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Post by Regolyth on Feb 22, 2011 9:56:13 GMT -5
Thread: Ultimate Rift Macro GuideHello guys,
This will be a brief but hopefully somewhat informative guide to Macros in RIFT. Also listed are basic commands and emotes you might use in these macros. This list will not be a complete,
but a ongoing project, to hopefully make one comprehensive macro guide. If you have any other Macros you would like to share, please post them and I will add them with credit to your name at some point, Thanks.Useful! I agree! That macro list is pretty sweet! Thread: Dungeon Finders are comingJust FYI, article on ZAM.com
And yes they will be cross-shard.
“About half” of Rift's content is found in dungeons and warfronts, Scott said. To this end, he stated that a dungeon queue system is just a matter of time. It will be cross-shard to reduce wait times. Although the idea seems to be unpopular (especially among the hardcore fansite representatives), Scott said that an auto-forming group finder is almost a necessity. “People love grouping, but hate to put a group together,” he said, noting that without an auto-group function, “we won't get people in there.” He reiterated their design philosophy when asked about this killing off socializing at higher levels; if it's a problem several months down the line, they'll deal with it. But as far as launch goes, a grouping tool will be necessary. I'm still somewhat upset that queues will be cross-server. I really wanted the community feel from playing with, and competing against, players from your own server. That kind of sucks IMO. Although, I do understand the reasoning behind why they chose to do this. I don't see a problem with this. There are no advantages to rolling both factions on the same server. It's not an RvR game. The only PvP, outside of PvP servers, will come through queuing for Warfronts. The only problem I see would come from someone logging in two accounts and farming for PvP points. But hopefully the GMs will keep an eye on stuff like that. |
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Post by Morreion on Mar 1, 2011 10:52:44 GMT -5
Thread: This game is utterly brilliant.I've been playing since the launch of headstart and I am really impressed with what is going on here.
The dynamic content is great fun. My character just seems to be so busy all the time that I actually have to make real choices, about where to invest my in game time.
As the game has opened up and revealed itself, it has really really grown on me.
Ok the queues are a little bit of a chore right now but bearable. I've made an alt on a low pop server to cover that anyway and will plan my game time on my main, to get round that particular issue on Blightweald.
It's been a couple or three years since I really got stuck into an MMO and gleaned this much enjoyment from it.
I'd never even heard of Trion Worlds and I've been gaming for almost 30 years. Rest assured from here on in, I'll be on the lookout for buying shares.
The impact of this game on other MMO developers is going to be felt very hard indeed and that is testament to the quality of product on offer here.
I think anyone left here on these forums with any real cause for complaint needs to take a good look at themselves because Trion are setting benchmarks here. They have also conducted themselves in a far more ethical and professional manner than many other developers in the genre. They are to be commended for that, not harangued and harassed at every juncture from serial complainers.
Credit where credit is due and it's due in abundance here. Thread: cleric stat calculations...Anyway I hope it's of some help to someone, sorry if it's already been posted.
So if you were going with a spellpower heavy build, and not worried about crit you will find wisdom to be 3 times as valuable as intellect. The choice becomes max mana versus mana regen.
Think I should just make some spreadsheets Thread: Stop the annoying server downtime and start scheduling like an organized company.Please call out your server restart HOURS ahead of time so that way you don't piss off the customers that waited 2-3 hours in the que only to find out that the servers are reseting. Thank you.
This game isn't in beta anymore, server downtime actually means something. Thread: Wait...wait, this is what people are whining about?We've been enjoying a nearly flawless Head-start, which if this were blizzard the first day the game was launched would have inevitably crapped itself and died for 12 hours followed by several weeks of bad latency and dead servers. The game isnt even released yet and things are going great, so what are people whining about? Server queues? Really?
How many new servers did they role out almost hourly on the first day? Seriously, Nobody cares if you played on Wolfsbane or Briarcliff during beta, its FULL, get over it, sure you paid for the game but that doesnt entitle you to play on whatever server you feel like, if other people beat you to it then thats just how it goes and if you really REALLY want to play on those servers then you'll be waiting in line, and guess what......THATS HOW LIFE WORKS!!!!
