Rift: Planes of Telara

[AngelHeal]

Right, downloading the beta now... at 254kbps... 4 gig and 4 hours remaining... 3.45gb done >.

 

[Starman]

Damn you Blood - I was rolling the same!

 

[BloodOmen]

Damn you Blood - I was rolling the same!

tis a win trio, was loving it in closed beta lol you just can't die. I specced more towards druid tho for nukes/pets/heals wasnt sure about excess points yet both shaman and cleric had some attractive stuff.

 

[Starman]

Now we just need a guild, and realm/shard/server selected.

 

[Gwadien]

So any guilds recruiting thats going Defiant? pref pvp server. Will be playing cleric/druid/shaman.

www.DarkJudgement.co.uk Check it out mate PvP server, just not decided which one yet

 

[BloodOmen]

www.DarkJudgement.co.uk Check it out mate PvP server, just not decided which one yet

will do

 

[BloodOmen]

handy tool Rift Role Builder - like charplanner for rift - not sure how upto date it is tho but it'll give you a rough idea what you can do.

 

[ECA]

I dunno why anyone would roll Defiant, your queue times are going to be looong and good guardian guilds are gonna pvp gearup 2-3x as fast.

Less world PVP because it will be harder to find opposing faction, etc etc

( I was on Elyos in aion w/ top euro legion, it suckkkkkkkkked having long queue times and having to bumhunt opposite faction to fight /sigh ).

 

[BloodOmen]

I dunno why anyone would roll Defiant, your queue times are going to be looong and good guardian guilds are gonna pvp gearup 2-3x as fast.

Less world PVP because it will be harder to find opposing faction, etc etc

( I was on Elyos in aion w/ top euro legion, it suckkkkkkkkked having long queue times and having to bumhunt opposite faction to fight /sigh ).

I was asmodian in aion and it was equally as shit both factions will have silly queue times as they did in aion, the thing that made aion queue times shit was the personal shop abuse until they stopped it you could put a personal shop up and it would never log you out thus the queues moved slow.

 

[Gwadien]

I've been the good guys on every MMO, and as mentioned previously, on all MMo's the bad guys are favoured by the creators, it's a known fact

 

[ECA]

I was asmodian in aion and it was equally as shit both factions will have silly queue times as they did in aion, the thing that made aion queue times shit was the personal shop abuse until they stopped it you could put a personal shop up and it would never log you out thus the queues moved slow.

I meant PVP queue times

In beta atm guardian queue times are like click queue> click join.

Defiant times are 10 mins+

 

[BloodOmen]

I meant PVP queue times

In beta atm guardian queue times are like click queue> click join.

Defiant times are 10 mins+

Ah well I don't mind besides if the russian guilds are going to play this i'm sure queues will balance out, most russian guilds are 300+ strong, i remember the ones that were going to play Aion before NCsoft banned all russians from playing there was guilds with insane amounts of people and they were all going Elyos until they were banned.

 

[Gwadien]

I haven't had to queue once yet :| IMO, If they want to do this right, they should 'shard' the servers up for the first, I don't know, level 1 - 10 or 1 - 20? so that on each servers, there's like 10 different 'shards' where you can do exactly the same thing, but not have to wait for ages for mobs to respawn or lag around like a lunatic.

 

[Gwadien]

Ah well I don't mind besides if the russian guilds are going to play this i'm sure queues will balance out, most russian guilds are 300+ strong, i remember the ones that were going to play Aion before NCsoft banned all russians from playing there was guilds with insane amounts of people and they were all going Elyos until they were banned.

Sorry for double post, but why were the Russians banned, lol?

 

[BloodOmen]

Sorry for double post, but why were the Russians banned, lol?

I can't remember exactly now but they basically banned every single russian ISP from playing Aion a few days before it went live something about hackers or something so they just banned every ISP lol.

 

[Gwadien]

I can't remember exactly now but they basically banned every single russian ISP from playing Aion a few days before it went live something about hackers or something so they just banned every ISP lol.

Lmfao, that's mad! I guess the true reason is that they don't want 500+ strong guilds running around ruining the server, causing everyone else to leave I didn't play Aion, but to me, it sounded like a huge flop.

 

[BloodOmen]

Lmfao, that's mad! I guess the true reason is that they don't want 500+ strong guilds running around ruining the server, causing everyone else to leave I didn't play Aion, but to me, it sounded like a huge flop.

