Just another Korean grind game but..

Grind means LONG and TEDIOUS, typically and specifically referring to the effort outside of quests to level by killing random monsters for experience. You can blaze to 40 with little discomfort and the quests are plentiful and entertaining enough that you aren't reduced to picking fights with boars or bears. Clearly you've never actually played a typical Asian MMO but if you have, I question whether or not this is trolling.

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with interesting combat. Soon as the novelty of combat wears off, around level 20 or so, it is quickly realized just how much of a grind this game is.

[/QUOTE] I. . what? This is a grind? Kids these days are spoiled by how dumbed down MMOs are these days. I remember Everquest, Final Fantasy 11, RF Online, Lineage II, and Ragnarok Online among other games. Those? Those were grinds. Grinds in the truest sense. I remember when a week's worth of progress could be wiped out in one death. When there were no quests that gave you 20 gold, an item upgrade, and half a level worth of experience; it all came down to hacking apart the same monster over and over. Tera Online is very friendly, very forgiving when it comes to what we consider a "grind". They give you dozens of quests a camp, all of them reasonably easy to do, before sending you to the next camp. And each quest piles on the gold and experience as well as occasionally giving you gear (I don't think I bought anything from the broker until the late 40s). [QUOTE="Army4God"][QUOTE="AlmityGuitarist"]

If it's only interesting for 20 levels, why would you call it interesting?

[/QUOTE] Because combat is interesting until the player gets used to it. Then it becomes just another element of the game. The meat of any MMO's is not the combat, it's the content. In the content area Tera is extremely lacking and the content that does exist is boring. So as I said, soon as the interesting part of combat wears off, the game fails. If they had put as much time into the actual meat of the game as they put in the combat this game could have been a really good one. [/QUOTE] You talk about content but I don't get what you're complaining about? It's on par with its competitors with content. You get vibrant scenery, a variety of aesthetic choices for your characters, compelling cutscenes, and multiple story lines. Granted, they aren't the big budget flash and sparkle of Final Fantasy 11/14 with over the top cutscenes and they aren't the internet meme/pop culture laden quests of WoW but they have a kind of charm to it all.