You wait for everything, you wait in line at super-markets,resturants, you want a good dentist? how about a full month between openings for an appointment, want to find out about some test results from a doctor that you saw on thursday? Well guess what, dispite the money you spent on a co-pay and lab fees it'll take a few days and they are closed for the weekend, you'll be waiting till the following week!
You're creating your own problems, Trion (Or any other developer for that matter) isnt going to open a slot for you just because you cried after you lost your place in line after 5 hours, all you have to do is pick a low pop server and play.Thread: Abomos and Erhoben, world first level 50s on US - Spitescar2days43mins /played
special thanks to Capium and Typo for dungeon runs
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i231.photobucket.com/albums/e...-26_194557.jpgThread: Levelling to 50, lol.I finally hit level 50 today and I'd like to flag up something I consider to be a general concern.
At level 48 - 50 you start needing values of 350-500k to ding (can't remember the exact number, just slept for 8 hours). The problem I had levelling was that the quest experience is far too low - I eventually ran out of quests at level 47 and around 20% from level 48. I essentially had to rift with 2 other guildies to level 50 which took a while.
The problem is - mathematically, it doesn't "feel" too bad.
500k to ding, 500 exp per mob, 1k mobs. Assume you kill every 10 seconds (I was doing that easily as Riftblade/Reaver) and the math is:
500 * 10 = 5000 seconds
= 5000 / 60 = 83 minutes
= 1 hour 23 minutes to gain level 49 > 50.
However in reality this doesn't work as well, and the time can become far worse - it took me about 4-5 hours to get from 49 to 50, by rifting and grinding mobs in Stillmoor (the Mathosian guys). Basically my concern is that this will make quit the game - when you have a quest that gives 6000 exp, and you need 400k to level I thought to myself "really?". It's not that it's hard, it's boring to continually grind mobs because you ran out of quests.
Oh, and the joke is that at level 50 you can do the Path of the Dragonslayer chain... At level 50, which asks you to kill 50 mobs. At level 50. Asking you to kill 50 mobs. That made me quit the game for sleep - and a good, long bath. Thread: I got hacked, best keylogger scanner?So today I came home from work, and try to log in but I had a 4 hour wait. Finaly after a long wait I was able to log but I notice my 26 and my lvl 8 alt naked, at first I thigh maybe it was a bug or something. When I log in I notice all my bags were gone except for the main one and my bank was empty, the AH items weren't there anymore and my friend told me I logged in at 8am this morning...I was at work at that time
I don't understand how this happened...I don't go to BS websites besides from my guild's website, rift, my mail, and D2D. Either way, anybody has a good recommendation for a keylogger scanner? I'm afraid I might have something somewhere that might keep track of my new password. Thread: What justfy's 31 new servers?Is it actual data backing this up? Trion is spooking a lot of people because this is what Warhammer did. How confident is Trion in these numbers because this puts your subs above 1mil which is incredible if true. Thread: Why are Guardians always out numbered in pvpfor the last two days we are out numbered by over half so we lose every single match 30's bracket Thread: The "Things I wish I had known sooner" thread...* When you get a larger bag, you can drag it over the smaller bag and it will replace it and move all the items from the small bag into the larger bag.
* Under Setting->Interface are NUMEROUS checkbox's that can totally change how the game plays for you, including things like targeting my target and showing actualy health numbers in bars, etc
* You cannot chain cast via a single macro, however you can put multiple abilities in a macro and hit the same key and it will cast whichever one it can first. Ie, put reactives, then timed melee, then melee, then timed range, then range and just press the single button. Works great for making sure you dont miss the reactive popup, however in PvP it can make you a little worse because you arent always casting the exactly right ability.
* Runes (from runebreaking) make a HUGE difference in character ability.There is a big long list, check it out! Hat tip to Jaema for spotting this one.
