Translated patch notes

Originally Posted by Brian Knox

We know you guys are starving for information and it will come directly from us eventually-we promise you. In the meantime we ask that you do not read any translations of the information coming from Korea... What? You can't promise that?!?! Ok, let's settle on this: let's agree to take the fan translations with a grain of salt. Our fans do a great job of translating articles very quickly but the fact is there will be differences--in terminology, game play mechanics, and services provided by the publisher-between the Western release and NHN's release of TERA. With these translations there will certainly be some misinterpretation, and we will do our best to react and clarify to the community.

 

Link: http://www.tera-online.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10895

 

FGT2 (march 2010) skills can be found here for reference

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Translated  by

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Malent

Kalsteine

http://www.tera-online.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10895

 

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The Basics of the Glyph System




The glyph system is made up of 300 different glyphs. Glyphs enhance certain skills. When a character reaches level 25 they will receive 10 glyph points that allow them to equip their first ever glyph. After that each level will grant the player 1 glyph point.



Once the player buys a glyph in one of the major cities, they can register that glyph to them and mix and match different glyphs. How many points you have determines how many glyphs you can equip.



You can buy the glyphs at the glyph vendor, though some may have level requirements. To reset your current glyph setup, simply go back to the vendor and the vendor will reset the glyphs for you. This will make it so that you can easily switch your glyphs out for different PVP and PVE sets.



(At left: Glyphs can be bought with in-game currency and prices vary based on level requirements.)















Different Types of/uses for Glyphs

Glyphs can enhance a skill, lower its cooldown, lower its mana cost, etc.




1. Warrior

Warriors can enhance their evasion skills and aggro acquisition abilities to become more stable tanks or they may enhance attack oriented skills to become more effective damage dealers. The Warrior's role will change significantly depending on its glyph setup.














Glyph of Assistance - Emergency Evasion (4 Glyph Points)

When you use the Rushing Dodge skill, you have a 10% chance to increase your movement speed.






Crest of Concentration - Emergency Evasion (4 Glyph Points)

There is a small chance that the rushing dodge skill's cooldown will reset.






Glyph of Savagery - Dual Sword Dance (6 Glyph Points)

The skill Dual Sword Dance will cause more aggro.






Glyph of Courage - Blustering Strike (6 Glyph Points)

Enhances the damage of Blustering Strike.






Glyph of Courage - Tornado (6 Glyph Points)

Enhances the damage of the Tornado skill.








2. Lancer

The Lancer's got great defense but with the help of glyphs you can stun, slow and debuff to become a hybrid class. With the use of the shield block skill, a lancer can completely block off an attack. Glyphing for offensive skills will allow the Lancer to become an effective solo class.














Glyph of Assistance - Shield Block (5 Glyph Points)

When you successfully block an attack you have a small chance to gain a buff that increases your attack power, letting the Lancer block a major damaging attack and dealing it back with its own major damaging attack.




Glyph of Concentration - Roar of Defiance (6 Glyph Points)

Lowers the cooldown of the Roar of Defiance, letting you use the skill more frequently.






Glyph of Time - Shield Bash (6 Glyph Points)

Increases the stun time from the skill Shield Bash.












Glyph of Concentration - Noose (3 Glyph Points)

Lowers the cooldown of the Noose skill.






Glyph of Mind - Leap Attack (4 Glyph Points)

One the Lancer's primary skills, Leap's MP cost will be lowered, making it effective for Solo play.








3. Slayer

Slayers are damage dealers and their mana drains over time, so it is important to maximize their MP use. The Slayer can have glyphs that let them acquire mana and constantly throw out skills or cause skills to do more damage. With the help of enhancement crystals, the style of the Slayer will become well defined and unique.












Glyph of Mind - Chain Attack (4 Glyph Points)

MP recovered by Combo Attack will be increased.






Glyph of Combo - Trip Attack (5 Glyph Points)

When you use the skill Whirlwind after the skill Trip Attack, the damage of Whirlwind will increase.






Glyph of Concentration - Bisection Strike (4 Glyph Points)

Bisection Strike gains a huge damage bonus when used after a skill chain, because of that this skill is always the finishing strike of a combo. This glyph will allow the skill Bisection Strike to reset its cooldown with a high chance.














Glyph of Mind - Kick Step (4 Glyph Points)

Lowers of MP cost of the skill kick step.






Glyph of Mind - Fighting Spirit (3 Glyph Points)

Increases the MP recovered when the Fighting Spirit skill is used.






4. Berserker

The Berserker's glyphs focus primarily on increasing the attack power, speed and critical strike chance of skills. It is up to the player to choose how they'd like to enhance their skills.












Glyph of Mastery - Blast Strike (5 Glyph Points)

While charging for Blast Strike your penalty on movement speed dissipates.






