Comments on: [Rift] Raid rifts and social raiding

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:26:06 +0000

Sorry, I’m a little late to comment just catching up my reading from vacation. I love the casual feel of the rift endgame. I mostly pvp but I do like to rift and these are the more challenging ones. I raided in wow for years so I understand sustained pve damage. I convinced my pvp group to come over to rift and one of them had no raiding background. He was kicked out of several raid groups because people are parsing damage with an external parser. I helped him build for pve and I used advanced combat parser to see what my damage was in a couple of 50 builds to decide the best one to start with. This sadly is the way forward when too many people think games are about numbers.

By: spinks

spinks — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:56:12 +0000

Focus is similar to +hit for casters. It affects the likelihood of your spell being resisted.

I do really like my warlock (/chloro/necro) in Rift, since I like DoTs and didn’t like the way affliction warlocks got simplified in WoW, and I love that I could just switch one soul over to dom if I needed more CC too. I probably like it as least as much as any WoW caster.

But I can’t really say I love it as much as my warrior in WoW, but she was my main for years so it’s really very different.

By: Holiday cheer

Holiday cheer — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:55:15 +0000

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By: spinks

spinks — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:53:38 +0000

Really? But as a chloromancer you need to hit mobs to get the passive healing going?

By: Dril

Dril — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:25:34 +0000

Methinks you meant Reaver, rather than Ravager.

And it’s interesting, because I found Rift’s combat exceptionally boring. It had a nice weighty feel, sure, but it was just so dull. Nothing excited me. There were no abilities that made me go “hell yes, I want that.”

It’s a pity, really, because I think I’d actually enjoy Rift’s endgame far more than I do WoW’s…but I do love my DK and Shaman far more than any Rift character. The whole raid rift, expert rift etc sounds really, really neat and awesome, but I just never got to the cap. The bland lore along with lifeless questing and dull combat took its toll.

Also: what does focus do?

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:06:49 +0000

One can already save parses to get dps information for fights, but I don’t see many doing it.

Simon: my problem with LOTRO was the animations felt so clunky. The static art wasn’t bad.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:04:51 +0000

One can already save parses to get dps information for fights, but I don’t see many doing it.

By: Nils

Nils — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:48:18 +0000

This 150 focus thing is not a hard limit. I healed a tier one as chloromancer in combination with a cleric and 0 focus back when T1 dungeons were hard. The healing was the easy part.

Otherwise, yeah, casually beating back NPC invasions is fun.

By: Simon Jones who is blogless

Simon Jones who is blogless — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:08:45 +0000

I’m not sure about Rifts graphically. I think it suffers from the same issue LotR had in that was incredibly pretty for an MMO when it came out but it starts to look a really dated in a year or so.

I dunno. I let my subscription lapse a bit after hitting 50 because, while my Ravager (It’s like being a DK without the crippling social stigma of being a DK!) was a blast to play (My Pyromancer/warlock/thing less so), my server was completely empty and it took 3 hours to get a group together to do anything and the servers that actually did have more than a dozen people on them were packed solid.