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Post by Morreion on Mar 8, 2011 12:24:28 GMT -5
Thread: Is it me or do Healers just not Heal when doing Rifts?Maybe I just have bad luck in public groups, I dont know. I am a tank, and I have yet to go thru a rift without at least 3-4 deaths, i get 4-5 mobs on me and zero heals. Thread: Fix healing contribution in Rift Plu plu plu PlEASE!I have noticed that I am getting significantly less contribution from healing vs dpsing in rifts with massive damage being spread out among the group it is more efficient for me to dps then to heal. Not saying make it OP but a small tweak is needed. Sucks that I save my whole raid from dying and end up with 18 planarite and a bunch of trash. I have at times just pulled back dropped out of raid and switched to a differant role based on this issue. I want blue and purple stones too. Thread: Addressing melee who 'run-through' casters giving them LOS errorI've always played casters, and this issue has been with us since DAOC (and probably before).
You are casting your <insert uber spell here> and the melee class in front of you runs directly through you just as the spell is about to go off and the game informs you that you must be facing your target and that you've just wasted the 2-3s you spent casting while the melee continues to beat on you.
While I'm sure melee consider this a valid 'tactic', it is nothing more than abuse of game mechanics due to no collision detection.
While I realize that collision detection is not going to be added, there is an extremely simple solution to the problem.
If the target is in melee range, there should be no LOS check whatsoever (except if it is on the opposite side of a wall or similar). Basically, if a melee class can hit you, you have LOS, regardless of if he just ran through you or not.
Mages have it rough as it is in Rift, and having melee classes running through us and negating our spells is just adding insult to injury. Thread: anyone else get unexplainably hacked?logged on today, excited to finally clear my bags of all the greens i built up before realizing that runebreaking was disabled... boy was i suprised when i saw that all my goods were gone. My first thought was that they stripped my account because i was a runecrafter as blanket punishment due to those who used exploit... but i got that thought out of my head quick, then i figured that i got hacked, but cant figure out how, i literally just built a new system when i got my taxes back, the only program on it besides OS is rift... did trion have a security breach? its dumb cause hacker made maybe 3 or 4 plat off me... but now i am completely inconvenienced cause i cant even play my chars cause they are naked and poor... /poutThread: ULTIMATUM: Nerf the Sabateours or we're outta here.SERIOUSLY TRION!!!!
Every WARFRONT today was a matter of which side fielded the most Sabbys.. I'm 26, and there was a 21 Sabby CONSISTENTLY hitting for 800-1500!
This has made the game so UNfun, I am going to tell you that unless this is addressed *IMMEDIATELY* I am canceling my account, and my 2 kids accounts, and going back to Warhammer. If I wanted to play OP rubbish I'd stick to Warhammer. Half my guild (which I am leader of - and has 300 members) is totally fed up with the Sabby issue. Why is nothing being done about this?
Why do we have toons in the T2 Warfronts capable of 1 shotting almost everyone? I don't want to hear the excuses about cleanse and purify, I rolled a Cleric just to attempt to purify, and you simply cannot keep up with Sabby spawn. I have screenshots and battle logs to prove it, and I have shots of a 5 level lower Sabby 1 shotting my 26 Cleric.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH Thread: This was to funny to not post for the community to share. GM's are great.  So without any preamble here you go.
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On March 3, 2011 20:58:23 [Jeval] wrote:
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I am not getting proper credit for invasions and Rifts. This started yesterday. Two guild members and I were doing rifts with me tanking, one healing, and one mage to dps. I was involved in every kill hitting the mob a great deal and doing a large part of the damage. Yet in EVERY single rift we did I would get 1/3 or less of the reward that they recieved.. I understand this happens at times. But we did well over 20 rifts with the same exact result each time. Today I became involved in a major invasion. I was in a large public group. As we killing through the invasions I was doing a large amoutn of the damage. I was tanking some of the mobs and I was soloing a great deal of them. I insured that I was hitting mobs with the boss/main mob still up. I even killed the main mob several times myself. Out of about 15 invasions I got credit for three total. Even when it was a single invasion and I was on the boss from teh start of the fight hitting the mob with a instant cast/golbal cooldown hard hitting spell. I still was not rewarded credit. I understand the invasion system and how credit works. I played in beta and since head start. SO this is not me not knowing how to get credit in the invasions. This is something wrong with me being awarded credit. Please check into this as how thigns stand right now. Unless I solo rifts and invasions making sure no NPC helps me. I am unable to collect Planarite which is the main currency in the game. Thank you so much for you time and effort in this matter.
