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If you're level 50+ and want a free 110% mount (retail price 125 plat), tomorrow (5/21) we're going to run River of Souls and get all the achievements. Getting all the achievements gets you a free ghost pony. If you want one show up around 7PM server and we'll see if we have people who want to go. Raids reset on Wednesday so if people aren't able to make it we can run another later in the week. vandiar fucked around with this message at 03:16 on May 21, 2013 |
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Hashtag Yoloswag posted:I have a question that will greatly affect which class I play in the long term That looks like the Warlord-tier (currently highest rank) Rogue PvP armor. I know the hat is at least. On the plus side any class can actually get that set, as they've added all the PvP armors as costume pieces, buyable with favor. You just have to have the minimum PvP rank to buy it.
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# ¿ May 24, 2013 07:47 |
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Keshik posted:I have 434 hit, and I've already cleared ToDQ in a pug. I'd really like a shot at getting into the other raid zones, but nobody from the raid group is EVER online to talk to about what or how to get involved. I'm online like every night (Vandee or Wandee) and I usually put the raids together. Currently we are co-raiding with another guild, which I set up because about a month ago since there was only about 9 people logged on at raid times total and it looked liked goon-Rift was pretty much dead. Now with the humongous influx of people we would like to try setting up Goon Raiding(TM) again but I'm a bit hesitant to until we have a crew of 20ish raid-ready goons together, because pugging people is always a terrible affair and to be honest it's nice to be doing progression stuff again after not really doing much raiding for awhile. The group we run with sometimes has empty slots, so if you're interested in running with us contact me ingame we can try and get you in for farm stuff at least.
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# ¿ Jun 5, 2013 18:43 |
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Farts posted:How is the housing system in this game compared to Everquest 2? Or anything else really that you could compare it to. The dimension/housing system is pretty cool, the default UI for the editing is a little annoying to use. Some person made an addon http://www.riftui.com/downloads/fileinfo.php?id=310 that makes it easier to to precision stuff. Check out our guild dimension also, I think it's really well done.
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# ¿ Jun 8, 2013 01:09 |
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cinn posted:recently came back to Rift after quitting in the middle of Hammerknell. Having fun with my warrior but trying to get him back on track. Trion changed it so theoretically two 1hers and a 2her of the same tier should give you exactly the same results DPS wise, and all Warrior abilities in all DPS specs can be used with 1hers or 2hers. Currently you get a bit of a stat lead by using two 1hers but it isn't a huge deal either way. Two 1hers looks cooler anyways. STR is valued way above DEX now. Aside from randomly generated items all Warrior gear will be STR heavy, and don't take leather over Rogues. As for the secondary stats, in most cases Crit Power > Attack Power > Crit Rating. The Warlord/Champ spec you are using is great for leveling. I liked going 0 Tempest for Shock Pulse so I can tag things at range. For DPS specs 61 (or however many you can put) Riftblade/15 Tempest/0 Paragon is very good. Here is a good write-up on the Rift forums about the spec and macros/rotation. The spec also does great in PvP (switch out 0 Paragon for 0 Warlord for the yank). Paragon is looking to get some buffs next week so that may be the next hotness. Tempest is also a decent DPS spec which has the advantage of being ranged instead of melee. I don't use it too often and and I'm still using an outdated rotation, so here is the write-up on it done by the same dude who made the Riftblade guide. Tanking kind of blows while leveling up unless you spend a bunch of Empyrean Sourcestones on tanking gear from the vendors in Tempest Bay. If you do manage to cobble together some gear it's best to use a heavy Paladin (Max Pally, rest into VK) or Reaver (Max Reaver, rest into Pally) spec. Paladin doesn't have as much AoE but has nice cooldowns. Reaver throws DOTs everywhere and poops out AoEs. Void Knight is my favorite tanking spec but it's kind of rough without having all 61 points and not much gear. It can AoE teleport groups of enemies on top of you and you do really good AoE damage in general, and you can purge and cleanse! Then again it looks likes things are getting buffed in the next patch so who knows! vandiar fucked around with this message at 07:35 on Jun 8, 2013 |
# ¿ Jun 8, 2013 07:29 |
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Stampy have you thought about moving the guild to the other cluster? Would help alleviate some of the problems with Deepwood always being full and people not being able to xfer to the guild, and I don't think there's anything really holding us to here right? I say do it, I haven't been on so I can't really comment on anything first hand but I don't really see any negatives to doing it.
