[MMO] Rift - Discussion

[CurseTheSky]

The ‘I’m Stuck’ button will stop getting stuck after 24 hours has passed. The irony of this is not lost on us, either.

LOL. Overall it's mostly a bug fix / balancing patch, but it's encouraging to see them right on the ball so far. I'm hoping we get a major content patch by the middle of next month.

 

[pontifex]

Still waiting on a GM to contact me to roll my character back.

this effectively makes my character unplayable.

 

[thujone]

"Removed the obsolete reagent vendor. These were not the items you were looking for."


HA. love these guys.

 

[Jschmuck2]

No one else is having the weird issue where their card stops sending signal to your monitors, do you?

 

[SunnyD]

Pets most definitely do NOT belong in PvP.

 

[Anneka]

They should sticky this thread.

Agree. Even the game is still at its beginning (in comparison to WoW) it looks very interesting and promising

 

[blurredvision]

I'm really surprised at how CPU dependent this game is. I fooled around with my graphics settings a little more last night to see if I had any more "free" graphics options since I'm obviously CPU bottlenecked. I was able to turn AF up to 4 and even turned on full shadows without any noticeable hit in framerate.

http://i.imgur.com/MLNp9.jpg

Not bad looking at all for a 4-year old CPU and 2-year old GPU when I can get 25fps. In a game like this where you're just clicking and using keybinds, you don't need 60fps.

 

[SunnyD]

Started a rogue alt this morning just for shits and giggles.

Did I make a mistake going Ranger/Saboteur/Riftblade instead of Ranger/Saboteur/Marksman?

I just couldn't see going it without any melee skills.

 

[CVSiN]

Started a rogue alt this morning just for shits and giggles.

Did I make a mistake going Ranger/Saboteur/Riftblade instead of Ranger/Saboteur/Marksman?

I just couldn't see going it without any melee skills.

I'm ranger/nightblade/assas myself..
love it ranged DPS from ranger and nightblade with the ranger pet that can tank when it closes.. then use nightblade/ass melee and just pwn things

 

[brandonb]

SunnyD,

For me, it depends on how many points you want to spend in the souls. Myself, I focus on only 2 souls, with the 3rd as just filler.

Because of that, my tank for example is a Paladin + Warlord + Beastmaster. The beastmaster is my filler class. I will not put points into it and will focus only on Paladin and Warlord. But the beastmaster has a pet, so it's free DPS that is passive, and better than any other choice (imho).

My Rogue is the same. I have a Ranger/Saboteur/Bard. I am not going to put points into the Ranger, but its a free pet and free DPS. I have 80% of my points into Bard, the rest in Sabo.

That said, if you need to change out souls, all you need to do is go to the trainer, spend some money, reset your points. When they are all 0, you can swap out souls in your role. So if you did not put points into Riftblade, all you need to do is complete the rift quests to get new souls, and then click the icon on the soul screen and swap out the Riftblade for a Marksman, and you don't have to create a new role or recreate your character.

To make a long story short, as long as you have spend 0 points into your soul, you can swap them out as long as your character possess the souls to begin with.

 

[Malladine]

Agree. Even the game is still at its beginning (in comparison to WoW) it looks very interesting and promising

Sounds good, we should change the thread title though.

Kicking ass as a Reaver main in pvp...massive AoE damage and if I have a few heals I can hold off several Guardians while debuffing and generally hurting them all. Can't really wtfpwn anyone though, unlike Champion

Interesting feedback on Rift FPS. I saw someone's post about Rift heavily using quad cores, mine's only a dually, makes sense why i'm dragging a bit. Means I can try cranking up GPU intensive stuff for some more eye candy.

To improve my performance a bit I did find my switch was covered with another piece of equipment and consequently overheating. Fixed that and latency issues are definitely reduced.

 

[CVSiN]

Sounds good, we should change the thread title though.

