Rift: Random Question Thread

[arus2001]

Decent damage build for a Warrior with average/crap gear? Been 51 Reaver/rest in Paladin for general PvEing, but kills are slow and watching other people murder shit while chasing rifts kind of has my e-peen envy going. Not sure if shifting to DDing would be more productive for me or not.

[AidenCarby]

38 paragon/22champ/6rift is good for pve, just maul shit and you can always pop a melange after killing a few mobs. A 38/26/2 variant is also good, 51rb/15para(or champ) 0 vk isnt bad either.

[Melena]

The cookie cutter BM/Champ/RB spec is pretty good as well. Not as high of DPS but more survivability due to the 12% health bonus for having your pet out.

[Diamicles]

Nightblade/Riftstalker has a hell of a lot of durability with above average DPS (not amazing DPS, but above average). Marksman is a pretty solid choice for overall DPS, either as 44MM/whatever (often RS or Sin) or 51MM/14Ranger/1Riftstalker or 51Marksman/15Ranger. I hear a lot of people having success with builds using Assassin/Riftstalker/Bladedancer(Deadly Dance) too, and they're pretty fun to use since you teleport all over the place!

I could keep going but basically Rogue has a ton of viable specs right now~

As for Riftstalker, when you need the HP I recommend using RS/Ranger/Bard and otherwise RS/Ranger/Bladedancer. You use the former for pure effective HP and the latter for when you don't need the HP differential and prefer pure mitigation. RS/Bard/Bladedancer is kind of inbetween and not as good as the specialised ones in my opinion since you'll want one or the other. I also hear people liking 49RS/17BD for Turn the Tide, but I'm not such a huge fan.

good info, much appreciated. After a little more research I'm leaning toward tanking as RiftStalker/BladeDancer/Ranger for the boosted mitigation, and dps as BladeDancer/NightBlade/RiftStalker for now. There are just soooo many possibilities, I love it

[nekura]

How about those 1.6 combat changes?

http://forums.riftgame.com/official-...ne-events.html

[Alderaan]

Bard still needs a lot of work. Battle rez, cleanse, increased motif duration, and so on. Wish it was more like XI bard but i guess that's not possible without a haste stat.

[Melena]

Cleanse I can see. Brez i'm not sure if they should have one, and the motif duration would change the class too much. If motif's lasted longer, you'd start seeing dps bards which is what they really wern't supposed to be.

[Alderaan]

Increasing motif duration opens up bard to something other than buffbot. Spending 20% of your time refreshing those doesn't leave a lot for us to contribute.

[Melena]

Hey your essential for it and like archons your getting a spotters order buff

[arus2001]

Has any testing been done to see if Spell Power and such affects Reaver abilities? Been sticking mainly to STR/DEX/END/Block with what I have, but dunno if I could maybe up kill speed any with other options.

[Melena]

It "may" but you'd lose a lot more by sacraficing dex/str for a marginal increase to your dots. If your tanking as reaver, just toss some razor spikes on your shield and stack as much str and dex as you can without affecting survieability

[Meph]

up kill speed? you mean for soloing? I went with pld/riftblade/paragon (mixed tank/dps gear) a long time ago and will never go back.
otherwise reaver-dots will get buffed abit in 1.6 so no real reason to try and dabble with spellpower atm

[Guyverarmor]

My Tank is a Reaver at the moment, level 32. I started up a Riftstalker as the dodge/parry tank. Which one should I stay with? Having fun with both, but honestly want to play for utility

[nekura]

This doesn't answer your question, but Warrior tanking in general is getting a huge overhaul in 1.6, so don't get married to a single spec!

[Guyverarmor]

Word. The patch notes for 1.6 out?

[Guyverarmor]

Will stay with Reaver for now then until 1.6 comes out. I was reading the posts above about SP contributing to Reaver DoTs and wondered the same, but have never tried it.

[Raen Ryong]

There are provisional notes in the PTS section of the official forums, but nothing concrete yet.

[Diamicles]

From another thread:

http://forums.riftgame.com/rift-gene...ml#post3229945

That one has a bunch that should work. The higher melee DPS builds all tend towards using Blinks, but there are some that don't and do pretty close.

are there any solid builds using bladedancer and nightblade souls? Right now I'm running with BD/NB/SIN and it seems to do pretty well...but I know these things can change quickly with progression to higher levels and better gear. I really like the playstyle of the BD and NB souls so I'd like to stick with those (or at least one as a primary) if it's feasible.

[Raen Ryong]

I'm going to assume you mean deep Bladedancer and/or Nightblade in this answer;

Bladedancer defensively only works well in PvE (typically solo) content. I'm going to assume you mean an offensive build revolving around Bladedancer and Nightblade. Bladedancer damage involves abusing Deadly Dance along with Keen Strike/Quick Strike/Precision Strike. Nightblade damage involves output through stacking Fiery Spikes (normally with Lingering Flame) and Blazing Strike/Dusk to Dawn/Annihilate(from RS)/Primal Strike, at least from a PvE perspective. This means these souls are not wholly compatible (feel free to prove me wrong here) since there's a constant conflict of interest on what abilities to use, and depending on what you do you could be squandering the entire purpose of either tree (ie: Nightblade has lots of Blazing Strike amplifying traits and such, but Bladedancer wants to Deadly Strike... one or the other isn't going to be used, which significantly weakens the point of using one of the trees).

However, low point Nightblade is a decent DPS boost (whether it's better than BD/Sin/Rift is another story...).

Basically, I don't think they synergise that well if you go deep with both. They both work very well with Riftstalker and/or Assassin individually though.

I'm speaking purely from an offensive perspective here by the way.

[Diamicles]

Yep, I was referring to dps builds. I could sort of see how they might not interact well, but it is good to hear that they won't from someone who has more knowledge of how the trees work when lots of points are dumped into them. I'll keep experimenting with the different trees till I find something I like. Nightblade appeals to me more as a dps spec, and RS/BD as a defensive spec.

I haven't even tried out a bard support build. I'd love to see how different the interactions are compared to ffxi since bard was my primary job there.