>Servers
Starscape - NA (California), Patch 100, Vanilla
https://terastarscape.com/
Guild: Clover
Toolbox support: Allowed
>Starscape Guides/Resources
https://rentry.org/StarscapeTERA
https://rentry.org/StarscapeClassGuides
https://github.com/tera-private-toolbox

TERA Classic - NA (Canada), Patch 32, Mostly vanilla
https://teraclassic.com/
Guild: TBA
Toolbox support: Banned (but has built-in ping reduction)

Arborea - EU (France), Patch 100, Customized and contains server-exclusive content
https://www.arborea-reborn.com/
Guild: Dump
Toolbox support: Allowed

Agaia - EU (Germany), Patch 100, Customized
https://agaiaonline.com/
Guild: N/A
Toolbox support: Allowed

Previous thread: >>1759531

First for Elin

WHAAAT'S UP BOOPERS

Currently playing on Classic. It's alright, but not really classic, with nerfed BAMs, reaper, gunner, and some older dungeons missing. Judging by how they already cut side quests from the already shortened Island of Dawn, it smells like they wanna pander to casuals there too, going forward.

I don't get people who look up a private server to play a game and then do everything they can to skip actually playing the game. Because apparently farming a snoozefest like Ghilleglade, BRHM, and afking at Highwatch at 65 is so much fun. Meanwhile, nobody does PvP. If they add Brawler too I'm fucking out.

>>1780508
The problem is that this is the earliest leaked version of the game, I'm sure they'd go further back if they could.

>>1780509
Even if restoring cut content is impossible, disabling the bs classes, adjusting monster stats, etc, should be perfectly possible with basic admin tools, no deeper coding required. Especially dungeons are way too easy in this patch. If a dps can pull wall to wall without waiting for tank and nobody's HP dips below 90%, it's just a joke. The original game at least punished idiots.

>>1779341
Bit of a late reply but
>which class deserves to be doted-on with a theoretically-maxed RK-9 (or Elo) first
Depends on what you play the most. If lancer is your second most played in high tier content after priest, it's not a bad idea to give it the power pet.

>Shame Agaia appears to be in such shambles at the moment, given how much hype was (apparently) behind its release.
Yeah, most of the hype seems to have come from one of the devs shilling really hard. He did a good job, because I sure heard about agaia almost immediately as trouble started brewing, while I didn't hear much about Arborea.

>>1779893
I'm still here but mandated to wear cat ears to assimilate with the large elin population

>>1780508
I heard somewhere classic is a one man's passion project which is why it's so wonky. Sad that most of the servers based on this patch disappointed me, like teraCZ and akeron tera.

I'm thinking about giving TERA a try after years of ignoring it for no particular reason, just didn't feel the urge to play. Anyway, which server is the more forgiving one for a person who knows zero stuff about the game? Maybe the one with the better tutorial if you can point it for me? Thanks in advance anons

(This game has no official version currently running right?).

>>1780567
Classic is much easier than the v100 servers.

>>1780572
Will give it a try then. By the way if i want to test others later do i have to download the full game each time?

>>1780594
Yes sadly. Classic is running a 32bit version of the game, while others like Starscape, Agaia and Arborea Reborn are on 64bit. If you're from Europe you might have high ping on classic.

>>1780567
>>1780620
And to add one thing, Arborea has their own guide on how server progression works, but it doesn't go in depth with the things that are unchanged to the original. Agaia has the same and it was posted somewhere last thread. Not sure about other servers.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IJGlms-Pic6hfb6S2dIbDsKmP2_ezcVbnl6q8nyh92c/edit?usp=sharing

From one blood-soaked gladiator's pit to another, our finest of expedition teams find themselves staring down an even more fearsome foe than the Demon of Draakon: The infamous Hellion of the Wastes, Hagufna...!
Don't you dare chuckle at this towering monster's admittedly pretty silly name, 'lest your next laugh be your last. This living nightmare's slain hundreds of would-be warriors, and would continue his slaughter unopposed, were it not for us standing in his way.
Not standing for too terribly long, mind you, as this was more of a testing run to see what we were up against. Certain death, as it happens. Another assault on his domain will be penciled-in down the line.

HQ: https://files.catbox.moe/ejfnpd.png

>>1780548
No worries on being late, I'm just glad there's still chatter happening here...!

>Re: Pets
Appreciate the insight. While I'm fairly comfortable playing Priest in most Dungeons I've tackled so far (barring Bahaar and that dreaded left/right barrage), taking Lancer into "serious" content would be a whole new ballgame for me.
My static's lead makes handling Lancer look easy, but I've no doubt they're secretly sweating about not draining their resources to deny themselves of a crucial Backstep when it's needed, or inadvertently locking themselves into a poorly-timed Wallop or Super Leap right as an unblockable attack is winding-up.

As a relative newcomer to this title, it's super cool that every role feels so distinct on the battlefield. Healers may as well be playing a different game entirely compared to DPS, whom themselves are likely ignorant to just how much finesse and fine-tuning a tank needs to consistently hold their ground. It's pretty great stuff.

>Agaia Vs. Arborea
Again, while I've no stake in the EU server race myself, I do hope things go well for Arborea. Being under far more promising management alone would be a big selling point, considering the alternative in that region.

>>1780676
Quick-and-dirty second photo, as I ran out of space to finish replying...

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>>1780567
Always good seeing new arrivals to this game in [current year].
You'll find plenty of resources to delve into for any given server, and all of said servers allow for standard leveling to acclimate to your class naturally, should you so desire (and have the patience for it).
Would love having (You) on Starscape, but feel free to sample other servers if you're curious about them, or happen to live closer to one over another.

Worth mentioning that latency is a concern in this title, and while there are ways to mitigate the woes of having high ping, you'll almost certainly have a noticeably smoother experience playing on a server which isn't giving you 150ms+.
If you're in the 'States, that means picking between Starscape and Classic, two vastly different experiences wrapped in the same 'shell (both of which are good for different reasons). If you're in EU, however, I'd opt for Arborea over Agaia, even at the expense of a bit more ping.

>(This game has no official version currently running right?)
On PC, no, the game is officially dead, and has been since June 30, 2022. Different flavors of private server are the only way you'll get to sample this title there.
An official server still technically exists on PS4/Xbox One somehow, but I really wouldn't recommend going there. It's obscenely behind on content, and lacks several essential QoL features native to practically every private server of the PC client. Still a very strange oddity to note all the same.

checking in to see whether or not you starscape niggas are dead yet
anyways, NEO's returnee catchup + new player event starts tomorrow with the steam server launch. it's time to return to whence you came

>>1780572
>>1780594
You're being baited lol. The patch 100 servers give you free level 65 scrolls straight off the bat and there's nothing remotely challenging before endgame. Classic is closer to the old game, gives you less exp for quests and mobs hit harder

>>1781362
Bro, leveling is the easiest part of the game on both versions, endgame on v32 is far easier than endgame on v100

>>1781253
If your game was that good, you wouldn't need to desperately come to a dying general to poach players.

>>1781362
Old tera is miles easier than nutera, mainly because it's less daunting. Less systems to keep track of, everything is much slower. You could argue that yes, your decision making needs to have more purpose to it because you're slower and have less attack speed but despite that punishment isn't as high and most of the times you can get out of a sticky situation just fine.
Coming to a post apex server, leveling to 70 instantly and getting swarmed with what feels like a million things you need to do before actually starting dungeons is a big hurdle for new players, it's way easier to begin leveling, even if the leveling is >challenging.

>>1781852
I doubt anyone here could even handle queen pre nerf let alone ACHM
This era is pussified so post era is the only way.

A thread can barely be ran, you expect people to understand shit like curse rotations?
Just face it, that era is over.

>>1781868
MCH appeared many times on Menma, sped up to match nu-teras attack speed. Players have way more resources to learn nowadays, and many mechs that are way more complicated than queen's curse appeared down the line. The main reason why queen was so hard to clear was simply because everyone was new at the game and there were no guides or resources. If something like vsh or bahaar came out instead of mc in 2012, people would have struggled just as much if not more.

ACHM is cancer I agree but it also made reappearances many times where it was buffed and people cleared it fine. That's one dungeon I'd agree people would struggle on if we went back to how classes worked pre 2015.

>>1781897
Yeah about as buffed as FoK where people could just facetank all the mechanics

>>1780508
I mean, it's nerfed but you're still getting filtered if you make mistakes soloing bams. it's still the closest thing to an actual game with leveling/progression the other servers all have 65 boosts

It's been like 9 years since I posted in /terag/. I'm surprised to even find a thread up but I guess this is abandoned video games general. Miss most of (You). Tera classic feels like home but I'll give starscape a try eventually.

>>1781868
I don't think mchm is actually nerfed. If you keep your level at 60 with UTI gear I'm sure it'll be the same mostly, could be fun if you have a group to do it with. But yeah, new game/new players is what make people feel like mchm is hard. The only mechanic is literally rotate in/mid/out. The filter is 8% though, do it without double stand for an actuall challenge

>>1780676
This reads like something Tonka would've posted, I miss that guy

>>1780508
Well, it doesn't help that the entire tera population is fragmented. I get na/eu but there shouldn't be 2 classic servers in NA. brhm was surpsingly fun with a group of idoneals and washed up players, I might try schm in idoneal. 3s have popped a few times. There are people trying to get it running during the afternoon/evening. Some event for corsair's is supposedly around the corner.

Where do I play?

>>1782222
NA: Starscape
EU: Arborea

>>1782222
If you're NA and want something close to what TERA was like near the end of its life, with faster-paced gameplay and all available classes, go for Starscape.
Alternatively, if you're NA and want an oldschool-esque experience based on a much older patch, with fewer classes and a somewhat slower-paced combat, but many older dungeons which aren't available on Starscape, go for TERA Classic.
If you're EU, just go for Arborea, since Agaia is kind of a mess at the moment.
There are Guilds for both Starscape (Clover) and Arborea (Dump), but I haven't heard from any Anon on Classic making their own yet.

>>1782358
Classic is fine from EU too, 80 ping for me.

Who’s going to make a guild on classic?

>30 posts in 32 hours
yeah just admit it starscape fad is dead

>>1782808
still not coming back to bns

>>1782808
still not going to start playing bns

play bns

guys what is this pathetic mockery of an mmo thread ffs, just let it die like the game did

>10 players online
Private server threads NEVER talk about server populations

>>1782891
All the servers in the op are populated enough to play the game.

>>1782900
>Servers are populated enough based on my arbitrary and unspecified criteria
Yea sure thing retard.

>>1782917
the criteria being having enough players to form a party and run a dungeon

>>1782919
Nta but it would be fun to do more than play dungeons with the same 5 people because tera wasn't a sit in lobby queue simulator it was an actual mmorpg back then

>>1782930
I think we can figure out who you are based on things you left uncensored.
Anyway, the version of the game where there was anything to do but dungeons doesn't exist anymore, we'll just have to wait for new games.

>>1782939
I doubt it, but if that's true then you know where to find me if you want to do stuff. Sadly that's probably true. I tried to play nova but the ping was unsufferable and I was busy at the time, but I kind of regret not being there when there were thousands playing or something

>>1782950
Classic is the same version, it only released recently to low population, but it's been growing.

>>1782950
I played on nova and the ping was insanely ass at 160ms. But everybody else had the brazillian debuff so I destroyed them. It was actually even better with the tables turned, with how often they'd say "if I had better ping I'd destroy you" back then. That was the opportunity to show them that wasn't the case.

>>1782891
>10 is fine
>can't grief noobs in kumas
>can't run knxx
>can't run anything period
>no arena
>no field convos with noobs and or showing them old tricks so they can level easier per class
>no getting shown the ropes by new people just rook up guide and do the stageplay puppet
>no hanging out with randoms for player hosted events
this is cope from a never has been in these games.

>>1782016
Solo'ing bams used to be worth something in my day
*unrolls chronoscroll

>>1783045
Meme arrows 2-4 either aren't true or haven't been relevant in a decade, and 5-8 don't even happen in modern, popular MMOs these days, sadly.
TERA is a niche game split across way too many servers for its own good. So long as you have a group of 5 people, you can get shit done.

>>1783045
everything you're describing has been my experience on the classic server. it honestly feels guilty experiencing these feelings again

>>1782027
When the next dungeon came out they removed entire mechanics. I won't be touching new. There needs to be a version of this game with every boss at their peak form and mechanics.

>>1783055
this is another fine cope from the talking tumbleweed

>>1782939
>we
>us
cope

Hardcore sex with Alle until she passes out and not stopping.

>>1783161
Is she map's sister? The master explorer and the world renown journalist

>>1783183
Don't know. I only know breed.

>>1783183
>maps is still around
I need to leave this thread just off the fact that I remember this person

>>1783218
I want to go on another goating adventure with maps

>>1783218
who was maps? name rings a bell.

>>1783245
>>1783240
I used to play with maps a long ass time ago and clicked this thread out of curiosity but that had to have been a decade ago

>>1783246
I don't think maps is still playing but that reporter elin reminded me of maps

>>1783250
It doesn't matter. I'm gonna get outta here before I remember too much

>>1783252
Why's that, are the memories painful or embarrasing or something

>>1783253
Anon just hates thinking about happier times compared to the shithole of a world we have now. He's just like me.

The jagged lands found in Exodor are a place very few would ever willingly tread. Seldom will you find a moment's respite here, with each island filled to the brim with natives eager to assure your trip will be thoroughly short-lived.
As such, it feels all the more special to come across quiet crevasses such as this one, where the towering flora of the islands can really strut its stuff.
This alien world might be fraught with danger around practically every corner, and absolutely not for the faint of heart to explore, but there's still patches of serenity to savor even in these uncaring lands.

HQ: https://files.catbox.moe/611jta.png

>>1783161
Oh, Anon... Still just as drenched in instinct as ever, I see.
Have you been taking my advice from the previous thread? It's important to shift your focus towards more productive matters, once your primal side starts luring you into quieting it down in the only way it knows how. Even if you have to drag yourself kicking and screaming away from your all-natural obsessions to do so.

Fear not if you're still in the throes of Springtime this terribly late, however. There's only a couple more weeks in the season 'til it rolls over to Summer, and by then, any self-inflicted heat you're suffering from will pale in comparison to the ACTUAL heat ramping-up across the realm.
Best get your swimsuits ready and scout-out a nice lake or two in advance.

>>1783183
Can't say I'm aware of whoever that might be, shame to say.
If they were one for traveling the world and writing far-too-lengthy posts about it, I'm sure we would've gotten along wonderfully. Kept quite the habit of doing exactly that in a few other MMOs prior to arriving here.
This title certainly has a storied history on this site, no doubt about it, yet I wasn't lucky enough to have been playing it during the era of Ye Olde TFT (at least not in any meaningful capacity). Still neat seeing folks from those halcyon days swinging by to check on these threads all the same.

