Poll Results, New Poll, and soon to be New guide.

The results of the crafting poll are in! After 574 votes the most popular profession is Outfitter! Here are the results to the crafting poll for anyone who wants to see in the future as I am about to take it off the site now.
1st: Outfitter - 22% (131 votes)
2nd: Armorsmith - 15% (91 votes)
3rd: Apothecary - 15% (90 votes)
4th: Runecrafter - 11% (68 votes)
5th: Weaponsmith - 9% (57 votes)
Last: Artificer - 9% (55 votes)
Other: None - 1% (9 votes)
Other: Gathering Professions - 12% (73 votes)


The next poll will be up in a few minutes so if you are reading this there is probably a new poll up, so vote!


The next guide will be up probably either tonight or tomorrow. I haven't had much time to make the new guide because I've just been generally busy and will be busy again for another week after tomorrow because of work so I'm hoping to get thie guide done tonight or early tomorrow. *Edit* Unfortunately because of work I wont be able to get this guide out till probably early tomorrow, sorry everyone.


Miku~

Understanding the Leaderboards in Rifts!?

I'm so confused! I've been doing rift after rift after rift trying to figure out how to understand the leaderboard system in rifts! So as I make this guide I want you all to know that it is indeed a work in progress and I will be working on it over the next while as I figure out and get more information on the rift leaderboard system. In the meantime I will post a guide of the information that I DO know.

Lets start with the basics, what is a leaderboard? When you close a rift, you get rewards. The rewards are based off of the leaderboard system. How well you do against the other people in the rift is how good of rewards you will get. To open up the leaderboard click this button during a rift, 

It will open a box that looks like this,

Whenever you complete a stage of a rift the leaderboard will be updated and all of the people that helped during that stage will get medals,

The higher your score, the better your rewards. I'll get more into that in a bit though, for now I want to talk about how to get the medals. You get medals by helping during the rift, you have a bar that shows how well you are doing on the side of your screen. The higher you get the bar the better of a medal you will get.

Gold medals are worth about 4000 points

Silver medals are worth about 2000 points

Bronze medals are worth about 1000 points

Sometimes these medals are worth more then these amounts (I'm looking into why) but they are usually worth these amounts.

How does that help though? How many points do I need to get good rewards? This is what confused me for a really long time. You have another bar on the leader board system which we will call the rewards bar and it is what determines your rewards.

When you first join a rift and you have 0 points the bar will look like this,

When you get 2000 points your bar will be updated, in the picture I ended up getting 4000 points though so my bar went from 0/2000 to 2000/4000, if I only got 2000 points by getting a silver medal my bar would have said 0/4000 because the number will reset every time you fill the bar.

If you noticed the picture beside the bar also changed,

This is how you know how well of rewards you will get. It looks just like a bronze medal but I don't want to get to confusing so lets say at the end I will get a bronze reward, which is not very good. We want to keep filling the bar until the picture changes so that at the end of the rift we will get gold rewards. The rewards bar is harder to fill up during major rifts but you can get better prizes in major rifts and there are usually more rounds to fill it up.

Bonus part of the guide: Bonus stages!

Eventually after defeating enough stages of a rift a timer will appear. (Usually around stage three)

If you defeat the stage within that amount of time when you get to stage four there will be another timer. The faster you beat stage three the more time you will have to do stage four.

If you can beat that stage within the amount of time given you will be taken to a bonus stage. The bonus stage is just like a regular stage but it is one last chance to raise your rewards bar for better rewards!

Good luck rifiting! Hope this helped!

Here is a checklist of what I still need to figure out:

-Why people sometimes have purple names, most of the time people have white names and our own names are blue, but why are some people names purple?

- If you can get the bar past gold.

If you have any questions, would like me to add anything to my guide, would like to tell me why people have purple names!, leave a comment in the comment section below. :)

Hopefully this helped, and I'll be adding more to the guide as I figure out more information on the leader board system.

Miku~

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I've been playing like crazy since release, almost level 20 already! I've been playing my defiant character (Miku) on the RP-PVP shard Sunrest, which has been a lot of fun. I really enjoy the guild I have been playing with (Immortal Council) they are great and a lot of fun just to talk to and group with. I plan to make my guardian character on the PvE shard Belmont to play with soon, I've been busy leveling my rogue, trying to get enough information to do this guide, and a few other things so I haven't gotten a chance to yet. Anyways it's time for me to get back to playing Rift! I'm loving this game and I hope all of you guys are also. :)

Head start!

Head start is finally here and for most of us, probably anyone reading this blog at this point, that means launch. So I would like to say, good luck, have fun, and enjoy the game.


Miku~

Server Lists

Rift finally released the official server list! We can finally pick which servers we will be playing on! Here is the list~



US Servers
Belmont PvE
Briarcliff PvP
Byriel PvE
Deepstrike PvP
Faeblight RP
Gnarlwood PvE
Greybriar PvE
Keenblade PvE
Lotham PvP
Reclaimer PvP
Seastone PvP
Shadefallen RP
Shatterbone PvE
Snarebrush PvP
Spitescar PvP
Sunrest PVP-RP
Wolfsbane PvE



EU Servers
Akala DE RP
Brutwacht DE PvE
Trübkopf DE PvP
Argent EN RP
Blightweald EN PvE
Cloudborne EN PvP
Firesand EN PVP-RP
Icewatch EN PvE
Steampike EN PvE
Whitefall EN PvP
Brisesol FR PvE
Rubicon FR PvP

Poll Results

This past week on the website there has been a poll on the site to see what you guys thought was the calling that you found most interesting. The results are in and after 433 votes here are the results to the poll.

1st place - Rogue: 33% of the votes (143/433)
2nd place - Cleric: 31% of the votes (138/433)
3rd place - Mage: 20% of the votes (88/433)
Last place - Warrior: 14% of the votes (64/433)

While the rogue calling being in first wasn't suprising what was suprising to me was warrior coming in last place with only 14% of the votes. The numbers are fairly even though which is good. It means every second person we see shouldn't all be the same calling and we shouldn't have to much trouble rolling against each other for equipment.

The next poll will be a crafting poll, I would love to see the numbers on which crafting professions people plan on playing so don't forget to vote when coming to the site!

Miku~

Headstart Info

We can now download the Rift client! Headstart starts on Thursday, Feb. 24th at 10:00 AM PST, so make sure you have it downloaded and ready to go! For more information and the link to download the client click here. Make sure to uninstall the beta before installing Rift,


Miku~

Official Fansite!

I would like to thank Trion for adding "This is not a Rift" as an Official Fansite! I never would have thought when starting up this blog a few weeks ago that it would ever have been as popular as it has been, because of that I would also like to thank all of the people who have been viewing the blog and also the people who have been leaving comments. Thank you!

With that all being said I had planned to do one guide during the downtime before headstart but unfortunately I didn't get all the screenshots I needed in time. :( I have a few ideas for a few guides I might start working on soon but if you would like to see a specific guide just ask in the comments section below and I might add it to my list of projects for the site. 

The guide I'm planning on working on next is a guide about the leaderboards during rifts. If you don't know what those are, well I'll be explaining it when I make the guide. So far I've taken a few screenshots of what I need and I still need to test a few things out, luckily you can do rifts as soon as you get out of the starting area at level 6ish so I should get the guide out quickly after headstart.

Miku~