1961

Friend code: K2MK-PMF3-9PFJ-EWHJ-DJTG

First come, first served. Have fun!

1962

The codes are reusable I believe. I know that I made 2 accounts with the same code (one for my girlfriend. actually, she sort of took over mine when she saw the elf character creation…)

BTW my girlfriend is a lv12 cleric in silverwood and she seems to be doing all right. She’s shaman/druid/justicar, basically just spamming one attack move afaik. We haven’t really run into invasions or high level mobs though; just did a couple of rift things. Most of the enemies we’ve fought have been our level.

1963

hmm my account just got hacked, they change my email log in to a different one…

WTF is going on over at Trion.

1964

Did you go to a webpage someone ostensibly from Trion whispered to you? There’s a lot of that going around on my shard, and people keep falling for the obvious phishing scam.

1965

What’s a good third soul for Necromancer? Right now, I’m a Necromancer/Warlock/Dominator… but dominator doesn’t really seem like I thought it would be (should have previewed it). Because of the linear ability tree, it also doesn’t seem all that worth while to really invest in more than two souls.

Anyway, I always worry a bit about balance with games that try to create so many classes, especially in a pvp centric environment.

1966

My Warlock/Necromancer has Chloromancer as a third tree, with no points in it, solely for the Radiant Spores 0-talent debuff. A 10% chance to heal yourself(or any of your ally) for 100% of the damage you(or your allies) do to the enemy? Very handy, especially for classes that already juggle health and mana like they’re going out of style.

Also, balance-wise… DAoC had fourty-four classes, and it seemed to handle balancing in PvP just fine. I think Trion have their heads on straight, so I wouldn’t worry overmuch.

1967

I used Chloro for my third soul in this build and spent 2 points to get Withering Vine. Along with Radiant Spores, stacked on a whole invasion, Withering can heal for a not insubstantial amount. It basically replaced Life Leech in my rotation.

1968

Yeah, good ol’ “Ttrion” whispered me. Left click, “Report Spam”, adios.

1969

Not sure you can blame Trion on this one.

To change your email log in, someone has to know:

  1. Your current email
  2. Your password
  3. The answer to your secret question.

You either entered account info you shouldn’t have somewhere, or you’ve got a trojan/keylogger.

1970

Ahh, thanks for the advice. I just found out they cap you at level 15 (or 1 xp from level 16) on the trial accounts. I’ll probably try guardian and another class, but they probably should have made the max level for trial at least 20 so players could reasonably check out the first five man.

Anyway, my interest is still piqued but my performance a bit too uneven (without getting downright ugly) to probably bite the bullet. Not their fault really, just my crappy computer.

1971

I guess the hype is getting to me… I completely burned out on WoW, and have been since the birth of my son. But I feel the old MMO itch. So how casual friendly is Rift ? How do clericsz fare in the game ?

1972

IMO very casual friendly. Clerics are teh awesome! You can play primarily caster or primarily melee, dps or tanking, or some mix thereof.

1973

wow you’re in luck. It seems VERY casual friendly to me, and clericsz are very awesome in this game. They can be dps (ranged or melee), tanks, or just heal, or be hybrids. They are very flexible and fun in every role I’ve tried.

1974

Casual friendly…

Well the end game as we know and understand it is there in spades. There is a pvp grind, a pve grind and they have taken steps to make the pve upper tier harder to get recently

However-
There also are shineys to collect, titles to find , caches to rummage through, puzzles to jump through and even then you can always go beat on some rifts.

So is it casual friendly, to a point yes.
Will you get frustrated at progression at some point, definitely
I find it still worth it at this point. The pace of leveling, action and questing is similar to wow’s pace so it really is a familiar couch , in an entirely different living room

1975

I guess by casual I mean soloable, or maybe easy to get a group. I’m not able anymore to be up at prime time with Teamspeak ready… So I guess I’m looking for a pick up and play MMO. I suppose it depends on the server and the guilds…

1976

Except for rifts, dungeons and a very few group quests, the game is easily soloable. Rift groups form themselves on an entirely ad hoc basis depending on who’s in the area, so no worries about those. And finding a group for dungeons and quests has been easy if you’re on a well-populated server. I recommend one of the high-pop servers that used to have queues.

All in all, it’s very casual-friendly, but the grind is there if you ever want it.

1977

I solo’d almost all of my trip to 50 with the occasional duo’ing with Kato (but that was mostly for pvp reasons)

1978

haven’t log in rift for a few weeks, never click on any crazy phishing website, plus if someone knows my email password and secret question, they would gone after my wow accounts instead useless rift account.

1979

Obviously it’s everybody else’s fault.

1980

well seeing that they had a prior!!!