The difficulty change occured in the Korean version of the game throughout a years worth of patches, and has carried over to NA/EU Tera. What you experienced here mirrors the difficulty of the current K-Tera version.

The next major update for K-Tera is supposed to revamp lvl 1-40 leveling, and we will probably see this update at or before our release.

Originally posted by stayontarget

Originally posted by Xasapis

From the preorder page:

 

White Stallion

For level 11 or above
Cannot trade, No sale value
Use the Manual to learn how to summon a White Stallion with a movement speed of 255.

 

Regal Frostlion

For level 20 or above
Cannot trade, No sale value
Use the Manual to learn how to summon a Regal Frostlion with a movement speed of 280.

There is also a lv11 mount you can get in the game (brown horse) via a simple quest but I'm pretty sure its slower than the White Stallion from the preorder. 

Yes, the brown horse has 240 move speed.

Originally posted by baritone3k

Originally posted by jdnewell

I am interested for sure.

If nothing else because it sounds like its a break for the same old same old tired combat system. Debating on preordering, just a little concerned about the lawsuit tho. Worried that the US courts will put a last minute injunction (sp?) on the release until it goes to trial.

Wonder if you preorder in US can you play on EU servers. As in if the launch in NA is held up would I be able to play on EU servers? Or is the US IP blocked from EU?

Sorry if this has been answered somewhere else, I looked and couldnt find where that was brought up.

I would like to know about the EU servers as well. So far, Korean was restricted to Korea (using KSSN no by IP blocking) and Japan used IP blocking to keep it restricted to only Japan.

 

I would love to play on a German server with Germans. I can then better excuse my time online as part of immersion language training.

If you buy the US version of the game, you can only play on the US servers. You can play on the EU servers from the US, but you would have to buy the EU version.

Originally posted by Pivotelite

Originally posted by lalartu

 Also, the equipment Ive seen so far is not too overpowered, although I've heard that at higher levels you get some really advanced items that can make the game crazy easy. There is a video on youtube with a sorceror taking out BAMs in several hits, which sounds kind of ...boring.

 

Lol, maybe BAMs twenty levels lower, I am positive no sorceror or any class for that matter can take out a BAM of equal level in several hits.

 

A fully end-game geared sorc, who gears specifically for killing BAMs, can take out certain equal or lower level bams in under 30 seconds.

Composite map of all of the zones.

http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/9822/arboreamap.jpg

Here is some info about the February update for Korea.

https://forum.tera-europe.com/showthread.php?t=26686

Originally posted by Vinterkrig

where is the source for the changes located at ?

Here is a translation of the korean patch notes contatining the pvp changes.

https://forum.tera-europe.com/showthread.php?t=23329

Some changes to the GvG occurred in the second part of the update.

https://forum.tera-europe.com/showthread.php?t=24205

Originally posted by Dragviper

What about South America? Does anyone know if they will get their IPs blocked too?

"En Masse has a license to operate TERA game servers in North America. This means that if you are in North America, South America, Europe (excluding Russia), and Oceania (Australia, New Zealand, Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia) you can play on En Masse Servers."

http://tera-support.enmasse.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/147

Originally posted by Carokann

I am tired of tab targeting and auto attacks.  I enjoyed teh combat from titles like Star Ocean, and from little i have seen this games looks like it will be worth my time, even if it is jsut one time through.

 

So next question that is a big deal to me.  IS the UI customizable?  Does it have monthly subscription fees? 

Yes to both of your questions. UI elements can be moved around and resized. There will be a monthly fee, the exact pricing has not been announced yet.

Originally posted by nblitz

Originally posted by Sector13

TERA is no longer on the top 10 played games in Korea, in which it barely held on their to begin with. It's a dying game, just deal with it.

Source?

Tera has fallen off of the top 10 list with http://www.gametrics.com/. It has dropped to #10 on http://www.gamemeca.com/

Originally posted by free2play

EME/ Bluefrog Tera won't have IP locks. I don't see how they can get away with charging Japanese gamers with $40 a month for any title. Yes, they can keep me from playing a J-Tera game but they can't keep Japanese people out of the NA server.

Like others have said, they deserve to fail. Trying to convince me Japanese people are "used to paying" 250% the industry standard is bullshit piled real high.

JAion launched at the same monthly price as JTera, 3000 yen. You can't assume that this is an outrageous price without comparing it to prices of other games.

Originally posted by free2play

Originally posted by frapes

Like most mmo's YES.

You can see a sorc kill a BAM in 1.30 min !!!    (i sure like to see him  in pvp)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWQP1RSJccs&feature=related

 Locking hits were 22K each. I've watched enough youtube vidcaps to know that's not normal. My guess, they leveled up and that's a quest BAM from some place early in the game.

The player is lvl 58 and is fighting a lvl 59 BAM. Most likely they are in some of the best gear availabel with crystals set up to do high amounts of critical damage vs. BAMs.

Another interesting video (although it is a lvl 58 killing lvl 56 BAMs) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svlVchOjD5E

Originally posted by DexterMMO

Originally posted by stayontarget

Originally posted by DexterMMO

 Not at a computer so I can't google all the information for you but TERA launched in a horrible unfinished state due to the lawsuit from NC soft. I have no reason to lie or slander blue hole studios the dev team trying to develop a strong unique idea. It is what it is. Still no open world pvp in Korea because of the missing content.

google "blue hole sued by ncsoft?" follow the link to Tera-fans thread where they copy pasted the courts order of 2 billion won to ncsoft in damages.

