Renew Rift?

[Punishment]

It's funny how everyone seems to be jumping ship so quickly, personally im still going to buy a copy as i have no intention of touching SW:OR as i hate the lore and its gonna be a cheese/failfest

 

[eksdee]

pretty normal: rush to 50, cry there is nothing to do, act surprised. same cycle of people in every MMO. I think it mostly stems from the fear of being gear-lagged behind the nerds who max everything within the first month. Thankfully, in Rift, it really won't make that much difference; it will be more like an RR1 group vs an RR5 group than an RR11 one if you want a DAoC reference, at least as far as I see it.

That said, there's definitely not a lot to do at 50 right now which is why we rolled Defiant as it's the underpopped faction right now, then when that inevitably switches over again - always going to be the case in a 2-faction game, it WILL happen - we have chars ready on both realms. Win/win.

 

[Punishment]

Well im going to give it a chance, i felt AoC was a decent game until the imbalances became so apparent and lack of content at stages, Aion was probably the worst mmo i ever bought tho, i will be forever haunted by Muu Muu's Also there was something about that game that just felt hollow and empty and i noticed it mostly in the capital cities for some reason

Daoc was a great game, im playing Uthgard atm and the simplicity of my rr4 Infil is great but it is an old game and feels very dated now especially with pre SI templates, i just need a new game as im burned out on EvE atm, gave up halfway to saving for a Mothership

 

[BloodOmen]

pretty normal: rush to 50, cry there is nothing to do, act surprised. same cycle of people in every MMO. I think it mostly stems from the fear of being gear-lagged behind the nerds who max everything within the first month. Thankfully, in Rift, it really won't make that much difference; it will be more like an RR1 group vs an RR5 group than an RR11 one if you want a DAoC reference, at least as far as I see it.

That said, there's definitely not a lot to do at 50 right now which is why we rolled Defiant as it's the underpopped faction right now, then when that inevitably switches over again - always going to be the case in a 2-faction game, it WILL happen - we have chars ready on both realms. Win/win.

WHATS THIS?!??! moving to defiant after you argued Guardian would be the underdog *scratches chin* i'd say I told you so but then i'd feel really smug.

As for rushing to 50 and crying that isnt why I didn't renew I didn't renew because I didn't want to sit in BG's for the next few months while they added an open world zone, plenty to do at 50 the warfront queue was literally 2 minutes tops for all warfronts.

I want some nice pvp in short if I wanted to sit and pve for the next few months i'd have kept playing WoW.

 

[rynnor]

Also there was something about that game that just felt hollow and empty and i noticed it mostly in the capital cities for some reason

Hah - thats funny I felt exactly the same thing about the cities but couldnt really pin it down as to why?

 

[eksdee]

WHATS THIS?!??! moving to defiant after you argued Guardian would be the underdog *scratches chin* i'd say I told you so but then i'd feel really smug.

As for rushing to 50 and crying that isnt why I didn't renew I didn't renew because I didn't want to sit in BG's for the next few months while they added an open world zone, plenty to do at 50 the warfront queue was literally 2 minutes tops for all warfronts.

I want some nice pvp in short if I wanted to sit and pve for the next few months i'd have kept playing WoW.

I don't really remember 'arguing', but whatever, be a smug tosser if it makes you feel good. We always wanted characters on both realms since the dynamic of two faction games is such that one faction will always be dominant and it will be transient, at least somewhat over the longer term, so when it comes around that Guardian is underpopped we won't have to endure playing Defiant we can just relog. We just rolled the wrong faction first.

 

[BloodOmen]

I don't really remember 'arguing', but whatever, be a smug tosser if it makes you feel good. We always wanted characters on both realms since the dynamic of two faction games is such that one faction will always be dominant and it will be transient, at least somewhat over the longer term, so when it comes around that Guardian is underpopped we won't have to endure playing Defiant we can just relog. We just rolled the wrong faction first.

Nah I don't need to be smug, I knew I was right before the game went live, people always flock to the good face the best part is tho if you actually follow the lore its the Defiant thats the good guys in this ;> alot of people obviously didnt realise and went to guardians regardless.

 

[Ctuchik]

No actually, there is no good versus bad in the lore. Sure there's always room for interpretation but....

He emphasizes that the Guardians are exceptional souls of both good and evil men devoted to the gods. He wants to make it clear that Defiants vs. Guardian isn’t Evil vs. Good but more of Technology vs. Religion.

Interview | Rift Junkies - An Official RIFT Fansite - RiftJunkies.com - An Official Rift: Planes of Telara Fansite - Part 3 - RiftJunkies.com - An Official Rift: Planes of Telara Fansite

So there you have it, there is no good versus evil

 

[Ctuchik]

p.s I love it how mages cry about champs yet ignore sabo's and paragons makes me chuckle abit in side, sabo's with their 1 second GCD charges vs 1.5 second GCD dispels + 5000 detonates and paragon for their 51 pointer while wielding 2 good weapons, makes them cc immune while active.

