Start the new year right in TERA with patch 102—the first update of the year with two brand-new instances, new gear, and dungeon improvements!



A total of four new instances are being added: two brand-new ones, and two you haven’t seen in TERA for a long, long time!



**Instance Info:**

* Designed for 5-player groups from item level 501

* No entry limits

* Accessible from level 70

* Can be entered via group matching

* Entry costs 350 Adventure Coins

* 50%/100% more loot when 4/5 players are in the group

* Added dungeon to the dungeon rankings


**Possible Loot Includes:**

* Ishara’s Halidom II, Amarun’s Relic II

* Magic Ingot

* Lumikan’s Horn Piece

* Soul Greedhead’s Option Change Scroll [Weapon]

* Soul Greedhead’s Option Change Scroll [Armor]

* Etching IV (Brooch)


**Daily Quest Rewards (per completion, for the first 16 daily quests):**

* 6,000 Gold

* 100x Vanguard Initiative Credits

* EP XP++

* 1x Dragonwing Scale

* 100x Noctenium Infusion



**Instance Info:**

* Designed for 5-player groups from item level 498

* No entry limits

* Accessible from level 70

* Can be entered via group matching

* Entry costs 280 Adventure Coins

* 50%/100% more loot when 4/5 players are in the group


**Possible Loot Includes:**

* Ishara’s Halidom I, Amarun’s Relic I

* Magic Alloy

* Lumikan’s Wing Fragment

* Soul Greedhead’s Option Change Scroll [Weapon]

* Soul Greedhead’s Option Change Scroll [Armor]

* Azart Force War Trophy Chest


**Daily Quest Rewards (per completion, for the first 16 daily quests):**

* 4,500 Gold

* 75x Vanguard Initiative Credits

* EP XP++

* 1x Dragonwing Scale

* 75x Noctenium Infusion



**Instance Info:**

* Designed for 5-player groups from item level 501

* No entry limits

* Accessible from level 70

* Can be entered via group matching

* Entry costs 350 Adventure Coins

* 50%/100% more loot when 4/5 players are in the group


**Possible Loot Includes:**

* Ishara’s Halidom II, Amarun’s Relic II

* Magic Ingot

* Soul Greedhead’s Option Change Scroll [Weapon]

* Soul Greedhead’s Option Change Scroll [Armor]

* Etching IV (Brooch)


**Daily Quest Rewards (per completion, for the first 16 daily quests):**

* 6,000 Gold

* 100x Vanguard Initiative Credits

* EP XP++

* 1x Dragonwing Scale

* 100x Noctenium Infusion



**Instance Info:**

* Designed for 5-player groups from item level 479

* No entry limits

* Accessible from level 70

* Can be entered via group matching

* Entry costs 200 Adventure Coins

* 50%/100% more loot when 4/5 players are in the group


**Possible Loot Includes:**

* Kaia’s Gear Box

* Improved Dark Shard Weapon Feedstock

* Improved Dark Shard Armor Feedstock

* Rare Relic or Halidom II

* Etching II (Earring, Necklace)

* Azart Force Loot Chest

* Azart Force War Trophy Chest

* Unstable Soul Option Change Scroll [Weapon]

* Unstable Soul Option Change Scroll [Armor]

* Blightoath Medallion


**Daily Quest Rewards (per completion, for the first 16 daily quests):**

* 3,500 Gold

* 40x Vanguard Initiative Credits

* EP XP++

* 1x Dragonwing Scale

* 30x Noctenium Infusion

* 40x Skill Advancement Scroll II

* 25x Skill Advancement Scroll III

* 20x Skill Optimization Scroll II



**Instance Info:**

* Designed for 5-player groups from item level 464

* No entry limits

* Accessible from level 66

* Can be entered via group matching

* Entry costs 180 Adventure Coins

* 50%/100% more loot when 4/5 players are in the group


**Possible Loot Includes:**

* Kaia’s Gear Box

* Improved Dark Shard Weapon Feedstock

* Improved Dark Shard Armor Feedstock

* Rare Relic or Halidom I

* Equipment Etching IV

* Azart Force Loot Chest

* Azart Force War Trophy Chest

* Unstable Soul Option Change Scroll [Weapon]

* Unstable Soul Option Change Scroll [Armor]


**Daily Quest Rewards (per completion, for the first 16 daily quests):**

* 3,000 Gold

* 40x Vanguard Initiative Credits

* EP XP++

* 1x Dragonwing Scale

* 30x Noctenium Infusion

* 40x Skill Advancement Scroll I

* 25x Skill Advancement Scroll II

* 20x Skill Optimization Scroll I





The breakdown of instances from level 66 is now as follows:



The rewards and the strength of the opponents have been adjusted accordingly. The solo dungeons have also been reworked to focus on skill advancement scrolls and old enchanting materials.