>>1783308
wrong again, it was a shithole back then but it was a shithole that distracted me from another shithole

>>1783308
This but unironically, the happier times are so happy compared to the bleak times now that you somehow can't help but cringe at them because they shine so brightly
>>1783325
I meant to say that maps was the master explorer and you are the world renown journalist, cute headcanon of mine. I think guilds had more personality back then because this was before /vg/ was made so mmo threads were on their respective boards. It gave each guild their own culture. /vg/ forced all of us into a containment board where we despised each other. I think even though you missed the golden age of tera, you're like a traveller in a post apocalyptic landscape making the most of the situation and that's respectable

>>1783325
It's sad that they walled off all the mountains with giant invisible blocks. Exploring was a lot of fun. No fun allowed I guess..

>>1783361
Can't you set up your own local server and just clip through the invisible walls?

>>1783355
Aww, that's a cute outlook! I'm sure Maps and I would've made one hell of a pair, had I been around to see their daring exploits firsthand.
Certainly wouldn't call myself "world renowned" by any means, though, at least not so directly. I'm just someone who likes to write about where they've been. Maybe someday I'll compile my thoughts and release something in a more formalized manner.

>you're like a traveller in a post apocalyptic landscape making the most of the situation
Hah, from a meta standpoint, I suppose that's a decent assessment.
There's a quiet sort of melancholy which hangs over any given private server for lost or otherwise abandoned MMOs.
It's moreso felt in especially older titles from the 2000s, but it still resides in TERA as well to an extent. So much potential left unrealized, and so many hanging threads never to be woven into the larger narrative. A time capsule, though not entirely as you may remember it, were you one to live through that history firsthand.

The times spent by the TFT and NFA faithful from a decade prior - good and bad - defined this title for so many Anon. Yet I suppose in knowing that context, you're right. Those rosy years are long behind us now, and what remains is purely the medium in which those old memories were first made; no more, no less.
In my case, at least, that presents the opportunity to see what all the fuss was about, albeit well after-the-fact.
Much of TERA may as well be a brand-new experience for me, so while stages such as Skynest, Bahaar, Forbidden Arena, et cetera, might be boring and old-hat to the true vets, they're still exciting trials to overcome from my perspective.

It's not quite the same as it once was. But that's fine. What's left can still be fun in its own way. (Also greatly helps that Starscape gutted all of the pay2win from the official title and didn't replace any with their own grift, which is a rarity even among private servers).

( HQ: https://files.catbox.moe/kcra48.png )

>another troon blogpost

>another BASED adventuring log

>>1783440
why do you type so much

>>1783519
The same reason he pretends to be a woman.
Social isolation and self-victimization combined with crippling mental disorders that prompt people like that to create alternative realities in which they live day to day.

guild on classic when

>>1783525
Bro is probably playing an elin himself. Let's not get cocky here.

>>1783823
Jokes on you, I'm not even playing.

Aggressively holding hands with Alle.

>>1784070
>>1783161
yeah if this schizoposting is gonna make up the thread this is just gonna be another perma dead thread with random rants

>>1784079
yet you're still here

>>1784084
Not for long, I will probably come back every 3 weeks when there are 10 more posts to shit on you though

>>1784091
so edgy

Came to this thread out of nostalgia but
>1 post every 2 hours
Kill this thread

>>1783325
>swimsuits ready
YOU better be getting a swimsuit ready, Alle. You will wear it and you will be bred.

>>1784422
have you not seen the state of /vm/?
majority of the threads are like this >>1246549

>>1784483
It's just a boy and his cuck here(you)

>>1783828
average /terag/ poster

>>1784422
This thread is fast by /vm/ standards

Which server if I want to flirt with anons playing elins?

>>1784868
Any of them. Elins are freeuse.

>>1784868
what kind of elin are you looking for

>>1784950
One with daddy issues

Good day! Thinking of giving TERA a go. Being aim/action combat and seeing how the key shortcuts are displayed in video gameplay, I'm worried that I'm going to develop carpal tunnel or similar trying to play.

Do all of the flashy lights and button mashing portray how fast paced the game is, or is the game slower than I expect? I'd love to play something without too many inputs or quick reactions.

>>1785036
The modern game is incredibly high APM, far above most MMOs, it probably will damage your wrists if played too much.
Play Classic if you want a slower pace.

>>1784887
im not 4 sale

>wanting to erp with balding men

>>1785121
Yeah, nobody else is freaky enough. Zoomers think big tits and ass are exotic and unusual and don't know how to write

>>1785116
yeah ok
that reminded me of our old guild title

Mei and Ahoka left us for this dead sinking ship LMFAOOOOO

>>1785203
>cucked by a sinking ship
bro...

>>1785203
who and who

>>1785214
Two mentally ill men.

>>1785209

>>1785265
sad they left us while we got 3 new recruits the other day and the clan consistently has two parties going now

>>1785036
Modern TERA is actually very fast paced and requires good reaction time.
Most classes have around 7/8 core skills you spam constantly with another 10 or so being situational.

>>1785308
Yet it's much less tactical than the original.

>>1785036
If you're not a spring chicken you need an MMO mouse with turbo buttons or you'll become crippled

t. has a MMO mouse with turbo buttons so I don't become crippled

>>1785318
I prefer a light fps mouse, especially so in a game that requires some actual aiming
>logitech pro x superlight

>>1785320
okay
*cripples ur hands*

>>1785323
osu did that too me already bro

>>1785324
lmao cripple hands mcgee

Don't fucking buy l*gitech mice. They're overpriced junk with a very short lifespan.
>doubleclicking
>triple and free spinning wheel
>battery suddenly losing 90% of its capacity and if you replace it with a new one, the issue is still there so it's likely firmware fuckery to make you buy a new mouse
>cheap plastic surface that easily overheats from friction
The price point doesn't matter, their most expensive mice suffer from the exact same issues.

>>1785327
My g600 has lasted me 6 years and it's as good as the day I got it. The software sucks though

>>1785327
My mx310 from 2010 is literally still kicking, my old hero g05 or w/e it's called lost some of the rubber grip but nothing wrong with the sensor or switches. The only mouse which had problems for me was my steelseries
>double clicking on both switches
>sensor that wasn't 1:1

>>1785327
>>1785330
>>1785335
it's luck of the draw, but true that logitech is more likely to fail

>>1785036
Do not play modern warrior, I began having carpal tunnel pains from playing it for a few years. I stick to zerk for my main dps now. Modern tera is indeed very fast paced but with proper key placement most classes should feel fine. I'm not sure which class would have the most inputs but my fingers hurt the least when I play healers as they don't have a static rotation. As for dps, maybe zerk and archer because they have charging skills.
For tera you should make use of QERTZXCV keys, along with shift + whatever you're comfortable with reaching. It helps a lot. f5 to f9 have always been too far away for me in combat so I use those only for consumeables.

>>1785330
>>1785335
I've replaced 3 l*gitech mice in the past few years and I'm never going back to the brand.

>suddenly 5 posts a minute
not being very slick with the artificial bumping to make it seem like niggas are still playing your shit pserver, cliquefags

the hell is tera battle arena (pre-season)

>>1785339
>>1785344
They made a good mouse by accident with the g600 and then stopped making it because it doesn't have the same profit margins as the chinesium garbage

>>1785346
I'm not playing but I keep this tab open to roast elintroons and participate in the occasional random conversation.

>>1785359
good shit anon remember to tell ahoka she will NBAW

>>1785369
How many troons are in that guild...

>>1785379
it’s just ahoka alle and nymp

As much as I miss island of dawn, this new prologue in modern tera feels pretty cool

>>1785402
Two too many. Proper guild needs a no elin rule to filter the mentally ill.

>>1785463
for someone who keeps going on and on about the mentally ill you seem pretty miserable

>>1785314
Not really, no. It's much harder overall, positioning matters and so does saving your iframes for certain mechanics.
I know you're going to go off about muh queen when you barely had a single iframe, and you'd be right, but that's the exception if anything.

>>1785543
I'm talking about the burst cooldown windows and button mashing gameplay.

>>1785308
>Modern TERA is actually very fast paced and requires good reaction time.
Fast-paced for zoomer attention span, but requires the reactions of a snail since you never need to dodge or block anything

>>1783740
Every guild is /v/ guild. Chan-lingo is everywhere

>>1785559
>button mashing
Not a thing aside from Zerk's unleash. Most skills have anilocks and require you to commit.

>>1785567
t. never played high tiers

>>1785543
>>1785314
I don't disagree that just simply having faster skills, lower cooldowns, more iframes, etc is a nail in the coffin for the skill of using skills strategically but in 90% of games the encounters don't keep up to match the increase in mobility and speed. Many such cases with gook mmos which is why the majority of them inevitably turn into a powercrept clown fiesta before shutting down. Even in succesful mmos like 14 you see it, promising harder bosses that deal more damage after they gave whole arena range heals and removed all remaining animation locks, but it was all a lie and now the game is even more of a slopfest. I will say that if any mmo could pull it off it would be tera, and I don't doubt when you say bosses are still hard if not harder now, but imo mobility was at a good point in 2015 and it just needed slightly harder bosses to balance it out. At the very least I saw a glimpse of some pvp on MT at one point and it was an absolute clown fiesta.

>>1785588
There's plenty of arguments that can be made for the PVE being something else entirely but still fun in its own way. But PVP has been brutalized to the point of retardation with the culmination of all this power creep, class specific toolkits being given to everybody and removal of certain concepts to make it easier to get into. I miss older tera pvp

>>1785588
pretty much all gook action mmos end up like that, just as you mentioned
infinite power creep and spastic button mashing with entirely dead pvp

>>1782930
>2 names were in my mchm static
didn't expect to be hit by these feels

>>1785308
nigger modern tera released a class where in most of the content you can literally mash the space bar and get the maximum dps rotation. AND it has an auto regen auto revive mechanics on most new classes. Shut the fuck up. Even a field bam was harder than most new content.

Modern tera is slow paced as shit and that's good considering how shit the ping is on this server

>>1785926
you're absolutely delusional

>>1785948
It's you that is delusional. I faceroll the shit out of modern tera, most is auto pilot mechanics and then dps faceroll

True action combat? The only action modern tera makes me take is carrying a pillow when it puts me to bed

brainlets think that pressing a lot of buttons real fast means the game is complex

>>1785952
go back to your beloved BAMs since they're so hard and engaging retard

Modern tera is FIRE

>>1785955
this post refuted nothing because it couldn't
>>1785954
yeah mashin that space bar

wow yes bro look at this bam attacking me once every 10s and taking even longer to face me after I move to his back
so fun, so hard. I am engaged
take off your rosetinted glasses you're embarrassing

>>1785958
you're blatantly disingenuous so there's really no point but I will anyway
>unleash
zerk unleash is indeed bad design, not defending that, but good fucking luck dodging proper mechs in it with your zero mobility
>auto regen auto revive mechanics on most new classes
literally don't matter which says a lot about how out of touch you are

>>1780398 (OP)
>a TERA general
Okay, what happened? I stopped paying attention to it after menma shut down.

>>1785971
Tera became popular again

>>1785975
What's the active server?

>>1785971
Nothing happened. Look at the thread date. The fact that this is on vm and is an mmo is a reality check

>>1785975
I remember installing it once, fapped to the character creation screen to you know what class, and never touched it again.

Should I give it another go?

>>1785982
Are you still a pedophile? If yes then you know the answer.

>>1785982
Holy based. Reinstall and lets fap together!

>>1785985
>Reinstall and lets fap together!
NTA but I enjoyed encouraging people like that with my Elin.

Whats the best way to meet lewd people in game without being annoying about it

>>1785976
Starscape if you're NA or Arborea if you're EU, for what modern TERA used to be like before the shutdown. Both of these servers have level-skips which get you to (or near) the level cap (although regular leveling is still perfectly fine), and are generally much faster-paced compared to Classic.
Classic if you're purely looking for a nostalgia fix, have the patience to slowly work through your levels the old-fashioned way.
Both of them are good games, just in different ways.

Also, please ignore the obvious trolls in these threads. There are several of them here who always argue in bad faith no matter the topic, and think that anything less than /v/'s posting speed means something is dead, despite the fact that threads on /vm/ can live for literal months.

>>1786026
dead game is all that translates to and looking for elin honey

>>1786014
every elin is lewd
trust me, was there in 2012-2015

>>1785926
This was true for all of the new classes usually at release to drum up hype for the class. It's a common mmo tactic that I personally hate. Contrary to that however, post apex brawler, gunner and reaper became one of the most hardest classes to excel in. I think some of you underestimate post 2018 TERA, coming from someone that's an enjoyer of this game in any patch. Doing DPS by spamming spacebar never held water, not in 2013, and not in 2020 either. I get that you're seething because of the raised attack speed but the bosses and dungeons were adapted for it. Come mash spacebar during Undying Warlord and do nothing else, you'll get so many damage stacks you're going to cause wipes for the party.
Another interesting thing happened with new classes that seemed to be increadily easy upon release; gunners started having issues with the fact that their DPS heavily relied on iframes, and brawlers also suffered from the fact they only had one iframe that could be used twice in quick succession, meaning they had to use bullrush for mechanics where it was hard to do so, like bahaar waves. Was brawler braindead in terms of not having to block boss attacks? Yes, but I'd personally still prefer to play lancer than ever having to bullrush away from bahaar waves.

SEAniggers are finally(?) getting their 30ms server. Arunkai is beginning a month long CBT.

>>1786079
Thats because lancer in tera is one of the best tank classes of all times

would you rather put your throbbing human dick inside a slathering elin pussy or would you rather rub your elin cunny with another elin’ s? serious question for research purposes

>>1786504
My fox elin has a red rocket sorry

>>1786504
The latter easily. Yuri is the purest form of love

>>1786879
Yuri is gay and boring

>>1786026
Dilate, you horrendous troon.

>>1786504
Lure the human male into sex with elin honey, force sex, watch as the human male slowly turns into an elin himself from elin cum, then have sex with the elin

Do any of the v100 servers start with giving you apex skills, glyphs and a max level scroll? Kind of want to try out a bunch of classes and see what changed

>>1787640
they all do, starscape makes you do part of the questline for glyphs/gear though, and no skill advancements

>>1787640
Both arborea and agaia give you the full skillset when you use the free level 70 scroll

Also if anyone is thinking of playing arborea please do, dump could use a 5th victim (dps) for learning new dungeons

>you now remember doing this every day
what a nostalgia trip

>>1787746
Hey I know you

>>1787746
These were the days
Man this game had some shit execution on stuff but fun ideas. Nexus was such bullshit but damn if I don't miss camping corners and watching the mystic so it didn't get ganked

Hey Mei and ahoka regret quitting Neo yet?

>>1788537
who

>>1786875
Knot my bunny.

>>1787733
>need an EU player
why not asking E*****

>>1788625
Hope you're on Starscape because I haven't rolled on Arborea yet to see how that server plays.

>>1788751
Looks like I'm downloading Starscape now

>>1788666
Everyone censors their names too much on this thread, the only person with a username beginning in E that I can think of is not a dps...

>>1787746
>22 fps
Some things never change huh

>tfw your name was taken on Starscape
Doubt anybody remembers me, it's Remorse

>>1788954
I remember the name but I don't think I ever did anything with you.

>>1788962
It was a long time ago.

