The Rift: Planes of Telara thread.

[DneL]

Yup there's no place to hide!
Good game is good!

Creepy...

i wouldn't doubt it being good, heck i might even play it one day

[loksie]

Theres several posters i would like to smack in the face at moment,

1 Rift feels totally different to play than wow graphical style for
a start is 100% better ill tell u 1 thing i have played wow since the
begining in 2005 and this is the game most wow players will shift to
because its a quality game i have done the 1st dungeon and wow
it was pretty amazing being outside in a dungeon "FAE" was good
and felt brand new certain wow players wont leave thats a fact
but thats the guys with comitments to there guilds sorry if this post
looks shabby its 5am and i just downed a bottle o vodka nn all peace.

[sinnful]

G4TV Endgame Preview video.

G4TV Hands-on/PvP Preview Video

Me likey.

[Shurrik]

Epic video glad i bought the game already

[Seeric]

I am sort of liking the game, but I have a feeling it won't last as a P2P game and will have to go F2P.

I'd say it has a better chance of staying P2P than most of the other games that have come out recently though at least. They borrow a lot of good aspects from WoW (which is itself basically an amalgamation of any 'good idea' produced by other games so that's not a bad thing) and the rifts themselves seem like the Public Quests from Warhammer, except there is actually a large incentive for players to do them and they are far less grindy in the lower stages than War's PQ's so it's easy to find parties for them (although I admittedly suspect that it will be near-impossible to do the lower ones at least in a few months once the majority of the community is at/near the max level).

Really, all they seem to need to do is make crafting more useful and tweak dungeon difficulty (well, and balance classes, but that's always an endless task) and the game will have both a solid foundation of 'things we know work' and 'unique stuff' like the class system and the rifts.

Still, I do think it would have been a smart move to lower the monthly subscription to something like $13.99 (the founder's pricing plans are way too finicky to count) so that it's not quite so directly competing with WoW since regardless of how good/bad WoW is it still has an unnaturally huge amount of momentum.

[cell59]

this game is one of the good mmorpgs that have come out in the past 5 years...no other mmorpg that has come out in p2p format hasnt impressed people this much

[Heroshi]

Its def going to compete in the P2P market for some time to come. A game thats been doing so well in just the beta wont be going F2P anytime soon unless the release pulls a FFXIV.

[thedudesam]

Its def going to compete in the P2P market for some time to come. A game thats been doing so well in just the beta wont be going F2P anytime soon unless the release pulls a FFXIV.

Exactly.

10char

[OverFlow]

So..... close..... AHHH!

I haven't had any sleep yet :l

[DneL]

i dont even know what class im choosing >

[Speed]

I think the first few months the community will suck and compare it all to WoW. :/

[vefalst]

why is this game on f2p section? is it f2p?

[thedudesam]

I think the first few months the community will suck and compare it all to WoW. :/

You'd be surprised my friend, the first day sure.

"WoW sucks"
"This is better than WoW"
"Who else plays WoW?"
"Lol WoW is better"

But today and yesterday i didn't even see world of warcraft mentioned once.

[Speed]

Queue seems to be so long for Icewatch. Lol.

[thedudesam]

Queue seems to be so long for Icewatch. Lol.

Add me on icewatch, im level 18 so i can help out with information and shit.

IGN = In my sig.

[zeroburrito]

what people fail to understand about a sabo is the fact that they are doing no damage for 8+ seconds until that burst happens, if you do the math then that equals about the same if not less dps as most other classes are doing in that time range. the problem is that burst is a bad thing in pvp because it can hardly be predicted and its tough to recover from.

and if a sabo goes up against a class who can dispel its over and he loses.

ill probably end up power leveling my warrior to 50 pretty soon since i like the play style a lot more then i do on my cleric.


