RIFT feat. Anon Babble's Bizarre MMOdventure

We're gonna play Rift in the Defiant faction.

What's Rift?

A free-to-play WoW-like MMO.

Why?

We thought of this idea on Anon Babble to play through random dead MMOs. Preferably games that Anon Babble hasn't already played together, so the experience for everyone is the same.

Site/Download

trionworlds.com/rift/en/

The game is also available on Steam:
store.steampowered.com/app/39120/RIFT/

Guild

Will be formed asap. Name suggestions welcome.

Wiki

telarapedia.fandom.com/wiki/Rift_Wiki

Shard/Faction

We're siding with Defiant on the Deepwood shard.

Previous games:
Phantasy Star Universe
Trickster
RF Online
RaiderZ
FlyFF
Ferentus
Ace Online
Emil Chronicle Online
Fiesta Online
Requiem: Desiderium Mortis
Dream of Mirror Online
Dragon Nest
Scarlet Blade
Neocron Evolution
Uncharted Waters Online
Dark Ages
Aura Kingdom
Warhammer Online
Phantasy Star Online 1
Secret Of The Solstice
Chronicles Of Spellborn
Dragonica
Dragon's Dogma Online (thread here: )
Star Wars Galaxies (thread here: )
Florensia Online
C9

Anon Babble thread for the MMOdventure, check here for more info and discussion about upcoming dead MMOs

Holy hell, Rift still exists?

Oh jesus christ. okay i'll go download it, but I'm not buying any expansions or korean premium currencies.

installan

So what race are you playing

guildname poll

poal.me/43n0b5

Somehow

only mmo i played long enough to raid in
i miss my dwarf raid tank, used to queue random expert dungeons just to help people get geared
chloromancer healing was kind of fun too

On Gamigo life support, if you can call that living

Don't miss this quest after the tutorial.

The abilities in this game have every little presence. Half the time you wonder if your button push actually went through or not.

Class poll:
strawpoll.com/XmZRQ1PzLgd

you're playing on official servers?
crazy as fuck
gl guys I'm fullmaxed on every single class and permutation, or I'd join you. Be aware there are LOTS of chink bots who will mass report you and the autobans are crazy heavy handed (usually lasting 90-180 days even for first offense).
Don't talk outside of guild chat/party chat/whisper.

bots who will mass report you

why?

there's no private servers

I remember that bothering me about it back when it came out. Combat doesn't feel very good because of it.

Didn't this idea surface on 8moe Anon Babble? who's the originator of play through the dead mmos threads?

So how many anons join these and how long do you even play these for

I think it's an issue of several very-similar skills spread out across the different class specs. Not to excuse it.
This has been going on for over a year.

average tab target game

It started in a Anon Babble thread a year ago

WoW skills feel pretty good to use in comparison.

I think it is a problem with the audiovisual side.

2 weeks and usually a dozen anons that play the games for a decent amount (more or less depending on how shitty it is). The most popular games, Dragon's Dogma + Dragon Nest, we had over 60 anons join the guild.

I remember joining for Dragon's Nest and there was about 30 people on average and it ran for a good two weeks. Was really fun actually

I was so pumpped for this game before it came out. Played in a beta and loved the bard but then never got around to actually buying it. Wish it did kill wow

It was kinda shit so you didn't really miss anything

I played beta 3 with Anon Babble, was a great time. Vanilla and Storm Legion was fantastic.

installing! i loved rift back in the day!

teh lulz, unironically

everyone going on the same faction or?

Defiant on Deepwood

we ain't got enough people to split

Nta Gimme a contact person or fuild please.

We just started, there's no guild just yet.

And this is a starter guild that all new players are placed into.

fuck give me 20 mins, my inet is a shit

I played it on launch, is the HoT based healing spec still in the game? that was loads of fun to play

catch up gear every 10 levels

Ruined game.

>Guild

Will be formed asap. Name suggestions welcome.

Shortbus Synergy

rift

LETS FUCKING GOOO!
youtu.be/3VN93T7m0-U

I remember dropping raiding with my friends in WoW Cataclysm with another friend because we both thought this would be a good alternative to WoW. What a fucking mistake I made.

Is this what the game looks like now? Somehow I remember it looking much, much better.

Guild merchant is here, but I'll let someone else do it.

he dosen't sell it

oh if you are in a guild he doesn't sell it
why

how long do we play bros are we gonna raid?

