Dropping my sexy Warrior here.

Any Malaysians in Tera NA cleared SCHM?

Cleared mine several times on EU:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK0SkjHfhfE

/showoff

Yeap, highlighted in video description.

I guess that's the only real con playing on NA, the latency is too damn high...

Not as mechanic heavy as when the Queen of Argon patch was first introduced. Tera has always been mechanic heavy, but recent patches made things easier, thanks to the blips on the circles to indicate where you need to move and whatnot. In Kelsaik's Nest, and MCHM, for instance, the challenge was real. If you tried Dreadspire you'll know how difficult they can really get.

SCHM, though, was just a matter of DPS race and strafing. Do those well and you get yourselves a clear.

p.s. If there are any SEA players out there looking for a team to do the upcoming Timscape patch, PM Sehr in-game (server: Fraya). EU only, of course (the EU thread seems to be dead so tumpang this thread ).

This post has been edited by piecemealcranky: Jul 7 2015, 02:44 PM

Yeah, what a stupid move on their end. Then they were scared shitless after Europeans went to NA servers, and insisted that En Masse close their "invitations" to Europeans via Steam.

Anyway, there are still SEA players here, and in fact someone randomly added me on their FL. Just hoping they'd see this message and perhaps catch up xD

If I didnt have 300 days clocked on my warrior, and the ping better, I would've switched already.

For those who want to see how good your connection really is to NA servers, download this tool: http://support.enmasse.com/tera/how-to-run-the-eme-diag-tool

Run the tool, and save the results. Open it and search for "Connectivity Test". You'll find "enmasse port" values (80, 443 and 10001). If your number is 0.3 and lower, your connection is playable. After 0.3 it gets laggy. Last I did this test I managed to get around 0.3+ which means it's going to be laggy. The lower the number, the better.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/TeraOnline/comment...for_eu_players/

This post has been edited by piecemealcranky: Jul 8 2015, 09:26 PM

Although I play on EU, the only way to get sub 180-200ms from here is to use tunnelling. They work, for sure, but if you've got a major Internet bottleneck, like, for example, the maintenance of the undersea cable that took them 2-3 months to fully repair won't make things better.

WTFast used to work well out of the box but now I've gone back to using Battleping. Not sure if anyone knows but your latency varies depending on your server + external IP address your net is assigned to. I can go into detail if anyone is interested.

WTFast reroutes your connection so you can't actually see your actual ping via Resource Monitor. Battleping, however, allows you to. Same for Smoothping and other tunneling services. There's also Pingzapper which gave me the lowest latency to EU at one point but unfortunately places a 24-hour auto-ban on you if you connect via their tunnels to EU (fine on NA I think. give it a shot).

The trick to lowering your latency (for me at least, on EU servers) is getting the correct external IP matched with the correct tunnel server. For instance, on Unifi with an external IP of 175.XXX.XX.XX I can get about 200ms to Netherlands 2. With 2XX.XXX.XX.XX IP, I get 175ms. That's a whopping 30 ms difference and about 15 ms in-game.

Check PM.

On the Instance Matching UI, you can click on the left top icon to choose yourself as a War Tank. Then, proceed to queue as normal. You'll be queued as a tank.

I'd say Lancer and Brawler would be on equal footing when it comes to tanking. Warrior and Berserker will be phased out as secondary tanks, partly due to the massive buffs Lancer is getting as well. Brawler is just, well, Brawler.

Further discussion:

https://www.reddit.com/r/TeraOnline/comment...ff_postbrawler/

Very much so in both NA and EU. I'm sure the new dungeons and the Brawler's recently released patch will garner an influx of new players, and the return of old players altogether.

Battleping bugged out on a couple of servers for me, so I managed to bypass the 20 minute restriction for a good one month.

On EU, Battleping gives lower latency vs WTFast and now you've gotta pay for WTFast (again, those scammers). I'd recommend BP over WTFast but sometimes their servers can get pretty shit.

Uh, perhaps you brushed off this announcement?
https://www.wtfast.com/pages/upcoming_changes_free_wtfast/

Free but, not for long.

And nope, Battleping has always offered 20 min d/c trial for you to test out.

Latency and minor patches and of course, population.

250-350ms to NA. You can get as low as 170ms to EU (190ms in game) with tunneling.

EU's population dwindled since the release of BnS and it will come back up I'd assume with the next PvE patch.

Both are currently running the latest western patch (Brawler+FI).

Figured I should say that the game is still very playable at 200+ ish ping. Recently did a slaying/high score run in SSHM and almost broke 17.8k score. Only reason is we have no ninja and a sorc with Starfall

Video here: https://youtu.be/EN8lAgeDgoY

And yeah, this is EU, I know. Don't extradite me please since EU thread is dead.

Short answer, yes. In fact, IP works differently via tunnel routes on programs like WTFast and Battleping. Best way to do this is to take note of your current IP, run a ping test on WTFast servers, and check the best server. Now Choose best on your specific region on 2nd server selection (hopefully you've got Advanced to do this) and let the software do its thing. If it seems higher than it should, change IP and retry but stay on the same server selection.

Should work well if you did it right. On EU I get 185ms to 220ms.

This post has been edited by piecemealcranky: Aug 5 2016, 10:59 AM

Thanks o/

Why are you scared?

Yeah it's playable but the DPS loss can be rather significant based on the class you play. Take Warriors for instance. It's speculated that for every +100ms you lose 10% DPS. I'm not bothered by this usually but when you're aiming for a high score it's pretty demotivating.

Awakening enchantment is the next big RNG thing that drains your gold and MWA supply every patch, assuming you're willing to cope with BiS gears.

Or macro, seems to be the solution.

I tried Mudfish once. I'm on EU though, and changing server selection manually triggered a 24-hour auto-ban on my account. Any successive tries resulted in more auto-bans. Best bet is still WTFast. Last I played on NA, it lowered the ping by about 10%, from 280ms to about 240 or so. Not sure if that's worth it though.

It seems lately that spikes are occurring a lot more often to Europe and most likely NA too. Not sure if it has anything to do with the DDOS attack recently, but this has been rather upsetting cause the new patch just hit and RMHM will be challenging with anything higher than 200ms.

p.s. For those playing on EU; did you play on any other servers besides Fraya before the merge (PvE)? If so we're on Mystel now so find me, IGN Sehr and we can tackle some stuff together xD

I get from the low 180ms to 220ms.

With the right IP address can get 175ms.



This one was with Battleping.

This post has been edited by piecemealcranky: Oct 27 2016, 04:01 AM

That's the thing, I'm on EU, and on EU you get to enjoy this. Gameforge is also improving a lot, and in fact better than the crap going on at En Masse (with Treeshark leaving etc).

Even without tunnelling you get low 200s on latency. On NA 3 years ago, I could get as low as 250ms with WTFast. I advised on how you can do this on previous posts, but the general rule is to get the right IP address (reset router/reconnect) and test run chained servers.

There's also mudfish but I advise against it if you're on EU as I was temp banned for a while xd