The following dungeons are closing their doors:

* Sky Cruiser (Hard)

* Forbidden Arena [Nightmare Undying Warlord]

* Draakon Arena (Hard)

* Grotto of Lost Souls (Hard)

* Forbidden Arena [Hagufna]

* Gossamer Vault (Hard)

* Antaroth’s Abyss (Hard)

* RK-9 Kennel

* Red Refuge

* Thaumetal Refinery

* Macellarius Catacombs

* Velik’s Hold

* Velik’s Sanctuary


Training grounds belonging to the listed dungeons will be removed from the game accordingly. Dungeon Gauntlets will also be removed with this update for the time being.



There’s also new gear to be had in patch 102: Kaia’s Soul Gear! To kick things off a weapon and armor will be available in January, with hand and foot armor following in patch 103. New items (accessories) are currently not planned for this set.


How to get the new gear:

The Kaia’s Soul set is an upgrade to Kaia’s Wisdom/Fury Gear and works as follows:

* You Kaia’s Wisdom/Fury armor or weapon must be at +15.

* The item must be soulbound to you.

* You need 10x Lumikan’s Wing Fragment and 5,000 Gold.


If you fulfill these requirements, you can upgrade your gear with a single click (100% chance of success). The new item will be immediately bound to you, but it can be liberated five times (used number is reset).


The upgrade transforms your item into a Kaia’s Soul item with 0 of 3 possible random options, regardless of whether the original item had 0 or 3 options.


Etchings and fusion options are also lost when upgrading. However, new options and etchings can be added using the existing systems.



Kaia’s Soul Gear can be enchanted up to +9 and will never lose an enchantment level that has already been reached. So if you have reached +8, you will be able to reach an even higher level but you will never fall back to +7!


Other than this one alteration, the system remains unchanged. Only the materials and their sources are new:





The chances of success when enchanting are shown in game, and a familiar feature is making a return: enchantment correction. Each unsuccessful enchantment attempt slightly increases your chances of success the next time you try!


How to get more options:

The system is identical to the current one. However, there will be new scrolls that allow options on gear to be redone.


The functions and sources of the scrolls are as follows:


The effects are as follows:

While you can no longer drop to a lower level from enchantment levels +7, +8, and +9, they are time-consuming to reach—and for good reason: reaching these levels activates additional powerful effects that grant you an advantage in instances.





To make the road to new gear a little easier for all players—both newcomers and veterans—the following changes have been made:

* Enchant rate greatly increased, and each failure now adds a 1% correction rate.

* Significantly reduced required number of enchanting materials.

* Reduced Gold price and cost of repair items by one third.

* Greatly reduced probability of damaging an item and falling a level.

* Reduced costs of Serghetto’s Safeguard and Gear Protector.

* Lowered level required for Kaia’s Wisdom/Rage Gear to 65.


Many other elements relating to the old armor set have also been adapted, including:

* The items received during extraction.

* Removed glow effect of old equipment that was available as loot from monsters.

* Reduced cost of upgrading to Kaia’s Wisdom/Rage Gear.



There have also been lots of changes to existing items:

* Serghetto’s Gear Protector

* Identical items can be used for the new gear.

* Serghetto’s Safeguard

* Can be transformed into Serghetto’s Gear Protectors at a ratio of 1-to-3, as the new gear can no longer drop a level.

* Golden Cryolites

* Greatly reduced crafting costs.

* Various Duranium Items

* Can now be stored in the guild bank.

* Various Etchings IV

* Can no longer be extracted.

* Various Etchings

* Can now be applied from level 65.

* Some items can now be sold to merchants—some for less Gold than previously.

* Adjusted crafting of various items (Duranium and * materials for crafting etchings).

* Changed contents of boxes for new players (levels 3 to 70).

* Reduced difficulty of leveling up Halidoms and Relics as well as the cost of doing so.



* Serghetto’s Mystery Market

* Can now contain new enchanting materials

* Can now even contain Amarun’s Relic or Ishara’s Halidom III

* Free Exodor Reputation Shop

* Added Improved Dark Shard Armor Feedstock

* Removed more common feedstock

* Exodor Justicar Reputation Shop

* Added Improved Dark Shard Weapon Feedstock

* Removed more common feedstock

* Renamed Magic Merchant to Development Merchant

* Adjustment of contents

* Bellicarium Shop

* Removed old enchanting materials



Two new cards have been added—each in all three rarities. These can only be obtained in the corresponding instances.

* Lumikan

* Catalepticon


Additionally, the value of cards sold to merchants has been reduced.


