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beastmaster,void knight for warrior and warden,shaman for cleric. i dont know why but the healers and warriors in this game have gotten me really excited, i only play tanks,healers and have found the most recent games have been boring in those aspects

Well, one of the best things about Rift is the fact that you arent stuck with one class. If you want to play a Ranger then play a ranger. If 10 levels later you decide you would rather be a melee dps class you can switch over to an assassin or nightblade or one of the other rogue classes they havent announced yet. Not only will there be your basic rogue/ranger types, there will also be classes that bridge the gap so you will have tanking rogues, healing mages, and spell hurling warriors. Hopefully once beta starts and/or NDA's get lifted we can find out to what extent they will bridge those gaps.

Personally I have always played a Ranger (Hunter in WoW) so I will try out the Ranger class and whatever other ranged rogue classes (Marksman, etc.) they have available to find either the single class or the combination of classes that suits me.

Edited, Nov 22nd 2010 7:57pm by WarpCode

you should fed play a shaman then, they look to be amazing as melee healer, although you proably wont be playing it as a healer in groups but for solo it looks to be amazing.

Honestly some of the healer classes seem interesting. Like a warrior healer would be the paladin, then the rouge healer is the bard, ect. I like how there will hopefully be a variety when it comes to raids and dungeon runs.

The class customization has me more excited for this than I have been for any mmo in a while. It reminds me of a MUD I played back from 98-2004. Had 4 general classes and you could assign the combination of points to get what class you wanted. For Instance 36 was max your specific class could be w/ all points allocated to it, so things like 27 Cleric 21 Warrior 12 Ranger and 9 Mage was a sufficient warrior with very strong healing/debuffing abilities.

I had thought that the sort of customization offered there would never again be available to me, and I've been pleasantly surprised.

It was/is Return of the Shadow. It is a mud based on Tolkien and his works. Set in the 4th Age. Heavily Modified Circlemud. I think a few people still play, but it is far from its prime.

I miss it terribly at times, logging on to 15v15 battles. Gets your adrenaline pumping so hard chasing a wounded opponent. A person had a signature which was fitting to the game "Its not the kill its the thrill of the hunt"


Edit: Needless to say years of mudding helped my reading comprehension and reading speed terribly, and I fully understood in The Matrix how he was looking at lines of code, but he was actually seeing the images that the code was describing.

Edited, Nov 22nd 2010 8:40pm by Entoc

i wanna play a tank/warlord combo i mean holy sh*t a tank and a buffer hell yaz

Well hopefully i can seduce a few of my friends to the dark side, or light side depending. Honestly though that's why i love the non-solo friendly classes so much. One it makes you really need to now how to play your char to get by and 2. In things like early-mid game PVP and dungeons, that are dominated by the DPS fighters and hunters that solo so well you are a HUGE attribute.......... I just wanna be loved, lol

I played on telnet client for forever. Bright Green Text on a black background. Eventually I evolved to a JavaMudClient that allowed me to set up tons of alias, actions, highlights, subs, etc.

During that time I figured out I could set the colors. Magenta was my default chat color. Red would be incoming damage/tells. Blue outgoing damage, green objects, and yellow would be npcs/pcs.

The funniest thing about my time from mudding would be my keybindings. I would bind bash which was an ability to stun your enemy took like a 3s cast time and stunned for 1.5 seconds or so. I would bind that to v. The actual alias would be bash $targ where I had hotkeys setup so I could quickly change my targets, and now in any game I play I bind my cc abilities to v. I bind my spamming key to c, and it is funny because my most spammed ability in the mud was close door :)

The old school wolfenstein was a great game, I remember sitting down one night a couple years ago and playing it again. Didn't even take me a day to rebeat it.

Nightblade looks awesome :) I'm sure what class and combination I'm gonna roll but definitely some sort of Rogue as my base class.

I have always been a tank or melee dps but im really liking the looks from the mage classes on here and was considering a run with Warlock and going from there and I really like the sound of Achron that they just put on the game site

why will you only be a meatshield in pvp?

@zonjinn

My build I am going for will be pretty much all defensive spells with only aggro generating offensive ones. As such those won't do very much for pvp, which is why my guy really won't be more than a meatshield in it to soak up damage while our dps drops everyone.

Yes I am aware, but that feature will most likely cost a significant amount of gold in game in order to do it and early on that wouldn't be a wise investment over other stuff.

im just hoping this all pans out well and we really see some distinct albeit effective difference between 2 peoples versions of the same classes

I like the subtle style in each MMO i generally play so this time also i'll role for a Rogue-Assasin/Blade Dancer/RiftStalker, although i'd like to combine a Rogue- Ranger/Marksman/BladeDancer or a Cleric-Justicar/Inquisitor(melee healer that doesn't fall in close combat. who doesn't want that?)

Guardian Dwarf Pyromancer with blood red hair color (this sounds sooo wrong hehe).