TERA producer confident that game offers something new

@Space Cobra The quest system is exactly like WoW, except that when I played the game a few months ago, you were better off grinding Hero (super elites and account for 80% of the mobs at level 44) mobs in a 5 man group than do a quest, because each mob gave more xp, chance for gold drops and took less time than a quest.

As for the combat system, well the reliance on the holy trinity much makes most fights tank and spank with the occasional block or teleport out of the raging monster way. Also I personally got bored of the combat system after level 20. Of course I really I did like healing though in that game because you really had to be active or people died.

To me, i might play tera, but it will probably be on a private server because I personally feel its not worth a monthly sub. If it was f2p I would jump on it so fast.

@silver001 Let me just add that its basically WoW but without the combat system. But has all the other symptons of a korean MMO, overly sexualize characters ( way too slutty, its like borderline softcore shit) and the grind.

@Space Cobra

Possibly because post SWTOR's recent big beta weekends, SWTOR is being dismissed by many people as WoW with lasers.

@silver001

That's the one big turn-off for me. In most games I'd probably play an elf but if I play Tera I might have to be one of those giant thingies. They seem to be the only non-pornographic option.

@DancingCow The male versions are but the female someone how they made them a little slutty with some of their armor design. I mean its not as bad as I made it sound, but at the same thing I kinda felt embarrass playing whenever a girl came next to me.

but every other thing except possibly the combat and the sexual stuff (DD airbag female elfs, btw just look at the screen shot even if you wanted you cannot modify the body of any of the races) might be different from when I played it. I forgot to mention that.

@DancingCow

That's a good point. They are trying to "beat their drum" in a PR-way and "trick" folks to thinking their game is "totally not WoW".

...but according to Silver001..."well......."

...seems to be still a bit WoW in there.

@DancingCow

WoW with lazer? That still sounds better than 90% of the shit out there bra, including stupid korean grinders ;)

@cursedlegend
were NOT

@cursedlegend

In all fairness they were at first as the combat is fun, the artwork is beautiful, and the game has some unique and awesome races such as the Castanics and the Elin... BUT the endgame was just the same gear-grind that WoW and 90% of MMO's offer so it got old fast. Combat and graphics are nice, but they aren't everything.

Personally I hope that they do add some sandbox elements at some point. An Archeage-like game with Tera visuals and combat would be perfect for me.

@cursedlegend

Well not to mention that there have been games like Asheron's Call around for 12 years now where you dodge arrows and spells. For Tera to act like they brought that to MMOs is pretty ridiculous.

I played an early version of Tera for the western audience. Yes the combat was fun for a couple of minutes and then it turned extremely repetitive. The "quests" in that game that I saw were 100% killtasks and nothing else.

The game could be interesting for PvP, the same way Asheron's Call is because of the skill in dodging and aiming attacks, but it doesn't seem to have much else going for it.

@Unshra.

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@Duulin

Comment of the year!