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Rift: Planes of Telara: First Look at the Purifier
MikeB
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Our series of class previews continues with a first look at Rift: Planes of Telara's support class: the Purifier.
Rift: Planes of Telara continues to give us a first look at classes leading up to E3. Today, we get a closer look at the Purifier. The Purifier is a cleric style class that uses Fire and Spirits to defend allies and smite foes. A new take on the Healers of old, the Purifier seems to have very strong offensive and defensive abilities. With support by fire for healing and protecting, they also carry a unique attack using the spirits of their ancestors, looking forward to seeing the spell effects on those. Overall the Purifier has an interesting history and play-style and should be a great class for healer fans who don’t mind smashing foes with some spiritual energy.
Trion comes through again with screenshots of the Purifier in action. We will continue our class previews all week leading up to E3 next week when we’ll get the full details. Next week we will be at E3 with Trion to get a full run of all the classes.
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Is that... a healer with heavy armor!?!?
If that's true, I'm in love with this game starting right now.
Can we say Healidin?
Okay, fair enough. Allow me to amend myself.
A healer that might not suck and have crappy game mechanics in heavy armor.
http://pc.ign.com/articles/109/1096726p1.html
This "soul" system of abilities is rather intriguing. Thanks for the link!
As for the Purifier class I quite like it, the lore behind it specifically. It doesn't sound like your typical healer/cleric class, which is nice, and being allowed an armor class outside the usual cloth/light armor is also interesting.
heal with FIRE?Oo
water is the source of life, light is the path of the holy, but fire... fire is destruction.. so yes im starting to get problmes with this lore.
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Nice to see them talking about a class that actually looks a bit original. Sure, it's the classic strong healing/weak offense mold used for healers, but the mechanics seem cool and different.
I'm looking forward to learning about the other classes.
Actually, there is a rich tradition of fire being associated, even biblically, with purification, healing, and redemption. It is the fire which brings heat and light. And it is the fire which purifies and refines the gold and silver and eliminates the dross. So there are really two spiritual understandings of fire- one positive and one negative embracing destruction as you said. It is quite refreshing if Trion have fit both understandings into the lore.
Granted, but just about anything that goes against the norm is welcomed in my eyes- especially in the stale mmo genre.
^ this. Although I am sure people here are familiar with WoW, in its lore the Dragon Aspect Alexstrasza, is also called the Life-Binder and many of her abilities associate with fire in the form of purification and cleansing. The Purifier in Telara is comprehensible in my eyes.
WTF^ wow, never knew that. You must be really deep into while game scripts, thats cool. So yes, Fire can hurt like hell but also helps you, in order to be healed you must feel the pain "Our Sun watch over our Earth". Epic looking class!
This game is sounding more and more interesting.
Sadly looks like it is far far away from any kind of open beta? hehe
A real "Fire" and brimstone preacher man! (get it "Fire", and brimstone?)
Although pretty standard classes (tanks, mages, healers, rogues etc.), they all look interesting enough and the lore seems good for roleplayers.
This is one to look out for, together with Guild Wars 2, Tera and Star Wars: The old Republic.
If this game holds promise, I will definitely look into the Purifier.
somehow reminds me of the ritualist class from guildwars. with heavy armor as a bonus. XD
Fire as healing method doesn't sound really great. Yeah, heat and light and the sun but fire is the personification of overdose. Heat and light of the sun may bring life but the extreme of it results in forests been burn and turning em to deserts. So you're fighting this boss, main attack of which is a magma breath and you expect to be healed from fire?
It sounds more like a change for the sake of it.
while fires can burn down forests, they dont destroy them. just make way for new growth:)
fire is rebirth, and a purifier.
This looks like a good change from the typical healer class, although i am enjoying my disciple in VG atm, this looks a great way to bring out a new outlook on the healer class and might drag me away from vg
(only said might, vg still has much to offer)
i look this wrecked because i've got GIST.
Whats your excuse?
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Some people need to look up Zoastrianism and other similar religions I think.
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Oops, I forgot the r. Anyway: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrianism
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Read up on some mythologies, I am surprised by all the anti-fire as a healer complaints. It is a fairly common concept for fire to be about rebirth and purity.
Gandalf wielded the white flame of anor(?) to form a shield against the Balrog so flames can certainly be other than destructive forces.
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Water can be as destructive as fire: floods, tidal waves, endless rain. Fire can bring warmth and cook things. Warmth is the body heat which keeps you alive, the willpower the spark of life. It is mostly the Biblical idea, a religion coming from a desert area, that heat = hell and water = life. For the Norse "hell" was a frozen place, and ice is a form of water. The followers of Zoroaster worship fire as divine, if I am not mistaken. Or the priests of Vesta in ancient Rome.
Don't you love the logical breakdown Kenaoshi and Edii had. Just like a wall of fire will kill you, so will a wall of water.
Fire as a healing method is perfectly plausible, especially when it comes to ailments like viruses/diseases. If you could magically control the fire within a person body to only destroy the bad parts, it instantly becomes feasible.
Anyways, how is that any more logically ridiculous than the traditional fantasy method of if you cast fireball on a fire demon it heals it, or casting ice shards on an ice demon, etc.
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