TERA News

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.

[h2] New Difficulty Levels for Dungeons[/h2]

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.

[h2]Improved Trading Card System[/h2]

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!

[h2] New Costumes and Partners[/h2]

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!

[h2]Entry[/h2]

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.

[h2]Harrowhold[/h2]

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.

[h2]Timescape (Hard)[/h2]

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
  

[h2]Timescape[/h2]

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.