Soooo, this is my personal viewpoint about the game right now, and what used to be better, or should be changed again to make it more enjoyable.
First of all, i'm not someone that had BiS gear, ever. I didn't need it to enjoy the game, and being able to run most of the dungeons through the different gearing cycles. i started properly with Rifts Edge. It was enjoyable to run with different people in a Raid, and that the gear actually dropped in there. I had some of the worst rng with drops for high tier gear and rolls too, never got a full set of high tier gear without crafting a piece later on but it was still doable and it gave me the opportuniy to run all the dungeons in the game.
So even as a casual i managed to get to the endgame dungeons and have fun there with friends and guilds.
I could still play alts, which is what i also enjoyed about Tera. I could fill up rolls if someone needed a healer or tank, i didn't have to stick to my main to get a group going.
Right now i don't have the time, or the patience to start grinding to max level. My main is stuck on lvl 68.
So i can keep running the same dungeons over and over with the same class and am not even close to looking for gear, lvl xp or whatnot.
I'm not someone that enjoys playing only one class, but right now, all i could do is focus on one class, not being able to switch or just stuck with low lvl dungeons that i got 200 runs on, on a different character.
I'd prefer it, if the old system was brought back, you could run everything with high tier gear, and could play your alts, without needing extensive amounts of time. You could enjoy the game, and heck even i managed to get my hands on Visionmaker parts back then, simply by playing different classes, that mix up the old dungeons, and make you see them in a new light. I main an archer, but back in RMHM for example healers were needed in LFGs more, so i played my mystic most of the time, and still managed to get a VM weapon for my archer.
I'd just like to see (even the +15 enchantment patch without the failing part) with 2 new dungeons, and maybe new gear, and even then, the VM was always valuable for 2 gear patches, so you could skip one VM and just prepare for the next and enjoy the game. It made the gear that you got mean something, while right now, no one really can catch up to anyone, which just splits the whole community even more.
Returning and new players are completely left behind, while with patches like LK/RM or DF/SS (not sure about this combo) gear they could always jump back into the new gearing cycle without being too lost, or not having anyone to play with.
The dungeons that i enjoyed the most personally where always the ones, that had something different to them, something that didn't only contain donuts and curses. Everything seems recycled now.
I enjoyed Demons Wheel, Manglemire and even Kezzels Gorge quite a bit, simply because they were different.
The card system currently wasn't a bad idea, i like to gather stuff together and farm for that lil goal, they just shouldn't influence things too much, make them more like a lil achievement hunt or something
so in short:
bring the old gearing cycle back: Low Tier-> High Tier -> VM
make Alts valid again!
more creativity and innovation about dungeons and bosses (don't just change the colour and add some rocks on other bosses)
don't lock people out from new content (for example the island)
don't overcomplicate existing progress (cards, pets and circlets and and and...)
and please don't mistake this as a crying post, about how to make everything super easy, i agree, BiS should be worked for, i'm just talking about being able to reach 95% part of the game with high tier gear, so everyone could enjoy it.
BiS has to stay special.
so that was the short opinion of someone that played Tera more on the casual site, and barely plays it now, because the grind is too much to even reach the new content that patches are supposed to bring.
PS: yes i also IM a lot, and enjoy the torture in that, simply because it brings new challenges with it (i'm weird like that =D)
