Rift: Random Question Thread

[aznmajiktaru]

Anyone have some good builds or recommendations for war dps souls? I picked up paragon, champion, and riftblade like it suggest but i've just been full on blowing points in champ since it had the best stat increases that didn't deal with the specific soul. Decided to just go 2h for now and see where it goes, interested in seeing what kinda skills and points others put into their war and how it synergizes.

[Alderaan]

http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=0c....EGczV00hhzz.z

This is pretty much the top dps build. The 1 point in Paragon is for combat precision which is currently bugged and ignores 99% of the targets armor. This build is pulling around 1100-1200 dps in Greenscale while the top rogue build is pulling around 650-700. Enjoy it while you can is all i can say!

[Crizto]

What got you into the game?

FFXI being down, wanted something to do. I have not had great experience with these "styles" of MMO's, but this game has been incredibly addicting.

What are the good/bad aspects about it?

Good: Graphics are great; you can really get into the environment around you. One of the areas (Silkwood Pass) reminded me of the spider forest from Harry Potter and it creeped me out whenever I was in there. The class system is very fun, you have a lot of options to make what you like. It has some similarities to the job system that FFXI has, but you are restricted to your main archetype. But within each archetype there are many many combination's. I really enjoy the public quests/raids because they are not incredibly long, have the ability to pose a wide range of difficulties, and rallies the entire community together.
There are times when widespread invasions are occurring absolutely everywhere via rifts, Defiant/Guardian invasions, goblin invasion. The sky is red, with packs of mobs everywhere and I never see people ignoring these invasions. Everyone rallies together and rapes shit up which is nice to see.
The combat system took some time to get used to since it is different from FFXI, but I'm really liking it once I figured out how to do simple macros. Also being able to swim/jump everywhere is absolutely amazing for sneaking around fortresses to complete quests.
Crafting/gathering is also very simple and you progress quite quickly if you put effort into it.

Bad
The community is not the same as FFXI which I sorta miss, so you have to deal with stupid teenagers but what ever. Dungeons take fucking forever at low levels from my experience (I'm only lvl 27). I spent 2 hours in my second dungeon because of so many deaths, but I guess it was because it was actually very challenging for us. Despite the length, the boss fights were very fun and many are come down to seconds.

How is the gearing system and endgame?

Gearing system is very simple. You essentially get consistently upgraded from doing quests. Endgame I have no experience with yet, but I assume there can't be too much since it just came out.

Is it worth getting it and why?

Yeah I think so for reasons above. There are more good things that I have, but don't want to type more and think more. The game has a lot of potential and I don't see it dying off. Yes people seem to compare it to WoW, and they are probably very correct. I personally couldn't get into WoW cause I thought it looked fucking retarded (graphics wise). I thought it was a joke, but this game gives me a different feel. I definitely do not regret spending $55 for this game.

[tonyg]

@poster above me:
Your bad points are connected : Retarded teenagers try to do shit too fast (either getting to 50 and being geared like shit for their level or trying to clear the raid as quickly as possible) which leads to you dying multiple times. Find a group of players that level at around the same pace as you do and keep grouping with them, makes clearing new dungeons much easier AND splitting gear without any headache. For example, I've been constantly farming instances with the same warrior since lv17 on my second character. He's been mainly tanking and I've been mainly dpsing, both of us are awesomely geared for our level (45 now) and we always get a support along with a main healer so we're sure that we can clear the instance without much problem. I always top the DPS charts (and by far) while he's a close second most of the time, so we could basically 4man every instance we tried. When tank gear drops, I pass and he lots need, while when dps gear drops he passes and I need.

The only real gripe I have atm is in PvP, where I either get stuck with fucktards that keep whining everytime they die or simply troll like there's no tomorrow, or with AFKers, which really reduces the fun factor in it.

[Jakson]

I heard somebody say that Trion was trying to work out shard transfers and had to be careful because they wouldn't want someone to level to max on a PvE server then transfer to a PvP server for the PvP. I got the impression that PvE is easier to get to max on (I've only ever played FFXI as far as mmo's go, no WoW for me); is this because you don't get ganked every five minutes (past 27 I haven't been able to finish a quest without getting killed by someone 3+ levels above me, or parties of them), or because xp or mobs somehow work differently?

[Ksandra]

errr, must be retarded question, but where the fuck is the mirror of ages? doesn't show up on the map, even if I click map on the quest log.

(sanctum quest)

[aznmajiktaru]

errr, must be retarded question, but where the fuck is the mirror of ages? doesn't show up on the map, even if I click map on the quest log.

