Fashion of TERA

I've read some people complaining about the lack of armor variety in TERA. I'm not sure what they're talking about. Maybe as a Priest I have more armor variety, but I wanted to show you folks some of the various dresses my Priest has worn so far.

Newbie Outfit, note how well clothed she is...

One of the first pretty dresses I picked up. I love this color

Pretty in pink, different style from the purple dress

A little dark, but I love the sunburst on the side. Same as the pink dress just a different color

This was my favorite. pretty blue with a really nice flower/vine going up the side

Neat design. I don't know how much I liked the gold...

I don't like brown very much... 

My current outfit. I'm digging the corset type thing

So, that enough variety for you? I'm only level 37! That's 8 different dresses. I think 8 diverse looking outfits is pretty good in 37 levels. I'm happy with the variety of my character's clothes. The game is gorgeous and even though I wish her breasts were smaller I love the way Edyarea looks.

I wonder if I take too many screenshots....

Healing as a Priest in TERA

In Tera I made a rule for myself that I could not create any alts until I hit level 60, which has been challenging... I'm curious as to how the other classes play and it's eating at me that I can't find out. I picked a priest because I wanted to know how healing would be translated to "true action combat". Also, everyone needs a healer in their party. I'm level 37 right now and have  a handful of healing spells. A self direct heal, a party direct heal, and three aoe type heals. I also am able to cleanse harmful effects like poison. The heal I seem to use the most is Restorative Burst. Here's a picture of it for ya.

White ring = Restorative Burst

Restorative Burst
Basically you cast a white ring on the floor 10 yards in front of your character. Anyone who stands in the ring gets healed for quite a bit.

Focus Heal
The direct heal, Focus Heal, let's you target 3 party members and heal them directly. By target I mean hover over the character and then press space. Your party members turn green when they are targeted so you know who is about to be healed.

Regeneration Circle
Regeneration Circle makes a huge circle around you and puts a HoT (Heal over Time) on everyone in it.

Healing Circle
Healing Circle is similar to Restorative Burst. It puts a little circle directly in front of your character and directly heals whoever is in it.

So there it is, the first couple healing spells I've seen. While trying to properly place heals you have to avoid getting hit from attacks. I've died a couple times to BAMs swings due to trying to get in close to save my party members. T.T dead priest cannot heal.

Tera has a fun and interactive healing system. I'd like to try the Mystic for comparison, but until I hit 60 I'm stuck with my Priest.

In closing I leave you with the frog drum.

Hehe Frog Drum!

Current Gaming Goals

Lyrestra at Musing of an altoholic wrote an end-of-expansion bucket list, so I've decided I would write my current gaming goals.

Diablo 3
-Finish campaign on Cuddles my Barbarian in Normal Hardcore mode
-Finish campaign on Lillyann my Sorcerer in Normal Hardcore mode with my boyfriend's Monk

Tera
-Reach level 60 on my Priest
-Start an alt after Priest hits 60

WoW
-Down Deathwing with my guild, Skrubz Inc, on Ninakas
-Get more achievements on Kasaii

Batman Arkham City
-Finish game before my shift at GameStop on Saturday May 18, 2012

Final Fantasy XIII-2
-Finish game
-Do all side quests/missions/objectives

Rosetta Stone
-Finish all 3 levels of Japanese before my Totale subscription expires in September 2012

Well that seems like a decent list so far. I'm not allowing myself to buy more console games until I beat a good chunk of the ones I own. It'll be a long time before I buy another game... but at least with the ability to check-out games at GameStop, I can try a lot of the games I've had my eye on for a long time, like LA Noire and Red Dead Redemption.

I would also like to thank Syp from Biobreak and  Huntress Maruka from Neurotic Girl: Games Keep Me Sane for mentioning my blog. 

TERA first impression

Hi my name is Susi and I'm addicted to MMOs. I picked up TERA last Thursday  and haven't been able to stop playing since. I have a severe case of altoholism, but this time I decided to stick to one character until I hit 60 and then make an alt. After debating my way through which class I should play, I realized characters were mostly stuck in their roles, so I picked a Priest. Primarily so that I can group later on (without having to wait 30min+ for a group), and I always end up playing a healer so might as well just start with one. Edyarea was my first character in the original Everquest, a high elf Cleric. I tend to remake her any chance I can. So behold! The new Edyarea!

T.T why can't I make her chest smaller?

I journey into the game and play the first couple levels. The first thing you notice about TERA is how beautiful it is. The female characters are a bit... under-clothed, but have some very pretty outfits. The world itself is a joy to look at. I can see why people think WoW looks terrible now, with so many pretty MMOs coming out. Honestly the beauty of TERA reminds me a bit of Rift. I was impressed with how pretty the world in Rift looks as well.

So in most other MMOs your quick travel is either a teleport or riding on a mount of some sort in a set path. TERA does have some teleportation but they also included Pegasus flight paths.

First look of the first major city

So ya I was thinking the Pegasus look cool. Pretty anyway, and I happen to really like pretty things and flying horsies. But then something awesome happened.

Pegasus! Enable WARP DRIVE!!

OH YEAH! Warp drive Pegasus! I thought it was pretty neat, and it does make the flight paths a little faster. I just chuckle every time I go through one of these. It feels like space MMO meets fantasy MMO.

That's all about TERA for now folks. Next time I'll talk about combat, group play, and why healing is mildly more entertaining in this game. Stay tuned!

PS if you are playing and would like a Priest buddy I'm level 24 right now on Freeholds. Character name is Edyarea