Rift: Planes of Telara

[eksdee]

Dungeon xp is by far and away better than anything else.

 

[Roo Stercogburn]

Made an alt spec for warfronts and tried out Cholormancer, speccing only for healing. Since healers are few and far between it seems a good way to play for now.

 

[Calaen]

I'm taking my time and it's moving along rather nicely. I completed fae 4 times to help out guildies, we moved to Darkening deep at level 21 and I did that once, completed the dungeon in scarlet gorge last night and got shoulders/chest/boots!!! No other rogue in group to roll against me!!!!!!

You get about 800xp per pvp kill if they are around your level, more if they are higher obviously. A level 32 cleric yelled comeon at me when I was level 24 in Gloamdwood. He died!!! But the fecker soul walked and respawned and killed me I didn't know you could force respawn.


Weirdly I did my daily crafting quests yesterday for runecrafting and the hand in was the fursthest zone away from me via the Defiant side. I had a very enjoyable and successful 2 hours getting down there.

 

[BloodOmen]

Dungeon xp is by far and away better than anything else.

Indeed.

 

[Docmandu]

Made an alt spec for warfronts and tried out Cholormancer, speccing only for healing. Since healers are few and far between it seems a good way to play for now.

Chloromancer is a capable healer, but the only issue is the recast timer on the direct heal spell.. and the super power hungry group heal.

But indeed.. WF with a heal specced cleric is a certain win. Most people go for DPS (= yellow name tag in the group list).

 

[BloodOmen]

casters and healers seem rather fucked vs melee heavy groups, certain melee specs can get -50% healing, in combat charge, 30 second pvp trinket breaking most CC effects,AoE Fear, spammable 50-70% snare, able to PULL the target to them from 20-30 yard range...

GL getting away from a champ heavy grp as a caster ;< also tried out champion + void knight earlier not only could hit like a freight train vs most things but could also strip 5k mana off a cleric in less than 40 seconds.


Viva Le Bard healers.

 

[Gwadien]

casters and healers seem rather fucked vs melee heavy groups, certain melee specs can get -50% healing, in combat charge, 30 second pvp trinket breaking most CC effects,AoE Fear, spammable 50-70% snare, able to PULL the target to them from 20-30 yard range...

GL getting away from a champ heavy grp as a caster ;< also tried out champion + void knight earlier not only could hit like a freight train vs most things but could also strip 5k mana off a cleric in less than 40 seconds.


Viva Le Bard healers.

Saying that fella, I reckon within 2-3 months that shit will get nerfed big time

 

[Ctuchik]

casters and healers seem rather fucked vs melee heavy groups, certain melee specs can get -50% healing, in combat charge, 30 second pvp trinket breaking most CC effects,AoE Fear, spammable 50-70% snare, able to PULL the target to them from 20-30 yard range...

GL getting away from a champ heavy grp as a caster ;< also tried out champion + void knight earlier not only could hit like a freight train vs most things but could also strip 5k mana off a cleric in less than 40 seconds.


Viva Le Bard healers.

non to mention lolblades flamespear

~300 damage insta cast no CD 30 range....

 

[Ctuchik]

Chloromancer is a capable healer, but the only issue is the recast timer on the direct heal spell.. and the super power hungry group heal.

But you don't heal your main healing with those. You do that with all the heal effects your damage does.

Couple that with the castables and the Chloro is a insane support healer that pulls very little aggro.

 

[Bahumat]

Lol spear is 20 range, unless there is a 10 yard buff I don't know about.

 

[Ctuchik]

Sorry, 20 range, doesn't make a whole lot of difference when you try to kite one as a mage...

 

[BloodOmen]

Well, 48.5 now just waiting for the servers to go back up then i'll grind out the rest by killing mobs because i've literally run out of quests and i've got no fucking idea how lol.

 

[Toggers]

what do you guys think of the best cleric souls for pvp healing?

Im only 22 at the moment (limited playtime, dont ever get married!) was mostly sentinel with some in purifier and about 4 in warden.

so far ive found the sentinel heals to have too long a cast time, really struggled to get the healing down fast enuff. not convinced warden which seems mostly for hots doing the trick either.

respecced my guy last nite before logging, went max purifier and leftovers in setintel. havent tried it yet but would be interested to hear peoples thoughts.

 

[Roo Stercogburn]

So far, I've found warlock pretty ineffective in warfronts. Cholormancer fairs slightly better but yeh, melee groups are just ripping everything apart.

 

[Ctuchik]

Roo mate, aim for this at 50.

Soul Tree Calculator: Warlock (61) / Necromancer (22) / Dominator (0) :: Rift: Planes of Telara :: ZAM

I changed dominator for archon for the searing vitality spell.

Do necro first and then warlock. i'm running this at 30 atm up to dark fury and neddra's grasp (dont have the life leech talents because its pointless) and i'm doing pretty good. Now obviously i cant take being focused or targetted by that anti mana warrior soul but if left alone i will kill stuff remarkably fast, and the ancient tomb DPS pet can white crit for over 250 damage, and does so surprisingly often.

Just don't start to use any of the bolts unless opportunity talent procs, just focus on the insta dots and debuffs.

