TERA releases Community Play Event numbers

If you're a TERA fan but not lucky enough to score an invite to En Masse Entertainment's recent Community Play Event (CPE), you can take heart in the fact that the company has released some information pertaining to all the players who did attend. We know, there's the potential for some salt in the wound here, but En Masse's Jon Tuite nonetheless has some interesting factoids relating to character races, classes, leveling trends, and many other data points.

It seems that Castanics were the most popular race during the recent CPE, and humanoid races in general accounted for a whopping 68% of all characters. Tuite also points out that the Baraka race was the least popular (7% of the population) and postulates that the lack of a female version could be the culprit.

In terms of class and party dynamics, the CPE data aren't far removed from your average fantasy MMO (i.e., there were a plethora of DPS types, fewer tanks, and even fewer healers). These stats are the tip of the proverbial iceberg, and you can indulge in more number-crunching at the official TERA website.

Reader Comments (10)

This doesn't surprise me in the least bit...Haha

Mate, it's getting boring. You don't even need to tell us stuff we knew anyway.

Worthy of note is that one player managed to amass 200,000 in gold by L17. L50 items in Korea are going for as much as 245,000,000 -- that's right -- two hundred and forty-five million. Something is badly wrong with this picture.

@faralorn

I'm assuming you've never played an Eastern MMO and that they are using a Easter style currency. In Easter MMO's, things seem wildly expensive because there is generally only one denomination. Imagine how much money you would have in say, WoW or EQ2 if you translated all your currency to copper? Back when I played WoW, I had around 40k gold, if my math is right (it probably isn't, I'm bad at math), that translates to 400,000,000 copper, and 40k gold wasn't even a ton (I knew plenty of people well over 150k). Think of it that way (i.e. hack off about 4-5 0's from the total and adjust for the drop rate of cash/economy), and it doesn't become "wrong" or scary.

@edgecrusherO0

No, but it is fairly stupid. I realise their actually currency is fairly similar (although the yuan (that's the PRC's currency) does divide by at least 2 more levels of currency into a jiao and a fen) but as part of Westernisation it can't be that hard to adjust currency values. It just makes it a lot more manageable; rather than thinking "okay, I have 14,567,376 gold, and that enchant is gonna cost 987,999 gold" you could just be thinking "okay, I have around 1400 gold, and that enchant should cost around 100."

But Baraka are awesome... pfft

Ew yeah they need to figure something about with the currency. Honestly one think that I've never liked about currency in korean games is the ridiculously large number they use...Millions etc it's like...really?

@Valentina Brain to small to grasp large numbers?

Seriously, you people cry over the dumbest shit.

All of my melee character will be male Amani, and all of my casters will be female Castanic.

Done.

TERA releases Community Play Event numbers

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