Listen up! I don’t have time for coddling you keeners anymore. The god Bahaar is coming and this world is going to need anyone who can, to stand up and fight for our survival!
I know many of you don’t have tip-top gear for battling gods, so for two weeks (from Tuesday, November 27 at 8 a.m. until Tuesday, December 11 at 8 a.m. Pacific), I’m releasing my secret enchanting scrolls to help everyone PunchUp their gear.
Now I can’t just hand these out to anyone, so you’re going to have to prove your worth by working for them.
Keys
I’m making scroll case keys available to everyone who puts in daily training: Make my scroll case keys by collecting Lady Tanly’s Determination (from the accumulated log-in screen). Mix in three Tears of My Enemy (from completing Vanguard Requests)…and voilà! Scroll case keys!
Scroll Cases
You’ll find two types of locked scroll cases by defeating the final boss of select dungeons:
Inside the scroll cases you’ll find one of twelve enchanting scrolls. These enchanting scrolls contain secret methods from the courts of the Popori Kingdom and are different than the enchanting you might be used to—these scrolls don’t require enchanting materials!
The scrolls are for either handwear or weapons.
The scrolls either work on Twistshard and Frostmetal sets (marked Frostmetal), or on Twistshard, Frostmetal, and Stormcry sets (marked Stormcry).
Here's a shiny info-graphic:
I know that all looks pretty complicated, but life is complicated!
In the simplest terms: Make keys. Unlock cases. PunchUp! your gear! Make me proud!
Black Friday is coming to TERA in a big way! Check your EMP balance and head over to the TERA Store for the biggest sales, savings, and headstart daily deals. Plus we’re pulling tons of items out of the vault for the weekend. Black Friday weekend is the time to buy!
Headstart Sales: Nov. 20–22
The Black Friday deals start on Tuesday with popular daily headstart items, available for three days only through the holiday:
Tuesday, November 20
Phoenix Loot Box: 250 EMP 175 EMP (30% off!)
Pocket Popo Party Pack: 2,495 EMP 623 EMP (75% off!)
Don’t have quite enough EMP to pick up that store item you’ve had on your wish list for a while now? No problem! From Friday, November 23 at 10 a.m. PST until Tuesday, November 27 at 10 a.m. PST, purchase EMP to earn bonus gifts!
35,000 EMP—Stormscale Flying Dragon Mount
Buy the 35,000 EMP bundle, and we’ll send you a free flying dragon mount: Stormscale!
Stormscale is a dragon mount with a Flight and Movement Speed of 290, that restores 2 percent of your max HP and MP every second. This flying skill also grants you the passive skill Penumbra Rex, which grants a chance to double your Crit Power. Additionally, while mounted, you may use the skill Draconic Roar, which increases the damage you deal to monsters for a short time after you dismount. (Using Draconic Roar starts a 1-hour cooldown which may prevent the use of other mount skills.)
12,000 EMP—20 Stormy Weather Loot Boxes
Buy the 12,000 EMP bundle, and we’ll send you 20 Stormy Weather loot boxes, each containing one of the following items determined at random:
Stormscale flying dragon mount
Smart Dyad Niveot Structure
Superior Noctenium Elixir
Crafter's Cure
Up to 1,000 Metamorphic Emblems
Up to 100 Golden or Silver Talents
Up to 10 Health Potions.
4600 EMP—7 Stormy Weather Loot Boxes
Buy the 4600 EMP bundle, and we’ll send you 7 Stormy Weather loot boxes.
2200 EMP—3 Stormy Weather Loot Boxes
Buy the 2200 EMP bundle, and we’ll send you 3 Stormy Weather loot boxes.
1000 EMP—1 Stormy Weather Loot Box
Buy the 1000 EMP bundle, and we’ll send you 1 Stormy Weather loot box.
4-Day Black Friday Sale: Nov. 23–27
What would Black Friday be without crazy-big discounts? Or lots of classic items coming back to the store for a short time? Why not both?
Starting at Friday, November 23 at 10 a.m. PST, and continuing until Tuesday, November 27 at 10 a.m., you can get huge discounts on a whole host of items in the TERA Store, including new items, seasonal items, and items we brought out of retirement just for this sale!
Account Services and Consumables—up to 50 percent off! (excludes Server Transfers or new Server Packs)
Loot Boxes—up to 30 percent off!
Direct-Sale Costumes and Accessories—up to 85 percent off!
