>Servers
TERA Classic - NA (Canada), Patch 32, Mostly vanilla
https://teraclassic.com/
Guild: TouchFluffyTails (not TouchFluffyTail)
Toolbox support: Banned (but has built-in ping reduction)
>Era-appropriate Guides/Resources
https://web.archive.org/web/20161012172023/http://www.essentialmana.com/guides
https://web.archive.org/web/20151202004452/http://teratoday.com/content/tera-guide/tera-class-guide

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

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: >>1857947

First for bun Elin supremacy

>>1872103
Bulit for my fox elin's knot

Post elin ass.

Alle is quitting. It's over...

>>1872141
If Alle quits I'll just go to whatever game she's playing because I like reading her massive stories even though I glaze over about five sentences in.

at what point can I start farming fed tickets? I need that permanent thigh expansion...

>>1872100 (OP)
If I ever decide to play again and ninja is released I'm going to hold your hand.

is classic still being bombarded by ddos attacks?
is it true that their gms were caught giving themselves gear? is it over?
asking cause i wanna play but i dont wanna play if it's fucked already

>>1872167
>is classic still being bombarded by ddos attacks?
They were for a good 4 weeks straight, stopped for a couple of days here, but started back up somewhat today. A lot of people were under the assumption that the DDOSer had stopped because the admin, Popo, was doing a fine enough job at driving people away from the server, more than the ddos attacks ever did.

>is it true that their gms were caught giving themselves gear?
They did, yes.

>is it over? asking cause i wanna play but i dont wanna play if it's fucked already
Depends, server will likely continue as normal but the peak of it seems on the downward trend.
The ddos attacks really did a number on good will, and while it isn't the fault of the server staff, Popo implemented some weird system to prevent the effects of lag from ddos but it introduced really bad input lag.
Between the ddos and really slow+stupid decision making on behalf of the devs, server has just been very slowly losing players.

There's still a decent enough population, so if you aren't opposed to the idea of it only lasting another 2 weeks or so and just enjoying it while the buzz is still kinda there, then you should be good. But if what you're looking for is this p server being your forever game, might have better luck elsewhere.

>>1872180
alright, thanks bro
>pic
good taste

>>1872167
If you're not set off by the mere mention of apex like half this thread consider giving other servers a try.

Agaia is complete garbage because of both talismans and gearing and super doomed. They've been bleeding players to Arborea constantly and today's patch brought back zero of them; the teralogs updates are inflated to hell by 4 paid staff members + 1 random queuing up to make the server seem alive which is absurd to me. They are now in full damage control mode and about to open up a BR server instead lmao. Noone from the thread plays there, for good reason.

I know the least about Starscape, but from what I heard it's just ported v100 retail with no changes. Noone from the thread plays there anymore, but it's been up for a couple years and should be relatively stable even if the population isn't that high.

I can recommend Arborea; it's not flawless but gearing isn't ballbustingly slow and the OC dungeons are fun. They've been teasing a new Baraka in summer clothes boss that should drop soontm (hopefully). Around 3/4 people from the thread play there, while the population at large is in the 150s at peak hours. Right now it's in a bit of a content draught but it at least has a future unlike Agaia.

There is also the EU Tera Classic server that just opened, but I haven't tried it nor have I heard anything about it either. It's from the same people as Tera-Germany and noone cared about it all this time so I don't really expect this Classic to be any different, but who knows. Popo's classic blew up after all.

>>1872144
48 for the event, but you get 10 every time you queue for a dungeon and clear.

>>1872207
I'll just muck around in classic for now. Thanks for all the info on the other servers. My second choice was starscape, but if nobody plays there then I don't want it.

How do I get federation bills? I completely forgot, and I wanna be a shorty with fat thighs.

I FOUND THE CAVE

How do I make my Tera shorter? I want to be a very short Baraka. Also I don't want to spend a cent.

>>1872259
Frankly, I'm tempted to play starscape just because it runs better for me and the cosmetics seem way more accessible.
I'll cry into my pillow never having to spent 30 hours reaching max level and gather 30 rat tails, but I'll have to bear it.

