day and night cycles.


am i the only one who noticed swtor doesn't have them?

Also worth noting that Archers are not overpowered, and not only that, they're considered the weakest class in the game. I play an archer myself, and I think some of this hate is unwarranted. Nevertheless, we're certainly nothing close to the most OP class, so thinking that they were (while not even making the most of the class) should tell you something. Mostly that Tera's combat (and specifically, the classes) has enough depth that even a veteran MMOer like yourself still has a lot to learn after playing the game for months: that to me is a good thing. By the way, a pretty good archer guide is stickied on the official class forums that goes beyond covering just the archer. If you want to improve, and learn a lot about the game and other classes in the process, it's a good read.

The way you were playing and complaining about repetition is no surprise. Other classes don't have to kite for 3 minutes every fight and just attack with cds. You are saying archers are OP as you progressed with the speed of a dual-wielding WHM in FFXI. You can survive longer than most classes, but it takes longer to kill than most classes as well.

Btw, Archer is currently the garbage class endgame.

I think it looks fine, I tried the beta and it's kind of fun. But, I could never get into it based on the stripper, furry, and little girl pervs that will flock to the game.

Guild wars 2 > Tera, agree with me mike b, and maybe we can see, how it is..to be free.....from WoW

idk I tried bro.

This is the real Tera http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWzxe5UlxIM
Not your review. More videos of the Real Tera in my channel :) http://www.youtube.com/user/AJ1337/videos

Please for god's sake Mike B, go back and play 1-50 in WoW. You say it isn't easy...where is your perspective? I am not a WoW hater, but really dude, if you think WoW is harder than TERA you're on some serious crack.

I wish I had played an archer or you had played a sorcerer. Sorcerer was rooted during every spell animation, making dodging and kiting much less effective than I see you doing on the archer. Playing sorcerer I felt like a WoW caster in a melee action game.

This is definitely one of your better reviews of a MMO, mike.

I've been waiting for Tera for a long time and I'm getting ready to play the collectors edtion here in Europe when the head start begins. I more or less agree with a lot of the things you said and I'm very happy to see you also enjoy the entire PvP aspect of the game.

About the difficulity of the game do I actually think it's a mix of all the 3 things you said, and by that I mean you are proberly above average in skill level as I was watching you fight that basilisk. But like you said since the game is skill based and you can active dodge all things a monster does, in theory that basically makes everything soloable unless the monster have some kind of unavoidable damage ability.

I think the issue is that it's difficult for the developers to balance the game correct, and that was also something I heard when Tera got released in Korea. Some people will be extremely good at this game but others which lower reaction time and haven't played enough Counter Strike might have a hard time playing this game. So if they make it too hard, you might end up punishing those who have slow ractions but on the other hand a Korean Pro Starcraft player might find the game way too easy :)

I really don't care about Tera either way Mike B. It seems to me like a game where I just plow through levels to raid or do pvp and I'm burnt out on that with WoW and Rift. I want a MMO where leveling doesn't matter and you raid and pvp as you level up. I want a MMO that takes the "end game" out of the game, I mean these are MMOs man that is no end to them and therefore no "end game" right? And well MikeB what is next bro, okay reveiw but I really don't give two sh*ts about Tera?

Edited, Apr 25th 2012 10:39pm by EGGERS79

Edited, Apr 25th 2012 10:41pm by EGGERS79

Yo Mike,
I'd say I pretty much agree with you on all points.
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lol jk...so obviously from my tweets about EME's announcements before we actually got to play the prologue and replay the IoD, I was excited and looking forward to checking out the sweeping changes to the pre-20 experience. For the prologue, for some reason when I played, it skipped over the cutscenes, especially the one after it, which totally left me confused about what happened even though I technically knew what was happening. But besides that, sure it's nice that they give you an early trial of your chosen class at level 20 for it..the problem is that in my limited experience, some classes don't really shine until a later point. I play a warrior now, played it in beta as well, and they don't really start to be an awesome class until your high 20's skills when you can start making some nice chains. I played Slayer in the first CB and I think their case was similar...the class was really boring me until I hit the mid 20's and then suddenly you have a great assortment of skills. So in that aspect of the prologue, I think that needs to be tuned somehow...because if I didn't have my previous experiences with the classes before this OB weekend, I probably would've found the warrior (and slayer had I played that) underwhelming.

Moving onto the IoD...yeah...I was about as floored as you at the massive sweeping changes to that experience. Moving the mining/gathering instructor over to the other side of camp in a more populated area COMPLETELY changed up the game for me..words can't describe it. On a serious note, yes I was hoping the "prologue" they were talking about coming up to the OB meant a complete revamp of the IoD experience since they specifically said it was meant to teach you about the gameplay mechanics. And the prologue does: teaches you blocking, dodging, chaining skills, climbing, equipping, etc etc....but then it teaches you AGAIN in the IoD content. That was what really got to me...Even if they didn't completely revamp/replace the IoD, at least streamline it to remove the redundancy of teaching us most of the game's mechanics twice in the first 30 minutes of gameplay. Which leads to the next point: the sweeping changes to the pre-20 experience: broken promise. 'nuff said.

That aside, I really do enjoy the combat. Granted, most of my experience has been with warrior, and only a little with slayer, archer, and sorcerer. I think the experience for you this time through was much easier because of the archer class. It's only like a 1 or 2 star difficulty class rating..after all, you've got distance on your side most of the time with plenty of escapes, while a melee class like warrior (highest star difficulty) has to worry about every single movement the mob makes. That said, yes, most encounters are still pretty easy on warrior. Right now at lvl 32, I still only have like 2, maybe 3 escapes: dodge, a jump attack that makes me invulnerable for the short duration, and a charge attack (just would have to face cursor away)I still solo'd the lvl 20something basilisks no problem this past weekend (it probably also helped knowing all the tells). I went on to try soloing the level 30ish Basilisks in a later zone and although I knew all the tells, I did notice that their timing was much quicker between tell and execution, and even their time between actions was shorter. Ultimately I made only one attempt to solo, and could've done it had I not been caught off guard by a quick vertical jump + body slam that flattened me with around 70% hp when I had it down to around 40%.

I'm still looking forward to the end-game content...guild conflict, battlegrounds, "rift"s, etc...should be finding out what that's like in the not too distant future...though a certain game that doesn't involve the very aspect in its own title....Guildysomethingorother...could eat into that (2 days!)...so could some other game about beating up demons n'stuff under a church. Time will tell.

Anyways, great stuff as always, hope to see you this weekend in the Guildygame when you can tear yourself away from the family!
Holy crap that was kinda long..lol.

ps. I was sad the GW2 splash screen music didn't manage to sneak its way in for a second. haha.

Very good episode, as always. agree with almost all of the points brought up.
regarding the difficulty, the archer is actually the easiest class to play in this game, they will have a harder time in pvp and maybe at endgame where bosses gain ranged damage abilities.
http://teraguides.wordpress.com/2011/04/15/picking-a-class/

Edited, Apr 25th 2012 6:14pm by AdmiralPanda