Direct-Sale Pets and Mounts—up to 85 percent off!
Direct-Sale Weapon Skins—up to 75 percent off!
This year, all of these items are discounted all four days!
Doorbuster Hyperbox! Nov. 23–27
We’re not done yet! During the 4-Day Sale, be sure to grab yourself a Doorbuster Hyperbox or two…or ten, if you’re doing some early holiday shopping for your guild!
For only 1995 EMP, each Doorbuster Hyperbox is guaranteed to contain 20 Strongbox Keys—and may also contain the brand new Spellweave or Spellsilk costume smart box, or a Pick of the Pixies costume smart box, Picture-Perfect Pixies costume smart box, Pale Writer Dress (for elin), Elin Cutie Star outfit, a 30- or 90-day Elite Status Voucher, a Blackheart weapon skin, Ultraplasm weapon skin, a Stormscale flying dragon mount, or one of the unicorn mounts: Noble Friendship, Friendshine, Friendstorm, Friendheart, or Friendship.
Costumes, weapons skins, and mounts inside are exclusive to the Doorbuster Hyperbox or as a gift with EMP purchase (for Stormscale), so get them now!
TERA’s Digital Starter and Digital Deluxe Starter Pack are loaded with must-have in-game perks and items to make your adventuring experience that much better!
The TERA Digital Starter Pack includes:
7 days of Elite Status game time–With perks like a flying mount, 15 EMP per day to spend in the TERA store, daily gift boxes, and XP boosts and consumables all at your fingertips! Full list of Elite Status perks can be found here!
Rambo Pet–Lovable pet ram that will auto-loot the corpses of your fallen enemies.
2 Pearl Gems–Sell these precious gems to get yourself 100 gold to start your character off ahead of the curve.
Inventory Expansion–Adds eight slots to your character's inventory, up to a maximum of 120. Less trips to the bank means more time playing!
Bank Expansion–Adds 72 additional slots to your bank storage, to share between all of your characters on that server. You can have up to eight tabs per server, with 72 slots per tab.
30 days of Elite Status game time–With perks like a flying mount, 15 EMP per day to spend in the TERA store, daily gift boxes, and XP boosts and consumables all at your fingertips! Full list of Elite Status perks can be found here!
Rambo Pet–Lovable pet ram that will auto-loot the corpses of your fallen enemies.
4 Pearl Gems–Sell these precious gems to get yourself 200 gold to start your character off even further ahead of the curve.
3 Inventory Expansions–Add 8, 16, or 24 slots to your character's inventory—or split them between up to three characters! Maximum of 120 inventory slots per character. Less trips to the bank means more time playing!
3 Bank Expansions–Store more! Add 3 tabs and expand your bank to maximum capacity on one server of your choice. Each shared bank account can have up to eight tabs.
10 Strongbox Keys–Unlock your loot! Strongboxes drop through the world of TERA, and these keys will unlock their secrets, usually in the form of LOOT!
Gain EP by completing Vanguard Requests and defeating high level monsters.
Unlock EP by reaching level 65 with at least one character on the server.
EP XP is gained per server, and shared with all characters on that server.
EP XP Boost event:
30% EP XP Boost for Vanguard Requests
100% EP XP Booster (1-hour) items will be given out for the next four weekends. Gain 2x boosters each day (Saturday and Sunday), for a total of 16x boosters throughout the event!
3. Character Limit
Server character limit expanded from 20 to 21 slots
One (1) free character slot per server (Kaiator and Velika) will be delivered via Parcel Post when you log in between Tuesday, November 13 and Tuesday, November 20.
4. Dungeon
New Dungeon: Bahaar’s Sanctum
5-Person dungeon
Accessed via Instance Matching or the teleportal in Frymount, Ostgarath
Requires ilvl 456 for Instance Matching
Limited to 1 entry (2 for Elite) per day
Rewards include (but are not limited to):
Stormcry Equipment Chest
Gems
Supreme Metal
Springy Draco Limb
Weight Pendulum
Sacred Mallet
Velik's Helper will not be applied to Bahaar’s Sanctum. See in-game Calendar for details.
