Rift

Allara and I briefly talked about guild perks in this game. Not sure if they will change them at all before release, but after looking through them a little further I do agree it is a little lacking. Knowing how Rift is with changes right now and how good their Dev's seem to be on making things work well, I can see these changing some before release.


Also, I am not sure if some of you have played around with a talent calculator yet, but if you go here it has a nice one for you to play with.

Remember, you can have 4 roles (3 souls per role). So it leaves it pretty much open to be anything you want to be in this game in a given class. I am still reading up on gear changes once you change roles, but from what I see so far.....gear doesn't matter "too" much. If you go from a dps warrior to a tank (for example), you will need a 1 handed weapon and shield (unless you go void knight, then you don't need or use a shield).....but other than that is seems to be all talent driven so gear isn't the end all be all of importance to be able to be effective in a role.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Rogues can wear shields. So for me to switch to a tank is just changing specs I think. My gear is already pretty endurance-heavy.

I am sure you can't use them, but you will need some type of sword and/or dagger...possibly duel wield?? Not sure though, you might want to look into it.

Yeah I already dual wield some melee weapons, I try to keep them up to date as I get them via quest rewards.

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Originally Posted by Lonskils

The World Dragons used to be huge pvp hate fests. It was crazy.

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Green Dragons are up! Everyone MOBILIZE!

I am still on the fence about this game. One more round in the beta should help me decide. Hopefully I'll get to play more on the last beta round, this last one just fell on a busy weekend.

Haven't kept up on the thread, but I'm part of an officer core on Deepstrike (Defiant side) if any of you are looking for a guild. Not sure what//where everyone is playing, but keep me in mind if you're around. Would love to see some old faces.

If most of the people trying out the game want to get on one server that'd be cool. If Fir and the other O's didn't mind, we could even use the Hoss tag in the game.

@ Doma - Not sure what shard/server we will be on right now. Some of us said keep Belmont, but I personally don't care one way or another. As long as all of us are on one server it'd be fine imo.

Unless we get alot of people coming over to Rift, I wouldn't mind just staying a small casual guild. Maybe once we get to max level we can ally ourselves with another small guild and do a few raids or pvp.

I know personally I only want to play 3-4 times a week for 1-2 hours at a time. I've paid my dues into a timesink of a game (thank you WoW!!) and I am just ready for some fun when I want to have it.....not be on a 4-5 day a week schedule of having to show up for raids or events.


Thoughts on this guys/gals?

Agree completely with Wresh regarding the casual intent. I would like to carry the Hoss tag forward into Rift if everyone agrees on a server. I don't think there's particularly any reason to choose one over another as long as it's the PvE ruleset. I do want to stay Defiant (although I admittedly haven't tried Guardian yet, I much prefer the technology-leaning storyline).

Well, if PVP is your goal then the recent history of PVP MMOs shows being on the "evil" side is a bad idea. Many of the "good" PVP guilds ended up choosing the good side, because they know that the majority of retards will choose "evil". It happened in Warhammer and Aion and I would be shocked if it didn't happen on Rift PVP servers. It's pretty much the WoW effect of horde side generally being better at PVP, so all the bad alliance PVPers switch sides hoping to be the new "horde".

I have read about of people stating its similarities to world of warcraft on a lot of forums and how its just a wow clone. Sure it has some things like wow, like talents and a few ui components; but after my time spent in it, it reminds me more of Dark Age of Camelot and Everquest blended together.

Calling the game a WoW clone is a huge disservice, imo.

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Originally Posted by Domathoine

Calling the game a WoW clone is a huge disservice, imo.

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Sure. To WoW. Of course, calling WoW a MMORPG is a disservice to MMORPGs.

A wild Torrid appears?

He's alive!

Ain

Can't remember if anyone said it yet in this thread, but the upcoming final Rift beta event is open to anybody. It starts at 10 AM PST this Tuesday, and runs until 10 AM the following Monday. They're also running a drawing for some free video cards for anyone who defeats a dungeon boss (hey Wresh, let's do that :p)

I like the fact that true support classes exist in the game, such as Bards, Dominators (Enchanters), Archons (Debuffers), etc.. There are so many different roles, buffs, debuffs etc that could create endless combinations in a raid and being able to change into many of them within your class on one character is cool. The focus is not at all the number game that world of warcraft has created. It gives people the chance to find that perfect nitch that they enjoy covering in a game; to me it introduces back the old role playing game style.

I also like the fact that player made add ons are not allowed at all. People will have to rely on their own awareness.

Anyone set on playing? It's looking increasingly likely that I will, and I'd be up for teaming up on same server, especially since raids will be 20 man for a while :o

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Originally Posted by Allara

Can't remember if anyone said it yet in this thread, but the upcoming final Rift beta event is open to anybody. It starts at 10 AM PST this Tuesday, and runs until 10 AM the following Monday. They're also running a drawing for some free video cards for anyone who defeats a dungeon boss (hey Wresh, let's do that :p)

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I'll be down for a dungeon or 2....or 3. :)

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Originally Posted by Wresh

I'll be down for a dungeon or 2....or 3. :)

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Kewl. I think I mostly caught up to you -- ended up at level 26 I think. Haven't done any dungeons yet and have never tried tanking in this game. Dunno if I should or not. I'll look into what the best soul combo is for it.

Ya, I think you did catch up to me as well. I think I logged off about 1/2 way to 28 (I think).

Up to you on the tanking thing.