Somnicide writes in with his commentary on a video featuring an instanced defense quest:

Now there are a lot of basic PvE videos of TERA on YouTube that I’m sure many people have sifted through. But one that stood out to me as interesting was this video of an instanced quest called Jena’s Reckless Challenge. The objective of the quest is to protect the NPC, Jena, from waves and waves of enemies for ten minutes. It is the first group quest you receive and can be completed with a group of 3-5. There is also a video of a group of two (priest and lancer) attempting the quest, but they were overrun at the end. It was a good try though.

Continue reading for the video and full commentary.

For our first community opinion sampling, Somnicide writes about crowd control:

"How much is too much?"

One of the biggest factors in a game’s PvP balance is crowd control. It is a notoriously controversial subject, and has spawned a horde of debates in various games. On one side, it is considered a skill-less or ‘faceroll’ tactic. And the other side sees it as a defining factor in high end PvP circles.

Here I’m going to discuss what CC (crowd control) is and what constitutes too much.