>>1788962
>>1788954
Same

>>1788966
Oh shit it’s you, the castanic with the red shades. I remember asking about you in some tera thread a couple months ago but I forgot your name. Still didn’t play with you but I remember your posting

>he became an elin
Even the best fall huh

>>1788978
Literally the first thing I want is my red shades back. I really only played with TFT and NFA boys back in the day. Wonder what Walrus is up to these days.
>>1788984
Give me castanic male reaper and I'll swap right over to it.

>>1788989
Sure, now open up your cunny slut

>>1788996
Depends on your race. I lost the screenshot of paps comparing dick sizes of the races.

>>1789020
I miss Paps.

>>1789028
Last I saw paps was several years ago in the /pso2g/ thread when paps wanted to move to Canada to blow Barossa cock.
https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/thread/303043249/#q303055283

NGS was shit and pretty sure paps quit.

>>1789041
Everybody quit that dumpster fire, even the people who had been playing 8 years before NGS sharted it all up.

>>1789073
>tfw I was hyped for that shit
can't believe how bad it turned out to be

>>1789073
I wish the game didn't suck so fucking bad. They stopped doing any new content after month 6 and then repeated everything for 5 years. Even my autistic titty fox desires can't keep me playing it

>>1789073
Global yeah. That shit was as a mess with the censorship, the bad community manger, the rushing of all PSO2 episodes followed by the drought that was NGS.
I had been playing JP for years simply because I got fed up with the TERA ping issues when healing(Healing cancelled because I clicked too quickly, or targeted too quickly).
The game was good, a slow grind that I don't thing most people were use to.

Ended up not even being able to play TERA because I moved to Japan, and my VPN out was blocked, didn't even get to experience the shutdown.

>>1789028
is that the pale ass elf, or was that someone on CH

>>1789104
I played JP since launch and ended up quitting after year 2 in NGS because it was obvious it wasn't going anywhere. Somewhat sad and happy to see that I was correct. Absolute disaster.

>>1789104
I remember playing in 2011 on some jp ship, the gameplay didn't really grab me.

>>1789111
True PSO2 VER2 was PS:NOVA

>>1789119
The gameplay does suck compared to tera, but it was one of like 2 action combat MMOs so there was no real choice once tera died

>>1789123
>a fellow glue
haha oh boy

>>1789127
I miss the hotglue days back when mmo threads were on /jp/

>>1789143
/jp/mmo threads were truly a golden time on 4chan, even with all the tripfags
sad its turned into 24/7 idolslop and vtumors

>>1789127
>a fellow glue
I don't understand, if you're referencing a guild or team. I was never in it. Back in my day, hotgluing was an art.

>>1789152
Yeah I haven't been on /jp/ in years ever since the death of touhou. It's literally 40% 3d and 30% vtuber
/a/ too, I remember the RO threads in 2012 and this guy named cuntdestroyer he was such a bro, helped out all the guildies whenever he could

forgive me my computer was a potato, I actually built my pc for tera.. it had a good run ;_;

>>1789156
>>1789041
I love paps, she drew my elf warrior the last time she was around

>>1789183
>sheogorath and noetan
mmmm

memories

>>1789186
I'll never forget that Pap's last screenshot was in the Manor. Where Pap's won the first fashion competition.

>>1789200
We may be on different servers but bastion will always be home

>your last screenshot from a dead game
>it's you being a pedo troon
Embarrassing.

>>1789225
???
You do know what thread this is.

For me it was the Lumbertown degens

>TERA
>Transgender Erotic Roleplay Activities

For me, it was the velika stables

oh, the nu-4chinner is back

>oh no the transphobe is back!!!

'ate troons, luv elins, simple as

Reminder that this general is kept alive exclusively by a cum-slurping, samefagging troon.
So much for you loving Elin.

My human male lancer scooping elin honey straight from the pot with his thick calloused fingers with one hand, while posting hanging troonjaks on 4chan with the other.

>>1789245
I was there!

>>1789245
Had a lot of fun there. It's nice having friends with similar kinks.

>>1789328
>>1789245
Was it the bay gelding, the velika grey, or the ash?

>the year is 2025, you're approaching your 40s and balding but still pretend to have pedophile horse sex with likeminded men online
Youth is a state of mind.

>he doesn't have good genes
>he doesn't take minoxidil

>>1789347
I went to turkey for hair plugs

>>1789405
I read that story of the french guy comitting suicide from a failed beard transplant in turkey. It just goes to show to never do these kinds of things in third world countries.

>>1789401
>pedos and troons
>good genes

Hey Macro and Ahoka you can come back faggots

What were the EME and Gameforge final server moments like? I missed it but it was wondering if a lot of dead elins showed up

>>1789956
A ton of people showed up in NA. During the last few weeks there were typically only ~15 people in the Velika on average. During the final day the city was flooded with people and there were a ton of others who spent the final moments in their favorite areas like the manor, Balder's Refuge, Lumbertown, Pora Elinu, the heart flowers ERP spot, etc. There was genuinely a fuckton of people who logged in one last time.

I'm willing to bet there's still enough interest in the game that a properly supported classic-era official launch or a sequel would be successful but BHS has zero interest in doing anything with TERA since they have a far more profitable cash cow which requires less than a hundredth of the effort.

>>1789156
>I'm in the picture
downright unreal.
>>1789989
Didn't EME fucking die? for how mishandled launch was, they did a terrific job with the CBTs. CBT2-3 were the best MMO moments I had in life.
> more profitable cash cow which requires less than a hundredth of the effort.
which game? not Elyon, I hope.

>>1790190
pubg

>>1790194
>pubg
now it makes sense why Tera got axed but not generic kmmo wow clone #223

>>1790206
If you'd look at the timeline, the moment pubg exploded they immediately threw away tera like a toy they were bored with. The game went to shit incredibly fast after it, and I explicitly remember seething with jealous anger at how bad things had gotten with the pubg popularity boom

>>1790207
surprised I'm only hearing of this. the narrative at one point was NCSoft suing Tera, which wasn't all wrong because of how content anemic it was. In that case, Tera was always gonna die no matter what...

>>1790207
they threw away tera like a used cumrag

>>1790213
That part is true too, but they seemed determined to get something out of their efforts at the time. Maybe it wasn't getting the AAA treatment, more the AA or even A treatment. But after pubg in 2017 they straight up stopped giving any fucks at all. You'll notice they never did any real expansions again asides from the half hearted exodor thing. All we'd ever get is 2 reycled bosses and then one new one in a single dungeon once every six months.

>>1790214
Because it was a literal cumrag? They made it entirely about coomers cooming to Elin.

>>1790218
Based

>>1790218
I miss when it was a coomer pve pvp game. You could play all your video games and then get some erp at the end of the day.

>itt retards oblivious to how gook pump and dump game industry operates

>>1790224
*pumps and dumps your asshole*
don't call this number again

>>1790217
The writing was on the wall once reaper and loli smutmogs happened.

>>1790221
based
all in 1 game

Never forget, fuck bluehole.

>>1790232
Butthole studios

The reason gooks flood their games with slut cosmetics and sexualized lolis isn't because they care about the coomer playerbase but because the game's population has nosedived and it has officially entered maintenance mode.

Damn. What a retarded take. Completely clueless.

>>1790243
He's a retarded nu 4ch faggot, what do you expect?

>>1790243
It is absolutely correct and you can see it happening through multiple titles. The games start off as normal MMORPGs but due to massive retardation and mismanagement they begin to quickly bleed players and that's when the damage mitigation tactic of getting coomer money comes into play.
It happened in Tera, Lost Ark, etc.

>the retard is doubling down on objectively false nonsense

>he thinks TERA wasn't sexualized from the very beginning
bro, I got a bridge to sell you

>>1790250
Male amani are the biggest whores because they don't have a single piece of armor that covers up their midriff

>tera started with 3 elin exclusive classes and a cash shop full of elin underwear
dishonest niggers lmao

>>1790246
>>1790254
I remember the retardation when EME censored Elins and tried to get rid of "undesirables". It was the biggest gaming censorship debacle of the time even.

>>1790256
Continues even to this day
Just go on /v/

>>1790256
i also remember how a shitton of players quit because bluehole stopped developing the game and focused on adding more elinslop

>>1790257
Yeah but I think it's been coopted at this point by actors and outrage bullshit. The Elin thing was huge, I don't remember a bigger censorship discussion in vidya before it.

>>1790261
You're retarded and wrong.

>>1790263
It showcased the cultural divide between Korea and the West. Korean players are largely incels while Western players largely just want to play a good game.

>>1790266
This is not wrong. I think gooks are the among the most soulless races on this earth. Everything about their culture and society screams vanity and coom. There is not one redeeming human quality of the Korean race. Inevitabale result of a Christian-less society.

>>1790269
I think there's still that spark of humanity deep inside of them but they always manage to subjugate it.
Their games are a good example of that; a veritable graveyard of interesting ideas buried under a mountain of soulless slop.

>>1790265
>game was doing so great it didn't even manage to keep enough players to run in maintenance mode even though there are dozens of ancient mmorpgs that still provide service
lmao sure you nigger
the official forums were full of people posting about their whole guilds quitting because they didn't want to associate with the literal pedophiles bluehole was pandering to

>>1790275
You're retarded and wrong. Elin are the reason why TERA ran for ten years instead of two. The developers basically admitted as much.

>>1790266
it was very split even in the western communities at the time. I remember a ton of discussions on /v/ and probable some spillover on /a/. for me it was not my problem because I never played Elin, but the censored hotpants looked like ass. my memory is selective so someone could correct me, but it was the big gaming controversy until gamergate.

>>1790232
pubg is the better game

>>1789123
I agree
I play it and zero over 2

>>1790246
Retarded theory because Lost Ark is still among the top MMOs in Korea, the home region. It isn't mismanaged or dying, Koreans put softcore porn cosmetics in their games because real porn is banned and it lets them view it legally.

>>1790546
Not to mention the region in which Lost Ark is dying, is censored as fuck.

What is it about old TERA that makes people talk about it with such fondness and bittersweet yearnings? Especially people from 4chan.

>>1790577
You had to be there, I don't think it has much to do with the game but just how different the internet was back then, you'll find that everyone who played any older MMO has the same feelings.
I know some people were already dooming over the state of the internet in 2011, but it was still 100x better than what we have today.

>>1790577
Plenty of reasons.

- TERA came out during the last real hurrah of the MMO format being a popular genre. Felt like a promising evolutionary step towards keeping the format fresh, which as we know now, never really took off outside of a few stray titles.
- The MMO genre as a whole tends to play to a captive audience, so it's not surprising regulars of the genre would have at least /some/ experience in early-to-mid 2010s era TERA.
- The state of 4chan, and the 'Net as a whole, was arguably in a much healthier place then than it is now.

That last one is particularly poignant for those who lived through it.
As easy as it is to write-off the saccharine pinings for any given MMO as raw nostalgia, there is simply no denying that things truly WERE different back then. A wholly different generation of people being online, with different expectations of what was and was not considered acceptable, and an entirely different understanding of what made these games (and others like it) so appealing.

The MMO format was a fantastic facilitator of socializing with other people, often where shut-in nerds could go to meet others like them of similar interest.
There was still novelty in playing these huge RPGs with thousands of others simultaneously, and speaking openly in Say/Local Chat was a regular sight. Unlike today, where you'll seldom ever see anyone typing anything out in the open, because keeping to your own group - and ONLY your own group - is so incredibly commonplace now.

These games used to be places to go and meet your friends. Now they're just something to do with your existing friends. It's an entirely different vibe, and that goes for damn-near every MMO still in service, private or public, not just TERA.
Would also argue thread schizos who'd spoil the vibes were much less common as well. They existed, sure, but not to the same quantity or frustrating persistence as they tend to be today.

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>>1790599
is that why you started the vm bizarre mmo thing

>>1790599
There were less "schizos" but more blatant dramafags who weren't afraid of people knowing who they were, my memory of pre-2012 MMO threads involves a lot of namefagging, avatarfagging and drama.

>>1790577
The era it came out moreso

>>1790602
I wasn't the one who started it, but I wouldn't doubt that distinct longing for ancient times was what spurred it on initially.

>>1790603
True. Sidestepping the Anonymous mask when appropriate was notably more pliable back then, rather than being some punishable-by-death vice that younger generations seem to believe is ironclad for some reason.
Outside of blatant trolls (of which /did/ certainly exist, albeit in not as annoyingly great a number), it was generally understood that while (You) played with people who were Anon, everyone had their own in-game name and identity to them as an inherent part of the game's structure, which was completely fine.
It wasn't some hex put upon you to have others call you by your in-game alias elsewhere at the time (which is why I strongly believe the whole "censored names" thing came from a younger generation of Anon).

Of course, as you stated, this did lead to a lot of Known Names getting thrown around like bludgeons as well. Would be a complete lie for me to state things were squeaky-clean in the 2000s/2010s MMO landscape on this site by any means. But it did still have a vastly different vibe about it.

Drama and theatrics would absolutely still litter certain Generals (some more than others), but you could tell the majority of people both posting and playing were wanting to have fun together. A much wider array of MMO Generals were quite popular, and had dozens of Anon playing at once, regularly posting about their times and sharing screenshots in the thread all the while.
Compare that to today, where your average /vg/ thread (or even some /vm/ ones) looks like it's comprised of a small group of people who actually play, a much larger group who only exist to troll and stir nonexistent drama (who very likely don't play at all), and barely any screenshots or fanart to be found.

There's just less camaraderie going around, and it's not hard to feel that difference.

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>>1790613
For me it's just the general attitude plaguing this whole website, everyone is passive aggressive, dismissive and downright insincere, it doesn't matter how much effort you put into posting or how little, there's always going to be people replying to you with nothing but "schizo" or "tranny" and it just ruins the vibe.
Especially if you do make yourself known with screenshots or something, people make it their lifes mission to make it seem like you're some batshit insane person because they don't like that you're not anonymous.
That said this is why I dip out to Discord whenever possible, it filters these retards who only exist to bring others down, whenever someone is fervently against Discord I know they're the shittiest type of person, it's a blessing in a way, an easy way to know who to avoid and who's behind all the terrible posts.

>>1790618
otoh, just alle posting is enough to send these specimens into a tizzy. I dfgi why people would come to backwater threads like this one just to get mad.

I want to try out tera again. Any anon I can chat with for questions?

I don't understand why BHS won't re-release Tera on PC, the game is still running on console. There is no reason not to do it.

>>1790638
The only reason it's available on consoles is due to contracts, they don't want to run it anymore and whenever that contract expires they'll shut down the console version too.

>>1790645
This is nonsense, there are no contracts.

>>1790647
There's no other explanation as to why they'd keep running a dead version of a game they shut down elsewhere, it's entirely neglected too, full of bugs and things that don't work, it's not like it's ever going to get new content. (it doesn't even have content from the PC version)

>>1790650
I would guess it's sentimental reasons for the CEO since it was the game that launched the company and all, and it still makes enough of a profit to keep running. They have a skeleton crew working on it.

>>1790603
Still the case, look at /xivg/

>>1790618
This desu. I don’t mind people knowing me but I don’t like dropping my name in generals because people are more unhinged these days. I never was bothered by avatarfagging back then it literally comes with mmos and acting as if you can separate the two is dumb.

