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Monday, October 5, 2009
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The Morheim Massacre
I'd been delaying getting to this as I had a ridiculous amount of footage and dreaded having to compress it into 10 minutes of action. But I did and here it is: our spy adventure into Morheim. Fun and questing was to be had, though not on the part of the poor asmodians. By the end of it my kill counter said 179 kills that day, but I know it clocked over at some point during our session so it's more. But an official figure of 179 is fine by me ^^. At one point we did an excellent job of re-enacting the zombie walk scene from Shaun of the Dead, with asmos instead of zombies.
It's also worth watching to see how sorcerer group PvP tends to go, sans healer. And how sorcerer CC is broken by laggy group members <.<
The spy quests we completed were:
It's also worth watching to see how sorcerer group PvP tends to go, sans healer. And how sorcerer CC is broken by laggy group members <.<
The spy quests we completed were:
- Celestine's Antidote
- A Gift of Love - ARGGH
- Message to a Spy
- That Old Elyos Spirit
- Respect for Deltras - honouring our favourite genocidal general ^^
Sunday, October 4, 2009
It's Mau Time - Ranger self buffs and when to use them
One of the things Rangers are known for are their powerful self-buffs. Three of them have very good PvE uses, and the others are either situational or good in PvP.
Dodging increases your evasion for 200. The first self buff you get at level 13, and great for when a mob is wailing at your face in melee, though its usage is severely diminished once you get the next two.
Aiming increases your accuracy by 200. Great for when you're fighting higher level mobs who have a higher chance of dodging, parrying or blocking (especially in instances) or when fighting Gladiators, Templars, Assassins and other Rangers. For example, in Fire Temple fighting the level 37 elite boss, keep this up throughout the whole fight and your shots will be dodged a lot less.
Strong Shots, the last and best self buff, increases physical attack of your bow by 5%. Keep this up as often as possible!
These three buffs each last for 1 minute, and have a shared cooldown. You can also have all three up at the same time, so having Aiming and Strong Shots while fighting a boss is a really good idea. Unfortunately, there is only one rank of these buffs, despite the misleading tooltip... maybe in an expansion?
Focused Evasion is something you get as a Scout, and has only one rank. It's great for avoiding an unavoidable attack (eg. Kraka's huge AoE), but I mostly save it for when Templars use Inescapable Judgment on me. Knowing when to pop this to avoid an attack requires a bit of good timing, so with a bit of practice you'll get it.
Tactical Retreat lets you run really fast when you get hit. Something I imagine will be really good for kiting in a pinch, but I love it because it lets me run away from melee classes to get range on them. It has kind of a long cooldown (2 minutes) so try and save it for when you're swamped and need to get away.
Next up on It's Mau Time: The Jumpshot Controversy
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Shining Slash: On Fire
Not really a Tanking guide, but like all dungeons, basic knowledge of the dungeon will help everyone out.
Once Nochsana becomes unavailable at 29, you might be feeling the lack of dungeon running fun. Look no further, because the elusive Fire Temple is available within a level, and will tide you over for a good 8 levels (at the outside).
At level 30, you can enter the Fire Temple. No quests mention it until 32, so you'll need initiative or friends in the know to even find out about it in the first place. From the little I can gather on the Asmodian entry quests, there's a fairly obvious entry chain that leads you around a bit and requires a group. There's a guide on that quest chain here. For the Elyos, it's even less obvious and almost feels like an afterthought. At level 32 there's one quest, starting from Hannet, that gets you to run around Elysea tracking down her lost love. After traveling to the Verteron Observatory, and talking to a few people in towns in the Eltnen desert, you travel back to Hannet, who sends you to the never before mentioned Fire Temple. Following a few blue links in your quest journal will tell you that the Fire Temple's entrance is beneath Kyola Temple, a high difficulty mob area a short run south of the Golden Bough Garrison.
Kyola is under the ground, with a single staircase heading down to a central chamber that branches into three rooms all filled with mobs that most people won't be able to solo effectively until 32+. A bit of exploration will reveal a door in the right hand room, at the far end. You might get lucky, but odds are you'll have a party and be at the door before it becomes apparent that you can't actually get in without being attuned. But all is well, for attunement is within your grasp! Fire Temple Keys drop from all of the mobs underground in the Kyola Temple, with a very low drop rate. Each drop can only be looted by one person, so you need one each. Expect to kill 30-50 mobs before seeing one. That said, spend an hour in there with a full group and you'll likely get one key for each party member. At night time, the Raging Obscuras outside around the entrance drop keys too, at what appears to be a higher drop rate.
