Rift anyone?

**DeathKnight21** · Joined: 17 Jun 2008 Posts: 451 Location: My House,Earth

Has anyone played rift yet, if you went on wowcurse they were giving out free weekend codes, and last night i played 10 hours straight

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Took for Rift Wiki:

Rift (previously known as Rift: Planes of Telara) is a 3D fantasy-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) from Trion Worlds Network, that was released March 1, 2011 in the United States, March 2, 2011 in Australia, March 3, 2011 in pan-European countries, and March 4, 2011 in the United Kingdom.

Setting
Rift is an MMORPG set in the fantasy world of Telara, which is the focal point of different planes (worlds). Through the actions of the death god Regulos, these worlds have now invaded Telara, causing rifts to open. Opposing Regulos are two factions: the Guardians and the Defiant. The conflict between these two factions serves as another source of tension and gameplay. Players have the role of Ascended: resurrected soldiers whose task is to defeat the forces of Regulos and cleanse Telara forever of his threat.[4]
Guardians are those who follow the way of the Vigil, the gods of Telara. They include the high elves, the Mathosians (a race of human-like creatures), and dwarves. Guardian ascended were resurrected by the Vigil after dying during one of the earlier conflicts with Regulos. Players who choose Guardian fight and die against one of Regulos' commanders, only to be brought back at the beginning of Rift.
Defiants are those who put their trust in technology as a way to conquer the forces of Regulos. They include the Eth (a race of human-like creatures), the Bahmi (resembling giants), and the Kelari (resembling dark elves). Defiant ascended were resurrected after a cataclysmic battle that has all but decimated Telara. At the beginning of the game, players who choose Defiant are sent back in time from this point to the beginning of Rift, allowing them to fight alongside the Guardians.
[edit]Rifts
Rifts are areas of elemental instability that represent the intrusion of elemental planes into the land of Telara. Once opened, these rifts begin to spawn monsters that proceed to march towards important points on the map. It is then up to players to defeat these monsters and to close the rift. If rifts are left unchecked, the invading monsters will eventually conquer large portions of the map, killing and significantly impairing the players in that area. Entering the area surrounding the rift will trigger a prompt that allows the player to join a public group, rather than forcing the player to manually create a group. Players sealing the rift are rewarded for many things including healing, attacking and buffing. The severity and locations of the rifts are entirely dynamic. Rifts of six different types (earth, fire, air, water, life, and death) are possible, and rifts of different types will oppose each other. In addition, Non-player characters hostile to the player may engage rift invaders.

I would post more, but i don't want to have the entire post being stuff from the wiki so this is my opinion on the game.

When i made my character i got to choose 1 of 8 classes, and in later quest i choose 2 sub classes. The first hour i was having tons of fun, it was better than any mmo i had played. Then came the other 9 hours it was mindless fun. I was dying a little bit, but i was still enjoying it. If you have played World of warcraft and you loved it this is a game you should try.

Does anyone else play?

**Slayer17** · Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 3:49 am Post subject:

Started playing on Friday. I'm level 30 now. Trust me, that's a pretty damn good indication that I fucking love this game. It's a ton of fun. You choose one of four classes (Warrior/Mage/Rogue/Cleric) and within those classes are 8 unique Souls. Each Soul has its own talent tree, and you will 3 active Souls at all times. The system is pretty interesting, and there are TONS of abilities to choose from. At first it can actually be a little overwhelming, a nice change from the typical "spam this move because it's the only one you have right now" MMO. The Rifts that spawn around the world, as well as the massive World Event that's occurring right now make the leveling experience much more interesting, and it's awesome that you can jump right into a group with people working on quests or Rifts in your area.

From what I've seen thus far, the content will be challenging for sure. At the appropriate level for any given dungeon, expect to have a pretty rough time before you get the hang of it. I definitely enjoy the difficulty of Rift. All that said, I would recommend this game to everyone who has even remotely enjoyed a "WoW-ish" game. It has taken all the good of WoW and expanded on it, yielding a pretty awesome experience.
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**Saru786** · Joined: 20 Dec 2008 Posts: 1650 Location: In a box...

Since I hate WoW and I will never play WoW ever again because of the tons and tons and tons and tons of flaws it has, Rift is something I wouldn't even look at. :/
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**DeathKnight21** · Joined: 17 Jun 2008 Posts: 451 Location: My House,Earth

**Slayer17** · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 2:56 pm Post subject:

I am a Warrior, Champion/Riftblade/Reaver for leveling, with my offspec being Paladin/Reaver/Void Knight for tanking. I have had a lot of success with both.
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**MSH-Hitman** · Joined: 27 Aug 2007 Posts: 4481 Location: Florida

I played it on a free day just before release and while it's better than WoW, if you played WoW and wanted a different game that wasn't like WoW, your not getting that from Rift. I liked the big random Rift battles, it looks good, and the class ideas are interesting, but it plays exactly like WoW, the character races are boring, and the endgame content looks to be almost ripped from WoW which basically killed the game off for me. Just another good looking WoW clone for the most part, which makes their ad campaign that more ridiculous and dumb lol

I would also agree to wait for a free weekend or free trial if your semi-interested, cause it has some interesting parts, but as someone that was bored by WoW after awhile and wanting to see something different, I can't see Rift holding up any better.

**Saru786** · Joined: 20 Dec 2008 Posts: 1650 Location: In a box...

**MSH-Hitman** · Joined: 27 Aug 2007 Posts: 4481 Location: Florida

Yeah, at it's core, it's very much trying to pull away folks from the WoW crowd, with a game that plays very similar, but doesn't have near the amount of content that WoW itself has right now.

The only way to try and compete as an MMO anymore I think, is to try and steer as far away from being like WoW as you can. And it's not even about if WoW did everything it did first or best, it's simply the largest and most active out there, so you have to try and do more to separate yourself from that crowd. You can't compete directly with WoW. You will fail. Just look at all the other games that have tried and dwindled in it's wake. I can think of a half dozen right off the top of my head I think lol

**Sarg338** · Joined: 07 Feb 2008 Posts: 5143

Bumping this. One of my friends invited me to play, played the 7-day trial and I was hooked. I'm not sure why, but it seems that even if I play 4+ hours straight, it never gets boring. Maybe it's because of the rifts, or the random stuff that happens, or maybe it's because it's a newer game, but I love it.

I'm leveling a rogue right now, level 22, Nightblade/Assassin/Bladedance. I love it, I can typically take down mobs non-stop with minimal rest for health.
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**RustyWaffle** · Joined: 15 Apr 2007 Posts: 796

I played it for several weeks after release (including the beta) and being a total WoW nerd I was hooked on it for a while, but I slowly began to lose interest and went back to WoW alltogether and cancelled my subscription. There's just something about WoW that makes it better than Rift for me. I guess there's never actually going to be everyone's acclaimed "WoW-killer". It's like an FPS coming out and killing Call of Duty; it's just not possible.
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**Sarg338** · Joined: 07 Feb 2008 Posts: 5143

Bump for Rift 1.4 coming out soon.

**Sarg338** · Joined: 07 Feb 2008 Posts: 5143

Bump for 1.3 coming out today!

**Kingofterrors** · Joined: 24 Oct 2006 Posts: 1993 Location: Odenton, MD

I played this for maybe a week or 2 when it released. Got boring real fast.
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