this game called RIFT..?Follow

more for me!

Still on the fence about what i want to be.

Maybe ill just go warrior......... love to tank in PvE, and like to be melee in PvP. But lord knows ive done plenty of this role before.

Edited, Feb 14th 2011 3:46pm by KTurner

The do not heal list is written in permanent marker; what is done cannot be undone.

Except for your shame of course.

Popped on the open beta to keep me occupied this weekend. Anything I should know that hasn't been mentioned in the thread yet?

I've been looking over the skill tree calculator and I'm not sure what I should pick. I'd like to DD with the ability to heal myself. For that matter, how is healing handled? Do I have to have a pocket healer, or can I rest, are there easy to get healing items?

OK, download complete. I played for a couple hours, it's amusing enough, though I wish there was a way to claim mobs. I've had more than one person run over to the one I'm fighting and start whacking away at it. Right now I'm just playing around with different builds to see what I like. The game does have a kind of a WoW feel but without the awful graphics. Speaking of graphics, I cranked the settings to max just to see if my system could handle it, and so far not even a bit of slowdown. Though I haven't been in any massive battles yet, so I don't know what what a lot of stuff going on around me will do to my frame rate. Overall, it's funnish, though I don't know if I would pay to play it.



Edited, Feb 19th 2011 2:54am by Turin

You know what? That's why there's more than one video game. Ya know, in case someone doesn't like one, they can play a different one.

You can, for a fee, just like WoW. You don't make ability choices per se (assuming you mean the bottom section of the tree) - those are unlocked automatically once you have the requisite number of points in that soul.

After playing a bit more I've reached level 11 and I'm just not feeling the urge to play anymore. The basic point, click, stuff happens model has been around since the original Diablo, it's getting old. I'd really like to see a better control scheme.

Quests for the most part are the same old boring, go kill/find/loot X number of whatevers. A couple of them had me fighting beefed up named versions of some of the local mobs, which were the most fun. Though, those mobs spawn randomly (thankfully quickly) within certain areas, so it tends to create competition.

As to gear, I don't feel any real sense of accomplishment in getting new stuff, since it very quickly gets replaced. I found a significantly better shield than the one I was using on some flaming wolf thing, and not fifteen minutes later got an even better one from an easy quest. This may change at end game, but at least during the low levels, gear is pretty much a constant flow of upgrades.

You can't buy anything worthwhile from NPCs unless you grind out rep, which is not my idea of a good time, so I had something like 90 gold and nothing to spend it on. I thought about picking up a mount, but never did manage to find the place to do so. I saw a bunch of people riding around on turtles, which to me seemed a bit odd.

As far as I can tell the only thing this game has going for it are the Rifts, which are basically (to use a FFXI comparison) just Campaign battles that can happen anywhere instead of just in certain spots. They are amusing enough, especially if you ignore them long enough for the enemies to take over a couple spots, then it turns into a massive clustf*ck of a fight. Usually though people show up and annihilate the mobs before that can happen.

It's fine if you arent hooked, but please spare us the level 11 review of the game.

Rifts don't happen until you're outside of the tutorial zone, so that's at least level 5 or 6

I played all weekend, think im going to call it quits now on the beta. STILL cant decide what i want to roll. I got a rogue to 15 and had a lot of fun with it, i also got a cleric healbot to 15 and ran a lot of rifts and WFs, and i actually won some WFs, id like to say it was thanks to my number one healing on the charts.