General hints TERA Guide

Last update: 11 May 2016

Below, you will find a handful of hints, which you will find handy, regardless of whether you want to gain each and every experience level thanks to quest, or the arduous grind.

1. always try to keep your stamina levels above 100% - the best solution is to keep it as high as possible, at all times, because this increases the pool of your health points and mana. Never get into a fight if your stamina level drops below 80-90% because, below this value, also the value of damage will be lower.

2. on the 20th and the 30th experience level, from the supply crate, you will draw an item called Extensive Alkahest. It is used for the final enhancement of items and, since you are not going to be using it any time soon, you should sell it at the Trade Broker. The price of one such item easily goes above 200 gold pieces and, since you are getting 55 of these, you should easily earn way over 10,000 gp - this should solve your problems with gold!

3. Every several levels, you should check up with the Trade Broker in search of better equipment. You should never allow a situation in which you fight monsters using old and weak equipment - this is especially useful while grinding of mobs, because this directly translates into how fast you are capable of killing them.

4. Always canny bandages around (the best ones that you can use) and use them between fights (if you do not play as a healer or you do not have one on your party) - this will facilitate things and you will not have to wait for the process of spontaneous regeneration to replenish your health. Just remember that, unlike potions, bondages can be used only if you are not in a fight at the moment. If you feel that you are losing and that you may die, walk away, from your enemy, for a dozen-or-so seconds - you will then exit the fight and you will be able to use the bondage.

5. While fighting MOBs (especially the BAMs and bosses) you should pay attention to the animation the presents the mob's eyes glowing red - if it appears, this means that it is preparing for a powerful attack and that you need either to dodge it or block it (fortunately enough, such attacks are quite slow) . You should never take on the attacks, especially if it is launched by a BAM - they can really deal a lot of damage and often impose DoT on you.

You should watch your enemies and learn their patterns (this especially concerns the BAMs) - by recognizing attacks and expecting a specific attack, you can easily defeat mobs, even if they are several levels higher than you. At the same time, if you cannot control the situation, it is possible that a BAM several levels lower than you, will kick your butt.

7. When you log off the game, try to do that in a city or in an outpost - after you log on again, you will receive an experience bonus (represented by the blue fragment of the experience bar) for killing mobs.

8. If you are in a team, play as a member of the team - if you are a tank, you should draw mobs away from the rest of your party, if you are support, you should not be the first to launch into battle. Remember to maintain communications with the rest of the party.