Rift: Random Question Thread

[Lucavi]

What fucking zone uses Inscribed Sourcestones? I'm trying to dump these fuckers, but Shimmersand and Stillmoor don't take them.

[Ohemgee]

Any Warrior mind explaining the difference in DPS builds of:

http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=0c...V0bGudz.icx0oV

vs a comparable BST build?


I use that for general farming / PvE since my one macro includes:

cast Bloodthirst (free critical)
cast Frenzied Strike (free follow up after every crit)
cast Turn the Blade (after parry/dodge)
cast Inescapable Fury (after block/parry, in case Turn the blade doesnt proc)
cast Flinching Strike (crits so often w/ spell interrupt)
cast Disruptive Strike (2 for 1 attack points)
cast Rising Waterfall (follow up attack)
cast Path of the Wind (ranged attack with double jep you gain a 6% chance to crit after it lands)
cast Power Strike (in case i have to)

finishers include Deathblow -> Titans Strike -> Punishing Blow

Benefits: Strike Like Iron (+48% damage for 12 seconds), Mark of Extermination/Inevitablity (25% crit rate / a lot of armor down), lots and lots of power regen from crits, Proper timing (crit move you can proc every 30s)

I don't have the parse numbers on it, but I've tried a lot of other combos and I'm really happy with this class.


I have a Paragon class that I'll respec further down the line, might go 33para/23champ/10 paladin [+10% or so with single hand damage, so 10% on each weapon]

[Zerocool]

What fucking zone uses Inscribed Sourcestones? I'm trying to dump these fuckers, but Shimmersand and Stillmoor don't take them.

I believe it's the planar merchant in Sanctum.

[Lucavi]

Ah, thanks.

[Clemz]

Just grabbed the game, played in the last few beta events. Since I never uninstalled any of it, is there a way to get it to read the patches I downloaded during beta instead of having to watch it download and install those all over again?

[Grimeybob]

Has anyone found the spectral horse yet? Does it come from rifts/invasions/zone invasions?

[Pyree]

Just grabbed the game, played in the last few beta events. Since I never uninstalled any of it, is there a way to get it to read the patches I downloaded during beta instead of having to watch it download and install those all over again?

Nope, you have to do a fresh install. Even people that started playing retail right after beta ended had to do a fresh install.

[Mytiwar]

Has anyone found the spectral horse yet? Does it come from rifts/invasions/zone invasions?

My guess would be it'll be available at a later time when they unlock more of the world event.

[Pyree]

My guess would be it'll be available at a later time when they unlock more of the world event.

It's available now, I've seen a couple around.

From what I've gathered, it's a really rare reward that you can get from killing the final boss of the zone-wide death invasion events. There is a Lv20 version and a Lv50 version, but I have only seen the Lv20 one in-game so far.

[Lucavi]

Anyone know how to get the Necrotic Rage and Necrotic Sourcheshade (or whatever)? All I know is that its from some quest, but I was told it was from the Marshal Kain questline in IPP, yet when I did that, he kicked my ass, I received nothing, and now I have no leads.

[arus2001]

Trying to think... is that when you kill some defiant messenger and are then given an item that saps your HP periodically with the objective of getting it back to the forge at the chancel to smash? Think the next objective then was to go back to Kain, who'd get pissed about it being broken and if I recall, yeah, he'd do a nice chunk of damage to you. I survived as a Reaver, but dunno if it's actually set damage or percentage based. I'm hazy on what comes after since it's been a few weeks, but I guess if you survive that, one of the NPCs near him should then ask you to go and talk to other people in the area who basically comment on his behavior of late.

I hadn't completed all the quests in the zone, though, but I eventually bumped into some story info regarding Kain in Stillmoor so I would imagine it later in the chain.

[Lucavi]

Nah, its that Guardian quest where you do marshal kain's questline in IPP and you're supposed to get mail. Fuck if I've gotten it.

[arus2001]

Honestly can't remember if I ever got mail, then. How's your rep for the zone and have you done much questing in it?

[Talragan]

Ok, so i just started playing. Rolled a mage and went stormcaller / pyro

What should I go as 3rd? and I mainly plan on doing pve, although some pvp every now and then.

This spec ok? or should I do something else.

[aznmajiktaru]

As I'm leveling up and doing instances, I'm finding it extremely hard to keep my retard of a cat alive as beast. I'm currently sitting 23 beast/1 para(too lazy to spec out) 26 champ I think as 41. Ran RD tonight and my cat kept dying to boss aoe half the time, the only boss it lived through was the tree I think? Rift isn't a very melee friendly game as it goes and i'm sure it's only going to get worse in experts and raids, so question is how is this still going to be the top dps build if your pet keeps getting his face fucked in?

I know most of the times I have enrage on but even times when I just regular summon it, it dies to aoes; not to mention even in defensive stance cat pet can take maybe 4 hits before it falls over with heals rolling, compared to hunter and mage pets that can tank elites wtf??

[Lucavi]

Honestly can't remember if I ever got mail, then. How's your rep for the zone and have you done much questing in it?

Not a lot of rep, as I didn't initially quest there (hit Shimmersand instead). Is it something you're supposed to have a shit-ton of rep for?

[arus2001]

Couldn't tell ya for sure. I just know rep can reqs for quests alongside actual level requirements. So... get at it. Fortunately you probably won't need to do the dailies to get 'em, but if you've outleveled the quests themselves, they obviously won't do a whole lot for you other than the rep.

[Mytiwar]

I'm curious Arus, weren't you quitting? What made you stay?

[arus2001]

I did quit. Figured I could still try to answer questions, though, since it seemed like more of the high people here are Defiant as opposed to Guardian.

[tonyg]

Still haven't found where to get the epic quest like the defiant one. When I was on my defiant it was really easy to find, but as a guardian at 50 I still didn't find it (not like I looked much anyway)