PTS Event Friday 5/25 @ 4PM PDT – New Mentoring Feature!

[Walsingham]

We’ve now made it easier than ever to go adventuring with your fellow ascended. Soon you’ll get to experience the thrill of the new Mentoring system!

Join us on the PTS Friday, May 25 @ 4PM PDT (11PM GMT), for your first look at the RIFT Mentoring feature as we try to find any kinks, bugs, or pressure points. This is a brand new feature – so don’t expect it to be 100% fully functional but that’s what PTS is for!

Mentoring

Players will be able to de-level themselves in order to either match a lower level player, or to set the level of their choice in order to complete lower level content. When a player lowers their level, they are known as an Ascended Mentor. Because of this, their effectiveness is reduced as a result.

Mentors receive appropriate XP rewards because content that would be grey, now registers and awards according to their modified level. Players in a group with an Ascended Mentor, whose natural level is close to the Ascended Mentor's level, are known as Ascended Apprentices. Ascended Mentors and Ascended Apprentices receive benefits from grouping together. This system broadens the amount of content higher level players can be rewarded for, and provides lower level players with a wider pool of people to group with.

Please note that Mentoring will not be available in warfronts, conquest, nor are rewards given to Mentors in open world PvP.

To test the new mentoring feature, you must mentor yourself down first by right clicking your portrait and then making a choice as to the desired level. Once you have mentored down, please use the LFD queue to join up for a random normal dungeon. What could be any better than that? You can still converse in level 50 chat while you are playing at the lower level!


Character Copy to PTS!

You can now copy your character to the Public Test Shard! Simply click the Transfer button when you’re at Character select on the Live client and select “Copy to PTS” – it’s as easy as that! (though there may be a few bugs/limitations we’re working out). We will no longer be offering Gear/Leveling vendors with the introduction of this feature (except when testing requires it.)

You will need to download the PTS client if you have not done so already, this is approximately the same size as installing the full game and may take some time. For more information about PTS and how to access it please see:

Welcome to the Public Test Shard! – Getting Started

Have fun!

[Credo]

Huzzah! Should be there!

[TheGrinnz]

You can still converse in level 50 chat while you are playing at the lower level!

Now if we can just get this feature when making alts ;)

[Kadeth]

Sounds great, I'll be there but, can we please get some PvE gear of some kind for those of us that made toons for Conquest testing and only have PvP gear? (Beggs, offers cookies, apples, homemade lemonade, free coffee, etc...)

[thoroar]

I'm on the PTS right now. I guess that's supposed to be 12pm GMT?

[Axdin]

So far from what I can see:
~Mighty and other high level potions work, regardless of level
~Synergy Crystal gives full stats still
~Isle Embrosia (and I assume other higher end food&drink) still works, regardless of level
~Some planar essences seem to be going off for full value.

[Axdin]

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All dungeons appear greyed out, regardless of what level you have mentoring set at. Thus no one can join it seems.

[Credo]

- XP is pretty good from what I've seen. I've ran around as level 14 and level 30 in Silverwood and Scarwood Reach respectively.
- Rewards aren't equivalent to level 50. Such as I still get 2 planarite in Silverwood if I kill an invasion.
- IA isn't popping when I'm set to level 30 at least.
- I think it would be better to be able to pick which zone you want to do IA in instead of random.
- Mouse over still shows mobs as "grey" level to me, but the target UI shows the level color correctly.
- This is going to be a great addition

[Credo]

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All dungeons appear greyed out, regardless of what level you have mentoring set at. Thus no one can join it seems.

I was able to join at the beginning, but it never popped so I switched to IA which also never popped

So I did the invasion in Scarwood Reach set to level 30

[Maeloda]

Plenty of little bugs to squash (ha) and other little things.

As noticed by CM_Bacon, you can change your mentor level while IN an IA, and you won't get kicked.


But yeah, overall, the balance is a lot better and I like this feature. It will be another one of those features to hopefully last years and years, so its good to be implemented so soon in Rift's life.