anyways theroy crafting some low level champ builds and this is the best ive got for dps so far

and according to the parses out of the groups ive been in im doing 50-100 more dps on average then other people. also ive seen so many dps who are only doing like 20-40 dps while the tank is doing 100+ in fae.

also 1337 hp i know.

what you fail to realize is that burst is king in pvp. nobody cares about sustained dps. dots are sustained dps and we know how useless those are in this game(pvp). sabs can 2 charge and explode if they wanted sustained dps, but they do 5 charge because it's burst. no damage happening for 5 seconds is a STRENGTH not a weakness.

cleansing doesn't work. rogues have a 1 second gcd and a healer cleansing instead of healing might as well be a dead cleric.

put 2 sustained dps people on a target for 10 seconds and you can heal it with passive healing + direct healing.

put 2 sabs on the same target and it's a kill with no chance of being healed.

[GoldenArrow]

oh nice, i never knew that you could cleanse sabo charges.

whenever i pvp i end up with like 25+ killing blows, so i think a lot of people dont know it either = /


though i've got to admit that i'm only lvl 29

It's just that people don't want to use dispells/buffs in warfronts.
As these won't really show up on the charts ;P

[Heroshi]

Im glad people dont dispell or cleanse in this game yet like ******s. Lets me blow them up all the easier. In WoW all of my shit just gets dispelled spammed so I have a hard time dealing damage.

Hoping the fools dont learn anytime soon.

[diztar]

Server: Iceshard (PvE)
Faction: The Guardian
Class: Warrior
IGN: Thaenin

I've not decided if I'm gonna go for DPS or tanking yet, so I'm still at level 1, lol

[GoldenArrow]

Server: Iceshard (PvE)
Faction: The Guardian
Class: Warrior
IGN: Thaenin

I've not decided if I'm gonna go for DPS or tanking yet, so I'm still at level 1, lol

Do both, don't be a noob.

[GoldenArrow]

I wish this game was B2P i enjoyed it during the beta when the servers weren't all screwy and i was wondering how much the life time price was for this game if there is one?

There's no lifetime available. I guess they are actually serious about making a good P2P

However the founder pricing which is explained here:
http://riftgame.com/en/products/subscriptions.php

Basically it means if you subscribe before 3/15/2011 you get cheaper rates, however you will need to sign up for a longer subscription period and it will last untill you cancel your subscription.

[BetaGods123]

This is what you can do after reaching the level cap (50):

-- Endgame PvE --

Solo content:
Reputation grind / Exploring(artifact hunt) / Puzzles / Crafting & Gathering

Party content:
5 dungeons for each tier (Tier 1 -> Tier 2)
Expert rifts (More challenging rifts than the usual ones)

Raiding content:
Rift raids (10-man open world raids, very challenging)
Instanced raids (20-man, hardest endgame PvE content)

-- Endgame PvP --

Solo and Party content:

6 PvP levels "Prestige Ranks" (Unlock tiers in your PvP soul and gain PvP focused gear)

4 Warfronts (More promised in future)

Port Scion (PvP-zone, will be added in near future)

Open world PvP (PvP servers).

All of these activities earn Favor which is used to purchase PvP related items/gear. You will also gain "PvP Exp" (prestige) from these activities.

It sounds wonderful, thank you.

[Frenchiex]

you can hit the lvl cap in only a few days? that doesn't seem very fun at all =/

[BetaGods123]

you can hit the lvl cap in only a few days? that doesn't seem very fun at all =/

Guild Wars.

[GoldenArrow]

you can hit the lvl cap in only a few days? that doesn't seem very fun at all =/

Yeah well that's _played_ time. In Wow it takes like 6-7 days to hit 85 so it's little easier than that. But Rift is all about endgame though. Considering you only need to level up 4 characters to have all callings maxed, there's not a lot of grinding on the alt department either.

You could say that there's very little grinding in Rift when it comes to levelling.
However I've heard the PvP Ranks take quite some time to reach. So if you are into that there's some grinding beyond the lv50