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Post by Dejah on Feb 19, 2013 19:07:23 GMT -5
Ok, I have a question for anyone that would like to answer. I just got my Sorcerer to lvl32. I was curious about enchanting and crafting armor. Is it needed right now or should I just wait till higher levels, like some say in the forums? Oh for the love of mercy WAIT. Once you have plenty of gold it'll be a simpler thing to "twink" your lower level alts by Enchanting and Crafting gear for them. But for your first character do not spend your gold on enchanting while leveling. Here's why: While leveling you can outgrow your enchanted items by around 5 levels or so. You are MUCH better off using non-enchanteable items (on the items descriptions you'll see some are enchanteable and others are not. Those I simply refer to as "extractables.") "Extractable" Gold and Blue quality items with proper crystal setup are all you will ever need while leveling. All that changes at 60 and you'll want to be ready once you get there. The game has changed greatly through all this time and with this last patch for F2P they introduced two new reputation factions which award pretty solid starter gear so you can actually so dungeons as well as collect tier 14 fodder for enchanting. In any case once you hit 60 the enchanting process is not as intimidating as it once was (you lucky bastard.) The profession that will always come in handy is Alchemy, for making potions and scrolls. That one might be worth it to level as you go. The others can wait and you can level really them quick with Crafting Quests available from the "Quest Bulletin Board" in towns and cities. They will require some gold. Crafting gear comes useful when you want to create Templates to remodel your equipment of for lower level alts. www.teratemplates.com/templates.htmlIf you like a template you're advised to craft it yourself or see how much one is going for at the broker. Ignore the Remodeler's efforts to sell you her grossly overpriced templates! Edit: At 60 it all changes - for now no need to even think about it but just as a small: getting the proper items and enchanting them is the way to continue progressing your character through the harder content and Nightmare modes. You'll have Extractables which will be enough if you are very casual or for an alt or farmer toon (the case for all my characters save one). For a serious character you're intent on polishing to perfection (if you're so inclined) you'll want not just enchanteables . . . but "Masterworkable" Enchanteables (items that you can unlock a bonus past +9 to +12.) But all that is a topic for another day. Only my "real main", my Sorcerer, have I pushed into masterwork territory with.
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Post by majhavok on Feb 20, 2013 12:54:05 GMT -5
Thank you that is basically what I read. Unfortunatly I'm not or not anymore as alt crazed as I used to be with other games. Guess I could just start one up to gain resources and such...but I like my sorcerer so much... ;D
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Post by Dejah on Feb 20, 2013 14:27:04 GMT -5
Thank you that is basically what I read. Unfortunatly I'm not or not anymore as alt crazed as I used to be with other games. Guess I could just start one up to gain resources and such...but I like my sorcerer so much... ;D And you've probably haven't gotten Overchannel yet. And then at level 48 you get Burst of Celerity. That's more or less where you'll get to the maniacal cackle stage.
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Post by majhavok on Feb 21, 2013 12:50:10 GMT -5
Thank you that is basically what I read. Unfortunatly I'm not or not anymore as alt crazed as I used to be with other games. Guess I could just start one up to gain resources and such...but I like my sorcerer so much... ;D And you've probably haven't gotten Overchannel yet. And then at level 48 you get Burst of Celerity. That's more or less where you'll get to the maniacal cackle stage. LOL...I do have Overchannel, although have not utilized it as much as I should. But I go back to clean up some of my more difficult early quests and already have that maniacal cackle. Love watching whole groups of lvl 20+s have trouble with BAMs like the Basilisks and I can go in solo (yes, sorcerers are not really supposed to solo things, but somethimes it can be fun)...lol When Flameburst( I think it's called) hits for over 15k damage I giggle...
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Post by Dejah on Mar 9, 2013 13:54:31 GMT -5
And you've probably haven't gotten Overchannel yet. And then at level 48 you get Burst of Celerity. That's more or less where you'll get to the maniacal cackle stage. LOL...I do have Overchannel, although have not utilized it as much as I should. But I go back to clean up some of my more difficult early quests and already have that maniacal cackle. Love watching whole groups of lvl 20+s have trouble with BAMs like the Basilisks and I can go in solo (yes, sorcerers are not really supposed to solo things, but somethimes it can be fun)...lol When Flameburst( I think it's called) hits for over 15k damage I giggle... Hoh man, I keep learning new things . . . I changed a single crystal in my weapon setup and if I align things just right can hit Bosses in Crucible of Flame for 1200000. Hoooo those are fun. But still practicing the proper use of Overchannel (refer to the forum guides on Sorcerer about Overchannel - it needs to be use JUST right or you waste it.) But the actual reason I'm posting here are for the Lurkers because there's a pretty unusual promotion TERA is handing starting on the 12th. If you are starting a BRAND NEW ACCOUNT after 3/12/13 refer to this. The last two tiers or rewards are quite worthy IMO. tera.enmasse.com/news/posts/new-players-power-level-for-prizes
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Post by Lantesh on Mar 9, 2013 17:20:34 GMT -5
Been messing around in Tera lately. Really enjoyed it at first, but have since slowed down. Hit level 20 on my lancer, but killing bears and warthogs in valley of titans is beyond boring. Someone tell me it gets better lol.