Once you have your key, use it in your inventory to receive a quest, that leads you back outside the Kyola Temple to the cluster of NPCs just outside. Hand it in, and wham bam you're attuned to Fire Temple. With this quest completed, you can dart back inside to the Fire Temple door in the right hand room, use it, and zone into the dungeon!
Fire Temple is different from Nochsana in a few ways. Instead of having set bosses, only two bosses show up every run, and several bosses spawn randomly throughout the dungeon. Which bosses show up is determined when the first person in your party zones into the dungeon. Secondly, it's possible to skip a large number of the pulls in the Fire Temple. It's entirely possible to sneak through at higher (much higher) levels only fighting one or two mobs on your way to the final boss. Additionally, the last boss has a 100% chance to drop at least one green item, which is at least an improvement over the Nochsana General's disappointingly small chance to drop anything at all.
Finally, the dungeon's lockout timer is 30 minutes, instead of 18 hours. Kill the boss, walk back out, disband your group, reform it, walk back in and everything will be reset. Kill the boss again, repeat. Thus, you can actually farm the Fire Temple for xp, if you get a dedicated group.
Inside the dungeon, you get a quick warm up in the form of two fire elementals, one large and hard hitting, one small and not so strong, with a third patrolling back and forth down the corridor they're blocking. A bad pull will see you fighting all three, while it's possible to take down each one on their own without any real difficulty. As I've mentioned in the past, the Tank should always initiate each pull. The mobs in the Fire Temple hit particularly hard, and with the amount of healing going on, your Healer will build a lot of Enmity, which can be hard to deal with if your Tank hasn't got the bonus Enmity from being the person to pull. CC is worth it in here too, making pulls smaller for a time, easing the load on both the Healer and the Tank, and generally providing practice at not breaking the CC for your party. Hit a mob that's been turned into a tree or is asleep, and it'll hop up and start hitting people again, so be careful.
The first room looks intimidating at first. It's possible to run through without pulling anything, but that requires some luck and good timing for each member of your party, which you can't guarantee, so pull the two elementals just to the left, then the patrol in the middle. That clears the path to the end of the room, which is being guarded by two large elementals and a patrol. If you're unlucky, then one of the two guaranteed bosses in the dungeon, Silver Blade Rotan, will be patrolling rapidly up the corridor as well. Try to get him alone, since he hits hard and takes a while to kill. It's possible for Rotan to be here, but there are two other paths he can take, which are determined when the dungeon is loaded.
You can hug the wall around corners, pull mobs back to you to avoid fighting them with patrols, and generally be sneaky down the passage in front of you. There's an opening in the wall to the left, which can be used to skip some parts of the dungeon, but there's the ever present chance that if you attempt to cross the floating rocks that lead that way, you'll fall into the lava, which forces you to travel left down the lava path until you reach the way up or die horribly. At the first fork, the left path leads to the rest of the dungeon, while going forward and then right takes you to two dead ends filled with rock elementals, with a Shugo who to my Elyos eyes looks like he might be an Asmodian quest NPC, and two rare-spawn elemental bosses. Scour your minimap if you go down that way, and look for the mob with the unique name. Good luck. It's entirely possible that Silver Blade Rotan will instead be here, moving about rapidly, so keep an eye out.
To the left, a few gargoyle pulls and a couple of mugolems lead you to a large room with paths leading to (to the left) a room crowded with mobs that you should proceed carefully through, skipping as little as possible (since at low health the mobs try to run away and call their friends to help), (in front of you) a room where you'll find Denlavis, Hannet's missing immortal love and a variety of nasty pulls (avoid pulling the mugolem in the center, as it'll pull two out of sight gargoyles with it, as well as the two patrols left and right), and (to the right) the main path.
