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    How to get max rewards from Rifts the easy way

    A lot of you may have noticed that when you start the battle against a Rift there is a gauge that appears that shows the current stage of the rift (they typically go between 3,5,8+ stages) with a meter on the side.

    That meter goes between grey to bronze to silver to gold and it depends on how much you "contribute" to the closing of the rift for that stage (typically people assume this means how much damage you contribute).

    If you keep that meter in the gold for every stage of the rift's cycle and successfully close it, you will gain far superior rewards over those who do not contribute as much.

    Now, while attacking does help, the real trick to rifts is not to do the most damage or heal the most.

    The real trick is to spam the most abilities as fast as possible, this will raise your contribution meter the fastest with the minimal amount of effort and risk of death.

    This is why attacking mobs helps, but in fact most classes have short cast time abilities and while everyone else is blowing long cooldowns going for big nukes or lots of damage, you can spam the shortest group buff or DOT you have and you will blow them away on the meter.

    As an example, as a rogue class with the bard spirit, I spam the Motifs non stop (Motif of Focus, Regeneration & Bravery) as fast as possible and I get gold every single round.

    This is likely to be patched in the near future but not many people seem to know about it right now (I get spammed constantly with PMs from people asking me if i'm retarded or why I keep spamming my Motifs constantly, I guess they don't notice me looting more than anyone else every round :/).

    So go out and exploit this as much as possible before it's patched! Remember 100% spam 0% contribution, pure profit!

    How to get max rewards from Rifts the easy way
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    DrakeFish's Avatar Lazy Leecher

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    It also seemed like CC spells are boosting the gauge. I'm not sure about it but when i were using stuns and blinds with my assassin rogue it would boost the gauge to gold. Nice one :P

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    Pretty much anything that triggers the global cooldown should do it.

    The best bet is to find your cheapest ability to spam constantly.

    I'd say as a rogue you should have bard anyways just for how useful it is for soloing while leveling.

    Pick up bard, get any motif and spam that then profit.

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    Nikentic's Avatar Elite User
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    AoEs, like Motifs and such, gives you really good contribution.

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    Motifs only seem to give contribution every 20 seconds or so, even if you spam them

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    I have yet to find an ability that doesn't grant contribution.
    So yeah, Track Ore...

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    Originally Posted by cdmichaelb View Post
    Motifs only seem to give contribution every 20 seconds or so, even if you spam them
    Need confirmation on this because as of last night it worked fine.

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    So yeah, I just went bard, spammed the first motiv obtained and what do you know? all golds... Kinda regret knowing this as it really ruins the fun of the rifts but hey, may aswell get a few pieces of epic gear then enjoy it afterwards!

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    I can confirm this still works.

    I also found out that the Rejuvenate ability also works as well.

    Someone mentioned testing track minerals, would be cool to test that as it has almost no cooldown and no casting cost, if it worked I could write an autoit macro to spam that really really easily, guess we'll have to confirm it.

    Also, on some rifts where there is a round with a "boss" type mob (any round where there is 1 mob) i've noticed that it's best to hit the target at least once after it spawns before you start spamming as sometimes the bar doesn't show up properly until you do so.

    CONFIRMED: Spamming Track Ore WORKS! I assume any other tradeskill related ability that triggers GCD will work as well, so there you have it, a 1sec cast time infinitely spammable ability to get gold with.... enjoy this while it lasts and keep it on the down low!
    Last edited by =Z=; 03-02-2011 at 07:25 PM.

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    Yeah the thing is it doesn't trigger the gcd. It has it's own cd together with other tracking skills, and non-combat pets i think.
    So as long as you only use instant casts you can spam tracking and still do your rotation.

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    Originally Posted by XinuX View Post
    Yeah the thing is it doesn't trigger the gcd. It has it's own cd together with other tracking skills, and non-combat pets i think.
    So as long as you only use instant casts you can spam tracking and still do your rotation.
    They just patched the tracking portion:

    Hotfix #5: 3/5/11 8:00am PST
    * Tracking abilities no longer trigger global cooldown, which also reduces their effect on Rift contribution.

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    From today's latest patch notes

    Tracking abilities no longer trigger global cooldown, which also reduces their effect on Rift contribution.

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    Originally Posted by =Z= View Post
    CONFIRMED: Spamming Track Ore WORKS!
    you might want to try it again, it worked for me last night but I just tried it on my warrior and it wouldn't even let me cast it repeatedly. didn't work for me as of 10min ago. Other than that, great exploit! I'll be trying this ASAP!

    -HoH

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    Hopefuly this will still work when I get my own copy of rift, thanks for sharing this.
    Molested myself and got convicted.

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    The patch notes said they lowered the contribution from tracking abilities.
    Haven't had the chance to test it yet, but it should still be viable.

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