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Post by Dejah on Mar 9, 2013 17:46:00 GMT -5
Level 20 is the bend. Start picking up the quests to fight BAM's and you can already start queuing for the first instance Bastion of Lok. between level 20-30 BAM XP awards are very substantial. You can try soloing them or two manning them.
At level 26 I think you get Shield Counter and 28 Whallop. Those two Lancer skills are also game changers in terms of the"feel" of the class once you time and chain Combos to make them fast.
Also at 20 you just unlocked Glyphs. Go buy some and prioritize damage for now. It's only about level 45-53 that Lancers really have to start prioritizing survival. Being level 20 you'll have 10 points to use. My advise at that stage is to get "Pumped Stand Fast" and "Empowered Spring Attack."
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Post by Lantesh on Mar 9, 2013 23:28:43 GMT -5
Okay cool. I guess I'll just chug through this stage then. It isn't so much the combat I find boring (I actually love the combat system and lancer is just great), it's the "Oh noes. Them bears be attackin' the camp. Go kill 'em." Ugh. Maybe once I fight some cooler mobs and not bears and warthogs I'll get back into it more. I went from killing demons on the Isle of Dawn to freaking pigs man. Pigs. Okay I totally realize I'm being petty...but still!
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Post by Dejah on Mar 10, 2013 0:08:24 GMT -5
Okay cool. I guess I'll just chug through this stage then. It isn't so much the combat I find boring (I actually love the combat system and lancer is just great), it's the "Oh noes. Them bears be attackin' the camp. Go kill 'em." Ugh. Maybe once I fight some cooler mobs and not bears and warthogs I'll get back into it more. I went from killing demons on the Isle of Dawn to freaking pigs man. Pigs. Okay I totally realize I'm being petty...but still! Get it righ, man. It's pigLINS. Their bacon is tenderer and more succulent. Since you mentioned Valley of Titans (the zone) you might be getting close to "Scrufffy Kumas Herders" which is part of the storyline that leads you towards Bastion of Lok. Although you can queue anytime. You'll see BIG beasties hanging about and people in the area trying to group for them. Those are fun. See if you find one mean ass DPS or one mean ass pocket healer. you can take anything as a Lancer that way.
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Post by majhavok on Mar 11, 2013 18:26:03 GMT -5
Level 20 is the bend. Start picking up the quests to fight BAM's and you can already start queuing for the first instance Bastion of Lok. between level 20-30 BAM XP awards are very substantial. You can try soloing them or two manning them. At level 26 I think you get Shield Counter and 28 Whallop. Those two Lancer skills are also game changers in terms of the"feel" of the class once you time and chain Combos to make them fast. Also at 20 you just unlocked Glyphs. Go buy some and prioritize damage for now. It's only about level 45-53 that Lancers really have to start prioritizing survival. Being level 20 you'll have 10 points to use. My advise at that stage is to get "Pumped Stand Fast" and "Empowered Spring Attack." Ah, BOL...lol remember my first try in that one. With my 22 sorcerer thinking "How hard could this be...?" Did it solo, took an hour or two, died once or twice, but did finish. Then ran with a group much more fun and faster..
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Post by Dejah on Mar 11, 2013 20:05:41 GMT -5
It's funny about BoL. It's kinda like a rite of passage, it must be the oldest dungeon of them all, and easily the exception in that it is so drab and plain inside, in contrast to virtually every other dungeon you might do after it. Best part is when people try to shortcut it by going to the boss before clearing the last two rooms. I somehow healed a group of nubs after they pulled that stunt (/flex.)
Sinestral Manor (26-30) has a tremendous amount of detail and fun fights. If you look at the haunted paintings on some rooms they move. Cultists' Refuge, set up in a floating dimensionless cathedral, then Necromancer Tomb where now you fight the boss in a room full of rising spikes; Saleron's Sky Garden - literally a sky garden, among my faves.
But then you have Bastion of Lok and Akasha's Hideout which are basically caves. Pfffft.
Hey Lantesh did you ever get to hug a Naga yet? They're so misunderstood. They merely jump out of joy. Like dogs.
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Post by Lantesh on Mar 11, 2013 20:48:31 GMT -5
No naga hugging yet. Still messing around in valley of titans. Had to go figure out the glyph stuff since apparently I have to go find the quest that sends me to get them. I like how they conveniently don't tell you about them as soon as you hit level 20. I had no idea about them until you told me lol.
Edit: Oh, just had a run in with basilisks. Those are rather cheery fellows. Got one down to 70% before he pasted me. I seem to have some problems with my block skill. Either it blocks too late or not at all. Sometimes I'm mashing my block button and I don't block. Is that something on my end or is that the game?
