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I had been waiting for 4.1/4.2 to finally be implemented in wow and I got ridiculously bored.
So, obviously I bought rift. Started about three weeks ago and so far I am really enjoying it.
While its no Wow killer, since the only that can kill wow is wow itself, (which is sorta what blizz is doing holding back these patches so long, better be worth it) its still a great game that wont have trouble finding people to play it.
As long as Trion keeps working with it, with consistent updates, and doesn't let it fall apart like Aion did, I have high hopes for rift.
Yeah!
-Rift events are a great way to keep things interesting and, with the public group feature, its easy to participate with others.
-The Grim Harvest event was a nice way to roll in a new raid, hope to see more of these events even if no raid is attached to them.
-Class/role/soul system is great, I like being able to switch between roles as I see fit with unlimited build options available.
-Strong class roles, regardless of what you pick you can pve/pvp, while as always some will be better than others, you can still play and not get rolled.
-Plenty of strong features that many other mmo's (yes wow) have which makes the game that much more solid.
Ehhhh...
- I'm sort of torn on a dungeon finder system, I want to be able to easily and quickly find a group, but I dont want it to take away from server interaction.
If it matches you will people automatically, then I would want it to only match you with those from your server.
- I have noticed some extremely high que times around the weekends, sometimes lasting for 3+ hours on a server that was medium pop and recommended a few weeks ago.
I get that new people join everyday and want to be on a server with a lot of people, but damnnnn.
Some sort of server balance needs to take place, offer free transfers/expand servers/anything.
I can stand to wait to login, but not for 3-5 hours...
-I want an Arena, I dont care if it doesnt give special rewards or even no rewards at all.
Arena is a huge part of my reasons to keep playing wow, rift would get more love if it added it.
I know it brings up a whole other balance issue, but if Trion takes the time to balance each class for arena and activate those stats when that player enters an arena match, it would work just fine I'm sure. (arena soul?)
It may be another thing that people will say rift copied from wow, but who cares? It was a damn good idea and Trion should roll with it regardless.
-Sometimes invasions dont get the required attention to take down and it can be difficult to solo, if they are not removed you may have to quest elsewhere.
While this isnt that big of a deal to me, it would be nice for some npc's to spawn and help take them down if they have been in that area for a long time.
I would say give players that take one down, that has been up for a long time, extra loot... but that would just cause people to ignore them until they get to that point.
But, yeh that really isn't too bad.
tl;dr - Rift is fresh and fun. Lots of good and little bad. I will keep playing as long as Trion gives it plenty of attention.
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