Rifts: Planes of Telara MMO from Trion

Wolff · 2013-06-15T04:33:14.000Z

Wear the armor for your class.

I am giving this a run today - ill see if it can drag me back in. I am eager to test out the instant action stuff.

Kelan · 2013-06-15T06:16:58.000Z

Yeah, you can stick with chain and still get proper gear for a DPS cleric. It used to be a bit harder near release, but the last time I played there were plenty of ways for Clerics to get the +Focus necessary for doing DPS in dungeons/raids with their chain armor.

I am really tempted to go back. We were doing 10 man raids in my guild (and I never really do raiding) and it was really fun doing those and the master mode dungeon (5 man). Even the 10 man raids took less than an hour I seem to recall, which was nice.

instant0 · 2013-06-17T04:48:44.000Z

I retried this game yesterday, after cancelling about 4 months after release and I must say that, If Rift had all the features it has today, back when it was released, my guild would probably still be playing it (as with many others).

I really hope that whoever makes the next “big mmo” innovates with some of the features that Rift innovated with from other games. Especially the ‘Adventure Groups’ system which is basically you pressing a button to do “Adventures” in a Quest zone – and poff you’re off (If you are highlevel you are Mentored down to an appropriate level and you get XP Bonus for doing this – and so do the lowbies you are helping). This basically means you can do adventure groups even if you are “outleveled” in a zone.

The best thing about it is that it automatically puts you in a group with others and you can teleport to an area close to the objectives.

The only downside is doing this on a PVP server if the other team outnumber you.

Random Dungeon groups that teleport you to the dungeon is the #1 feature that was missing from Rift when it launched; nice to see them having it now at least.
There is also Cross-Server PVP now – which was also missing from launch, and it seems the RAndom PVP actually puts you in RANDOM PVP.

Ender · 2013-06-19T23:03:02.000Z

I’ve been pleasantly surprised by coming back to Rift with F2P. They seem to have struck the right balance as I don’t feel any restrictions at all. The dungeon finder is almost instant for me in the 20s, so I can do what I like best. Run dungeons with randoms. I’m not sure why I like that so much, but it was always my favorite part about Wow too.

charmtrap · 2013-06-20T09:25:21.000Z

Ender:

I’ve been pleasantly surprised by coming back to Rift with F2P. They seem to have struck the right balance as I don’t feel any restrictions at all. The dungeon finder is almost instant for me in the 20s, so I can do what I like best. Run dungeons with randoms. I’m not sure why I like that so much, but it was always my favorite part about Wow too.

Dungeons (and instant adventures and chronicles) are definitely the way to go. Questing is a little dull. Fortunately, Trion has provided numerous ways to level. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of easy XP in questing, which becomes a bigger deal post-50.

The store is really pretty good. I have something like 15,000 points left over from the double points deal, and I’ll probably just use them to stay a Patron for 6 months for the bonuses to currency and tokens. There’s really nothing you absolutely need in there. The entire game is free, there’s just some nice things to buy if you want to.

instant0 · 2013-06-20T09:34:27.000Z

All the gear available for purchase with SpaceBucks seems really enticing. Hopefully I’ll retain my rank 1 in PVP from 51->60 so I will have enough to purchase everything I want… even though the limit of only 300.000 points is WAY too low for all of it… I am thinking it will be possible to ‘store up’ quest completion until a point where I activate multiple of them. Going to test that today.

My guild had been offline for nearly 800 days – almost as bad as my LOTRO guild with people inactive for 1700 days, so it feels a bit lonely :)

charmtrap · 2013-06-20T10:02:46.000Z

instant0:

My guild had been offline for nearly 800 days – almost as bad as my LOTRO guild with people inactive for 1700 days, so it feels a bit lonely :)

There are a lot of guilds recruiting right now. I applied and got into a friendly endgame raiding/pvp guild on Wolfsbane with no problem even though I’m not 60 yet. F2P seems to have revitalized the guild scene a bit.

