Rift: Planes of Telara

[Roo Stercogburn]

Aye, Dave Prowse wore the costume, James Earl Boomingtones did the deep voice.

 

[Fefner]

When i logged in , in beta, and afterwards when i saw your pvp videos, and the amount of AE, i thought one thing, WAR reloaded. now i see a class that is magus alike and i am like WTF


To my dissapointment, open PvP is DEAD. looking at the future, the only game that may please me is GW2, but that will have mostly "instanced" pvp aka arenas.
Instanced zones + Clustered servers imo killed pvp in all games. and pvp itself survives only through arenas. Developers have no fucking clue what open pvp means, cause they create games for the masses, aka PVE games. means they give no dedicated zones for pvp with some purpose, and when they give it's too smal ( stares at WAR ) , and with no real targets for the noob players to have so they go to these zones results on dead open pvp.

I was frustated with WAR, but the more i think about it, all these new games that are getting released are way worse than WAR on Open Zone PvP . ..

GW2 are having a frontier in a world vs world vs world just like daoc's rvr frontier. They are also having a guild v guild thingy like in GW and battleground type pvp. Tbh it will be the game to beat.

 

[Roo Stercogburn]

Today's episode of the world event is very bugged. Having to reset it on world bosses constantly. There's a lot of grumpy players around right now.

 

[Aada]

I did the event up to phase 3 im only lvl 24 so event 3 was just too hard to cross zones to get to certain bosses.

Apart from that i had a great time.

 

[Roo Stercogburn]

They've extended the current phase as the world event is basically broken. However, although it was a bit frustrating on Saturday afternoon it means more time to have fun with the rift invasions, so I'm quite happy about that

 

[Aada]

Had a go with the Riftblade soul today and wow i'm having an absolute blast with this soul, anyone who is a more experienced one then me got any tips?

 

[Cirventhor]

Aada: I found some nice guides and tips for Riftblades here: Taugrim's PVP Blog

 

[Ctuchik]

Only two tips that he will need.

Spam flamespear whenever possible...

Never stop spamming flamespear..

 

[Cirventhor]

Only two tips that he will need.

Spam flamespear whenever possible...

Never stop spamming flamespear..

Only problem would be the recently implemented cooldown on Flamespear.

 

[Gahn]

Only problem would be the recently implemented cooldown on Flamespear.

Nah really?

 

[Ctuchik]

Only problem would be the recently implemented cooldown on Flamespear.

ooh, missed that one.

/embarrassed

 

[[LA]Douglas]

gahn see u alot in warfronts wasnt sure if it was u or not

 

[Gahn]

gahn see u alot in warfronts wasnt sure if it was u or not

Tis me, i notice that enemies see me alot also
I got some sort of pleasure welcome every time ^^
What you play Doug? So i can spam hug you while trying to survive the typical 2 rogues + warrior on me ^^

 

[wutae]

GW2 are having a frontier in a world vs world vs world just like daoc's rvr frontier. They are also having a guild v guild thingy like in GW and battleground type pvp. Tbh it will be the game to beat.

yes as i posted on the other thread in this sub forum :


world pvp is an objectives based Player versus Player game mode based in a large scale open world which allows hundreds of players at all levels to drop-in and drop-out at any time.

Every week three different worlds are matched up on a random map to compete for rewards for their world.


World PvP takes place in the Mists, an area outside of the Tyria world map. It will be accessable to characters almost immediately from character creation. There is no limit to the number of players which can access World PvP at one time. It has been suggested there could be several hundred characters on each side of a World PvP battle.

Reward = server bonuses ( smells like tower-keeps-relic bonuses from daoc )

Brings back realm pride or i guess server pride? as they called it back then

Players can gain experience and level their character entirely in World PvP. Killing people in World vs World gives the player loot which means a player doesn't need to leave World PvP to get better gear.

taken from guildwars wiki



This whole post tells one thing:

Casuals will have sthing to do in pvp zones, Casuals will need to spread around because of the multiple objectives, roaming grps can actually exist. 3 Sides fighting each other, solves balancing issues, Class balancing will be better as all 3 opposite factions will have the same races/classes.

BUT i havent seen the rewards from pvp. except the global*server* wise rewards,, are we gonna have sthing we will grind for ? ( Like items or RAs )

As it's needed to motivate people to pvp even more.

 

[Ctuchik]

Unfortunately i think it will be items rather then any sort of "realm ability" like stuff...

 

[wutae]

Unfortunately i think it will be items rather then any sort of "realm ability" like stuff...

I still have faith, because as i have really seen, this game actually solved all the mistakes i had with all the other mmorpg, and brought all the things i liked from all other mmorpg.

And even brought things that i was wishing a game company would someday implement.

