I know some people here like MMO's and played World of Warcraft.
I used to play WoW, haven't touched it in a year, but I played since vanilla and through the expansions so what I played I quite enjoyed.

http://au.riftgame.com/en/

Anyways, so RIFT is this new mmo people are hoping will be a 'wow-killer' you may have seen ads for it everywhere saying 'we're not in Azeroth anymore'. Funny.

Some people are attracted to it because the 'graifcs r gud' but in my opinion they aren't good per se, just the art style is more realistic. WoW may not be realistic but it's style works well and has a nice charm to it.

The other appeal is that there are world events, called rifts. WoW had world events which were limited time once only events (such as Gates of Ahn Qiraj, prior to BC, prior to Wotlk, prior to Cata..) where as RIFT has these rifts that well.. open up and shit comes and you attack them in a pve public raid.
What I found though was that these rifts open like every 5 minutes and don't last long, and give you basically a few points of currency for items kinda like easily grinding heroic crap. There's also lots of opportunities to open as many rifts as you want . This makes them not so special after the first 5 or so I guess until you want better endgame content perhaps..

I should add I've been playing the Open Beta that went up today and is lasting a week. Got to lvl 10 rather quickly, its really fuckin crowded so quests are a grind, and I saw like the same rift open 10 times which I got sick of seeing near a starting area. I also saw tons of what I worked out later are points you can open more rifts if you were so inclined.



For me, this is the appeal to the game:


You get 4 main classes. Warrior, Cleric, Rogue, Mage.
Within each of those are 8 sub classes, which you can choose any 3 of to mix and match your own class essentially.
It opens up interesting opportunities in the sense you can have various types of tanking classes (which is what I started with the heavy emphasis on defence classes) as well as dps and healing classes.
It's pretty much the same as talent trees except you can choose your talent trees within classes first, and you automatically get skills the more talents you acquire. Then you purchase upgrades.
You also start getting talents from first level, not lvl 10 like in WoW.


As a result of limited creativity within fantasy rpg's these days, you'll get lots of similar classes to pretty much every other game out there. It's purely the fact you have some variation in mixing it up to optimise a class you like that makes it a cut above.



Aside from that, I personally enjoyed what I've played so far and will continue to play more as the beta cap is lvl 42, where as the release will have a cap of lvl 50. It'll be good to see what end game content is like.
The custom class system has taken to me and I quite like it, I opted for Warrior with the subclasses of Paladin, Warlord, and Reaver. Gives me tons of defence, block, and dodge bonuses n skills that compliment being a strong main tank which is good fun and hopefully should work out well end game.
The only problem is it doesn't quite have the same charm as WoW did. I don't know what it is, maybe it was just the time that I played the game but WoW seemed quite intriguing, where as this game is just something fresh that brings relief from the constant rehash WoW has become.

a wow killer, lol that will never be

Don't forget about PvP souls Gonna give it a play after I've done my assignments since I've been having RIFTdrawels, PvP is my main focus for this though.

So far I'm liking the way Trion conducts things, like when the early beta keys weren't being shipped out Trion actually had staff manually giving people VIP access if they had proof of purchase (Unlike Blizzard with their SC2 beta codes and their whole "You'll get them when you get them" additude) and how some features can be enabled and disabled on different realms. In beta 5 they buffed town guards and made it so ward stones could not be attack, then in beta 6 they made those changes only on PvE realms and left it unchanged on PvP realms (Again, not to name any MMOs where the only difference between PvP and PvE servers was the fact you could attack anyone anywhere if you could actually find anyone)

The tree and roots system is pretty interesting too, only problem is how linear PvP souls are (Vindicator is your PvP soul boots) but then again. some PvP high-tier souls are pretty OP lol.

Can't wait to roll out a cleric this arvo!

Yeah I still don't know much about it. But I have liked it overall just not enough to consider a purchase
The roots are just skills you could have bought in wow, at least first rank is free. I don't know enough about pvp souls yet.

Shak I'm on Europe server Bloodiron if you want to play together. lvl 11 atm I'll probably play a bit more later. Defiant of course

When I get home tonight, I'll do some reading in regards to this game.

I might*** buy.

We'll see

Why European? PvP souls are pretty much bread and butter skills for PvP since most only have effects against players i.e. 20% dam buff against players. You only get to spend 21 points so you pretty much can only spec into one major skill and thats it.

Clerics souls is Templar and has the same starting skill as other classes which is Break Free which removes all forms of Crowd Control which is one of those "Must have" skills for PvP. But at 21 points you get the OP skills such as stealing 50% of healing down to an enemy and (all one skill) 50% damage reflect and 50% of damage received converted into healing!

Between Europe and USA I prefer the European culture really.
Ping is fine for me, goes well.

When do you obtain these pvp souls?


also here's some screenies from my adventures so far for anyone that cares:

you're a girl

YO MUMMAS A GIRL! Wait..