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# ¿ Jun 17, 2013 08:25 |
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My long journey to the land of durians and elephants is finally coming to an end, hooray. So with things the way they're looking with the GG guild, do we have enough 60s to start the dickslamming which is Goon Raiding again? If we do, once more unto the breach, dear friends.
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# ¿ Jun 19, 2013 22:49 |
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Going to try 20-man goon raiding this Wednesday, 6PM PST server. Have 400+ hit and basic knowledge of your roles. There's a lot of good info in this thread and a basic raid primer on the Guild Wall ingame (few posts below the ASCII middle finger). If you have any questions contact Vandeeyar or Wandee ingame. I HOPE YOU'RE ALL EXCITED.
vandiar fucked around with this message at 05:47 on Jun 24, 2013 |
# ¿ Jun 24, 2013 05:30 |
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Eltoasto posted:Is it open to people who do not have a character there? People in guild were saying yes they could transfer there without any characters, so I went ahead and did it. Hopefully it stays open for awhile.
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# ¿ Jul 1, 2013 01:04 |
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Eltoasto posted:Earliest I pull the trigger is after the raid on Monday unless Hedo gives the clear, since he is basically that raid leader. All we lose out on is Twins in FT, and we were going to do EE on Monday anyways.
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# ¿ Jul 1, 2013 01:16 |
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Johson requested my champ spec, here it is! http://www.rifthead.com/stc/0zGkpl0bcvlekIkiIusGukzv922 Buffs: Dominating Bearing, Way of the River, Storm Blade, Focus Of Body Finisher Macro: #show Thunderous Strike suppressmacrofailures cast Proper Timing cast Thunderous Strike cast Titan's Strike cast Chains of Death cast Bladefury My bar is set up as follows: 1. Mighty Blow 2. Savage Sweep 3. Cornered Beast 4. Disruptive Strike 5. Finisher Macro Then on whatever keys Mark of Extermination, Bull Rush, Proper Timing Keep Mark of Extermination up on all the monsters. Start fight: Bull Rush + Mark of Extermination -> 2 -> 5 Rotation: 3->5 4->5 1->2->5 Repeat until things are dead. I'm lazy and put Proper Timing in my finisher macro, but if you want to do better press it right before Titan's Strike.
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# ¿ Jul 8, 2013 05:01 |
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annnd here's my Riftblade spec: http://www.riftscene.com/soul-builder/?build=218 Macros: Macro 1 #show rift Strike suppressmacrofailures cast Rift Strike cast Flamespear cast Rift Implosion Macro 2 #show Shock Pulse cast Burst Synergy cast Shock Pulse Macro 3 #show Rift Spear cast Rift Spear cast Searing Strike cast shock pulse Finisher Macro #show fiery burst cast fiery burst cast icy burst AoE Builder: #show Thunder Strike cast Rift Strike cast Thunder Strike AoE Finisher: #show Storm Burst suppressmacrofailures cast Burst Synergy cast Storm Burst cast Earth Burst Buffs: Blade of the Ascended, Avatar of the Rift, Enhanced Conductivity, Empower, Way of the River Bar Setup: 1. Macro 1 2. Macro 2 3. Frost Strike 4. Macro 3 5. Finisher Macro Other abilities to have on bar: Stonespear, Rift Barrage, Windspear, Riftwalk, Fork, RiftStorm Single Target Rotation: 1->1->1->5 2->3->4->5 4->4->4->5 4->5 (OPTIONAL, doing 4->5 is more energy intensive and may cause you to go out of energy, if you find yourself dipping below 40-50 energy just do 4 and not 5 after) Repeat AoE: Make sure Fork is active, cast Flamespear and Riftspear, and just mash your AoE builder and finisher/Rift Storm. Riftspear pierces targets so when it's forked against a pack of mobs it hits a ton of times and is pretty rad, so try to use it at good opportunities. Another thing you can do is if you're doing a ST fight with adds, have Searing Strike on another button and hit that instead of Macro 3 in your ST rotation, and save Riftspear for add killing. Or if you want take Riftspear out of Macro 3 and just have it on its own button. Whatever you prefer! Sometimes trash hits really hard and tanks/healers will appreciate you stunning monsters. Don't forget to fork Windspear for more AoE stunnage. vandiar fucked around with this message at 08:05 on Jul 8, 2013 |
# ¿ Jul 8, 2013 08:00 |
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Here's my UI along with a weird floor bug in Tempest Bay that was sort of unsettling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igE3obIyWGg
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# ¿ Aug 1, 2013 07:32 |
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Kreczor posted:That's about the same time that I messaged you last night, and you didn't respond! I am sorry Krezor I did not see any message from you! I went AFK right after that so I probably just missed it or maybe I have subconciously blocked all communication from you. If it was important you can PM me or mail me ingame or something.