/edit: don't ask me why it says warlock (61)....

 

[BloodOmen]

So couldnt find anymore quests so this is what I did from 48.5-50 basicly

Paladin + reaver + vk aoe grind, was doing 250k xp every 50 minutes which isn't too bad for solo.

what I had:

Blocking caused attackers to take 160% of weapon damage and heal me for 100% of that damage
Soul Sickness healed me for 90x5 per second
Creeping Death healed me for 37x10 per second for 12 seconds
Master of the Abyss healed me for 100% of the damage done (it hit for about 400 damage vs 5 targets or so)
and last but not least 100% insta heal

I had 2 other dots active at all times + spammed whirlwind alot so things died fairly quick despite the low numbers on that ss.

 

[BloodOmen]

Melee > Casters

Almost makes me feel bad for all the people that rolled mages :< that said it'll be nerfed before long, until then enjoy being raped violently by champions.

Edit: not my screenshot just for the record.

 

[Ctuchik]

yep

Melee so utterly owns casters its stupid, once in a while tho i actually face a crap melee'er and win, but no matter how skilled i am on my mage, an equally skilled melee'er will wipe the floor with me in seconds.

Especially rogues, theres one soul that can stunlock for 8 seconds...

Fucking QQ!

 

[BloodOmen]

Hmm, beastmaster seems quite good been trying it for the past day, pet is hitting for 200-500 (the higher hits are with Fight as One up+target armour debuffed+fierce strike up) the beastmaster alone is hitting for 300-1200, also brings some nice utility buffs to the grp (+46 str +46 dex +46 endurance, high stealth detection and 30% stun duration reduction) pet can jump to a target and root them for 3 seconds instantly aswell - BM is very overlooked thats for sure.

 

[eksdee]

BO: That's no AoE! THIS IS AOE

That's all on one GCD. Lolies.

Went to my first 'expert' dungeons yesterday. Jumped straight in at Tier 2 as our tank had gear. It's easy as hell, but the mobs have soooooo much hp it's unreal.

 

[BloodOmen]

BO: That's no AoE! THIS IS AOE

That's all on one GCD. Lolies.

Went to my first 'expert' dungeons yesterday. Jumped straight in at Tier 2 as our tank had gear. It's easy as hell, but the mobs have soooooo much hp it's unreal.

ur a caster tho I was a pala/reaver.

and yes mobs have alot of hp, the low end raid bosses have about 1.3million no idea what the 10-20 man ones have.

 

[Roo Stercogburn]

I think the devs have overcompensated for melee being the underdog in most MMOs at launch. Although I'm getting ripped apart by melee groups I don't really mind too much since its not necessarily an indication of how it will scale at 50.

Not rushing it as I'm enjoying puttering about and poking my nose into all the different places the gameworld has to offer.

 

[Bahumat]

Anyone know a good aoe grind spot? Paladin+Reaver spec level 37 atm.

 

[Mabs]

yeah , instances

 

[Ctuchik]

I think the devs have overcompensated for melee being the underdog in most MMOs at launch. Although I'm getting ripped apart by melee groups I don't really mind too much since its not necessarily an indication of how it will scale at 50.

It is, trust me it is.

Infact, it's even worse at 50 then at the lower levels because some abilities the melee's have can (on demand) crit for about 75% of the entire health pool of a mage. It's kinda tricky to get those crits but very doable if timed correctly.

So instead of getting 3 or 4 shotted by certain melee builds, you're gonna get 2 shotted.

The pvp balance at 50 is at the moment utterly broken. Will be interested to see if they will actually do something about this in the first major patch..

Here's the current changes as of march 5th.

Rift Test Server Patch Notes – 5th March, 2011

 

[Bahumat]

yeah , instances

I'm talking like Bloodomens screenshot. For instance solo aoe grind or possibly with a healer. Don't want elites as it will be hard.

 

[BloodOmen]

I'm talking like Bloodomens screenshot. For instance solo aoe grind or possibly with a healer. Don't want elites as it will be hard.

my screenshot had alot of healing from the build tho, not sure you can get that at 37, will post build I was using to aoe grind with below.

On an unrelated note i've just found the recipe to make Cinerium bars \o/

http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=0chAg.Ex0z00Vszr.Euqx0hk00o.o - was more or less what I used to aoe grind - as for WHERE just find a camp with alot of melee mobs and grind away, the less casters or archers the better.

 

[Bahumat]

my screenshot had alot of healing from the build tho, not sure you can get that at 37, will post build I was using to aoe grind with below.

On an unrelated note i've just found the recipe to make Cinerium bars \o/

Soul Tree Calculator: Reaver (31) / Paladin (30) / Void Knight (1) :: Rift: Planes of Telara :: ZAM - was more or less what I used to aoe grind - as for WHERE just find a camp with alot of melee mobs and grind away, the less casters or archers the better.

That's the thing, I struggled to find mobs which did not include casters or archers Will check your build, cheers dude!

 

[Punishment]

Anyone tried out Rift scavanger on a melee type rogue for xping ?

 

[Garaen]

Am I the only one that's getting bored? Level 20ish and i just cba logging in