Rift Expert Dungeon Streaming

A couple weeks ago now I started to do some livestreaming of dungeon runs back when I started up Guardian characters on Byriel with the Iniquity guild. Well, I’m pleased that my crew of guys have all finally reached L50 and are reasonably geared out. That means I’m going to start running more of the…

Twitter: A Guide

(not my standard gaming fare, but since I have this bloggy thingy here, I should probably use it for something at least.)   Are you the sort of person that takes one sideways glance at Twitter and thinks to themselves, “Why would I be interested in someone brushing their teeth?” Please, kill that misconception in…

Scratching My Questicles

The breakneck pace that I’ve been hitting lately as far as leveling goes has mostly been in the form of questing. Now I’ll admit I don’t always pay attention to why I’m doing quests, or even the rewards that come from them, but when I stop to read a bit of the text it does…

Ride the Caribou

I’ve tossed in my Defiant towel, for now at least. The Aussie guild that I bounced over to was just keeping me up way too late at night. Probably wasn’t healthy for me in the long run to work 5 days a week on 4 hours of sleep each night. I suppose I could have…

Night of Glory!

Last night was probably one of my most active nights of Rift yet. There’s a couple things I want to touch on, but almost all of it is over the 1.2 patch. The blog hasn’t been as active lately. Been busy drinking. Watching the Red Wings finish out an amazing series against San Jose. Getting…

Deep Looks : The Shaman

Sometimes I think the Internet just hates me a little. I was well on my way to posting my experiences with the Shaman and the power goes out at my workplace on exactly 6 PCs near me. 4 of which were unused entirely, and the 5th was only powering a monitoring dashboard that automatically restarted…

Tanking Expert IT

Last night I had my first taste at tanking some Expert dungeons as a shieldless cleric. It’s a bit disorienting going back to the lowbie dungeons on expert mode and not being able to pull half the dungeon at one time. One thing that bothers me, immensely, is when people point at 50 being some…

Playstyle Alt

Shortly after my last post I finally nudged my Cleric into his level 50 spot. Since then I’ve pretty much done my crafting dailies, scoured Shimmersand for Carmintium, and dick else with that toon. I’ve rolled an alt instead, as I’m going to need someone to do my weapon crafting after all. So yes, he’s…

Keeping Fresh

Yeah I’m still playing Rift, just about to hit the level cap. Most of my blogging time in the past has come when work slows down and I actually have free time. All of that is gone. Has been for weeks now. Probably also doesn’t help they changed our cube farm into this weird indie…

Deep Looks: The Justicar

First, I’m going to go out on a limb here and state openly that the Justicar, although popular, is not an overpowered class by any means. They’re reasonably tanky, have some group utility and do a fair job at supporting a single character. However, they have no way to break or prevent crowd control and…