Hello and welcome to TERA!

=== Beginner guide ===

== General ==

- Be nice and friendly! You don't know the person that's sitting behind the other computer or what is happening on their side of the world. If a group or dungeon run doesn't work out, don't get upset over a game. In the worst case it's better to leave than to ruin your day because of 1-2 people.

- Ignore [Global] chat. Most times it's pretty toxic and 50% of the written content is simply wrong, trying to make jokes, fool people, troll.

- Ignore [Area] chat for now as it's the same as Global after the new class + Steam release.

- If you don't know what to do, follow the red questlines. If no red quests appear you may be underleveled. Do the yellow quests (some can be skipped, but most should be done), run dungeons or farm monsters for XP.

- If your leveling area is too populated or you face PKs (player killers, mostly higher level than you, just on PvP servers) change the channel. This can be done on the radar (http://puu.sh/hDiPE/5c0e55a0ab.png).

- If you are no healer class but need heal inbetween fights, every merchant (in every town) does sell Bandages very cheap. Bandages can just be used outside combat. A Specialty Store (in all towns but the 3 biggest cities) also sells a more expensive version, the "Medicated Bandages" that heal even more HP at once.

- Try to buy a couple "Sroll of Rapid Resurrection" at a Specialty Store when you have the chance. It's much better than the normal resurrection scroll and can save your party if your healer dies in an instance and nobody can resurrect him in a fast manner.

- If you need guidance in the game find a guild that is newbie-friendly. You can ask in global chat or look around in the main menu bar "Guild & Alliance" - "Guilds on Server". The Guild Finder Tool is as well an option http://guilds.enmasse.com/

- The standard UI is pretty awful. But you can customize your UI to look cleaner (http://puu.sh/hDhfh/48c9bcdc97.png), more info below.

- You can not use a leveling scroll to get your Gunner to level 60 in an instant.

- Some tips to make TERA look nicer/run better (FoV, Font, etc): http://www.reddit.com/r/TeraOnline/comments/1bdx65/a_nifty_collection_of_tera_online_tweaks/

- Till June 2th an event is running. You get double XP from monster kills and some goodies: http://tera.enmasse.com/news/posts/level-up-fast-and-get-rewarded-for-it

- ABBREVATIONS: https://tera-forums.enmasse.com/forums/player-guides/topics/-TERA-Abbreviations-Acronyms-Vernacular

- PLAYER GUIDES: https://tera-forums.enmasse.com/forums/player-guides

- TERATODAY GUIDES: https://tera-forums.enmasse.com/forums/player-guides/topics/PlayerCreated-Guides-TERATodaycom

- CHECK THE FORUM FOR INFOS/QUESTIONS: http://tera-forums.enmasse.com/forums

- CHECK REDDIT FOR INFOS/QUESTIONS: http://reddit.com/r/teraonline

== Controls ==

- In TERA you control your character movement with WASD, rotate the camera with your mouse and use keys for skills and items. You don't use your mouse to use skills.

- Press Alt to bring up your mouse cursor and control your interface. This lets you click menus, move skills on your hotbar by pressing and dragging, and click on NPCs, objects or players. You can also move around menus and your interface.

- Normally new skills get assigned to your skillbar. If you need to add a skill again press K to bring up the skill menu and drag a skill into your skillbar.

- If you get stuck in a location, bring up your main menu (press ALT to bring up the mouse), click the gear symbol and use "Unstuck" (http://puu.sh/hDgRD/be89c5c20b.png)

- To preview an item on your character hold Control on your keyboard and Rightclick with your mouse on an item in your inventory.

- To link an item in chat hold Control on your keyboard and Rightclick with your mouse on an item in your inventory.

- At some point you might have a lot of skills and want to change your keybindings, so that you can use skills on Q,E,R,Y,X,C,V and similar. On your skill bar you have three red-yellow buttons that will expand and lock your skill bar. Put a skill on the second skill bar, go to Options - Shortcuts and find the entries "Extended Lower" and "Extended Upper" and fill in the keys you want to use. Ofc you could change the entries from 0-10 and F1-F12 if you wanted.

== UI ==

- Every part of your UI can be rescaled by going to Options (press O) - UI Settings. Scale the UI as a whole or select single parts and scale them seperately.

- You can move every part of the UI by clicking and dragging.

- You can lock menus in place by using the lock symbol on the top right. Once it's red, the menu will always appear at the same location (http://puu.sh/hDgX2/b57e1045db.png).

- Display your current FPS by going to Options - UI Settings - "Show frame rate (FPS)".

- Check your ping by hovering over your clock/FPS.

- If you want to move your effect icon bar and its direction is going outside of your wanted borders (http://puu.sh/hDh7m/a2f94bec8b.png), go to Options - UI Settings - "Display Effect icons" and change the direction to what you want. In my example, right (http://puu.sh/hDh9i/3feae1778f.png

- You can turn off the main menu bar when you don't have the mouse up. This was standard before the patch. Go to Options - UI Settings - "Show Main Menu only in UI Mode" and turn it on.

== Gameplay ==

- AVATAR WEAPONS: After you reach Lumbertown (after the starting island and the first city) you will sometimes find avatar relic pieces (http://puu.sh/hDgyC/baf09ffcf6.png). For every couple levels there will be one specific avatar weapon. Collect all relic pieces (random drops from monsters) to acquire the avatar weapon (http://puu.sh/hDgzb/ec0187d8ec.png). Avatar weapons are for the most part the strongest weapons you will find before endgame (they're just there to help you leveling). They have a very high chance to crit same-lvl monsters.

