Posts by Mayku

Sorry for double post but the editor is strange and wont let me use paragraphs

OK... seems to be pretty dead sadly the forum.

Just an update for my own benefit then. I was in an area on Island of Dawn killing Hydras and I was able to use my Thrall Augmentation without drain fully of mana for the entire time I was killing all ten and I had my Thrall up all the time. However when I flew to the area with the Iron Giants as I crossed the bridge the mana just drained to nothing. I then couldn't use it. I was popping Aruns Tears endlessly and in battle unable to actually fight cus I was simply trying to replenish mana. I was doing nothing other than fire up my thrall of protection and Wrath. Sadly this was a very painful experience.

I went into a dungeon and was able to sustain my mana by not using the Augmentation but on the last boss fired it up. I then ported to Highwatch and even with it disabled I was bleeding mana with several of my icons rotating and I just couldn't stay there and had to leave.

I struggled today and managed after weeks to get to Level 66. I then went to kill bores in Tria and my power, mana, health and all round general abilities had not changed even though I had levelled. I still couldn't kill anything with my skills unless I wanted to stand there like for half an hour pea shooting. Worse the mana drain is endless. I cannot use the augmentation cus its like taking the plug out the drain.

So in truth after Level 65 and worse when you do the Awakening quest the class for me becomes useless. None of my damage burst skills are usable. By simply doing 1 ( That is one ) smite and blast I am down to zero mana. If I do not top up the mana I lose all my skills. And so I simply cannot fight and instead hope the Wrath can kill stuff. I then just have to go hide and wait for the Thrall to come back after cooldown.

There is no lift in any power or skill after reaching 66 and sadly the mobs now just become even harder. Worse is that I have to get through 14,600 million XP to the next level. I cannot upgrade the weapons cus at 50% chnace of failure and the massive cost for materials to do it you would be bonkers to even try. Its taken me the best part of Level 65 to get together the materials and that is after training Smelting to 500 at great cost.

I just cannot see where thsi is going. I was very effective as a solo PvE in the filed prior to the Awakening quest line. I then get hammered with issues of mana and I really cannot kill anything. I cannot find anything on line about fighting as a Mystic and I have had no response here. I watch with envy as other players do what I use to be able to do and that is clear large numbers of mobs. At the moment all I can do is isolate one mob launch my Thralls and hope we take it down.... cus I have no mana within ten seconds of engaging and all I do is run around topping up mana endlessly so the man doesn't zero out and I lose all on my active bar. If the mob is still up I have to run away and come back.

I cannot spend another 16,500 million XP in hope that it gets better. I just have no way of working this out on my own. And like I say the mana drains cus there are other players in proximity. Where the Iron Giants were is a camp and a few players active and the man just emptied instantly. what is worse is that I have to log off and return to stop the process when ebtering a city with other players. There is a bug sadly to my installation. If there aint then the class for me inplayable. Either way I guess I'm done. I guess I could level another mystic but never like ever do the Apex quest lines. Levelling seems generally pointless. And sorry but the grind is so boring if I can't actually use my skills. I have tried everything in the arsenal but sadly with zero mana at launch of attack I can't do anything. No idea how you could ever group with this problem. I really just drain to nothing the minute any other players become active around me. I've disabled every other buff I have. Makes no difference. I also get a large circular wave of red blast around my character when others are present and that is when the man drain starts.

Sorry to go on... but sadly I cannot go on. It was a real struggle to get to 66. If matters had changed I may have continued but with no mana to fight with I'm really stuffed. Its seriously pointless.

Hi

Level 65 Mystic and having some real issues with mana drain.

This is very odd and kinda driving me potty. Can I start by saying that once I reached Level 65 I hit a brick wall with my normal attack rotations as I basically was doing zero damage. And when I say zero, I mean zero. I adjusted my game plan and the only way I can clear stuff is to wait till Thrall of Wrath is up and then and only then I launch Thrall Augmentation and my Thrall of Protection. I can then target what ever mob or mobs I need to clear and in a matter of seconds I can normally kill what I need.

However, here is the big problem. I am unable to use any Aura or sustain my Augmentation after the initial ten seconds of the battle. The Thrall of Protection is like dead in seconds generally, but worse with just one Metamorphic Smite and Blast I am on zero mana. It just empties in seconds.

