Edvardelis
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Bad idea.
Drops and experience are much better from instances than they are from grinding quests.
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Bad idea.
Drops and experience are much better from instances than they are from grinding quests.
Robobandit
Member
Scrolls level up extraction.. which is pulling materials from items.
To level mining, you need to run around to mineral nodes and harvest from them.
I'm at mining lv 251.. 49 points away from the halo.. need to find some xermetal ore nodes next..
but there are like "find x number of x" like quests or the game doesen't explain it precisely?
how do i know which one i need?
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
Really, whenever you're out questing or killing or...wandering? You'll see the random ore, energy, or plant nodes. Gathering from them gives you your skill points.
The things you're referring to (I think) are the stuff like "Happy Flower" or "Monkey Skulls" or something. Those are quest specific. The little mining nodes or floating energy crystals you see are for your gathering skills. Go up to them and hit "F" to gather. They're for crafting purposes, but SOME quests have you turn in like, 10 of those common ingredients for completion.
Scrolls are for extraction. In my experience, extraction is worthless. I have level 7 or 8 alchemy extraction and have gotten the same item every time. Lame.
agreed
Yeah this is the second time I've had to block specific images in this thread, haha.
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
For these, open your quest log and click the text of the item you need to find. It will show on your minimap little "hot spots" as to about where you can find them. Just like a kill or hunt or landmark quest, it gives you a good idea where to head.
Edvardelis
Member
Except Sigil Adstringo. Drops are really rare and everyone skips 95% of the trash.
It is one of the ones that used to be level 60, though, so I wonder if that has anything to do with it.
I have the exact same issue.
23 warrior on JC
21 warrior on VoT
20 Sorc
21 Arch
I have a feeling I'm never going to get max level lol
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
Question about Bhaozurbas in CR (final boss).
He does an attack where he goes football crouch and lunges at you with his swords. He does a scissor style swipe at you, right? Well as a Lancer, I setup to block this, but it ALWAYS damages me. Is that attack unblockable or is it doing back damage? I can block EVERY other attack except this one.
He does an attack where he goes football crouch and lunges at you with his swords. He does a scissor style swipe at you, right? Well as a Lancer, I setup to block this, but it ALWAYS damages me. Is that attack unblockable or is it doing back damage? I can block EVERY other attack except this one.
Dead Prince
Banned
can you leash him to interrupt his move?
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
Sure, but then I'm wasting the leash CD for when I need to stop his summon. :\
EvaTType01
Neo Member
hey,
the cool thing i found about with the game, is the ability to locate everything on the maps. If you press "L", you can mouseclick on the names of enemies or objectives and they pop on the mini-map, SO AMAZING~
Yeah guys i knew about the tracker, i got out of the mine last night, without it i would probably never find a thing there ^^
I mean if there was something like that for mining materials ^^
yeah that's what i was lookin for, just how do i know what to gather?
I mean if there was something like that for mining materials ^^
yeah that's what i was lookin for, just how do i know what to gather?
Robobandit
Member
You buy them from the weaponsmithing materials vendor in the smithing area.. there's a 'parts' tab on that vendor screen.
Hellsing321
Member
The armor and weapon smiths sell them in Velkia
You get different materials depending on the tier of the item you are extracting from.
EvaTType01
Neo Member
guys, new instance i got is for SM, however i have no quests involving SM yet, whats the max level btw for SM? and also, does max lvl matter? im lvl 26 btw
we.are.the.armada
Member
Nico, YMMV but I use my charge attack against BAM moves like that since it causes a sort of exploit frame set which can make you go through the BAM to the other side.
UPDATED LIST
**LAST UPDATED 5/8/12**
compiled from: http://www.reddit.com/r/TeraOnline/comments/t9xlj/list_all_the_tips_and_tricks_you_have_discovered/
Hold down "E" to fire off pre-generated attack commands
Your inventory has an "auto sort" option. Open your inventory and look at the icon on the bottom right
You can scale down your quest tracker UI so you are able to see all 7 quests
When picking up multiple loot items: dont mash "F", just hold it down. You'll walk to and pick up each item
Shift + arrow keys pans your camera so your toon isn't in the middle of the field of view. In general I leave it centered, but there are some times where it's handy to be left- or right-shifted.
Fall damage will not kill you; jump off of any height drop offs with no problem
You can kite most BAMs without too much trouble and break combat to drop camp fires or use bandages, useful for soloing (the BAM will not reset as long as you do not run away too far)
When you have aggro on a BAM you will have a red circle effect underneath your character; purple indicates that the BAM is casting something at you
Places with merchants will have both a crystal vendor and a specialty vendor; higher quality/more expensive crystals are available at the latter, though there may be some discrepancies in available crystals (you cannot buy a higher quality in combat move speed crystal for example). The specialty store also has bandages which I would recommend stocking up on.