Reopened: The Abscess
7-Person dungeon
Accessed via Instance Matching or the teleportal in Frymount, Ostgarath
Requires ilvl 412 for Instance Matching
Limited to 2 entries (4 for Elite) per day
Rewards include (but are not limited to):
Enchanting Box
Golden & Silver Talents
Metal Fragment
Wood Chest
5. Battleground
Kumas Royale
Changed to a 5:5 battleground
Adjusted NPC Kumas Health
Mama: Health halved
Baby: Health doubled
Baby Kumas are now larger in size
6. Leaderboard
Added Bahaar’s Sanctum
The likenesses of the season’s top-ranked Bahaar’s Sanctum party will be cast as statues for the following season.
Likenesses are based on the character's appearance during maintenance at the end of the season.
Some costume items may not be reflected in the cast image.
Other rewards include Infinity Mask Ticket, Onset Mask Ticket, and Medal of Conflict.
7. Items
Players can now enchant Heroic Oath gear up to +3.
Added Supreme Metal to General Goods merchants.
Increased item stack limit on various recovery potions, scrolls, and Equipment Crystals.
Replaced Entropic Strongbox with Item XP Strongbox.
Reverted Fashion Strongbox to pre-halloween contents.
Added EP Reset Potion to Dragon Scale shop.
Added Gym Uniform Renaming Coupon to Novelty merchants (change took effect with v75-HF2).
8. System and Options
Removed Xigncode from game client.
Xigncode data folder may still exist in client directory [“...\Client\Binaries\XIGNCODE”]; this can safely be deleted.
Added ability to hide visual effects created by other players.
We have an update on our progress with the issues that we identified in our initial communication after the DMCA Takedowns surrounding TERA Proxy and other third-party programs. This update will include a couple of items outside of that initial outline and, going forward, it seems more useful and accurate to refer to these as “Focused Updates on TERA.” We’re setting a target of providing a new FUoT for you at least every two months. This will hopefully let us share meaningful updates each time instead of repeating ourselves with minor tweaks to language.
After the announcement, we took the additional steps of reviewing previous account bans related to Proxy use and reactivated accounts that (as best we could determine from our records and data) fell inside the bounds of our current enforcement policy. This felt like a fair act we could do for our community in good faith. It is not, however, meant to signal a long-term intention to support Proxy. If Proxy or any third-party program is being used largely to cheat or disrupt the game, we will still take the necessary steps to protect the experience for our players. It is our hope that we can continue to work with the community to ensure that their key needs are met without the need for a third-party solution. As a reminder, we will only share information about our enforcement decisions/investigations with each account holder and nobody else. Additionally, please note that our enforcement policy prohibits all cheats and exploits that negatively or unfairly impact the play experience, whether they use the Proxy or not. If you witness a player using third-party programs to cheat, please report their behavior. http://support.enmasse.com/tera
Bluehole reshuffled some resources so the v76 update will include some additional UI options that should help improve FPS issues for some players. The key item is the option to turn off all “non-essential” spell effects. That update is scheduled for November 13th. Bluehole will also be looking to make further FPS-focused optimizations throughout 2019, so please continue to share feedback on your experience with framerates in TERA and we’ll continue to pass it all along to Bluehole!
We are going to remove Xigncode. The custom version of Xigncode that we were using for TERA was not functioning as completely and consistently as we had hoped. That limited effectiveness along with your feedback made it a relatively easy choice to discontinue our trial with Xigncode. This is one of the issues that we did not directly identify in our initial post-takedown communications but it HAS been a focus of much debate and feedback, so it seems worthwhile to officially highlight its removal from TERA. Xigncode will be removed as part of the v76 update scheduled for November 13th.
Beyond our joint efforts with Bluehole, En Masse is working on an updated launcher that will—among other things—allow us to open up the testing of some game functions to a larger sample of users before full launch. This will help us benchmark the impact of improvements like these upcoming UI updates and should help tighten up the delivery timelines around new content. This could also create the opportunity for us to generate “event servers” to introduce novel TERA gameplay options for you in the future.
Fiery Featherweights update launches on Tuesday, November 13! You’ll have the chance to play an elin brawler and it's coming with a LevelUp! event, from launch day until Tuesday, December 11!
LevelUp! Event - November 13 - December 11 The LevelUp! event is only available to elin brawlers - those who hit level 65 during this event earns a pile of rewards: cool pets, costumes, weapon skins, mounts, and footsteps—plus a full set of Twistshard gear, a Guardian Mask, and a Cleansing Brooch when you reach level 65!
BuddyUp! - Now until forever!
