Union Carbine
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Thanks for the chart.acksman said:
Is there a manual online anywhere? The link from my RIFT install leads to a 404 page on the website where, I suppose, a manual was or was supposed to be.
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Rift: Planes of Telara |OT|
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Is there a manual online anywhere? The link from my RIFT install leads to a 404 page on the website where, I suppose, a manual was or was supposed to be.
wayward archer
Member
Last night I saw a new type of invasion (well at least new to me), death rifts were opening everywhere, and instead of just closing all of them we had to protect this machine at Kelari Refuge and elsewhere (the death rifts were sending a stream of guys to destroy it) while some people went out and gathered items that were spawning randomly to bring back. Once we got 200 the boss came out.
It was a lot of fun.
Does anybody know if there are more variants like this?
It was a lot of fun.
Does anybody know if there are more variants like this?
wayward archer
Member
I think that chart is wrong, Weaponsmithing does not use butchery, Armorsmithing does.
Qwerty Killer
Member
Armorsmithing does need butchering for leather and such, so I'd pick up Mining/Butchering if you don't want to be too dependent on others.
BrettWeir
Member
My only gripe with the game (besides fps issues with ATI cards) is the lack of gear for people that like to Warfront more than quest. There are very few loot drops in WF, and its all up for grabs. They need to implement lower level gear that can be purchased with realm points (whatever they are called) that is at least on par with quest rewards. Another issue is money. Level up to mid 20s in a WF and broke as hell.
Joe Molotov
Member
Preordered last night, got my Well Spun Hat this morning. Can't wait to jump in on the 24th for you guys.
Gaz Pwnage
Member
And thats it, BETA over. Whilst i had fun in this game i wont be buying it, at least till its £5/10 for the nox in a few months.
Whilst I had fun in the game in the beginning, the quest > odd rift > get steam rolled in warfronts by defiant's isnt enough to get me to pay full price for the game
Whilst I had fun in the game in the beginning, the quest > odd rift > get steam rolled in warfronts by defiant's isnt enough to get me to pay full price for the game
Joe Molotov
Member
Weenerz said:
It's a helm for Rift, but you have to do an achievement in Team Fortress 2 to get it.
http://rift.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Well-Spun_Hat
Gaz Pwnage said:
That's hilarious, because in the lvl 40+ range I was getting stomped by guardians in 90% of the matches I played in.
I also did Lantern Hook last night with a group of 42's and it was pretty challenging - a lot of fun and we wiped a few times (on the first section!). The final boss was kicking our asses though and we were about to give up when we decided to try and fight him on the edge of the map because he throws these giant fire crystals that do AOE damage all over the place (think deepspike mines except they never despawn).
Well, he'd throw a crystal at you, it'd spawn and then vanish doing no damage. The whole fight went like this and was a piece of cake as a result. I reported it as a bug so hopefully it'll get fixed, but we beat it at least and I got a couple of cool weapons and some neat pants to end beta with.
Also, my sabo / nightblade build is more powerful then sabo / assassin IMO. Both have their virtues, but I was doing higher and more consistent damage with NB thrown into the mix thanks to the +30% damage on finishers.
I think I'm pretty set as a Shaman and Warden for my first character. (not sure what my other two souls will be primarily)
Should have no problem switching between healer and utility dps when we need it. I actually managed to do a little tanking as shaman in an IT group last night, and was doing a considerable amount of damage as well.(no aggro abilities) The class itself feels like it needs a little more work, but overall I really like it.
I just need to remember to keep gear for both roles.
Going to likely level a warrior type for my alt. Paladin primarily and Riftblade or Void Walker for second.
Should have no problem switching between healer and utility dps when we need it. I actually managed to do a little tanking as shaman in an IT group last night, and was doing a considerable amount of damage as well.(no aggro abilities) The class itself feels like it needs a little more work, but overall I really like it.
I just need to remember to keep gear for both roles.
Going to likely level a warrior type for my alt. Paladin primarily and Riftblade or Void Walker for second.
Joe Molotov
Member
vehn said:
Riftwalker. You can have to kill someone within 5 seconds of exiting a teleporter.
