RIFT Dungeon Runs/Coordination and Information (Now Includes Experts)

I wanted to create a thread on coordinating dungeon runs, and a place for people to ask questions about the dungeons. I imagine the 50s might use this to schedule Expert runs, especially when some of us “more casual” types make it to 50, and can’t grind a run every night. I think the low levels can use it as a way to find out which dungeons are good to gear up at what levels, and which ones are probably useless to do multiple runs in. So, feel free to coordinate!

For reference:
Realm of the Fae 16-19
Iron Tombs 17-21 Freemarch
Darkening Deep 22-26
Deepstrike Mines 24-28 Stonefield
The Foul Cascade 28-32 Scarlet Gorge
King’s Breach 33-37 Scarwood Reach
Runic Descent 38-42 Moonshade Highlands
The Fall of Lantern Hook 42-46 Droughtlands
Charmer’s Caldera 48-50 Shimmersand Desert
Abyssal Precipice 48-50 Iron Pine Peak

Experts
T1
No Hit, No Focus, 50 Toughness
Easiest > Hardest
Realm of the Fae > Iron Tomb > The Foul Cascade > King's Breach > Fall of Lantern Hook
Expert Rifts (5 man)

T2 (Double Plaques)
100 Hit, 100 Focus, 100 Toughness
Easiest > Hardest
Runic Desent > Abyssal Precipice > Charmer's Caldera > Darkening Deeps > Deepstrike Mines
Raid Rifts (10 man)

T3 Raids (Special Raid Plaques for Raid/T3 Gear)
200 Hit, 200 Focus, 150 Toughness
GSB
RoS (I think it's called RoS, it's the one with Alsbeth).
Instanced Raid Rifts (20 man)

So is Foul Cascade worth running to get gear as a lvl 30 mage, or am I wasting my time? Also, anyone interested in doing a Foul Cascade run tonight? I haven't been through it yet, and I would like to do a run.

I'm down, but I won't be on until around 9:30 Pacific. This weekend I'd like to run through some of the content I've missed, and this mostly means dungeons.

Sephirotic wrote:

I'm down, but I won't be on until around 9:30 Pacific. This weekend I'd like to run through some of the content I've missed, and this mostly means dungeons.

I'm EST, so I'll be in bed by then. I'll probably be looking to get on around 7pm EST.

Realm of the Fae -- lvl 16-19
Darkening Deep -- lvl 22-26

Regarding 50s and experts, and dungeons in general, what I've personally been trying to do is bring in as many folks as I can for the zones and educate folks on the dungeons to get a feel for the normals, and to hammer down solid guild tactics for the experts.

This accomplishes two things, mainly I want to foster an attitude of anyone/everyone in GWJ just grabbing whoever is available for runs and doing them, and hopefully keeping playing favorites or only doing runs with specific folks in your "team" to a minimum if possible.

The other thing is I'm trying to make sure we have a lot of guildies with exposure to the content and know how to run the encounters and can go back to the guild as a whole and lead their own runs and the guild can keep consistent boss tactics across the board for everyone. Which also helps us be able to just "grab and go" from whoever is on and able to do content.

Right now, it seems we have more folks dinging 50 every day, so my challenge has been how to make sure I can get all of those guys playtime in experts with guild groups, especially with some runs taking several hours as we hammer out tactics and get a feel for the encounters.

We do need to coordinate some runs for those still making their way to 50.

Foul cascade can definately be farmed for gear, but I wonder, given the rate we level, if it's worth it at 30 to farm for gear. Kings breech might be better, but I haven't been in it yet to try. Any thoughts? Also, foul cascade is a Female Doggo to get to!

I would like to get folks together for some lower level dungeon runs. If you're interested, post here. I am usually good for at least one after 9 pm EST. I am more Interested in the "doing of" the dungeon than gear. So far my crafted gear and drops in conjunction with the cairns has kept me at least in greens/blues appropriate to my level. I also feel like we are losing some of the guild folks who can't commit 8-10 hrs a day to play and get to 50 as fast as possible. There are a lot of 40-50s and the lower level folks are losing out on the play with GWJ experience that we had early on.

The planra dn cairne stuff are the best but since the cairnes are random they don't always give what you need (plus the cairne stuff is BOW so you can sell it). I used most of my LH gear until my mid 40s, they have a nice rogue armor grouping! IMO, LH is a better dungeon to get rogue gear.