After that travesty of a paragraph, you have to clear your way to the right, or whichever direction you choose. As the two mugolems in the middle of the room make sneaking around without pulling rather difficult, clear out the gargoyle just around the right corner, then rush into the middle, CCing one of the mugolems or the patrolling gargoyle as necessary, and nuke them down. Silver Blade Rotan can be pathing through the room as well, so be sure to rush in at a point where you're going to have some free time before Rotan shows back up. Clear down the right hand path, being careful to pull mugolems back to your group (Inescapable Judgment is the only way, since they're immobile) when possible, and watching patrols. Again there's a room to the right, which houses a rare-spawn gargoyle boss, but the main boss is to the left, in a final large hall filled with caryatids and patrolling gargoyles. Kill as many as you have to in order to clear to and wipe out one of the sides of the room, then when there's no patrol near her, aggro the boss and run her back to a safe corner. Incoming fun.
Kromede the Corrupt is a level 37 Ranger boss (which means that if you go in at 30, she'll be resisting your abilities a lot), who does comparable damage to her main target as well as high AoE damage to your melee on a regular basis. Her Area Cause Wound (loving the Engrish) is a fairly straight up cast time point-blank AoE. It hits everyone around her for pretty high damage, but is easily healable. Kromede also, however, drops traps. They can be destroyed by group members who are quick (Gladiator AoE works great), but if they go off they do particularly high damage to everyone in range, which pretty much again amounts to your melee players. Finally, at low health she'll cast another ability (forgive me, but the name escapes me) which has a cast time, and hits for quite literally massive damage. From what I can tell, she targets the closest person who doesn't have aggro (the aforementioned Gladiator, probably!) and hits them for about 2.5k damage, maybe a bit more. If followed up by a trap, or an Area Cause Wound before a heal can get off, then it's a guaranteed death for at least one person. This is the most important time in the fight to be taking out traps. I think she can cast it again, so be quick at this point. She'll die soon, and you'll get loot (it's polite to resurrect anyone who's died before looting!), which in my experience is limited to a couple of green helms and a blue crafting item that can be used to make a handful of items (I'll update this post with links once I remember what it's called :P). There is, however, a slim chance that gold quality weapons will drop, which is fantastic. At level 30 it's easy enough to clear to her and win inside an hour, which then allows you to head back out and reset the dungeon, and clear to her again. Good xp and a chance at golds. Good luck!
Apologies for the serious lack of updates. In the mean time, enjoy this video of the boss fight, courtesy of Zot:
Do you like his videos? I like his videos. I wonder if he'll do voice commentary at some point? Who can tell.
Once Nochsana becomes unavailable at 29, you might be feeling the lack of dungeon running fun. Look no further, because the elusive Fire Temple is available within a level, and will tide you over for a good 8 levels (at the outside).
At level 30, you can enter the Fire Temple. No quests mention it until 32, so you'll need initiative or friends in the know to even find out about it in the first place. From the little I can gather on the Asmodian entry quests, there's a fairly obvious entry chain that leads you around a bit and requires a group. There's a guide on that quest chain here. For the Elyos, it's even less obvious and almost feels like an afterthought. At level 32 there's one quest, starting from Hannet, that gets you to run around Elysea tracking down her lost love. After traveling to the Verteron Observatory, and talking to a few people in towns in the Eltnen desert, you travel back to Hannet, who sends you to the never before mentioned Fire Temple. Following a few blue links in your quest journal will tell you that the Fire Temple's entrance is beneath Kyola Temple, a high difficulty mob area a short run south of the Golden Bough Garrison.
Kyola is under the ground, with a single staircase heading down to a central chamber that branches into three rooms all filled with mobs that most people won't be able to solo effectively until 32+. A bit of exploration will reveal a door in the right hand room, at the far end. You might get lucky, but odds are you'll have a party and be at the door before it becomes apparent that you can't actually get in without being attuned. But all is well, for attunement is within your grasp! Fire Temple Keys drop from all of the mobs underground in the Kyola Temple, with a very low drop rate. Each drop can only be looted by one person, so you need one each. Expect to kill 30-50 mobs before seeing one. That said, spend an hour in there with a full group and you'll likely get one key for each party member. At night time, the Raging Obscuras outside around the entrance drop keys too, at what appears to be a higher drop rate.
Once you have your key, use it in your inventory to receive a quest, that leads you back outside the Kyola Temple to the cluster of NPCs just outside. Hand it in, and wham bam you're attuned to Fire Temple. With this quest completed, you can dart back inside to the Fire Temple door in the right hand room, use it, and zone into the dungeon!