Edit: i am obviously talking about guildwars2 as this is a new page, fail rift is fail !

 

[[LA]Douglas]

Tis me, i notice that enemies see me alot also
I got some sort of pleasure welcome every time ^^
What you play Doug? So i can spam hug you while trying to survive the typical 2 rogues + warrior on me ^^

playing a cleric been going around in tanky spec sick of dieing hate healing in pvp in rift cant seem to get any off in time and interupts

just cleared all T2's and pvp rank4

 

[Gahn]

playing a cleric been going around in tanky spec sick of dieing hate healing in pvp in rift cant seem to get any off in time and interupts

just cleared all T2's and pvp rank4

Yeh concept of peeling and assisting down overextending meleers are kinda luckluster, at best, in Rift PvP
Am shouting in Vent like a mad man at guildies cause they didn't get it already and i gave up trying to doctorize Pugs which i tend to avoid like pestilence also ^^

 

[Kami]

Think I'll be hanging off MMOs now until I see a review or two of GW2. Never played the original one but after trying out Rift for a couple of weeks as a casual gamer it's pretty dull, not because of the game - which I actually rather like but the community. I've never seen such a shallow MMO, people literally group of 5 mins at a time, do one quest then bugger off, in that time not saying a single word in chat - dont' get me started on how devoid of conversation general chat areas are!!

Why play a MMO then simply try to avoid interaction? Is this the new generation of MMOs? I can't imaging DAOC without random banter in every zone and flame wars over who killed what mob for a quest!

 

[Kami]

playing a cleric been going around in tanky spec sick of dieing hate healing in pvp in rift cant seem to get any off in time and interupts

just cleared all T2's and pvp rank4

Found that too, lots of short duration CC too which makes it even harder. 2-3 sec cast times when anyone can delay or simply stop your cast is rather annoying and the insta-cast option is on a fairly long timer.

Just did Black Garden as my Cabalist spec, top of damage table by a long, long way (over twice what the nearest person got) and several solo kills - but I'm not a PVPer and it just felt like a free for all rather than two sides fighting. I've given up healing and I've cancelled me subs for now.

 

[Madmaxx]

I've never seen such a shallow MMO, people literally group of 5 mins at a time, do one quest then bugger off, in that time not saying a single word in chat - dont' get me started on how devoid of conversation general chat areas are!!

Why play a MMO then simply try to avoid interaction? Is this the new generation of MMOs? I can't imaging DAOC without random banter in every zone and flame wars over who killed what mob for a quest!

Yeah I had the same problem, and the 2 people I met and did get along with when we were both 20 ended up being lvl 30 and making alts whilst I got to 50 :/ Only met those 2 decent players in the whole time I had a lvl50-lvl40 and a lvl30.

The main piss take I hated was when you were killing a quest mob, someone comes along and joins your grp when its on 50% kills it and runs off. And also when you have to gather something and you pull a mob near the item, and someone else would come along and ninja it whilst you had agro.

EDIT: it was the first MMO I've played in Beta and release and I still enjoyed it at the beggining, but 6 days before my first set of subs ran out I ended up cancelling.

I'll probably only play an MMO if I can get into a guild of somekind now, otherwise I'll stick with things like Dragon Age or FPS's.

 

[Ctuchik]

The main piss take I hated was when you were killing a quest mob, someone comes along and joins your grp when its on 50% kills it and runs off.

I never found that to be annoying, especially not if it were a long:ish respawn mob. I mean, your not losing anything by it so why bother?

But if you don't want that there's an option if you rightklick your character portrait to make the party invite only so ppl can't just join you as they please.

 

[Madmaxx]

well I'm not going to describe the whole thing but clearing a whole town to get to a boss, then having someone come along when its got about 5 hits to die and killing it is taking the piss. I mean on my mage lvl'ing up I was killing the mobs one at a time, so getting to end took a while.

 

[Gahn]

well I'm not going to describe the whole thing but clearing a whole town to get to a boss, then having someone come along when its got about 5 hits to die and killing it is taking the piss. I mean on my mage lvl'ing up I was killing the mobs one at a time, so getting to end took a while.

Set Group to private ^^

 

[Ctuchik]

Set Group to private ^^

Aye, it will piss the leechers off if nothing else.

 

[erwin]

Just started to play this game anyone got any tips as in whats a fun class to play just for casual play

bit off topic but anyone here happen to be guildies with Fefner im looking to contact him.

 

[Roo Stercogburn]

The son of Ancient Shadows recruitment rides again!

 

[ECA]

People still play rift?

 

[Madmaxx]

the hedgehog one was good

 

[Roo Stercogburn]

Hehe the hedgehog one is my personal favourite.