Pvp - A lot of fun. If you love PVP servers I'd go with that. Fun to Roam w/ Guild Ect.
Raiding - Fights are well done. Not crazy hard except for newest ones ect ect.
Best F2P MMO yet. Their is the loyalty program that is slightly beneficial, but no point do you need to pay to play. There is no gear you can buy with IRL ect to have an advantage.
No you do not need to buy the expansion for the full talent tree, unless a specific roll was expansion only, but I do not know off top of my head.
Also I believe this is still going on
http://raptr.com/game/Rift/rewards/rift-storm-legionFriend did it. You get expansion with it if you hit a certain level or some shit. I dont recall.
This post was edited by motox831 on Aug 26 2013 07:01pm