Trio trouble in RotF

[pox67]

Nuts, I figured that might be the case after the comprehensive thumping I got. I was hoping it might be a spec or gear thing but I doubt it now.

A trio now looks to be a bit of a no mans land. Over powered for questing but can't clear a dungeon. There is no way my machine could run 5 clients and at the moment 3 is enough to handle.

I might try a role where my Rogue specs in to bard for more healing and come back in a level or 2.

[keth]

Yeah I actually started with a trio due to machine not handling more and not knowing how well multiboxing would work in Rift or if I'd like it. I think it's actually slower to level through questing with boxing, but grinding in dungeons may be about the same speed. You could try finding 2 more who are cool with the trio to do the dungeons, or just accept that 3 isn't really ideal for leveling but has its benefits at end game when you want to get other things done. With your trio comp you could add in just about any other 2 players and probably be stronger than a 5box. Also, in some dungeons you could probably skip the bosses and just grind the mobs for better xp rate.

I personally started on another server to join some friends and added on 2 more accounts now, which I run on a laptop, and am finding that much more enjoyable as I like dungeons and rifts but get pretty sick of questing. I also see it being really useful at end game to just have my own set dungeon farm group whenever I want it (I play a lot of off hours when nobody is around).

[Berserker]

Yeah I actually started with a trio due to machine not handling more and not knowing how well multiboxing would work in Rift or if I'd like it. I think it's actually slower to level through questing with boxing, but grinding in dungeons may be about the same speed. You could try finding 2 more who are cool with the trio to do the dungeons, or just accept that 3 isn't really ideal for leveling but has its benefits at end game when you want to get other things done. With your trio comp you could add in just about any other 2 players and probably be stronger than a 5box. Also, in some dungeons you could probably skip the bosses and just grind the mobs for better xp rate.

I personally started on another server to join some friends and added on 2 more accounts now, which I run on a laptop, and am finding that much more enjoyable as I like dungeons and rifts but get pretty sick of questing. I also see it being really useful at end game to just have my own set dungeon farm group whenever I want it (I play a lot of off hours when nobody is around).

IMO you have to skip all the collection quests to speed up leveling. The problem gets worse and worse as you add numbers to your set because, for the large part, the quests in RIFT are set up for solo players -- which means in a team of 5 you spend a lot of time standing around or grinding trash mobs waiting for the uber shiny trinket of lost stuff to repop so all 5 can grab it and move on.

Supplement your quest xp with instances and pvp and you can level very fast. just don't get hung up on the bottle necks -- power your way through

[Krago]

Nuts, I figured that might be the case after the comprehensive thumping I got. I was hoping it might be a spec or gear thing but I doubt it now.

A trio now looks to be a bit of a no mans land. Over powered for questing but can't clear a dungeon. There is no way my machine could run 5 clients and at the moment 3 is enough to handle.

I might try a role where my Rogue specs in to bard for more healing and come back in a level or 2.

"Core2Quad Q9550@3.9GHZ | 8GB Ram | GTX 580 | 120gb SSD | 2x500gb Raid 0 | 27" Dell 1920x1200 & 24" Acer 1920x1080 | Logitech G15| Zboard Fang Gamepad | Logitech G7+ |"

These specs are very close to mine but you have a better video card, I have an ATI 4890, no SSDs and I only have my Q9550 OC'd to 3.0GHz and I run 5 clients at low settings in low render mode and have no framerate issues in dungeons nor Rifts. It will get choppy when all of them are in Sanctum or another heavily populated area though.