Non-Stop TERA Action: Get psyched for patch 98, containing not only multiple new dungeons, but also additional jewelry as well as special visual weapon skins and partners.

New Dungeons

Aeternia, Forbidden Arena

Designed for 5-player groups from item level 461
Five entries per week (ten for Club members)
Accessible from level 70
Can be entered via group matching
Entry costs 250 adventure coins
50%/100% more loot when 4/5 players are in the group

Loot Highlights

Zenobia’s Sacred Breath Box

Power Fidelity Earrings
Strength Fidelity Earrings
Fidelity Circlet

Superior Etching Box

Legendary Annihilation/Dark Light Weapons or Gear
Ishara’s Halidom I, Amarun’s Relic

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

6,000 Gold
100 Vanguard Initiative Credits
EP XP++
1x Dragonwing Scale
1x Pure Refined Duranium Ore

Immortalis, Forbidden Arena

Designed for 5-player groups from item level 480
Five entries per week (ten for Club members)
Accessible from level 70
Can be entered via group matching
Entry costs 250 adventure coins
50%/100% more loot when 4/5 players are in the group
The instance has been added to the rankings

Loot Highlights

Zenobia’s Sacred Breath Box

Wind Earring Talent Stone
Earthen Circlet Talent Stone
Ishara’s Halidom II, Amarun’s Relic II

Superior Etching Box

Brooch Etching IV (Pumped, Keen, Quicksteps)

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

6,000 Gold
100 Vanguard Initiative Credits
EP XP++
1x Dragonwing Scale
1x Dark Shard Weapon Feedstock
3x Dark Shard Armor Feedstock
1x Pure Refined Duranium Ore

Kezzel’s Gorge

Kezzel’s Gorge is returning temporarily for the duration of patch 98, and will close again with patch 99 (beginning of October).

Designed for 5-player groups from item level 452
Teleportal in Frontera
40 entries per week (80 for Club members)
Accessible from level 68
Can be entered via group matching
Entry costs 150 adventure coins
50%/100% more loot when 4/5 players are in the group

Loot Highlights

Kezzel’s Token
Arborea’s Sacred Breath Box
Midi Weapon Feedstock
Maxi Weapon Feedstock
Midi Armor Feedstock
Maxi Armor Feedstock
Dark Stone Shard Weapon Feedstock
Dark Stone Shard Armor Feedstock
Legendary Annihilation/Dark Light Weapons or Gear

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

1,500 Gold
50x Vanguard Initiative Credits
50x Noctenium Infusion
EP XP++
1x Dragonwing Scale
1x Dark Shard Weapon Feedstock

New Training Dungeon

To give all new players the opportunity to learn the mechanics of difficult dungeons, Bahaar’s Sanctum is being added as a new training dungeon.

Cannot be entered via group matching, and does not require any adventure coin
Can only be entered via Whurloc in Highwatch
The damage you deal is measured and displayed by the game (Training) Bahaar’s Sanctum is available from level 70
A merchant selling various enhancement potions is ready and waiting for you in the dungeon
Items can be used for 2 hours (at a cost of 1 copper)
Items and buffs have no effect outside of the instance
Various crystals are available to you ahead of the bosses, providing tanks, healers or instructions

Additional Items in Dungeons

Forbidden Arena (Hagufna)

The boss’ weapon skin can now be dropped as rare loot for slayers (greatsword)
The boss’ cape can also be obtained as loot (for all classes)
An event will also start in the week following the patch release, during which you can also get his costume and other items (using tokens via the daily quests of many dungeons)

RK-9 Kennel (Normal, Hard)

A new partner may be included as bonus loot
It looks like a little RK-9, and can be looted as a rare or legendary version
The legendary version has a special skill that prevents the power buff from expiring if you die

Other Changes

The Rift’s Edge instance is closing its doors once more
A Complete Crystalbind is now automatically used in training dungeons
The priest NPC no longer generates Aggro
Bahaar’s Sanctum has been removed from the rankings

New Jewelry

Earrings and Circlets

You can acquire new Fidelity Earrings and Circlets in the (Aeternia) Forbidden Arena. Existing jewelry cannot be upgraded to these pieces!