Fire Temple is different from Nochsana in a few ways. Instead of having set bosses, only two bosses show up every run, and several bosses spawn randomly throughout the dungeon. Which bosses show up is determined when the first person in your party zones into the dungeon. Secondly, it's possible to skip a large number of the pulls in the Fire Temple. It's entirely possible to sneak through at higher (much higher) levels only fighting one or two mobs on your way to the final boss. Additionally, the last boss has a 100% chance to drop at least one green item, which is at least an improvement over the Nochsana General's disappointingly small chance to drop anything at all.
Finally, the dungeon's lockout timer is 30 minutes, instead of 18 hours. Kill the boss, walk back out, disband your group, reform it, walk back in and everything will be reset. Kill the boss again, repeat. Thus, you can actually farm the Fire Temple for xp, if you get a dedicated group.
Inside the dungeon, you get a quick warm up in the form of two fire elementals, one large and hard hitting, one small and not so strong, with a third patrolling back and forth down the corridor they're blocking. A bad pull will see you fighting all three, while it's possible to take down each one on their own without any real difficulty. As I've mentioned in the past, the Tank should always initiate each pull. The mobs in the Fire Temple hit particularly hard, and with the amount of healing going on, your Healer will build a lot of Enmity, which can be hard to deal with if your Tank hasn't got the bonus Enmity from being the person to pull. CC is worth it in here too, making pulls smaller for a time, easing the load on both the Healer and the Tank, and generally providing practice at not breaking the CC for your party. Hit a mob that's been turned into a tree or is asleep, and it'll hop up and start hitting people again, so be careful.
The first room looks intimidating at first. It's possible to run through without pulling anything, but that requires some luck and good timing for each member of your party, which you can't guarantee, so pull the two elementals just to the left, then the patrol in the middle. That clears the path to the end of the room, which is being guarded by two large elementals and a patrol. If you're unlucky, then one of the two guaranteed bosses in the dungeon, Silver Blade Rotan, will be patrolling rapidly up the corridor as well. Try to get him alone, since he hits hard and takes a while to kill. It's possible for Rotan to be here, but there are two other paths he can take, which are determined when the dungeon is loaded.
You can hug the wall around corners, pull mobs back to you to avoid fighting them with patrols, and generally be sneaky down the passage in front of you. There's an opening in the wall to the left, which can be used to skip some parts of the dungeon, but there's the ever present chance that if you attempt to cross the floating rocks that lead that way, you'll fall into the lava, which forces you to travel left down the lava path until you reach the way up or die horribly. At the first fork, the left path leads to the rest of the dungeon, while going forward and then right takes you to two dead ends filled with rock elementals, with a Shugo who to my Elyos eyes looks like he might be an Asmodian quest NPC, and two rare-spawn elemental bosses. Scour your minimap if you go down that way, and look for the mob with the unique name. Good luck. It's entirely possible that Silver Blade Rotan will instead be here, moving about rapidly, so keep an eye out.
To the left, a few gargoyle pulls and a couple of mugolems lead you to a large room with paths leading to (to the left) a room crowded with mobs that you should proceed carefully through, skipping as little as possible (since at low health the mobs try to run away and call their friends to help), (in front of you) a room where you'll find Denlavis, Hannet's missing immortal love and a variety of nasty pulls (avoid pulling the mugolem in the center, as it'll pull two out of sight gargoyles with it, as well as the two patrols left and right), and (to the right) the main path.
After that travesty of a paragraph, you have to clear your way to the right, or whichever direction you choose. As the two mugolems in the middle of the room make sneaking around without pulling rather difficult, clear out the gargoyle just around the right corner, then rush into the middle, CCing one of the mugolems or the patrolling gargoyle as necessary, and nuke them down. Silver Blade Rotan can be pathing through the room as well, so be sure to rush in at a point where you're going to have some free time before Rotan shows back up. Clear down the right hand path, being careful to pull mugolems back to your group (Inescapable Judgment is the only way, since they're immobile) when possible, and watching patrols. Again there's a room to the right, which houses a rare-spawn gargoyle boss, but the main boss is to the left, in a final large hall filled with caryatids and patrolling gargoyles. Kill as many as you have to in order to clear to and wipe out one of the sides of the room, then when there's no patrol near her, aggro the boss and run her back to a safe corner. Incoming fun.
