Originally posted by rmk70

Above posts look like marketing plants... Sign-up date...

 

In other news, this reveal will fall a bit flat as nda is already off and beta weekends are pretty much open to anyone. Decent soul, not amazing. Harbringer is the only cool soul for SL.

Im gonna have to disagree with you on this, while I love the Harbinger to death, the Tactician is just so unique and fun to play that to me this is the coolest to be introduced, even if Mage is my main.

Originally posted by Izork

Thanks for the good answers!

Seems it's still alive and kicking. Guess I have made my choice and will return (:

 

However, I cannot seem to find anywhere I can pre-order Storm Legion as a box? And no collecters edition ( i got the original collecters edition aswell)

This is in Denmark / EU

Storm Legion is mostly a digital expansion, there are a few shops that will be selling it, the only one I can think of that is listed that has stores in Denmark (Danish myself) is Gamestop, but im not sure if they will have it outside US, I bought the digital version from Trion myself.

Icewatch is always active, theres always groups and things to do, Blightweald has a decent population aswell, and things only seem to be getting better, theres a stable and healthy population, and Storm Legion is sure to bring some people back and hopefully bring in some new blood aswell.

Right now Tempest Rising World event is running which is the prelude to the expansion, and there was just a massive overhaul of pretty much all souls so everyone is getting used to new specs and finding new ways to optimize their class.

Its definatly a good time to be a Rift player, and Trion just keeps delivering. Personally I just picked up the 12 months sub deal where you get the expansion as a perk of subbing.

Originally posted by Nitth

Lets not forget the new classes or are they considered part of a patch?

Originally posted by Istavaan

 

It's an end gaming raiding mmo, this was to be expected.

The classes are part of the expansion, ive been playing Harbinger and Defiler so far, both are fun in their own right, i prefer the Harbinger myself.

Rift is more than an raiding game these days, its evolved quite a bit, theres lots of people who play it without doing much raiding, and theres many alternative routes to improving your character and obtaining gear.

Originally posted by Reizla

Originally posted by Nemorak
New souls, dimensions and a bunch of things are available for people below 50, but its true the bulk of the expansion is aimed at the max level crowd, but Trion has added so much to the lower levels over the last year, its a breeze getting to 50 now a days, I just powerleveled a Rogue to 50 via Dungeons and Instant Adventure.

I started playing RIFT only last week. I did participate during betas and thought the game was ...meh... back then. Now with all the changed, RIFT I enjoy RIFT a lot more then I did during the betas. So far, my mijn char is only level 21, so a long wau to go till I can see the new expansion. None the less, I did buy it with the annual-sub deal because I'm enjoying RIFT so much that I think I'll still be playing it a year from now. Best feature I think that TRION has added is the housing system - can't wait to build my own house!

Its definatly one of the big features in Storm Legion, I never cared much for housing, but dimensions actually got me kindda interested in it, its a very deep system.

Originally posted by cybertrucker

It saddens me that RIFT created such an Anti Social Atmosphere. Soloing to level cap because no one cared to group to do dungeons because they could just hold off untill level cap was the dumbest thing I have ever seen put into an MMO. Auto grouping For RIFT events lead to what i like to call Hit and Run groups where 90% of the time no one would say as much as hello or good bye.

The gameplay was fun. The classes were fun, The world was great looking. However the Anti social atmosphere ruined the game at least for me.

Im hoping GW2 will not suffer from this. As my main is only level 22 its to soon to tell. But kind of getting the same impression.

I dont understand this at all, Instant Adventure is constantly filled with people, im learning new people every day through it and Rift has more options for grouping than any other game I know of. Yes you can solo to max level, but you can in pretty much any themepark, but Rift provides you with every opportunity to group if you want to, ive just leveled a Rogue to 50 doing nothing but Instant Adventure and Dungeons, havent been soloing at all.

Originally posted by Wicoa

Originally posted by Nemorak

Originally posted by Wicoa

"Anytime Soon"

That is different from it won't happen and the same as It is planned but not yet and probably will be in place a couple of months after pandaria. The evidence shows that it is up and running in the current end game zones and so it will be in pandaria.  They just want the current players through before they open the flood gates.

 

Doesn't change the fact your spreading false information, based on something that has yet to happend. And your making assumptions about what the devs want without having any factual info.

The facts are there for me because the system is in place for the current endgame zones, live now.  That is enough evidence for me and that he hasn't denied  it will come, he has just said "not anytime soon".

You cannot claim this as fact for your argument that it will happen and neither can I for mine, what I can claim is that it is currently operating at the top level and he has said and I repeat "not anytime soon" (for pandaria).  Which is totally and utterly different from "it won't be coming".

 

So you decided to come to a 3rd party site and complain about something happening in an endgame that wont matter in 24 hours ? to tell people that it will affect MoP dailies while it wont, and to complain about a scenario in MoP thats yet to happend and might never happend?

Makes sense.

Originally posted by Wicoa

"Anytime Soon"

That is different from it won't happen and the same as It is planned but not yet and probably will be in place a couple of months after pandaria. The evidence shows that it is up and running in the current end game zones and so it will be in pandaria.  They just want the current players through before they open the flood gates.

 

Doesn't change the fact your spreading false information, based on something that has yet to happend. And your making assumptions about what the devs want without having any factual info.

Originally posted by Wicoa

Originally posted by Nemorak

Originally posted by lizardbones

 

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Originally posted by Wicoa
People on pve realms are now being flagged for pvp.