Hey guys, for those of you in the GAF guild - I just tossed up the ideas for raid times as well as my proposed raid loot system on the Lotus Cross forum. Please check it out and give me feedback so that we can get this all settled before headstart begins 
Dreamwriter
Member
Poor bunny. I was nicer to them - I turned one into a squirrel.
Joe Molotov
Member
So, any word on whether we'll be able to pre-load the client before the 24th?
Joe Molotov said:
As soon as I see something on it I'll post it up. The only new news I have is the following:
So, perhaps they'll put the client up there with the site update. If it's not up tomorrow, I imagine you'll see it on the 23rd or 24th. But, even during beta with all those people downloading it only took me an hour to DL it so I'm not really worried.
wayward archer
Member
Sebulon3k said:
Yes you will get a code when you buy the game, go to the trion website and create an account and enter that code, it will give you access to the early start.
LowParry
Member
1stStrike said:Hey guys, for those of you in the GAF guild - I just tossed up the ideas for raid times as well as my proposed raid loot system on the Lotus Cross forum. Please check it out and give me feedback so that we can get this all settled before headstart begins
Is it alright if you gave us times here or could PM me them?
After playing the beta to level 20, I was still on the fence for quite a while about whether or not I was going to pick this up. I decided to go ahead and order the Digital CE tonight though. I was very impressed with how solid the beta was and how quickly the dev team was about fixing things.
I think I'm either going pure tank or a pure healer, it's nice to be needed for groups. I'm rolling on a server with a couple of real life friends, although I'm sure I'm create an alt on Belmont to hang out with GAF.
I think I'm either going pure tank or a pure healer, it's nice to be needed for groups. I'm rolling on a server with a couple of real life friends, although I'm sure I'm create an alt on Belmont to hang out with GAF.
CcrooK said:
We're still deciding on times, which is why we kind of wanted to get everyone organized on the forum to see what times work for them before we settle on anything. Right now there will probably be one weekday and one weekend raid, but we can also have an early raid and a late night raid as well depending on the times that people can do.
Since raids have to work around the schedule of 10 - 20 people (and more in case someone can't make it) we're trying to ensure that we come to a good balance. I don't expect LC to be a huge guild, but with about 35 - 50 people we'll be able to have two regular raids.
Here's my official build:
http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=10nrG.Exb0hMM0z.euMooeMzRo.E
Imma be a Justicar melee smackin healin kinda dude.
http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=10nrG.Exb0hMM0z.euMooeMzRo.E
Imma be a Justicar melee smackin healin kinda dude.
AceBandage
Banned
CcrooK said:
There are no 10 man dungeons right now, actually.
They were cut because of balancing issues.
Subterranean
Member
BigAT said:
I was listening to the Rift podcast where they visited Trion and one of them saying that the team for 12 - 18 months just straight up worked their asses off to get this game to the point where they wanted the game to be done plus more than they expected had me really impressed. Knowing that the team can do such a feat has me really looking forward to what they can put out later down the line because they really seem to care about the game and what the community has to say.
CcrooK said:
You should be set. I've moved you and everyone else into the Guild Member group so you can see the ventrilo information as well.
Also, not sure on the loot yet to be honest since none of us have done end-game raids. The 10 man rift raids are going to be an actual story/raid event and not just monsters popping out. You'll learn a bit about the world and have to actually use strategy to beat the bosses (in the video I have in the OP it shows one of the bosses turning you into a giant mushroom lol).
Can't wait until the 24th. Game has some significant performance/balance issues, but it's pretty damn fun most of the time. The rifts are a cool if somewhat gimmicky addition to the MMO formula too.
My build: Warlock/Dominator
The biggest problem I ran into playing Dom is my survivability in PvP. Draining healers of their mana and sheeping people at will is tons of fun...Warlock isn't the greatest of synergies with the dots (most CC breaks on damage, albeit I'm specced to allow for some), but I should be much harder to kill next time around. Dominators get focused hella quick once people realize what's going on.
My build: Warlock/Dominator
The biggest problem I ran into playing Dom is my survivability in PvP. Draining healers of their mana and sheeping people at will is tons of fun...Warlock isn't the greatest of synergies with the dots (most CC breaks on damage, albeit I'm specced to allow for some), but I should be much harder to kill next time around. Dominators get focused hella quick once people realize what's going on.
AceBandage
Banned
My biggest fear with Rift is what happened to WoW.
