New Player looking for beginner friendly class to try

From my point of view yea classic brings back good memories, but the AWAKEN SKILL are :)) pure fire they compete with games lunched this year :)) it is that good, this game is amazing it's bad that not a lot of MMORPG players are not playing it anymore. The market out there is huge and we are low in numbers which is not top :)) I would love classic players to be patched step by step and be merged with the awaken server this way more people more fun.

But yea to jump to my conclusion if warrior is pretty LIT -> Tank and DPS 2 in 1 :)) - one of the most complex classes in the game
2nd option I WOULD go with Brawler pretty impressive skills and fun to play

Sadly awakening server has an issue, players forms little groups with few exanges between them. Only players that have been playing for a long time can find spot in those groups.

I've made a guild gathering newer player togater to revitalize the server and allow newer player to find groups and play, but currently they're not a lot of players lvl 70 in it. The more player will join the easier it will be to find groups.

Go, go, join us we will have fun in dungeons ASAP and we will help you if needed, ofc when I'll be lvl70(1day max) - I am ready to ignite the spark and clear dungeons with everybody that want's to join us

Zitat von Mazay

From my point of view yea classic brings back good memories, but the AWAKEN SKILL are :)) pure fire they compete with games lunched this year :)) it is that good, this game is amazing it's bad that not a lot of MMORPG players are not playing it anymore. The market out there is huge and we are low in numbers which is not top :)) I would love classic players to be patched step by step and be merged with the awaken server this way more people more fun.

But yea to jump to my conclusion if warrior is pretty LIT -> Tank and DPS 2 in 1 :)) - one of the most complex classes in the game
2nd option I WOULD go with Brawler pretty impressive skills and fun to play

Sorry but this will never happen.
The classic server will stay and there is no plan to ever ptach them to awakening.

Both servers are 2 different projekts and will stay like that.
The classic server will get updates and patches but it will always stay classic and never awakening.

Zitat von Humble

I am a new player trying TERA with very little experience in MMO and there are a fair amount of classes. which class is easy to learn. thank you in advance for your advice ^^.

Depends on what your preferences would be but generally damage dealers are better to start with in order to learn boss mechanics, if you die as a healer or tank it becomes harder for your party to recover.

If you look for an EASY class to pick up in terms of rotation then it would be
Archer, Sorcerer
Both have very few skills that are important for the rotation. Having few skills = managing less skills = easier. Besides there are a lot people who have mastered this class and could teach you abbout them (although I'm not sure who has stayed behind since I know a couple players already left upon reaching end content)

If you look for a class which you can hardly die on it's probably Brawler, although if you wanna do decent damage to help out your team its a bit more difficult to pick up but it's very good to start doing solo content. Also able to play it as damage dealer as well as tank so that's a bonus.

-As for the other classes they are pretty hard to pick up. Considering that gunner has to do a lot animation canceling and also you need to play effectively with your robot, meaning you already need to know how some bosses work in order to utilize it properly.
-Ninja rotation in general is just difficult to do proper damage and not a lot people play it good enough to be able to teach you ninja.
-Valk is pretty burst heavy, if you mess up then a good chunk of damage goes away and you just end up akwardly waiting for some cooldowns to come back up but it's not the hardest to play and it's fun
-Warrior is super cool cause you get to tank as well as be a damage dealer which on a small server like this is super handy, helping you find a party faster since tank is A L W A Y S missing. The class is not hard to pick up but hard to master (aka get ready to have your fingers wrecked)
-Lancer has a lot utility for party and is basically #1 tank but it is super hard to pick up and master. Having a lot utility skills means managing them properly and in terms of dodging it's having a hard time, if you are not an experiences player the harder dungeons later on will be super hard on you. The Iframe is short and capped by RS (Which is like a stamina bar which you would ALSO have to manage... empty RS bar = you are not allowed to dodge)

and then there are the 2 healer options left:
-Priest: Easy to heal your party members with low effort (heals hit stronger for your party and yourself) BUT you gotta master boss mechanics in order to make full use of the utility skills such as "rise up" etc to help your teammembers. Is easier to pick up for the beginner dungeons but becomes harder to master in harder dungeons (*glancing at bahaar waves*).
-Mystic: Has a lot skills to help you and your party but that also means there are more buttons to press It's harder to heal your party back to full health BUT has more skills to make your life as healer easier: e.g. you got selfrez for you AND your party members meaning there is less chaos in resurrecting your members and you can summon a pet that can cleanse you so it allows for more mistakes to be made to recover the run. Also you can "outrange" a lot mechanics in comparison to priest (RK, GLSH, FA just to name a few) so you can focus more on healing your party members because your iframe is a literal teleport so you dont have to worry to trigger the boss range mechanics. Having said that.. mystic has to manage a lot of skills in comparison IF you wanna play it decently, keeping buffs up and healing are more complicated than priest.