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Hello Jeval! Thank you for contacting us regarding . At this time we are experiencing an extremely high volume of requests for support and are taking a much longer than expected time to get to your requests. We do appreciate your patience, as well as your part in helping to create this wonderful problem to have. Please know that this is not the level of customer service, nor the speed of response that you should expect from Trion Worlds Inc. We are taking steps to correct this situation as quickly as possible however it will take us some time to get to the level of staffing necessary to provide the support that you deserve. There are a couple of things that you may be able to do to help us get you the assistance you need as quickly as possible. 1. Our first priority is helping anybody whose account may have been compromised. If your account has been compromised please know that you are our top priority and we are getting to you as quickly as possible. When submitting a ticket for assistance of this kind please ensure that you select "Hacked Account" as your category in order to get the fastest possible resolution. Please also title your page as "hacked account" and include the character name that has been compromised along with the shard that the character is located on. 2. If your issue has self-resolved or if you no longer need assistance please close your ticket by typing /cs and then hitting the "Close Issue button". 3. If you still need assistance then please type /cs and type "yes I still need assistance" and select the Update Issue option. 4. If you are reporting somebody trying to sell plat (which you shouldn't be seeing much of anymore) then please right click the player's name and use the report spam option. This allows us to both investigate the issue as well as consistently improve our spam filter to get these aggravations out of Rift. Thank you for helping to make Rift the success that it is. We greatly appreciate your support and value you as a customer. We do apologize for the delay in responding to your request and thank you for your continued patience while we make the necessary changes to provide the customer support and experience that you should expect from Trion. If you have any additional questions or concerns then please don't hesitate to let us know. Thank you for your continued support of Trion Worlds and for playing . Your reference number for this question is 110303-006282 Sincerely, GM Giant Manager In-Game Support Trion Worlds Inc.
I think the part that made me laugh the hardest was the part, "We do appreciate your patience, as well as your part in helping to create this wonderful problem to have. "
I am not making funny of anyone. Really I am not. I only speak one language and I am always impressed by other who have learned to speak several. But that was just to funny to pass up. Thread: Please stop level 50s from ruining rewards on low level riftsI've been having a great time running from rift to rift, pushing back the tide with my fellow level low-level adveturers. That is, I WAS having fun doing it until a couple of level 50s decided to go to every rift in Freemarch this weekend (I'm on Belmont). They kill stuff so fast that I get NO reward for even participating (or I get 1 planarite after dropping what I was doing , and when I brought it up I got this response (in all caps): I GET THREE PLANARITE SO CALM DOWN.
Something needs to be done to prevent a few high level people from ruining all of our fun. Could you make it so if you outlevel a rift then you won't get get any reward for doing it? Any other ideas?
And, can you do it soon? It's making a lot of us very angry and killing our fun with the coolest feature of the game (that I've seen so far, anyway!). Thread: An Abridged Summary of the General ForumsHELLO TRION.
I have done the work of 10000 monkeys by collecting all of the 100% useful and informative posts on the General Discussion message boards here and created a point by point listing of what your customers have decided are necessary for this game to be successful. Please enact these changes or it will be obvious that you don't listen to your customers TRION.
- More boobies.
- Buff my class.
- Nerf every other class.
- Add that feature from Warcraft that isn't in here yet.
- More boobies.
- Create a 100% hacker proof authentication system.
- Add a damage meter.
- Do not add a damage meter.
- More boobies.
I think you can safely lock about 90% of the threads in this forum now. YOU'RE WELCOME.
TRIONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN ;D Comment: You missed one, that seems to be popular today:
Don't let me get knocked off my turtle.
