I am...a god

Holy crap, I had to blog this.
Just had to.
Wish I had a video.

Playing the Tera Online EU beta right now and I ended up getting a quest....it was 5person recommended quest to go kill a rather tough BAM (big ass monster).
Usually they exaggerate this fact, so I thought "what the hell" and went to find one to kill by myself.

First of all, it's huge. Fucking gigantic. Second, my combos did around 1% of its hp, if I could even pull the full thing off...and chances are I couldn't because it would maim me in an instant if I tried to soak a hit to finish a combo.
I have around 5.5k hp. This thing could hit 1k normally and crit for nearly 4k, and staggering it or knocking it down basically never happened.
Also you can hit things while they're knocked down. This counts for monsters too. So when this thing knocks me down for half my HP and then proceeds to try to jump its ass on top of me for likely 3/4 of my health...not having a good time.

To make the fight just THAT MUCH FUNNER, I accidentally hit my PVP-toggle hotkey instead of my potion one beside it, which sends you into PK mode for 60 seconds (or as I found out, 60 seconds of NOT BEING IN A FIGHT. So...the entire BAM fight was me in PVP constantly having to check over my shoulder for noobs.

I actually killed this fucking thing. It exploded in a shower of items and gave me 43k exp (that's 1/3 of what I needed to level up, which is crazy). I feel like a god.
I can't believe I did that. It was so god damn tough to fight since all of its moves had gigantic arcs, and it LOVED surprise-r*pe-crit-attacks. Pretty obvious why it was SUPPOSED to be a party fight, but screw parties.

It was funny too, every so often a person would wander over and just stand there, watching me fight this thing. I can't help but imagine they were thinking if they wanted to try and PK me.
But i'm also pretty sure they also thought "Yeah that guy would beat the shit out of me if he's strong enough to take that thing on solo."

/adrenaline rush


TeraBAM.jpg
It looks smaller than it is since I didn't want to go stand beside it...because it would hurt me, a lot.
My Elin is about the size of its leg, if that.

Comments

astrangeone
Awesome. That makes me want to play an MMORPG - but my computer would probably slap me for actually wanting to play on it. (Celeron cpu, crappy ram...)
 
Hyro-Sama
Sounds like a lot of work. It's the reason I'm not particularly fond of MMOs. Props to you for having such great patience.
 
Hells Malice
[quote name='Hyro-Sama' timestamp='1329718842'] Sounds like a lot of work. It's the reason I'm not particularly fond of MMOs. Props to you for having such great patience. [/quote]

Tis a lot of work to kill BAMs. But that's because they yield huge amounts of exp, and great drops. A person could just go about killing normal mobs and have a much easier time of it, though of course it's less rewarding. Tera's cool since the combat is actually fun. Even grinding is really entertaining depending on what you're fighting. BAMs are like fighting a damn boss in Dark Souls. There's a ton of variety too. I've seen several different BAMs and they're all unique with different movesets.

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I can't believe I forgot to post a timeframe for this, but it took me 20 minutes to kill it. Approx.

Mostly I just loved the fact I could even HOPE to do something like this. I mean, in a typical MMO i'd just stand there and take hits, or dodge an attack if a stat told the game to or not, and i'd probably just die to some massive boss-like monster in a few seconds. But in Tera, you get hit if you let yourself get hit. With the ability to dodge/block you can actually take on things way, way above your level if you have the patience to do so. I find that really cool.
PvP is similar, though it IS still gear/level based to a fair degree, but i've taken out groups of 2 and even a group of 3 by myself because they were nubs who couldn't fight for shit, despite their distinct initial advantage.
 
Paarish
MY LAPTOP! Y U NO FAST ENOUGH TO PLAY MMORPGS!? ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)
 
Gundam Eclipse
This game looks fucking awesome, plus real time combat? I AM SOLD.
...well uh, is it going to be P2P or F2P? D:
 
Tom Bombadildo
[quote name='Gundam Eclipse' timestamp='1329740069'] This game looks fucking awesome, plus real time combat? I AM SOLD....well uh, is it going to be P2P or F2P? D: [/quote]
 
Hells Malice
P2P. Gotta buy it and it has a monthly sub.
Which I am damn glad of, cash shops ruin MMOs. I'd much rather pay a monthly fee than have rich kids spend thousands of dollars to be infinitely better than me.
 

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