Move to a lesser populated channel to get more gather nodes, avoid getting killed in PvP, and in general just have an easier time doing non-PvP things
Change your chain skills hotkey to something else in the off chance you have to jump (such as here http://puu.sh/tlFi if you happen to move into the center somehow)
Typically you will lose crystals on death, it is useful to have spares ready
Most places have a "Cleric/Noble Cleric of Restoration" near where you resurrect. Use them to instantly restore your stamina for a relatively cheap price. They show up on your map
When your cursor is up, shift-click on someone to bring them to the center of your screen and look at them. This also works on NPCs and (maybe) mobs
You can drag quests in the quest tracker to change the order of them
If you control+left click a point on the map while zoomed in you'll create a Point of Interest that your friends or party can check. It'll mark a spot on the map
If you ever run out of teleport scroll, you can use the unstuck "function" to teleport to the nearest town. Or you can be a cheap [filtered] and use it on every cool down
Use all regen crystals on PVP servers while leveling. It is funny as hell well people complain that you use pots... especially when you do not
If you are questing and are tasked to gather quest objects, such as a certain flower, you can gather the object, switch channel, and the object will be there again as long as nobody in that channel gathered the object before you
Turn on show your own cooldowns in the UI menu. You won't have to look at your skill bars ever again.
Turn on show player skill. This will show what other spells players are casting. Very useful for PvP
You can turn off Area chat under the general tab so you can actually see your guild chat message. Right click on the tab. I have my Area and LFG chat off in another window when I do need to PUG
I added guild chat the the bargain channel, renamed it to guild and moved it up next to general, for easy filtering.
If you received a horse as a preorder bonus, you can start using it at level 11. Find the item claim option in the menu. Makes the last few missions on Noob Island go a lot quicker
Also, when you get to Velika and get the mount from questing there, sell it to a vendor for 2 gold (a lot of money at level 11).
Press 'Y' to bring up the LFG tool. Almost no one uses it now, but hopefully as more players discover it, it'll become more useful. Same goes for the LFD (dungeon) tool. More players use this one, but judging by the amount of LFG messages in area chat I think it could be used more.
If you're crafting, sort mats by the 'per item' price at the broker. When you search for the item and click on the price column, I think the first time it sorts it by total purchase price high to low. Click again and it reverses. Click a third time and it sorts by the 'per item' price. That's the most important number for the smart shopper.
This sounds obvious but I've talked to more than one player that didn't realize you can rebind pretty much everything. As you progress there are more and more skills you'll need to have easy access to. Putting them all at 1 through 9 (and F1 through F9) isn't ideal.
Also seems obvious, but still missed by players: use the teleport masters in the larger cities to get where you need to go a bit faster. If you get killed, you can usually teleport back to very close to where you were.
Shift right-click to sell a specific number of items from a stack at the broker. Especially lower-end stuff, as selling huge stacks will make the total price too much for noobs to spend.
At higher levels go back an oneshot BAMs (eg basilisks) to farm 100% stamina potions
If you want to quickly get an item's name in the AH search, you can put your cursor in the text field, and then control+leftclick the item in order to paste the item name directly in there. Saves you having to type some of these horrible names.
When you die and ressurect back in town, be sure to use the cleric of restoration to restore your mana. It's only about 25s. Cheaper than potting for stamina and you can skip the wait time. Almost every pug group I've been in that have died and ressurected back in town does not use this
Gold weapons come with 3 random mods on them (the random mods have the green circles at the end of them) and are automatically identified. You can change them if you buy the 5g scroll from the merchant and re-identify it. 50+ golds drop as enigmatic and you have to identify them yourself them first time.
From my experience, use white color gear for +1 to +3, green color gear for +3 to +5, and blue/green gear to +6. I've made +6 with both but I have also failed 10+ to 6, its all luck.
Story quests give you all the gear you need. Dungeon drops are just a bonus. Next set of story armor is Lv42 gold weapon and armor set. After that you get a set of 44 blue that has better
you can "swap" your crystal under the equipment screen. The numbers 1-5 right below your armor saves the state of your equipment. I have been using it to swap out my crystals between attack and HP/MP regen. shift + 1-5 will toggle your crystal set up. just make sure you hit the save button whenever you equip a new armor/weapon.stats. And after that you get a set of 48 golds that has even better stats. My advice is: save all the gold you get and level up with story quest gear
in a group you can use page up to roll on loot, and page down to pass. Much more efficient than switching to ui mode if you don't need to check the took tip.