Can't play right now, I hope there's people joining tomorrow too

Two weeks seems way too short, blink and it's over.

Don't forget you can disable the chat filter.

Throw it in here:

Alright I'm in, where we at boys. Do I need to finish some crappy into first?

yeah there's a tutorial that's like the first 6 levels
you'll know when you're done

im subwaymolester if someone wants to team up for the tutorial im at the seconf handler

It was ruined in so many ways.
Still loved the class system and pvp as fire mage, or healing as chloro.

Gonna install it after the weekend, and join ya, want some rifts closed.

/t wizkhalifa inv

have to pay money to be white

wizkhalifa not found

wut

This Did you go on the wrong server?

I'm making a Necromancer
nobody else make a fucking Necromancer, I'm THE Necromancer

weird I transferred it but it didn't go through
now it says I have too much money to transfer

damn
i'm tempted
isn't it just p2w as fuck straight up selling bis items for money

fine, i'll just make a romancer

/t Rahele

retard anchor:
Shard: Deepwood
Faction: Defiant
Guild: Clover Ascended
Tard wrangler: TBA

skeletons are too cool to pass up, man

there seems to be something fucky

Someone get Tabula Rasa working instead, I never got to play that one when it was alive.

I could find them after finishing the tutorial it seems

yeah i got an invite after fucking around in the tomb for a bit, seems like its a retard hurdle

I don't know if it's exactly p2w and usually that portion doesn't have much effect on us during our 2 week stay. It's got the usual scummy shit like inventory expansion (in this case bag slots but you get two free slots that you can buy bigger bags for), pay to progress faster, subs get bonuses.

What I'd worry more about is if they've trivialized the leveling process to make it a snoozefest. Usually catch up gear leads to that.

like hafl of the classes are pay only

I wasted so much money and time on this game back in the day, its kinda nice to come back to it after so long.

Yeah that sucks.

go back to discord, cunts

global chat is talking about niggers

are going to join the level raids as a Rgroup? Could be really fun and lucrative

i think this game needs more buffs

Does this game still charge for old expacs or are they free? I played it a lot during launch and came back a few years later when I got the storm expac for free. I loved chloromancer, the gun class, and many warrior classes.

About an hour in and I can see why it died. It's a fine game. Combat is fine, VA work is fine. It plays like WoW circa 2013. But, If I wanted to play WoW, I'd just go and play it. That's what all these warcraft killers and pokemon killers and the like seem to forget.

I'll stick around for a bit and see if we can't get some epic raiding in, at least.

I tried playing Rift again four years ago and something just felt 'wrong'. Like it didn't play the way I remember it being when it launched in 2011. Maybe it's just WoW clone syndrome.

God I miss RIFT.
Shit had some downright inspired raid design. Sicaron was a kino boss fight, and Akylios blows basically every fight I ever did in WoW out of the water

RIFT was by far and away the best tab-target hotkey MMO for PvE.

Rift had the best macro-rota system of all mmos.

fuck trion for mismanaging it, that mmo was the shit! i wasted 2k hours on that game and then it got killed by these fucking gorilla doubleniggers!

i do not miss hanging out with niggas who always tried to drag the group into playing slop like this instead of just playing more triple A games and Warcraft 3.

Yeah pretty much
I remember playing it back around its launch and there just really was no reason to play it if you had any interest in WoW, it was just a worse version of the same thing
It did a few cool things like multiclassing and public quests iirc but you couldn't get away from the sense that it was just an uglier, clunkier WoW.

i've been meaning to join you guys on the last few games. this seems like a fun thing you're doing keep it up

Where the hell is the guild

A bunch of information about RIFT:

general overview of the current state of the game

cadrift.net/resources/timeline-and-state/

beginner guide (bit lengthy)

cadrift.net/gameplay/character/new-player-guides/

talks more about the Soul (class) system and includes which are free/paid

cadrift.net/gameplay/character/character-creation/

craft skills

cadrift.net/gameplay/crafting/

up/downscale your level to play with others

cadrift.net/gameplay/other-guides/mentoring-and-sidekicking/

cadrift.net/lists/other/acronyms/

post your name and i try to invite you

It showed up seconds after I posted, I sent a message

Trion possesses the reverse alchemist stone, they have the ability to transmute solid gold into rancid shit

unfortunately, that hits the nail on the head

They were running three MMOs at the same time + Defiance's TV show. It was too much.

