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Patch Notes 97 - TERA Goes 64-bit

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:
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)
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).
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
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:
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
Ninja
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.
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