Rift

Cyph · Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 6:39 pm�� Post subject:

Many aussies on Threesprings Pagan? As I said, I'll be joining once I'm done with the Witcher 2.

What class you playing Pagan? I need to do some research on classes...

Pagan's Mind · Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 6:50 pm�� Post subject:

Only me and two others that I know of. I think most aussie players are on Briarcliff, Wolfsbane and Faeblight. They're very populated however so sometimes you might have to wait a while before you can get into the shard. Trion is saying that we'll soon be able to change the server our characters are on once a week.

I'm playing a mage with Stormcaller/Elementalist/Necromancer souls. I don't know much about the classes or souls so it's kind of a blind build

. My other character on the trial was a rogue with ranger/bard/marskman souls but I didn't find it as fun as my mage at the moment.

Cyph · Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 6:57 pm�� Post subject:

This talk of waiting to get onto a shard isn't music to my ears. I'll make a note to check the forums to see how populated they are.

Pagan's Mind · Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 5:48 pm�� Post subject:

I found something you might find handy, Cyph.

This graph will show you how populated each server is and what time (your local time) the server starts to get queues.

http://riftideas.com/shardwatch/Wolfsbane/

Cyph · Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 6:34 pm�� Post subject:

Thanks Pagan! They all look pretty good apart from Wolfsbane, which seems to have queues in the morning my time, so that would be a pain on weekends.

Hm...

TamTam79 · Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 7:15 pm�� Post subject:

Never played an MMO before but I have a month of nothing coming up and figured I might as well try one out and this seems like it's the flavour of the month.

Grabbed it yesterday from GMG for $29, but probably wont get around to opening the account until Monday.

Having never played an MMO before and not really being keen on the whole interation with a zillion other people....will I get any benefit from this?
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Cyph · Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 7:32 pm�� Post subject:

You'll find that pool of people you'll be playing with is smaller than you expect. On small servers (which I usually play on), because of the tight knit community, you tend to get to know people and form a community.

What do you expect from an MMO?

TamTam79 · Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 7:47 pm�� Post subject:

I wouldn't say I "expect" anything. Im just trying it out for a month or so before I get back to studying. I'm not planning on playing for much more than that, so other than a time/commitment constraint Im going in without any kind of thoughts on it.
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Cyph · Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 8:40 pm�� Post subject:

Go in with a friendly attitude and I'm sure you'll make some friends and enjoy playing. Well, that has been my experience. I'm not sure what the Rift community is like, but I hear it's friendly.

Cyph · Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 5:00 pm�� Post subject:

I'm thinking of rolling on the Faeblight server when I sub (once I'm done with The Witcher 2). The forums appears to be one of the most active, I prefer RP communities (generally a nicer, more mature crowd) and the population seems to be great.

Now to think of a class to roll as. I'm completely in the dark. Initially I was thinking Bard, but the Blade Dancer seems interesting as well.

Pagan's Mind · Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 4:59 am�� Post subject:

The community seems pretty good so far. Not too many elitist jerks or little kids annoying you. I found a very friendly guild too.

I took a screenshot of my character yesterday. I'm level 20 now and only just started entering a new zone. The game world is absolutely massive but I get the feeling that you can't enter the other half of the map because it's Defiant territory.

Phreakuency · Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 8:45 am�� Post subject:

You can enter it, just not really quest there. Still handy to get the explore achievements and find artifacts etc.

Two things that annoy me (possibly due to coming from WoW)

1. I don't like the idea of being able to roll a defiant and guardian on the same server. So many of my guardians have jumped ship because they noticed it's a defiant heavy server. To me, this just makes it worse.

2. I really don't like being able to talk to the other faction. It's not too bad during random meetings while questing but during PVP battles, half of each team just hides around corners and talks trash to each other. It's bloody annoying. WoW's scrambled language was much better.