Glyph of Execute - Blast Strike (6 Glyph Points)

Gives a higher chance to deliver a critical strike with the skill Blast Strike.






Crest of Haste - Bash (4 Glyph Points)

Increases the execution speed of the skill, Bash.












Glyph of Haste - Taunt (6 Glyph Points)

Increases the casting time of skill Taunt which lets you stun enemies around you.














5. Sorcerer

Sorcerers can use glyphs that cause their skills to do more damage. Sorcerers lack defensive skill glyphs which won't give them too many defensive options.










Glyph of Assistance - Backstep (4 Glyph Points)

When you use the skill Backstep there is a chance to grant a buff called "Pact of Destruction". Pact of Destruction will cause the next skill used to gain a damage increase.






Glyph of Assistance - Mana Shield (5 Glyph Points)

When the skill Mana Shield is used, magic power will be increased for a short time.








Glyph of Assistance - Mana Shield (4 Glyph Points)

Increases the defensive effect of the Mana Shield.






Glyph of Mind - Hell Fire (4 Glyph Points)

Upon a successful Hell Fire hit, you will recover small amount of MP.






Glyph of Haste - Hell Fire (6 Glyph Points)

Shortens the cast time of the skill Hell Fire, also increasing its execution speed.






Glyph of Time - Curse of Corruption (6 Glyph Points)

Increases the longetivity of the DoT skill, Curse of Corruption.
















6. Archer

Archers have special glyphs to increase their attack range. Multi-shot, Focused shot and Penetrating shot all have their own range increasing glyphs. There are glyphs that add different effects to normal attacks, so there is a lot of diversity in their glyph choice.
















Glyph of Accuracy - Focused Shot (3 Glyph Points)

Increases the range of Focused Shot by 3m. Focused shot is a great opener and with the increased range of the skill it will take longer for the enemy to get to you.






Glyph of Courage - Penetrating Shot (5 Glyph Points)

Increases the damage of the skill Penetrating Shot.








Glyph of Time - Cobweb Trap (4 Glyph Points)

Increases the longetivity of the skill Cobweb trap, slowing the enemy and those around it for a longer time. This is a very useful skill in PVP.






Glyph of Effort - Normal Shot (5 Glyph Points)

Normal Shot will have a very low chance to slow an enemy when succesful in striking them. Though it has a low chance, the skill costs very little MP.






Glyph of Concentration - Evasion Shot (4 Glyph Points)

A skill that lets you back away while attacking. This crest will lower the cooldown of the skill, letting you use it more frequently.










7. Priest

Priests can become effective solo players or increase the effectiveness of heals and ailment curing. Instead of increasing the effect of heals, some glyphs will lower a skill's cooldown or add longetivity to a buff.


















Glyph of Salvation - Soothing Light (5 Glyph Points)

Increases the Soothing Light effect by 20%.






Glyph of Time - Regenerating Wind (5 Glyph Points)

Increases the duration of Regenerating Wind's effect.






Glyph of Courage - Light of Retribution (4 Glyph Points)

Light of Retribution's skill damage is increased, effective for solo play or for small parties.








Glyph of Haste - Suppression (3 Glyph Points)

Increase the casting speed of the skill suppression, able to help a party member in danger of dying.






Glyph of Concentration - Purifying Wind (2 Glyph Points)

A skill that cures all status ailment. The glyph will lower its cooldown, letting the Priest cure different types of debuffs like Stun, slow and even poison.






8. Mystic

Mystics have glyphs that increase the amount of lock-on targets. Glyphs will also increase the duration of different types of status ailments. In particular, for the Essence of Leech: Imbibe skill, there are many options to choose from, so you have to give up glyphs for other skills if you want to apply multiple glyphs enhancing that one skill.












Glyph of Pursuit - Rejuvenating Shot (6 Glyph Points)

Increases the amount of lock-on targets for this skill.






Glyph of Time - Entangling Shot (6 Glyph Points)

Increases the duration of the skill Entangling Shot, causing enemies to be slowed for a longer duration.






Glyph of Effort - Essence of Leech: Imbibe (4 Glyph Points)

When an enemy is effected by the skill by chance they will be slowed. This skill lasts depending on how long the users holds the button down so it is possible to slow the enemies for a long time.






Glyph of Concentration - Earth's Fury (3 Glyph Points)

This skill will knockback enemies around you and this glyph will lower its cooldown.






Glyph of Protection - Essence of Leech: Imbibe (5 Glyph Points)

Lowers the chance of being knocked back during the usage of this skill, meaning you will be able to keep this spell up longer while ignoring enemy's attack.













Racial Skills

Racial skills were added to uniquely define each race, however, racial skills will not provide any major advantages. Each race will have one active skill that can turn the tides of battle, but they will also have long cooldowns. (This is currently in developement so some things may change.)