Kicking ass as a Reaver main in pvp...massive AoE damage and if I have a few heals I can hold off several Guardians while debuffing and generally hurting them all. Can't really wtfpwn anyone though, unlike Champion

Interesting feedback on Rift FPS. I saw someone's post about Rift heavily using quad cores, mine's only a dually, makes sense why i'm dragging a bit. Means I can try cranking up GPU intensive stuff for some more eye candy.

To improve my performance a bit I did find my switch was covered with another piece of equipment and consequently overheating. Fixed that and latency issues are definitely reduced.

Running Rift on a SB i7 2600-K at 4.4 GHZ with a 580 GTX and Rift is gorgeous and runs like glass with everything pegged.
beautiful game..

 

[HarvardAce]

To make a long story short, as long as you have spend 0 points into your soul, you can swap them out as long as your character possess the souls to begin with.

Actually, as long as you have spent 0 points in any particular soul, you can swap that one out at any time. Not sure if that is intended or not, but I generally have Warlock/Necro with 0 points in chloromancer, but if I need to CC something I will swap the chloro out for a dominator without switching roles or respeccing at a trainer.

 

[pontifex]

don't use rift.zam.com for the soul calculator. that seems to be how my account was hacked.

talking to other people in game and they seem to indicate that is a bad site.

sucks because i see that site thrown around a lot.

 

[SunnyD]

Question about soul currency... are each piece of that currency format (planarite, etc) distinct? Or are they capable of being split/accumulated in the same way as gold?

 

[Malladine]

Sunny not sure on your question, but planarite is useful through all levels, the shards are replaced every zone or two. For example cursed is good through the 2nd and 3rd zones, 4th zone changes to vile...etc.

pontifex - thanks for the heads up about zam, i've used their talent calc many times...never signed up though. Running a scan now...

CVSIN - shit man, nice rig. It's definitely a good looking game. <3 the view distance.

 

[Merad]

don't use rift.zam.com for the soul calculator. that seems to be how my account was hacked.

talking to other people in game and they seem to indicate that is a bad site.

sucks because i see that site thrown around a lot.

That's a pretty damn big accusation. The Zam sites are what used to be Allakhazam, MMO reference site dating back to Everquest. Maybe it's not the greatest site since they sold out to some big media corp, but involved in account hacking? Where's your proof?

 

[Xed]

That's a pretty damn big accusation. The Zam sites are what used to be Allakhazam, MMO reference site dating back to Everquest. Maybe it's not the greatest site since they sold out to some big media corp, but involved in account hacking? Where's your proof?

Pretty sure the company that owns the zam network used to (still does?) own IGE and that's why it gets bad press. I'd guess it's bad ads on the sites rather than the sites themselves though.

 

[Throckmorton]

I like the world a lot. There's a lot of exploration to do and it's beautiful. Reminds me of Asheron's Call. The landscapes are open, rather than feeling like little amusement parks with a few rides like WoW.

 

[pontifex]

this is complete and utter bullshit. 3 days without any response from a GM to roll my character back.

 

[SunnyD]

Well thoughts on my ranger/saboteur/riftblade... got him to level 17 in about 5 hours. My word to the rest of you, abuse warfronts when possible.

Damage output isn't really much higher than my cleric's, and survivability is definitely less (no healing ability), but I can hold my own pretty much.

There is one "class" I run into all the time in warfronts - I can't tell exactly because it doesn't show you the profession of the enemy, so you really have to just guess based on buffs and stuff. There's one that ends up absolutely LOADED with buffs (like 12 or so - 3 full rows of buff icons), one of them is a pretty monsterous speed buff. They seem to soak a lot of damage and/or have a lot of HP, and they hit fucking hard as hell. Basically, this class is not soloable, and you need about 3 or 4 guys to even make a dent. Pretty sure it's some sort of warrior soul, but can't be sure. Basically these guys own the warfront when they play. They're pretty much indestructible.