In addition to the reworked battleground rewards, the choice of available battlegrounds has also been adjusted. The following battlegrounds will be available with patch 102:

* Corsairs’ Stronghold

* Shore Hold

* Underground Battlepit

* Champions’ Skyring (Solo)






Existing Triumph Tokens will be renamed “Triumph Token (Old)” and will no longer be available. However, you can still right-click any you have left over and exchange them for a selection of items:

* (Random) Luminous Superior Relic/Halidom Box

* (Random) Luminous Rare Relic/Halidom Box

* Battered Oath Exchange Token

* (Random) Legacy Essence Box

* (Random) Warlord’s Bracing Accessory Box

* (Random) Warlord’s Fearsome Accessory Box

* (Random) Accessory Resizing Stone Box

* Weapons of Victory Enchantment Scroll (Legendary)

* Armor of Victory Enchantment Scroll (Legendary)


The new tokens can be taken to the corresponding merchant in Highwatch and exchanged for various different items, including:

* PvP Resizing Stones (Outer Core District has been removed)

* Option Change Scroll and various accessories

* Enchanting material for Kaia’s Soul Gear

The new tokens can no longer be purchased for Gold, and the corresponding merchant has been removed.




* TERA Battle Arena has been removed.

* The Outer Core District has been removed.

* The Shore Hold now uses unified gear.

* The prices of potions on the battleground have been massively reduced.



* The XP required between levels 65 and 70 has been reduced.

* A new quest for the Catalepticon has been added that all characters automatically receive at level 70.

* The rewards of various important quests have been adjusted, with unused items being removed.

* The conditions for unlocking Kaia’s Wisdom/Rage Gear have been simplified.

* Various Exodor quests have been adjusted so that they can now be received earlier (level 65/66).

* Players level 65 and up can obtain matching Kaia’s Wisdom/Rage Gear, including matching jewelry, in Highwatch via the [Important] Skills and Glyphs quest.



The following new adventures have been added:

* Exodor [Gathering]

* Gossamer Vault (Easy) [Adventure]

The following old adventures have been removed:

* Island of Dawn [Gathering]

* Velik’s Sanctuary [Adventure]

* Red Refuge [Adventure]

* Rift’s Edge [Adventure]

* Arborea [Adventure]



* It is now possible to set keyboard shortcuts for dungeon and battleground matching.

* After server selection you are now taken to character selection without having to make an additional selection.

* Character selection has been adapted to match the season.

* The cost of purchasing additional EP pages has been reduced to 500.

* The manufacturer emblem is displayed whether or not the title is shown.

* Monsters in the open world on Exodor now no longer drop a number of items as loot—including many items from the old gear. The Gold received here has also been reduced.

* The items for returning players have been adjusted.



TERA Battle Arena will no longer be available from patch 102. Players who have used Tikat to purchase heroes or costumes will receive a refund. You’ll receive more details in a separate announcement.



**General**

* Timescape (Normal and Hard) have been removed again in patch 102. The merchants will remain in Highwatch for the duration of patch 102.

* Harrowhold will remain in the game until the next patch as there was initially some balancing difficulties. However, there will be no changes to the loot.


**Harrowhold**

* The HP of the skeletons in Phase 4 has been reduced.

* The HP of the four treasure chest has been greatly increased to avoid unintentional opening.

* The damage of the “Aggro Wipe” mechanic has been greatly increased.

* The inner ring of Vergos’ jump mechanic in Phase 4 now also kills the skeletons.



* The maximum number of marks in the inventory has been increased to 2,000.

* Many existing items that have been useless for some time have been removed.

* Various consumables have been replaced by better versions.

* Supply boxes have been replaced by new versions to match the new gear.



A number of old boxes and items have been removed, such as old Battle Pass seasons and items from finished events. More details can be found in the server maintenance announcement.


All items from the following old events will be deleted with this maintenance:

- Easter Eggs 2020

- Summer Seashells 2020

- Elemental Fusion 2020

- Fire Demon's Tome 2020*


*The Reward boxes ([Event] Fire Demon's Chest) and Tokens gotten through them will stay available until Patch 103 in February. Please make sure to exchange your rewards by then.



The following non-tradable items will be exchanged for tradable versions. This is a one-time change. If you open the "Trade Chest", you'll receive the non-tradable skill book accordingly.

- Skill: Darkan's Green Wings

- Skill: Darkan's Black Wings

- Skill: Darkan's Pink Wings

Hello TERA players,

We’d like to wish you all a Happy New Year! 2020 was a bit of a crazy year and despite the coronavirus pandemic which has hit all of us hard, we’ve been working to turn several huge TERA projects into reality.
Some of these have been very successful, particularly the addition of new players from Southeast Asia, Russia and America to the Gameforge family. Unfortunately, the TERA Battle Arena and Core Area were not as successful as we’d hoped and will be closing their doors again in 2021.




As part of the first two larger updates coming in the new year, we’ll be implementing lots of the changes and additions to TERA that you’ve requested. Here’s a brief overview of what you can look forward to:


New dungeon: The Catalepticon – with no entry limit
Returning dungeon: Ruinous Manor
New gear: Without any degradation in the event of failure


Etchings will become permanent
An additional new dungeon

As well as these adjustments, we’re also working on further improvements at the moment. It goes without saying that we’ll keep you posted.


