Topic: TERA
Westernized Korean action mmo. I personally hate eastern grinders, I pre-ordered Aion and quit that game at level 9 (I mention this because it get compared to Aion a fair bit). I'm almost lvl 30 in this and it's been fun. The combat is amazing, the graphics are gorgeous, the quests are tedious linear and boring so if you're an alt-o-holic you will have issues. Crafting and some other things are a little weird to this American but it's still fun to play just because of the action combat. There are no battlegrounds or arenas yet but they're supposed to be being patched in over the summer. All the pvp right now is open world.
I've played mortalonline, darkfall, and morrowind, etc, and this is the best action rpg system I've ever seen by miles. There is no tab targeting you have to aim and you can "chain" skills together to create your own combos if you want. There are no stealth classes at all so if you want to be a rogue warrior is the closest and it's getting buffed in a patch soon.
It has some other stuff too like guilds can have an elected official that can actually control the way areas in the game work for example I was in the Poppori capital yesterday and the guild with a vanarch (official) in shut off all the specialty vendors just to be *** I guess. Their pvp-flagging system pretty much encourages griefing since you have to flag as an "outlaw" to attack someone who isn't flagged (can't be done in a city) which means anyone can attack you without having to flag themselves. The timer is like 10 or 15 minutes or something and you gain "infamy" points the details of which I don't really understand.
Anyway, I got the CE from Amazon for $30 on sale with a month of playtime. I don't know if that deal is still up or not but I think it's worth it. If there are other perp players looking for a tank I'm on Valley of Titans PvP server as a Lancer tank, Jolly.Green.Giant
$.02 o7
<GM Synapse> please don't abuse our fresh players before blowing them up. And for god sakes, don't do that after it!