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Races: Can't Decide Between Aman & Castanic!
I have been deciding between rolling a Slayer or a Warrior for a long time now, and have finally settled on Warrior. My problem now is, I just can't decide between an Aman or a Castanic. I always play as a male, if that makes any difference.
I love the fact that the armor looks so good on Aman Males, although I prefer the looks of the Castanic's city (Kaiator). I also usually like my character to be physically imposing, therefore I always roll pumped up looking races, but on the other hand I like my character to have a 'dark' type vibe to them, which seems to be the case with the Castanics.
Also, I'll be focusing mainly on DPS, therefore would racial traits come into the equation when deciding between these two classes?
One last thing I was curious about is, does anybody have a rough idea on which is the more popular race out of these two, and why?
Thanks guys.
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I like the Aman, personally, but I don't know what the most popular race is. I see a lot of people on the forums bring up the Castanic, but if you like big, imposing races, they may not be it.
However, the Castanic look graceful, and with a little tweaking in the character customization screen, you can get them to look relatively menacing.
I found there to be a lot of choices to tweak your Aman to look ultimately demonic, and when I was playing the beta, I saw some run by in full armor... they looked pretty badass.
The Amans are huge, thick bodied and imposing. Castanics are fairly small (men are slightly shorter than human women) but very graceful. The dual wield fast strikes spinning warrior combat look s absolutely glorious on a Castanic, if I were a warrior no doubt it'll be Castanic. Their dodge move is also an acrobatic leap that looks BA. The quick "rogue-lique" strikes of a warrior would feel a bit out of place for an Amani. My aman would be a Berserker or Lancer. They literally look like a brick column.
Hope that gives you an idea.
In terms of popularity Castanics are by far the most papular race. The men look like pimps and their women look like sin on heels. I actually feel this is a breath of fresh air from most MMOs where everyone look s like a medieval caveman.
Amani are less popular. But they look absolutely incredibly BA. I can't remember a more BA playable looking race. (then again I'm not a professinoal gamer)
choose Aman....... Amen.
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This might help a little.
http://tera.enmasse.com/game-guide/races
Looks like the Aman get damage reduction when their health is low, as opposed to Castanic's crit chance when behind a target. I guess it would depend on the class you choose.
I know this is off topic but can some tell me if a mystic is a good soloer after lv 20 tried a archer and couldnt drop the epic mobs past 50% i would uselly get hit and stuned and die fast or aggro another mob and was thinking with a pet and me healing it might not do to bad could someone tell me if they tried it
Can't answer that one personally, but I recall people saying Mystics were a great solo class partially because of their pet. Might want to check other threads though.
From my experience mystic are not good at all for solo, but maybe it's just me.
If you have problem with archer you may want to try a lancer or bersker, they block instead of dodging. With mystic you have to dodge pretty much as with archer.
EDIT: As solo i mean soloing BAMs not soloing normal mobs.
Ok thanks ill try both love the archer but couldnt solo BAMS at all might be me but im use to kiteing mobs
http://tera-online.cc/ Russian website about Tera, left side, pick a race, and you can look at some of the end game armors
http://tera-cdn1.enmasse-game.com/datastore/images/2012/04/04/00/49/39/296/Copeland.jpg
Some stats like most played class, race etc during the beta tests
from http://tera.enmasse.com/news/posts/announcing-the-closed-beta-test-contest-winners
Nop lol the 2 healer class suck at solo more than lancers XD
Popori or bust. Not only do you look badass, but people will be upset when you slaughter them as a POPORI GOD on the battlefield.
Sorry for the late reply. Some great replies here, thank you very much guys.
One thing I was curious about is this... Seeing as Castanics seem to be the most popular race, wouldn't that mean their city would be the most populated? If that was the case, then I'm guessing it'd be better to go Castanic, if you wanted an atmospheric lively city?
There are three main cities (Human, HighElf, and Amani). Two of the races have minor cities (Elin/Popori, Castanic). Baraka's do not have a home / city.
