Hello.
My best friend bought Tera as a birthday gift for me. He has a lvl 60 char, completely decked and is ranked very highly and really wanted to share his passion with me.
that being so i gave Tera a good try.
I thought the game was completely solo oriented, and a lvl'ing up / questing style similar to Grand Theft Auto.
I am used to MMO's where you can have parties of 8 people, go to a location, kill mobs of monsters 5 - 10 lvls higher than you and grind out EXP.
what kind of game completely discourages that, makes u just run back and forth to NPCs just for your levels? and god forbid you forget one, you have to go all the way back and do some stupid bull [filtered] mindless boring quest. and there are like THOUSANDS OF THEM.
The game also lacks a lot of dynamics in the classes / jobs people play and is also limited by the extremely small max party size being only 5 people. are you kidding me? this is an MMO.
The dungeons that i watched my friend go through required almost absolutely no strategy what so ever.
I quit Tera and ill never be back, and i cant believe people actually paid a monthly fee for it at one time.
Its really kiddy too, has a huge WoW crowd.
Everyone rides around on Unicorns.
I highly recommend you guys give the Final Fantasy XIV open beta a try, and see what a real MMO is like, and also what a real MMO's graphics existing in 2013 should look like.
anyways, i guess have fun getting all the way to lvl 60 with a grey storyline, and then spending all your time after that just to get gold to enchant your weapon 12 times. In the meantime ill be having a blast on FFXIV.
The bottom line up front, is the entire game like this or only Ascension Valley?
I started playing MMOs back in 1994 with Ultima Online, it has been my favorite genre since. I passed on Tera until f2p, but loving the game and wish I would have picked it up at release, shame on me there.
Saying that, this is seriously the first MMO where I actually took time to go into the tab settings in order to turn off all global/area chat. I am being sincere here. There were times in other MMOs where these chats would get bad, but in Tera it seems like 5 minutes cannot go by without one of these chats blowing up. The newbie area chat last night was the worst I have seen in a game yet, basically if you watched a racist porn movie that would be about what was going on. This is not just in the newbie area though, I was just there playing with a alt.
The main point of this post is not to simply rant, but to ask how the other servers are. I started on the new server that I guess was made for f2p, but had no idea at the time. I am hoping this is why it is so bad but wanted to ask here before bothering to reroll or transfer to another one.