- LEVELING: Do all red quests as they lead you to new places. Don't skip too much of the yellow quests, otherwise you have to farm your XP by killing monsters or doing dungeons, since some red quests require a certain level to appear. You don't need to worry about your equipment till level 20. During leveling you will get the avatar weapons. Dungeon drops can be stronger, but keep in mind that they don't crit as much on same-lvl monsters. So once your avatar weapon doesn't crit insanely good anymore and you don't have the next version of the avatar weapon you can use a dungeon weapon with better stats. Questing will award you with armor and jewelries, in general dungeons drop the best armor and jewelries tho. The Trade Broker can also be a good place to check for gear.

- CHARMS: Using a charm at a campfire will give all players close a certain buff. Those can be useful for leveling. If you can get your hands on them, use them. If you're a fast player "Infused" will help keep your mana up. The standard charms in endgame dungeons that are always used are "Greater Power" or "Greater Keen" (more power or crit chance), "Greater Infused" (more mana regeneration), Greater Enduring" (more defense). There are 3 types of charms: Offensive, Supportive, Defensive. You can use 1 charm for each category at a time. A maximum of 3 charms. A charm is greyed out when you use it. Once you enter combat the effect starts its timer will run. There are 3 types of campfires. The orange fire has no special effect. The pink fire will double the duration of used charms. The blue campfire restores your Stamina double as fast.

- STAMINA: Always keep your stamina up. A high stamina gives you bonus stats (http://puu.sh/hDjAZ/788105960b.png). The more it drops the more bonus you lose and at some point you get a penalty. If your stamina is 40% or lower you can't receive charms anymore. You get stamina by standing at a campfire or using a potion like "Arunic Panacea", "Combat Panacea" or "Battle Panacea".

- CRYSTALS: Crystals (http://puu.sh/hDi6a/e4a2625bf1.png) are very important for lvl20+. You can put them in and out of your weapon and armor. Depending on the item rarity you have a different amount of crystal slots on your weapon/armor. Try to find the crystals that sound right for you. A healer might need movement speed and mana regeneration in a dungeon, but flat damage increase while leveling. A tank wants more aggro in a group or dungeon, but flat damage or crit power from behind while leveling. Depending on how good he can get behind the enemies in time. A DPS class wants to be on full damage always. The most important weapon crystals are:

-- "Pounding" (% dmg increase to monsters)

-- "Savage" (more crit power when critting from behind on monsters and players)

-- "Focused" (more crit power when monster is enraged which is usually displayed by red glowing eyes on the monster)

-- "Bitter" (more crit power when critting from behind)

-- "Carving" (higher % chance to crit)

-- "Brilliant" (mana renegeration)

-- "Threatening" (more aggro generation)

-- "Swift" (more movement speed in combat)

The most important armor crystals are:

-- "Hardy" (reduce % dmg by monsters)

-- "Relentless" (increase max hp)

-- "Vigorous" (extra hp regeneration, if you level solo)

Crystals can break upon death. Keep in mind that for crystals that work just from behind you seriously have to be behind the enemy and you need to land a critical hit. It works like this: Is your crit power 2.0? Then your normal hit does 100 damage, while your crit does 200 damage. If you use a crystal that gives you 1.0 crit power more when you crit from behind your normal hit does still 100 damage, but your crit does 300 damage now.

It's absolutely crucial to use Crystals! Especially in combination with the avatar weapons they're highly effective.

- GLYPHS: Glyphs will be available at level 20. Find them in your skills menu by pressing "K". You get 1 glyph point per level. Use them to increase the effectivity of your skills. Decide glyph point cost against it's effect when choosing glyphs. Glyphs that reduce the MP cost of skills are in general not worth taking, with some exceptions. As a Warrior use the HP cost reduction on Combative Strike. Upgrades for glyphs (Uncommon rarity, green) will be available later in the game from endgame dungeons, Vanguard Initiative dailies/merchants and battlegrounds. Try to get them all.

- COMBAT: Avoid using the space bar. You will not be able to play effectively with it in later levels. If you feel the urge to jump around in combat rebind the key from spacebar to something else, since spacebar will trigger spacebar combos. You can also go to "Chained Skills" in your skills menu ("K") and remove them, but it will not compeletely remove the spacebar combo popups. Also avoid using the basic attack. Some classes need it for mana regeneration (Slayer, Zerker), some can use it efficiently by placing combo attacks between other skills (Warrior, Gunner). But a general rule is that you always have a skill on cooldown that does more damage than basic attack or regenerates more mana than basic attack.

- BANK/POST: To bank items find a Banker (http://puu.sh/hDiWa/d2bbea430f.png). They are in all towns and have a key symbol on the map. You can also send items and messages in form of letters (Parcel Post) to other players here.

- TRADE BROKER: This is the player market. Sell and buy items here. As non-elite member you'll have to pay a small gold fee to put an item up for sale. You can find a guide here: http://tera.enmasse.com/game-guide/gameplay/the-brokerage

- VANGUARD INITIATIVE: This is the new faction that is the base of a daily quest system (http://puu.sh/hDgh7/c7150ddcee.png). Not outstandingly useful at low level, but it will be a big ressource of income at later levels. Dungeon runs will award you with extra items and gold. For low level it will guide you through the story quests. Access it with "H".

- BATTLEGROUNDS: The first battleground is available at level 30 and called Corsair's Stronghold. Once you're level 30 you will have a Battleground Matching button on your radar that you can use to queue into a game or you can use the main menu bar. You can find the official guide here: http://tera.enmasse.com/game-guide/battlegrounds/corsairs-stronghold and a 5min video guide here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jXPNDneOjY At level 65 you will have 4 more battlegrounds.