2 billion won = 1.7 mil USD

 

I would hardly call that a reason either way,  esp considering BHS's got a grant from the Korean gov.   The reason why Tera released early is the same reason every MMO releases too early....Pressure from Publishers.

 

You are aware regions are different and their company runs on won not usd so to lose 2 billion of it might hurt them a bit more than you're giving it credit for. If they charged a us company that, it may not be so bad but they charged a Korean company 2 billion of their dollar.

Unfortunately, the Terafans info is fairly old. Earlier this year, the results of the civil lawsuit were overturned.

http://www.thisisgame.com/go/2011/01/20/bluehole-is-not-guilty-for-lineage-3/

The minimum and recommended specs for the korean version of the game.

Minimum Requirements
OS - WINDOWS XP, VISTA, 7
CPU - Intel Pentium 4 3.2G OR AMD Athlon64 3200+
RAM - 2G
Graphics Card - Geforce 7600GT OR Radeon X1600XT
Hard disk drive - 25.0G
DirectX - DirectX 9.0c

Recommended Requirements
OS - WINDOWS XP, VISTA, 7
CPU - Intel Core2 Duo E6750 2.66G OR AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+
RAM - 2G or more
Graphics Card - Geforce 8800GT OR Radeon HD 3870
Hard disk drive - 25.0G
DirectX - DirectX 9.0c

As for running the game smoothly, it depends on your resolution, what graphics quality you consider acceptable, and what fps you prefer playing at. At 1080p I was able to run the game at 40fps with settings at 4 out of 6 with a 5770 and athlon II x3.

Originally posted by Kumapon
Then when EME posted this video on Pax, and you look at their screens, they are all still using the old original Korean client.

Even back in August Scapes said they didn't know if they would even get the lvl 58 patch for NA. Because they were still stuck with the original Korean client.

I don't see anything in the Pax video which shows that it is an old client. And according to people who were at the event, the Dark Awakening patch was included in the client. http://www.terafans.com/news/308-the-pax-2011-en-masse-entertainment-open-house-event/

That response is in-line with E3 Dev Chat reply where they said they will have at least a lvl 58 cap at launch. They are not sure if a higher lvl cap will be included at launch. http://www.tera-online.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18863

Originally posted by Kumapon

Now BHS gave EME the old original client with bugs in tow, not the new updated one. So EME got stuck having to fix everything on their own.

As of the EME Open House during Pax Prime this year, EnMasse said they were only 2-3 patches behind korean in their current build.

Some info about the NA Alpha.

"Alpha is also one of our main focuses at the moment. We have employees playing on the live server now and have had “live operation support” for several weeks. Up next for alpha will be practicing hotfix and regular client updating with the Operations, QA, CS, and Community teams.



I know most of you are eager to hear about the next phase of alpha and how you can be a part of it. We will be extending our internal testing to select partners and external users over the upcoming weeks. Please note that at this time we are selecting the users internally, so if you don’t receive an invite, don’t worry—there will be more opportunities to come! Keep being awesome and contributing, and know that we will regularly add people in batches throughout Fall."

http://www.tera-online.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23141

Originally posted by Kumapon

 

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Originally posted by Beacker

Hey Kumapon, how well can a Mystic solo pvp? Are they decent dps? Can they hold thier own against other classes? 

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Actually Mystic is the Pet class of TERA. So I don't know if you want to play a pet class. It's just that their pets currently don't scale very well. So nobody goes down the DD path, almost all Mystics I know of go down the healing/buffing path.

Tera doesn't have skill trees, but they have Glyphs and Crystals that can change what your play style is.

Mystics have heals, but they also make orbs, which they throw on the ground for people to pick up. So if your tank dies you can blame him for not picking up your orbs..lol

So Mystics do sub par dd, but you can set up a mystic to have lots of heals and buffs and be a bitch to kill in Pvp.

Mystics also have access to the widest array of CC skills in the game. They have a multi target stun, sleep, slows, fear, and the ability to increase the cooldowns for enemies.

Originally posted by pedrostrik

Originally posted by Reizla

I was already doubting if I should stay with Lineage II or try TERA, but with this, I'm very sure to skip TERA completely and stay in L2.

These chronoscrolls are nothing more than a legit way of EME to allow players to buy gold for real money. Meaning that you can buy ANYTHING you want if you pump enough money in it.

I've seen this at work in L2 before the Sept 2010 banhammer was released and ppl really bought millions of adena to get that one epic ring. Heck, I even heard of a friend who had an offer for an epic that exceeded 10K Euro (no kidding here).

With the chronoscrolls in place, players can do this the 'legit way'. All you have to do is buy 100 timecards, sell the keys ingame and then you have enough money to buy... No idea actually, was not in alpha/beta, but you het the drift...

I think EME just made the worse move ever for a starting MMO here

THIS ideia about chronoscrolls is completely auto suicide, welll think of this :

They wanna have zero Live GM's on game and because they are already with financial problems in asia they are thinking any possible idea to get real money from players, well, better to play casino or poker online than to touch my hands on these kind of mmo's

EnMasse has said that they will have live GMs on game. Also, Chronoscrolls don't make the company any additional money. All they are are monthly subscriptions which anyone can use.

Originally posted by Kumapon

I'm currious if they will have the lvl 60 content in or will they just have the lvl 58 content, with the server/server patch. 

 

The server vs. server content is supposed to be released with/after the lvl 60 update.