Playing this game alone would probably be pretty dull.

instant0 · 2013-06-20T10:20:11.000Z

Well, all I did was PVP in the 3 months I played after launch before I realized how broken it was at level 50 since due to the matchmaking I could not get the Server-firsts in some of the latter PVP Battlegrounds (on account of them never popping). Now I am mostly doing PVP to hit 60 in my level 8 solo guild. Have seen a few adverts but I think most of the guilds aren’t “casual enough” for my liking. I basically just want a guild without any pressure to attend anything at this point. The 3-9% tithe they get from my kills would be my only contribution ;)

Razgon · 2013-06-20T23:11:22.000Z

instant0:

Well, all I did was PVP in the 3 months I played after launch before I realized how broken it was at level 50 since due to the matchmaking I could not get the Server-firsts in some of the latter PVP Battlegrounds (on account of them never popping). Now I am mostly doing PVP to hit 60 in my level 8 solo guild. Have seen a few adverts but I think most of the guilds aren’t “casual enough” for my liking. I basically just want a guild without any pressure to attend anything at this point. The 3-9% tithe they get from my kills would be my only contribution ;)

Plenty of those guilds around. Just listen in general for their adverts.

strummer · 2013-06-22T13:56:45.000Z

Nephrinn:

I’m on the RP server faeblight or whatever. The 1-29 channel has been constantly filled with either political, religious, or troll chat since I started a week ago. Rarely do I see any zone chat, so you either have to sift through the 1-29 channel to get any nuggets related to the game or you turn it off and get nothing. And it’s only going to get worse when F2P goes live. The good thing is that I’m past level 30 so I can get get the (presumably) mature chat now. If you’re on that server, go have a look at the 1-29 chat. It be bad. :)

Ok, been playing a while now since the F2P. You are absolutely right. The chat has degraded quite substantially since I last played.

I think I have added more people to ignore in the past few weeks than in my previous time combined.

rei · 2013-06-22T14:49:35.000Z

PROTIP: if you can pick up a boxed copy of storm legion for $20 or less, you get additional bag slots as a patron that buying the SL classes from the cash shop wouldn’t get you.

stusser · 2013-06-22T19:54:42.000Z

Tried playing a bit more tonight, got to the “stonefield” zone. The quests have me going back and forth to the exact same area, I shit you not, over 10 times. On a horrible 60% mount. I’m just not up for this. It is painful to play.

It’s not TBC-era quest design. It’s vanilla WoW era quest design. TBC was better.

Cal · 2013-06-23T02:41:22.000Z

stusser:

Tried playing a bit more tonight, got to the “stonefield” zone. The quests have me going back and forth to the exact same area, I shit you not, over 10 times. On a horrible 60% mount. I’m just not up for this. It is painful to play.

It’s not TBC-era quest design. It’s vanilla WoW era quest design. TBC was better.

Pretty where i stopped playing too, i enjoy the game, and the combat and the classes and souls. I cannot stand the quests, go to A, kill, back to base, go to A kill more, then goto B, then back to base, then back to A and B then A then base.
The questing is fucking abysmal and is the reason i uninstalled, i was bored, and tired of running back and forwards through places i had been several times before for other quests.

Destarius · 2013-06-23T05:04:58.000Z

Cal:

Pretty where i stopped playing too, i enjoy the game, and the combat and the classes and souls. I cannot stand the quests, go to A, kill, back to base, go to A kill more, then goto B, then back to base, then back to A and B then A then base.
The questing is fucking abysmal and is the reason i uninstalled, i was bored, and tired of running back and forwards through places i had been several times before for other quests.

Thanks for this - I feel the same way, so you’ve saved a lot of my time!

instant0 · 2013-06-23T08:49:38.000Z

Join adventure groups and do the quests in the zone you are in when they’re close enough to the adventure area. Shame the quest log dont let you carry all the quests there is though.

Ender · 2013-06-23T13:50:22.000Z

I’m having a hard time deciding between this and Neverwinter. Both have flaws that if I could just put the two games together I feel like I’d be happy. Or if Guild Wars just had a dungeon finder.

rei · 2013-06-23T14:21:47.000Z

Neverwinter feels less polished to me. It felt low-budget and sloppy.

Wolff · 2013-06-23T14:37:12.000Z

For me rift is a clear winner over neverwinter at this point in time. More interesting classes and abilities and way more activities and better balance. If the foundry takes off I could see returning to nw. But I am afraid the toolbox will be limited.

stusser · 2013-06-23T19:38:47.000Z

The games are F2P, you don’t need to pick. You can play any of them whenever you feel like it.

That said, I uninstalled Rift, because just the thought of those round-robin archaic quests makes my blood boil.

MrGrumpy · 2013-06-24T06:22:24.000Z

stusser:

The games are F2P, you don’t need to pick. You can play any of them whenever you feel like it.

That said, I uninstalled Rift, because just the thought of those round-robin archaic quests makes my blood boil.

You don’t have to do the quests. Instant Adventures (which are faster anyway), rifts/zone events, dungeons or pvp offer plenty of experience. Quests labeled “story” are often worth doing and tend to be done fairly well (some are quite good in fact).

Also just as tip for those who might miss it, for those with Patron status the free mount is 110% account wide which is an absolute god send for alts (I hate that 60% speed.)