Power Fidelity Earring
Strength Fidelity Earring
Fidelity CircletEach piece of new jewelry contains 3 of the following options:
Physical/magic amplification
Physical/magic crit damage
Physical/magic penetration
Physical/magic resistance
Ignore physical/magic resistance
Max. HP / MP
Crit factor

Talent Stones

You can set additional options on your new jewelry using Talent Stones via the existing Equipment Merging menu. The Wind Earring and Earthen Circlet Talent Stones are available as loot in the (Immortalis) Forbidden Arena.The Talent Stones each have 5 random stats (the same options as for the rings/necklace), of which 2 can be transferred to your earring or circlet at random!

Fidelity Cubes

As was the case before with rings and necklaces, Fidelity Cubes return again this time and you can use them to obtain a new earring or circlet from multiple existing ones:

Fidelity Cube

Place five earrings or circlets into the mechanism to receive a random new one each time.These cubes can be purchased from Specialty Stores in the big cities. The ring and necklace Fidelity Cubes will also change from “add 3” to “add 5”.

PvP Changes

Equipment

When enchanting Disciplinary, Harmonic and Impregnable gear, the risk of a downgrade has been removed
Violet/Azure Particles/Plates can no longer be sold
For battlegrounds with uniform gear, the gear has been adjusted
Equipment items now contain the new stats, such as magic and physical amplification or resistance
Accessories (rings, earrings, necklaces, circlets, masks, belts) are no longer uniform, but individual (you use your own items)

Corsairs’ Stronghold

Various objects have been adjusted for the new equipment stats
The HP as well as the physical and magic resistance of gates have been increased
Damage from self-destructing has been drastically increased

The Core

Items

The ???? reputation merchant also now has Talent Stones with PvP options for the new earrings and circlets on offer. Individual equipment is more important than ever before due to changes in the way it is used on battlegrounds
The gold price for Exodor Core Essence has been reduced to 500 gold
The cost of (Random) Exodor Belts/Brooches/Mask Cubes (legendary) has been reduced to 500 reputation points
New (Random) Exodor Belts/Brooches/Mask Gold Cubes (legendary) have been added for 1,500 reputation points
The rewards in Caiman’s Golden Chest have been changed

Gameplay Changes

New elements have been added to the zone: walls, fallen trees and so on
These go some way in creating partitions on various parts of the map, and leave fewer areas that are “just open space”
The Golden Caiman now has 50% more HP and instantly negates the effect obtained from reliquaries if you get too close to him
Adjustments to the “untouchable” zone (in which you cannot be attacked)

Class Balancing

Gunner

Reduced MP cost for Mana Missiles and Detonate
Burst Fire is now influenced by your attack speed

Reaper

Shadow Step duration has been increased
Various skills can now be chained differently

Look out! The next major update is headed your way: patch 97 brings the upgrade to 64 bits that will massively improve the stability of the game client!

In addition to that, there’s a host of new content and items for you to discover. This includes a brand-new raid dungeon for 20 players, scrolls for changing equipment options, and the Rift’s Edge and an improved RK-9 Kennel will be opening their doors again. Please note that some of the names in these patch notes may differ from those in the final release.

New System Requirements

Let’s start with the most important news: with the switch to a 64-bit game client, the system requirements will change.

Warning: As we already stated a few weeks ago, TERA will no longer support 32-bit systems from this point forward. Players with older, 32-bit versions of Windows will therefore no longer be able to launch TERA.Here’s how to check your version of Windows:

Start Menu > “Control Panel”
Navigate to “System” (sub-item “Info” depending on the version)
Alternatively, use the “Windows key + Break” keyboard shortcut

The system requirements change as follows with patch 97:

Please note that the game directory will take up approx. 65 GB following the patch. However, additional space is needed to perform and run potential future updates. Additionally, the size of the update from patch 95 to 97 will be greater than the difference of approx. 13 GB, as many unused elements will be removed and existing ones will be modified.

64-bit Improvements at a GlanceThe improvements below are the advantages of the new client highlighted by the developers:

Unreal Engine 3 update

No immediately obvious changes to the graphics, but improvements for future new graphics

The 64-bit client allows more than 4 GB of RAM to be accessed

The vast majority of RAM client crashes should thus become a thing of the past!