(sanctum quest)

http://game-maps.com/RIFT-Silverwood-Map.asp

to the left above the old man statue

[Ksandra]

ah ha thanks, whenever I looked up the quest it just showed the order of the quests not where to go XD

[tonyg]

I heard somebody say that Trion was trying to work out shard transfers and had to be careful because they wouldn't want someone to level to max on a PvE server then transfer to a PvP server for the PvP. I got the impression that PvE is easier to get to max on (I've only ever played FFXI as far as mmo's go, no WoW for me); is this because you don't get ganked every five minutes (past 27 I haven't been able to finish a quest without getting killed by someone 3+ levels above me, or parties of them), or because xp or mobs somehow work differently?

They should actually merge some servers, haven't any of the 2 I play on at high pop since release, and it is SO much more fun when there's a high populated server.

[AidenCarby]

Most of the servers are almost full lol, idk how merging would do anything other than over populate stuff.

[Meph]

alot of EU-servers are pretty desolate atm, so they should merge a few of them

[tonyg]

Most of the servers are almost full lol, idk how merging would do anything other than over populate stuff.

Well my server feels pretty desolate, 30-50 min warfront queues is retarded, and that's not talking about the complete lack of people running dungeons.

[Kuya]

Aren't wafronts multi-server?

[Alderaan]

A lot of people would rather not run dungeons at all than run them outside of guild. T1's are normally fine but i just have bad luck when i pug them and would rather go do something else than spend another 3 hours wiping in IT expert, when it should take less than an hour. T2's i wouldn't even attempt with pugs yet.

And yes Warfronts are cross server but only the 4 servers in your bracket i believe. A lot of people also stopped doing them until warriors are fixed. I know i've barely done any since i hit 50 even though i planned on living in Warfronts during beta. I honestly don't have fun in them anymore on my rogue.

[Pere]

Is there any way to predict or force boss invasions? i'm fucking tired to camp silverwood for hours to not see any boss pop, i need to finish that bastard quest ; ;

[arus2001]

Just try to be on at peak times. Then again, I chanced upon 2 majors just dicking on an alt before daily rollovers a few days back, so this would've been around 7am or so. Go fig.

Unfortunately, I think they have minimum cooldowns between particular events. So, if you just missed the one you're after, it could be a good while until it starts up again. Whether or not the players succeed, I have no clue if that could affect the cooldown, too.

[Pere]

Meh.. i guess i'll have to level an alter to get it done then.. thanks anyways.

[Jimothy]

OK, I need some help with Cleric. I suck at healing. I did ok on dungeons pre-50, although at 43 I did have a lot of trouble keeping the tank alive on FOLH boss. Spec im using is this http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=10...xMtz.xxkeMkzqz 32 purifier/20 warden/14 sentinel. Basically I was keeping HOTs stacked and using healing stream, and using healing breath or the purifier shield if they dropped low. However this isn't cutting it anymore, tried expert IT last night and the chloro was basically carrying the bulk of the healing. I'm going to try out a full Sentinel spec, am I supposed to just spam Healing Invocation and use AOE heals if needed?

Secondly, targetting. Using F keys works fine for 5 man stuff but in warfronts/rifts with multiple groups is there any better way to target people other than with the mouse or tabbing through 20 people? I'm so used to using a controller for FFXI I feel like using the mouse is slowing me down a ton.

[Eaglestrike]

When I was still playing Purifier the 3s heal was both healing for more over time (more than twice the 1.5s cast in healing) and has that shield onto it, making it very efficient. I'd only use healing flame with the little AOE damage buff they get at high points.

The way I plan to spec when I'm 50 is: http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=00...kRqz.i.Exozc0z This is basically a full warden build but with all the Purifier cooldowns. The Caregiver's blessing (shields on each single target heal) work with HoT's, so you can hit that and get 6 shields on your next recasts of HoT's and such.

My heal rotation is like thus:
Healing spray up whenever tank is taking high damage.
Refresh Soothing Stream at the end of its timer at 4 stacks at all times.
Keep Healing Current up when damage is high.
Deluge as needed.
Fill up time between Deluge with an AOE heal, Orbs of the Stream cast, healing breath, etc.

Figure out a good way to keybind the massive number of cooldowns and use them fairly liberally. You have a TON in this build, so utilize them whenever necessary. Now I don't really need them with how I heal, but Wardens are essentially Resto Druids and purifiers are disc priests, so I'm used to both kinds of healing already. I also expect to need to use them once I hit experts myself.

[Jimothy]

I never played WoW so I'm not used to this kind of healing at all. Gimme Cure V spam any day over this. My rotation was essentially the same as yours except I also used Healing Flood as part of it, and honestly I never used Caregiver's Blessing much for reasons I'm not sure, I realize how useful it is. I think the vast number of abilities overwhelms me when the tank is going down fast.