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Post by Morreion on May 26, 2011 9:37:53 GMT -5
Thread: I'm Bored: RIFT's Major Flaw from a RIFT SupporterOkay, so I played headstart and I was so impressed with the polish and general gameplay that I canceled my WoW account. I was ready for a new world to explore and RIFT offered this. So why is it I'm bored?
The lack of replayability...Fair enough. 2 starting areas are limiting, too. Thread: I'm calling this right now...Rift best mmo of All TimeI have been hearing this comment more and more and more..."how can anybody go back to WoW after playing Rift?"...Thread: World pvp going to die? Battlegrounds are killing world pvp....This was brought up many times during beta. At least pve'ers have to leave the city to get to dungeons. Pvp'ers can just instance grind all day, and what? What is the reason to go out into world pvp? What is the reward?
What is the difference between a PVP server and a PVE server at this point when it comes to the 50 game? Fair point. PvP limited to battlegrounds only is limiting. Open-world PvP needs to be incentivized. Thread: To any New Players thinking about trying Rift, The forums DO NOT reflect the InGameTo any New Players thinking about trying Rift, The forums DO NOT reflect the InGame mood. Just wanted to put it out there that the incessant amount of whine does not exist in game.
You may continue your cry fest now Quite true. Thread: Be Careful What You Wish For...Please Trion, do not make any earth shaking changes to this game. It's fresh and wonderful, the community is for the most part pleasant and it feels good to log on every day. Please don't allow anyone to bully you into creating a clone of another game which is failing precisely because of the things they are crying for. Excellent post. Thread: PVE servers... please buff your wardstones!Mad about getting overrun and not reaching the boss?
Tired of your towns getting taken over?
Then buff your wardstones if you play on a PVE server!...Thread: RIFT the game of frustrationPvp in rift is nothng but frustration get turned into a squirl and get flamed to death without being able to responed *yawn* or get stun locked with 0 chance of ressist *sigh* stuned, sleep, saped.... *big yawn* games are ment to be enjoyable not fustrating. Lets face it are stuns necessary now that mages can 2 shot you?Thread: Is Rift the easiest pay to play MMORPG on the market?Yes I am talking about extreme ez-mode gameplay in Rift, I can't think of a single other pay to play MMORPG out there that is anywhere this easy?
MMORPGs have been on a steady path of making them "easier" and more "mass friendly" - Rift to me feels like it's embracing that extreme - almost like it's targeting the non-gamers with extreme ease of leveling and play.It is pretty easy. Thread: Why are there so many non-public groupers?I'm not sure what has happened, but today in Stonefield, for the first time it seemed to me that most people were disallowing public grouping. I played all the way from level 1 to 50 on my main, and only encountered a rare number of obvious guild groups and other closed groups. Today in Stonefield, they were all over the place, and not just with rifts...Some people group with friends and don't like kicking out those that join in for a rift after they're done (like me)...that's one explanation anyway. Thread: Common sense and decency are becoming extinct....Calm down and be more friendly guys. We're all here to have fun and escape our day to day stress, being hostile towards one another gets us absolutely nothing.
Be nicer to people working for Trion as well; honestly, their job is quite hard. Mistakes will be made in the beginning. A company's value is determined by how they rectify their mistakes and use the gained knowledge to avoid such issues in the future.
Cheers! Agreed! Thread: GW2 and the fate of Rift.With Guild Wars 2 coming out this year I am really fearing what will happen to the community. I am hoping that the devs will put in a lot of work and time into building the game up to withstand GW2. At the same time, however, GW already had a big following with its first game and will most likely have a big following with GW2. I am hoping that this game stays strong and keeps pushing, because it really has potential to be a giant among the MMO world.With so many MMOs to choose from these days I think it's inevitable that many people will move on to the next big game. The days of spending years in a game due to the great community are apparently over (or in hiding in small niche titles). Thread: 10 Ways Rift Bests WoW9. Mounts
Once upon a time, Blizz made mounts crazy difficult to get. They meant something. I was all for that back then, but Blizz kept bringing down prices and level requirements. It got to the point where I asked, "Why have any level requirement at all?". Blizz never answered, but Trion did with a resounding "Ride this turtle!".
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