Rift

[Cookiebo]

hey.. im having problem with multibox here.. i got 5 beta keys.. but i cant play on 2 or more screens.. if I try to move the rift window from main screen and to my .2 screen.. it just "close" while still being open.. hmm if that make sense^^

[Kromtor]

I played a bit more last night and got my rogue up to 22. I did Iron Tomb and that was quite interesting. I was very confused trying to figure out who the healer and tank was. In this particular run, we had a mage tanking, and a mage healing, so um yah... that's very confusing as you can't tell by looking what spec someone is. I tried the 2nd bg that opens up at 20, and it's the same concept of AB. One thing was that I was looking closer at the opponents during the fight and you can see who is healing, so it's not that hard to pick them out of the crowd, however, there is almost no way to tell until you see them casting. I still haven't figured out how to enable enemy cast bars.

The instance was quite fun, but it really didn't feel different from wow in anything other than better graphics. In any case, it was very refreshing to be able to play some "new" content without that wow feeling.

The 2nd point from my earlier post was about the mount. I can say for sure, once you get a mount, it doesn't feel nearly as grindy and I finally figured out their fast travel system. Entering into the 2nd zone and the landscape has changed a ton. The rifts are different and the loot is better, which made me want to skip questing and go after the rifts.

The animation on the mounts are bizarre. They have 3 speeds - 60%, 90% and 110% mounts. While I haven't seen the 90% or 110%, I can only speculate that the 60% speed is a slow motion animation and doesn't look right at all - yes it works, and the gameplay is there, but the animation looks really corny as the mount moves a lot faster than the animation.

My rogue is a ranger / marksmanship / saboteur and I decided to pick up a second role using the same souls, but this one being primary marksmanship. Switching between specs is actually one step easier in wow in the sense that you can add spell icons to your bar for which role. I can see a lot of fun possibilities with this and I like not begin locked down to two specs. The fact that you can build just about any hybrid spec, truely adds a lot of depth to the game like the old wow days where picking talents used to be fun.

I haven't decided if I'm going to attempt to box this game, but I will say that after last nights experience, I'm 100% sold now. I got just enough of a taste of the new areas that I want to play and explore a lot more. In the second zone running around in a full raid group from rift to rift was actually quite fun.

Great write-up. Hearing that it might actually be worthwhile to farm rifts rather than grind quests sounds awesome to me - rewarding to people who have good group combos and especially boxers. The game has a very DAoC feel to me which probably comes from the somewhat hoaky animations and sort of delayed feel to the actions but that's not a deal breaker for me.

Somebody mentioned that you could get full experience for raid groups - since group size is 5 in this game and I really wanted to do more than 5 chars so friends/wife could play with (and just to use more monitors) i was wondering what sorts of penalties there are for being in a raid group as opposed to being in a normal group? I would assume you couldnt enter instances with more than 5 but that you could still farm rifts in a raid... anyone know for sure?

[Velassra]

I'm pretty much sold on the game, at least for single boxing. I'm pretty fed up w/ WoW atm. Once I get a better idea on how to play Rift and a better idea of what can and cannot be done, I'll consider multiboxing it. Right now I'm trying out a necro/warlock/chloromancer. Seems pretty fun so far. Not really reading much on builds etc, just putting points in things that sound cool, so atm really just screwing around.

Someone said a mage was tanking an instance? I wouldn't mind attempting a full petter group like I did w/ EQOA way back when.

[Zappy]

i was wondering what sorts of penalties there are for being in a raid group as opposed to being in a normal group? I would assume you couldnt enter instances with more than 5 but that you could still farm rifts in a raid... anyone know for sure?

As far as penalties in a raid, there may be some, as I've noticed doing some quests I didn't seem to get as much XP by having a bigger raid, but the fact that you can have 20 people in a raid and complete quests and still get good XP is pretty solid stuff.

For rift farming, absolutely in a raid. If you are playing solo and run up to a rift, you'll have an option to join a public raid, and from what i've seen, I know they support multiple raids as well. You don't have to be in the raid to get XP either, but it does seem a little quicker.

Once this game gets close to live, we'll have to make sure we all choose a server for each faction so we can unite the boxers.

[Lyonheart]

I played again today ( two boxing ). It reminded me of when i first started boxing in EQ.. tank and cleric. whats weird is this game started out being good, but not feeling enough "newness" to me that i would quit WoW, but after learning more about the game and playing into my late teens ( almost 18 now ) i now know for sure i will buy it. I had fun! For questing, anything over two boxing is over kill imo. Depending on how rewarding instances are, I might just stick to two boxing for awhile. I like having the heal bot for sure.

After i learn more about the game down the road, i might try 5 boxing it, but i think it will take a few upgrades.. or maybe even split the load between a few PCs. Playing two on one pc, one at max and one at min detail, it ran great, would lag a tiny bit in the city or around big rift groups, but not enough to bother turning anything down. The game is growing on me for sure. 8)

as far as servers, im pretty sure ill go carebear ( PvE ) i cant stand PvP when im questing. So if any of you are carebears lol.. let me know.. I get my PvP fix in warfronts 8)

[Cookiebo]

how could u set up more then 1 screen in this game..? i cant drag a rift window over to my second screen..

[JackBurton]

are bards fun like they were in EQ?

[Mokoi]

Once this game gets close to live, we'll have to make sure we all choose a server for each faction so we can unite the boxers.

this.

[Lyonheart]

are bards fun like they were in EQ?

They do not have a super fast run speed spell, but they get a 15%-20% group run speed fairly early. I played one the first beta. Not sure if they changed since then. I remember them being fun. And i had no idea how to play the game at that time. I might role another one next beta. But I do know they can "twist" songs 8)

edit: /re run speed. I just logged him in and its 15% and you have a talent that increases all anthems by x% per point. I dont think it gets faster than 20%

[Shodokan]

Is this game slated to have competitive PVP?