Hearthstone babble and other random gamesFollow

Actually, I think you start in some sort of short dress. The hot pants come later.

Ok, I figured out TLW's question: "Does the game offer anything beyond elf panty fan service?"

It's a pretty standard MMORPG with action-style combat and nicely done graphics. I'm not keen on all the Asian inspired themes (Elin, cabbits, etc) but they're nicely drawn at least.

Quests are stock standard fetch quests with the "Bring me five eyeballs" stuff and "Go visit my brother two towns yonder" bits. There's a main story plot line which I've only followed very loosely beyond the quest objectives as it hasn't been very compelling. But the action game play isn't bad, progression has come quickly (so far, Mystic almost lvl 30 after a week) and the grouping usually isn't bad although people only seem to group for instance runs and fighting enough BAMs Spoilerliterally, "Big *** Monsters" for their quest objectives before leaving.

So it's nothing really special but it's fun enough for the time being. Fun enough for free, anyway.

Edited, Feb 21st 2013 5:18pm by Jophiel

Yeah. Around the same time you get your mount, it seems.

The mount that you ride side-saddle.

I downloaded Tera Saturday night. I thought I should roll an Elin so I could name her Elinda. She'a a Sorc. I also rolled a Warrior. Can't remember the race but she has hooves.

Ranged attacks seem close but the Sorc was far more efficient at killing than the Warrior. Though the melee combat is a lot of fun.

I only got a glimpse of all the bells and baubles that were available. I didn't get into any crafting though I did a bunch of gathering. The Elin is a major dork - not sure I could over to the Steve Urkel run style or the long creepy fingers enough to sink much time into that toon. The Warrior toon was a good model though. She was kind of bad-***.

Consensus seems to be that crafting isn't worth it until you're max level or close to it. You gain gear too rapidly to spend time, money and energy making any. Of course, gathering might be worthwhile so you can do that crafting someday without starting from nothing.

There's several open world PvP servers. From what I hear, it's a great opportunity for your level 14 to get ganked by bored level 60's outside the first real newbie town.

Really, PvP ain't my bag but there's several servers for it and they seem fairly well populated. I gather that classes suffer from the usual balancing act between PvE and PvP but aside from that I only think about it when I get annoyed at one of the enhancement tiers on my gear being a PvP thing.

Yeah, I was reading someone on the forums say the same. PvP seems "pointless" from a lore standpoint since there's no teams and all the races are supposedly allied against the same threat (and go through the same story of joining up with the commander in Velkia, etc). It'd be like WWII where random Allied soldiers killed their fellow Allied soldiers just for the hell of it and no one cared because, hey, open world PvP.

I believe all servers can have Guild vs Guild PvP which doesn't make more sense lorewise but at least is a little more organized than anything goes.

I'm going to wait until everyone in here stops playing Tera to download it, and then complain that I don't have anybody to play with.

I'm surprised how much I'm enjoying the game tbh, I expected to go "MEH!" after about 10 levels and delete it. My priest is level 17 or so now it's going really well, even the priest combat is fun.

Is there any current PvE MMO that doesn't have this?

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