Caedryn the Dwarf has seen some mighty interesting things in his journey through Rift, none more interesting than what he's been involved with this week. Find out what Caedryn and Fido are up to in our latest Rift column. Let us know what you think in the comments!

Phase 2 of the War of the Wanton Maw has kicked off and we have to try and stop the two dragon cults from taking over. As the description says, “The Ascended has uncovered a devious plot of Maelforge and Laethys to throw Telara into chaos, but the details of the dragons' plan are still unclear. The forces of the Ascended continue to fight on the field of battle while those who are capable hurry to uncover the dragon’s schemes.”

Read more of Paul Crilley's Chronicles of One Telaran: Twice Burned.

Posing over the remains of an Earth Rift. Like you do.

I love this game :) 

I'm a big fan.

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Originally posted by cybertrucker
I so much wanted to like rift. It had soooo much potential. However it had the most unsocial group if players i had ever encountered. I leveled to 42 and felt like i was running around with bots most of the time. The game looked great. The customization was great. The community well it felt like it wasnt there

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Faeblight has a great community. If that was your only barrier, Id suggest making a character on that server.

Originally posted by DannyGlover

 

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Originally posted by cybertrucker
I so much wanted to like rift. It had soooo much potential. However it had the most unsocial group if players i had ever encountered. I leveled to 42 and felt like i was running around with bots most of the time. The game looked great. The customization was great. The community well it felt like it wasnt there

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Faeblight has a great community. If that was your only barrier, Id suggest making a character on that server.

 

I agree. I play on Faeblight and the community is great there.

I didn't have any community issues.  I would try again on a new server.

These events are designed with level 50's in mind. The number of items you recieve scale upwards based on level. I've collected somewhere in the neighborhood of 5000 ingots with hardly any effort. Also 15k planarite at level 50 is not that much. You are just trying to do things at the wrong time is all. Can it be done yes. Should these be done at low level. Not really as it would be a grindfest.

Originally posted by dead2soon

These events are designed with level 50's in mind. The number of items you recieve scale upwards based on level. I've collected somewhere in the neighborhood of 5000 ingots with hardly any effort. Also 15k planarite at level 50 is not that much. You are just trying to do things at the wrong time is all. Can it be done yes. Should these be done at low level. Not really as it would be a grindfest.

Wasn't that suppose to be one of the big mainstays of the game?  That events like this wouldn't focus only on high levels and that lower levels would have just as much of an affect on the progress of said events as any other level range?  Yet events in the past along with this one have to this point, had their main focus on high levels and I find that rather disingenous of the developers and just plain typically disappointing of the MMO genre in general.

...and gamers wonder why so many people rush to end game, when half the time it's the developers themselves that are the problem.

As a current subscriber, I believe that Rift is really just missing a mentor system or scaling of levels in lower zones so that they still have value for higher level characters. If Trion would implement this sort of system all the lower level zones would still be really active. Not just the 1-20 area or the 50 areas.

Gold Ingots are found on Fire rift mobs. Not just any rift mob.

Originally posted by Vorthanion

Originally posted by dead2soon

These events are designed with level 50's in mind. The number of items you recieve scale upwards based on level. I've collected somewhere in the neighborhood of 5000 ingots with hardly any effort. Also 15k planarite at level 50 is not that much. You are just trying to do things at the wrong time is all. Can it be done yes. Should these be done at low level. Not really as it would be a grindfest.

Wasn't that suppose to be one of the big mainstays of the game?  That events like this wouldn't focus only on high levels and that lower levels would have just as much of an affect on the progress of said events as any other level range?  Yet events in the past along with this one have to this point, had their main focus on high levels and I find that rather disingenous of the developers and just plain typically disappointing of the MMO genre in general.

...and gamers wonder why so many people rush to end game, when half the time it's the developers themselves that are the problem.