1. Human



[From left to right] Expert Duelist (Active Skill): For 3 minutes, it will lower the chance of reactions during PVP by 50%. (?)



Will of Humans (Passive Skill): When your HP goes below 30% you will take 10% less damage during PVP.



Dilligence (Passive Skill): It takes 10% less time to craft Light Armor.



2. High Elf



Activate Core (Active Skill): Instantly fully restore your MP.



Core's Blessing (Passive Skill): When resurrected from death, you get MP regeneration buff.



Essence Collector (Passive): You take 15% less time to collect Essences.



3. Castanic





Runic Awakening (Active): When in combat your movement speed will be increased by 35 for 3 minutes, but when attacked your reaction time will be increased and after the reaction, the effect will be canceled.



Master of Ambush (Passive): When attacking from behind, your critical chance is increased by 1%.



Acrobatic (Passive): Decreases fall damage by 50%.





4. Aman





Veteran Fighter (Active): For 30 seconds, lowers the chance to get knocked down / paralyzed by 70%.



Descendant of Davan (Passive): When your HP goes below 30%, your defense increases.



Strength (Passive): Increases the chance to resist status ailments.



5. Popori





Friend of Nature (Active): When used before you are in combat, you will not be attacked first by monsters for 3 minutes. The effect disappears when you enter combat and cannot be used during combat.



Joy of traveling (Active): When used, for 3 minutes your out of combat movement speed is increased.



Child of the Lake (Passive): Swimming speed increased by 50%.



6. Baraka





Nature Fuse (Active): Instantly heal 100% of your maximum HP.



Optimist (Passive): Lowest percentage of your condition is 20% instead of 0%.



Keeping Calm (Passive): Raises the chance to resist movement impairing effect.





Added Skills for Roles & PVP

Since the 3rd CBT we've added about 100 different skills. Each class received a skill to further define their roles and also to benefit them in PVP. This week we will cover some of the added skills that help define each class's personality.



1. Warrior




Flurry of Iron Will (Active): This skill is a 3 combo attack that does more damage as your HP is lower. Since Warriors can evade enemy attacks with their emergency evasion skill, they can keep their low HP and also deal great damage. The usefulness of this skill depends on how confident you are at keeping your HP low during PvP.












Shadow Clone (Active): At the cost of half of your current HP, you can summon a Shadow Clone of yourself. Your Shadow Clone can aid in tanking as its attacks cause a high amount of threat. During that time the Warrior can switch their role to DPS to aid in defeating the enemy.

















2. Lancer






Oath of Protection (Active): When this skill is used, allies within range of the skill transfer a certain percentage of their damage taken to the Lancer. With this skill the Lancer can become a tank not only in PVE but also in PVP.










Wave of Threat (Active): This skill is an AoE slow skill, that prevents enemies from running past the Lancer.









3. Slayer








Forwarding Sprint (Active): The Slayer can use this skill to quickly charge forward.










Nerve Slash (Active): Sends out a damaging wave to attack an enemy and also making their cooldowns longer. (?) This is a skill useful for PVP, attacking enemies hiding behind a Lancer to make them deal less damage with the increased cooldowns. (Think I've understood this correctly.)











4. Berserker








Killing Will (Active): The Berserker sends out an AOE debuff that slows enemies and applies a status ailment that causes evasion skills to not be able to be used. This skill is very effective to face off against a Warrior or Slayer, during that short moment they can't evade the Berserker can apply massive amount of damage in short time.










Fury (Active): In PvE, this skill will slightly increase knock-back chance. During PvP the chance to knock-back will be greatly increased. This skill also raises your resistance to knock-backs, meaning you can knock your enemies back while they can't do the same to you.











5. Sorcerer








Weaken Nerve (Active): This skill applies a very weak DoT that restricts your opponents from using basic attack skills. This skill will be useful for defeating melee enemies.










Mind Exhaust (Active): This skill drains an enemy's MP, making sorcerers stronger debuffers than before.



















6. Archer








Roundhouse Kick (Active): The Archer can quickly kick the opponent in front of them twice, applying a short stun.












Containing Shot (Active): Containing shot is a debuff skill that applies an attack speed and movement speed decrease. This skill is designed for PvP but it can also be used to slow enemies that get close to the Archer.







7. Priest








Holy Ground (Active): This skill is an aura like buff. It increases defense against ranged attacks also resistance to status ailments.












Blessing of Recovery (Active): Unleashes a strong self-heal that helps you withstand most focus fires. Going after the Priest first in PVP can be a very big mistake due to this skill.




















8. Mystic








Curse of Chaos (Active): Applying this curse to enemies will put them in fear. Monsters will flee in fear and if you are a player your WASD keys will be changed, not being able to move where you want. This is useful in both PVP and PVE.












Stone Binding (Active): This skill makes everyone move at their 1/10 of their normal speed.

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