Tera advice

Hi, in few words.

1) Killian still highest population to this day, there is guilds for both PvP and PvE but PvE definitely got the "upper hand" in terms of population. There is LFG's for various kind of content on a daily basis, it can be a bit hard to find a party sometimes because people got more elitists and sometimes some classes are missing for LFG's (often missing tanks for the bit of LFGs i did recently.)

2) Can't say much about sorcer since i didn't play it much, but i personally prefered it before revamp, for both PvE and PvP.

3) Basically the new event leveling server is all the same, just much faster (be ready to roll your face on your keyboard) and more "rewarding" apparently. Can't say much too. Just spam dungeons as soon as you can and you're good to go.

4) Old gearing / enchantment system disapeared, we went from +15 back to +9. It is definitely grindy, unless you're just gonna use your credit card, and you're probably gonna spend a lot of time crafting stuff. I don't really dislike it or like it more, compared to the old system even if it's still a bit BS sometimes, but that's RNG for you.

5) Someone with more experience will be able to answer that.

However, even after trying to answer your questions the best i could, if i can give you an advice and an honest opinion : if you got another game to play just go for it. TERA really isn't worth it and is mostly crowded by people who are still logging by habit, playing by habit (either because they got nothing else to play, refuse to leave the game, or because they don't wanna give up on their so called glory OR because they wanna make the money they spent on this game "worth it"), and a lot of new people / returning players who end up being disapointed after a couple of weeks.

New event server are definitely nice for new returning players.

Some tips on top of my head :

- You will get super buff for the first two times clearing any dungeons up until 3-stars level 65 dungeons. You can exploit this fact by not clearing a second time (resetting the dungeons just before the final boss, exception being the Medusa (not the Giant) in CR, and the bee in Sabex Armory). With this you can pretty much solo your way to 65 in like 4 hours max.

- Get Master in one crafting profession (imho, the best is Alchemy then Weaponcrafting). Designs cost a ton on normal server but apparently very cheap on Manahan.

- Gearing is more streamlined so it is more of a gradual process than bursting at the start of every patch like before. Can be considered longer grind depends on how you approach it and also apparently BHS has decided to double the lifespan of gear cycles (it's 12 months instead 6 months).

- Sorc's guide on Essentialmana is still very relevant. They are doing OK-ish on DPS list now. But my own advice is to choose one of the seven soon-to-be-awakened classes, namely : Lancer, Warrior, Brawler, Berserker, Slayer, Mystic, Priest. They will be, without a doubt, the new FotM. Don't be surprised if your non-awakened class does less DPS than a Lancer :).

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"But my own advice is to choose one of the seven soon-to-be-awakened classes, namely : Lancer, Warrior, Brawler, Berserker, Slayer, Mystic, Priest." has got me worried about playing sorc... i like priest but i hear mystic has taken over priest roll in endgame pve what about pvp? and can i still do my daily grind (vanguard etc) on a priest would i be better having a slayer/berzerker ready for awakening also, brawler how is it as a tank? and solo leveling/gridning endgame i dont mind tanks but it is hard to learn for endgame pve content or can you learn it slowly? also how does brawler peform in pvp?

Don't get too concerned, they will be awakened a few months later as well. Until then, they will get some sort of damage buff (20% IIRC?).

Currently Mystic is better than Priest most likely because of the extra damage decrease in PvE and extra-long range compared to Priests in PvP. They do have cons and pros in PvP, and also depends if it's 3v3 or mass pvp.

Brawler is an OK tank if you do it properly (some brawlers have their egos way high up and doesn't care about other's DPS as long as their is high -> rotating the boss all over, won't follow the boss, no space for DPS etc). I'm also a bit bummed how DPS classes just won't care about doing DPS if there's a brawler in the party. They only go tryhard if Lancer is in the party because of their group buffs.

And brawler is quite OP in PvP, like a highly mobile lancer with all kinds of knockdown/up and CCs.

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Don't get too concerned, they will be awakened a few months later as well. Until then, they will get some sort of damage buff only in PvE(14,5%).

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Hey your comment regarding "But my own advice is to choose one of the seven soon-to-be-awakened classes, namely : Lancer, Warrior, Brawler, Berserker, Slayer, Mystic, Priest." has got me worried about playing sorc... i like priest but i hear mystic has taken over priest roll in endgame pve what about pvp? and can i still do my daily grind (vanguard etc) on a priest would i be better having a slayer/berzerker ready for awakening also, brawler how is it as a tank? and solo leveling/gridning endgame i dont mind tanks but it is hard to learn for endgame pve content or can you learn it slowly? also how does brawler peform in pvp?

The rest of the classes,including Sorc, will get awakening in Summer 2018 in KTERA, which will probably lands on EU on Oct/Nov 2018. They get 17% raw damage buff but according to KTERA, it is nowhere near enough. But that is expected because it is BHS' usual money making scheme, by forcing people to re-roll to overpowered classes.

There are no concrete data but as per Ktera stream, dps looks like this : Zerk : 5M, Warrior 4.5M, Brawler 4M, Slayer (???), Lancer and the rest about 3-3.5M. If you are prepared to play unwanted classes for almost a year then go with Sorc.

For PvE, Priest looks as good as Mystic after awakening, Brawler is really good, or even preferred over Lancer. Brawler is also easy to play in PvE and pretty overpowered in PvP.

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Well as far as I know awakened skills are not available in PvP until all classes got the awakening. So it would not be that different.

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Brawler is really good, or even preferred over Lancer.

I can only assume you mean post-awakening, and even then, how so? Wouldnt lancer still prefered with proper party especially since he now would deal 3m/s? Or is brawler getting some party buff aswell?