I wonder if they'd ever change either?
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Marka · Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 8:41 pm�� Post subject:

I hate the dungeon finder. Sometimes it's almost instant and other times you can bee in it for over 3 hours and get nothing. Makes me wonder if it works properly.

Cyph · Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 12:16 pm�� Post subject:

Still haven't jumped in, been enjoying Witcher 2! I've read on a number of forums that a lot of servers are Defiant heavy... I wonder why? They probably should've had three factions to balance out the RvP/PvP activity, ala DAoC (I loved that game).

Marka · Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 5:21 pm�� Post subject:

Even when queuing as both Healer and DPS it still takes over almost 2 hours to get a group. Done with this. Not paying $14 a month to stand around and do nothing.

Pagan's Mind · Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 3:33 am�� Post subject:

I'm not far enough into the game to experience that yet. My only gripe with the game so far is that the dungeons are way too hard. I'm level 24 and so is my friend and we still can't even take the first mob in the Realm of the Fae dungeon. They're only level 15 but they still somehow manage to kick our ass. That also means that by the time we're actually strong enough to take them the experience is crap (it is already). I was really looking forward to the dungeon aspect but I guess we're stuck to the field areas.

Phreakuency · Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 8:40 am�� Post subject:

The dungeons are different to WoW. A high level can't just go in and totally dominate without some help.

It's geared toward having a full group, tank, healer dps.

My level 50 (dps) cannot even solo the first dungeon, where as in WoW, I could solo a couple dungeons with my eyes closed.

That being said, Realm of the Fae is very easy with a (full) group of 17-20's.

On a side note, my new power supply and gpu arrived and I'm now getting 50fps in max settings... I love it!

Pagan's Mind · Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 3:38 pm�� Post subject:

Yeah I thought that was the case. It's still a damn shame because it would take us ages to find someone who actually needs to do the dungeon. They look like a lot of fun to complete too. I've never played WoW but it would have been nice to perhaps have some AI controlled party members like in Guild Wars especially considering that the population is so sparse due to the large number of shards and Guardians/Defiants splitting each shard population in two.

Which video card did you get?

Phreakuency · Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 6:40 pm�� Post subject:

Don't worry, I know what you mean. I think we must have chosen quiet servers, or at least servers where the players aren't online at our usual times. I am looking at swapping to Briarcliff when the next patch comes out.

I did ROTF, but then levelled to 50 without being able to find a decent group for ANY other dungeon! Even on my alts, I got the highest one to level 21 with 0% chance of finding a dungeon group at the times I was online.

My video card is a Gigabyte GTX580. Paired with my 3.2gz i7 and 6GB of ram it's a nice system for gaming. Been trying the 3D mode with my new monitor and glasses too. Pretty cool!
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Cyph · Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 6:43 pm�� Post subject:

Think I'll be joining Faeblight when I'm done with Witcher 2 (hopefully this weekend!); it seems active and I love me some RP.

Cyph · Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 11:40 am�� Post subject:

I started yesterday, jumped onto Faebright and rolled a High Elf Bard named Voce. The game left a great initial impression. Besides the awesome graphics, no lag, great music/sound and general polished feel of the game, everyone on that server is just oh so friendly. People would rush to help me close rifts, group up for quests and I even had one person guide me around and show me the ropes; very impressed

matt30822 · Status: Offline Joined: 23 Mar 2010 Posts: 156 $poons: 8.80

Briarcliff is full of Aussies. Just keep in mind that on Sundays you might have to join queues about 30 minutes to an hour long and imagine once server transfers happen, this might increase a little. Definitely where the action is at though

Cyph · Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 12:22 pm�� Post subject:

Lucky I didn't pick Briarcliff

Apparently that's a high load server, but so is Faebright. I'm hoping though to get some RP action in.

Pagan's Mind · Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 2:06 pm�� Post subject:

Threesprings is completely deserted. The most players I saw was about 10 in Gloamwood Pines once.

Cyph · Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 3:24 pm�� Post subject:

Heaps of people running around Faeblight, even during the 'offpeak' times!

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