Rift Rant!

So…here’s the story. We have this pick up group we did for Expert Runic Descent. The DPS was rather low when we did Eliam, but it was still doable. I explained the fight, everything was fine then the Cleric healer and a Rogue got hit by the Blinding Darkness move. It’s fine, maybe they didn’t see it. I explained again to turn around. The rogue got the idea of it and turned, however the Cleric didn’t. It may not matter for the healer, but what if it does? And the reason for him not wanting to turn around? This:

Just so he can do some more DPS to the boss. Even if he want to do more damage to it, he can easily just turn for 1sec!  1 whole sec and he can DPS all he wants on the kiting phase instead of running around aimlessly. Remember, he was a Cleric HEALER. I kept on having to dispell him. It’s so frustrating to carry people on your shoulder or hold their hands to do things. The guy wasn’t a good healer too and we invited him before and he quit on us one time before. This is what I get for giving people second chances.

I can’t wait until my friends catch up to us so we can finally have decent runs. Just a little bit more guys!

Rift: Expert Foul Cascade

Expert Foul Cascade

Krasimir Barionov

Like the standard version, this boss summons 3 phase of mobs at you. Clear them down and on the last phase of summoning, he will be consumed and change into a different mob. What he does is throw these AoE on the ground that you have to avoid and Tank and Spank it.

Matron Verosa

Also like the standard version, Matron Verosa comes with Lesch and Gurze. However, this time Lesch is much more annoying and does Staggering Blitz a lot more. Not too hard since it can be healed through. First knock down Verosa down some, then she’ll unleash Lesch. When Lesch is at around 75%, Gurze will be unleashed. Tank should face Gurze away from the group . After Gurze is taken down some, both will be unleashed. You can either kill one by one, or both at once for the achievement. Just remember to face Gurze away from the party and heal the Staggering Blitz. After both is taken down, Matron Verosa will take on the fight. She will do Death Storm like usual, which needs to be AoE healed. You can spread out, but the targetted AoE is somewhat large.

Surin Skenobar

Surin Skenobar this time is a bit different. Not only does he blink towards someone, he’ll also drop a bomb keg on the person. What you do when there’s a dynamite keg under your leg? You run. You run like hell. Oh shit, you ran into someone else! BOOM! Don’t get exploded by your keg or someone else’s or else BOOM! and no achievement for you. After the 5 kegs, AoE Heal up! Because the keg still does AoE damage. That’s all you need to know.

Sparkwing

Sparkwing is a flying birdy in a puff of storm cloud. He roams all around north east and south part of the map. He is quite far up in the sky, but if you see a lightning storm cloud that would be him. This is an easy tank and spank boss. What he does is PBAoE lightning move. So if DPS can go range, do it.  This is an Expert dungeon; people should have multi roles should they want to continue doing end-game for situation like this to make this encounter even easier.

Tephra Lord Maficros

Before you fight this boss, you actually have to clear an earth rift. This comes in a couple packs of spiders and scorpions. After that, lesser earth elemental (orelings) and these red earth elemental.  Watch out for the red earth elemental since it can do AoE move that hurts a lot, and can 1 shot. In this phase there will also be red glowing half spheres that pop around a random player. What this do is knock you up in the sky, damages you, and place a stacking healing debuff on you. Everyone should avoid it, esp the tank. When you finish the initial stages, Tephra Lord Maficros will spawn along with a sidekick that will unleash Queen Vallnara by knocking the 3 stone pillars down. You can ignore the sidekick and go straight for Maficros. Remember, the red sphere will still be there so avoid it. Also like the smaller version, it does nasty moves to close range melee, don’t stand in front. Ranged DPS would be good. Tank avoid spank!

Optional: You can kill the sidekick first before it kill the 3 things for an achievement. HOWEVER! If you do this, Vallnara gets corrupted and she’ll pop 2 spiders each instead of 1 every time she impregnates people. If you think you can handle this, ie: Heal is good and DPS is good then by all means do it. The sidekick has around 47k HP I believe. Since there will be a lot of spiders, the tank has to grab them all and DPS have to AoE them down since it will get nasty.