I am level 40 now, but due to some remodeling going on at my house, my pc is dismantled at the moment. Only have my work laptop, and can't really do much but quest solo on it. Next Tuesday afternoon/evening should hopefully be up and running again.

karmajay wrote:

The planra dn cairne stuff are the best but since the cairnes are random they don't always give what you need (plus the cairne stuff is BOW so you can sell it). I used most of my LH gear until my mid 40s, they have a nice rogue armor grouping! IMO, LH is a better dungeon to get rogue gear.

Can you explain what you just wrote... it didn't make much sense to me. Where do you get "cairnes" gear?

I'm still working on my Rift jive lingo.

I enjoyed last night's IT run; got to see how every boss works and there were a few mistakes made during the run that I learned from. Good experience.

I'm planning on building a tank set while going DPS in Cicero/Skippa/whatever runs and once I get a piece or two, I'll be happy to tank runs for the incoming 50s and transfer that knowledge. Arovin, Hydi, Peste, whoever. It's pretty cool watching the group of 50s grow every day!

Shoal07 wrote:

Can you explain what you just wrote... it didn't make much sense to me. Where do you get "cairnes" gear?

Just about every zone in the game has "cairn(s)" and a puzzle. For the most part, cairns are just big mounds of dirt that you can interact with. Think of them as hidden buried treasure. Sometimes they can be actual treasure chests, barrels, corpses, or sunken boats. Inside you find a bag. Inside the bag is a level-appropriate random loot item (they are in increments of 5 levels with maximum levels for various zones).

Puzzles give similar loot, but you have to solve a puzzle in order to access the loot. Puzzles generally involve a lot of fast clicking on things. Either in order or in quantity.

MoonDragon wrote:
Shoal07 wrote:

Can you explain what you just wrote... it didn't make much sense to me. Where do you get "cairnes" gear?

Just about every zone in the game has "cairn(s)" and a puzzle. For the most part, cairns are just big mounds of dirt that you can interact with. Think of them as hidden buried treasure. Sometimes they can be actual treasure chests, barrels, corpses, or sunken boats. Inside you find a bag. Inside the bag is a level-appropriate random loot item (they are in increments of 5 levels with maximum levels for various zones).

Puzzles give similar loot, but you have to solve a puzzle in order to access the loot. Puzzles generally involve a lot of fast clicking on things. Either in order or in quantity.

Anyone who's done this feel like running a few blokes around to various cairns and puzzles?

Shoal07 wrote:
MoonDragon wrote:
Shoal07 wrote:

Can you explain what you just wrote... it didn't make much sense to me. Where do you get "cairnes" gear?

Just about every zone in the game has "cairn(s)" and a puzzle. For the most part, cairns are just big mounds of dirt that you can interact with. Think of them as hidden buried treasure. Sometimes they can be actual treasure chests, barrels, corpses, or sunken boats. Inside you find a bag. Inside the bag is a level-appropriate random loot item (they are in increments of 5 levels with maximum levels for various zones).

Puzzles give similar loot, but you have to solve a puzzle in order to access the loot. Puzzles generally involve a lot of fast clicking on things. Either in order or in quantity.

Anyone who's done this feel like running a few blokes around to various cairns and puzzles?

Why wait?

http://www.kfguides.com/rift/puzzles...

Just found this thread, and hopefully will hit 50 by this weeken/start of the week I'm excited to start experts!

So, between KB and FC (which are fairly close in levels) I would say KB is the better dungeon if you're looking for gear. The drops appear to be more frequent and of much better quality.

On the level note - I found out the hard way that you NEED to be at the minimum level. Group mobs that con higher than you tend to resist everything. Also, if you pull aggro, you're going to drop quick if they out level you. At 31/32, I had to stop being a chloro in KB (33 min) because my damage was resisted frequently, which meant I wasn't doing any healing. I think I did ok as a Necro, but I wasn't doing the kind of damage that I could do in a FC, for example.

Healers can go in slightly below min because there isn't any resist! I ran LH for the first time at 40, and we had 1 rouge with a bard soul up and we had no problems at all. However any drops you get you won't be able to use to awhile Its also hard to get pug groups to accept you... /cry

Well, the thing about mage healers (chloro) is that they need to nuke to heal. Basically, the life damage they deal will heal the party and moreso the tank (due to Synthesis). Their actual direct heals are on cooldown and thus can't be relied upon for steady healing. So when you chloro a dungeon that's higher level than you, your Ruin gets resisted, your tank doesn't get heals and things go bad...

Priest healers, however, don't have to worry about resists

I'd also like to coordinate some regular expert runs for any other west coast people out there. I generally don't get home from work until after 7:30 PST, so the groups doing experts currently are ready for bed about the time I'm ready to get started.