Aion was doing ok-ish until they stopped people Rifting (basically people would twink low level chars out to go through rifts into the other factions territory and pvp) but they changed it in such a way that rifting is virtually impossible.

 

[Gwadien]

Aion was doing ok-ish until they stopped people Rifting (basically people would twink low level chars out to go through rifts into the other factions territory and pvp) but they changed it in such a way that rifting is virtually impossible.

Erm, isn't that just sort-of PVP?

 

[ECA]

Russian zerg guilds won't even anything out, warfronts are cross-realm already.

Aion was awesome the first 6-8 months until everyone realised any future content updates was basically wishful thinking. Content updates being MIA killed aion, nothing else.

( well, stupid AP loss on death really but whatevs ).

When I was going for server 1st governor and pvp weapon I basically didn't go outside landing for 4 weeks and had legion members teleport to forts ahead of me to make sure they were safe. There was no incentive to pvp at hgih rank ( although I was still ganking and roaming up to 5star ).

 

[Gwadien]

Russian zerg guilds won't even anything out, warfronts are cross-realm already.

Aion was awesome the first 6-8 months until everyone realised any future content updates was basically wishful thinking. Content updates being MIA killed aion, nothing else.

( well, stupid AP loss on death really but whatevs ).

When I was going for server 1st governor and pvp weapon I basically didn't go outside landing for 4 weeks and had legion members teleport to forts ahead of me to make sure they were safe. There was no incentive to pvp at hgih rank ( although I was still ganking and roaming up to 5star ).

Well yeah, I think a good MMO game HAS to have a more appealing end-game PvP than whilst you're leveling up, definately, but then it also has to have a semi-decent PvP Whilst you ARE leveling up, so that working as a team is effective still, and you still get things out of it, maybe not lots of things, but minor things, so a few people do it, but not everyone...

Sounds a bit like DAoC damn, I miss that game still

 

[AngelHeal]

Well yeah, I think a good MMO game HAS to have a more appealing end-game PvP than whilst you're leveling up, definately, but then it also has to have a semi-decent PvP Whilst you ARE leveling up, so that working as a team is effective still, and you still get things out of it, maybe not lots of things, but minor things, so a few people do it, but not everyone...

Sounds a bit like DAoC damn, I miss that game still

sounds more like warhammer to be honest.. >.< if we(most fh users) weren't spoiled by DAoC to begin with, we'd never stopped playing warhammer i think

 

[Ctuchik]

Seems you haven't played the Bard then, I have a Justicator at rank 22 or so, but I'm playing a bard at rank 12 or so, and it owns, it has a nuke that heals everyone in the group for the damage it does, basically, cut a long story short, im immortal.

You wont be immortal for very long tho, bards DPS takes a huge drop around lvl 20 so you will be forced to run alot more if you keep it as a primary spec.

Personally i prefer ranger primary and bard secondary.

Bards are very much a group support spec, not a solo spec.

 

[Ctuchik]

Aion was doing ok-ish until they stopped people Rifting (basically people would twink low level chars out to go through rifts into the other factions territory and pvp) but they changed it in such a way that rifting is virtually impossible.

It's not impossible, iirc you just can't take a twinked toon to a lower level zone.

So if you have all gear +10 and are lvl 30+ then you really should be in the abyss and not in someones pve zone griefing.

 

[adoNix]

The pvp in this game has been very enjoyable so far, and i will deffo say that it feels better than WAR rvr at this point. I hope this wont change at level 50.

 

[Ctuchik]

I hope this wont change at level 50.

It most likely will be a zergfest so if that's your fancy then no it won't

 

[adoNix]

It most likely will be a zergfest so if that's your fancy then no it won't

I could farm the zerg all day every day, no problem!

 

[Gwadien]

You wont be immortal for very long tho, bards DPS takes a huge drop around lvl 20 so you will be forced to run alot more if you keep it as a primary spec.

Personally i prefer ranger primary and bard secondary.

Bards are very much a group support spec, not a solo spec.

I am building it as a group character, indeed, but can also solo with it with a different role, and then have it quite healing based with another role

 

[Gwadien]

It would seem that Bloodomen and I are going on Cloudborne server; Defiant, feel free to join us if you're coming solo or as a group!

 

[Starman]

Is that PVP or PVE? "Evil" side huh - guess i'll have to try them during the OB.

Edit: NM Rift Status told me what i wanted to know.

 

[Gwadien]

It would seem that Bloodomen and I are going on Cloudborne server; Defiant, feel free to join us if you're coming solo or as a group!

PvP server - sorry, my bad