What I noticed, without even having any auras up if there are other players in the area my mana just runs out instantly. And that is with the augmentation disabled and the Thrall dismissed. I notice it even when I am in cities. I have no beneficial buffs active but if I have been using the Augmentation, then half a dozen of my spell icons are cycling and my mana is draining cus other players are in the vicinity. Last night I had just the two active icons for Vangueard Valor and Crystalbind and a series of my icons were cycling mana and I was losing it by the bucket full. Just standing in the city.

Though sometimes when there are no other players in the field I can have almost everything up and leave the thrall up plus the Augmentation and I am able to replenish mana at the same rate as losing with crystals and such. But as soon as anyone else comes into the area I just drain to zero and am unable to survive once the Wrath is down cus the Protection Thrall will be down and I will be on zero mana. Its worse when I do any solo dungeons I am just fighting an empty mana bar all the time.

As to health I never lose any really. Staying alive is not my problem. It is a mana drain that just is triggered by both Augmentation whether active or not, and definitely other players when active in the area. I just avoid other players at all cost. Its the same when even fishing and I have no buffs or thrall active... my icons start going bonkers and I just drain mana all the time. All happened after that awakening apex questline and I just wish I had never done it. I was OK before that. The trick is to log out and back in again when fishing and it stops it.

Is there any other mystic that can point me at the cause of the problem so I can try to disable what ever is draining the mana when I am static. I would love to use my spells but just can't cus they drain mana when other players are in the vicinity. You should see the drain... it just gushes out in seconds. Literally. Can I repeat... Augmenation and Thrall are not active and it still happens.

Hi

My saviour has been fishing in truth. I also did decide to go the crafting route. I did the Apex quest to the one on Fyrmount with the dragons up by the instance but as a mystic just can't kill them. They take out my thral instantly and then all I do is heal. My item level is now 433 and I created a set of Frostmetal. I just now need to get my proficiency in processing to 500 so I can create the Golden Daric. The broker prices are just too high. I have kinda given up on daily quests as they just don't give enough reward.

So its fishing and crafting and gathering and I have now completed two bars... on the XP bar whoo hoo.

Big news is that I subscribed back into the Tera club so I can get the production boost with the 1000 pts. Also great having the Spectral Tail to fly around with. I have now got a regime and its working. I did nearly three quarters of a bar today... incredible. Just 8 to go to 66. Mostly I want to enchant fully the Frostmetal so I can go kick those dragon thingies and finish that Apex quest.

Anyhoo... I'm good to go. I did the fishing quests and didn't realise you could leave your character on autopilot. I am actually enjoying treking around all the map getting materials for crafting. And now we have the cooking and fishing its made things more interesting. I also bagged a few costumes so I'm OK now. I use to play Tera a lot and loved it to death. So see how I get on.

I am gear level 434 currently so will up that to 438 and see how I get on. Not sure how to be honest but hey I'll have a go,

I have been playing since just after launch. I have seven Level 65 chars which I levelled to 60 to 65 this last two weeks. Previous to that I had way more characters but gave up after the first merge when I was forced to delete over half my characters including all the items that I had purchased for them. I was regularly subbed into the game but was so unhappy at the time I gave up.

A few days ago I purchased another character slot and levelled to 65 in a couple of days. This is the character I have now. I am weighing up again whether to sub here as I am a hardened WoW player with 50 chars there and many at 120 at high item level but am getting sick of BfA. I also play Archeage but since Trion went pop and so many merges and losing land I have lost heart there also.

I do have the time to play as much as I like. But Tera seems a little disjointed after 65 and I am struggling to find meaningful things to do. I am kinda troubled also at the prospect of doing all this again on my other characters. From the XP rewards so far I can't see how you can ever level to 66 in the time you state even with the boosts. I have a number of those gifted to me and still have a mail box full of goodies and gifts from years of playing.

I'll give it a go. I do like Tera but I also like purpose in what I do in terms of interesting content and not just a grind fest. Just not seeing anything really interesting to do at the moment. Anyway thanks for the help. I will see how I can upgrade the gear I was given. Can't afford the Trade Broker prices for anything... nothing new there.

Onwards.