Kromede the Corrupt is a level 37 Ranger boss (which means that if you go in at 30, she'll be resisting your abilities a lot), who does comparable damage to her main target as well as high AoE damage to your melee on a regular basis. Her Area Cause Wound (loving the Engrish) is a fairly straight up cast time point-blank AoE. It hits everyone around her for pretty high damage, but is easily healable. Kromede also, however, drops traps. They can be destroyed by group members who are quick (Gladiator AoE works great), but if they go off they do particularly high damage to everyone in range, which pretty much again amounts to your melee players. Finally, at low health she'll cast another ability (forgive me, but the name escapes me) which has a cast time, and hits for quite literally massive damage. From what I can tell, she targets the closest person who doesn't have aggro (the aforementioned Gladiator, probably!) and hits them for about 2.5k damage, maybe a bit more. If followed up by a trap, or an Area Cause Wound before a heal can get off, then it's a guaranteed death for at least one person. This is the most important time in the fight to be taking out traps. I think she can cast it again, so be quick at this point. She'll die soon, and you'll get loot (it's polite to resurrect anyone who's died before looting!), which in my experience is limited to a couple of green helms and a blue crafting item that can be used to make a handful of items (I'll update this post with links once I remember what it's called :P). There is, however, a slim chance that gold quality weapons will drop, which is fantastic. At level 30 it's easy enough to clear to her and win inside an hour, which then allows you to head back out and reset the dungeon, and clear to her again. Good xp and a chance at golds. Good luck!
Apologies for the serious lack of updates. In the mean time, enjoy this video of the boss fight, courtesy of Zot:
Do you like his videos? I like his videos. I wonder if he'll do voice commentary at some point? Who can tell.
Friday, October 2, 2009
this is the true definition of epic
I CAN SEE FOREVER.
Look at all the little people.
WE CLAIM THIS LAND IN THE NAME OF RoF!I don't have much to say other than it was truly epic and awesome. Of course, with such a huge mass of players on both sides coming together in the same place, people were disconnecting and crashing left, right, and center. I myself suffered a drastic framerate drop, and was lucky enough to only crash once. Ironic, considering my pc crashes at least 4 times a day when I'm playing Aion. You peons can now feel my pain, hahaha!
A huge shoutout to players on both sides who were present at the raid, thank you for an awesome experience. Can't wait to go back out there at 50.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Moar Saucy PvP
A bigger and more action packed compilation of recent rifting experiences. Unfortunately I couldn't get it to be one big flowing session as with the first vid due to youtube's 10 minute limit xD. Once again I leave commentary throughout. I also saved the best footage for last. Click through for a larger version.
Upcoming: a Morheim invasion with just the three of us. ^^
Upcoming: a Morheim invasion with just the three of us. ^^
Rifts and You
If you're confused about rifts and want to know what the deal is with them, look no further. I'm here to help. Rifts periodically open between Asmodae and Elysea. There doesn't appear to be any set time between the opening of a rift (though I've heard 2 hours) and sometimes, it doesn't even open both ways. In any case, the opening of a rift will broadcast a message to everybody in the zone and everybody who enters the zone for as long as the rift stays open. You can also look up into the sky and see a blue swirling vortex indicating a rift is open somewhere in the zone.
This one was in a higher level section of Eltnen. We had our
work cut out for us reaching the lower level parts of Morheim <.>
The first zone you'll encounter Rifts in is Eltnen (Elyos) or Morheim (Asmodians). There can only be one rift up in a zone of each type (exit and entry) and they spawn at one of several designated locations. The other two zones that can have rifts between them are Heiron (Elyos) and Beluslan (Asmodians).
One of the easiest way to see rift locations on your map is to copy and paste the following into your in-game memopad. Then you can simply click the links and they will show on the map.
It's beneficial to have both Elyos and Asmodian sets on your map, so you can see where your enemies are flooding in from. Note that rifts are one way for both races. You can't go back through a rift you came in from and you can't enter an attacker's rift.