>>1790659
Honestly, it just looks like it's turned into an ERP and e-dating haven, far less dramatic than I remember it, way more vagueposting with censored names and initials. Still cringe though.

>>1790659
xivg is a special case, its regularly the fastest singular thread on this entire website outside of like event nights on /sp/ or other board happenings. The last time another /vg/ thread outpaced them was the last Limbus Company update that happened, and Deltarune release has expectedly surged ahead all board threads but has already died off.

That place is beyond fucked from a social standpoint even without the latent schizophrenia that comes from modern day MMO populations.

How many anons are playing on tera classic?

>>1790683
there’s no guild, I think there are a handful playing by themselves. I have a few friends from tft who might give it a try

>>1790618
Discord and its predecessors used to be openly reviled in practically every MMO General, as there's no denying that IMing clients shifts focus and attention away from the game's respective thread... But given the state of some Generals these days (and the site as a whole), I also can't exactly blame the core Anon of these various MMO Generals for choosing the easier of two options, when wanting to stick together as a more generalized friends group.

I do hate to harp on an unchangeable point (and sound like an absolute boomer in the process), but it really does feel like the newer, younger generation(s) of Anon on this site haven't really learned how to act when they're online, outside of whatever context social media and being in a Discord server teaches them.
The fact that we're not just posting here to shit on one another, and tend to congregate in threads we like because we want to have fun with others doing the same, is a weirdly foreign concept to some of the younger folk, and it's lead to exactly what you've described. Excessive passive-aggressiveness, an incredible frightfulness for being sincere about anything, laughably transparent moral posturing, and terrible post quality overall.

The third of those points is especially cloying, given this site's history. Anyone genuinely getting upset over the existence of loli here (or begging for invites to some nebulous Discord channel instead of wanting to post on-site), for example, couldn't be showing themselves as more of a youngling or tourist if they tried.
(I'm not saying all younger Anon make terrible posts, just that those ultra-short, imageless, Discord-like posts are very identifiable as being written by someone who is young. Or a bot, one of the two).

>>1790635
Surely, what's up?

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>>1790685
Where should I play if I want to play with anons?

>>1790691
I think we're mostly spread between Starscape (NA) and Arborea (EU)
Agaia kind of flopped and nobody's made an effort to get Classic rolling.

>>1790688
>Surely, what's up?
Where are anons here playing... I only played for a week before my shitty laptop broke while playing way back at tera's last legs.

>>1790691
probably starscape, but maybe more anons will show up on classic

>>1790693
>>1790696
I guess I'll start with starscape first to get my feet wet and jump to classic if anons do

>>1790694
Looks like someone answered 'ya right before (You) posted...! >>1790694

Starscape was the first big NA server we congregated around, and as of this writing, there's still a static running Dungeons with a few folks outside of it popping-in every so often. Myself being in said static, although I've been preoccupied with Deltameme since Friday. Priorities!
Arborea appears to have won the EU Bowl, as Agaia made several stumbling mistakes which soured opinions on it rather quickly, from what I've gathered.
TERA Classic is a much more oldschool approach to the game, as one would expect. Although apparently some dungeons are undertuned and inaccurately easy, going by what's been stated in these threads. "Modern" and Classic TERA are both good, just for somewhat different reasons.

If you're thinking about swinging by Starscape, feel free to toss a Guild Request over to Clover once you've acclimated yourself with the UI. Having others to blather with is always appreciated, and Starscape throws a LOT at you initially if you choose to use the insta-skip Scroll straight out of the gate (which I wouldn't really recommend 'til you've gotten your feet wet).

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>>1790700
Thanks anon for being kind and helpful also cute elin... I mostly want to play to see them again.

>>1790704
No problem, and thanks as well, tilde.
>I mostly want to play to see them again.
You certainly needn't worry there, the population is just as Elin-favored as ever. TERA was, is, and always will be, Elin Country.

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>>1790704
If you ever want to try classic sometime and need help I could level with you, or at least level sync down to you to help with dungeon queues. I plan to level most classes and have all 3 roles right now, but yeah if it's anons you want to play with probably starscape for now

>>1790709
Also what would you recommend me play?

I wish more EU anons would come to Arborea...

Why do you wake up?

jannies really are trannies huh

>>1790646
Those race % look sensible. How did it go so wrong later on?

>>1791397
I'm fairly certain most of that one year was during TERA's pay to play period and it had a significantly smaller playerbase which had a ton of normies from WoW and shit who weren't satisfied with the state of their own MMO. Early on TERA was almost exclusively advertised in the West using Castanics(the developers even blatantly stated that the female Castanic Warrior was put front and center in Western advertisements specifically to appeal to the market) so a lot of people didn't even know the game allowed you to play as little animal girl lolis. Elin took over as early as the second year because the game got a ton of attention during the f2p transition and everyone was looking at the game instead of the relatively small handful who cared about it while it had a subscription.

>>1791432
So basically coomers only flock in when the game becomes F2P?

>>1791436
>trying this hard to spin something to fit your narrative
No you fucking retard it's a representation of what happens when a product is open to a wider audience. Fact of the matter is most normal, well-adjusted people don't give a shit if a game has little girls or sexualized female outfits. The people who screech about "coomers" are just twitter retards looking to moral grandstand.

>>1790646
now I remember why I had to reroll to a priest, and I remember people sleeping on zerk in both pvp and pve. the single iframe really filtered out a lot of people from the best class in the game

>>1791447
So wider audiences are pedo coomers? It's no wonder the F2P model always flops.

>>1791447
that retard is like a product of nu/v/, don't even bother because his 2 braincells only know how to regurgitate vpol talking points

>>1791467
So pedos have no arguments?

>>1791452
Berserker was genuinely shit for a while after launch. Mediocre DPS and high risk because of the lack of a dodge combined with slow movement and no real mobility options outside of a short leap which had a lot of animation lock. It wasn't until extra glyphs were added that they skyrocketed ahead of everyone else because it was easy to push TS up to 45-50% crit rate at a time when most DPS could only push 15-20% and crits meant everything. It was legitimately a ~1000% DPS increase to attack from behind rather than from the front because of how much it benefited crits. It really can not be overstated just how big of an advantage Berserkers had once they got their crit glyphs. The only class which could come close was Slayer with god luck on Overhand Strike resets.

>>1791489
interesting, I didn't play before f2p. I made a zerker on starscape for fun and the unleash skills are whacky as fuck, at least the rest seems to have not changed for the most part. god, slayer must have been the single most cucked class in the game. literally unable heart thrust without first kicking to the point it was called a no scope HT for trying it, but I'd rather deal with the desync anyday than have modern mmo devs who are too scared to make proper netcode for iframes

>>1791514
HT was so shitty to land, but sniping people trying to kite you, that had flipped their back towards you for a second, at the end of it's 11m range for 300000 damage was the funniest shit ever.

>>1791514
Unleash is such a mess. I died so many times right as unleash would end, as it has a small period where you basically can't use an iframe at all. In any dungeon that has really tight iframe timings that steroid is a pure death trap. I kind of like it conceptually but it doesn't work in practice, because new tera is too fast. So many times I got cucked out of executing it perfectly in good runs and my dps would suffer for it, meanwhile every other class has a quick ult or low cd steroid, or both.

I like that in arborea they gave zerks the choice to use an ult similar to slayer's big sword instead of unleash. I hit the boss for 300mil and don't have to spam rampage ever again, thank god.

>>1791710
Are you trying to be an elin?

Popori males were always the most bro dude ever people you could have to play with. I miss when this game was peak

alle please stop ranting against the state of 4chan nowadays and how much you hate 2 line discord tier nigga posts, you're embarrassing yourself

>vm thread still going
>clover guild MIA

Oi.

>>1793203
>he thinks I would actually join a guild named Clover

>>1793203
cry about it alle.

>>1793207
>>1793185
I can see schizo posters who lash out at ghosts hasn't changed

>>1791793
Elins don't have horns, if anything I'm currently cosplaying a castanic

>Intend to be online to recruit anyone arriving to Clover
>Get called-in to an unexpected evening shift
Ugh. Glad that doesn't happen very often.

>>1790956
Terribly sorry for the late reply...! I'm sure you've already picked a class (or two) by now, but as a general guideline for newer players:
- Valkyrie is the most-approachable melee DPS.
- Archer is arguably the easiest ranged DPS, albeit one requiring a pretty high APM to perform well. Sorcerer is also somewhat straightforward, but has to contend with RNG skill cooldown resets, which can be awkward.
- Priest is generally the "safer" healer to play between it and Mystic in most (but not all) encounters, with less personal mobility and damage but a higher overall healing output and more readily-available access to party-wide damage mitigation.
- Lancer is almost certainly the best tank to learn the game with, even if Brawler looks more approachable at first glance.

Would generally avoid classes like Gunner (demanding rotation requiring low ping), Warrior (RNG cooldown resets galore), and potentially Ninja (rather odd melee/range hybrid of sorts) when you're first starting out. Although any one of these can be picked up later on, if you want to experiment with alts.
Slayer is also a bit of a wildcard, as while their rotation is far more complex than most other classes - shifting depending on situation/cooldowns/resets - some folks really get a kick out of how dynamic you'll need to be to perform well on it.

>>1790964
Oh my, not many new arrivals recently?
Bit odd to hear, since private servers of this ilk tend to be much more commonly hosted in EU regions, leading me to believe there's a larger EU base for these titles compared to NA. Even if it's actually SEA which frequents these older MMOs the most.
At the least, I hope you're having fun over there, even if contending with the server's locals is more common than running Dungeons with other Anon.

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>>1793249
>Oh my, not many new arrivals recently?
Thing is EU TERA never had a /terag/ presence comparable to TFT, NFA or TiE. I believe there was one big EU guild near the games launch, pettanco, one around 2016~ called Thigh High Socks or something along those lines and since 2018 onwards there was just Dump, led by me after I swapped from NA to EU. After 2018, /terag/ newcomers were few and far between. Not many players stuck around for good, besides a few returning players from pettanco.

Ironically though EU tera private servers are much stronger when it comes to original content and having teams that want to try something new, change how classes work for qol or balance reasons etc, along with having a much larger population. A lot of NA players now play here because toolbox with skill prediction or ping remover make high ping a nonissue, but /terag/ is stuck in its old ways of only wanting to play NA.

I hate shopping around for servers to play on, such a shame Menma is gone...

>>1793249
>- Priest is generally the "safer" healer to play
I'll most likely make a priest then if healers are in short supply like they usually are.

>>1793279
Pettan is the source of almost all the degeneracy plaguing any and all vg mmo communities for eu

>>1793346
Healers in tera have been the most oversaturated role since apex, or even before. It's tanks and dps that tend to lack depending on the party.

>>1793376
I know they've got a lot of infamy behind them as a guild, but the handful of players we've got in dump are really chill and nice people I've been playing with for 7 years now. I don't even know if they're involved with the larger pettanco community in any way besides playing Tera with them 13 years ago kek

>>1793346
Solid pick if you're wanting to learn the ropes of healing in this title. Although >>1793381 is definitely not wrong. Compared to practically every other MMO, healers are surprisingly abundant in TERA.

Would actually suggest starting off as a DPS, if only to learn the ropes of how fights typically operate, how fast you tend to roll through your rotations, et cetera.
It's often said that the best healers in this title tend to come from tryhard DPS, since the types who'd want to maximize their rotation and eek as much output as they can during burst windows know exactly what encounter-specific stumbling blocks they'd face while playing a dedicated DPS class; and thusly, how best to let their team circumvent them (if possible) when playing as a healer.

Bit of an amusing story: When these threads first started on /vm/, and we had a big rush of Anon flooding into Clover, our class distribution was pretty absurdly healer-centric. There'd be multiple nights where our lineup consisted of something like:
>Priest
>Priest
>Mystic
>Mystic
>Mystic
>Mystic
>Why the hell are there so many Mystics
>Lancer
>Brawler
>Sorcerer
Tanks are always in short supply no matter where you look, but perhaps for the first time in MMO history, we were somehow lacking in /DPS/ above all else. This did end up changing over time, however, as several of us developed alts of differing roles to round-out party compositions.

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>>1793376
Pettan Co

>>1793407
I only trust og mystics who played pre thrall rework. Those are the true tried and true got your back ogs who will follow you to the ends of hell and back just to keep you happy.

>>1793407
I went with lancer and poped the level 70 scroll to get a feel of it. Do I just do the main quest until it leads me into the main city?

>>1793609
>poped the level 70 scroll
then kys

>>1789020
>I lost the screenshot of paps comparing dick sizes of the races.
nvm, found it

>>1793622
>then kys
Sorry I didn't know...

>>1793609
Diving right into it, I see!
Normally I'd suggest spending a night or two playing the old-fashioned way, to acclimate yourself with the UI and general structure of this title. But if you want to see what tanking is like in proper level-capped content straight away, I respect the initiative.
That said, every character on Starscape starts with an insta-skip Scroll (invaluable timesave for raising alts), so don't feel too pressured into sticking with that Lancer if it doesn't end up working out. Tanking is a much more active affair compared to other MMOs, and requires some trial-and-error to see how to respond to different situations/attacks.

Since you've skipped straight to 70, take a gander at server's rentry.org page listed in the OP, and head down to the at the "Quick Starter Guide" found there. It'll get you sorted on what to focus on first, as there is a LOT this game throws at you if you've chosen to skip straight to the level cap.
Also, feel free to toss a Guild Request to Clover once you've acclimated yourself to things. Pretty dead hours at the moment - as expected for an NA server on a school/workday - so it might take a bit for someone to notice 'ya (and I'll be signing-off pretty soon), but having the chance to ask others about things in-game is always better than rolling alone.

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>>1793664
>Normally I'd suggest spending a night or two playing
I suppose I can remake my character and play the early game proper and are there places to practice tanking at level 70? I'll send a guild request hopefully I can catch someone on. Thanks for the help anon.

>>1793754
The training grounds NPC in HW might help.

>>1793754
No worries about burning that level-skip, most folks on this server did the same.
Leveling naturally to the 'cap takes about a week or two, but the real meat of the game lies once you're there, so it's understandable why the grand majority of players on Starscape just skipped straight to it. (Every potential recruit we found who tried to level naturally ended up burning-out before they were halfway through, save for me. Bit concerning, since it's not as if it was a grueling grind, or anything).

Fortunately the level-skip scroll received at the start isn't a "use-it-or-lose-it" deal. You can carry it all the way to Level 70, or just burn it whenever you're feeling bored of the natural leveling process and think you have a handle on how a class generally performs.
Skipping to 70 means the main purpose of the MSQ becomes irrelevant, so you /will/ miss-out on the L O R E by doing so... But honestly, this title isn't exactly known for the quality or consistency of its narrative, and this is coming from someone who tries to give MMO storylines a fair shake. Vibes, yes - story, not so much.

As >>1793762 mentioned, there are various types of training arenas found in a certain endgame city you'll become very acquainted with (Highwatch).
Some replicate specific Dungeons with lower stakes, which can be used to practice tanking and reading certain mechanics, while others are more like punching bags to learn your rotation against.
Additionally, most lower-tier Dungeons provide nearly-unlimited and fairly inexpensive Revive Potions, offered immediately upon death. Certainly a crutch, and not one most Anon typically like to use, but undeniably useful when learning which attacks must be dodged rather than blocked.

