Resub, question about souls

[Boricha]

Hey I'm planning on resubbing to Rift again tonight to try it again and I have a question about all the different specs I remember there being. Can anyone give me an idea of What class and what specs I should go into for said class to be be similar to an affliction warlock in WoW? and if there isn't one then maybe destruction?

[MysticMagicks]

Copied and pasted this from the guide: (These are mage specs. If you want more examples of specs from warrior, rogue, or cleric, go to the Your Quickstart Guide to Rift sticky at the top of the Rift forum)

• Pyromancer - a fire mage. he burns things. what more need be said, really. guaranteed to appeal to the pyromaniac in all of us.
• Elementalist - a summoner of elemental minions, with four different pets to fit any situation. focus on dealing elemental damage in "cycles", which is to say that damage of one element makes a target more vulnerable to damage of the next element in the cycle, and so on.
• Stormcaller - master of ice and lightning, this mage deals aoe damage out the whazoo. best applied with freezing blizzards, scorching lightning storms, and all around painful aoe fun.
• Necromancer - summoner of undead minions, has several pets to fill several roles. has cooldowns that allow him to summon more pets. and yet more pets after that. if you want to be the one man army, this soul's for you. just watch out for rogues.
• Warlock - a master of death magic, this guy has so many DoTs that even the angry onyxia raid leader is satisfied. kinda like an affliction warlock of WoW, only with more dots. yes. more. dots.
• Dominator - a crowd control master with a sprinkling of aoe damage on the side, i'm pretty sure this guy has some kind of cc or debuff on like 90% of his abilities. he shuts you down and eats raw mana for breakfast with a side of lightning-charred warrior. If you want to pvp and make people hate you more than puremallace hates atrius, this is the soul for you.
• Archon - a Support mage that steals the strengths of his enemies, making them his own. Which he then gives to his group. he's got debuffs, he's got buffs, and he's got auras. and then he has more buffs. groups love you. bosses hate your power drain. set it all up so your groupmates can bring on the dps pain train even harder than before.
• Chloromancer - A life based healing mage that specializes in healing allies by casting offensive spells at his enemies. With an aura that allows his life damage spells to also heal his groupmates, this guy is a healer with a liberal sprinkling of pew pew. Has a few "traditional" healing spells to supplement his arsenal of damage-to-healing capabilities.
• Harbinger - Alternate spelling: harBANGER - the mage that is out to replace all your raid's warriors, the harbinger is a melee specialist who can transmute his staff into a sword, axe, or scythe and get up in the face of the enemy. Watch as bewildered warriors go "wtf" while YOU charge THEM and cut em up, while rogues stand around waiting for all those nonexistent cast-time spells to interrupt. Also has a mage armor that allows it to frequently insta-cast spells from other souls just to add to the fun. And of course, if the smell of stinky sweaty rogues and warriors offend you, you can blink away and summon your phantom blade to continue melee attacks from full spell range for a short time. He's a magic man who can fight like a bawss and (if you're a warrior), he's here to TAKE YOUR JOB.

[theWocky]

While you're at it, the Inquisitor and Cabalist are also very "warlock" like (Cleric Class), but they obviously lack the mage pets.

[Kelimbror]

Short Answer is you want to make a Mage.

They have a couple of different warlock specs that can work together or be combined with a different soul typical of a mage.

[Boricha]

Ok so warlock mage is the way to go...I was kind of confused because I read in another thread from theWocky that Cabalist was the big dot spec, but that's for a cleric, which I thought was more of a priest.

[Pachycrocuta]

It depends. Both the Warlock (mage) and Cabalist (cleric) are DoT classes, but there is a big difference (other than class and armor) between them, at least in my limited knowledge of either soul: Cabalist is the Cleric's aoe soul, where the Warlock is single target (but can multi-dot, I am guessing). And The warlock taken with the necromancer, you can simulate wow's warlock, as the necro gives you skeleton pets (and even a kinda "metamorphosis" form, if that still exists), and both deal death damage.

[Arkamenitas]

Copied and pasted this from the guide: (These are mage specs. If you want more examples of specs from warrior, rogue, or cleric, go to the Your Quickstart Guide to Rift sticky at the top of the Rift forum)

