: VampyreAclhemist on 05/03/2012, 04:03 AM

Soon I hope. I really need them to continue playing the game.

Chrono scrolls are the perfect gold sink, and if EME doesn't do anything about them, will encourage gold bots like crazy. To play 'free' you'll pretty much be spending ALL of your time making gold so you can buy the next scroll. They won't be cheap, and there's a good reason for that.

In fairness to the OP, my first experience with the Prologue was rather lackluster and frustrating as well and, if I had been "on the fence" about TERA, it very well may have discouraged me from playing further. It simply IS NOT a good training tool for new players. It throws a ton of skills at you and almost immediately puts you into a BAM fight when you're still trying to learn the controls and don't have a clue what your attack rotations are, how to effectively dodge or block, or how to chain abilities. I probably died 4-5 times my first time through and it very nearly soured my opinion of TERA. Once I muscled through it and started on the Island of Dawn, things were MUCH better.



Basically, the Prologue is only useful to already-experienced players to help them get a feel for a new class. To new players, it's just a confusing, frustrating, plot-hole riddled mess.

I have to say the Prologue threw me for a loop. It was very hard to figure out how to play, I did enjoy seeing what kind of Priest I could be later on, but not enough to enjoy it. I was confused and the battle at the end was hard if you did not know what you were doing. I plan on skipping it from now on and I warn people about it. I did not like it at all.

If I was brand new to mmos I would have been lost and frustrated. I am not new to mmos and I was lost and frustrated. If they want us to learn the story, put it in somewhere else. I think it was a mistake.

I enjoyed the starting areas of every mmo out there. Star Wars The Old Republic has very good starting areas! Island of Dawn is perfect and how it should start out, not this silly prologue.

Quote: Prolixitasty on 05/03/2012, 10:23 AM

HERP DERP FERP DERP GERP.

> MAKE TEH NEW TOON

> IF NO WANT PROLOGUE

> ENTER TOON IN PROLOGUE AND EXIT

> RE ENTER CHOOSE TEH ISLAND OF DAWN

HERP GERP MADERP TERP FERP.

As a new player making their first character ever, how are they supposed to know this? The game doesn't tell you "to skip the prologue ......". The game doesn't even announce that it's a prologue. You hit ENTER or PLAY or whatever it was, and bam, you're on a beach that looks suspiciously like a starting area.

When I made my first character and got dumped in, I got to a point where I couldn't get past the big boulder. The dude wouldn't break it, just told me to go find other expedition people. I'd talked to everyone possible, gotten stuck on the cliffs having to use the unstuck command twice, made sure everything I could get to was dead, and still no success. I sat in the prologue for 2 hours trying to figure it out before I logged out of frustration. When I made a new character, it allowed me to skip the prologue. This is when I realized I had been duped!

I honestly think games like EQ2 did it the best. Have a dedicated starting area where all new characters begin at their normal level 1. This area is tailored to teach the player about how to play the game. In that area, the game TELLS you how to get out and play for real. The real value here is, anything you do here transfers over into that character and you retain XP earned. If you don't want to go through that area, don't and simply select to begin the game.

This games prologue is terrible and was the single most frustrating thing I have done in a game in years. Hell, I would rather deal with 1000 n00b pugs in dungeon finder on WoW than the prologue in this game.

Daish.
Are you that gladiator from L2? Think it was WaR clan?