(Btw I just saw the original post is a few days old.. so you probably already picked your class haha)
I'm gonna leave my post for incoming new players then

I kinda disagree so I'll make the list of my own

I'll rank every dps by difficulty

Easy

Valk : easiestt class to pick up: one rotation that never changes for burst, no random resets, a pretty clear objective for how to dps and balder tears allow to facetank anything that could have stopped you to DPS

Ninja : pretty easy to pick up: burst has few variations. they're a few offensive skills to play with out of burst. it has some little tricks to gain dps (mainly dc->reverse sf between shuriken boomrang) but they aren't really hard in general

warrior (dps) : easy to pick up hard to master. you litterally just have to learn one chart to know what to do the limiting factor beeing how fast you react to your BD resets, this class has so much mobility and dmg reduction it's hard to die

Hard

Zerk : conceptually not that hard to use : charge your spell, use some skills during cyclone resets to not waste time. has a surprisingly correct mobility but few dodges meanning you have to position well to avoid dying. their burst is pretty simple to do tho.

reaper : weirdest class to play. has great potential but needs you to understand all of what it can do. can be cdr locked if not careful.

archer : the difficulty of the class is surviving while dealing dmg, with awake you're given a spell that's both a curse and a blessing as it uses stamina to deal dmg and buff your other spells but stamina if required to avoid hits. Archer is also the only dps class that should always be at 6-8meters from boss, having to deal with a lot of mechs specifically made to hurt them

Gunner : lots of animation cancel and camera tricks. the worst mobility of the game. uses dodges to gain dps.

Sorc : has the higher number of useful dps spell of the game and has mechanics from many classes, must also know at all time the elements it will get for next fusion as there's a 20% dmg boost for alternating them, manage their crit glyphe via nova/arcan pulse, manage the blooslust of their spell as their spell prio is dependant on the target's HP. just like war/reaper has a reset on two of it's best spells. some spells reduces the cd of others. Has good mobility and lots of tools, dmg reduction, kd/push mitigation, sleep for baharr skelly, stun, immobile dodge.

Slayer : no fixed rotation, many spell reduces the cd of other spells, rely on the reset of one of it's spell, has the best dodge in the game. Moves a lot because one of it's best offensive spell is a two time dash that allows to chain ANYspell for a short duration. played well it can match the dps of average classes, else it's always bottom.

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Healers

Priest : traditional healer, spam the tornado to reduce your ult, your ult locks you out of some spells but gives you other tricks to heal/prevent kd. tankier than the mystic

Mystic : rely a lot on pets and target heal to heal everyone. also has offensive pets that you shoulden't put in front of the boss or behind him as it body block. got 2 tps to dodge things.

Overall the priest is easier to play, due to their dodge differences they're some dg where avoiding is easier for one or for another.

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Tank

Brawler : medium dmg, no buff, some classes can barely burst with a brawler as a tank. passively block hits. its dps is dependant on the boss auto attack pattern. Overall lack mobility in higher dg and can be harder to play than the other tanks.

war tank: block passively most of the time, manual block gives 1 stack and block chains into BD. dps wise is better than brawler against 95% of dg, also gives a nice boost to attack speed

lancer: lowest dps of them all, has to manually block most hits, has a lot of utility tricks as 2 of its awakening spells are support spells. some classes benefits greatly from a lancer.

Think u have missed, thats this is the classic section. So your Ranking ist not correct for that.

EDIT: Did not read all comments.

For Awakening i think Brawler is a great allrounder Class, but he is more Tank than DD. You can play both roles, but every DD-Class do more DPS.

On Classic i think Archer ist very beginner friendly, but Gunner is the class with most DPS by far. For leveling is Gunner the beste Class, cause of his high critrate. in Future this class get some nerfs.

Zitat von Denroc

Think u have missed, thats this is the classic section. So your Ranking ist not correct for that.

That. I was just about to say that.

Would be nice if the Servers were colour-coded. It would be easier to differentiate.

Yup i'm blind, forget that I ever existed.

Add me in game Mazay let's run some dungeons :)))

do you like playing support, tanking, or DPS ?
and also love to play range or melee class?

I would for sure try Gunner if you like ranged

I am sorry I missed this is classic thread.
Ignore my message earlier.

Gunner is the way to go as beginner, you got a little robot companion that heals you once in a while and it is one of the only damage dealer (beside zerk) that can actually tank quite a bit without dying so this is definetly helpful at the beginning.

As a big plus is that gunner has very little skills you need to use making for a simplified rotation that is honestly very straightforward and it does currently a lot damage in comparison to other classes *cough* warrior for example. In classic you are locked with one-directional iframes/jumps whereas gunner is one of the exeptions where you can dodgeroll in all direction which is honestly a big plus as well.

most important thing is to pick something that you enjoy playing!

Yes and no.. It's not exactly fun to play a class that does half the damage of another even if you play it efficiently.. at least not for me because struggling to clear a horde of mobs while others just breeze through is kinda frustrating in my opinion and idk when the balancing patch comes up.

Zitat von I.LikeBananas

Yes and no.. It's not exactly fun to play a class that does half the damage of another even if you play it efficiently.. at least not for me because struggling to clear a horde of mobs while others just breeze through is kinda frustrating in my opinion and idk when the balancing patch comes up.

The balancing patch is in the works, but it will take some time. There was no ETA given at yesterday's Q&A.

Yep, could be in a week could be in a year we won't know unless it's out :x

Well even if some would prob cruzify me for saying it but Gunner is rly easy to pick up.

you can only achieve true happiness when you stop comparing yourself with others! I understand why it could feel frustrating. Im pretty sure once we get the attacks under control they will start working on other stuff like balancing damage dealt.