User Interface
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TERA's interface puts the data you need where it's easy to reach. Bolded numbers next to an item indicate where it is on the user interface screenshot.
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[edit] Status Bar
The Status Bar is your quick reference to how your character's doing. It shows character's name and level (1), health (HP) and mana/skill energy (MP) levels (3), stamina (a measure of your overall endurance) (4), and even character class (2). Your HP and MP are bar graphs, overlaid with numbers indicating your specific current and max value for each stat. You may note a +/- number printed more lightly after the base numbers. That's your bonus for having high stamina (or penalty for low).
Your Status Bar's also where party-related icons show up. Everyone in a group sees the icon for the group's loot options. If you're party leader, you also see a badge for the group leader menu. Click on that to set up looting rules, invite or kick people, and so on.
[edit] Compass and Channel
Your Compass (7) is your radar. It shows your direction, as well as any nearby threats (red dots), allies, objectives, or resource nodes (herbs, essences and mines (2 blue dots with a yellow above)). Click the cog in the right corner to see a full list.
The Compass is also surrounded by icons:
- Rest/PVP: Tells you when you're building rested experience, and whether you're in a PvP area.
- Battlegrounds: Tells you when you're at the front of the line for Battlegrounds, and lets you sign up.
- Mail and Brokerage: Tells you to check your mailbox. Good things come in the mail!
- Political Progress: Check on the state of the server. Click on it for details.
Above your Compass you'll see the name of the area you're in, and also your current channel (6). Channels are instances of the same area on the same server to boost performance in crowded areas. Click the channel number to hop channels if you and your friends are on different ones.
This is also where you see icons (5) for current buffs and debuffs, including the time they have left to run. Hover your mouse over them to see the specifics of each one's effects.
[edit] Quest Tracker
The Quest Tracker (8) offers fast access to seven current quests. Check here for your current objectives, and click on a quest to see the details in the Quest Log.
The small buttons next to each quest allow you to minimise it (for those times you need your screen uncluttered, perhaps during PvP or fighting a hard monster or BAM) and remove it once complete. Add additional ones from the Quest Log.
You can also click on objective names to highlight them on your minimap more quickly than going into the Quest log.
[edit] Controller
Playing with a game controller? You can bring up a controller silhouette with customizable skill bindings via the Options (O) menu. The displayed skills will switch when you press modifier buttons. Handy!
[edit] Skills and Experience
Along the bottom of your screen, you will find your Skill Bar (11), which is where you stick all your skills for ready use. You can drag and drop skills from the Skill dialog (press K) onto these to bind your skills to buttons and keys. And there's a thin line across the very bottom there (12) for your experience, or XP. Every time that line fills up, your character levels up! Hover your mouse over it to see exactly how much you have, and how much you need to reach the next level.
[edit] Chat Window
The Chat Window (9) is where to talk to other players, enter emotes and other slash commands, and check back over your combat logs to revel in your glory. Right-click a tab to change its settings, and click the cog in the left corner to change settings for the whole thing.
[edit] Menu Bar
Your Menu Bar (10) is hidden most of the time. You can bring it up by hitting Esc or Alt on your keyboard, or pressing the Start button on your game controller to switch to UI Mode. The menu bar will appear, and so will your mouse cursor. The menu bar shows by default just above your skill trays at the bottom of the screen. On the left side of the bar are shortcuts to in-game dialogs, each with its own hotkey: your character Profile (P), Skills (K), Quest Log (L), Inventory (I) and maps (M for the main Map, N for the Mini-map). On the right side are your actual menus: Activities, Social, and System.
[edit] Activities Menu
Look here for things like election and political stats, Battleground info and stats, and your achievements. This is also where you Enchant (T) your gear, and manage your Craft/Extract (J) recipes and your pet.
[edit] Social Menu
This is where you manage most of the things you do with other people. Check up on your Guild (G) and Friends (U), look for groups (Y), start a Deathmatch, and check to see how your trades have been going.
[edit] System Menu
This is where you configure the game, get help and log out of the game. Most of these are obvious, but a couple deserve some more detail. Even the best games have places you can fall into, but can't walk out of. The Unstuck command is your way home. Click on System – Unstuck. The confirmation dialog will tell you where you'll teleport back to. Click OK and you'll teleport to safety from wherever you are, even in an instance.
The other important option is, well, Options (O). Almost anything you can tweak about how the game looks and how you control it, you set from here. Tweak your hotkeys, your camera behavior, and your user interface. This is also where you go to reset your interface if you've messed things up somehow.
[edit] Mini-map
Mini MapYour eye in the sky. On the Mini-map (13) you can see where you are, where your friends and objectives are, and where important NPCs are waiting for you. Hover over things for names or other details. If it's in your way, press N to hide and bring it back. You can also move it by grabbing and dragging it in UI Mode.
[edit] Customizing the User Interface
You can tweak, resize, move or disappear most of the interface in TERA. To move things around, you just need to be in UI Mode. Click on something, usually near the top of the control, and drag it. It'll probably move. If you want to reset everything, click Options and go to the UI Settings tab.
Windows are movable, but they'll snap back to their default location the next time you open them. If you really want one to open in a specific location every time, look at the upper-right corner. Right next to the Close button is the UI Lock button. Click it to lock and unlock the window's position. When the button is red and the lock icon is closed the dialog will always reopen where you place it.
You can also resize the interface elements, individually or as a whole. Click Options and go to the UI Settings tab. Either move the Scale All UI slider to change everything, or select an element from the Scale UI Elements dropdown and adjust the slider. Emphasize the things you need, and shrink down the things you don't care about.