 

[blurredvision]

Well thoughts on my ranger/saboteur/riftblade... got him to level 17 in about 5 hours. My word to the rest of you, abuse warfronts when possible.

I'm nearing 20 hours of playtime and I just hit level 20 . I don't want to rush to 50 though, I'm actually enjoying a fresh leveling experience in a new game. At my pace, I may hit 50 by the time I hit 3 or 4 days played, haha.

 

[Merad]

So I've been playing with builds while watching some BSG. I've already dropped Riftblade for Warlord & some of its defensive bonuses... the few points I was putting in Riftblade didn't seem to do much for my DPS on top of the Champion skills. Also thinking that I'll drop Beastmaster for Reaver once I get closer to level cap, since it looks pretty weak overall.

Build 1, heavier on Reaver, more self heals but missing some of the higher end Champion skills: http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=0cEkA.xx.EAczV00hzbz.Vuq0hhz

Build 2, heavier on Champion, better aoe damage: http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=0cEkA.xx.EAsdq0rGzbz.xzq

Any thoughts?

 

[akugami]

Is it just me, or did they slow mana regen WAAAAAAAAAAAY down?

Necros don't need mana regen. We carry our own batteries. Seriously, even when burning a raid boss down, I just convert my pet's hp to mana. Necro DPS is not that high but they can pretty much throw dots endlessly and not have to worry about mana. My basic strategy on bosses is to load all dots, debuff, then nuke once or twice to get full charge. Convert mana if needed and then Soul Purge on something which damages the target over time while returning health to myself and my pet. Coupled with the dots, it's actually not bad dps over time.

Haven't played the other classes to any degree so I can't comment on them yet. What I've done is played each to at least level 13 and gotten all the souls. That way when I switch, most of the grunt work is done already. If you're on the Defiant side, there is a daily quest on a farm in Freemarch that nets you a hp/mana drink. There's probably an equivalent for Guardians.

Question about soul currency... are each piece of that currency format (planarite, etc) distinct? Or are they capable of being split/accumulated in the same way as gold?

All planar currency is distinct. They can't be converted. Planarite seems the base currency used everywhere for planar vendors while the rest are somewhat zone specific. Probably more geared towards levels than anything. There's two higher level currencies. These usually drop only after completely closing a difficult Rift or a Rift invasion. Sourceshards are the ones for closing difficult Rifts or large invasions. For major invasions, you'll get a Sourcestone. To date, I've only gotten one Sourcestone in Scarlet Gorge. I'd buy the minor planar essence containers and fill them up with anything you want that are relatively minor.

I'd save the more interesting ones with stuff like +crit, +spell power, +phys crit, etc. or any greater essences for after you buy the top planar essence container. For Defiants this costs 7500 planarites and has 2 greater and 4 lesser slots. Incidentally, you can have more than one essence container. For example, as a cleric, you can have one built for melee/solo with more melee based essences and a second one with healing bonus essences. Switch between them as needed. As a mage, I could have one for offensive spell bonuses and a second one for healing bonuses.

 

[Merad]

Trion's response to the hacking issues. Sounds like good changes to me. At least for everyone who isn't dumb enough to have the same password for their game and email accounts.

All planar currency is distinct. They can't be converted. Planarite seems the base currency used everywhere for planar vendors while the rest are somewhat zone specific. Probably more geared towards levels than anything. There's two higher level currencies. These usually drop only after completely closing a difficult Rift or a Rift invasion. Sourceshards are the ones for closing difficult Rifts or large invasions. For major invasions, you'll get a Sourcestone. To date, I've only gotten one Sourcestone in Scarlet Gorge. I'd buy the minor planar essence containers and fill them up with anything you want that are relatively minor.

They also (other than planarite) seem to be split up by zone and/or level. I'd been saving mine, figuring I'd stash it til I hit cap. But now that I'm in the level 30+ zones the planar goods vendors are asking for different items... so apparently the lower ones are no good to me know.