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Heartshard
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Salviren Lvl.60
Celestial Hills - Roleplay (PVE)
High Elf Sorcerer
DeliciousMami on 05/15/2013, 09:07 PM - view
Ever think that the dungeon limitations on entries are added simply to raise difficulty? I mean it is a game based on skill and having as many tries as you want kind of defeats the purpose.


I agree with this, but I do get what the OP is saying too.
Just like the OP I bought the CE on day 1, I came back to the game and did elite and let it run out as I felt it just didn't offer enough. The bonus spellbinds now is a nice touch, but after I hit 60 (which 1 hour a day of boosts really isn't that big of a help. Ended up buying a 7 day double XP) it really felt lacking.

Adding new content that elite has no impact at all on feels a bit off.
BUT I don't really feel like more raid entries would be the solution. So while I get where the OP is coming from, I think EME or BH or whoever made that call made the right one, just something more with more offered on a daily basis to lv60s would be nice.
Merowyn on 05/03/2013, 02:16 PM - view
I think most people tend to just not notice the skills. I'm generally so intent on watching the boss and making sure I don't take damage that I don't notice the skills going on from the sorcs/archers. (cause they are often outside of my screen)


They shouldn't be too far outside your screen assuming you're zoomed out to see boss tells.
I find about 13 yards out to be a good spot, generally safe from bosses, but can move in or out when you have to.

I think the main thing other classes don't understand about sorcs is that at 48 or so, or even sooner we don't use our basic attack anymore, and we have to stop to use our mana regen skills so there's bigger gaps in between attacks, and they don't get to see the hilariously big back crits we can do if set up properly.
Mesmerized on 05/03/2013, 09:44 PM - view
For me Tjaunt = left click backstep = right click and glacial is on tab. Tbh I haven't been bothered not using fireball ever now.


Mine is Glacial right, Jaunt left, Backstep middle.
2 thumb buttons, front one is barrier, back one is one button for both damage buffs.

Glacial is great for kiting groups of mobs. Use hail, jaunt forward, celerity & fireblast, glacial away. You may take a hit but glacial actually does half decent damage for an instant AOE with movement you can direct.

And yeah at 60 you should never be using fireball. Unless I'm forgetting another class, we're the only ones who get to dump our starter basic attack entirely at 60 (or way earlier if you level via AOE farming).
DeliciousMami on 04/30/2013, 12:14 AM - view
Seeing how players like you transfer to other servers to sell things for double the price makes me want to transfer an account to your server and export items for myself. I understand there is demand for these items but people like you are pricing them for double what they are worth in your server and ruining the natural progression of the server, its why we have so few MC/ACHM static groups.


It is taking advantage of the system, BUT at the same time they're slowly forcing down the price of the items on our server which in the end helps us.
I'm all for supporting someone who has the initiative to help improve our server and lower prices, and good on them for turning a profit. They put in the work, they deserve it!
I had the same thing happen to me once right after I went +12 and relogged, hasn't happened since. Unequipping and re-equipping fixed it.
I think there's a bit of lack of perspective with that example. One is EME miscommunication and real money. The other is something vague about lag and you not getting your extra 2g or whatever from a quest.

You're also making a huge assumption that they can very easily check to see if you got bonus gold from a quest. Also he obviously said within that time frame to credit you for that day's boost.

I'm all for throwing the blame at anyone in charge I see, but come on. You have some vague issue caused by lag that I guess you thought you clicked a buff but it didn't go into effect or something and missed double gold from one quest. He's more than happy to help you if you simply show any kind of proof to back up what you're saying, but instead you come on here and insult the the whole company for trying to help you out with an extremely minor issue.

Just saying, little perspective. Sounds like you were helped right away once, and didn't help them do their job properly the second time.
Runespider on 05/01/2013, 09:32 AM - view
Given that Tera is now 2 years old the amount of content and the speed with which they put out new content (this raid is nice and all but given how much re-used stuff is in it it's shameful how long it's taking to put it in) it's in a pretty damn terrible state. We should of had this raid months ago and have a few more by now, if they are re-using stuff they could of added a lot of them, for how long this took it should be a totally unique raid. It's been a year since this released in the west and comparing it now to then and writing down the differences isn't really gonna fill many lines of a notepad.

I gotta be honest I'm pretty hard to bore in an MMO that I like but I'm getting bored out of my skull here, with so many new MMOs coming out they need to push this content out a little faster than this and vary it up a bit too. For god sake more stuff besides dungeons/raids and BG too.. If people don't wanna do dungeons or the one single broken BG map atm they might as well frigging logoff cause that's the only show in town on Tera.


Just wanna point out, the baseline people use for MMOs being World of Warcraft was about as bad or worse for the first couple years pushing out content, and that was with a much bigger staff, bigger budget, no needing the publishers and developers to pass things back and forth, no need to translate, etc.

Most MMOs fail because people see a new one launch and expect it to have 8 years of content and polish, a multi-million dollar budget, bigger quarterly profits than most small countries have in total money (no seriously, look into Blizzard's quarterly profit reports and match that up with a graph or wealth by country) and a massive fanbase.

Tera's combat system is one of the best in the business IMO. Content will come, and over time the process will get streamlined.
You're talking about inexperienced development, publishing and QA teams. Over time everything works out.

EDIT: I also wanna remind you that the first couple years of ANY MMO is a lot of bug fixes that just don't get found out about during development. Complex code with seemingly endless interactions isn't something you can test and push out the door and anticipate every one of the billion things people who try to break it to exploit bugs for their own gain.
Edited by: Heartshard 22 days ago
Xicor on 05/01/2013, 07:24 PM - view
i dunno about now... but assuming .5% on white scrolls, before the event, it was on average, cheaper to use white scrolls than MES assuming you dont mind spending hours using them


Position and lock your windows to make faster clicks, get 400 or so and use the base stack so you can click the same inventory blocks all the way through. It's boring, but I just stream a show on my tablet and go. Since everything is in the same spot after 30 or so you're on autopilot and barely have to look at the screen. As soon as it masterworks the common scrolls wont work either so you wont accidentally waste any.
They're on CH a fair bit lately. And by on I mean talking since I think it's pretty safe to assume they're around a lot and just not saying anything but rather monitoring chat, perhaps monitoring flagged players for botting, etc.

We're not overrun by exploiters, and the truly offensive people in global chat seem to vanish. Obviously they're doing their job, so when they say 'hi' or whatever that's just extra IMO. For a F2P game I'd say we've got it pretty good for GMs.
I don't really get how it's an issue.
Unless I'm mistaken the whole point of RP was playing a role different from your usual. If skin color is the only thing different between you and your Elin character, I suggest calling an ambulance and getting to the hospital ASAP 'cause something is really wrong with your body.

It's a fantasy race, and where they live, game lore/logic wise doesn't make sense for them to have dark skin. Baraka can't be anorexic and 2' tall and elves can't be hambeasts. It's race lore and design and making it a RL racial inequality issue is laughable.

In before "We demand white skin colors for our Amani so we can RP as ourselves!".