In the new dungeon The Catalepticon, you’ll have to go up against Lumikan, a warrioress you’ll already know from the story around Exodor.But watch out; she’ll turn her swords into a spear during combat in order to draw you out.

Thanks to your feedback in recent months, this instance will be playable without any weekly limit whatsoever! As a reward, you’ll receive (among other things) valuable materials which you’ll need for enchanting the new gear.




You can get this new gear by upgrading your existing equipment – you’ll need some +15 Mythical gear. But don’t worry: enchanting existing items is getting easier too – further details are in the patch notes.

Kaia’s Soul Gear can be enchanted up to +9, with the first 6 levels (+0 to +6) being relatively easy to reach. The last 3 levels (+6 to +9) demand quite a bit more dedication. However, this equipment will never revert back to a lower level – while it’s still possible for an enchantment to fail once you’ve reached +8, the level will no longer drop back down.

As levels +7, +8 and +9 are particularly difficult to reach, they will grant you certain pre-defined effects once you achieve them!

And it’s not just in dungeons that it’s possible to get hold of new materials, but also via various PvP activities as well as via merchants in the TERA world. As always, the full details on this gear can be found in the patch notes.


We’ve heard your feedback on etchings loud and clear and forwarded it on to the developer. All temporary etchings from patch 99 will be converted as part of patch 103 so that:

all 30-day etchings become permanent
all 60-day etchings become an item with two permanent versions

Etchings which have already been applied to your equipment will also be converted as part of the patch – in the event that they’re still valid when the server maintenance takes place.


You’re welcome to keep on sending us requests, suggestions and complaints. Please be sure to do this via the forum – this is the only way your feedback can reach the developer to then be transformed into effective changes for future updates.

We hope the changes listed above show how valuable your feedback is to us – both to Gameforge and the developer, Bluehole – and that we want to keep on improving the game for everyone!

We hope you get off to a good start in the New Year – keep well!
The TERA Team

The new year is starting with a bang in TERA, with a whole raft of action-packed events and plenty of juicy loot to clean up!

Just want a quick overview? Then take a look at our event calendar .


1st January 2021 (6 PM CET, 12 PM EST) to 4th January 2021 (9 AM CET, 3 AM EST)
Take advantage of the one-third increase to enchantment chances and reach that epic gear! With the exception of Enchant Scrolls. The increased chances apply to the following items:

Dauntless & Manaforce Azart Gear
Flawless & Master’s Duranium Gear
Dark Light, Annihilation, and Eternal Gear
Mythical gear


7th January 2021 (9 AM CET, 3 AM EST) to 12th January 2021 (9 AM CET, 3 AM EST)
You’ll earn double loot and Gold for Vanguard Initiative quests during the event period.


8th January 2021 (6 PM CET, 12 PM EST) to 11th January 2021 (9 AM CET, 3 AM EST)
Take advantage of the doubled upgrade chances this month and reach that epic gear! The increased chances apply to the following items:

All relics
All halidoms


14th January 2021 (9 AM CET, 3 AM EST) to 19th January 2021 (9 AM CET, 3 AM EST)
Enter dungeons for fewer adventure coins:

Gossamer Vault (Hard) for 150 adventure coins (instead of 200)
Antaroth’s Abyss (Hard) for 150 adventure coins (instead of 200)
Grotto of Lost Souls (Hard) for 150 adventure coins (instead of 200)
Akalath Quarantine for 150 adventure coins (instead of 200)
Draakon Arena for 150 adventure coins (instead of 200)
Sky Cruiser Endeavor (Hard) for 150 adventure coins (instead of 230)
Bahaar’s Sanctum for 200 adventure coins (instead of 280)
Corrupted Skynest for 200 adventure coins (instead of 280)
Forbidden Arena [Hagufna] for 200 adventure coins (instead of 280)


15th January 2021 (6 PM CET, 12 PM EST) to 18th January 2021 (9 AM CET, 3 AM EST)
Complete your card fragment collection – you’ll have triple the odds of getting those missing pieces during the event.


21st January 2021 (9 AM CET, 3 AM EST) to 28th January 2021 (9 AM CET, 3 AM EST)
During the event, your chances of loot in the following dungeons is doubled:

Lumikan (Low)
Forbidden Arena [Undying War God]
Draakon Arena
Corrupted Skynest
Commander’s Residence
Corrupted Skynest (Hard)
Bahaar’s Sanctum
Lumikan (High)
Ruinous Manor (Normal)


28th January 2021 (9 AM CET, 3 AM EST) to 18th February 2021 (9 AM CET, 3 AM EST)
On your way up to level 70, the League of Levelers will reward you with useful items for certain sections. Score powerful skill advancement and enchantment scrolls, a permanent Vulcan Drake as your flying mount, perfect skill advancement magic books, an Azure Blue Yakuta, various boosts, and much more! You can find all the details on the rewards in our Google Sheet.