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# ¿ Aug 1, 2013 14:14 |
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admiral.baby posted:Hey goons, If you send Vandee the mats I can make you the Dexterity seal, and if you tell me what equipment slots you need runes for I can probably hook you up.
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# ¿ Aug 5, 2013 19:03 |
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Some new PTS stuff for Warriors:Ailion posted:Tempest Some interesting changes...the two top Tempest changes actually do nothing, since Double Pulse can only follow Charged Pulse, and Charge Pulse's cooldown is still 15 seconds. The change to Quick Recharge drops Lightning Torrent from a 30s CD to a 25s CD, but that's not a DPS increase since you're only using it every 30s or so in the normal rotation since your whole damage rotation is based on the CD of Arc/Charged Pulse. Grounded change is pretty neat, no more having to stand still to do your max DPS. The Riftblade change is kinda bleh, it's pretty much a straight up nerf to Shock Pulse use, which was one of the nicer features of Riftblade and its ability to deal with disconnects. The Paragon Flurry change may be ok I guess, since before your only disconnect thing was spamming Shock Pulse and Skyfall for babby damage, although I do not think Flurry hits for much more than that, I'll have to take a gander when I log on tonight. The lack of changes to the Warlord/Beastmaster sillyspec is nice to see, but I wouldn't be surprised if they just stealth nerf it somewhere in the future.
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# ¿ Aug 5, 2013 23:57 |
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Honk honk gently caress zoness.
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# ¿ Aug 12, 2013 07:55 |
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Kreczor posted:Obviously you wouldn't use paragon on any fight that has multiple targets (ie matriarch). Flurry serves no purpose at all to paragons regardless, save for disconnects. Even then, if it's a disconnect fight you'd be in better shape to use riftblade (debateable now). I guess just need to get even MORE IS for WL crystal. I barely use Paragon for anything now, Warlord da bess. Also I used Warlord for Matriarch since we have plenty of AoE DPS Even on a fight with disconnects Paragon has been better for almost everything unless you have to shock pulse spam a ranged target for some reason (Jultharin), and will be even better now that Shock Pulse damage has been reduced.
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# ¿ Aug 14, 2013 15:58 |
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Kreczor posted:Yea, I kind of wish I could trade in my riftblade crystal. I'll be switching one of my specs over to WL or just buying the extra spot when I get a chance sometime next week. Riftblade is still okay, it gets a bit of a ST boost with this hotfix, along with having ok AoE. It just sits in that weird spot between Warlord/Paragon and Champion. I mean it's great for experts if you don't feel like switching specs between trash and bosses! Also most warrior crystals had that 120 str buff, its just that it required you to use some ability in the spec to activate it. Warlord was just a flat 120 str at all times so it was a bit silly. They changed it some time ago to be activated on Empowering Strike.
