Rift: Random Question Thread

[Eaglestrike]

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.

Compared to WoW, there are even more abilities in this game, especially with the build I posted. It's quite difficult for me to remember/use them all, so just work on it and get used to it, over time, you'll get it.

A good time to use Caregiver's blessing would be like say if you got stunned/silenced and the 4 stacks of soothing spray fall off. Use CB and then get your HoTs back up and you'll have some extra shields along the way to help the tank recover.

Unfortunately with there being no addons, there's no Clique. Clique was a WoW addon that allowed you to bind spells to your mouse. So I would have the shield of the ancestors spell (PW:S in WoW) bound to button 4, near my thumb. I would have my mouse over someones unit frame, hit button 4 and I would shield that person. I'd put the cleanse poison/disease spell on button 5 and hit button 5 over someones unit frame to heal like that. It completely solves the targetting issue of having to mouse-click on someones frame and then heal them. Unfortunately it's not in the game...yet!

[shemei]

A macro something like this can be bound to your mouse keys for mouseover healing

#show Yourhealspellhere
/cast @mouseover yourhealspellhere

Anyway that worked on my cleric with healing breath, bound to mouse button 4.

[Jakson]

So I used to go Assassin/Ranger/Bard, but now that regen is 24 points, I'm thinking of changing it, because that was the most useful buff. I'm 34 now. Any recommendations? Also, I never played WoW or similar games; I've found that there are a ton of abilities, but none really seem to make enough of a difference to make me do something other than Quick Shot to 5 points, then head shot, or, when the mob is too close, Savage Strike to 5 until final blow, while buffing with Motif of Bravery, Focus, and Tenacity before fights, and using the Razorbeast. Am I missing out on some other, better way?

Also, is there any point to grouping for XP? How would I go about it?

I feel like after these questions I should ask how to walk and chew gum at the same time.

[Cyn]

Why would you not use the bleed that gives 2 CP to open? And then the armor debuff? And for that matter, if you're using the razorbeast, why would the mob be coming after you? Also, why pair assassin with ranger over NB? For 10 points in the NB tree you can get a 15% damage increase on both CP builders and finishers... Not to mention, you're losing out on a lot by putting points into a support class when you have a pet that you can heal and will do all of the tanking for you. My ranger is 32, and iirc this is how I'm specced right now: http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=0MiNb.V0x.VMsbujkck0z

[Katlan]

Unless your going to go at least 31 into ranger, its not worth it to sub (maybe for marks is another story). I also don't think bard is a good sub as it doesn't compliment other soul's and is more of a standalone tree (other souls, like NB, can buff bard). Bard buffs just aren't worth the hassle to keep up unless your going deep in the tree as that little crit / ap / ect.. isn't worth having to spam abilities every 30 seconds while leveling. Bard can be a decent offspec for leveling if you use another spec for it. You kill slower as bard, but your pretty tough w/your heals and CP heal ability.

If you want go to melee, or even ranged, I'd suggest using riftstalker as a sub since w/ 13 points into it you can get the talent that converts each leftover CP into 6%hp. It's nice for leveling / grinding / whatever and removes a lot of downtime. Also, for leveling, bladedancer is nice since w/ 11 points into it you can get flee and the default 15 second dodge ability that comes w/ the tree is OP

[Man0warr]

Bladedancer/18assassin/13riftstalker is the best leveling rogue spec.

Probably something like this at your level:

http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=0M...bdVh0MRMb.VG0h

[Jakson]

Thanks for the replies. Like I said, this is an entirely different way for me to play an MMO, so I haven't quite got the hang of things. I'ma give some of these specs a shot.

[Crizto]

For guardian mounts: do the lion mounts jump higher than the horses? lol >_>

Edit:

To add to the Rogue talk: Putting 13 into Riftstalker for soloing purposes is very much worth it. Whether you use the above Bladedancer build or go more heavily into Ranger is up to you. I used the Bladedancer build up to about 42, and just recently have i switched to a more Ranger heavy build and I think I am liking it more. I feel I can take on higher level mobs more comfortably and kill them quicker.

Here is what I'm using now. I plan to dump the rest of my points into NB. I'm not sure if I've dumped too much into Ranger, but I do value the damage my pet does. I haven't parsed it but I sure see some crits for 200+ pop up, so it can't be too shabby.
http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=1MNpi.EMcfuekszV.Vhbh.M

[Falisa]

For any defiants that have done the first saga quest in Freemarch, where you have to get the attunement shard off of Endless Nightbringers, how many did you kill before you got it? I just killed my 50th and nothin.

[Alderaan]

For any defiants that have done the first saga quest in Freemarch, where you have to get the attunement shard off of Endless Nightbringers, how many did you kill before you got it? I just killed my 50th and nothin.

Same thing happened to me before i realized i missed a step. I think i forgot to talk to someone first. After i did that, the shard droppedd off the first Nightbringer i killed.

[tonyg]

Where does the endless saga start for guardians? been looking all over sanctum and cant find it.

[Mytiwar]

For any defiants that have done the first saga quest in Freemarch, where you have to get the attunement shard off of Endless Nightbringers, how many did you kill before you got it? I just killed my 50th and nothin.

Ive done a huge amount of questing so far and nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing ever requests you to kill more than 5? mobs for one quest drop and that is with some insane bad luck. Odds are you missed something like Alderaan said.
(Not to be mixed with items dropping that gives you a quest, such as let's say light downy cloth. That can take a lot more time.)

[Alderaan]

I'm almost positive it was made into a 100% drop. I must have killed 60 of them before someone told me i must have missed a step. Sure enough, i came back and got it on first kill.

[Jaffar]

Where does the endless saga start for guardians? been looking all over sanctum and cant find it.

If you mean the invasion boss quests - http://rift.zam.com/en/npc/198926684...h#Starts_Quest

Cardinal Fiach starts "The Care and Imprisonment of changelings"

[Falisa]

(Not to be mixed with items dropping that gives you a quest, such as let's say light downy cloth. That can take a lot more time.)

Thats what this item is. The attunement shard starts a quest needed to complete an objective for the saga quest for Freemarch. But I'll go try and talk to people around Meridian and see if that fixes it for me Gotta make a comment on the zam page for the quest letting other people know this to save them some time haha

edit: well either they changed it, or the site I was reading for a guide on this was wrong. You just get the quest from the NPC you're supposed to talk to now instead of from the dropped item.

[Flattus]

Im trying to make a pure DPS warrior using Champion as my main soul. Needing some help on which other souls to use for my other two

[izembo]

i use riftblade and warlord

[Meph]

post spec? Im still trying out different setups for leveling after they gimped reaver. Running with pally/reaver now, going quite well actually

[aznmajiktaru]

With the warrior changes, what is everyone picking up now pve and pvp wise? I'm still using champ for pvp main and keep pvp and riftblade for other 2, pvp for break free and been messing with other souls to see what would work with champ for pvp but nothing really meshing well. I tried using voidknight for mana burning but it didn't seem to work out that well and even on almost pure champ I'm having trouble burning fcs down, though only 34. Pve i'm still beast/champ/para, didn't have time to mess with it yet, may just keep para to go down the crit stance.

[Alderaan]

BM/Champ/ Para is still the top pve build.