Even if its only a minor city I still like Castanic's city the best.
Note: Humans, HighElves, and Amani get a racial trait skill that allows them to teleport to their main city (Can't remember what the CD was), not sure if the other races get it.
Velika: City of Wheels: Among the mortal races, the humans were the only one that never built cities or great empires; a curse laid upon them by their creator, Gidd, forced them to wander as nomads for twenty centuries...
IICR
Human Popori Elin get the Velik teleport
Castanic to Castanica
Baraka and High Elves to Allemancia
Aman to Kaitor
As for race popularity my guess would be castanic female really but then also at least during open beta noticed a lot of popori and elins.
Regarding slayer and warrior, true that it's tough choice:) But then since somehow I felt more confident with slayer than warrior after trying both of them I decided on slayer (somehow I felt that despite being more fragile survival is easier here anyway - at least up to level 40)
And Kaiator is city of amans, castanics have Castanica^^
^^ Ah yes you're right lol, I feel stupid now.
FuryV, I gather from your comments you might be under the impression that, like most other games every race has it's own starting zone leading to its own city. I don't want you to feel dissapointed by having expectations because in this game everyone starts in the same area Isle of Dawn. It's a 1-11 place that could be completed in one night - kinda like a tutorial to learn how to move, gather etc. Then you go to the human city, Velik. That's about as far as I went.
I'm sure later youy visit your racial cities (and Im enthused about the Castanic one, it's supposed to be hellish like and thorny I hear).
I didn't think that every race had it's own starting zone, as I played the Beta a little, although I WAS under the impression that every race would hang around in their own city, instead of congregating in one city, such as Dalaran on WoW etc.
one night o.o should only take like 2hrs.
Castanic reminds me of the blood elves in wow and they don't have a good tag on them unless you're female. I've had blood elves before and it was so... weird. In the beginning, when they were new, they were kinda cool but when you've seen them in a purple hat you think... hm, not that funny anymore. To me, they look like male strippers (castanic).
Aman rhino-heads are cool bersekers imo but I can't say how nice they are for warriors. Usually big fierce looking creatures look good with a 2h and absolutely look ridiculous in robes.
I'm human sorc because I like them the most as my main.
My alt will be a Popori berserker for sure. Need a humour character and besides... try hitting me while I charge up a killer move and pwnori everyone that tease me cause I can't play basketball. Haha.
Well, Castanics have better abs.
I am surprised you did not bring up the Baraka.
Baraka have the ability to completely heal every 2 hours. While it might seem a long time between complete heals, it does allow you to either plan to use it and defeat one enemy completely over your head or save your rear end the first time you would have died during the day and the second time if you play 2 hours more after that.
Plus it is the race that has the largest hitboxes etc, and since you arent looking at popori I figure you want a large character. This does make a difference as a warrior actually as you do sometimes avoid taking extra steps etc making you far easier to be healed etc.
My two cents
I'm having very hard time too, deciding between warrior, slayer and berserker, and between human or aman. Not really interested in how good the racials are, just cant decide.
Warrior and slayer felt a lot more fun when it came to movement, dodge rolling and speed, but damn when I realized as berserker that I could pull groups of mobs at the same time and one shot them it felt crazy awesome and I feel like berserker will be like 5 times faster to level up if you are doing it right. Also berserkers seem to have a lot tougher time in 1 vs 1 PvP (the way I prefer it) because they are slow and dont have very accurate gap closers or any ranged stuff compared to slayer and warrior.
Human vs. aman? I like the big menacing "dragon" look on aman and it would be very cool as a berserker, but I've noticed I often in game regret not rolling human or elf because at some point I get tired of playing too alien feeling or too monster-like race, just usually starts to bug a bit at some point. Also, even if the races should be "normalized" in terms of gameplay, I still see reports of bigger races getting reach advantage while they are also easier to hit against, not so much as before, but it's supposed to be there.