Lancer's a fun one. Requires a fairly high APM to make the most out of it, and its mobility is terrible, but it's a solid class all-around. A real tank's tank in that respect.

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Where are friends?

Some good changes in classic

https://teraclassic.com/news-details.php?id=18

>>1793802
>naturally ended up burning-out before they were halfway through
I came from FFXIV so a long MSQ is something I'm well used to by now. But the opening so far really hasn't grip me yet. also cute elin.

Is there anyway to change this keybind?

>>1794036
press K > chained skills > chain hotkey

>>1793407
If only it was like that back then...

>>1793857
whats the player count lol

>>1793857
>.php
lol lmao

>>1795681
medium pop

>>1795681
15 people average

>>1795897
medium is at least 70-80 when they showed the population on the site

>>1794230
>FIVE tanks online at once
>Seven counting those warriors (but we all know they never used their tank stance, let's be real)
>Possibly even more, since that list wasn't sorted
Wew lad.

Can't say I'm too surprised that healers were such a scarce sight back then. From what I recall of Ye Olde TERA, it took forever to bring a character up to the level cap, and the damage output of both Priest and Mystic was especially pitiful.
Experience from slaying monsters was virtually nonexistent, and even your gains from completing sidequests were pretty dang piecemeal, so you'd need to be thorough in sweeping through every zone's quest offerings before moving onto the next.
Very "mid 2000s WoW" in its approach, which was fine if you had the patience for it... But alas, by the 2010s, I was getting pretty dang tired of the oldschool themepark format. Tried to get into TERA off-and-on during its younger years - and even joined TFT for a brief span - but that slooow level climb would regularly put me off within just a couple of weeks.

The EXP curve on Starscape thankfully more relaxed (barring the final level, which is deliberately adjusted to require an utterly obscene amount of EXP, granted by completing a certain questchain after Level 69), so going the traditional route is far more manageable. Almost a little /too/ manageable, since you totally skip-over quite a few zones by following the MSQ, most notably the entirety of Pora Elinu.
Bit of a shame the most iconic region in TERA is entirely optional on that server, but it's not as if it's been removed outright, and I'll gladly take a faster level climb over spending weeks just getting to Level 40 like the old days.
Plus, all healers have a HUGE damage bonus when playing solo content as well. Have to imagine that alone would play a pretty big part in why you can find Priests and Mystics around practically every corner now.

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>>1796180
I sent a guild application to clovers. Though funny enough I still one shot most of the enemies in the msq.

>>1796180
Here's the bottom half of that list. more lancers. we really did have pretty much 1 mystic and the reason why I went priest main for a while. it indeed was a long and painful leveling experience for healer but I still enjoyed the slow burn in its own way, so much so that I find myself soloing on a priest in classic now. some things never change.. the fun part was that good leveling areas were hotly contested back then and blood would be spilled over them. I remember many times I'd get called to Susurus woods (sp?) to kill some people who were killing our fluffies, only for them to bring their friends and guildies, and then more killing and watching people get mad, it was peak mmo

>>1795895
>medium pop
so about 2000 on the server?

>>1797358
Medium pop for a tera private server is like 150-300 players

>>1797406
damn....guess I'm used to playing with the taiwan bros in games
usually 4k in private games

>>1797414
Yea it sucks, but tera's population hasn't had those numbers since like 2017 kek
I heard akeron tera (russians) has a couple k players but at this point I'm not sure if people are memeing or being legit.

>>1797420
Russians will play a game under the most shady and dogshit conditions. There was a blade and soul private server running off a poorly hacked up version of a closed beta and that shit had so many retards on it

>>1793857
The admin said on global the other day he plans to import the other new classes too. So much for "classic". What's the point of making a 32-bit version of patch 100? What a retard

>>1797445
I'm apprehensive about that too but idk, depends on if he can modify the classes or not I guess, without the source code you can only change some values

>>1797452
His exact wording was heavily rebalanced classes, dungeons backported

>>1797445
As long as they don't add apex idc, the only real problem with new classes was that they weren't balanced so if they can fix that then it's fine.

>Everybody is split between private servers
Can we acknowledge that.
Nexus days, Alliance days, Guild war days Highwatch, ballwearer days, just to name a few
What a mess.

>>1798194
Outside of here I have 4 different friends split across 4 different servers

>>1798293
>5 different personalities with each group

>>1798194
You can split me in half then I’ll be on both servers for you anon

>>1780398 (OP)
Fyi for those of you thinking about classic that hate leveling, you can have someone 1 shot dungeons for you while you just turn in the vanguard quest which is a shit ton of exp. The admin doesn’t have any intention to change this because that would mean taking out the vanguard system entirely.

>>1798194
>Can we acknowledge that.
No different from old /terag/. I got so used to constantly looking at across the pond from CH and then later from EU that this almost feels nostalgic

>>1798730
Monocle + hime cut = kinda aesthetic

so what server do i try if im na pc i miss this game

>>1796494
>[Impromptu open world PvP] was peak mmo
Honestly, I kind-of agree. Albeit with some serious asterisks attached.

Open-world PvP is so, soooo often done poorly in this genre, with raw stats and gear typically smothering any displays of skill by design, in service towards making the weightiest whales feel important (at the expense of everyone else). This imbalance absolutely plagued KMMOs in particular, from Lineage II all the way to Archeage and beyond.
But in the rare instances I recall enjoying PvP of this style, it always took place during the leveling process with others also leveling in the same range as me.
When things are (relatively) evenly matched, and you actually have a chance at winning, it's pretty fun being shaken out of the doldrums of bog-standard questing or semi-mindless grinding and suddenly forced to bring your A-Game against someone getting the drop on you. Plus, small skirmishes turning into full-blown battles of honor between Guilds made for some incredible nights, as you described.

Would imagine that sort of relative gear/level balance went away pretty quickly after the majority of the population for TERA resided at the level cap, however. Definitely heard horror stories of bored 60-cap players camping Lumbertown, and ruthlessly killing any hapless newbloods who had the gall to want to play the game.
Sure, it was practically PvP KMMO tradition to be completely helpless against players you had zero chance of surviving against, virtually unable to play the game for several hours at a time through no fault of your own, but that sure as hell didn't mean it was any fun.
Have to wonder what the player count disparity between PvE and PvP servers ended up being in the end. Guessing the former outweighed the latter by quite a bit before long.

>>1800698
Starscape if you want something more modern, Classic if you're looking for a nostalgia fix.

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fat elin ass

>>1800704
Oh, good morning (evening?) journalist elin
Actually the balance was better when everyone was at level 60, just due to the fact how scaling works when someone is above or below you. Like yeah someone in fraywind isn't going to be having the best time versus someone in visionmaker but in zerg pvp that mattered less. The best part of owpvp were the small skirmishes but I liked the feeling of zerg pvp too. I didn't really care for killing lowbies, but I did enjoy killing outlaws who killed lowbies, they were usually bad at the game.

>>1788954
I remember you.

>>1800863
Nauseous?

>>1800879
Hey

>>1800900
I'd never forget you Nauseous

>>1800905
>Tutturu and Corvus making honey in the background like always

>>1800905
Elf Twink

>>1801465
>3 elins on his dick
wew lad

>>1801638
Elin thots were less than fashon

>>1801896
It's true. Castanics ruled over most elin with a few Amani between

Double exp weekend is on in Tera classic

I am 100% convinced the private servers for this game are fbi honeypots

>>1803456
You'd think they'd try for a good game experience and neuter el*in but no. They're obviously parsing the chats while looking for pedos.
They're also in your little troon discord servers posing as "new players".

>>1803456
They sure aren't doing a good fucking job since it's the same people minus the ones who killed themselves

>>1803475
RIP Ahoka.

Is there no password recovery for terastarscape?

>clover ded
Its elinover
>>1803480
discord and dm sttar or someone like that

>>1803485
>Have to discord an admin
Guess I'll just quit

>>1803476
? QRD?

>starscape is probably the only server to change password via DM
FFS
Captcha: MASSA oh shit fuck

>>1803489
Joined the 41% it seems.

My brothers in Christ. I made an Elin on one of thesse private servers today and I've been gooning to her all morning looking at the outfits in the shop. I don't even fancy myself for a pedo. Am I cooked bros?

>>1804281
At least post her first

bros no fucking way ahoka 41%ed

>>1804281
You can emigrate to Israel to avoid prosecution but they're having this war thing right now.

>>1804339
Fuck
How did a game like this get the green light

>>1804411
Which server? Let me join you.

>>1804411
Korean society is basically incel coomers.

>>1804456
It's Tera Classic I think. One of the two in the op. I got work soon. We'll see if I make it past the coomer boss when I get on again..

>>1804340
it was inevitable wasn't it?

ahoka btfo

>>1804468
I'm joining classic then

>>1804627
That’s not nice, even jokingly

kumas was the only thing I enjoyed and castles siege
how dead is 3s?

>>1788954
>Remorse
Hard to forget le teleport man.
>>1788989
>Wonder what Walrus is up to these days.
Last thing he posted about in the TFT discord was the new Rune Factory game so probably that.

>>1805786
3s is dead but we're trying to revive it. especially in the last week a lot of old pvpers from MT have begun showing up on classic

>>1798519
Why can't you just go to a server with easy leveling if you don't like it? I can't understand people who look up a private server to play a game and then do everything they can to skip actually playing the game and just afk. Like, why? There are so many better games you could play if you get nothing out of this

>>1805981
Like who

>>1806040
Because levelling in tera sucks and has not been part of the gameplay loop after the first year. It's always been a boring chore you have to do before you can play the game

>>1797498
>the only real problem with new classes was that they weren't balanced
Thinking this shows that you (like the admin) don't understand the combat system at all. You don't fix these classes by tweaking some values and calling it a day. The whole skill set and play style of the post-retail classes is BROKEN.

Take Brawler, for example. You have a class that blocks all damage by attacking. Yes, you heard that right. In other words, as long as the enemy damage doesn't exceed the amount you can block (by being 10+ levels higher), you're technically invulnerable. Oh, but that's not all, in case you fall asleep while fighting, you also have a self-heal skill. OH AND ALSO, a skill that automatically revives you from KO with 30% health. Btw, these skills also work in PvP. You'd need to disable half the class abilities entirely to make this at all comparable to the old classes.

The others are just as fucked. Consecutive dodge skills where you have like 0.01 seconds without i-frames. Massive AOE attacks that require you to only vaguely gesture in the enemies' direction to wipe them all out, no aiming needed. CC, CC everywhere. The game was not designed for this crap. Braindead noobs may need these nukes to get by but in the hands of any actually competent player, they completely destroy the whole shit. You can effectively solo all content of all levels that isn't set to insta-kill you without simultaneous input from other players.

>>1806060
Because farming the same two endgame dungeons and solo instances for gear and mats day after day is real thrilling?

>>1806068
Yes, if it were otherwise you'd have people making 20 characters and then deleting them and continuously levelling for "fun". I've never seen anyone level on purpose outside of alt farming for some reason. Meanwhile everybody else is playing the actual game for it's own sake.

>>1806070
>you'd have people making 20 characters and then deleting them and continuously levelling for "fun"
Yes, everyone makes and levels alts. Don't fucking pretend they don't. Why do you think this game died? Because there's nothing for non-autists to do at the cap

>>1806072
You know what I mean you lil niglet. Everybody makes a shitload of alts for utility purposes. Almost none of them do it for the "enjoyment" of levelling itself. I've levelled 50+ alts to cap and I've wanted to kill myself every step of the way. Now this is not an argument about levelling as a worthwhile gaming concept as a whole, just that it's shit and unrewarding in tera so nobody wants to do it.

>>1806044
yulie, axylus, tomo, ennok, a bunch of pvpers from yulie's retail pvp guild, jellybee

>>1806078
>alts for utility purposes
No. This is the kind of turbo-autism the vast majority of players don't care about. They either do something for fun, or they don't. No wonder you'd hate it, if you only force yourself through it for some numeric gain!

>>1806080
these are just the ones I recognized but there's probably more since the server has exploded the last week or so and not everyone is playing with their old names

>>1806068
He never played the real game. Probably was one of those losers who didn't know where the boys climbed the mountain to become men in this game. Probably played an elin healer on the roleplay server

>>1806106
*pisses and shids on ur post*

how many people did you erp with?
come on now, it’s been 10 years. be honest.

>>1806117

>>1806117
I think 7 or 8 elins give or take. Any one of you who says you’ve never erped is clearly lying though. Even the ones who pretended to be cool like Nauseous or Elinure.

>>1806117
Are we talking about erp erp or watching someone do /dance while you stare at them and jerk off. I think just about everybody did the latter

>>1806120
No I mean actually whispering or using /e

>>1806121
I miss the days when people weren't retarded and called everything erp. You had people who erped and people who asked for fapslutting and it was pretty obvious what they were going for

But the /e reminds me
>using (c) and (e)
Jesus fuck what horrible times, doing shit in that tiny chatbox was awful

>>1806066
I don't get your point, you say it's not numbers but it clearly is.
>autoblock
just disable it or make it so you still take some damage through it
>self heal and revive
disable it
>consecutive dodge
increase cooldown between use or make it not consecutive
>massive aoe
who cares, can be reduced if it matters
>CC
just remove it or reduce numbers so it's not op

>be australian
>drop og tera because of awful ping
>community servers pop up
>still awful ping
how do I run this shit on my own computer, I don't care about the multiplayer shit I just want to fight big monsters

>>1806066
>The whole skill set and play style of the post-retail classes is BROKEN.
It's only broken in the context of pre 2016 dungeons. Post 2016 the gameplay changed drastically to make things just as challenging if you're playing brawler. Plenty of things that can't be blocked, or even iframed. If they backport new dungeons in classic tera, these classes would struggle as much as others. In fact gunners and brawlers struggle the most regarding movement in modern tera. Most private servers tend to remove the auto rez gunner/brawler had, not like that matters anyway because dying once a fight would ruin your parse anyway - this type of thing only seems op to shitters.

>>1806252
ragezone. get the files there

>wake up
>log on to try to play
>end up gooning to my elin again
Just recommend some elin porn to me because at this rate I’ll never make it

>>1806503
>Gets off to sticking a massive dick in a little girl
>not a pedophile
Glad some things haven’t changed in 13 years even with new elins.

>>1806546
For me it’s those plump girthy hips and thighs on a small frame and the armored thongs are so fucking kinky, the cherry on the top. The animations are also top notch. They’re cute and teasing as fuck. Fuck, just let me fuck

>>1806252
It was never designed for outside of korea.
Eventually when they started to make the game faster and faster, ping really played a part of the game.
I can imagine amerimutts playing from east coast on california servers suffering.

>>1806503
Fatalpulse. prepare your anus.

imagine being unironic pedos

>>1806902
>

can i make a cute tanned elin? (with tanlines) is there even a ultrawide support? kinda wanna play on Arborea, but i dont want to use their launcher to download the game.