Also picked up the quests for BoL. Gonna run that later.
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Post by Rykage on Mar 11, 2013 23:49:09 GMT -5
I have learnt that Archers are stupidly easy to play if you have even half a brain cell. But idk, I mostly play alone since I can only play the EU version and everyone from here and all my other friends are on the NA servers. And it's getting a little boring for me now (barely 20..). I play Guild Wars 2 mostly alone as well, but somehow, I found the solo experience in GW2 way more entertaining than the solo experience in TERA. So does the solo experience in TERA get better later, or am I going to get bored quickly? I also tried to find a guild going by the rule of the guild name (ye who tryeth to sound badass, shall disappointeth). Mostly the ones recruiting are the ones spamming world chat, and they all fail the test of the guild name. We have Hand of God and Undying Justice and Devil's Advocates etc, and just their intro in the world chat puts me off from joining.
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Post by Lantesh on Mar 12, 2013 10:19:50 GMT -5
I've been watching the chat going on in game, and it looks like a good deal of people playing are actually from the EU. They were griping about how bad the game was being handled over there so they came to the NA servers. I don't know how they did it, but they did. Might want to look into that. If I find anything about it, I'll let you know. Edit: Found something (maybe). tera-support.enmasse.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/147/~/playing-tera-outside-of-north-americaLooks like maybe all you have to do is just download the NA client. You may have to make another account for it, but it doesn't sound like that would be a huge loss for you. If that does work, I'm playing on the Ascension Valley (PVE) server. Lancer named Keriza. I wouldn't mind going back and helping you knock out the early level stuff fast if you need.
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Post by Dejah on Mar 12, 2013 10:52:59 GMT -5
No naga hugging yet. Still messing around in valley of titans. Had to go figure out the glyph stuff since apparently I have to go find the quest that sends me to get them. I like how they conveniently don't tell you about them as soon as you hit level 20. I had no idea about them until you told me lol. Edit: Oh, just had a run in with basilisks. Those are rather cheery fellows. Got one down to 70% before he pasted me. I seem to have some problems with my block skill. Either it blocks too late or not at all. Sometimes I'm mashing my block button and I don't block. Is that something on my end or is that the game? Also picked up the quests for BoL. Gonna run that later. I don't even remember how I learner about glyphs the first time around, I think the quest is awkwardly placed because it pops in a room in Velika usually when you're far deep in the fields of Valley of Titans. But after that I was aware that once you're 20 it autounlocks. You buy the Glyph once and then can activate it or deactivate it according to your needs. In the old timey dayes before F2P you'd have to go to the City to the Glyph vendor and pay some gold to reset the glyphs, now you can do it from anywhere and have 5 presets you can save. Those are useful at endgame when you're flush with gold and want to spend the gold to switch between saved presets. But while leveling, when you don't have the maximum number of glyphs you can simply reset them for free and resave points in different ways with minimal fuzz. As for Block I'm going to try to cover the possibilities: Block doesn't have a CD (since August) but consumes RE (resolve). Thats the third, thin light blue bar to the bottom of Mana. It refills very quickly upon using several abilities (Retaliate, Challenging Shout, are two that come to mind off the top of my head). In interactive battle it fills so quickly I barely think about it, but people who got used to "turtling" in the past might not realize this and simply run out of RE and not be able to block. I doubt that's your issue. A problem that used to exist a long time ago was that Block had the behavior you described when bound to the R mouse button and some people got around it by binding block to a Keyboard button. I think that particular issue was solved by November. I currently keep using the R mouse button and had already forgotten that issue once existed. Looking at having updated device drivers might be worth it. Yet another possibility is Nexus lag. Nexus is FINALLY set for a radical change sometime this month. I believe it's already live in Korea. (The details of the fix are in a sticky at the top of the general forums.) However until that fix is implemented Nexus puts such a strain on the entire server that lag will be felt everywhere no matter where you are. But that's something that won't just affect block, but everything else you do - and only last for that one hour. So again I suspect that might not be the issue. Finally when blocking avoid mashing the button. The instinct, with the noise, the screen shake the roar, the big mother*censored*er you cannot fully see becasue it fills your screen but you see its feet and arms very clearly is to "block block you mother*censored*er block *censored* *censored* *censored*" But say if you block the moment you lift your finger it drops the shield a bit then smash again there's going to be a minilag (AND consume RE). Get used to controlling your reaction and pressing block and keeping your finger on it. All that is what "I" learned while learning the whole Block business the hard way. Finally remember it's better to cancel an attack and block than finish the attack and eat a mace to the face. While healing the low levels I often found warriors and lancers that would just continue their attack so they could squeeze one fast animated Spring Attack and eat a massive hit and bleed because they couldn't squeeze in the block. It's better to cancel and block that big hit.
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