If you are going to level an elin brawler, reach out to a friend new to TERA or hasn't played in a while, share a BuddyUp! code with them, and earn additional rewards as you both level together as a team during our LevelUp! event.
Anyone with a level 40 character can create a BuddyUp! code and all new players or players returning to TERA after 30 days can apply a BuddyUp! code to characters under level 10.
As a mentor you will be rewarded with consumables, level 65 crafting materials, 12 Strongbox Keys, and a Master Crafter's Secret Additive just for getting a buddy to level up with you.
Mentors can give away three BuddyUp! codes a month.
BuddyUp! is not restricted to elin brawlers.
Both? Both. Both. Both is good. As a mentor, recruit three friends, give them BuddyUp! codes, and claim 3 sets of rewards. Then ...
Level up as a team! Perhaps you can create a team with yourself as the elin brawler tank, a healer, a melee DPS, and a ranged DPS. Then use instance matching to find your fifth!
Or go ham with an all elin bralwer team to take on all the dungeons with 4 brawlers to level 65?!
Either way, you'll get rewards from doing both the LevelUp! and BuddyUp! Share your experiences with us! Need help finding people to BuddyUp! with? Check out our Discord server for the LFG chat to find those buddies! We'll have more BuddyUp! news coming soon so stay tuned! https://discordapp.com/invite/EME
From now until Tuesday, November 13, you can get a chance to win a Razer Blade 15 laptop, just for playing En Masse Games! Even if you don’t win the grand prize, you’ll have a shot at other Razer gear, EMP, or in-game item bundles for your choice of game!
All you have to do is visit our contest page, connect to Steam, and play any En Masse game for the time specified. Once you do that, you’re entered to win! The more playtime, the better chance you’ll have at the laptop. Plus, you can get some extra entries by showing off your character or spreading the news on social media.
Even if you don’t get first place, there are a ton of other great prizes on the line, such as:
2nd Place Winner gets 15000 EMP to spend on items in En Masse games
25 Runner-Ups get a pack of costumes, items, and consumables for their choice of game! Here’s the TERA Runner-Up Pack!
Halloween is here, so it’s time to bring out the treats and costumes!
Treats! Get a Gift with Purchase For one week only, from Thursday, October 25 at 10 a.m. PDT until Thursday, November 1 at 10 a.m., buy the 12,000 EMP package and we’ll throw in two amazingly spooky masks—a Burning Bones Mask and an Icy Hot Skull Mask. These masks are—ahem—"hot items," and only available as a gift with purchase.
Costumes! It's time to get your costume on and celebrate! Whether scary, cute, or municipal is your thing, we've got you covered with Halloween costumes and accessories available in the TERA Store until Tuesday, November 6!
Want a look that's special? Through November 6, check out the Halloween Hyperbox with 20 strongbox keys plus a chance at elite status vouchers, pet bundles, footstep bundles, and some amazing rare costumes, such as the dyeable Pixie Prince and Princess costumes, which are only available from the Halloween Hyperbox. https://store.enmasse.com/tera/item/halloweenhyperbox/keyed-to-win-halloween-hyperbox
Halloween only comes once a year, and these costumes will disappear soon, so hurry!
Gourdo is back, and rampaging across the land. It'll take a coordinated assault to bring him down…but the rewards will be well worth the effort!
From Thursday, October 25 until Thursday, November 1, look for Gourdo each day in most of TERA's major towns (like Crescentia, Pora Elinu, or Scythera Fae) from 4 p.m. PDT to 9 p.m. PDT, and all day long on Saturday and Sunday. As soon as you spot him, commence with the beatdown! If you're part of the group that takes him out, you'll get some awesome consumables, which may include a Strongbox Key or even our groovy new Halloween Footsteps!
Other possible rewards include:
Squash Pie (recovers 100% HP)
On Fire Effect (consumable boost, nontradable)
Uncommon Noctenium Elixir
Rare Noctenium Elixir
Superior Noctenium Elixir
Lein's Rootbeer
Castanica Midnight Oil (50% craft speed for 1 hour)
10% Item XP Boost (2-Hour)
Sounds easy enough, right? Oh, but wait: There are also Fake Gourdos! These phony pumpkinheads are invulnerable, and so they can never be beaten…and never drop any rewards! So don’t get too overconfident: You might be able to take out a true Gourdo all by yourself, but if you start wailing on a Fake Gourdo, you'll just make it angry.