I want to grope elin butts

>>1807232
you can make puprle elins

damn must be dead as fuck here
got my hopes up, back to dune till that dies

>>1808233
>call it mmorpg
>have not seen a single player in the game from any of the streamers ive watched

>>1806227
As I said, if you have to remove half the class's moves to "balance it", you might as well remove the whole class, because that's really dumb.

>>1806354
Their fix was retarded "simon says" dungeons, where parse autists kick you on entry and retards get you wiped whatever you do. Which was the last nail in the coffin.

Another 2x Drop event down...!
Wasn't able to capitalize on the occasion nearly as much as I would've preferred, but I still pulled-in a decent-ish haul of accessories from Draakon Arena. Plus more Scout Feedstock - can never have enough of that stuff.

During my dungeoneering, I encountered a group wanting to give CSN a shot. Nearly all of them were just as green as me, so the party's lead recommended we get the Guide ready for the occasion.
You know, THAT Guide. The Guide I've been actively avoiding since starting here for good reason.
Begrudgingly, I did give it a shot... Annnd it's just as obscene as I suspected it would be.

When using it, practically every attack is preceded by a big warning message across your screen, and major AoEs are outlined in arrangements of summoned scenery objects (usually flowerpots) showing their exact ranges (less useful on Starscape compared to other servers, I'd suspect).
The often-mindbending red/blue circles - regularly the crux of the encounter's true difficulty - even had huge signposts designating safe areas, besting the mechanic without any brainpower required.
In knowing just how much of this fight (and likely most others) becomes explicitly spelled-out for you when running this plugin, I understand now how these tougher stages can be tackled via the LFG Menu.

That said, to no surprise, it was also extremely unsatisfying.
Skynest(Normal) is already a rather plain encounter in general, and having everything solved for you in advance made things all the more droll. Outside of post-20% becoming rather messy, there was practically no real threat to be had during the fight.
No juggling of mechanics in your head, just follow messages or markers and don't think about it. So damn /lame/.

Haven't a doubt the practice of leaning on the Guide as a colossal crutch is employed by many folks playing TERA these days. But that sure as hell doesn't mean I have to like it, myself.

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>>1797445
Yeah that's gonna be shit

>>1808437
You don't have to remove half the classes moves though?
TERA classes don't even use half their buttons in PvE anyway, they all have a bunch of PvP buttons that don't do anything.

>>1808438
Maybe they should have made dungeons with actual mechanics instead of just aoes with no telegraph

>>1808470
This guy sounds like he gets raped by noob slayers for free

>>1808437
>Their fix was retarded "simon says" dungeons,
From what I recall, the only dungeons with heavy simon says mechs are VSH and RKH. That was mostly mitigated by having healers do calls. Even then, those dungeons required a lot more effort in dodging and evading than anything prior bar Imperator or Darkan. If anything dungeons that predate that era had much simpler mechanics and a lower skill floor.
You can't complain about the game getting easier and then complain about dungeons being harder at the same time, pick one. Clearly the game became too hard for you and you were unwilling to assemble proper learning runs in LFG or guilds because that required some effort. Nothing wrong with that because if the amount of effort put in exceeds the amount of fun you get from the game, there's no point in playing. Old TERA, admittedly, required much less effort and could work better as a pseudo single player game where you could just IMS all day without any proper social interactions. This type of antisocial behavior is something I notice a lot in TERA, so it's not just you. Either you're in a static and refuse to be a part of the larger community because you don't benefit from it, or you're a solo player in an MMO that refuses to make friends, integrate and contribute to the larger community. Both sides frustrate me personally, but it takes all sorts to make a world I guess.

One thing I'll agree with is that people's LFG standards raised, but I can guarantee you that's largely because of the guide module. Pre guide module people were more open to teaching in lfg runs. When VSH was new I spent hours every day for months organizing training runs and even the biggest retards didn't have issues with the simon says mechanics once they got into it. You just need patience, confidence and the balls to get over the initial hurdle.

>>1808438
What are those purple things? Don’t tell more argons… Yep, they’re argons aren’t they. Probably rogue argons.

>>1806902
Fuck, you sent me down a rabbit hole. My dick and I will never recover from this

>>1807020
I’ve been around 4chan in other games long enough to know that every single one these people has been a living onahole to every other in this screenshot

>>1808721
What prompts adult men to become online cumdumpsters?

>>1808787
>implying they were adults
i was in hs. a third of the people i knew were underage when we played tera.

>>1808787
>>1808916
This is usually the case, the hypersexual weirdos are often underage.

>>1808916
>>1808923
Yeah but now they're already balding but still doing the same shit.

>>1808935
Who balds in their 20s

>>1808963
coomers

>>1808967
I used to think masterbaiting would kill me because after every fap my ears would start ringing. Still dunno if that's normal or not.

>>1808438
helpful story anon, i get the feeling you are a nice person and very cute, and would like to be friends

>>1808971
check your blood pressure

>>1808438
Sadly every mmo goes this direction. Weakauras and dbm in wow, cactbot and dalamud in ffxiv. people always go "b-but it's just a callout someone would do anyway" "but it doesn't affect you", and then we end up at the dumpster fire that is current mmo raiding.

>>1808988
picrel

>>1808626
You bet'cha they're Argons.
Fortunately they're a pretty uncommon sight in most Dungeons, so the fatigue of seeing them all throughout the MSQ doesn't go far.

>>1808981
Aww, thanks!
Feel free to toss me a line in-game if you're on Starscape and want to chat. I'm not one to bite, at least not usually. Although I'll be elsewhere for most of today, tsk.

>>1808988
>>1808994
Jej, reminds me of one of those deliberately-overdone meme screenshots of someone running 40+ UI addons in WoW. Or that one 2D co-op game highly inspired by FFXIV's raids, who's name escapes me. "Moon&Bunny", or something...?

The appeal of these fight-solver overlays is obvious, sure. Greatly lowers the barrier of entry for what would otherwise be highly difficult boss encounters, and allows those outside of dedicated statics to potentially clear content they otherwise wouldn't.
That said, I'm also firmly of the belief that while these sorts of dynamic overlays can push groups past the finish line, they're actually pretty terrible at teaching the encounters themselves. Your focus isn't on the fight and memorizing animation tells and such, but reading prompts and running to markers without much context of what the boss is actually doing.

Ended up running a few clears of DAN on the same day as my time in CSN, but forgot to disable the Guide for it (turned it back off afterwards, since I didn't want to hold up the PuG I had landed in). Caught me off-guard just how surprisingly /distracting/ the Guide made that encounter feel, as its alerts only served to muddy a fight I was already familiar with.
I'm sure if I was hypothetically new to DAN (for example) with no prior understanding of how the fight works, using the Guide would've potentially made things less messy... But then I wouldn't have learned the actual encounter, only what to do when the big messages tell me to do it. Certainly not ideal.

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>>1809563
um, well, i don't really play much TERA at all! so talking to you there isn't really possible for me. any other way to talk, friendly story anon?
oh, and you're thinking of "rabbit and steel", by the way!

>>1808584
>You can't complain about the game getting easier and then complain about dungeons being harder
Which I never did. Gimmicky mechanics don't make dungeons hard. Once you learn their tricks, they are only boring. Solving the class imbalance problem by making your class largely irrelevant outside its role in the trinity is lazy and unfun. Tera is a story of terrible design decisions by incompetent people, and the private servers faithfully carry this torch.

ahoka btfo

>>1809926
>Which I never did
But you have.
>where parse autists kick you on entry and retards get you wiped whatever you do
If a dungeon was easy, parse autists wouldn't kick you out of LFG kek. The simon says mechanics weren't what made the dungeons hard in the first place, just look at Bahaar, FA or FA:U and tell me it's based on simon says. I think you're just very out of the loop. It's true TERA was used as a BHS intern playground but they did come out with some banger dungeons in every single era of the game's lifespan. Really the worst part of the new dungeons is that they depend on you having 0 ping or you're desyncing all over the place like on Hagufna or Brawler FA.

Most of the horribly bad decisions were done on a new class and pvp level, not dungeon level imo, otherwise you wouldn't have so many people happy to do bahaar for the 3827th time. Classes having more variety and utility is a dream scenario but in the end we all know meta would prevail and certain classes would prove less useful with whatever utility they offer. You can blame this on the community as well, everyone excluded priests/mystics in patches where one was more OP than the other. Or when brawler came out and lancers couldn't get any parties. Or pre warrior rework, you couldn't have more than 2 warriors in a party and autists would definitely get mad at you for it even though dps meter was hardly talked about. This is just how mmos work, a colorful world full of all kinds of dps that provide different benefits would only function if the game somehow forced you into it.

>>1809563
I love you
Please notice me

>>1809973
Why do you say that

'Ey, check it out: rolled The Line™ on some spare Darklight Robes, and with a green scroll no less...!
Unfortunately that line was also the /only/ decent Attribute which applied on this robe, so I'm not entirely sure whether it'd be worth taking all the way to +15 Kaia. Greedhand Scrolls do exist this server to re-roll specific lines, but they're only gained through exchanging tokens from clearing Tier-5 Vanguard Requests, so it's pretty damn unlikely I'll ever see them during my time here unless I land in a hardcore static or something (which isn't happening).

For those who aren't aware, on Starscape specifically, the top Inherent Attribute line of Darklight Robes (and nothing else) mysteriously draws from the same pool of selections normally exclusive to /weapons/, whereas the rest function as normal. This means you're able to pull higher-than-average Crit.Power lines with this one specific piece of armor.
For spell-slinging classes on the server which can benefit from more Crit.Power (such as Priest), it's suggested to land the glitched line first, then upgrade the Robe into a +15 Kaia via the normal conversation process.

Will have to check with a few dedicated Priests around the server to see whether my Robe is worth bothering with. Haven't too many re-roll scrolls for body armor, so hopefully this'll be good enough for now.

>>1809599
>you're thinking of "rabbit and steel"
Thaaat's it, thank you.
Nearly had it a few times before making that post. Actually Google'd "Rabbit&Sword" beforehand to double-check, but obviously that didn't turn up anything. Good to know someone here knew what I was going on about.
Usually keep to whichever MMO I happen to be invested in at the moment, and openly posting Discord info on this site is a terrible idea no matter how you slice it, so we'll just have to stick with these threads for now. Or you could give Starscape a shot...!

>>1810132
Th-thanks.
>Please notice me
Here's your (You), don't spend it all in one place. :^)

>>1811126
well, my schedule's pretty full for a bit, and i probably won't have much time for a while, but i can try giving starscape a shot eventually i think! i'll let you know when, i guess! how should i find you, cutecute story anon friend?

Did bahaar in a dangerously undergeared mystic, I love how healers are the only role that can get away with that

>>1811137
Great to hear!
No worries about shifting your schedule around, haven't any real intention of bouncing from TERA 'til I've seen much more of what it offers. Although I'm admittedly juggling another MMO (or possibly even two) on the side, so my times in this title won't be as all-encompassing as they were during this revived General's opening few weeks.
Best way to get in-touch once Starscape's up-and-running for 'ya would likely be to join Clover. Tend to hop around characters a good bit (despite typically posting with my Priest when able), so rather than just give (You) one name to track, it'd be much easier to find me via the Guild's roster listings, as most of my alts are squirreled away in there.

>>1811162
Nice work!
That fight really feels tailor-made for Mystic. The waves alone must be exponentially more bearable to manage with your out-of-combat movement speed, as opposed to the frantic maneuvers Priest has to pull to not get sliced. Hope I can get back on the prog train for that stage someday.

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>>1811182
>That fight really feels tailor-made for Mystic
It's definitely a lot more forgiving, and mystic is the first class I learned it on. I'd say it's the easiest of all classes for Bahaar. Waves are a nonissue if you're smart enough to not waste group jaunt, normal jaunt is short enough to not have to use the other iframe at all. Mystic sleep has bigger range and lasts longer so you don't have to sleep skellies twice and since mystics are always out of combat you can just walk all of the backhits once you learn the hitboxes. The fight becomes a bit harder on priest because you have to be more aware of your positioning to be ready for waves which come every 1:30 min, but what's great is that with enough practice the timer becomes internal. I definitely think the fight is more fun on priest now so I hope you'll be able to experience more of it in the future.

>>1811162
Hot but face doesn't match

>>1811182
understood, i'll remember! i'll go looking for you once i finally get around to it, then! see you eventually, cutecute friendly story anon!

>>1811182
Sometimes I glaze over reading your posts but I always love your pics. You still need to take an ass pic. The other one was almost but not quite perfect.

>>1811620
Kind of agree but I wanted to test the new face they had on Arborea. I had this edgelord face in mind originally...

The ravaged front of the Helkan District is a place no one with any sense would dare be caught in, unless they were conscripted to die holding back the tides. Endless swarms of Argons patrol these desolate wastes near Kaiator, and only the continued might of this realm's resistance fighters have kept the Amani capital relatively safe.
An unfortunate circumstance all around... But not one without potential profit to be made for the discerning eye. Galborne Ore is rife within these mountains, and the throngs of wretched aliens stationed in this region have understandably lead to much of it sitting idle and uncollected.

What's Galborne Ore used for, (You) might ask?
Well- lots of things, really. But most importantly: Fish Crates. Tier-V Fish Crates.
A crafty Smithing Master can pull-in some decent earnings through using their spare Galborne Ore, some Plain Stone, loads of Fish Fillets, and plenty of Crafting Kits, to whip-up a bundle of much-needed food for the eternal war effort.
Five Tier-V Crates a day is a free 7,500 Gold, which isn't much on its own, but it can add-up. Just one month's worth of Crates is 225,000 Gold on its own, after all. Certainly worth considering, if you're short on coin.

Of course, you'd also need to raise an alt as a dedicated Processing Master to craft max-level Baits, with which to use in acquiring fish to turn into Fillets; and for that, you'd need to get a LOT of Fishing Tokens. Still something to keep in mind regardless.

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>>1811976
>I always love your pics
Appreciated. Used to be an event photographer in a certain other MMO, so trying to find decent angles comes naturally for me.
TERA's camera controls are annoyingly limited compared to what I'd prefer (even Blade&Soul had noticeably more fine-tuning than this), but at least this title offers camera offsets in general, which is something the vast majority of other MMOs (even more modern ones but especially in older titles) lack entirely.

>>1815166
Honestly, all your screenshots would look better without that el*n on them.
Can't you do first-person mode?

I've never played TERA before. What are the differences between patch 100 and 32?

this is SAD lmao 440 posts in 1 month and everyone from clover quit. fucking losers

installing the game

>>1815166
Imaging ignoring my spoiler. Imagine. Punishment for Alle soon.

Whoever recommended starscape, fucking kill yourself. What a dead server, holy shit.

>>1816607
>What are the differences between patch 100 and 32?
Quite a bit.

While every private server's version is slightly different from the "real" v32 and v100 updates from yesteryear, the former is based around the state of the game from ~2014 (might be off by a year or so in that assessment), whereas the latter is centered around TERA as it stood in late ~2020 or so. As anyone who's played practically any MMO in the past will tell you, six years of development is a world of difference between the two versions, despite ostensibly being the same game.
Generally speaking, v100 (Starscape/Arborea) is faster-paced and has a wider variety of classes to choose from, whereas v32 servers (TERA Classic) opt for a more nostalgia-focused/hardcore approach towards experiencing this title as it was during its few years on the market.

