1881

I was just about to post this! It seems I’m not bugged then.

But alas, it is around 1 am where I live and I really should be resting soon.

Anyone want to recommend me a cleric melee soul? A page or two ago I read that those are able to fight with little to no downtime, but now I’m stuck between shaman, druid and justicar.

Thanks!

1882

It does seem the Coin Lock thing can’t be unlocked for me at the moment, so once my bag is full I’ll have to stop playing anyway (I can’t delete or create new characters anymore either). So you could be right, it might be a bug.
It’s midnight here, so I won’t be on for much longer anyway, but it was nice to take a quick peek at the game. It looks very pretty!

1883

I managed to unlock the coin lock ~ (and now I’m really going offline…). I simply copy/pasted the link from the e-mail they sent me after I created the character.

1884

"Greetings Ascended,

Our goal here at Trion is to deliver the highest quality games and a superior customer experience.

Recently, you had to wait through an exceptional delay during the processing of your request for support — a delay that did not and will not meet our high bar for responsiveness. For that, you have our sincere apologies.

This is not the experience that you should expect from Trion Worlds. To help make up for the delay, we have:

Credited your account 30 days of play time.
Bestowed via in-game mail, to all your current and future characters, a full set of the special RIFT pre-order bonus weapon enchant runes that you may not have had previously.
No action is required on your end. These items and days of play time have already been added to your Trion Worlds account.

We know this does not entirely make up for the frustration you have encountered, but this is our way of thanking you for your patience.

Please know that Trion Customer Service will continue working tirelessly through our support requests. Between recently expanded Customer Support staffing and improvements in our own tools, we are on track to resolve matters more quickly in the future.

I want to personally thank you for your continued support of Trion Worlds, and I hope you continue to enjoy RIFT.

Best regards,

Craig P.
Director of Customer Service & QA
Trion Worlds"

Wow. Just, Wow. This was due to getting hacked, and I lost everything on one character. The request took about a week, and I played other alts while waiting so it’s not like I lost time. This is above and beyond IMO, since I didn’t even complain about the wait.

1885

I managed to unlock mine now as well.

1886

I’d also appreciate a trial key if anyone has one to spare. Thanks!

1887

I’ve got a Justicar/Shaman. Basically the Justicar is a tank class, and the Shaman is a melee DPS class.

Justicar is really good at defense. Between abilities to parry and block and self-healing, Justicar can stay in the action for a long time. They’ve also got some decent long-range spells, but not enough to just stay at range and fire away. Justicar also has a nice passive which allows Spell Power and Spell Critical points to add directly into Melee Power and Melee Criticals, so points spent on Intelligence and Wisdom add to both your Melee and Spell abilities. Upper-middle tier it gives almost a full healing ability, but on 5 minute cooldown. At the highest end, Justicar can do a combat rez.

Shaman is good at dealing damage. It has abilities which add lightning damage to melee. In one of the lower-tiers it has a neat shield ability that not only blocks enemy damage, but also causes melee and ranged attackers on you to take damage. At the high end, it’s go an ability that makes all melee attacks by the Shaman do critical damage for 7 seconds. While 7 seconds doesn’t seem like that long, I’ve found this to be surprisingly effective, plus it can be combined with the Holy Champion planar ability which increases damage by 100% and decreases damage by 75% when fighting Rift creatures. This leads to major smackdown damage on Rift invaders.

I didn’t try Druid since I really did not want a Fairy following me around!

I’ve experimented with mixing in a little Purifier and a little Sentinel. Not super excited about either. If anyone has any suggestions for what to mix in with a Justicar/Shaman melee character, let me know.

1888

Does anyone know where the Rare Planar Goods vendor in Stillmoor is? I think I’ve been to all the major population centers, and I can’t seem to find him.

1889

If anyone has a spare code, I’d appreciate receiving one. PM me (along with the instructions). Thank you.

1890

For those looking for codes, check riftjunkies.

Also, if you’relooking to join the fun on a PvE server, we still are up and running on Wolfsbane, Defiant faction. Just /join dropbears, and ask around for an invite.

1891

Thanks Athryn, that worked.

1892

Sure. Here are the souls as defined if you were to go deep into one of them:

Druid: Solid but poorly focused. Biggest advantages are a pet (either a healer or a DPS) and on-demand heals. The DPS pet also grants +15% damage to you and your group/raid, which is huge. You sacrifice an immense amount of personal damage to do that, however. Poor in PvP.

Shaman: Undoubtedly the highest DPS of melee Clerics. Incredibly crit-reliant. Tons of reactives, and thus buttons, to press – be smart and make one macro dedicated to all your reactives to save you a hotbar. No on-demand heals, only a reactive one that procs when you get crit. Death is quick if the RNG frowns on you. Definitely late bloomers. Average in PvP largely due to the class’s RNG dependence and long cooldowns on essential abilities.

Justicar: The quasi-tank. Lowest melee DPS, but passively heals with all attacks and also gets “Convictions” which you can burn to cast other heals/specials. No true on-demand heals, any direct heals require a conviction. Very poor in PvP.

My recommendations for your main soul:

Early leveling: Justicar.

Leveling after that: Shaman with enough Justicar to get 100% chance to heal on hit.

Groups: Shaman/Sentinel/Inquisitor. You can also tank with Justicar, but there’s a learning curve and it’s not very forgiving.

Raids: Druid.

1893

I’ve made a few chars and tried to make them as multi-dimensional as I can (no idea if I’m succeeding, just saying that that is my goal) and picked tanking and dps souls for my warrior and healing and melee souls for my healer. For instance I think they are pally/void/paragon for my warrior. Is there anything horrible about splitting up soul focuses like this? I’m enjoying it soloing and rifting, but don’t want to be totally useless when I get the courage up to group.

1894

It worked for me as well. Thanks.

1895

the problem is that currently the only zones with enough death rifts are the lowbie areas so the higher levels can’t go anywhere else.

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I think it’s near the southern porticulum. Phoenix something maybe? First town next to the port.

1897

Found it, thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I was really expecting it to be at the main shared area, Zareph’s Return, where the Order of Mathos is headquartered. I kept trolling up and down the area there looking for it.

For Guardians it is in Warden’s Decent. My guess is it’s the second quest area past the entry way which is different for each faction. For Defiants it’s probably Broken Vale, although it might be the next set of quest givers down the line.

1898

Thanks a lot for everyone’s advice. I think I’ll go with justicar then, as I had some pretty ‘bad’ experiences with the RNG monster in WoW (played a fire mage in catacylsm).

1899

Having some flexibility is good, but you don’t want to go too far in that direction.

Speaking generally, you invest a lot of your points in one soul, about half as many again in the second soul, and the third soul is there for whatever you get for 0 points (“free” abilities). I don’t know about Warriors, but for Clerics I have Inquisitor/Cabalist/Purifier with something like 40/10/4, and a healing spec of Purifier/Warden/Sentinel which is roughtly 33/20/0. I’ve also run Cabalist/Inquisitor/Purifier as 35/12/0). But really it depends on the specific souls and what you’re going for.

I would stay away from putting equal points into all 3 souls, and usually the 31 point talent looks so good that you’re working towards that, but other than those general thoughts, I don’t think you will do badly putting points in what looks good to you!

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Razarok, I know you asked for a melee Cleric soul, but just for your info, the ranged DPS Cleric souls don’t have any downtime either, and I’ve found both both Inquisitor and Cabalist fun to play. When I tried Druid and Shaman in the beta I found them pretty boring and I felt I was just hitting one key over and over and that there wasn’t a whole lot of variety. Just one man’s opinion, though.