Additionally, Vanguard Initiative quests and other content during the event will give you a hefty boost on experience points and item XP.

Our Christmas events are already in full swing and we’re rounding off 2020 with a bang. Gear up for patch 101, which sees you facing challenges you could never have dreamed of while being richly rewarded with loot, all with a new system for more difficult dungeons.

You’ll also get your hands on new and rarer card fragments, with additional events and rewards also in store for you as part of this update.

Dungeon Gauntlets

This new system makes it possible to play existing instances with scalable difficulty – all you need to do is simply go to the respective teleportal and select the “Dungeon Gauntlet” option. Please note that the instances available are subject to change in future updates.

You’ll then be taken to a new menu where you can decide on the difficulty level. The recommended item level will also be displayed. As the difficulty increases, so too does the item drop rate and the amount of Adventure Coin. The number of Dungeon Gauntlet runs you can make per week are counted separately, and are independent of regular instance entries.


**Akalath Quarantine**

* 10 entries per week (20 for Club members)

* The increased drop rate affects existing loot





**Red Refuge**

* 10 entries per week (20 for Club members)

* The increased drop rate affects existing loot






**Draakon Arena & Velik’s Sanctuary**

* No entry limit

* The increased drop rate affects event tokens (read more about this below)





**Training Ground**

* No entry limit




Expanded Card Collection

**New Cards**

New cards have been added to the Card Collection, which you can now collect:

* 5 NPC cards

* 26 monster cards

* 12 materials cards

* 6 fish cards

* 11 panorama cards




**New Item Grade**

Alongside common cards (white) and uncommon cards (green), there are now rare cards (blue) too!

The cards can be viewed via the usual Card Collection menu and lend you more powerful effects, which have, of course, been added to the collection effects as well.




**Miscellaneous**

* The number of possible card presets has been increased from 3 to 10.

* 11 additional collection effects have been added.

* More rewards for a higher number of Card Collection Points (10,500–23,500) have been added. On top of that, it’s possible to reach higher Collection levels with the new cards.

* The rewards for existing Card Collection Points (500–9,500) have been updated.


Card Fusion

A new system for combining card fragments has been added. You can now make use of any duplicate cards you’ve collected in full.


**4-to-1 Fusion**

Using the new option in the inventory menu, you can fuse 4 card fragments (of the same rarity grade) together to produce a new result — the possibilities are as follows:

• You receive card fragments of the same rarity grade (one or more).

• With a little luck, you receive card fragments of a higher value (up to 20 at once).

• If the fusion is unsuccessful, you’ll still receive Mileage Points (find out more about this below).

Different cards must be used for each fusion. Rare cards cannot be fused and event card fragments (e.g. Ruby Moon Elin) cannot be obtained as a result.


**20-to-X Fusion**

You can also fuse 20 of the same card fragments via a second tab – with this, the chances of coming away empty-handed are high. If the fusion is successful, however, you can get 10 to 20 fragments of a higher rarity grade!


**Mileage Points**

You get Mileage Points whenever a fusion attempt fails. This means you’ll still profit even when unsuccessful, as 1,000 Mileage Points will get you 20 Mileage Point Tokens, and these can be exchanged for specific cards!


Instance Changes

**Classification**

The classification of the following bosses has been changed (this is important for the way Card Collection effects work):




**Loot Adjustments**

* Macellarius Catacombs:

* High-level relics have been removed from the loot list.

* The loot in the following locations has been adjusted: RK-9 Kennel, Red Refuge, Velik’s Hold, Thaumetal Refinery, Antaroth’s Abyss, Gossamer Vault, Grotto of Lost Souls, Akalath Quarantine, Draakon Arena

* Rare gear (blue) has been removed.

* It’s now possible to obtain Improved Dark Shard Weapon Feedstock or Improved Dark Shard Armor Feedstock.

* Rewards relating to card fragments have also been revised in the majority of instances.


**Kezzel’s Gorge**

Patch 101 sees this event instance closing its doors.

**Commander’s Residence**

* Entering this instance reduces the number of entries.

* Adventure Coin is now collected upon entering the instance.

* The boss will only be summoned once all 20 players have entered the instance.


Battleground Changes

**Leaderboard**

A new limitation has been introduced whereby players who play fewer than 3 rounds in a week automatically lose their Rank Points (every Thursday) .


**Underground Battlepit**

* Following some adjustments, the battleground is now designed for 5 vs 5.

* Playing time has been reduced to 5 minutes and rewards have been reduced by 30%.

* The positioning of various battleground elements has been changed.

**Corsairs’ Stronghold**

New skills for group leaders have been added.