....... EDIT UPDATE

So I did the cooking quests and killed everything on Isle of Dawn. I then plundered what I could and finally upgraded the gear to 439 and did the Velika Banquet quest. I was then sent to Essenia and spent a very annoying chain of kill fests involving mostly dragons. I can tell you playing Mystic with little fire power and a thral that dies the minute you sneeze on it... added to the fact it will not hold aggro... its no fun. OK if you are tanked up and have a good weapon, but in cloth and running around with just enough time to heal its not enjoyable. Anyway I freed all the prisoners and I am back up at Firemount. And to the left are the same mobs as on the right except the very same mobs are now Level 68. I am Level 65. So that's that then.. Have to come back in two years at this rate.

Thanks for the help but this is going to take forever, and for me its not really very enjoyable, especially as a Mystic. The XP bar has barely moved at all today. The Essenia quest chain didn't appear to move the XP bar at all. Like I say, maybe mine is broken. Either way not going to happen.

Thanks anyway.

This is a new character and hit Level 65 a few days ago. Since then I have done as many Vanguard Quests that I can do plus Olivenas Cooking. Mostly I have been killing stuff on Island of Dawn. I have only one other quest in my log and that is Thaumetal Refinery which is a dungeon. I am able to do Baracos Trial but cannot complete Lilith Keep cus the fire horse kills my thral instantly and then I can never do enough damage before I have to refresh him and or heal myself so I gave up.

The blue bar must have been ever so slightly increasing but so small as not to be noticable. I have been checking the numbers and they go up very slightly. Having calculated how much it has gone up these last three days I have now calculated it will take me a year to get to Level 66. Given it took me less than a day to get from 60 to 65 you gotta say this is a bit long.

I don't have any green quests other than Vanguard and there are none in Highwatch or Essenia or anywhere else on my map. I have only the cooking, that one dungeon and the Vanguard quests which I do the ones marked solo. There is nothing else. I can do other than that arena challenge but all of it at the moment just seems to be go kill ten of this large creature. I have done the Echo one a few times but thats really quite tedious now.

So where do I get these other green quests ? All I have tomorrow is the final bit of that cooking challenge on Island of Dawn. I even tried crafting and gathering to see if that helped but I get no XP from that. I did actually go to Tria and try a couple of the stone things but for me and the thral it was impossible. I am in the gear given to me at 65. I have enchanted as high as I can but have now run out of gold. Its actually very hard to be honest finding things to do. There doesn't seem to be any story related questing at this level, just the daily items I have done so far. So any help would be appreciated.

Do you have to buy into the game to gain XP after 65. I've been doing every Vanguard quest, dungeon, mission, killing ten of this and ten of that and I have gotten zero XP the bar hasn't moved. I kinda was ready to give up yesterday but today again I did my dungeons, arena champions things, vanguard quests and missions plus the Isle of Dawn kill ten of this ten of that endlessly and there has been no reward with XP.

So how do you earn XP in the game cus I'm getting absolutely none from what I am doing at the moment. Seems really pointless to me.

Was a bit frustrating but I got through the mobs eventually. They would appear and then vanish.. I just hung around a while till done.

The more annoying are those level 70 mobs stationed all over the place. Yesterday I was handing a quest in and someone must have pulled one and for some reason it attacked me and killed me instantly. Also I was doing the quest where you have to click the large machine part and there was one hiding actually in the machine part and I had obviously clicked it. They are real annoying... but hey its a free game so can't complain. All done now to 65 so thats that I guess. No problem.

So I am in Crimson Hammer Camp Sylvanoth and I have just started fighting all the mobs outside to do several quests. I begin with a couple and as I kill the first the second vanishes as does every mob in the immediate area. Its empty devoid of anything. Nothing to kill for as far as the eye can see. Where they all go? I walk around. I am level 58. And then I see something flying overhead. And loads of small circles on the map.

Earlier I was in the adjacant camp and had to wait over 15 minutes for the boss mobs and associated mobs to appear. And I guess that was the same thing. So the game now removes all ground based mobs in zones with these high level activities going on. If so how long do I have to wait for it to clear. I aint got anything to do now here and I need to complete my story quests at least. Seems a bit bonkers to me but hey.

I tried logging out and back in but no difference.