Leveling all 3 gathering skills to 300 gives you a free inventory slot, and dinging Lv.50 gives another free slot
set loot to RARE to have it roll on blue items
type /location to allow others to click the link to find you in the world.
you can use Q to label targets in case you want to take them down in any order
you can adjust the font size for the quest tracker alone, so all 7 maximum quests easily fit on your UI. I run the game in 1920x1080 mode and a scale of "90" works perfectly
**LAST UPDATED 5/8/12**
compiled from: http://www.reddit.com/r/TeraOnline/comments/t9xlj/list_all_the_tips_and_tricks_you_have_discovered/
Hold down "E" to fire off pre-generated attack commands
Your inventory has an "auto sort" option. Open your inventory and look at the icon on the bottom right
You can scale down your quest tracker UI so you are able to see all 7 quests
When picking up multiple loot items: dont mash "F", just hold it down. You'll walk to and pick up each item
Shift + arrow keys pans your camera so your toon isn't in the middle of the field of view. In general I leave it centered, but there are some times where it's handy to be left- or right-shifted.
Fall damage will not kill you; jump off of any height drop offs with no problem
You can kite most BAMs without too much trouble and break combat to drop camp fires or use bandages, useful for soloing (the BAM will not reset as long as you do not run away too far)
When you have aggro on a BAM you will have a red circle effect underneath your character; purple indicates that the BAM is casting something at you
Places with merchants will have both a crystal vendor and a specialty vendor; higher quality/more expensive crystals are available at the latter, though there may be some discrepancies in available crystals (you cannot buy a higher quality in combat move speed crystal for example). The specialty store also has bandages which I would recommend stocking up on.
Move to a lesser populated channel to get more gather nodes, avoid getting killed in PvP, and in general just have an easier time doing non-PvP things
Change your chain skills hotkey to something else in the off chance you have to jump (such as here http://puu.sh/tlFi if you happen to move into the center somehow)
Typically you will lose crystals on death, it is useful to have spares ready
Most places have a "Cleric/Noble Cleric of Restoration" near where you resurrect. Use them to instantly restore your stamina for a relatively cheap price. They show up on your map
When your cursor is up, shift-click on someone to bring them to the center of your screen and look at them. This also works on NPCs and (maybe) mobs
You can drag quests in the quest tracker to change the order of them
If you control+left click a point on the map while zoomed in you'll create a Point of Interest that your friends or party can check. It'll mark a spot on the map
If you ever run out of teleport scroll, you can use the unstuck "function" to teleport to the nearest town. Or you can be a cheap [filtered] and use it on every cool down
Use all regen crystals on PVP servers while leveling. It is funny as hell well people complain that you use pots... especially when you do not
If you are questing and are tasked to gather quest objects, such as a certain flower, you can gather the object, switch channel, and the object will be there again as long as nobody in that channel gathered the object before you
Turn on show your own cooldowns in the UI menu. You won't have to look at your skill bars ever again.
Turn on show player skill. This will show what other spells players are casting. Very useful for PvP
You can turn off Area chat under the general tab so you can actually see your guild chat message. Right click on the tab. I have my Area and LFG chat off in another window when I do need to PUG
I added guild chat the the bargain channel, renamed it to guild and moved it up next to general, for easy filtering.
If you received a horse as a preorder bonus, you can start using it at level 11. Find the item claim option in the menu. Makes the last few missions on Noob Island go a lot quicker
Also, when you get to Velika and get the mount from questing there, sell it to a vendor for 2 gold (a lot of money at level 11).
Press 'Y' to bring up the LFG tool. Almost no one uses it now, but hopefully as more players discover it, it'll become more useful. Same goes for the LFD (dungeon) tool. More players use this one, but judging by the amount of LFG messages in area chat I think it could be used more.
If you're crafting, sort mats by the 'per item' price at the broker. When you search for the item and click on the price column, I think the first time it sorts it by total purchase price high to low. Click again and it reverses. Click a third time and it sorts by the 'per item' price. That's the most important number for the smart shopper.
This sounds obvious but I've talked to more than one player that didn't realize you can rebind pretty much everything. As you progress there are more and more skills you'll need to have easy access to. Putting them all at 1 through 9 (and F1 through F9) isn't ideal.
Also seems obvious, but still missed by players: use the teleport masters in the larger cities to get where you need to go a bit faster. If you get killed, you can usually teleport back to very close to where you were.
Shift right-click to sell a specific number of items from a stack at the broker. Especially lower-end stuff, as selling huge stacks will make the total price too much for noobs to spend.
At higher levels go back an oneshot BAMs (eg basilisks) to farm 100% stamina potions
If you want to quickly get an item's name in the AH search, you can put your cursor in the text field, and then control+leftclick the item in order to paste the item name directly in there. Saves you having to type some of these horrible names.