Item Changes

**Open World / Exodor**

* Rare gear (blue) and superior gear (gold) have been removed.

* It’s now possible to obtain Improved Dark Shard Weapon Feedstock or Improved Dark Shard Armor Feedstock.


**Card Fragments**

Changes have been made to content relating to the reworking of Card Collections – this affects Partner Adventures and the Specialty Store.


**Shop Adjustments**

* Triumph Token Exchange Shop:

* New items are now available.

* The cost of existing stock has been reduced.

* Some older items have been removed.

* Traveling Merchant:

* “Serghetto Box I” will be available for a time.

* Bellicarium Shop:

* A whole host of enchantment and skill advancement items have been added.

* Reputation Shops:

* The contents of these shops has been updated.


Event Loot

**Velik’s Sanctuary**

* Lakan’s Weapon Skin (for lancers) will now be dropped as rare loot.

* Lakan’s Cape can also be obtained as loot (for all classes).

* Along with the patch release, an event will start during which you can also get Lakan’s Costume and other items (using tokens via the daily quests of many dungeons).


**Draakon Arena (Normal, Hard)**

* It’s possible to obtain the rare or superior version of a partner as bonus loot. The superior version allows you to keep the power buff after you die.


Miscellaneous

Server communication in dungeons and the character selection animation have been improved.


TERA Battle Arena

The TERA Battle Arena game mode will come to an end with next update (patch 102) at the beginning of 2021 – you can find more information about this in our [[url=https://gameforge.com/en-GB/play/tera/news/280c785c-72f5-43bb-9fe0-2604f9b9ef74]news post[/url]]. Changes to the TERA Battle Arena will therefore not be discussed in further detail in the patch notes.

A new TERA patch is in the starting blocks, and we want to give you a little taste of what’s to come! Click onto our TERA livestream on 9/12/2020 at 6:00 PM CET (12 PM EST):
https://www.twitch.tv/teraeurope

Our Game Designer Atmorph will be presenting all the most important goodies in the new patch. You can look forward to the following topics:

• New difficulty levels for dungeons
  
• Improved trading card system
  
• Additional in-game drops
  
• New mounts, costumes, furniture and quite a bit more

Note: the stream will only be available in English – have fun!

See you on Twitch!
The TERA Team

Face some tricky challenges in a brand-new dungeon system: you’ll have **more dungeon entries** available to you, including for especially **demanding instances**, and there’s **new NPC costumes and partners** to enjoy among your hard-earned loot. In addition, the **trading card system** is getting a makeover. All of this and much more is packed into patch 101—the last patch of 2020.


In the future, the new dungeon system will allow you to adjust the difficulty of existing dungeons just to your liking. The first instances you’ll be able to try out this new feature on are the Akalath Quarantine, the Draakon Arena, the Red Refuge, and Velik’s Sanctuary.
To adjust a dungeon’s difficulty, simply head to the teleportal of your chosen instance and click the “Play Dungeon” button. A new menu will then appear where you can select the desired difficulty level—and the recommended item level will be conveniently displayed at the same time.
Remember that while you can enjoy increased drop rates in tougher dungeons, entering them also costs more Adventure Coins.


Your card album’s also getting a makeover: now not only can you collect lots of great new cards, but you can also find a completely new type of trading card—rare (blue) ones!
What’s more, in the future you’ll no longer be frustrated by duplicates of cards you already own: With the Card Fragment Fusion feature, you can combine 4 existing card fragments into a new one. Do so and you’ll receive either a card fragment of the same grade, or with a bit of luck you could even come away with a higher-grade card fragment!


Just like in the summer with Hagufna’s Body Armor, in patch 101 you can once again get your hands on a costume belonging to a powerful boss: Lakan’s Evil God Armor Set! Collect tokens for this armor by completing daily quests—or get lucky and snarf his weapon (for lancers) and cloak as loot in Velik’s Sanctuary!
You can now also acquire Kalligar as a partner in the Draakon Arena, who also has a powerful special effect!

All of this and much more is coming your way in patch 101!

Have fun!
The TERA Team

This December is absolutely packed with action in TERA! Read on to find out more about what’s coming up.
Just want a quick overview? Then take a look at our event calendar .


1st December 2020 (9 AM CET, 3 AM EST) to 12th January 2021 (9 AM CET, 3 AM EST)
Wintera’s special battleground is opening its doors to fans of a good snowball fight!
Sign up from level 11 using the battleground matching system up to 10 times per day, make your snowballs, and beat your opponents! Last man standing in teams of 10 vs 10 played over 3 rounds. Class-specific skills are disabled and all players have the same amount of health. Victory earns you 40 Snowfield Trophies, and defeat 20 Snowfield Trophies, which your can exchange for winter costumes, fishing bait, and new Christmas stamps.
As patch 101 will be released during this event, a few small details such as the rewards will change.


