SN: Fourth Issue

        Samael News Crew proudly presents the fourth issue of our magazine - this time a bit delayed. The reason for this is that we are working on something big for the next week.     We hope you will enjoy the read and come back next week! This week : SN: Fourth Issue Flash News: Week 4 Elections - 4th Daily Report GvG report Question of the Week : Why did you cast your vote on the guild you voted on? Screenshot of the week Karneely...

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Flash News : Week 4

Every week Samael News will inform it's readers about the lastest news of the server in the weekly rubric 'Flash news'.  Read Samael News every monday to know what's going on! Different guilds added their political campaign promotion posts at the begining of this week: <WhiteLotus>, <Darkness>, <Insane>, <Rigor Mortis>, <Soul Eater>, <Outlaw> and <Exiled>. For more information concerning the evolution of the Elections, please check our Election Daily Report.  22-05-12, <Whitestar> organised...

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Elections : 4th Daily report

During the election week Samael News will inform you every day on the position of our Vanarch candidates - commented by themselves. Sunday 27-05-12 Ranking are very stable, both in the top 5, or lower in the ranks. Divine has still not managed to get into the top 5 of South Shara, despite all their effort. Exiled had been dethroned by Honor Bound today for Sylvanoth Area, but we know that both guild are competiting very closely,  it's certainly not a secured victory. South Shara 1.Darkness -Magister (Veritas District) 2.Tangra -Deathie (Val Elenium) 3.Hentai Pornstar...

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GvG report

    Hello Samael players!     Another week behind us and here is another GvG report! As usual, remember that those numbers apply to wars finished between 3rd of May, past 14:13 and 28th of May, 12:55.     Until now, 748 times guilds clashed with each other! Situation is still changing, although the leaders still remain on their positions! New guilds are starting to participate and we are more than happy to see this will to fight in our players.     Once again, I have updated the statistics. Below you can see the most active guilds in GvG so far: Darkness - 63 wars Overpower - 46 wars Outer Heaven - 38 wars Trollface - 37 wars Tangra - 35 wars Malectum - 33 wars Divium Furor...

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Question of the week

Every week, you will find in Samael News the « Question of the week », asked directly in game by one of our reporters to players selected by chance. Why did you cast your vote on the guild you voted on? Killerchild Elin Sorcerer <guildless>  I voted for a guild of wich I never heard something bad, and never seen it spaming of chat. Bastien, Castanic Berserker  <guildless>  To be completly honnest, because it had a lot of recommendations, read what it had to offer, and it sounded, well, sufficient. Pseude Human Archer from  <Existance>...

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Screenshot of the week: Strike a pose!

This week's screenshot was taken by Lopaya :) Click to enlarge Thank you, Lopaya! Karneelya ...

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Elections - 3rd Daily Report

During the election week Samael News will inform you every day on the position of our Vanarch candidates - commented by themselves. Saturday 26-05-12 Not much change happened this day, and you will notice that the ranking is exactly the same than the first day. <Viking of Midguard> is again in the 4th position and <Trollface> is now seriously menaced by <Divine>. We have also observed during the day many switch between <Honor Bound> and <Exiled> that are disputing the 5th place in North Shara. The competition for those guilds must be really...

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Elections - 2nd Daily Report

During the election week Samael News will inform you every day on the position of our Vanarch candidates - commented by themselves. Tuesday 24-05-12 Very few changes in the ranking.<Trollface> lose a place in favour of <Viking of Midgard>, and is followed by the very active and persistent guild <Divine>. Indeed, several of their members are going from one region to another, making their promotion on the area chat, or directly by chatting with new players, explaining them the election system. <Exiled> dethroned < Honor Bound>...

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Elections - 1st daily report

Elections Daily Report During the election week Samael News will inform you every day on the position of our Vanarch candidates - commented by themselves. Wednesday 23-05-12 First day of the first Elections of Samael. A historic moment in the life of our server!  We are all very excited and impatient to know how everything turns out. Some victories seem to be won in advance. No one will be surprised, for example, to see <Elin Dance Squad> beeing Vanarch of their chosen zone, as they are a well established and praised guild. Some smaller or less known...

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SN: The Third Issue

        Samael News Crew proudly presents the latest issue of our magazine. We hope you will enjoy the read and keep giving us feedback.     Special thanks to everyone who took the time to send us screenshots, information and to comment here, on our blog. Our project would inevitably fail without you, our Readers.     Thank you for your kind words - YOU keep us motivated! This week :     SN: The Third Issue     Flash News: Week 3     GvG report     Future Vanarchs: Preparations  ...

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Flash News : Week 3

Every week Samael News will inform it's readers about the lastest news of the server in the weekly rubric 'Flash news'.  Read Samael News every monday to know what's going on! Since the launch of Tera, we have witnessed the end of several guilds <Immortal>, lead by Tomaseth had not be disbanded, but the guild had been abandoned with ten unactive members left. "I have just found out that my officers aren't even getting the game and are sticking with World of Borecraft... I think that's the breaker for me." confessed Tomaseth. <Sunstriders> had been...