DirectX 11

Graphics can be rendered by multiple processor cores, which will improve game performance and stability

Asynchronous loading

Various elements in TERA will now load independently of one another
For example, there should no longer be brief freezes while interface elements load (e.g. when you open your inventory)

Character and background elements

The reduction in the number of polygons will accelerate the transfer of character and background elements
This will result in fewer frame drops caused by lengthy loading

LOD (level of detail)

LOD settings have been added to the most visited zones in TERA so that the number of frames calculated is reduced while the graphical level of detail remains high and clear.
This maintains the nice background graphics without causing unnecessary calculations that affect the performance of the client

FPS controller

This patch introduces a new slider to the options, which allows you to set the game’s maximum frame rate between 24 and 300 FPS.

Loading UI elements

As part of the update, various elements of the game’s interface are loaded one by one instead of causing the game to visibly freeze when opened.
This may cause a window that you are opening for the first time after a client restart to be transparent for a second until all elements have been loaded. When opening the same element repeatedly, this should no longer be the case; once everything has been loaded, opening any UI element is lightning-fast.

Overall, you will see a more powerful game client after this patch, which is able to use your PC’s hardware more efficiently, offering you a better gaming experience.

Added Instances

Commander’s Residence

Details

From level 70
Designed for 20-player groups from item level 450
The “[Important] Exodor Advance Base” quest must be completed first
Teleportal in the core area (central island on Exodor)
1 entry per week (2 for Club members)
Entry only on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays between 0:00 AM and 11:59 PM (CEST)
Can be entered via group matching, required at least one tank and two healers
Entry costs 300 Adventure Coins
Amount of loot depends on the number of group members (+100% for 20 players)Possible Loot
Zenobia’s Sacred Breath Box
Adventure Completion Ticket
Unstable Option Change Scroll [Weapon, Armor, Hand Armor, Foot Armor]
Brooch Etching I (Pumped, Keen, Quicksteps)
Dark Shard Weapon Feedstock
Dark Shard Armor Feedstock
Card Fragment - Mahrnak
and much moreDaily quest (per completion, for the first 16 daily quests)
10,000 Gold
100 Vanguard Initiative Credits
EP XP++
1x Dragonwing Scale
10x Pure Refined Duranium Ore

RK-9 Kennel (Hard)

Details

From level 70
Designed for 5-player groups from item level 461
Teleportal in Spring Valley
1 entry per day (2 for Club members)
Can be entered via group matching
Entry costs 330 Adventure Coins
50%/100% more loot when 4/5 players are in the groupPossible Loot
Zenobia’s Sacred Breath Box
Card Fragment Random Box (contains fragments from removed instances)
Adventure Completion Ticket
Unstable Option Change Scroll [Weapon, Armor, Hand Armor, Foot Armor]
Brooch Etching I (Pumped, Keen, Quicksteps)
Dark Shard Weapon Feedstock
Dark Shard Armor Feedstock
Legendary Annihilation/Dark Light Weapons or Gear
1x Ishara’s Halidom I, Amarun’s Relic IDaily quest (per completion, for the first 16 daily quests)
6,000 Gold
100 Vanguard Initiative Credits
EP XP++
1x Dragonwing Scale
1x Dark Shard Weapon Feedstock Box
1x Dark Shard Armor Feedstock Box
1x Pure Refined Duranium Ore

Rift’s Edge

The Rift’s Edge is opening its doors for the duration of patch 97 and will be closed again with patch 98 (end of August/beginning of September).

Details

From level 68
Designed for 5-player groups from item level 452
Teleportal in the Timeless Woods
40 entries per week (80 for Club members)
Can be entered via group matching
Entry costs 150 Adventure Coins
50%/100% more loot when 4/5 players are in the groupPossible Loot
Annealed Dark Shard Cohesion Arcane
Honed Dark Shard Cohesion Arcane
Adventure Completion Ticket
Voyage Map [Sea of Honor, Difficulty 1-4]
Arborea’s Breath Box
Legendary Annihilation/Dark Light Weapons or GearDaily quest (per completion, for the first 16 daily quests)
2,000 Gold
50x Vanguard Initiative Credits
50x Noctenium Infusion
EP XP++
1x Dragonwing Scale
1x Dark Shard Weapon Feedstock

Two Training Dungeons

To give all new players the opportunity to learn the mechanics of difficult dungeons, Akalath Quarantine and Gossamer Vault (Hard) are being added as new training dungeons!