4th December 2020 (9 AM CET, 3 AM EST) to 8th December 2020 (9 AM CET, 3 AM EST)
Seven days of heart-pounding dungeon action! During the event, entering the listed dungeons will only cost a fraction of the usual Adventure Coins. Seek out a different deadly opponent each and every day. Rally your allies, unpack your best gear and get ready to give those bosses a thrashing!

• Gossamer Vault for 150 adventure coins (instead of 200)
  
• Antaroth’s Abyss (Hard) for 150 adventure coins (instead of 200)
  
• Grotto of Lost Souls (Hard) for 150 adventure coins (instead of 200)
  
• Akalath Quarantine for 150 adventure coins (instead of 200)
  
• Draakon Arena for 150 adventure coins (instead of 200)
  
• Sky Cruiser Endeavor for 150 adventure coins (instead of 230)
  
• Bahaar’s Sanctum for 200 adventure coins (instead of 280)
  
• Corrupted Skynest for 200 adventure coins (instead of 280)
  
• Forbidden Arena for 200 adventure coins (instead of 280)

10th December 2020 (6 PM CET, 12 PM EST) to 14th December 2020 (8 AM CET, 2 AM EST)
During the event, your chances of loot in the following dungeons is doubled:

• Bahaar’s Sanctum
  
• Corrupted Skynest
  
• Forbidden Arena
  
• Forbidden Arena [Nightmare Undying Warlord]
  
• Corrupted Skynest (Hard)
  
• Draakon Arena (Hard)
  
• Forbidden Arena [Undying War God]
  
• Sky Cruiser Endeavor (Hard)
  
• Timescape (Hard)
  
• Commander’s Residence

15th December 2020 (9 AM CET, 3 AM EST) to 12th January 2021 (9 AM CET, 3 AM EST)
Valor is its own reward! Complete the Vanguard Initiative quest by giving Velik’s Sanctuary a good clearing out and earn tokens in reward. Exchange these for great items such as the Evil God’s Armor.


15th December 2020 (9 AM CET, 3 AM EST) to 12th January 2021 (9 AM CET, 3 AM EST)
Always wished you could give your enemies a kicking as a god like Woden or Thunor? Then complete the new Guardian Legion mission and earn tokens in reward, which you can exchange for costumes for the two Germanic gods. By Wayland’s anvil, this is gonna be fun!


24th December 2020 (9 AM CET, 3 AM EST) to 29th December 2020 (9 AM CET, 3 AM EST)
Enjoy the tasty soup at Christmas and harness its power! During the event we’ll give you rice cake soups with extra-powerful effects for your time online (up to 6 hours). Hungry for more? With a bit of luck you’ll also be able to bag the tasty soup as jackpots in dungeons.
Note: The soups cannot be used in ranked content. The effects cannot be combined with each other. They are only available until the end of the event.

Soups and their effects:

Rice Cake Soup with Red Beans
Increases the chance to crit by 2900%
Rice Cake Soup with Dumplings
Increases power by 200% and attack speed by 20%
Rice Cake Soup with Egg
Increases power by 50%, attack speed by 10%, and skill damage by 50%
New Year’s Rice Cake Soup
Reduces the cooldown of all skills by 80%, and increases MP regeneration per sec


24th December 2020 (6 PM CET, 12 PM EST) to 28th December 2020 (8 AM CET, 2 AM EST)
Your partners run like the wind and won’t stop for anything. They’ll return from their adventuring twice as fast as normal during this time, so take advantage of the 50% shorter adventure times and haul in that loot!


30th December 2020 (6 PM CET, 12 PM EST) to 2nd January 2021 (8 AM CET, 2 AM EST)
In this event your partners will be extra meticulous on their hunt for loot, either bringing home 50% more items than usual, or benefiting from a 50% greater chance to bag rare items.

Hello TERA players,


Unfortunately we have some bad news today. It’s with a heavy heart that we must sadly announce the closure of the TERA Battle Arena (aka TBA).

We wish to thank everyone who provided us with such great feedback during the TBA beta phase! Based on the responses, however, we have had to make the difficult decision to close both TBA and the Core zone. We’ll close the game mode down with the server maintenance for the release of update B102 in the new year.


Don’t worry, there are no other downsides to this change for you. Afterwards, you will be fully recompensed in Tikat for any items you purchased with that currency for the TBA mode. If you still have Tikat in your balance, this can continue to be used in the TERA MMO as usual.


Please make sure to remove all unclaimed items from the item claim before the mode closes down, as unclaimed items (incl. Tikat) will not be refunded.


We apologize for this sad news, particularly as we know some of you had a lot of fun with the TBA game mode.


We’ll keep you up to date on further developments.