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# ¿ Aug 14, 2013 17:26 |
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Kreczor posted:What's the 61 WL build? Is it 61WL/15RB/0TEMP or 61WL/15PARA/0TEMP? Folks on the official forums can't seem to decide which is better. http://rift.magelo.com/en/soultree#5g8/8kGGGGGGliGg/2gJ Builder: #show King of the Hill suppressmacrofailures cast King of the Hill cast Decisive strike cast Piercing Thrust cast Backhand cast Vicious Blow Finisher: #show Killing Field suppressmacrofailures cast Killing field cast Brutal Strike Own key: Battle Surge, Tactical Surge, Empowering Strike, Cutting Slash, Flamespear, Breaking Blow, Arterial Strike, Clear the Breach, No Permission to Die. Some people put Arterial Strike in the builder macro, but I don't! It helps me micromanage the attack point gain a bit easier since my brain cannot handle getting 3AP out of 1 GCD sometimes, and it's a bit less energy intensive to just cast it to re-apply the DoT rather than spamming it for the extra 3k hits. With the change to Surging Energy today you may be able to just dump it into the macro and just forget about it, we'll see tonight. There's some hubbablub about putting A Quick Death into your builder macro too but I haven't tested it really so for now I'm gonna leave it out. There's not really a smooth rotation since attack point gaining is a bit crazy, so it's more of a priority based spec. The whole idea with this spec is keeping up your buffs and 5 DOTs on the target at all times, and spamming your builder and finisher inbetween. Things to keep track of: Empowering Strike (Builder, 15s buffs) Arterial Strike (Builder, OGCD 10s dot) Cutting Slash (Builder, 3 stacks, 15s dot, don't let this fall off) Flamespear (Builder, 15s dot) Battle Surge (Finisher, OGCD 60s selfbuff) Tactical Surge (Finisher, OGCD 60s selfbuff) Breaking Blow (Finisher, 12s debuff on monster) As long as those are all up hit your builder macro and finisher macro. You gain AP erratically so try your best to hit the finisher button whenever you have 3 AP, unless for some reason Cutting Slash is about to fall off. This spec requires living energy/anthem cost reduction so if you want to try to dummy practice it make Murven sit there and bard for you imo. You literally have one ranged ability and target switching blows so it's a limited spec but it shits out gigantic crits like crazy so it's fun to play. Edit: oh yeah you need the Warlord raid crystal. vandiar fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Aug 14, 2013 |
# ¿ Aug 14, 2013 20:09 |
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Kreczor posted:What's the priority on cooldowns? I imagine it would be: Basically how I start the fight is: ~Start with 3 AP~ Battle Surge Empower -> Cutting Slash x2 -> Tactical Surge Arterial Strike -> Cutting Slash -> Flamespear -> Breaking Blow Macro x 3 -> Finisher Then whenever I need to reapply I just go Empowering -> Cutting Slash -> Flamespear -> Breaking Blow, and do the Surges when they need to be refreshed. vandiar fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Aug 14, 2013 |
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http://www.twitch.tv/cynicalshotgun/c/2753936 RIP Kreczor.
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# ¿ Aug 15, 2013 05:16 |
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Kreczor is a plague upon humanity and I don't know if Goon Squad's saintly guild roster can harbor such filth. Anyways, I'm going to post about Paragon stuff now SlayVus posted:Paragon I personally use the 10 Champ/5 Tempest version http://rift.magelo.com/en/soultree#7nA/3kllayGGGli/Vg My macros are: Macro 1 #show Setting Moon cast Open the Stream cast Reaping Harvest cast Setting Moon Macro 2 #show Shock Pulse cast Final Blessing cast Rising Waterfall cast Shifting Blades cast Shock Pulse Macro 3 #show Sweep cast Final Blessing cast Rising Waterfall cast Reaping Harvest Cast Sweet Macro 4 #show Death Touch cast Final Blessing cast Rising Waterfall cast Reaping Harvest cast Death Touch cast Swift Strike Macro 5 #show Combat Focus cast Combat Focus cast Reaping Harvest My rotation is 1-1-1 2-2-2 3-3-3 4-4-4 4-4-4 1-1-1 2-2-2 3-3-3 5-5 4->4->4->4->4 Repeat I've tried both variants, they both parse pretty similar. I like this one more though. Although, after the buffs to Riftblade yesterday, it's only coming in about 1.2k or so behind in a pure dummy parse, and with Riftblade still having decent disconnect despite the SP nerf, and having good AoE on top of it, you will probably do more effective DPS on most fights as Riftblade over Paragon. Any fight that you would be beating Riftblade with Paragon you could probably have used Warlord instead I really am not seeing much use for Paragon at the moment.
