Still havent posted.

Hell, I might as well save it all for after my subscription runs out, see you then!

Tera: level up

Hit level 59 in Tera, will make two posts tomorrow.

Reached 58 and a 1/3rd, will make a post about instancing tomorrow, or maybe enchanting.

May not have time for a long post today, will keep grinding though.

Tera: Level up!

57 GET, that's all to report, more posts tomorrow. I guess that "late" post will be today's post.

Dawn of the first day, 144 hours remain. (Late)

    This post is a bit late, but better late than never.

To start this off, let's look at what characters we have going into this.

   

From left to right

Hiri: Elin Priest, level 55

Gorillalotion: Baraka Mystic, level 25 (belonging to my brother)

Zerkave: Castanic Sorcerer, level 8

I started this game going into it as a healer, as learning from my experiences as a mage in World of Warcraft that NO ONE cares about a dps, hoping that it would be easier to find groups to do anything.

            I picked an Elin mainly for her racial abilities, mostly being able to avoid aggro from monsters along with running and swimming faster.

                                                                          Just kidding!

On to my first point, questing and solo combat versus monsters, I’ll be doing most of the talking with pictures here.

Zoom in if you need to.

Quests are still, go to X and kill Y of Z, collect X of Y, or talk to Y. Not much changes here from your standard MMO.

Combat however is a bit more involved when it comes to solo PVE.

A normal enemy preparing for an aoe attack.

Almost all of your skills need to be aimed in this game, gone are the days of tab targeting your opponents. From healing to doing damage, you need to keep your cursor on your foe (or friend for the healers) if you want to come out ahead. Fighting monsters in Tera can be its own challenge, though not a hard one if this you have previous experience in other games. Almost monsters telegraph their attacks ahead of time. Eyes suddenly glow red? get ready to dodge! Big monster flexing its muscles getting ready for a big sweeping attack? get that backflip ready! but more details on combat in another post.



Anyone who has played an MMO knows how questing goes, do the surrounding quests and go to the next town, Tera does not differ here. Though in Tera it seems that EVERYTHING will give you EXP, from mining and gathering to questing to killing random enemies.

Though if that doesn't suit you, you can level up off of the little animals wandering the terrain.

If you follow the story quest, denoted by the red title text, you will be taken to some new areas such as underground mines being used as a prison for an elder (but somewhat friendly) god complete with his own cinematic introduction (if you complete the story quest).

But I won’t... let the audio keep in sync with the video!

The story quest is chock full of cinematic parts, (all of which have trouble keeping the audio and video in sync). Even giving you cinematics during instances when you complete your related story quest, MUCH to the dismay of your hyperactive party members who don’t bother checking to see if the healer is ready (despite the giant PLAYER IN CINEMATIC icon over his head). After the cinematic ends, you even get to talk to the big god himself and receive your orders from him.

Hey, were those YOUR balls I passed under on the way up here?

Who of course, gives you a quest to go into an instance (to, you know, prove your worth). After taking I queued for an instance while clearing out the rest of the quests in the area.

You thought I was kidding didn’t you.

My queue eventually triggered and I was invited into an instance, though not the one the god gave me a quest for. I will make another post about my adventures into instances and group questing.

So long!

Tera: Another day another level.

Kept with my quota of getting a level a day (now 56) and already 1/4 of the way into the next level, will post more on certain subjects such as enchanting, dungeon running, and guilds hopefully tomorrow.

Happy birthday Nano!

This post goes out to my great grandmother Alice, Whom I have nick named "Nano" ever since I was young, she turns 95 today! Happy birthday Nano!

Reviewing Tera

I have been playing Tera since the last closed beta up to today and starting from today I will be reviewing my time spent until I quit the game. My subscription renewal is on the 29th and I do not intend on renewing so I decided I would spend these last six days writing about my last day to day experiences to share it with others. I'll be starting this off as a level 55 Elin priest named Hiri, feel free to join me (should you somehow read this article while its still current and I'm still playing). five levels, six days, hopefully I'll get to the maximum level before quitting and get to experience some end game content. With my next post, I'll also give some thoughts on what I liked and disliked about the game. Its going on for 5 AM now and I can see the sun rising through the cracks in my blinds, I best get some sleep, goodnight.

IT BEGINS!

Hello! It's nearly 4 AM here and I am just starting my blog (after months ago when I first said I was going to). As implied, I'll be talking about video games most of the time, computer related items, and very rarely anime. I will be sharing my opinions on video games and maybe even review some in greater detail along with anime, my posts on other computer related items will be more opinion rather than review. I primarily play only computer games, as I lack a PS3 and lack any interest in most titles for the Xbox 360 (that and the one we have breaks more often than not).

I intend on following up this post with a post about my experiences with Tera very soon.