Introduction and general information | Raising in experience by completing quests TERA Guide
Last update: 11 May 2016
If the thought of slaying hundreds of mobs turns you off, then this way is probably a better choice for you. Although gaining new levels be completing quests is slower than through grind (although this also depends on the experience level and the class of your character), it is much more fun, because you do not have to stay in one place and find mobs over and over again.
Completing quests in TERA is trivial, due to the fact that, in the descriptions of the quests, the places where you are supposed to complete them, or enemies that you are supposed to kill, have been provided (this is marked at the bottom of the quest description, in blue print). Additionally, on the global map, each area has a suggested experience level at which you should go there. For that reason, the below chapters will focus mainly on general hints, rather than detailed descriptions of the places where you are supposed to do your job.
Finally, several tips that may prove useful and speed up the process of winning experience:
1. Always accept all the quests available in a given area - you cannot allow the situation in which you need to run across a half of the map to kill a mob, and return the same way to take another quest (which has been available from the very beginning), whose aim is to get to the place that you have just been to. By playing this way, you will waste a lot of time.
2. Avoid doing quests that you will not profit too much from, at the cost of lots of time or work. If a quest requires you to take a long trip, or eliminate enemies scattered all around the map, and the reward is only a small amount of experience (you will be able to tell that by the other quests) then you can simply ignore this one and not bother about it anymore. The amount of experience required to level up can be checked by rolling the moue onto the bar at the bottom of the screen.
3. If your experience level is too high for the place that you are in (e.g. you are at the 30th level and the monsters around at 24-25th), you should ignore completing quests here and go to an area with higher level (levels of monsters can be looked up on the world map). Even if quests offer a good reward, killing monsters a few levels weaker than yourself, comes with low amount of experience points that you receive - yes, your aim is to win experience by completing quests but, remember that you can also receive it from killing monsters.
4. You should avoid quests that consist in escorting (apart from the storyline quests) - they usually offer little experience, are frustrating (your VIP gets between groups of mobs) and are time-consuming.
If, next to a quest, you can see an icon of a small man, with number 5 next to it, this means that it is a group quest that requires a party to perform it (you simply will not be able to handle it on your own, unless your level is a few notches higher than that required by the quest). Usually, this quests are completed in a specific instance - simply use Instance Matchmaking (by selecting the required instance), for the system to create, automatically, a party with which you can easily complete this quest.
6. If you already have lots of gold, always keep several scrolls of teleportation to the city, in which you are currently taking quests (and the cities that you visit often, e.g. Velika or Kaiator) - instead of getting there on foot, you can simply teleport there.
7. Try to complete all storyline quests