As I've remarked before, both of them are fine in their own ways, and appeal to somewhat difference audiences.
Personally, I prefer the pace and progression structure of Starscape as someone in NA (plus it's arguably the most-approachable server for legitimately new players), but someone wanting to relive something close to the "Golden Era" of TERA might enjoy themselves on Classic, if that's what you're after.

>1817988
>t. doesn't actually play the game
Managed to get 15 laps of Commander's Residence cleared within ~2 hours of the daily reset yesterday morning. You sure as hell wouldn't get that from an actually-dead server.

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>>1818120
Thanks for the answer. I will be starting out with v100 since you mentioned it being faster-paced. Did the gameplay change much between 2014 and 2020?

>>1818134
>Did the gameplay change much between 2014 and 2020?
The core of the game has remained largely the same, centered around fast-paced combat wrapped in a typical themepark/WoW-like progression structure. If you ever dabbled in TERA during its earlier years, it'll still be fairly familiar to (You).

That said, the overall speed of combat picked-up considerably with the release of "Apex" Skills in ~2018, combined with a general balancing trend towards faster animations and shorter cooldowns. Many older classes had their rotations completely overhauled to accommodate these new Apex Skills, with some developing new identities or playstyles entirely.
Mystic, for example, went from a fairly niche PvP support specialist, to a proper party healer with an emphasis on personal mobility and damage at the expense of raw healing compared to Priest (although both can solo-heal practically any Dungeon if placed in a good party).

The APM required to perform well as nearly any class on v100 is noticeably higher compared to v32 (at least generally speaking), but it's pretty fun in its own ways, and some classes are more forgiving than others in that regard.

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Felicia, if you're in here
I heard what happened, why are you so stupid

>Search: [Deleted]
>52 results from the 5th to the 20th
>Was 0 results just 8 hours ago
>One person gets tempbanned and knocks 52 posts off the thread's total in an instant
If it wasn't already painfully obvious that most of the trolling here comes from the same 2-3 extremely pathetic fags.

>>1818120
If the whole server activity revolves around the weekend then that's not actual activity then, innit, you fucking muppet. Sitting on my ass for 1 hour in the lfg looking for the bottom of barrel tier dungeons doesn't actually inspire "activity" to me and the other clueless retard that stuck with me for that hour. I'll just try the euro ones and eat the ping difference.

>>1818364
the euro servers are new so they likely have a decent amount more activity

>>1818364
Dunno what to tell you. I've been able to catch Dungeons pretty consistently during most nights, either joining parties or leading them as Priest/Lancer. Red Refuge, RK-9, Channelworks, Ruinous Manor, Draakon Arena, Sky Cruiser, Skynest, Hagufna, Warlord, you name it.
If you were attempting to make a party during Real SEA Hours™ (~1:00-5:00AM PST/PDT) then sure, I could see how it'd be difficult to find a group. A good portion of Starscape's SEA playerbase is currently sampling the closed beta of a new private server in their region, leaving certain time periods pretty dry on occasion.
Did you advertise in LFG Chat (separate from the LFG Menu itself), or say anything in Global? It's not very common for /nobody/ to join parties, unless they're being made during knowingly dead periods.

>innit
>muppet
You'd probably get lower ping to the Arborea servers anyway, if you're in the UK. Starscape is hosted in Cali, whereas Arborea is hosted in France, and the latter is a hell of a lot closer to the isles than the former.
Be sure to make use of NGSP100 from the Toolbox either way.

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>>1818477
I'm on the east coast, there just isn't anyone to fill for VS and VH. All I saw were groups for RR that filled and that's about it. I installed agaia in the meantime and they thankfully do instance matchmaking. Shitty qol on agaia though.

>>1806120
>>1806117
Tera was the only mmorpg I've played where people used to straight up ask to jerk off over your character, I think it was cause of /vg/.

>>1820052
I guess you never played XIV or NGS then

>>1820052
I'd let someone do this.

>>1818237
Going back and looking at what vanished, i'd be confident enough to say its literally 1 dude. Almost every single seething shitpost vanished and i'm not sure whether to laugh or feel bad someone is that far gone.

>>1821183
It is, he's not just in this thread either hes in many of them seething over some imaginary "pedos" in his head

>check out agaia again after 1 month
>slayers are all using that dogshit talisman that removes your propulsion while giving 1s of it to OHS instead, meaning together with 4s of reverse chain window all you do is spam SS into OHS 5-7x in a row
They managed to turn one of the most fun classes in the game into a joke one trick pony of a class with a meme rotation, and most other classes seem to be in a similar spot too. Lancer for instance gets something stupid like 30% reset chance on Superleap. Yep, fuck this dog server.

I don't understand how the population is still so high when its players just complain about it 24/7 on discord. Just fucking join Arborea for fuck's sake, classes actually feel good to play and the OC dungeons are really fun.
Pic rel is basically Valk FA: it might as well be retail quality and completely new. Even Menma revamped RKE at best in all its years of relevance whereas Arborea already has this one, a revamped 5 floors Dreadspire with new attacks and mechanics, and a very mechanic heavy argon stationary boss.

>>1821421
I do think tera needs something like talismans, having multiple playstyles is fun, a shame they aren't balanced properly.

>>1821426
Something like talismans requires enormous amounts of testing and that's clearly beyond Agaia's team when they barely have a functioning server as is.
I do find it extremely telling that ninja gets simple boring dmg ups that change nothing about their rotation whereas slayer gets the retardation above, and even a talisman that removes iframe from tenacity in favor of a 3s dmg boost. Very different brands of incompetence, but it's clear whoever came up with them either rushed them out or never even played the class.

>>1820052
No one has ever asked me “hey do you wanna erp?” that’s some autistic behavior. It was mostly a lot of ironic playfulness and if it ever got close to erp I’d just turn them down (got people unhappy with me for that)

I'm glad Mei and Ahoka left your faggot ass, Alle.

>>1822011
What did he mean by this?

Despite my previous assumptions, it appears you ARE able to have more than eight characters per-account on Starscape. The first eight slots are just the free ones you're given from the very start, with any further being purchased from the Tikat Shop, up to a maximum of 21 (not that you'd ever need that many).
Quite generous as it stands, since eight spare slots is already more than enough for most folks. But as I'm one to juggle alts and reap the benefits thereof, I decided to grab enough spares to suit one of every class.
Might not play 'em much beyond adding more Ace!Lilith and Ghillieglade clears to my daily total, but at least I got to see Reaper's unique starting zone in the process. This better not be the true fate of Pora Elinu - not everything beautiful about the old world needs to burn...!

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>>1821421
Cool 'shot! Looks like something straight out of Vindictus. The original one, not that wannabe soulslike Nexon is bandying about as its supposed sequel.
Have to imagine the majority of folks still stationed on Agaia are either there due to sunk cost, or simple ignorance of their region's alternatives. Once someone has spent a good amount of time (and/or money of course) furthering their place on any given server, it's not easy for many to just throw all that progress away for the potential of something better at the cost of starting afresh.

That said, it's pretty dang clear Arborea is a much more promising server comparatively, at least so far.
The geographic distance between France (for Arborea) and Germany (for Agaia) isn't /that/ terrible (at least compared to what folks in the Americas typically have to put-up with regarding MMO server locations for example), so the EU playerbase should be served just as easily by what Arborea is offering. Hopefully word of its quality eventually makes its way to more ears, for those wanting to dabble with TERA in that part of the globe.

>>1824047
Arborea actually has a significant NA population. Probably something around 30% of the playerbase.

>>1824269
He seems to think that the game is unplayable if you have 100 ping and that nobody would ever choose to play a server across the ocean don't mind him.

just let this godawful game die in piece

>>1824913
if that happens, where would i find horny elins to erp with?

>>1824915
idk try a kids playground (jk i'm being ironic. i dont have glowie immunity to post this kind of thing)

>>1824913
bro are you that panda on tera classic

>>1825096
that is a random decade old screenshot from my hd

Why are there multiple EU version? What's the best option for me if I want to just experience the game normally as an EU player?

>>1825360
>Why are there multiple EU version?
That's just how private servers work. It's pretty common to come across multiple servers ran by different people for these older MMOs, all with slightly (or significantly) different adjustments made between one another.
The official version of TERA is quite literally dead (weird edge-case with the PS4/Xbone incarnation notwithstanding), so if you're wanting to get your Elin fix in, you'll have to choose an unofficial server for it.
>Best EU server
Probably Arborea from what I've gathered, although I do have to preface that statement with the caveat that there /is/ some pretty notable custom content featured on there. Surprisingly high-quality stuff, mind you, though it's not a 100% faithful rendition of Ye Olde TERA as a result.
The other major EU alternative is Agaia; the largest server in the region, and one which had quite a lot of hype surrounding it prior to its release. Opinions on it have since become pretty mixed, however, so I'd still say to give Arborea a shot first.

(This isn't an especially-good screenshot, but HQ for completion's sake: https://files.catbox.moe/623z0x.png)

>>1825369
Good morning Alle. Please notice me.

>>1825369
Ironically enough, Arborea ends up feeling more faithful to retail. Agaia's talismans are as much of a change as pre and post apex was.

>>1825360
Because the community split after Menma died.
The available dungeons are way more fun on arborea and the balancing isn't complete ass so I'd recommend that server.

The scorching Summer sun is upon us, and that means plenty of events have popped-up around the realm to capitalize on the shifting seasons.
First up was the Festival of the Sun in Balder's Refuge, just outside the Archive Stronghold. Hadn't been to one of these before, so everything at the festival grounds was brand-new to me.
The site was awash with colorful banners and balloons strewn across practically every tree, and scented candles lay upon suspected lily-pads surrounding the largest oak of them all in the center. Teeny tiny little toy tanks could be controlled for mock battles (much to the chagrin of the event staff I'm sure), and the Strawberry Ice smoothies flowed freely for anyone willing to lend a hand in chipping-away at nearby Ice Stations.
Even had a chance to visit the beautiful Balder's Gardens while I was there! Lovely little trip, this ended up being.

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>>1825811
But that wasn't all...!
A big beachside 'bash was being held along the sandy coast of Serpentis Isle. Was thoroughly overdressed for the occasion, but still went to see how crowded things were along the ocean waters.
Still early goings at the time, so not too many had arrived to soak-up the sun just yet. Regardless, every event station was in fully working order, from blasting pop-up targets out in the shoals with a huge water-cannon (thankfully one which was firmly mounted) to bashing watermelons (not real ones, obviously, that'd just be a huge waste of good food).

There was even a sand-castle building contest going on, which I decided to try my hand at.
Would say it came out alright.

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>>1825814
Unfortunately, it appeared the special event tokens being distributed during both of these events were misprinted with expired dates, and thusly couldn't be used. Certainly something the event staff will be looking into quite quickly, I'd imagine.
Regardless, the Festival of the Sun and big 'Bash on the Beach were pretty neat little diversions from my usual routine. Ended up with a bunch of silly little cosmetics - albeit time-limited ones - including these fancy 'specs.
Have to say these frames don't quite suit me, however. Perhaps they were fashionable once, but I'd say time has passed these glasses by. Were they a little more chic - thinner frames and cast in black or maybe silver - I might've considered them for something longer-term.

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>>1825567
Would notice you more if you were playing, silly.
For real, if 'ya ever decide to give Starscape a shot, feel free to hit me up.

>>1825602
Fair point...!
To that end, I'm thankful EU 'lads have a choice of servers to suit their preferences. While it's interesting to see how far these older MMOs can be pushed via custom additions and such for those wanting to experience them, it's also nice to have a fallback of something more true to the source, so-to-speak.
Hopefully both servers develop their own stable communities, rather than needlessly cannibalizing one another.

>>1825822
>To that end, I'm thankful EU 'lads have a choice of servers to suit their preference.
I know it's because you're not as tuned into the tera toolbox scene as the veterans are, so maybe you're not aware but as long as your ping is under 200 you're fine playing in any region. Skill prediction and ping remover emulate skills at 0 ping.
Arborea is quickly becoming an NA server because most of its skilled userbase that's capable of doing highest ilvl dungeons are actually NA players at the moment. Looking for people that do hardest dungeons in EU hours is much harder in comparison.

>>1825842
???
Dodging and blocking are still server side, that's enough reason to hate playing with high ping

>>1825854
It's not that big of a deal because it's something you can adapt to, especially when it comes to ping under 200 the difference isn't that noticeable and it's not a dealbreaker. I would know, I'm from EU and I used to play on NA when skill prediction first became a thing. My dps shot up incredibly, and Antaroths Abyss Hard mode wasn't an issue even with 180 ping. Menma wouldn't have had a steady korean and japanese playbase if this wasn't the case.

>>1825822
I made a character. Maybe we’ll see each other…

>>1825893
I don’t even know your full name…

>>1825842
>as long as your ping is under 200 you're fine playing in any region. Skill prediction and ping remover emulate skills at 0 ping.
Wouldn't doubt it, but I'll admit to having something of an ulterior motive in wanting to remain on Starscape.

Not to outright dox myself here, but for the first (or possibly second) time in over 20+ years of delving into MMOs, the server I'm playing on is actually relatively close to where I live. Getting about ~23-42ms natively here, and that's before any NGSP100/Skill Prediction chicanery is factored-in.
I'm very close to being able to pull the sorts of wild tricks which are only possible for those with considerably low native latency, and that simply isn't something I've been able to experience before - in ANY MMO I've played in the past.
The overwhelming amount of servers for MMOs are hosted on either the east coast of NA, or somewhere in the EU, which has forced me to contend with subpar latency more times than I can count. This is the /one/ instance where the script is flipped, and I just don't want to give it up.

Since the alternative is rolling on a server which would be very near or above the 200ms+ mark for me (at least judging by my experiences on other private servers for other titles hosted near France in the past), you can see why I've been committed to Starscape thus far. Even if Arborea has arguably become the most-enticing server around in general, due to its well-made custom content and sensible direction compared to its contemporaries.

>>1825893
>>1825894
>I don’t even know your full name…
Neither do I...
Seriously, just join Clover if you're around. Easiest way to catch (Me) online, as I tend to hop around characters a fair bit.

(HQ, even if this one isn't all that good: https://files.catbox.moe/nrhai4.png)

>>1825954
I think I’m content just watching you enjoy yourself. Tera has some bittersweet memories for me and just being on triggers them and reminds me that everything and everyone that once was, good and bad, are gone. I would like to play and talk with you but it seems that you’re already content and spending your time to the fullest. I’ll just look on and follow your adventures because getting to know you and other people on such a small server is probably not a good idea…

Where does Elin honey come from? :o

your mom

>>1780412
Watching this video by this guy made me install this game in 2013.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i8S-M2arBg

>>1826691
the pot

>Made gold with TERA
>Decided to throttle it in favor of "Elyon" instead of remaking TERA on a better technical foundation
>Ran with tail in between legs and created gay trash like "inZOI" instead
>inZOI complete failure
>Chase "edge ima cut myself" soulslop with Chrono Odyssey
>Also massive failure
When bros? When will they realize that the solution has always been in front of them, and just make TERA with cutting edge graphics and physics? Shit, pay to use Pearl Abyss' BlackSpace Engine or something. Just do it.