No, it was always the design that lower level players could support, but the heavy hitting was done by higher levels.  You may have been doing some wishcasting there when you were reading.

Originally posted by grimfall

Originally posted by Vorthanion

Originally posted by dead2soon

These events are designed with level 50's in mind. The number of items you recieve scale upwards based on level. I've collected somewhere in the neighborhood of 5000 ingots with hardly any effort. Also 15k planarite at level 50 is not that much. You are just trying to do things at the wrong time is all. Can it be done yes. Should these be done at low level. Not really as it would be a grindfest.

Wasn't that suppose to be one of the big mainstays of the game?  That events like this wouldn't focus only on high levels and that lower levels would have just as much of an affect on the progress of said events as any other level range?  Yet events in the past along with this one have to this point, had their main focus on high levels and I find that rather disingenous of the developers and just plain typically disappointing of the MMO genre in general.

...and gamers wonder why so many people rush to end game, when half the time it's the developers themselves that are the problem.

No, it was always the design that lower level players could support, but the heavy hitting was done by higher levels.  You may have been doing some wishcasting there when you were reading.

 

I agree.  This game has always been designed around level 50 content.  Just read Hartsmans comments pre release.  With fast elveling where one can go 1-50 in 1-3 days played there is no beed to focus on gameplay below level 50.  the amount of content post 50 is quite amazing and I would imgaine it likly overhwlmong for new 50's.

Rift is a great game, the developers and the customer service are unmatched imo...I will be heading back to Rift soon, SWTOR is dead and i miss a real development team like Trion

Originally posted by bigsmiff

Originally posted by DannyGlover

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Originally posted by cybertrucker
I so much wanted to like rift. It had soooo much potential. However it had the most unsocial group if players i had ever encountered. I leveled to 42 and felt like i was running around with bots most of the time. The game looked great. The customization was great. The community well it felt like it wasnt there

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Faeblight has a great community. If that was your only barrier, Id suggest making a character on that server.

I agree. I play on Faeblight and the community is great there.

I play on Faeblight as well.  It is a great community on both Guardian and Defiant.

Originally posted by Noam

Originally posted by grimfall

Originally posted by Vorthanion

Originally posted by dead2soon

These events are designed with level 50's in mind. The number of items you recieve scale upwards based on level. I've collected somewhere in the neighborhood of 5000 ingots with hardly any effort. Also 15k planarite at level 50 is not that much. You are just trying to do things at the wrong time is all. Can it be done yes. Should these be done at low level. Not really as it would be a grindfest.

Wasn't that suppose to be one of the big mainstays of the game?  That events like this wouldn't focus only on high levels and that lower levels would have just as much of an affect on the progress of said events as any other level range?  Yet events in the past along with this one have to this point, had their main focus on high levels and I find that rather disingenous of the developers and just plain typically disappointing of the MMO genre in general.

...and gamers wonder why so many people rush to end game, when half the time it's the developers themselves that are the problem.

No, it was always the design that lower level players could support, but the heavy hitting was done by higher levels.  You may have been doing some wishcasting there when you were reading.

I agree.  This game has always been designed around level 50 content.  Just read Hartsmans comments pre release.  With fast elveling where one can go 1-50 in 1-3 days played there is no beed to focus on gameplay below level 50.  the amount of content post 50 is quite amazing and I would imgaine it likly overhwlmong for new 50's.

The game is about being at level 50.  Many of the neat perks and aspects of the game are at level 50, but the game can still be fun and rewarding while leveling.  I have 4 alts (16, 18, 23, and a 50) in addition to my level 50 main.  I've been able to get 1 event mount and a few odds and end goodies on all of them along with my main.  They contributed to the event and got shinies.  What more needs to happen there?

My one love atm...

At level 50, if one is active, 15K isn't excessive.  I have two level 50's (warrior and rogue) and the warrior (pally/warlord) has the medic summon.  Rift is an entertaining game, but as with most such games, the end game is really limited.