For its newest player class, TERA brings out the big guns. Like, really big. The Gunner, as it's called, can only be played by the lithe high elves and '80s glam queen-like Castanics, and in their hands they look a little like a locomotive caught in the branches of a sapling pine. They also pose an interesting question—when you can have guns this big and powerful in the world of Arborea, why even bother with the swords and recurve bows lugged around by the game's other classes?
Indeed, playing the Gunner feels a little like playing the Terminator in the world of Lord of the Rings. It's all focused on making big, bad things go boom, regardless of whether it's by pelting them with purple "mana missiles" or through an arc bomb that rolls along the ground like a bowling ball before exploding and unsettling all but the biggest "BAMs" (big-ass monsters). Fire at the ground with Rocket Jump, and boom, you go catapulting to safety.
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Indeed, playing the Gunner feels a little like playing the Terminator in the world of Lord of the Rings. It's all focused on making big, bad things go boom, regardless of whether it's by pelting them with purple "mana missiles" or through an arc bomb that rolls along the ground like a bowling ball before exploding and unsettling all but the biggest "BAMs" (big-ass monsters). Fire at the ground with Rocket Jump, and boom, you go catapulting to safety.
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