Reviewed this too early before. After spending more time with the game the negative sides start to show.

User Rating: 7 | TERA PC
By Swain23 | Review Date:
I gave the game a 9.0 when I first started playing it cause it really is AMAZING when you first start. After spending a lot more time with the game something just didn't feel right. Yes the combat is excellent and very fun. However, it just doesn't feel like an mmo. The game is not immersive at all. There's no real atmosphere to the world, it's more like walking into a pretty picture book. The soundtrack sucks. Crap city layouts. The UI is horribly designed. Bad tutorials. Crafting is the most cluttered and unorganized system I've seen in an mmo.

What really killed it for me though is the dungeon wait times and the amount of xp received from dungeons. I didn't complain much about the questing (yes it's incredibly dull) at first because I hate questing no matter what mmo I'm playing. I'm all about grinding dungeons for my xp. So I thought oh whatever ill quest till im lvl 20 then just grind dungeons the rest of the way. However the dungeon que times are about 15-20 min and the amount of xp you receive from them isn't nearly as much as you'd get from questing. So dungeons really aren't a very effective way of leveling. And I HATE questing..especially in this game. Honestly its like they focused completely on combat while making this game and then said "oh yeah we forgot to put in questing, crafting, and all that other stuff in mmo's. Throw that in really quick and then we'll launch!" Such a disappointment, cause if they would have spent some time with all the other aspects of the game, this could be one of the best mmos out there. Looks like I'll be playing diablo 3 and praying guild wars 2 turns out good.

Oh yeah and the community in TERA is jam packed with annoying ass trolls constantly spamming the area chat with "Alienware is the best" and "WoW was the first mmo". Thought they'd eventually die out but nope, still going strong. Really I can't play 5 min without seeing the damn word "Alienware". STFU I hate tera community just a bunch of 14 year old nerds fapping to computer generated elf ****

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