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# ¿ Aug 15, 2013 18:19 |
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:I've decided to give this another try with the game going free to play. I have like 90k store credit from my account age and subscription time. Are there super awesome account wide perks to buy or anything besides xp pots to but to make leveling easier? I have like 25 pots per character already. Off the top of my head: -32 or 36 slot bag, I forget the size, the biggest sack you can find on there. -Fast mount. If you already have a 110% mount just save your credits and buy the 150% when you hit 60. -Storm Legion souls. -Brevanic Teleporter device I can't think of anything else, but there's a bunch of things you can use those credits for at 60 at least.
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# ¿ Aug 15, 2013 18:25 |
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Kreczor posted:You might also want to consider putting Shock Pulse on a separate key if you don't want to be stepping out of boss range to cast it. If you don't know, Shock Pulse triggers a (15s?) buff called Amped which buffs your AP if you have the points in tempest. Based off what I can tell without access to the game, this macro won't ever hit shock pulse. Or at least, that's what I can tell via vandees rotation. That macro will fire off shock pulse if you are in melee range with 0 AP and no follow-up buff.
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# ¿ Aug 15, 2013 18:28 |
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Zoness posted:Don't you still get horrible macro delay when you macro in rising waterfall and other followers? I have tried both macro'd and unmacro'd and I still get the same DPS. I don't notice any lag significant enough to drop any GCDs while doing it on the dummy and on raids. I'm not sure what is different now, because way back when when you were Champ/Para for ST you definitely did not want to macro followups because that was some insane macro lag. edit: If you experience lag you can remove the followers from the macros and put Rising Waterfall/Final Blessing on their own button, and just go 1-Followup-1, 2-Followup-2, etc, that's how I did it when I was trying both ways. vandiar fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Aug 15, 2013 |
# ¿ Aug 15, 2013 18:34 |
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Eltoasto posted:ITT everyone bails from the raid tonight. I will try to be there, though my internet is still poo poo so should be considered a sub. I was going to sit for Rolle anyways if we were full. Well I guess it's a refreshing change for people to bail on farm night rather than fun filled Regulos Mondays!
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# ¿ Aug 21, 2013 23:29 |
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clocksmash posted:Sounds like it. Hopefully I'll be Chloro-ing sometime soon; I generally have raid nights free, and I have healing experience in EQ/WoW raiding. Here's a good post by Amory about crafted things: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3549507&userid=140565#post416404080 and here's a Chloro guide that may or may not help! http://valvalval.net/chloromancer-guide-pve-2-3/
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# ¿ Aug 31, 2013 07:32 |
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I am truly flabbergasted that they finally fixed that Warrior bow. I figured it was just going to be like that forever. It was broken how long, 4 or 5 months?Silly Newbie posted:Trying to decide if I'm going to stick with the game before I buy the expansion or get a goon guild invite - is the Harbinger soul as much fun as it looks? If you decide to play again you should probably pick up the expansion souls. A lot of the endgame specs use them in some fashion, and the Mage one is especially great when leveling up. You can probably get by without Defiler for Clerics but since you get all the souls when you buy the expansion you may as well. I personally haven't played much Harbringer but I've heard it's a blast. Rifstalker tanks are fine and great and main tank all the time.