Nerfing PvE skills because of PvP.
Ugh.
Give me back my unlimited Life Blooms and instant Wild Growths, Blizzard!
Nerfing PvE skills because of PvP.
Ugh.
Give me back my unlimited Life Blooms and instant Wild Growths, Blizzard!
AceBandage said:
Honestly, I'm of the opinion that they should do what LotRO did - balance PvE skills in warfronts, but leave them alone outside of them. There are some skills in WF's which are just stupidedly overpowered and need some re-consideration IMO. I get turned into a god damn squirrel two - three times a match and I can only get myself out of it once every 5 minutes. Plus, every class has stuns/slows and it seems like I can get chain stunned without being able to do much about it.
AceBandage
Banned
That's fine. They can do that all they want.
Just don't take my class/soul spec and completely neuter it because PvPers cry about everything whenever they lose, making dungeons and raids harder than they should be.
Just don't take my class/soul spec and completely neuter it because PvPers cry about everything whenever they lose, making dungeons and raids harder than they should be.
Yeah, the squirrel really needs to be moved a bit higher up the Dom tree. It really shouldn't be a baseline no-point skill. Personally, I think that mana-wrench should be toned down and made baseline with improved mana wrench up in the third branch to max it out.1stStrike said:
The trees are changing again for release, btw. The alpha notes are floating around somewhere. VK/RS are getting nerfed pretty heavily, thank the stars. I also know that the 50% crit damage is getting moved way the hell up the Elementalist tree...stuff like this. I keep thinking back to WoW's release and this really isn't that bad, a couple of standout classes notwithstanding.
nyong said:
Yeah, thank god for the warrior nerfs. I was getting discharged for 600+ damage by some warrior constantly one night and couldn't even defend myself because I did shit for damage against him with all the heavy plate armor he had on. Also, flame spear is getting nerfed too which I'm happy about.
I see a lot of people whining about sabo's, but we're glass cannons - die really fast in PvP without a healer. Rogues go after me all the time too with stealth. I got jumped by 3 of them last night in a WF after I blew the shit out of all their squishies.
I should make myself a warrior someday and just run around tanking in PvP with a healer. A guy I was playing with in RD last night had over 8k HP o_0
I might jump on this for head start depending on the quality of tomorrow's DCUO patch.
Shame you Lotus Cross fellas are going Defiant as that faction is decidedly Dwarf-less. Not sure I can respect that.
I guess there's not really any strictly PvE servers for Rift, from what I understand? Haven't heard much positive about the PvP from the beta phases so I was hoping to just carebear it up. I don't really have a lot of hope for the game's PvP balance (even long-term) with the way the class system is designed.
Shame you Lotus Cross fellas are going Defiant as that faction is decidedly Dwarf-less. Not sure I can respect that.
I guess there's not really any strictly PvE servers for Rift, from what I understand? Haven't heard much positive about the PvP from the beta phases so I was hoping to just carebear it up. I don't really have a lot of hope for the game's PvP balance (even long-term) with the way the class system is designed.
nyong said:The only problem I have with sabs is that the explosion comes out of nowhere. Next patch they're adding a "ticking" sound when you have explosives attached to you. People will either a) rejoice because now they know when to clease, or b) aggravate some latent heart condition
People will still not notice it. Like myself, since I always have music on
The great thing about the bombs is I can time when I want to kill you. I throw 5 charges and then wait for you to drop to half health and then BOOM, dead. Sebulon3k said:
We're serious. This is going to be an organized, fun guild and we're not fucking around
Plus, my day job is fixing other people's websites all day long so this is all cake for me. I maintain it myself.Wallach said:
On any PvE server all you have to do is flag yourself as non-pvpable and nobody can attack you. You don't have to participate in warfronts either so you can completely carebear it up if you'd like. I went with a PvE server as the population tends to be more mature and you can still participate in organized PvP and ganking if you'd like (many people never flag PvP off so you can attack them anyway)
I'm rolling PvP for sure. The way the soul system is set up, it's super-easy to have a World PvP travel build just to thwart would-be gankers. With the constant Rift events there's a reasonably good chance that people aren't going to hole-up in the cities too. Of all the MMOs, I can see World PvP working the best here...class imbalances and all. There's enough CC to escape from just about anybody who isn't teamed up.