[Training] Akalath Quarantine is available from level 69
[Training] Gossamer Vault (Hard) is available from level 68As with existing training dungeons, the following applies for these two:
Cannot be entered via group matching
No Adventure Coins required
Can only be entered via Whurloc in Highwatch
The damage you deal is measured and displayed by the game
A merchant selling various enhancement potions is located in the dungeon

Items can be used for 2 hours (costing 1 copper each)
Items and buffs have no effect outside the instance

Various crystals are available ahead of the bosses to provide general instructions or special tips for tanks and healers

Other Changes

Zenobia’s Sacred Breath Box

This new box can now be looted in instances instead of the Arborea’s Breath Box
Greatly improved contents, including scrolls that enchant weapons and equipment directly to +15, halidoms and relics V, and Lenarive’s Card Album Design (Large) (contains 2020 tokens for card fragments of your choice)
The chance to loot this box is slightly lower than with the previous box

Level 1 to 64 instances now also yield experience

New Scrolls

Equipment is always available with a different number and different types of options – and now there is the possibility to change the options of the armor you love. Here you’ll find out all the details about the new items this is possible with. From patch 97 onward, you will be able to obtain them in various ways – for example, in the Commander’s Residence.

Unstable Option Change Scroll (Green)

There is a different scroll for each piece of equipment. So there is a different scroll for weapons, armor, gloves, shoes, belts, masks, brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, and circlets.When used, the following may happen:

All of an item’s options are changed
The number of options on the item is changed (0-3)Limitations:
Cannot be used on items with 3 options
For equipment: Annihilation/Dark Light/Kaia’s Wisdom/Kaia’s Nightmare
For accessories: Annihilation/Dark Light/Fidelity

Option Change Scroll (Blue)

There is a different scroll for each piece of equipment. So there is a different scroll for weapons, armor, gloves, shoes, belts, masks, brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, and circlets.When used, the following may happen:

All of an item’s options are changedLimitations:
For equipment: Annihilation/Dark Light/Kaia’s Wisdom/Kaia’s Nightmare
For accessories: Annihilation/Dark Light/Fidelity
Only for soulbound items

Greed Option Change Scroll (Gold)

There is a different scroll for each piece of equipment. So there is a different scroll for weapons, armor, gloves, shoes, belts, masks, brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, and circlets.When used, the following may happen:

All of an item’s options are changed
You have the choice of locking one or two options so that they are not changed

For jewelry: the cost of locking each option is 500 Kalligar’s Essence
For equipment: the cost of locking each option is 60 DiamondsLimitations:

For equipment: Annihilation/Dark Light/Kaia’s Wisdom/Kaia’s Nightmare
For accessories: Fidelity
Only for soulbound items

Upgrade Scroll (Gold)

There is a different scroll for each equipment group (equipment, accessories).When used, the following may happen:

Safely adds one optionLimitations:
For equipment: Annihilation/Dark Light/Kaia’s Wisdom/Kaia’s Nightmare
For accessories: Annihilation/Dark Light (only belts, masks, brooches)
Only for soulbound items

Item Changes

Dimension Merchant Mysterio

The dimension merchant is now two times more likely to appear than before after completing an instance. He also has some new goods in stock. As before, the items he has to offer change each time.His goods now include the following:

Greed Option Change Scroll [Ring] or [Necklace]
Elinu’s/Tithus’ Relic II/III
Dagon’s/Karas’ Halidom II/III
Voyage Map [Sea of Honor]
Zenobia’s Sacred Breath Box
Existing value/damage protection scrolls

Vanguard Initiative Merchants

Supplies: Exodor scout equipment box added (equipment level 65)
Added Exodor equipment cubes for weapons, armor, gloves, and shoes (5 items are combined to form one new one)

Traveling Merchants

Messages for traveling merchants are now global
The items on offer have been updated (removed old enchantment materials, added more up-to-date items)

Coupons

The look in dungeons has been changed so that coupons can now be obtained instead of Halidoms and Relics:

Coupon for Elinu’s Relic I/II
Coupon for Tithus’ Relic I/II
Coupon for Karas’ Halidom I/II
Coupon for Dagon’s Halidom I/IIThe coupons can be stored in the bank – thus fulfilling a long-standing players’ request. At the same time, the coupons are easier to store as they can now be stacked up to 1000x.

Other Changes

Semi-Enigmatic Scrolls can no longer be used as of patch 97 and can only be extracted
The options on equipment items are now highlighted in 4 different colors: white/blue/gold/purple
The Exchange Coupon for Eternal Gear has been removed from various quest rewards and merchants
When you receive a valuable item there is now a visual effect that shows the item’s icon and casts a beam of light on you
The items offered by the Crystal Trader have been updated (removed old enchantment materials, added more up-to-date items)

Game Interface

Many improvements have been made to the interface. These include several long-awaited features!