When you die and ressurect back in town, be sure to use the cleric of restoration to restore your mana. It's only about 25s. Cheaper than potting for stamina and you can skip the wait time. Almost every pug group I've been in that have died and ressurected back in town does not use this
Gold weapons come with 3 random mods on them (the random mods have the green circles at the end of them) and are automatically identified. You can change them if you buy the 5g scroll from the merchant and re-identify it. 50+ golds drop as enigmatic and you have to identify them yourself them first time.
From my experience, use white color gear for +1 to +3, green color gear for +3 to +5, and blue/green gear to +6. I've made +6 with both but I have also failed 10+ to 6, its all luck.
Story quests give you all the gear you need. Dungeon drops are just a bonus. Next set of story armor is Lv42 gold weapon and armor set. After that you get a set of 44 blue that has better
you can "swap" your crystal under the equipment screen. The numbers 1-5 right below your armor saves the state of your equipment. I have been using it to swap out my crystals between attack and HP/MP regen. shift + 1-5 will toggle your crystal set up. just make sure you hit the save button whenever you equip a new armor/weapon.stats. And after that you get a set of 48 golds that has even better stats. My advice is: save all the gold you get and level up with story quest gear
in a group you can use page up to roll on loot, and page down to pass. Much more efficient than switching to ui mode if you don't need to check the took tip.
Leveling all 3 gathering skills to 300 gives you a free inventory slot, and dinging Lv.50 gives another free slot
set loot to RARE to have it roll on blue items
type /location to allow others to click the link to find you in the world.
you can use Q to label targets in case you want to take them down in any order
you can adjust the font size for the quest tracker alone, so all 7 maximum quests easily fit on your UI. I run the game in 1920x1080 mode and a scale of "90" works perfectly
popsicle_sundays
Member
It will stun/interrupt most BAM's so it's very useful (especially if a BAM is enraged)
interesting, ill try that tactic out
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
That's how to deal with mechanics like "Boss runs to center and summons x". You use leash to stop them and it interrupts that mechanic. A+
if it's grayed out then it's not applied until you enchant the weapon. It will usually say +3 blah blah blah. That means you have to enchant the weapon to a +3 for that to activate.
I dont mean the enchant bonuses.
You see the stats in green with the green circle beside them. What do the little green circles mean.
What. I've just been guided through the whole level 27 dungeon (the one for the story) by a level 58 mystic and got an orange disc and necklace from the boss.
I'm starting to really like jTERA, especially since there actually ARE people there, if you play during "normal" hours.
I'm starting to really like jTERA, especially since there actually ARE people there, if you play during "normal" hours.
I dont mean the enchant bonuses.
You see the stats in green with the green circle beside them. What do the little green circles mean.
oh. I think that means they are a random bonus.
I dont mean the enchant bonuses.
You see the stats in green with the green circle beside them. What do the little green circles mean.
They are random:
Gold weapons come with 3 random mods on them (the random mods have the green circles at the end of them) and are automatically identified. You can change them if you buy the 5g scroll from the merchant and re-identify it. 50+ golds drop as enigmatic and you have to identify them yourself them first time.
I just can't decide if I want to play a class that I might not enjoy leveling solo (lancer) but can fulfill a different role from my slayer, or if I should play a second class that fills the same role of DPS (berserker).
BlazingDarkness
Member
There are glyphs available which extend the reach the leash has
To clarify -- The 5g scroll to "re-identify"... does that mean you can keep getting totally new random mods on the same item??
Yes. You can also lock in the mods you like with other items, so that when you re-identify, it will just redo the ones you haven't locked in.
As you can see, this will get very expensive.
Dead Prince
Banned
pfft.
For anyone new to the game (or not so new), be sure to check out the guide videos this guy did for all the classes:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Domeran/videos
He describes skills, how to rotate them for max impact, glyphs, etc. Very good information in every video.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Domeran/videos
He describes skills, how to rotate them for max impact, glyphs, etc. Very good information in every video.
Should I get to 60 first before rolling an alt then?
Yeah his vids are decent, but I think information is lacking at times and only paints a one-sided picture with builds and such. It's a good start, but it would do you good to read/check other guides as well. The class guides are more quick run downs if anything.
I see most tanks trying to get their back against a wall when they are tanking. The CR place has no real walls either so it should give you good visibility.
Did a few dungeon runs today, got a sword with 3.9 k atk and 2x boss dmg modifier vs my old one which was 3.7 k atk with an aspd modifier. Not sure which is better, guess I'll save one for boss fights and the other for pvp stuff....until I get an actual enchantable weapon
I've spent a rather hefty amount of gold on all sorts of crystals...why do they have to be so expensive
Welcome aboard! I have a couple chars around that level - I'll watch for you tonight.
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