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# ¿ Sep 4, 2013 17:55 |
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Kerrrrrrr posted:Did they fix the graphics glitches yet Nope they just get worse and weirder every patch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtSr0teYMEw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYT9zaeKaeY
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# ¿ Sep 6, 2013 00:53 |
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New Warrior changes in 2.4:Ailion posted:Beastmaster Warlord is pretty much worthless now, I hopped on the test server to parse it and it's a good 1k below Paragon. OH WELL IT WAS FUN WHILE IT LASTED. Paragon changes look okay I guess, but it's just such a simple spec to play I had fun playing Warlord
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# ¿ Sep 6, 2013 06:04 |
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The only reason I pull 25-26k single target on Matriarch is because I take a crystal every time they drop and I don't think I have gotten any run out or stop mechanics in a long time. I am sure Tsu could pull the same if not higher numbers if he went ST. I'm not crying, I'm just dissapointed that one of the more fun and challenging specs I've played in this game is going to be gone. I guess I'm just crazy because I enjoyed having to watch like 6 buffs and DOTs and making sure none fell off while doing raid mechanics and stuff, it was decently engaging, especially on fights like Salvarola. Still probably a couple weeks before the changes drop, there is plenty of crying on the Rift forums though it's pretty great.
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# ¿ Sep 6, 2013 16:49 |
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shut up gelly posted:i don't mind fixing the bugged crystal but 26k st on matriarch isn't even close to grounds for a nerf, especially since warlords pull 30k+ on goloch (still less than shamans!). after pts parsing in test gear the highest i could push rb on a 5min parse was 23k, which is just above what our pyros/harbs and shamans can pull on live. i like the paragon changes but the death touch cd change makes little sense (should be 15s) and they're still well below shamans and harbs. Yeah really, its the same as the Lightning Torrent CD reduction that he put in a couple patches ago. It does nothing, it doesn't change your rotation at all, you never use Lightning Torrent more than once every 25s or so. With Paragon you're never going to hit Death Touch until after a Shifting Blades, and Shifting Blades is on a 15s CD. It's just some really odd design choices.
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# ¿ Sep 6, 2013 17:34 |
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Machai posted:I see $10 for digital, $36 for boxed on Amazon. $10 on BestBuy but I can't tell if it is boxed although I don't think they do digital anyway. Walmart is $10 boxed ("item weight 1lbs"). All in all a pretty decent deal even if I will never really play Defiance. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...&pf_rd_i=507846 Click on PC. Looks like it's a boxed copy for 10 dollars.
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# ¿ Sep 7, 2013 02:50 |
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Machai posted:"Defiance [Online Game Code]" See where it says PC DOWNLOAD option? Just to the left of it is PC. Click on that. HERE I MADE AN IMAGE FOR YOU Edit: Oh welp it's 10 dollars for me, sucks to be you I guess! vandiar fucked around with this message at 02:57 on Sep 7, 2013 |
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Stanley Pain posted:I enjoy the PVP, but the grind has gotten ridiculous. Zero innovation,.just adding 10 new levels and a new gear grind. I don't know why you would expect anything different Its been the same thing in PvP since the game was released, and if Conquest was their best attempt at innovation they should probably just spend what dev time they have on other content. PvP will never be more than a brief afterthought.
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# ¿ Sep 8, 2013 18:18 |
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Stanley Pain posted:There was hope, but now that that's gone I won't be playing anymore . I kind of lost hope for PvP when they started making all those weird changes like 5 or 6 months ago with healing and TTK and it's been just going downhill since then. Rift PvP needs a lot of attention and with the way things are now it just will never happen
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# ¿ Sep 8, 2013 22:44 |
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Rift Space Program is the best new Rift minigame https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OGrpJdLvpc
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# ¿ Sep 10, 2013 07:24 |
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Eltoasto posted:Geez, progression raiding Esthi is a big jerk. Seems like most people suddenly think they're hot poo poo when they join some progression guild, it's pretty I will cheese kill Eggtenders every week regardless if we can kill it the normal way or not, I don't care. It saves time and since we only raid like 5 hours/week I'd like to do as much as possible in our *~special time together~*
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# ¿ Oct 9, 2013 20:25 |
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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 20:13 |
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Farm night stops being farm night when half the raid doesn't show up because of random acts of god so we have to bumble our way through FT/EE with new people and everyone doing new roles. All the new people did well especially for us rushing through more or less, and I always enjoy when I have to tank but some consistency would be nice for a change. Maybe I have to move farm night to a different night or make it optional and make us have 2 progression nights I don't know!
vandiar fucked around with this message at 06:01 on Oct 10, 2013 |
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