Oh no no no, don't think you are THAT special...

I'm whining about sabos as well, probably even more so then on champs, but sabos never really came up on this board so i'm focusing on that on the official board.

But sabos are insanely boring to play so even tho they are overpowered, not that many actually want to play them. So when we do face them it's tolerable because there are so few of them. I play WF's quite a lot and i never see a sabo each game, but i do see tons and tons and TONS of melee's.

 

[BloodOmen]

No actually, there is no good versus bad in the lore. Sure there's always room for interpretation but....



Interview | Rift Junkies - An Official RIFT Fansite - RiftJunkies.com - An Official Rift: Planes of Telara Fansite - Part 3 - RiftJunkies.com - An Official Rift: Planes of Telara Fansite

So there you have it, there is no good versus evil

Everyone knows religion is evil Ctu

 

[Bahumat]

What sucks is how me being champion or paragon specced can't kill a necro warlock whilst he life drains me. If I stand next to him with my two hand sword, he should not be able to lifetap more than I can damage. Casters are supposed to be ranged

 

[Ctuchik]

If your dying because he's using neddra's essence (-80% damage taken for 7 seconds) then you need to rework your build, or playstyle.

 

[Aph3x]

The problem and the reason I've cancelled my subs is theres no reason to PvP other than to gank, theres no point to it. In DAoC you had Keeps, Relics and pride to fight for. Rift gives you the same battlegrounds over and over or open world PvP in leveling areas, which for me is so dull.

I really wish a MMO maker would come up with an idea to make PvP exciting again, even if it means stealing DAoC's RvR concept.

 

[Ctuchik]

The problem and the reason I've cancelled my subs is theres no reason to PvP other than to gank, theres no point to it. In DAoC you had Keeps, Relics and pride to fight for. Rift gives you the same battlegrounds over and over or open world PvP in leveling areas, which for me is so dull.

I really wish a MMO maker would come up with an idea to make PvP exciting again, even if it means stealing DAoC's RvR concept.

Yep, i really really like the game but at the moment i see no reason to subscribe from a pvp point of view.

 

[BloodOmen]

What sucks is how me being champion or paragon specced can't kill a necro warlock whilst he life drains me. If I stand next to him with my two hand sword, he should not be able to lifetap more than I can damage. Casters are supposed to be ranged

what are you talking about casters are underpowered *cough* remember?

 

[Bahumat]

what are you talking about casters are underpowered *cough* remember?

hehe

 

[Ogrelin Blodig]

I'll renew.

 

[Mabs]

doing expert dungeons on my main, got 2 toons in teens and a 25 coming up
enjoying it, not rushing to try to "win", will be playing it a while

 

[`mongoose]

I just can't get into it. I don't know why. I guess I'm waiting for bf3 and playing civ 5 until tnbmmo

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[Punishment]

No from me, im burnt out on EvE too so im gonna let my 3 accounts i payed the last years subs with isk go down too hmm i think i will buy a ps3 or something

 

[Marc]

No from me, im burnt out on EvE too so im gonna let my 3 accounts i payed the last years subs with isk go down too hmm i think i will buy a ps3 or something

Get your shit to Geminate. The russians have been bringing it every day for weeks. They never stop! Loads of action. Last sunday was out of this world. Over 50 titans and 150 motherships on grid. Fight lasted from 8am until tea time. Loads of Mostly Harmless are there. Im in LAWN now and Traderjohn has given us instructions to harass them on their own turf as no other pet alliance is good enough to do this.

However, that said, our spies tell us, NC. and Ev0ke are invading Pure Blind this weekend so I guess your alliance will be busy defending now.

 

[Marc]

lol mongoose is NC.

 

[pito]

Is nae from me since I have been corrupted by tera and will be wasting my money on subs there than on rift.

 

[Gahn]

Me not .. they got no single fucking clue about PvP sadly.

 

[eksdee]

Had some 3v3/4v4/5v5 fights over the past week in Stilmoor/Shimmersand, can safely say in those fights if you have a proper setup 'out of hand cc/damage' is not an issue what-so-ever.

The problem is Black Garden being what 90% of people chain all day and it being so small that AoEs get thrown about on everyone, and that people get insta focused by 5 or so people at a time constantly. I'm yet to die to having one player on me in this game except P5+ Warriors who are abusing bugged Paragon (being fixed in 1.1) in conjunction with Tactical Strikes.

 

[Gahn]

Had some 3v3/4v4/5v5 fights over the past week in Stilmoor/Shimmersand, can safely say in those fights if you have a proper setup 'out of hand cc/damage' is not an issue what-so-ever.

The problem is Black Garden being what 90% of people chain all day and it being so small that AoEs get thrown about on everyone, and that people get insta focused by 5 or so people at a time constantly. I'm yet to die to having one player on me in this game except P5+ Warriors who are abusing bugged Paragon (being fixed in 1.1) in conjunction with Tactical Strikes.

I know, that said am actually playing randomly, trust me it's not funny at all.