[RIFT] - 5 Box Mixed Set Up

[Berserker]

I just tried my first instance last night... my team has a lot of reactive / dps healing going on but no straight up healing... could not bring down the first boss.

Might be respeccing my cleric tonight lol.

Here's the cleric spec I used at 18 to clear IT: http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=00jra.x0xx0R.Vo

Healing Invocation is HUGE (thanks due to Flight on that one )

[Flight]

I'm currently trying out a bunch of group configs for instancing and finding myself getting frustrated with mages. I tried a reaver/pal/war, 2x cloro, mm/bard/ranger and sentinel group at 19-20 in IT and could not bring down the 3 kings (cleric) because of lack of dps and eventually lack of mana.

I then rollout my old 5x bard team at 17 and rampage through IT without any issues.

Am I doing something wrong or are mages and general gimped right now? Even questing I'm having issues with mana where there constantly running out and slowing me down.

I was thinking of dropping mages completely for now and go war, cleric, 3x bard for instancing.

Good idea or suck it up with the mages?

Mixed party capability grows dramatically between lvl 18 - 25 or 30. Was drinking a lot on my Chloros at lower levels. Living Shell at 21 made a big difference, though I hardly ever used it from 30 on. Once you are level 30 Exhiliration from Archon makes a massive difference. lvl 36 now and never have any mana problems, don't use Living Shell and rarely drink (in instances).


Of the set up in the OP if I did it over again I'd possibly swap one of the Chloros out for another Bard. No way I would do a party without at least one Chloro, though.

[methodical13]

I tried out reaver/pally, 2x bards, cloro and a sent with some pretty good success. The 2nd bard made a huge difference my sent barely ever has to heal and she is dps'ing more then healing now. Once bards get there heal finisher I don't think I will ever need the cleric to heal at all. Added a few points into pally on my tank to get stun make a massive difference on healer king. Group is not the unstoppable machine that the 5x bards are but I might be able to get close if I config on another cleric role for dps and switch to healer for bosses when extra healing needed.

Going to try another run soon with a dps config cleric in the next day or 2.

[cichard]

I'm using Reaver/pally/warlord tank Sentinal/Purifier/warden cleric/ Chloro/warlock/arch mage/ stormcaller/warlock/necro mage ranger/mm/NS rogue. This group is great the mage and ranger have Killer AE damage and the chloro keeps everyone up. the best thing about the AE damge its not targted on the ground kind its off the main target. and the reason both my mages are warlock is saclife/mana infinite mana pool never have to drink.

[Gomotron]

Wow interesting stuff.

Looks like I am taking a different tack and rolling Reaver/Paladin/Warlord and 4x Clerics (Sent/Cab/Inq). Steamrolled to 16 now. Going to try IT at 18 and see what happens.

DPS may be an issue. I guess I'll find out.

[Larke]

What program are you guys using for Rift? I tried ISBoxer but it won't work for me. Tried support but we couldn't work it out. Rather, I refused to uninstall ZoneAlarm.

[cichard]

as we stated in the other thread follow the wiki guide to setting up ingame macros and get the current version of ISboxer and it works great. what is zone alarm

[MiRai]

What program are you guys using for Rift? I tried ISBoxer but it won't work for me. Tried support but we couldn't work it out. Rather, I refused to uninstall ZoneAlarm.

as we stated in the other thread follow the wiki guide to setting up ingame macros and get the current version of ISboxer and it works great. what is zone alarm

He's not even able to launch the games so he's not on the step where he needs to create any macros. Zone Alarm is firewall/
antivirus software that is known to conflict with Inner Space.

Larke, people use ISBoxer/Inner Space to multibox RIFT -- it's what works. You can try HotKeyNet but I have no idea if it works
or not. Seeing as you're not willing to take the steps to troubleshoot Inner Space and disable Zone Alarm, I doubt you would be
willing to take the steps necessary to 'code' HotKeyNet for RIFT.

[Alge]

And given that when you were asked to download Hijack This! you claimed your computer "hangs and hangs" I suspect that the issue is more with your PC than ISBoxer.