Queen Vallnara

This boss is annoying since the poison she spews out from her ass is barely visible. What you do is have the tank walk backwards around and grab the adds. If there are melee DPS, they better be sure they can avoid the poison by not actually meleeing at the back. They are a liability anyways so they should go ranged. Once it impregnates someone, there’s a short time the spider adds that spawns won’t do anything. The tank have to grab the adds and the one that got impregnated should be healed since it also applies DoT to them. Focus all DPS on the boss and have support heal and you can take her down.

Rift: Expert Iron Tombs

Expert Iron Tombs

Bloodmother Venoxas

There will be a new area right before Caor Ashtone. There will be two packs of spiders that need to be cleared before the spider’s lair. Watch out for getting locked out of the fight. Everyone have to step directly past the doorway in order to not get locked. Grab a support heal and the fight is simple, just focus all DPS on the boss.

The fight itself pretty simple:

• Tank it away from people.
• Occasionally there will be small and large spider spawns, the tank have to grab them.
• The room is an L shape, over time it will hop into a mound and summons more spiders.
• The second time it hops into a mound and summon more, it will have this green aura on it.
• The third time it summons, it will do an AoE move that can kill some people, so Line of Sight it after it summons.

Caor Ashtone

Caor Ashtone is just like the standard boss. This time it puts on an Aura of Decay on people. You can clear it by LoSing it for a short time. He also silences people and fear + DoT someone. Heal/dispel that person. That’s the basics of it, just Tank and Spank.

The Three Kings

Just like the standard mode, they all do the same thing. Just interrupt Laric’s Unholy Healing and you’ll be fine. However after you kill 2 of the 3 kings, there will be 5 adds at a time that appears from right and left. You can either go for the achievement killing 40 of them then the final boss or just go straight and kill the final one.

Bonelord Fetlorn

This is a new boss that appears at the orb and shades area. You have to touch every orb in order to open up the area where you obtain the amulet for your standard IT quest. The boss will emote two different things. If it said “blood boils” that means it will fear whomever it sees. If it said it wants bones, then it will summon a bone add for every person that it sees. In order to combat this, you can pull the boss to the entrance of that area and tank him there. Whenever it emotes either of those two things, everyone have to run behind the wall to LoS it. It will stop and pause for a bit, so when it comes back, you have to pull the boss back to the tanking area. The rest of the group can just go inside and heal and dps there and strafe towards the wall to LoS it.

Ragnoth the Destroyer

Also similar to the standard boss, you have to go towards Eliam’s light. However, this time it will snare people. The best way is to DPS/Heal right in the middle so you have a better running start from either side. Follow the standard procedure, don’t face the boss.

Totek the Ancient

Totek shouldn’t be too difficult to handle. Pretty much tank and spank except for his furious move. When you see the announcement/emote message, get away from there. It is a pretty large range AoE that can 1 shot. Tank the boss on a wall since it pushback. After the furious move, it will put a debuff on someone. What that does is after a few sec it will knock back the person and does a large amount of damage. Heal that person up and continue the Totek pounding. Rinse and repeat.

Rift: Some Expert Achievement Guide!

Iron Tombs

Out of Sight – Defeat Bonelord Fetlorn w/o spawning more than 3 bones. Easy, just Line of Sight (LoS) the boss behind the wall.
Expert: Iron Tomb – Defeat all the bosses in Expert difficulty in Iron Tomb

Be Gentle – Just focus attack on Broodmother Venoxas while the tank grab all the adds. All goes into how well you keep the tank alive. Support heal helps.

We Three Kings – Pretty easy to do, just keep interrupting Laric and go on three different runs.

