January is almost over and Rift patch 1.7 is soon to release. It won’t be long before we’re celebrating the one year anniversary of the MMORPG we so love. One thing I’ve always enjoyed is a good pie-in-the-sky wish list. It is high time I laid out my plans for Rift in 2012. These are the things that I hope to see that aren’t necessarily nuts and bolts oriented. They might not be what you’d consider “valuable” features. They’re just fun things that I think would make the game more enjoyable to me.
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It seems there is a rampant wave of doom-calling in the blogosphere about the failure of Star Wars: The Old Republic. It is probably obvious by the lack of posts on Epic Slant about the game that I wasn’t that interested in it. I’m still not but sometimes it is just nice to fit in with the crowd, especially when you get to say (in some ways) “I told you so.” Let me be clear, I’m not saying that I accurately predicted that this game would fail and am now taking joy in it. What I’m saying is that all the complaints now are things I saw in beta that led me to not buy the game. The things that I pointed out and that people told me “I was missing the point” on. For all of those things, I told you so!
Greetings everyone! I’m sure some of you might be curious as to where I’ve been these last few months. To be honest I haven’t had a lot to write about and I’ve been busy with the business aspects of The Raider’s Companion‘s. When I wrote The Guild Leader’s Companion I had no idea what I was in for. I made a lot of mistakes with the release, the marketing, and how it was presented. I did not want to repeat those mistakes (I want to make new ones ;D) with The Raider’s Companion so I’m building up a solid foundation instead of just throwing the book out into the wild on its own!
It seems Rift patch 1.7 is where we’ll finally see some changes to the cleric souls. In my eyes this has been a long time coming as the healing souls in particular have been rather neglected. There is a whole list of changes with more being promised in patch 1.8. I’m honestly pleased with what I’ve seen so far providing it makes it to the live servers. Some of my concerns have been addressed while others are still pending. In either event, the healing souls are only improving and that is a good thing in my eyes.
I’ve been waiting patiently for Trion to release the 1.7 patch notes for Rift. I figured it would be this week and it seems I was right! One major change that I am pleased with is the destruction of the “two tier” dungeon system. Now maybe we can start running those previously tier one dungeons again. We’re also starting Rift’s first item reconfiguration. I’m a bit worried about that but we’ll see how it goes.
There is a lot of work that needs to be done balancing Rift’s cleric souls. For the most part the class has been completely neglected. We’ve seen a few changes here or there but we’ve never gotten the overhaul that the others have. More importantly the purifier, sentinel, and warden have been virtually ignored. The healing souls need love but whenever you talk about it on the forums people foam at the mouth and yell about how our DPS is not comparable to other classes and must be raised! That is all anyone focuses on so let’s look at that shall we? What is the problem with our DPS?Contact
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