>>1872141
>>1872143
Guess it'd be best for me to be more upfront about the matter. Even if I've technically gone into it once before, as mentioned here: >>1872087.

Yes, my stay in TERA has been put on-hold for the time being. Had a nice long chat with those in TFTs and gave my farewells just a bit ago, although I didn't outright leave the Guild.
A combination of Classic's added input lag, spending a fair few months on Starscape prior to trialing Classic to get my TERA fix, and personal interest in seeing how a certain other action MMO has held up over the years, have since made me come to the realization that my heart simply isn't in it for this title at present.
TERA is a solid game in its own right, however, so I'm sure to swing by for another go at it in ~6-18 months time, knowing my habits. Although perhaps not on Classic, per-say, unless things are cleaned-up over there.

One Elin's departure does not prevent others for making their own great memories, however. There's still plenty to enjoy about this title no matter what server you're playing on, and I'll still be lurking here to see how things play out.

>>1872207
>[Starscape is] just ported v100 retail with no changes.
Not quite. There've been a few QoL changes made to the v100.2 formula, namely the removal of item degradation/destruction upon failing an Enchant, premium currency occasionally being dropped from BAMs, etc, etc.
You're mostly right though. Out of all the private servers available for TERA, Starscape is the most vanilla of the bunch, for good or ill. A fantastic time capsule to visit without a doubt, but MMOs in general seldom take well to being knowingly "finished".
As someone who had effectively never spent much time in TERA prior to stumbling across Starscape, I was content in playing what amounted to a brand-new MMO for me to get invested in. For veterans of this title, however, I do question how appealing going back to nearly plain-jane v100.2 could really be, outside of a quick lark.

>>1872334
Nice blogpost, tranny.

>>1872295
fed tickets give you apperance change things

>>1872340
How do I turn them in? Does the size decrease give me any mechanical benefit?

>>1872342
there is a guy called tikat in most mid-sized towns (not the capitals like velika)

>>1872340
Not that anon but how do I get more fed tickets? I just started...

>>1872349
running dungeons in match making
beach dailies at 48
you can farm fashion coupons from BAMs (the monsters in vanguard quests that are 0/5) and turn them into fed tickets

>>1872360
Thanks for the info. I'm a level 12 priest, so leveling and BAM hunting are both kind of ass right now. Might reroll as a dps since it seems like loads of people are quitting right now.

>>1872364
soloing isn't that great on priest/mystic unless you have mp charms
they also have really long queue times
dps have long queue times
tanks have instant queues, but also not the greatest at killing monsters (most of the time)

>>1872367
That's wild, nobody wants to tank? It's so fun though. Guess I'll reroll. The healer experience atm is cheeks.

>>1872368
Tanking is fun by itself, but sucks because of other players. You'll spend most of your dungeon time arguing with some sperglord who wants to tank without playing tank, or dying because you get no heals or support whatsoever. You'll have much easier time rolling a dps with high survivability and forgetting tanks and healers even exist.

>>1872373
I don't like most of the dps in this game except berserker, but I played the shit out of that in the original game and it's not like there's a ton of depth there.
I really enjoy lancer. Even though Wallop doesn't block like I'm accustomed to, I'll give it a shot.

>>1872388
A commendable choice. Godspeed

>>1872390
Ugh, learning that adrenaline rush isn't a party skill yet is also kinda ass. I must be used to a slightly later version of the game. Still, shield barrage into spring attack feels good man.

Some of these skyboxes legitimately just look real

>>1872423
probably just hand painted

>>1872426
It was 50 years ago, how else would they have painted it except by hand?

>>1872167
>is classic still being bombarded by ddos attacks?
it's been like once a day for the past week, far more playable than it was
>is it true that their gms were caught giving themselves gear? is it over?
it was 1 person with 1 item, but i expect this behavior from any private server honestly

>1872335
Obsessed

>>1872433
Photography and photoshop

>>1872760
How did you interpret that as a question that expected an answer?