Rift

You going to give this one a go Lons?

I guess the questions to all that are going to play Rift now is....

What shard are we going to play on? My feelings really have not changed on this...I personally don't care..pve/pvp as long as we are all together.

Are we going to create our own guild and recruit as we go? Or join an existing guild in game after a few days? I would like to see us have our own and bring people in that know we want to just be casual and have some fun. If some want to be full raiders...thats fine too.

I know Doma has a guild already, but I am sure they will be hardcore raiding and/or pvp. No offense to Doma, but if this is the case then I am pretty sure that style of play will not be one for most of the people playing this game right now.

I will probably not be able to be online at the start of the jumpstart (damn work!!), so I will leave it up to those who are going to play to let us know what shard you will be on and we will migrate there and start (or join) a guild.

They have really cranked up the rifts over the past two days. They seem endless, when i was playing with a new class over the weekend. I have purposely never passed level 18, so I will not spoil myself for release; but I am very much looking forward to headstart on the 24th. No clue on my plans, other than I am Guardians for sure.

I may Doma. I'm just not sure really yet where I would fit it in.

I'm not sure if the shard names have been finalized for launch yet. They said they would rename them. So we may have to wait to see. I personally want to be Defiant, and definitely on a PVE server, no exceptions on the PVE part for me personally. I vote do a Hoss guild at first, but if it turns out super empty, that won't be any fun. ;) For me, it will be casual although I'd like to at least see the raiding a bit. If it's basically WoW raiding, I probably won't do it much. My one big desire going forward with MMOs is to not be on any set schedule.

I'm planning on playing this casually as well, and will be starting with the headstart this week.

So let's figure out a shard, and it seems guardians is the faction of choice right?

/vote for pve server + guardians

So far we have...

Everyone looks like we want to go to a PvE server (name to be determined).

We also have.......

3 for Guardians (Zappo, Fir, WSP)

2 for Defiant (Allara, Wresh)

I did throw myself into the Defiant side mostly because of the story line, but if we can get everyone together then I really don't care..I know I will have fun either way.

Lons? Zeyla? Others? Which do you prefer?

Starting a guild is pretty cheap and we should be able to have one going on day one w/o a problem. Just like WoW you need to pay for it then get 5 signatures and it is started....My feelings are whoever is online together at the headstart get it going and add others as we log in...Leader/Officers/whatever can be figured out as we level up and move forward (unless someone "wants" to have the lead..lol)


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There is more than enough room in the guild naming to use the full name of H.O.S.S. and not just use the abbrev. letters of what it really stands for... Just an FYI on that :)

Um, Hoss means Hoss. Simple as that. It's not HOSS, or H.O.S.S., just Hoss.

Regarding the factions, I had heard that Defiant was the "new" Alliance in Rift - so it's the popular faction (see this poll). Which is why I'm leaning toward Guardians.

Granted, that poll is based on ~250 responses, so it is far from scientific.

(Ok, found a more current poll, with 6700 responses, similar result).

I pre-ordered so I'll be dabbling with the game. I can live with both sides, but much prefer guardian. And the poll posted goes back to my earlier post on all the "bad" players gravitating to the "evil" side hoping to be the new "horde", while the good players knowing this avoiding them and going "good". Happened in Warhammer, happened in Aion, will happen here.

That and guardian has a short(er) race option.

Actually, Guardian might be better for me since it's an entirely new first 20 levels, city, etc. since I played Defiant in beta. I think I prefer the magitech story but it doesn't matter. I guess I can go either way on it. I will not be PvPing at all so I don't personally care about that, just want a healthy population to run instances with.

I'm probably going to be picking this game up, but I'm going to be busy on some big work projects for the next couple weeks so I'll be joining in after most people have had a good head start.

I did dig the more steampunk/technology vibe of the Defiants, that would be my preference. It probably won't make much difference in the end. If it is true that the Guardians will favor more hardcore players, then I guess it could (and like WoW the population might vary depending on the server too). I would like to dabble in PvP a little and maybe a little dungeons/raiding. I'm with Allara though, I'd prefer a PvE server and have no interest in being tied down to a regular schedule. I'm looking for a casual play experience.

Just Purchased, I have no real desire to play on a PVP server, but I will. As far as shard, I'll go where we go. As far as sides, I don't give a dang. Pretty or Ugly whatever.

Looks like everyone is saying the same thing (never bad!...lol)

PvE server on Guardian side then....with the Hoss tag. :)

Whoever gets online 1st pick a server and post it here so we can all get to the same one. Also, post your in game names (just in case some don't know)....and we can get a guild going that day. If we have to pool some $$ together to do it, that will be fine with me.

What profs are you guys taking? I was thinking Apothecary for potions and such....but Armorsmith/Weaponsmith seemed good as well.

I did not do the tradeskills at all. So I have no idea.

Same as Lons. Most useful thing I saw was your bag making, Wresh ;)

I agree the bags are very useful, but a plate wearer making cloth items? Probably not the best thing for me...lol.

Whoever goes that way I will keep all my cloth so they can level up their skills (and to make us bags of course :) ). For those who do not know...all mail in the game is almost instant (no hour long wait!!..YAY) so it will be easy to get cloth/items/gold to peeps.

I'll most likely go tailoring as I will once again be playing a cloth class.

I thought about it a long time, but I will not be getting the game. Just too focused on WoW and this game just doesn't have enough to make me consider using the rest of my week for another MMO.

Boo