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My Backloggery
There are race specific abilities, but Elin make fine Lancers
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Yea, they're both pretty excellent afaik.
Are they not in until launch either?
Earring and gold lvl 35 rings you can redeem by going to item claim in the social menu
the necklace is a CE item and won't be available until launch.
Just like our goddamn lions.
Lion flavor in my mouth.
Yeah really. I waited 5 years to play gw2, but now I can't even bother to play it after its first day of BWE. The combat is really that much more fun.
This is how I'm finding it too. Now, there are like a million other things that make GW2 fantastic. But at the very base if it all, the combat is TERA is just better.
I personally am very much enjoying my Archer, but it is disheartening to think that other Archers who have gotten to high levels might have reason to re-roll. I love their mobility on the battlefield, not to mention the very cool animations that come with different shots, jumps, and close-range attacks.
I will say that, while the evidence for a tank shortage is present (many groups advertising that they need a tank and then are 'gtg'), I see tons of Lancers running around. Also, groups advertising their need for DPS is quite common, giving me hope that this will be one game where maybe the shortage isn't quite so stark.
That said, I do also have my Lancer which I played a bit yesterday. For some reason, I couldn't quite get into it the way I did in the beta, though I'm not quite sure why. I basically felt like I was getting frustrated with things taking so long to die, so I'd stop blocking to try and burn them down, which meant I was taking too much damage. This is what happens after playing an Archer all day I suppose.
For all future Euro-Tera players, buy the American version from the Tera website and join the PA guild. It plays really well even from Europe and you'll end up with a much much better publisher for the game (En Masse) instead of the European one (Frogster)
But if you want to play the Euro Version, buy the Physical CE and sell me your map!
Human archer, soo much better...
I'm dead serious."
On the other hand, man is it nice to not just be a 'click dude, wait til it dies' game. It's satisfying enough blocking and such.
My Backloggery
I went with a castanic archer because the human archer didn't look like she was actually shooting a bow. Something about the basic attack animation just made me meh.
I did go human for my priest though. They get some amazing looking armor at end game.
I played a Warrior in the JP version up to around Lv12 and enjoyed it a lot. I want to be able to Tank though, but would hate it if all parties only want Lancers as tanks.
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Edit: I've heard that warriors are getting improvements to their tanking abilities.
I think you'll be fine tanking on warrior. Will a lancer be MORE accepted? Yeah, probably, especially at first. But a tank is a tank, and they're normally needed.
I've healed warrior tanks in guild and didn't have any problems. And they weren't even set up properly for tanking. Practice matters on that class though, def.
And really, I think this is one of the "problems" with skill based gameplay. If Lancer can tank with a much lower skill cap than warriors, people will (at least in pugs) want Lancer as their tank 99% of the time because the skill of your tank is going to be an unknown quantity. This is just in terms of straight up ability to survive, too, before getting into the fact that the warrior's mobile tanking makes it harder for the rest of the group to do *their* jobs.
So if you want both tanks to be "viable" (viable in terms of accepted by the broader playerbase) you have to change warrior and/or lancer so that they can be played effectively at similar skill levels, and this probably means damaging a number of things that make both of those classes unique and fun to begin with. It's kind of a catch 22.
You saw this a lot with WoW's various tanking classes (healers as well, really), and I'm really hoping it doesn't happen here.
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Kinda makes me want to play one.
The difference is in regards to everyone /else/, I feel.
A lancer just sits there. everyone piles up behind the mob and goes wild. Most dont have super regular/effective rear attacks.
Warriors aggro draw and stun are linked. Lancer has seperate aggro and stun mechanics. (Which is important when people draw more aggro at higher levels and you need to hold off on shout til the mob attention wanders a bit.)
Lancer can heal itself and healers have an easier time healing them since they just sit in one spot unless forcefully moved. Lancers have ways to move smaller adds towards them if one wanders off.
I think the big issue is people who play warrior either have to be as aware of their team as they are of themselves when dodging, or their team has to be used to a warrior tank so they aren't caught standing in the wrong place.
I dunno, I'd like to try a warrior tank at some point, but I think the lancer being able to effectively lock down an enemy into a one on one style confrontation while everyone else just does their thing is probably more useful as far as efficient dungeon runs.
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Not sure what level you are at yet but later on when you are fighting BAMs you will have to move a lot more. Not really to avoid their attacks since you can block mot of those, but because the BAMs themselves start jumping all over the place and you have to move around and pick them back up to keep aggro.
Lvl 20+ is where the game really starts to shine for all classes really.
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Ed & Larry : "Doesn't matter."
I recently was gifted a thing in Steam. If it was from you, thank you very much!
Probably because we don't have any true DPS classes in the party.
One slayer would've made that take half the time.
Also, I posted it for the joke, which may have sounded funnier to my guildies at the time, heh...
I'm dead serious."
I soloed that quest on my Slayer BARELY.
Nothing dropped for me, and being 25 it might've actually subtracted experience, but I did it! Thanks to the people who were almost guilted into running me through a couple hours ago. It would've been magic. I know how you worry...
Tanking changes.