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GvG report

Bad Manner vs Crit Happens     Fellow Samael players!     First of all, let me thank you for the word of encouragement we have received, both by emails, comments or in-game whispers! We are making Samael News for you and such feedback is really keeping us motivated to continue the work.     This week we would like to present you another GvG report! Remember that actual numbers below may differ a bit from reality - the game is keeping track of limited timeframe, hence those results apply only to wars finished between 3rd of May, past 14:13 and...

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Politics : Vanarch candidates get ready!

This week is a week of political campaigns, hidden strategies, and open alliances. This week, Vanarch candidates needs to convince players to vote for them, as the elections start the next Wednesday! Each player will have the right to vote on one candidate per continent. That's a total of two votes per account. To earn the maximum votes will not be an easy task for the potential Vanarchs, in particuliar the guild leaders of small and lesser known guilds.  For those first elections, we have already seen different strategies.  Some guilds prefer to secretly secure their votes by...

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Interview - Sunni of Hentai Pornstars

    Interview about the political campaign with Sunni - guild leader of Hentai Pornstars. Malera: Okay, so first let me ask you. Are you excited about the political system in Tera, and what do you hope it will achieve? Sunni: Hmm not sure about excited but i'm rather intrigued to see how it will all work and play out. In truthfulness I've never played a game with a system similiar to this so it's all new to me so until this first vanarch period is over I'm not sure what I want it to do. Malera: Your guild Hentai Pornstars is participating in the first election, is that...

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Question of the week

    Every week, you will find in Samael News the « Question of the week », asked directly in game by one of our reporters to players selected by chance.     Which zone would you pick to rule as a Vanarch? GTO,  Amani lancer, from <Hentai Pornstars>: Essenia, since it's the first zone people need to go after Velika side. Tessah,  High Elf Slayer, from <Innocent>: Hard question. First I'd never put myself up for Vanarch. And region would be Kastria or something like. The why is cause of the reputation farming. Tagios,  Human...

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Screenshot of the week: BAM!

This week's screenshot was taken by Gnomsicle from the Exiled guild. Click to enlarge Thank you for the album, Gnomsicle! Karneelya ...

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SN: The Second Issue

Here is the cover of our second issue!     First of all, Samael News Crew would like to thank you for the warm welcoming and support we have received from many, many players. Your word of encouragement on the forum, as well as comments on this blog and in-game whispers are encouraging our motivation and determination to continue this project, to improve it, and to use it for the good of the community.     This second week after the release the community is starting to take shape. How the guilds will prepare for the future elections? What alliances and rivalries...

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Flash News: Week 2

Every week Samael News will inform it's readers about the lastest news of the server in the weekly rubric 'Flash news'.  Read Samael News every monday to know what's going on! 7th of May, 01:00 : Blacklotus, human lancer from <Third Eye> hit the level cap, 2h before his opponent that was racing for the prime: Justiice, aman guild master of <Amnesia Gaming>. We can understand the bitterness of the aman that had been leading the race almost to the end (see the article for more information). Congratulations to Blacklotus! 8th of May, 22:00 : Whitestar publishes its Political Campain, axed arround the Community and a Pirate theme. They are applying for the jungles and islands of Ostgarath that they intent...

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GvG report: numbers!

    Another week and a lot of guild wars going on! In this week report, we are going to have a look at some numbers! Unfortunately, the game is keeping only limited amount of guild versus guild results, so those numbers will apply only to wars started after 3rd of May, past 14:13 and finished before 13th of May, 20:00 . Please keep that in mind.     During this time we have been spectators of 257 finished wars! The people of Samael surely are busy with fiercly fighting each other, we have only 9 surrenders. In all these wars exactly 173 guilds have participated. That is almost 1/3 of whole guilds on Samael, 674 for this moment. Let's remember that a lot of them are really small guilds, containing less...

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Meeting with our Primes

    Last Wednesday, 9th of May, I gathered all Primes for a meeting in front of Velika's Gates :  Ironman (Slayer)  Lyanisu (Berserker) from <Evil League of Evil> Vanille (Sorcerer), Koko (Warrior) Eleanor (Archer) from <Soul Eater> Laizy (Priest) <Elin Dance Squad>  Blacklotus (Lancer)<Third Eye>      The reason for that was to take a screenshot of all Primes together, but it ended in a nice small gathering where everyone could chat with each other, and duel a bit. I obviously participated only as photographer.  ...

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Interview with Ironman, Samael's first Prime.

  Interview with Ironman, server's first Prime. Malera: First of all, let me congratulate you Ironman, to the servers first Prime! IronMan: Thank you Malera: First question, who are you? Tell us a little about yourself! IronMan: I'm a long time MMO player, before TERA I was playing a small sandbox MMO called Mortal Online. Malera: Okay, achieving "Server First" is no easy task! Do you have any other experience with similar achievments in other games? IronMan: The only other MMO that I tried for server first was Rift. I played on Whitefall and was the highest Mage, would have been...

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