>>1825954
Move your foot out of the way..

>>1826738
chrono odyssey isn't made by them, but cutting edge graphics make your game fail, that game is case in point, the performance is hilariously bad and nobody can realistically play it except autists who buy overpriced hardware
better to make a stylized game with lower requirements so that your MMO actually has a large enough audience, they generally look better than ebin ue5 grafix anyway
i don't think just making tera again would land either way, the game really isn't that good

>>1826830
Yeah you're right, but still, being owned by Krafton means that they're tangentially related, since they foot the bill. With back to back failures, I'm expecting Krafton will collapse in a couple years. In fact, a lot of Korean game giants are collapsing, and I welcome it. Pearl Abyss is selling off CCP Games because they're on the brink of bankruptcy trying to create their own engine, and NCSoft is collapsing too, canceling all their next-gen game projects, laying off thousands and doubling down on Throne and Liberty, which is a failure. The only recent Korean games that weren't complete failures (but not amazing successes either) came from Sony (Stellar Blade) and the other Neowiz, which is tiny compared to the giants.

>>1825981
Fair enough. The pangs of nostalgia can be tough to set aside, especially for those who've lived through such a storied title as this.
>it seems that you’re already content and spending your time to the fullest
Ah- wouldn't necessarily go quite that far...
My static seemingly dropped-out weeks ago - hence the near-total lack of "Adventure Log" style posts recently - and Clover's been pretty dang quiet, sad to say. Still making progress through mingling with the server's locals, but it's obviously not the same as having a group of 'lads to build camaraderie with. Such as it is.

>>1826870
Surreal to think the only Korean publishing giant keeping itself above water at the moment is
>>>>>Nexon
Although I suppose it's not too surprising, considering how early they got their foot in the door to establish themselves as a regional powerhouse. Even if they've become the Korean equivalent of EA, with how many scandals they've been through, and the sheer, horrifying extents they continue to extort their userbase.

Part of me agrees with you in the catharsis of seeing these old giants die, as so many of them virtually abandoned their PC-centric roots, which came back to bite them. But at the same time, it's terrible to see the visible decline of so many formerly dominant Korean studios.
The Korean MMO giants gave up their position to chase the mobage dragon, and now that void in the market has been filled by other countries in their absence. Combined with numerous projects failing to get off the ground (paired with shaky releases when those projects /do/ come out), and it's easy to see why KRAFTON, NCSoft, and Pearl Abyss are all struggling financially.

The only thing I'm concerned about between those three is NCSoft potentially getting the "bright" idea to pull the plug on Arenanet in their desperation to cut costs, despite GW2 being genuinely pretty good in [current year].

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>>1826970
Yeah there is a part that will always feel somber pangs of nostalgia, but it helps to remember that they are nothing like how they used to be. Simply sharing the same name as that old company does not mean much. New ones will take their place, and hopefully reset the cycle, with innovative and sovlful games, before they are inevitably corrupted. And so the cycle repeats... though the time before a good studio becomes corrupted seems to be shortening significantly.

Nexon would be struggling too, honestly. A lot of their games have been mid at best or failures at worst. The Berserker game did simply "ok", but not that great for AAA and their expectations. DNF Duel and other attempts to capitalize on one of their strongest IPs completely failed, as well. The Chinese are upgrading from their shitboxes and aren't forced to play crappy games like the Korean Crossfire and Dungeon & Fighter anymore, and they're outgrowing them too. Japanese don't play Maplestory (their other most valuable IP), they play Chinese gachas now. I don't want to see Korean game studios die out completely, but they might actually die out in a couple decades, and exit the market entirely.

>>1826830
>i don't think just making tera again would land either way, the game really isn't that good
The game itself from a gameplay perspective is/was really quite amazing, the parts that suck are the parts unrelated to the game like "stamina"-esque systems and RNG to goad people into paying money. I mean look at Vindictus its literally just doing Vindictus again but with updated systems.

>>1826970
Nexon is propped up entirely by its Maplestory lifers. It's wild that they're so big they can fail something as miserably as Maplestory 2 and still go strongly enough to just go back to Maplestory 1 and pretend like nothing happened.

>>1827158
Yeah the keyword here is was, current TERA gameplay/class design is awful, they would have to significantly improve it to stand a chance anymore.
There's also the part where it just has no content and becomes instance dungeon farming / dailies.
The reason people don't play MMOs anymore imo is that they don't work as daily games, if people want that they'll just play a gacha which is quicker and easier and doesn't require you to spend 5 minutes booting up a bloated game on your PC, logging into an MMO just to do obligatory dailies, possibly with more than one character is extremely soulless and burns you out, if they can take a step back and realize nobody wants to make alts or do shitty dailies constantly they might have a chance but they'll never understand this because putting dailies in a game boosts their numbers for shareholders, even if it kills player interest and retention in the long run, especially if the progression is hard tied to dailies and a new player can never catch up *cough* Lost Ark

>>1826738
>remaking TERA
elyon was probably TERA2 at some point, but they changed it in favor of adding new mechanics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVPieZHfMzo

you could build an airship and explore the world. those rocks weren't just scenery, they all had stuff built on top.

it didn't have action combat, but it had lots of skills and elements that were action oriented.
for the full released they removed all the cool stuff, kept the tab-target crap, made the art directionless (before it looked more steampunk). if they had kept the original vision it would have probably found a niche.

>>1826830
>cutting edge graphics make your game fail
TERA unironically had "cutting edge graphics" back then. it was only surpassed by black desert years later

people often mention ESO and anal fantasy, but i don't think those look much better. neither have action combat also.

>that game is case in point,
chrono odyssey runs like shit because chrono odyssey is a scam meme

>better to make a stylized game
TERA was slightly stylized and was taxing on hardware.

>>1827296
Dailies were the worst concept ever invented for MMOs. I was aghast the first time I heard about them and had hoped it'd end there as a tried and failed mechanic

>>1827405
The difference between cutting edge graphics then and now is completely different, you need a $4000 PC to run a UE5 MMO at more than 30 fps, chrono odyssey runs like shit because it's made in UE5 and focuses on memes like "graphics" and it ends up looking like shit for it anyway since you'll have to turn everything to low if you want to play with other people in your MMO.

>>1827413
chrono odyssey was broken to everyone regardless of their specs

>>1826970
I'm mostly on tera classic and logged onto starscape on a whim so I didn't expect to run into you randomly like this, but thank you for being my tour guide and helping me get situated~ I plan to give apex tera a try and see for myself the famed hard dungeons that modern tera has, but I'd need time to get geared and I have my hands full with classic right now ;_; To be honest, it would be nice to just be given gear and consumables and do the fights like a true modern mmo in ffxiv fashion, but it's a good thing apex tera still resembles an mmorpg. Maybe there will be video games in the future

>>1827405
for as much shit as throne gets, the hybrid tab action combat is the right idea a true "massive" multiplayer online rpg. maybe the execution wasn't perfect, but the concept was. stupid nigers think putting in souls combat in an mmo where they ALSO expect group or god forbid mass pvp will work with that is stupid. they have this gaming experience in their head that doesnt actually work in reality where you can play dark souls multiplayer with 10910092 players around you and not be complete ass. or even fighting bosses that way with a big group and souls mechanics. fucking soulslop was one of the worst things to happen to gaming for the retarded fanbase it created and the excessive glazing it got that skewed the industry that way

>>1827748
It sucks that action combat is now synonymous with dark souls, we already had kino top tier action combat in online gaming, it was called Dragon Nest

>>1827748
false dichotomy. my dream MMO has moving projectile arrows/spells and hitboxes for swords.
i wont play anything that doesn't improve on what darkfall/TERA delivered.

>>1827760
you have good taste. dragon nest was indeed a good action mmo.

Made some progress last night, lads.
Finally managed to luck into a random expedition team destined to challenge the dreaded Akalath Quarantine, deep in the heart of Exodor. A near-mandatory foray for anyone wanting to further hone both their skills and equipment alike, as clearing-out that wretched place grants access to the finest forge in the realm.
In fact, you'll need to sweep the Quarantine Zone twice-over for the task, after contending with a bit of red tape during the debriefing period on your first go-around. Glad someone told me that ahead of time, or else I would've been turned away at the forge's gates.

It honestly seems like the first boss of AQ is more threatening than the second one, at least from the (admittedly very limited) time I've spent in that specific Dungeon so far. We made surprisingly short work of the redux of the big werewolf from RR without too much issue, yet the guardian leading up to him certainly put my healing to work.
The constant left/right swipe AoEs with his huge swords must make life hell for melee classes. Although much as with many encounters in this title, I'd imagine it gets more bearable with practice and memorization for which animation tells correspond to which attacks.

But yeah! Finally have a full set of +15 Kaia on me, feels good.
Of course, any old hand at this title knows that's only just the beginning of ones' endless ascent up the eternal gear climb. Still a notable milestone all the same.

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>>1827489
'Eyy, no problem! Good seeing a new face around the server, even if Classic is still your main go-to for getting your TERA fix.
I'd certainly have my own hands full attempting to dabble in two servers at once as well, so props for giving Starscape a shot. The pace of play between Classic (v32) and virtually any Post-Apex server (v100) is night-and-day, so consider Starscape to be like TERA running at 2x speed. It's pretty neat.

>>1828079
Also got pulled into a 10-Elin strike force for tackling the dreaded Kelsaik's Lair.
This one, uh...
This one didn't go so well.
Wasn't the only healer there - thank goodness - but it didn't seem to matter. Between his devastating swipes, seemingly-unavoidable leaps, and elemental debuffs timing-out on damn-near everyone once we were a-ways into the fight, it was a total bloodbath.
Spent most of my time trying to raise the corpses of my fellow healers (and occasionally the tanks despite constantly throwing damage reduction and shields their way), to the point where I'd be so distracted attempting to salvage things that my /own/ debuffs would time-out in turn.

We somehow made it to around ~25% HP remaining during one of our attempts, but simply didn't have the coordination to go any further.
The raid's leader was really sweet, and kept a positive attitude throughout most of it, which was nice. But whew boy...
Know what to expect now against this immensely angry chicken, and I can only hope that in a more organized setting, this undertaking isn't as overwhelming as it seemed to be here.

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>>1826738
They don’t need any of that. They have Pubg

>>1829365
PUBG is half bots, and remaining jeets. They need us TERA chads.

>tfw tera classic is booming
>big streamer comes to try out classic
>global chat is 2013 speeds with even the usual shittalking about getting ganked
>lacari might play again
>suddenly ddos attacks from most likely other servers
>streamer with 1k viewers is getting fed up trying to log in
Just fuck my shit up senpai

>>1830134
oh no

>>1830141
yeah that guy. some other streamer also made a youtube video yesterday so we’re kinda seeing crazy growth, even the last couple weeks before they showed up. got 3s popping every night and if these streamers join we can finally get corsair’s popping too but these faggots just want us to go down so their cash shop propped up server chains run by some arab businessman (nova/akeron) can keep seeing profits

>>1830162
>he's gonna play starscape instead
it's over, he's gonna quit instantly

>>1830134
link (to the server)?
proof your not bullshitting me?

>>1830197
what kind of proof are you looking for anon-kun? global chat receipts?

>streamer has actually given up and is installing starscape
well fuck

>>1830162
private server subhumans piss me off. "muh game preservation" bullshit while they do zero work and just run the server and dont even patch shit or ban bots and sell a bunch of op items and shit. fucking retards

>starscape is now getting ddosed after stimmer goes there
Why are streamer viewers like this?

>>1830479
Starscape just can't handle that amount of people

tfw can't play on classic, can't even play on starscape as a fallback
my saturday is ruined

>he got in classic
We're so back

>>1830529
o shit

>>1830530
the server admin himself is in the streamer's chat

>>1830532
>tilde

>>1830529
Is it just me or does the game look visually way better in this version?

>>1830540
Everything's better in classic
Except the UI lag

We're SO back. Incoming griefing to no end by outlaws

>>1830543
>Except the UI lag
can you clip through shit by spamming P?

>>1830575
yeah you can but it's janky I wouldn't rely on it

>>1830479
It's because Kanon is an obnoxious asshole. I don't know how he even gets any viewers.

>>1830607
same way everyone else does, spam youtube videos, convert youtube viewers into twitch viewers.

>make a new character
>2 high pop channels in lumbertown
The game actually feels alive again.. I've waited so long for this

>>1830940
>300 cucks
>alive
?

300 women fell in love and made baby

>>1830970
for a tera server that's like, 30x the normal population

>>1830970
>he doesn't know
Private server populations for older KMMOs are small, Anon. You'll usually see anywhere from 10-200 people for most of them the majority of which tend to be SEA.
300 for a single server is pretty impressive, relatively speaking.

This scene never fails to make me laugh

miggin soon?

>500 pop
>4 high pop channels in lumbertown
unreal

>>1831900
troon

>>1831900
looks dead AF

YWNRCT you will never relive classic TERA

>>1831900
girl (female)

>>1831949
Who cares, it's still more fun than modernslop

>>1832161
nothing fun about roaming around in an empty world. it is not the fucking same. it cannot be the fucking same.

the fun was in completing the quests and picking up fights along the way, and telling carebears that things were done to their mother without risk of getting banned.

it would be even better if the zones were gear/level locked. i wouldn't even queue for PvP dungs, i'd just bully people all day.

>>1832207
the game is not dead right now, yeah it's not retail but you can find people all over the place since some huge streamers have been bandwagoning on this server. there're literally people named PublicRestroom, COCK, DICK and they still haven't gotten banned. mods are a bit anal about you killing people not your level but I haven't seen anyone banned for shittalking yet

>>1832256
only one who I've seen get banned is the retarded /a/non who acted as if global and discord were his monglian basket weaving forum I was kinda looking forward to playing with him too

Thread's a tad quiet as things slowly settle down towards Page 10 (and its eventual new Edition, naturally), but that certainly doesn't mean I've been resting on my mostly-nonexistent laurels.
Starscape's been hosting all sorts of bonuses to coincide with its 3rd anniversary, from bringing back older vanity events (as posted about before), to improved enhancement rates and doubled Vanguard Rewards. Made loads of progress thanks to it, across all three of my major characters.
Finally arrived at full +15 Kaia on my Priest, my Valk only needs to evolve their Runeglaive to say the same, and managed to press on to full +15 Anni gear on my Lancer. Plus gained a full suite of 3 max-fellowship RK-9's between all of 'em, and even a trio of Adventure Enhancement-III Cocomins too, for a nice flow of free Skynest materials every day.

While Classic has been getting the lion's share of attention both from within and without the wider TERA 'scene - and understandably so - it's certainly not dead over in Starscape-land either.
Great to see this title having some positive attention shined upon it all the same, no matter what server newcomers might fancy.

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>>1833035
Headpats with Alle

===Fresh Elin===
>>1834134
>>1834134
>>1834134
===Fresh Elin===