Are there any other people at 50 or near 50 for whom 9pm PST is the beginning of their night and not the end of it?

Holy cow MMO's have changed a bit over the years. I remember when WoW first started and I leisurely levelled up a couple of characters to 60 over the course of like...a year.

Tried RIFT out with my wife and we liked it enough to stick with it. I started a couple weeks after launch when Direct 2 Drive was offering 20% off so we got a deal.

I haven't played WoW since Burning Crusade launched so I suppose I'm a bit out of touch with things. I've played Lotro with the wife but we play at a very methodical pace because we like to take our time exploring.

I initially made a character of every class to try out before deciding on a main.

I was not expecting half of the people in the game to be LEVEL 50!!

Wtf? I must have missed the mmo memo on this one because I was utterly boggled by the number of people at 50 only 2 weeks into the game. It wasn't like that after WoW launched. It took people a long time to level up.

It's a bit intimidating, to be honest. I've been playing my mage A LOT (for me) and I'm only level 25.

I'm on the GWJ server and I have an alt in the guild. I need to get an invite for my mage. Meeple invited me the other day but for some reason it didn't go through.

At any rate I would love to run dungeons but I'm afraid I'm not going to be 50 for awhile. I like to quest/Rift/PVP/play alts. I'm enjoying warfronts a lot and I'd love some organized pvp with Goodjers.

Sadly though I am apparently gimp at mmo's now.

I'll ask around for an invite to the guild later but it's going to be awhile before I can actually raid or run experts.

Anyone want to run IT tonight? I've yet to venture in there, so I certainly can't lead.

I have either a lvl 22 paladin or a 22 mage I can take.

Art,

There are lower level folks running around. Welcome.

SpyNavy wrote:

Art,

There are lower level folks running around. Welcome.

And all those folks who power leveled to 50, they will be creating and leveling alts. There will be plenty of people around at all content stages for a while.

Wtf? I must have missed the mmo memo on this one because I was utterly boggled by the number of people at 50 only 2 weeks into the game.

I just got charged the sub so it has been out at least 5 weeks

And all those folks who power leveled to 50, they will be creating and leveling alts. There will be plenty of people around at all content stages for a while.

I'll say, i really did not power level at all. I just did quests, attacked rifts and invasions when I was near them, did some dungeon runs with guildies and POOF, I was 50!

karmajay wrote:

I'll say, i really did not power level at all. I just did quests, attacked rifts and invasions when I was near them, did some dungeon runs with guildies and POOF, I was 50!

Yeah, there is more than enough content to get you to 50 without resorting to grinding mobs or other nonsense. I was thinking of power leveling more in terms of hours logged; Steam says I've put in 130 odd hours and I'm still lvl 44 so there are some folks with their nose to the grindstone or I'm an exceptionally slow leveler...or both.

Yeah I've put a lot of time into the game but it is the only game I'm playing atm.

I'm guessing this might be the most apt place to put this, although I don't know if it will be see as much but I'm going to make a suggestions that maybe if we have groups running instances and are using vent they drop down to a group channel. This will allow the broad "defiant" channel to be used for other group set up or questions. If you guys like having everyone in one channel thats fine, I just find it intimidating to ask any questions or say anything if I am not in the group that happens to be running at the moment. Anyhoo, just a suggestion, so feel free to ignore it, or go for it.

Holla wrote:

I'm guessing this might be the most apt place to put this, although I don't know if it will be see as much but I'm going to make a suggestions that maybe if we have groups running instances and are using vent they drop down to a group channel. This will allow the broad "defiant" channel to be used for other group set up or questions. If you guys like having everyone in one channel thats fine, I just find it intimidating to ask any questions or say anything if I am not in the group that happens to be running at the moment. Anyhoo, just a suggestion, so feel free to ignore it, or go for it. :)

I play a lot and there's almost no one in any of the rooms except for the room where people are running Expert dungeons, which is what I think you're talking about. Technically, they are already in another channel, as they always seem to be in the Group 1 channel. When they're not running experts it's a good hangout place, but when they are, it's pandamonium.

Even if you're alone, try sitting in the main channel. People will drop in, especially if the Expert crowd is running a dungeon.

For me, I generally try to hop into one of the channels, and if there are folks in one chatting, and we're running an instance somewhere, and especially depending on the team, I'll try to pop into a different one.

But, don't ever be intimidated or feel like you are interrupting. I can't speak for everyone, but as for myself, I do not ever mind helping with any question or activity that's within my capacity to help.

Anyone interested in running a normal (I'm only lvl 39) Runic Descent tonite or tomorrow?