 

The pictures below is what MOP dailies will be like soon.  The second picture is where the current main daily quest area is.

Someone else wrote this:

http://i46.tinypic.com/34xnzhl.jpghttp://i46.tinypic.com/2gtyw3o.jpg(i lagged out shortly after taking these pictures)This aint even world pvp, this just ruins the game.If you don't have state of the art internet your doomed for life.Beeing unable to do dailies without a 40-man raid makes no sense to me.Or beeing a level 58 getting ganked for 2 hours before reaching Thrallmar.*thumbs up*                              

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How are the players being flagged for PvP?

 

They arent he's just exaggerating, first off CRZ only matches the same servertype, im on a PvE server, and we are only matched with other PvE servers.

2nd of all CRZ is not used in Pandaria, so the whole scare scenario with Pandaria dailies is not valid.

Yes it is go read up on it, it is planned for release for pandaria after the expansion launches.  CRZ is being rolled out into everything.  Take a look up at the picture of the current expansion in the current capped level dailies area.

Also I am not exaggerating pvp flagging of pve players is happening and is true. Possibly due to a buggy system but I am not lying.

 

"GC Answer: We are not going to enable CRZ for Pandaria zones anytime soon. We will let you invite friends from other realms."

http://twitter.com/Ghostcrawler/status/246387077472739328

"Yes. You will see folks from other realms while questing in Pandaria, but they were all invited not assigned by us through CRZ."

http://twitter.com/Ghostcrawler/status/246687487198646272

"CRZ is to have life in old zones. There will be plenty of folks in MoP zones."

http://twitter.com/Ghostcrawler/status/246691848238804994

Please do your research before putting up scare scenarios on 3rd party websites.

Secondly the only acknowledged PvP flagging "issue" by Blizzard is people stupid enough to attack players that flag themselves, theres not a single acknowledged issue in regards to people being flagged for no reason, theres a very long status post on US forums about this.

Originally posted by lizardbones

 

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Originally posted by Wicoa
People on pve realms are now being flagged for pvp.

 

The pictures below is what MOP dailies will be like soon.  The second picture is where the current main daily quest area is.

Someone else wrote this:

http://i46.tinypic.com/34xnzhl.jpghttp://i46.tinypic.com/2gtyw3o.jpg(i lagged out shortly after taking these pictures)This aint even world pvp, this just ruins the game.If you don't have state of the art internet your doomed for life.Beeing unable to do dailies without a 40-man raid makes no sense to me.Or beeing a level 58 getting ganked for 2 hours before reaching Thrallmar.*thumbs up*                              

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How are the players being flagged for PvP?

 

They arent he's just exaggerating, first off CRZ only matches the same servertype, im on a PvE server, and we are only matched with other PvE servers.

2nd of all CRZ is not used in Pandaria, so the whole scare scenario with Pandaria dailies is not valid.

Originally posted by InFlamestwo
How many hours till servers are up again? nice to see Vanguard go F2P earlier though. Created a Paladin just before the patch on a Trial account haha.

Another 3 hours to go.

Originally posted by Storman1977

Or, maybe, just maybe, it could be the maintaince and patches that they had scheduled and posted on the launcher since Friday...

That was the 24th, not today, and that maintenance already took place.

And this isnt only affecting LOTRO, its affecting all of their games and websites.

Was wondering why i couldnt login or access the website.

Originally posted by VikingGamer

Originally posted by Moodsie

Its a joke, the Update is made up of an Auction House they deactivated at launch, and was supposed to be a launch feature, now they are marketing it as an Update feature?

The 2 nightmare dungeons were also deactivated at launch and now has become update features.

The only thing new in this update is 7 missions :/ So much for Ragnar's promises.

So they should have just released the AH and those dungeons with bugs rather than hold them back? I don't think anyone has claimed they were intended to be brand new features always intended to be added to the game later. This first issue was intended to be new missions and 7 new missions in less than a month is ok by me.

 

You dont get it do you ? The Tradepost works fine on their Testlive server right now, and has been for a couple of days since they deployed 1.02, but they are still holding it back for another 2 weeks so they can market it as an Update feature.

The Nightmare modes for the 2 dungeons works fine aswell, but are being held back to be marketed as update features.

Ragnar spoke a big game about delivering new features and content, not about rebranding deactivated stuff.

Originally posted by marz.at.play

Originally posted by Moodsie

Its a joke, the Update is made up of an Auction House they deactivated at launch, and was supposed to be a launch feature, now they are marketing it as an Update feature?

The 2 nightmare dungeons were also deactivated at launch and now has become update features.

The only thing new in this update is 7 missions :/ So much for Ragnar's promises.

So what you're saying is that there IS something new in this update...7 missions to boot! I dont' see why you have to QQ.

 

On another note, monthly updates are too soon for me. I've been playing since early launch talking my time. I play 1-2 hours nightly and just finished Kingsmouth.

No what im saying is holding back launch features and rebranding them as Update features is not the way to do things.

If you think its fine to hold back an Auction house feature for 5 weeks from the game, and take out dungeon content to be able to rebrand it, then thats your choice.

Its a joke, the Update is made up of an Auction House they deactivated at launch, and was supposed to be a launch feature, now they are marketing it as an Update feature?

The 2 nightmare dungeons were also deactivated at launch and now has become update features.

The only thing new in this update is 7 missions :/ So much for Ragnar's promises.