TraeliumFTW wrote:

you're a girl

get free shit bro

your dog wrote:

TraeliumFTW wrote:

you're a girl

get free shit bro

for favors?

Tulzer wrote:

your dog wrote:

TraeliumFTW wrote:

you're a girl

get free shit bro

for favors?

I'll take off the tabard for anyone.


EDIT: if anyone actually wants to get rift, apparently you can get it from Direct2Drive for about $40, using a promo code from this thread:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3381021

your dog wrote:

Tulzer wrote:

your dog wrote:

TraeliumFTW wrote:

you're a girl

get free shit bro

for favors?

I'll take off the tabard for anyone.


EDIT: if anyone actually wants to get rift, apparently you can get it from Direct2Drive for about $40, using a promo code from this thread:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3381021

Your such a pro, I have always wondered why guys choose to play as girls in mmo's now it is answered.

KarmaFTW wrote:

your dog wrote:

Tulzer wrote:

your dog wrote:

TraeliumFTW wrote:

you're a girl

get free shit bro

for favors?

I'll take off the tabard for anyone.


EDIT: if anyone actually wants to get rift, apparently you can get it from Direct2Drive for about $40, using a promo code from this thread:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3381021

Your such a pro, I have always wondered why guys choose to play as girls in mmo's now it is answered.

You got it all wrong Karma, The reason guys play as females is simple. If you were gonna sit there for hours on end, grinding away for phat lewts, would you want to do it staring at a mans ass? No? Thats why guys play females.

Good point........

Alternatively you could look at what you're doing.

*Main tank down*
"Healer, what art thou doing?"
"Sorry, I was staring at my lusciously curved female ass."

It's also very amusing which can make the dull parts of grinding easier to deal with.


In a raid I tend to be zoomed so far out I can only tell where I am not really what I look like.

You got/Getting this game Dog?

Um, haha since I played when I made this thread i never played it again and the beta ended. So I think that says volumes about how either I don't play games enough to warrant purchasing an mmo, or that it lacks the charisma WoW had.

I also had some shit to do during the week it was on so just never found the time in the end, didn't play it regularly.

However, I recommend it over WoW if you're interested in trying a fantasy mmo, as the magic WoW had is long gone. people are chasing only a dream..
This game is still intersting, particularly if you can get a good group of friends to play with.

Don't think Krutor is classified as good lol. Guess it's Darkspore beta time!

Dog, Shaka ... Why Arent you in teamspeak its prime gaming time ... posting at this hour ? lol

The thing with wow now is its just a grind fest and it seems to be the same thing over and over.
thinking about uninstalling wow and getting this...

this game looks good and different. Anyone know the monthly fee?

Gone_TroppoFTW wrote:

Dog, Shaka ... Why Arent you in teamspeak its prime gaming time ... posting at this hour ? lol

I'd just got back early from a 21st and went to bed straight after haha.

RemorselessFTW wrote:

The thing with wow now is its just a grind fest and it seems to be the same thing over and over.
thinking about uninstalling wow and getting this...

this game looks good and different. Anyone know the monthly fee?

Well Rift is still grinding, all mmos these days have that very same basic structure. It's just what it looks like over the top and the few differences in gameplay.

Subscription pricing here:
http://au.riftgame.com/en/products/subscriptions.php

same price as wow gay.... they could have done it for 9.99 but nooooo

I don't know if this has been said but I'll say it anyway; its some what a good rip off of WoW and its done a fine job at that. Even though I wont play it. I'm not in for "paying to constantly play".

.....pay to play is gay..... rhymes

i like stories that end....because thats reality...life will end

Tulzer wrote:

.....pay to play is gay..... rhymes

i like stories that end....because thats reality...life will end

Bit deep.....

Anyway got rift today just wondering what region everyone (if there is anyone) is playing on? thinking Europe mite be the way to go dunno dont know say that north america has release theres but europe isnt for 2 more days

Krutor and myself are playing on Ashstone-US because Euro is pretty dead. No one plays Euro servers

After playing this game for a week i have to say im pritty pissed off. Reasons are the following

Graphics are nice at first but if you look close they are really bad and the game lags for no reason on high and it only uses 69% of my Gpu WTF (and no its not my cpu or ram that makes it lag i checked them out to).

Grinding/questing in it sucks seems like there's no story line and PvP is just sad

Class builds and talent trees etc to much to choose from and If you step back its like wow but you can customize your class abit more but its bad the way rift did it because almost everyone has a pet or can heal them self.

i made the mistake of getting the collectors edition then a few days later they take away my mount and pet (which i got for free with my edition of the game)

And the bugs/glitches are endless on this game.

if your thinking about getting this game dont! just save your money

on the lighter side the rifts that open up and the monsters that try to take over your town thats kinda cool but thats all i really like about the game.

Well that's a relief pheeewww.

Disaster averted.

So second life and wow had a child and namd it RIFT? looks good, i like the story line,