Why does every potential interesting thread about upcoming changes always turn into a Mage cry fest? You chose to roll a Mage so deal with it and if you want the abilities of other classes, roll a different class instead. It's not Trion's fault that your own idealistic image of what a Mage should be, doesn't match that of the devs. It is what it is so deal with it or re-roll.
Rift has been a great MMO in my opinion, it came out of nowhere, it looks great, overall the content has been great.
The way the game is, PVP would be incredibly difficult to balance, not just from the class/build perspective but from the prestige/gear angle as well. I'm not an expert on PVP balance, but it does seem a little to me like people focus too much on a 1v1 aspect of the game. I seem to get blown up by Mages just fine and most of the time, like in Port Scion, it's a Mage really doing the damage. If a Mage has cover and heals, they are real tough to do anything about, I am definitely a newb tho when it comes to PVP in Rift.
I do think Trion could be more forthcoming at this point about what their plans are and what's actually in the expansion, going to have to tell us something sooner or later.
Last edited by Malark; 08-01-2012 at 11:05 AM.
PvEOriginally Posted by Deathnaught
Defilemancer
Or pyrolock if you suck at defil and want some AOE. Literally, nothing comes close.
PvP
pyrodom for damage, chlorodom for everything else
51dom for the lulz
Yeah tons of versatility.
many chloro specs.. etc etc.
and if u do perfect 30/36 with LL and only 80% dotspec. 30/36 will pwn it hard.
but i agree.. nekro and elementalist way too underused for raid stuff.
That's like saying Warrior's have a ton of verstile specs because they can invest the last 15 points anywhere they please after going 51 champion.
Defile>pyrolock.
Last edited by Aguni; 08-01-2012 at 06:08 PM.
Buff sabs...
Icewatch - Ragnor 60 Mage - Silentx 60 Rogue - Ordin 50 Warrior - Artatain 60 cleric
Deepwood - Ragnorzx 50 Mage
I;d like to see Paragon, Stormcaller and a few other souls get buffed.
Paragons are just missing some scalled armor pen (like +1% for each above 31pts), so Dual Strike and Deadly Grace would do some dmg. Also Way of the Wind is bit UP in PVP.
P/CH/RB does pretty fine atm.
Last edited by Morwath; 08-02-2012 at 09:52 AM.
Morwath@Bloodiron, Morway@Bloodiron
and since we have 6 roles why does it matter? This is what kills me. Trion's vision of the game was never for players to be and elementalist or necro. Heck originally being 51 points in any soul was gimping yourself. You are a Mage, they are a warrior, the other guy a cleric. I mean look at the abilities in the souls. Some quite obviously were more made for soloing than raid or dungeons etc.
I have been saying this since beta two. Half the problem is not the game or Trion but the players. It's people coming to a new game and then rather than adapting to it's paradigm they insist on trying to enforce the paradigm of their former game on it.
Sacred Fire: Faeblight
Casual does not mean Lazy
It kinda matters. What's the point of a soul you never get to play anyway because it's so weak?
Anyway... it's been a month since 1.9 now... any news at all about 1.10?
Well, the Trion Whiteboard stated a 29th August release (although the whiteboard was written prior to GW2 launch date announcement so it might change), and Trion stated in a Q&A that they would release info on the mage soul on August 10th (and possibly the other souls).
PTS Patch Notes generally come in sets of 3-4 with around a week's gap in-between.
Given Expansion is 'near', and there is probably not going to be anything 'big' upcoming from now till then (i.e. no new raids/Conquest-size new features) I think 1.10 Patch notes will probably just be 2-3 sets.
My guess is August 10th (Expansion Soul Announce) or August 13th (the following Monday) would most likely be when they would post Patch 1.10 PTS Set #1.
That said I was hoping for them to post it this Monday, or even August 1st; but that is unfortunately not the case.
The closer it gets to August 29th, the more likely it is that either the patch will be small/not-much-in-it and/or the date has been pushed back.
Last edited by Jonus; 08-02-2012 at 08:40 PM.
MarkoClericLaethysBlitz [4/4 TDQ] [4/4 FT] [5/5 EE]
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston Churchill
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Clearly it was since they do exist in game.
To be honest, Elementalist lost its place because building storm was removed.
I think it is the soul not having any niche at all. SO they literally remain useless.
I do like pranking the **** out of my raid sometimes with feign death.
I agree with your statement about the player's.
I want these things changed but hey, I can wait because it isn't a pressing issues.
i'm going to replace "Mage" with "Cleric" and quote you in every single thread about Cleric DPS until this patch arrives
Hey Hey Hey...
leave us outta this.
Said the cleric.
*looks at one of "cleric dps sucks!" cry threads*
Last edited by Efaicia; 08-03-2012 at 08:24 AM.
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