1921

I don’t play mages but they must be pretty good now. Last night I noticed a mage in 30-39 tier consistently getting the highest damage and death blows in WFs.

1922

How do you download the game with the free trial? I’ve successfully applied the code, but there doesn’t seem to be any option to download the game.

Nevermind, I found it, a link to the patcher is there:

https://www.riftgame.com/en/products/allies.php

1923

YES!

RIVER OF SOULS

  • Increased the spawn rate of River of Souls Rifts, Invasions, and zonewide events.
  • River of Souls daily quests now only credit players for actions appropriate to their level. Ex: Closing Rifts far below your character level will not earn credit toward the daily quest.
  • Significantly increased the Otherworldly Sourcestone rewards for daily quests and added them as dropped items to event Rifts, Invasions, and Zone Events.
  • The River of Souls event now has new exclusive Death-themed weapons! Unlock the secrets of the Shadetouched Weapon Cache quest to earn your own!
  • We have added a number of new rewards to the River of Souls merchant, including new pets and accessories.

Wendelius

1924

In that case, I hope some death rifts start opening in the higher zones… I spent an hour hopping from zone to zone last night and ended up only finding them in Freemarch.

1925

RIFT is holding a special Allies of the Ascended event. As my chosen ally, you can use this code to join me during the dates below, free of charge! Heed my call, and together we shall battle the Blood Storm!

Event Dates
10am PDT April 1, 2011 through 10am PDT April 4, 2011
Ally Code

NWTZ-66DT-9G6X-HLLX-HZPX

1926

I found a few 4 slot bags, but they are getting pretty full (yes, I’m a hoarder). Is there a bank in this game? And where would it be on the guardian side? I’m in Argent Glade at the moment.

1927

Sanctum. Take the road east from Argent Glade, all the way east. You can’t miss it.

1928

The main reason I made one of my toons an Outfitter was bags. Silk bags are finally making it worthwhile.

1929

Thanks :)

Yes, that’s what I did as well. I chose gathering as a third skill to make some money, since mining seems to be having problems at the moment (can’t mine iron ore?). Besides, making my own armor is always handy.

1930

http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=0MVpM.xMdVkc0o.xcbh.0ARfx0boddk
is what I have found to be the fastest levelling for me as a rogue. Use a macro for Rift Disturbance -> Twin Strike and when there are more than one mob on you just spam it. It’s a little odd mentally since with this build you actually don’t want to use a finisher to finish ;) You want those combo points on a mob when it dies and that’s what keeps you from having down time.

Basically every time you kill something you get back a bunch of energy, bunch of health and get a buff that makes you do everything better for 30 seconds. Makes chaining large groups very easy and I’ve successfully done a few major rifts solo with the build. You actually have higher survivability if there is more than one mob due to the way the heal works.

The 13 in RS and the 21 in Sin for perma stealth are the first priorities, then get BD up. Strike Back and Reprisal combined with Side Steps can be very good in both pve and pvp. This build has the added bonus of being pretty good in open world pvp as well, even when jumped. I was jumped by two rogues while questing with it and due to Rift Scavenger and Bloodthirst I got them both and the mobs that were fighting me.

1931

the first line of the post he quoted says as much. You have to read more than what’s bolded ;)

1932

Well, it says that, but after a couple hours of play the change doesn’t seem to be terribly noticable.

It is, of course, entirely possible I just suck.

1933

If anything they’re opening less often. If they turned it up at all, it wasn’t enough.

1934

they were pretty good before when played well and using specific souls.

1935

Thanks!

Note that on the page I get different dates

Event schedule
10am PST April 4, 2011 through 10am PST April 7, 2011.

1936

The person who designed the death rifts where you have to lure the wolves over to the stone and then kill them after they have been transformed should be sacked.

The idea is a nice one actually, but people never read the actual objectives so most of the wolves die in the middle of the rift within nanoseconds of spawning, and if you do manage to pull one over by a stone there is a good chance someone else already clicked the stone when there was nothing near it and it hasn’t refreshed yet.

1937

I thought this too at first, but generally if the stone isn’t clickable its active and the wolves will transform, even if you can’t see the moonlight. I think its nice to have varieties of rifts other than kill everything that spawns from this.

1938

That’s nice there is some variety. I was wondering about that. I’m only level 12 or 13 so far. I’m already running into rifts being taken down too fast at early levels by roaming high level players. It’s not super common, though.

At least at the time I played, rifts seemed to alternate between too few players or too many (or high levels doing low level rifts). It’d also be nice if it added the zone wide rift quest to your journal so you can mark it and have it point to where you need to go. It seems like there’s an ideal level range for it, so for me (where I’m 2-3 levels below the area) it can make it tough to even try to get to the location to participate.

As an aside, I really wish the was way to turn off UI animations or use sparser feedback. It took awhile to find a combination of settings I felt still looked relatively good and where the game ran decently. However, nearly whenever that Quest Accepted/Completed graphic runs it hitches my computer. It does the same thing with the animation of the item going in my bag. I figure it’s because I only have 2 gigs of ram and it has to load the animation since they are relatively infrequent and doesn’t keep them in memory.

1939

Well I’m level 10 now. At first I forgot to update my skills and was baffled at how even con enemies nearly killed me, but then I wisened up. I’m not really a fan of the huge aggro ranges of the mobs and how fast they respawn. Having to fight my way in and out and back again from a quest looks like it might get tiresome pretty fast. Running away from mobs does not seem to be an option, even after putting a 30% snare on them.

That made me realize how much I loved my flying mounts in WoW and the travel powers in City of Heroes/Villains.

I had hoped that the trial weekend would push me over the edge, in either direction, however so far this has not happened.

1940

How is performance for most of you guys? I thought I could get 60 FPS, unfortunately when setting everything at max (except AA) it seems to be locked at 30. I have a Phenom II x4 955 and a GTX 570. Even at that, it looks like AA doesn’t work at all.

I think Aion looks better, although Rift has better textures.