To tldr the below.
North America Tera will not have the enchanting system in place that Korea or Japan does. The enchanting system will base itself off +0 or +1 possibility but no longer degradation. It will be mandatory to use the more expensive powders at different stages but you will never see -1 on a failed enchant.
The luxing system has been reworked as well, when rerolling the enchant bonus' you can lock in a specific bonus at +3-6-9 so that when you reroll it does not reroll so it does not take 2000 rerolls to get the optimum enchant bonus'.
As per usual there have been pre-order cancellations due to EME "ruining" tera, making it for the casuals. This change makes the pvp imbalances of lucky players disappear, where the same people raging now would be raging in 3 months. And opens possibilities for improved difficulty for endgame pve. Roll up the difficulty on endgame bams and instanced dungeons due to everyone being able to moderately easily reach +12.
And to people who did not know, the difference between +9 and +12 is huge, a +9 would be extremely lucky to beat a +12 geared player.
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Hello, TERA community!
Over the last few months we have been working on a lot of changes to make TERA better for our audience. Some of them have been implemented into the game already as seen in our closed beta test patch notes. But we have more improvements coming our way and among them we have some great news to share with you on enchanting and unsealing systems!
Improved Enchanting
Certain items can be enchanted in TERA to increase its effectiveness. The change we will be implementing is the removal of the chance that an unsuccessful enchanting attempt will decrease the item's enchantment level. This means once you earn that enchant level it is yours to keep. In order to offset this change we have introduced 3 tiers of Alkahest powders: one for enchant +1 to +6, one for +7 to +9 and one for +10 to +12. Obviously the cost of powders will be increased at each tier. Our goal here was to keep the cost for getting these items similar but remove the frustrations that random numbers can cause and let you keep what you have already earned.
Improved Unsealing
In TERA, you can receive random attributes by unsealing an unidentified item. Then the item can be re-sealed and unsealed again until you receive the attributes you want. We are adding the ability to ‘lock’ the desired attributes earned from Identifying Enigmatic items. This lets you change the attributes you choose while letting you keep the ones you want. You can repeat the process until you receive all 3 or 4 attributes you wish. This should help eliminate the frustration felt of getting that exact combo you want on your items.
We will be sure to update you with more information as they become available and we appreciate your feedback. These changes are the results of the feedback we've received from you and we encourage you to keep sharing your thoughts!