Endless Bones – After killing 2 of the 3 kings, Ancient Helots will come from left and right side at 5 per side. So it’s about 10 right there. Just have the tank grab aggro on everything and have AoE kill them all. Kill 40 Ancient Helots before you kill the last boss. We kept Laric alive hoping it will heal himself, but he doesn’t always do that. I just Fire Storm them all.

Big Heals! – Tank cheats here because they can do with ease since healer can heal him off within the time.

Foul Cascade

Expert: Foul Cascade – Defeat all the bosses
Dynomite Dodger – Run yo ass.
Gnarly Gnars – Dispel, Heal, Heal, Heal, Heal, DPS better be good or Healer have to be exceptionally good as well as support. Don’t get hit by the poison on the ground. If you do, it’s wipe. Do it again you should get kicked. Easy way for this since the poison is barely visible is to have the tank keep walking backward while tanking and grabbing adds. Keep your ohshit button ready. Ranged DPS is good.

King’s Breach

Expert: King’s Breach – Kill all bosses.
Tail Shake: Don’t get tail whipped, avoid the random ground AoE.
Dogs of War: Easy achievement since two dogs comes out at a time. You just need 5. We popped 12+. Just heal it up and support heal and focus DPS on the boss. Tank should grab all the adds.
Manticore Corpses – On two different instance, kill Autoch or Mondrach last. Easy, just focus heal and don’t be behind or infront of them. When a person gets charged, heal him up.
Spikeless: Easy! just get in between 2 circles and move between them. If you see the light comes up, get to the other circle, then move back when spikes are down.

Fall of Lantern’s Hook

Expert: Fall of Lantern’s Hook – Kill all bosses.
Fire Drill: Spread! Pick a spot. It’ll pull you in then get back to the spot and stay away from others.
Scorching Shards: You’ll most likely get this achievement unless your DPS is exceptionally good.
Kitty Conservation – Focus DPS on Rorf w/o killing his 3 pet.
Right Meow –  On 3 different run, kill 2 kitty leaving 1 different one  then Rorf.

To be continued. Expert time.

Rift: Currently on Rift

I’m currently playing as “Tata” in the “Dayblind” PVP server. I am currently level 35 Mage with Chloromancer, Pyromancer, and Necromancer roles. Because of these roles, I can easily change depending on situation and what we’re doing. I am Expert+ in Runecrafter, Outfitter, and Butchering. We made a guild called <Chibi>. It is currently a level 2 guild, and it is a friend’s oriented guild. There are only 4 of us that are here and are looking for people to join. We’re semi-casual and just currently leveling and doing dungeons. We did our three guild quests, but unable to finish the last one before they got resetted so we missed out on the next three; pity =(.

We just cleared out the quests in Scarwood Reach, and now deciding to head to Moonshade Highlands area for quests because we did all of Droughtlands in Open Beta already. And now to open up my boxed Collector’s Edition of Rift! See you in Telara, or until next post.

If you want to join our Guild contact Tata, Bonnie, Rukuso, or Sharwyn for invite. Our concept is to invite friends, and friends’ of friends. If you’re looking for a friendly guild, hit us up and let us know. We usually play anywhere between 3PM EST to 5AM EST.

 

Rift: Open Beta 7

Beta 7 was fun. Bonnie, Rukuso, and I manage to get to level 42 and have done all of the dungeon instances available. The Fall of Lantern’s Hook was pretty fun as well. When we first did it with some other people, we kept wiping and wiping and wiping from the guy that goes up the ramp and keep popping two dogs over. The Rogue probably sucked at pulling and constantly pulls links after links. The next time we did it, Rukuso pulls and it was fine. The boss there seems to throw cats at you. That’s what they said, but I didn’t actually look at it and see it ;( Maybe in launch I will do it when I get my levels up. Like with every other zone, we cleared all the zones completely. There was this one quest that was blocked off by the invisible barrier, but with clever jumping we manage to get to it and finish that one.

I’ll make this one short because it’s been awhile and I haven’t had time to actually write a thorough Beta 7 post because RIFT is here and more RIFTing and less of anything else!