I didn’t get much time in the latest Rift beta, only around 4 hours in fact, enough time to get a basic feel for my new alt though. Sicarii (not the EQ2 one, post about him to come), is a High Elven rogue with Assassin as his primary soul choice. In addition to Assassin I have chosen Rift stalker and bladedancer as my other 2 souls for the moment.
Assassin is based around the classic mmo setup, stealthy killer with poisonous abilities. This is where most of his points will be spent, with the majority of the rest going into Rift stalker which is a hard soul to explain. The Riftstalker has an ability to teleport forwards a short distance which can be handy to help reach your target quickly, this soul also has some defensive abilities as well as the usual Rogue dps options. The bladedancer is something I can’t really comment much on due to the fact I haven’t put any points in other than getting the basic soul abilities. Essentially apart from the Assassin I’ve yet to spend many points in my other soul choices.
I did play around with the assassin’s stealth option combined with the rift stalker teleport, which gives some interesting placement options for sneaking around then moving in and hitting quickly. I do need to work on the stealth though as mobs would often spot me late on. One interesting aspect of using stealth is the fact your main hotbar changes when in stealth to show abilities that can only be used in that state, saves you having to put them on your main bar setup.
The only other ability of note is the Elven racial ability which allows you to fly/float a short distance very quickly. This is a nice ability when your in a rush and maybe to jump short gaps, though I was a bit frustrated by the fact that something as small as a tree stump would stop your “flight” in it’s tracks. Any hope I had of using the ability to fly up onto a rock or cliff edge was snuffed out too as I would just bounce off the foot of the cliff.
In the next beta I plan to play this alt a bit more as I’m leaving my preferred healing choice until the live game and don’t want to take any character too far into the levels, I want to see things for the first time on release.
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