The TERA Team

Starting today, you can re-enter 3 forgotten event dungeons, right through December and into the new year! The entrances to these rediscovered dungeons can be entered by players from anywhere in the Gameforge family – Europe, North America, Russia and Southeast Asia!


You’ll have to travel to Highwatch to find your way into these instances. NPCs will be standing on the main square to teleport you to an instance. Afterwards you can exchange the tokens you get from the instances with them for rewards!
We’ve added an overview of the rewards which can be found in the instances to our November event overview.


Once per week you can enter the raid battle against Vergos.

• The instance is a 20-player dungeon for item level 457–473
  
• Can be entered once per week
  
• Battle takes place over 4 phases
  
• Each phase grants rewards to party members
  
• No adventure coin required
  
• Special “God Slayer” title for completing phase 4 five times

After completing a phase, you can leave the instance or party, and continue later on from where you left off either with the same or with another party. Phases are reset with the regular dungeon entries every Tuesday.


The Timescape is another relic of a bygone era in TERA – and a challenge you’ll hopefully live up to!
Take down the two dragons Eremes and Hemera in succession, then head for Tempas, the Kumas of Storms with his deadly electric attacks. Finally, you must face Valona herself, the Master of the Timescape! Confront the goddess’ faces with the rotating patterns on the ground, or you are goners!

• Five-player dungeon for item level 484
  
• Can be entered 2 times per day (4 for Club members)
  
• Requires 150 adventure coins
  
• Similar rewards to those in the Draakon Arena (Hard), with some event extras
  
• Special “Time Lord” title for defeating Valona the 100th time

While hard mode has had some adjustments, the normal mode is identical to how it was earlier. So if you want to start off with the timesphere minigame and defeat some basilisks and teraliths on your way to Tempas, this is the version for you!
Pick up rewards identical to those in the RK-9 Kennel, plus a large amount of XP!

• Five-player dungeon for item level 457
  
• No limit on weekly entries
  
• Requires 170 adventure coins

Note: In the patch notes we mentioned there being a title for normal mode, and indicated the loot was worse than it really is. Both of these points were wrong.

Preparations for the Event Dungeons are ongoing - and now you can participate too!


The public test server "Public Beta" will start being accessible on Friday, November 20th, at around 11:00 CET (05:00 EST). . It is scheduled to be closed down for the public on Monday, November 23rd in the morning.


You want to participate? Here's how:
• You need to have TERA on Steam
• Start the client and select “Public Beta”
The version on our test systems is identical to the current live version, and as such no patching will be required to switch back and forth.


What is expected of me?
• Go into Harrowhold with an item level between 453 and 472 with a raid of likeminded players.
• In case you encounter any issues or balancing concerns, please let us know in the specific thread we will open for your feedback.
• Please include as many details as you can, including things such as
o On which boss and phase
o Your Party Gear and Class Composition
o Anything else of importance to you


Frequently Asked Questions

1. I play via Steam already, can I participate?
Every TERA player can participate, including existing Steam players.


2. I play via the Gameforge Client, can I participate?
Yes! As a GF Client player, you will require to download the complete TERA live client on Steam (~67 GB).


3. Do I need to start a new character on the Test System?
You will be required to create a character on the test system, as live characters aren't copied to it. On the plus side, users that already took part in our last public test, will still have their previous account!
Tokens to acquire gear will be provided in-game.


4. I encountered an issue on the PTS, what can I do?
We won't provide custom support for issues on the PTS, including, but not limited to, issues around your character, items or the server itself. Please do not contact our customer support for any PTS-inquiries, as no support can be provided. Instead please make sure to report your findings in the special forum thread, as detailed above.


5. Any known issues I should be aware of?
Due to the nature of this test, the server might be unavailable sporadically, or for a prolonged period of time. Otherwise, the same client as for the live servers is used, and as such most functions should work correctly.
Please note:
• No HP Gauges will be displayed above the bosses in Harrowhold. This is unfortunately intended, but partially remedied by an alternative display.
• Some other content on this test system has been deactivated during this test window, as the focus lies on Harrowhold.


6. Can players from the NA region also participate?
Yes. However, please note that the server for this test is located in Europe, so you may encounter a high ping or lags.


7. What content is in Patch 100?
For a general overview, please have a look into our Patch Preview we released: Patch Notes 100.
For the Event Dungeons specifically, please note that every player can only enter the Harrowhold raid once per cleared phase, just like on the later live servers.


8. There is two servers, but I can't access them?
Only the test system "W2 Atmorph (Beta)" is open to the public. If you cannot access this world, please double-check if your client is patched correctly. Alternatively, it could be that the server is overflowing with players in the worst-case scenario, and you will need to wait a little.
The system "W1 Baldrov (internal)" is not intended for public access.


9. Why is X or Y missing?
This test system might not contain all the settings we're used to on the live servers. This includes, but is not limited to, events, token and NPC stores, dungeon drops or similar.