Skuld is very much doable, you just need to find a realm with over 40 people (not hard) and mass call people to raid it, usually over half the realm will tp, i did a cem as war that started with 28 people, about 22 made it to skuld but only 9 including me lasted until the end and 4 people died, however, we managed to do it with only one priest and one pally, everyone was very weak and unmaxed, but via a good combination of classes and knowing the patterns you can do it. And everything before skuld can be done with only a handful of people and gives a good amount of loot.
RIFTS: Infestation [Season 3, Nov 14th to Nov 21st]
Wilhuff
#59
What made you think I said I could solo o2?
Stop posting fake news. It’s honestly sad and quite pathetic
You want to throw shade, you do your homework first .
Heteraabd
#62
same i did one with 40 ppl starting and only 4 or so ppl finished with me. one of them being @Toastrz
Nevov
#63
Was just about to post some tips as I’ve done a few cems today but…
Was in the last phase of Skuld, the circling skulls did a perfect explosion on me.
Yeah, Ceme does seem the out and out toughest of all the godlands dungeons now, difficulty more fitting with an encounter dungeon IMO, since to overcome the HP scaling you either need a select small maxed group, or the whole realm to join. Going in with a small group of random 0/8s and trying to carry them is futile, since they contribute to the scaling which lengthens the fight, and don’t contribute DPS, so it’s a double whammy.
The Death Thread
Wilhuff
#64
Nevov has died 3 times on rifts so far
Does this mean I’m better than Nevov? I haven’t died once.
Nevov
#70
Don’t draw too much from it! I’d already ruled out doing a high fame run since the mode is so infested with hacked client (saw so many people autonex survive in prev seasons, I’ve got a bit disillusioned with it), and don’t really have the commitment for a 7-day run, certainly not going to make time under that atmosphere.
So I’m only in it for fun purposes this time around (didn’t even play it until today) and decided to set my own ‘victory condition’ of sweeping the board of all the Tinkerer quests – many need cem marks, hence my overloading of that risky dungeon. I was only 2/8 spd/wis, normally wouldn’t be in there until max def.
Heteraabd
#71
you cant play on any server except ussouth with the hacked client. (a friend told me it does not let u switch challenger servers)
Nevov
#72
That’s I’m afraid to say not true, I have been watching people autoaim and autonexus in EUW all day. Edit: and autoloot pots, of course!
Niegil
#76
For clarification, clients can only get on their “best server”, but they can’t go anywhere else.
JimdaFish
#77
Is this something DECA added, or is it some type of hacked client feature/bug? If the former, DECA should add that to prod, just to make hacking a little inconvenient.
Nevov
#79
Well, I really enjoyed this Rifts a lot, as it mixed two of my favourite dungeons together: Parasite and Oryx/WC, and was strongly focused on the core of kill quests to close realm, repeat.
Pic of the last of us online, in the final infested castle before the servers shut down, @Cantoo & @EatLikeMe (@COOLXXXX too but suicided halfway through castle). We killed O1 one last time and had just arrived at O2, started his their 2nd phase, when the plug got pulled.
Am a bit tired to write proper thoughts as I decided to play it until it ended, so this is a bit rambly, but I thought the whole thing from castle to WC was top design.
The barrelling was good fun to do and meant even cowardish players (like me) could join in all the phases of O2, unlike standard O2’s sun & dance which often get a lot of spectators, and you had to be a bit alert of getting barreled yourself, which kept engagement levels high for me.
Other things at O2: the slight tweaks to lessen the suns equivalent phase, the jumping in the chase phase worked nice and gave me a couple of scares, and especially good was the new simple 3rd/halfway phase “fear the painlings” or whatev, which broke up the normal fight nicely vs standard O2. And O2 seemed to behave better as well, seemed more firmly chained to the middle of the room.
For myself: I loved being back on mystic which I’ve not played for ages; I’d forgotten how much I like using the T6 with careful but fast aiming needed to do curse-but-not-stasis, so if that’s swept away in future orb changes I’ll feel like I had a good farewell run with it. Even the slight regret of not being a faster class (nearly went trix again) was lifted when I got a Conflict as I forgot it did speedy—haven’t used it since the old days with its awful long cooldown—and it’s way better being spammable. (Edit: reading the wiki it changed a year ago.)
Main negative to the season was Cemetery, it was the hardest mark by far to get because of the reworked difficulty. I felt really bad for the 0/8s calling Cems desperately in the last couple of days trying to rustle up people to join, for that single completion, with most (all?) people playing seriously spurning them entirely. Comparing it to with how people were shouting Manors, and some always willing to join that - me included! But cems, nope. Despite it offering high XP, there’s something no longer attractive about that dungeon design, most people in this Rifts ignored it after getting the 1 required mark, and focused on the easier OTs, Tombs, Lockers despite them being rarer, for the 3x and 5x mark quests; and the other godlands dungeons for maxing pots…
Before the end people were even offering Deca rings (on prod) to try and coax others into the dungeon to help out. It’s getting off track, but what if the HP scale didn’t kick in until say 25+ players, so large groups can’t steamroll it, but lesser groups aren’t penalised. Anyway gripe over.
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