MMORGs and role playing discussion.

Me too. This will be my second Rift beta event. I was impressed enough with the first beta to buy the game at release. I need a good MMO to hold me over until SWTOR comes out.

Tears in the Rift offer dynamic events and invasions that are pretty fun. Breaks up the monotony of questing. It's somewhat like public quests on WAR without the quests being nailed down to one specific spot or one clock. What is really cool is that the Rifts scale to the number of players in the area. I joined an impromptu 40 man raid to clear a Rift one night. It was pretty cool. The ability to create complex builds is also a nice break from the ordinary.Gameplay isn't as polished as WoW, but it is fun which is the most important part.Edited by Taq, : No reason given.

The problem I had when joining a public group is that you couldn't tell who the tanks and healers were. It would be cool if you could define your role for public groups and have that role displayed your raid frame. This is especially true in Rift where your appearance does not reflect your playstyle given the flexibility built into each class. Standard trinity roles have been around long enough for people to know that DPS needs to focus on the tank's target and the healer needs to keep the tank up at the expense of the DPS dying. If they made this one tweak it would vastly improve public grouping, along with an algorithm that created raid groups with the trinity in mind.I know it is only beta, but it would also be nice to see harder rifts in the next event. If they scaled up between stages to meet the size of the raid group that would be pretty cool.Edited by Taq, : No reason given.

At least for WoW, it was one button press for each global cooldown. All the addons did was make the skill and target easier to find. Without the addons you had to search through 10-20 buff and debuff tiles for each character in your raid group, or all raid groups, target that character, and then hit the button for the decurse. That is just poor UI design. The addons fixed it.

I agree with everything else you said, but I disagree here. That information is already on the screen without any addons. It just happens to be in a form that is really hard to access. I am ok with addons that take the information already in the game and make it more accessible. Addons like Boss mods I don't like, but cooldown timers are fine with me.