Rifts last for up to 26 minutes before they disperse. They also have level requirements; generally, the further the rift is from the fortress, the higher the level requirements. It also works in the opposite way, though... the closer you are to the fortress, the lower your level has to be for you to enter. This is to help prevent mass ganking by high levels xD. Each rift has a set number of people that can enter before it disperses; generally the lower level the rift, the fewer people it lets in.
Finally, be prepared when you step inside! The place will be crawling with enemy players and they would love no more than to zerg your sorry arse. Keep moving and don't ever let yourself get pinned down in one location. Avoid the heavy questing areas (you'll learn to recognise them). If you have 40k to spare, purchase a Group Kisk before you enter and place it somewhere safe and out of the way on the other side, to give your group a respawn should things go awry. And if you kill too many low level players, you'll get cursed -- you will be displayed on the map to all enemy players. The curse shows in the top right of your screen when you have it.
Happy rifting!
This one was in a higher level section of Eltnen. We had ourwork cut out for us reaching the lower level parts of Morheim <.>
The first zone you'll encounter Rifts in is Eltnen (Elyos) or Morheim (Asmodians). There can only be one rift up in a zone of each type (exit and entry) and they spawn at one of several designated locations. The other two zones that can have rifts between them are Heiron (Elyos) and Beluslan (Asmodians).
One of the easiest way to see rift locations on your map is to copy and paste the following into your in-game memopad. Then you can simply click the links and they will show on the map.
Elyos Eltnen->Morheim Rifts
Eltnen [pos:Entrance A <12>;210020000 183.269086357947 2829.47434292866 0.0 -1] Morheim [pos:Exit A;220020000 745.420675537359 1872.32548618219 0.0 -1]
Eltnen [pos:Entrance B <20>;210020000 824.070087609512 2023.46683354193 0.0 -1] Morheim [pos:Exit B;220020000 1364.66325486182 1334.96622313204 0.0 -1]
Eltnen [pos:Entrance C <35>;210020000 1655.10888610763 1858.26032540676 0.0 -1] Morheim [pos:Exit C;220020000 617.477993858751 209.070624360287 0.0 -1]
Eltnen [pos:Entrance D <35>;210020000 1024.32040050063 61.0137672090112 0.0 -1] Morheim [pos:Exit D;220020000 1820.13920163767 1309.37768679632 0.0 -1]
Eltnen [pos:Entrance E <45>;210020000 1459.8648310388 581.664580725907 0.0 -1] Morheim [pos:Exit E;220020000 1559.13613101331 2757.68884339816 0.0 -1]
Eltnen [pos:Entrance F <50>;210020000 2210.80350438048 2644.24280350438 0.0 -1] Morheim [pos:Exit F;220020000 2613.38382804504 2235.68270214944 0.0 -1]
Eltnen [pos:Entrance G <50>;210020000 2180.76595744681 541.614518147685 0.0 -1] Morheim [pos:Exit G;220020000 2930.68167860798 879.490276356192 0.0 -1]
Elyos Heiron->Beluslan Rifts
Heiron [pos:Entrance A <24>;210040000 2662.01160005043 434.266044634977 0.0 -1] Beluslan [pos:Exit A;220040000 126.507629704985 1061.38860630722 0.0 -1]
Heiron [pos:Entrance B <36>;210040000 1300.266548985 1437.9225822721 0.0 -1] Beluslan [pos:Exit B;220040000 1067.50457782299 313.677517802645 0.0 -1]
Heiron [pos:Entrance C <48>;210040000 1103.57004160888 656.180052956752 0.0 -1] Beluslan [pos:Exit C;220040000 1036.98575788403 2073.59613428281 0.0 -1]
Heiron [pos:Entrance D <48>;210040000 649.655024587063 1821.22859664607 0.0 -1] Beluslan [pos:Exit D;220040000 2125.49033570702 456.098677517803 0.0 -1]
Heiron [pos:Entrance E <60>;210040000 725.307527424032 2512.18812255705 0.0 -1] Beluslan [pos:Exit E;220040000 2863.02848423194 542.568667344863 0.0 -1]
Heiron [pos:Entrance F <60>;210040000 503.393519102257 555.310049174127 0.0 -1] Beluslan [pos:Exit F;220040000 2725.69379450661 2343.17904374364 0.0 -1]