6 mages in the raid

Get to Architect Plutonus

Everybody switches to the wonkytonk necrodomlock build that breaks dps meters on this specific boss

Entire screen is filled with skeletons for the entirety of the fight

Bro River of Souls was fucking ace
Herald Guarath killed like 5 of the guilds I was in before I found one that could actually kill it

Game had a cool class system. That's the only thing I can say about it

It would be rad to do 50 raids with you fucks.

Don't suppose anyone is still on that can invite?

just drop your ign

Don't forget you can invite people to the guild with /ginvite

Yeah, you can send a request to join through the guild menu, or whisper any of the Clover Ascended players in those screenshots for an invite.

Solinus

or that

man I wish they would do a rift classic but I heard that's literally impossible especially with the current owners

They did a 'RIFT Classic' at one point... which turned out to be old raids upscaled to current level. And that was about the main significance. It was short term.
Gamigo needs to kill the game off already so a source code can "leak" and a private server can be made.

I still have the poster ready for rift

man that's the most half assed attempt at a classic relaunch I've seen
even Aion managed to do a fairly faithful classic relaunch, granted it was fucking p2w and casualized but still it was mostly like the original launch

rip rift. Tera was better

I'm starting to feel it. I might be having fun.

are mages op or do these people just not have any fucking clue how to press buttons

Ah I lied. While it did have its own server, I must have misremembered the upscaling. But the server died due to slow content release and poor balancing, and Gamigo's acquisition around halfway through the Prime server's one-year lifespan.

Mentoring & Sidekicking

Scaling your level up or down - useful when grouping with people.
cadrift.net/gameplay/other-guides/mentoring-and-sidekicking/

jesus the game looks exactly like it did 15 years ago at launch

The schizos in general chat are entertaining enough

grinding mobs

reading paragraphs upon paragraphs of strange schizobabble from third worlders

it's comfy

so you started doing generals for games?

you will never be a janny

this is in no way shape or form a general

If you're still playing next week then I'll definitely join

This vendor at King's Retreat sells good shit for planars and void stones. I picked up a 4 lesser 1 greater planar focus for 1000 planars, rare essences to fill it up and some nice gear.

how active is the game these days?

I've been in the pvp queue for over an hour

There are single/duo mini-versions of raids at 50 and 60.

Because a single gimmick is never enough to take out the king. You're going against an already installed player base. Also keep in mind WoW won against Everquest 2 which had every advantage imaginable. They both released in the same month in 2004.

It's the GCD

WoW was built to run on toasters while EQ2 had high system requirements which was a huge detriment.

I actually noticed the Anon Babble thread a few days ago and thought I might join if you ever played rift.
The fuck is this class system I don't understand.
Druid or necro or some kind of warrior?

cadrift.net/gameplay/character/character-creation/

each 'class' is built from three specialization trees (most points go into one), where you'll get skills/spells from trees and unlock skills/spells from putting x points into a tree

HYPE HYPE HYPE
Is anyone playing support?

Why wouldn't they? Steam is the most convenient way to get games on PC.

Don't start.

None of the WoW clones feel as good to play as WoW.

I'm not sure what you mean because retail WoW in its current state feels like complete trash. Maybe it felt better like 10 years ago, but not now.

10-15 years ago*

Assume we have one of everything.

God this brings back memories
Add me, Jbazza

Forgot I had a legendary 155% speed mount I won back in the day

I'm rock hard right now

Raiding rifts was actually a decent bit of fun once we figured out the mechanic for that specific event.

I'd say the characters and zones have aged rather well. The combat visuals are really the only thing that bothers me. It just lacks the oomph..

no you won't make me play a shitty mmo

Every MMO I've seen just launches its launcher when launched through steam so it's actually less convenient.

708897479

nobody's making you do anything killjoy faggotski. why are you even here lmao

It's got a 1.5s gcd like WoW. I think it's a bit more complicated.

Maybe I should've specified but I usually talk about vanilla WoW. It had that smoothness of gameplay and interaction from the start.

Respeccing shouldn't be too expensive and you get multiple slots so you can have multiple builds set up.

Play what you want but we might be low on clerics.

7 0 8 8 9 7 6 0 2
to call rift a shitty mmo

LF warriors and rogues
Everyone online is a mage or cleric

Can you see offline people in the guild roster? I logged off for the night but might be useful to count the class distribution.

Maybe we should do a what role you want/intend to play poll?