Instance Matching

The status of the group matching per instance and class type is now displayed. In future this will make it easier for you to see if tanks, healers, or damage dealers are needed in an instance, and which dungeon is currently in high demand.You can also add additional instances as targets while you are already searching for a group, without having to restart the search.A waiting room has also been added:

If a group or a player has not been able to automatically find a group for some time, the request is sent to the waiting room
Other players can now apply to directly join your group or apply to search with you.
You can open the waiting room via a button in the group matching

Battleground Matching

Similar to with instance matching, an indicator is also displayed for the battlegrounds to show the status of the respective classes and battlegrounds. You can now search for multiple battlegrounds at the same time! As with dungeons, you can also add or remove additional battlegrounds as targets while you are already searching for a group, without having to restart the search.

Miscellaneous

Pages have been added for EP points to create and store up to 5 possible combinations. You start with one page and can unlock additional pages for 50,000 Gold each.
Additional paths have been added to unlock Skill Advancement. Special tokens are required for this instead of Gold.
Bosses’ HP bars now show when the boss will next become enraged. This is displayed as a percentage on the right half of the bar.

Class Balancing

Berserker

The period of Titanic Shout during which you cannot be hit has been increase from 1 to 1.3 seconds.Brawler

Rampage

Now costs 1,000 MP and has a cooldown of 3 minutes
Now generates 500 Rage if all blows hit an opponent
Haymaker – Skill Advancement – Resonance
The hit opponent receives 2% more damage for 10 seconds.
Removed the “increases group members’ damage by 1.5%” effect.

Haymaker – Skill Advancement – Weak Spot Thrust

In addition to the existing effects, this now also reduces the cooldown of “Flying Kick” by 0.5 seconds on a successful hit.

Provoke

Cooldown reduced by 25%.

Ninja

The damage of the following skills has been increased to the highest level: Skyfall, Double Cut, Chakra Thrust

Chakra Thrust

Slight reduction of the scaling with Physical Factor
Increase of the scaling with Magical Factor

Smoke Bomb [Glyph of Power]

Period of invulnerability now also affects group members
Increases the skill damage of all group members by 5%
Changed visuals to red smoke

Impact Bomb – Skill Advancement – Caustic Orb

Replaces previous option
Increases damage for each successful hit by 0.1% (maximum 1%) for 15 seconds

Reaper

Adjusted the visuals of Binding Scythes so that it is now semitransparent.

Partner Adventures

Adventure

Some goals have been removed, while new ones have been added:

Removed: Antaroth’s Abyss [Adventure], Velik’s Hold [Adventure]
Added: Island of Dawn [Gather], Velik’s Sanctuary [Adventure], Rift’s Edge [Adventure], Arborea [Adventure]

Fellowship

At higher fellowship levels, partners can now bring more additional rewards from their adventures.

For each area: 11-20, 21-30, 31-40, 41-45, 46-50

Stamina

There is now a minimum amount of stamina required to start an adventure with your partner.

Adventures the partner’s stamina to be between 30% and 70% at the start
The details are displayed for each adventure

Miscellaneous

Added partner-specific messages after an adventure
Added system message if you try to end an adventure immediately but don’t possess the relevant ticket
Adjusted the rewards of some existing adventures

Other Changes

Daily Arborea Guardian Missions now apply across the whole server, and no longer per character.
Adjusted the points mystics, lancers, and priests receive for Arborea Guardian Missions.
Some rewards are now distributed differently (e.g. “at random to a player who dealt enough damage” rather than “final strike”).
Balancing improvement of the damage and positions of monsters on Exodor.
All battlegrounds except for Kumas Royale can now only be entered from level 70.
In the Guild-versus-Guild system (GvG), the maximum number of possible challenges per week has been adjusted to the size of the guild (small = 10, medium = 15, large = 15). Successfully completing challenges beyond this limit may not pay you any guild gold.
Added new NPCs for the bank and broker in Allemantheia
Added notes about consumables in instances
Some titles from top endgame achievement now glow again
It wasn’t possible to trade in some of the newer instances. This has been changed, but it is still not possible to trade with characters from other servers.