Heiron [pos:Entrance G <72>;210040000 2742.70760307654 2078.44710629177 0.0 -1] Beluslan [pos:Exit G;220040000 1744.00508646999 1900.65615462869 0.0 -1]
Asmodian Morheim->Eltnen Rifts
Morheim [pos:Entrance A <12>;220020000 450 2350 0.0 -1] Eltnen [pos:Exit A;210020000 718.938673341677 2779.41176470588 0.0 -1]
Morheim [pos:Entrance B <20>;220020000 750 920 0.0 -1] Eltnen [pos:Exit B;210020000 383.519399249061 1277.53441802253 0.0 -1]
Morheim [pos:Entrance C <35>;220020000 250 500 0.0 -1] Eltnen [pos:Exit C;210020000 1289.65206508135 2438.98623279099 0.0 -1]
Morheim [pos:Entrance D <35>;220020000 1650 1400 0.0 -1] Eltnen [pos:Exit D;210020000 93.1564455569462 246.245306633292 0.0 -1]
Morheim [pos:Entrance E <45>;220020000 1630.78403275333 1099.5516888434 0.0 -1] Eltnen [pos:Exit E;210020000 1329.70212765957 346.370463078848 0.0 -1]
Morheim [pos:Entrance F <50>;220020000 2400 2300 0.0 -1] Eltnen [pos:Exit F;210020000 2295.9098873592 2278.7859824781 0.0 -1]
Morheim [pos:Entrance G <50>;220020000 2450 600 0.0 -1] Eltnen [pos:Exit G;210020000 2586.27284105131 651.752190237797 0.0 -1]
Asmodian Beluslan->Heiron Rifts
Beluslan [pos:Entrance A <24>;220040000 233.323499491353 150.910478128179 0.0 -1] Heiron [pos:Exit A;210040000 2132.44408019165 434.266044634977 0.0 -1]
Beluslan [pos:Entrance B <36>;220040000 1301.48219735504 634.12512716175 0.0 -1] Heiron [pos:Exit B;210040000 1955.92157357206 1821.22859664607 0.0 -1]
Beluslan [pos:Entrance C <48>;220040000 767.402848423194 2226.19023397762 0.0 -1] Heiron [pos:Exit C;210040000 871.569032908839 903.311562224183 0.0 -1]
Beluslan [pos:Entrance D <48>;220040000 2069.53916581892 262.812817904374 0.0 -1] Heiron [pos:Exit D;210040000 861.482032530576 2194.44761064179 0.0 -1]
Beluslan [pos:Entrance E <60>;220040000 2842.68260427263 618.865717192269 0.0 -1] Heiron [pos:Exit E;210040000 291.566511158744 2658.44962804186 0.0 -1]
Beluslan [pos:Entrance F <60>;220040000 2812.16378433367 2561.89725330621 0.0 -1] Heiron [pos:Exit F;210040000 362.175513806582 514.962047661077 0.0 -1]
Beluslan [pos:Entrance G <72>;220040000 1596.49745676501 2053.2502543235 0.0 -1] Heiron [pos:Exit G;210040000 1905.48657168075 2577.75362501576 0.0 -1]
It's beneficial to have both Elyos and Asmodian sets on your map, so you can see where your enemies are flooding in from. Note that rifts are one way for both races. You can't go back through a rift you came in from and you can't enter an attacker's rift.
Rifts last for up to 26 minutes before they disperse. They also have level requirements; generally, the further the rift is from the fortress, the higher the level requirements. It also works in the opposite way, though... the closer you are to the fortress, the lower your level has to be for you to enter. This is to help prevent mass ganking by high levels xD. Each rift has a set number of people that can enter before it disperses; generally the lower level the rift, the fewer people it lets in.
Finally, be prepared when you step inside! The place will be crawling with enemy players and they would love no more than to zerg your sorry arse. Keep moving and don't ever let yourself get pinned down in one location. Avoid the heavy questing areas (you'll learn to recognise them). If you have 40k to spare, purchase a Group Kisk before you enter and place it somewhere safe and out of the way on the other side, to give your group a respawn should things go awry. And if you kill too many low level players, you'll get cursed -- you will be displayed on the map to all enemy players. The curse shows in the top right of your screen when you have it.
Happy rifting!
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