• Pyromancer - a fire mage. he burns things. what more need be said, really. guaranteed to appeal to the pyromaniac in all of us.
• Elementalist - a summoner of elemental minions, with four different pets to fit any situation. focus on dealing elemental damage in "cycles", which is to say that damage of one element makes a target more vulnerable to damage of the next element in the cycle, and so on.
• Stormcaller - master of ice and lightning, this mage deals aoe damage out the whazoo. best applied with freezing blizzards, scorching lightning storms, and all around painful aoe fun.
• Necromancer - summoner of undead minions, has several pets to fill several roles. has cooldowns that allow him to summon more pets. and yet more pets after that. if you want to be the one man army, this soul's for you. just watch out for rogues.
• Warlock - a master of death magic, this guy has so many DoTs that even the angry onyxia raid leader is satisfied. kinda like an affliction warlock of WoW, only with more dots. yes. more. dots.
• Dominator - a crowd control master with a sprinkling of aoe damage on the side, i'm pretty sure this guy has some kind of cc or debuff on like 90% of his abilities. he shuts you down and eats raw mana for breakfast with a side of lightning-charred warrior. If you want to pvp and make people hate you more than puremallace hates atrius, this is the soul for you.
• Archon - a Support mage that steals the strengths of his enemies, making them his own. Which he then gives to his group. he's got debuffs, he's got buffs, and he's got auras. and then he has more buffs. groups love you. bosses hate your power drain. set it all up so your groupmates can bring on the dps pain train even harder than before.
• Chloromancer - A life based healing mage that specializes in healing allies by casting offensive spells at his enemies. With an aura that allows his life damage spells to also heal his groupmates, this guy is a healer with a liberal sprinkling of pew pew. Has a few "traditional" healing spells to supplement his arsenal of damage-to-healing capabilities.
• Harbinger - Alternate spelling: harBANGER - the mage that is out to replace all your raid's warriors, the harbinger is a melee specialist who can transmute his staff into a sword, axe, or scythe and get up in the face of the enemy. Watch as bewildered warriors go "wtf" while YOU charge THEM and cut em up, while rogues stand around waiting for all those nonexistent cast-time spells to interrupt. Also has a mage armor that allows it to frequently insta-cast spells from other souls just to add to the fun. And of course, if the smell of stinky sweaty rogues and warriors offend you, you can blink away and summon your phantom blade to continue melee attacks from full spell range for a short time. He's a magic man who can fight like a bawss and (if you're a warrior), he's here to TAKE YOUR JOB.

hey, you copied that from me lol. i've forgotten where that original post was hidden..

---------- Post added 2012-12-17 at 05:14 PM ----------

oh hey, the original post i made which that came from was editted into the sticky. as the descriptions get further down the page you can clearly see the inverse relationship between strictly useful information and just having fun with it

[Fencers]

Hm. Perhaps a Mage spec'd into the Warlock soul would be a good, if obvious, choice.

Everything is Rift is pretty obvious/self explanatory.

[Eyedol]

The warlock tree is brilliant - so many dots I can't even fit them all onto my keybinds and instead have to macro half of them. And radiate death now spreading an extra 2 dots for a total of four to all players in the area. Nothing like seeing your screen light up in dot ticks when pvping! >

[Arkamenitas]

Ok so warlock mage is the way to go...I was kind of confused because I read in another thread from theWocky that Cabalist was the big dot spec, but that's for a cleric, which I thought was more of a priest.

comparing clerics to priests probably isnt completely accurate, though it's not completely off. clerics, for example, have (from their 9 souls) 2 casters, 2 melee, 4 healers, and a tank soul.

mages have a healer, a support, a melee, and six ranged. (i suppose the dominator could in fact be considered a support soul for pvp, in a sense)

[zito]

i suppose the dominator could in fact be considered a support soul for pvp, in a sense

dominator is officially labled support.

Also since this is a soul question. I haven't tapped into druid soul on cleric too much. How is the greater healing farie, will you be gimped if you just go deep enough for her?

[theWocky]

Ok so warlock mage is the way to go...I was kind of confused because I read in another thread from theWocky that Cabalist was the big dot spec, but that's for a cleric, which I thought was more of a priest.

Cabalist is the AoE Cleric Range DPS spec and Inquisitor is the Single target rang DPS spec - no worries - game is so diverse. Apologies for adding to confusion. The diversity is awesome, however.

[MysticMagicks]

oh hey, the original post i made which that came from was editted into the sticky. as the descriptions get further down the page you can clearly see the inverse relationship between strictly useful information and just having fun with it

Ahh, so you're the person who created these epic descriptions! Props to you man, props to you

Yes, I did notice that the further you got down the list, the funnier they became. Honestly though, the funnier ones were very useful -- they made me laugh in addition to putting a great perspective on them XD

[Arkamenitas]

dominator is officially labled support.

Also since this is a soul question. I haven't tapped into druid soul on cleric too much. How is the greater healing farie, will you be gimped if you just go deep enough for her?

imo, i wouldnt recommend it unless you are going full druid, although you might be able to still pick up enough in shaman. the thing is the druid gift has like +4% pet healing, so it's almost not worth it to do anything but full druid if you really want the faerie to heal, imo, in which case you'd want a dps pet out anyways for dps.. unless you are trying to fill a support role i suppose - it'd be iffy