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I'm having a blast with it, only game that's really sucked me in in years. Just kept getting bored of wow fast after about the first year. Maybe this game's relations to DAOC (probably my favorite all time game) and the devs are what it is, but so far I don't see getting tired of it anytime soon. Granted I haven't rushed to 50 but most of my friends are 50 and seem pretty challenged and busy so far.
I am done with it.
My sub runs out on April 3rd and I am not going to resub.
The game is ok once through but it is a grind that I did not have in WOW. I am talking about the replayability. Once you play through you have to do the exact same quest/zones. Then there is rep grind latter in the game.
Do not even get me started on the class imbalances. Mages need major love.
For full disclosure, I have a 50 mage.
So pretty much I am done, waiting for the next MMO, maybe they can get it right.
P.
I'm really liking it but I'm only playing one account casually. I love that you have a lot of variety in skills and class make ups.
I've been very bored in Rift and seriously doubt that I'll be resubbing. From the quests to the endgame content. It's just one gigantic grind without much reward.
Pretty graphics but the game is missing any surprises. They started making Rift when TBC came out and the similarities are just staggering. Even down to some of the major characters seem lifted right out of TBC. Really the game verges on plagiarism. Tidelord Brenin IS Illidian...Just kind of lame.
Not a shred of humor in the game either.
I think I'm done with it too - I canceled 4 accounts - and probably will cancel my main. I leveled 5 rogues up to level 50. They keep nerfing rogues, and the really OP classes, like warriors don't get touched. They let you pick all these different skill trees, but at the end of the day, they all suck except for maybe 2 out of like 256 possible combos. One warrior can kill all my guys if he's good and gets the jump. If not all, at least a few. In "Battle Grounds" people hate to see anyone but healers and warriors, because all other classes suck. They used to like bards, but they are nerfing their healing in raids by 75% - so they effect only 5 members vs 20.
Well i just tried a Wf at 42, one warrior was killing my whole team of bards in a few attacks.. yea..w warriors are a tad op lol
full team of warriors would probably be insane!
Some Warrior skills are OP and are getting fixed.
Chloro and Bard healing is being 'addressed'.
Hopefully this fixes warriors and gets them in line with other classes:
http://forums.riftgame.com/showthrea...s-vs-Hot-fixes
At level cap, I'm still enjoying it overall. I haven't done a whole slew of dailies, but from what I've seen, the dailies appear to change which keeps them fresh. I have still yet to step into an expert dungeon and plan to start them soon. I know this game was really designed around the PVE aspect, so I want to experience more of that.
The pvp grind has gotten a little old, however it's going at a quick enough rate to where you do get useful upgrades rather quickly - I'm not quite rank 3, however this doesn't really leave much to do in the pvp scene after you hit cap. We'll see what they add in the future here. At my current play rate, I'm still a good month out before rank 6. Part of the fun to me in Rift is still some of the theorycrafting with various souls - especially now that I'm beginning to unlock some of the talents within the pvp soul.
One thing I have enjoyed and was surprised with is after rolling a new toon. The zones are still packed with people. I see players spamming for groups for all the various dungeons, which tells me that Rift will probably not die any time soon. The population seems smaller than launch, but it's nothing like going through zones like the barrens or Hyjal where you don't see that many people any more. I've been doing the dailies for apothecary, and they send you to various zones, where I still see a lot of people.
I find myself not nearly as immersed as I was with wow. This is more me though as I'm just tired of the wow type gameplay over all. Some of my other fixes just got released as well (HomeFront, Crysis 2, Assassins Creed Brotherhood, etc) which helps as I'll definitely be giving them a fair amount of time, and I'll likely continue to play Rift in the meantime.
From a boxing perspective, I don't think I could play Rift and get the same enjoyment as I did with wow as the synergy for the various class comps just doesn't seem to be there. Add this into the one sure factor -- CC in this game is a lot worse than wow and very imbalanced. In warfronts, it's not uncommon from me to go from full health to death while being CC'd the entire time. In Whitefall Steppes, I was chasing a mage carrying the flag, and I was polymorphed for a solid 12 seconds with absolutely no chance of catching up. I'm pretty sure if I was boxing it, I would become very frustrated rather quickly with it.
I'm enjoying it. I'm playing a single account atm, not willing to jump into boxing this early. I have a level 50 cleric, and have done maybe half a dozen level 50 dungeons.
Compared to current WoW, it's missing a lot. Compared to classic WoW or any other just released game, it's got a lot to do and is very polished. At 50 there are a couple normal dungeons, and two tiers of expert dungeons (WoW heroics.) The t2 dungeons are kind of like ToC/ICC heroics vs the standard ones. The blues in T2 are about the same as the epics in T1. The 'gate' to T2 is your hit rating. 1 hit rating = 0.2% chance to hit and you need 100 rating to get 100% hit for T2 (so if you have 0, you have a 20% miss rate.) For raids, you need 200 (40% miss with 0.) I like this gating system better, as you don't need to put obscene amounts of rating on gear and you don't need to make npcs hit 10x harder and have 10x the life in each tier.
The Rift system was amazing at first, now I don't really care for them much. They're a nice break from questing when one spawns near you, and the blue/epic tokens you can get during an invasion can buy some decent gear, but at 50 there's no point doing any but the 5-man/raid rifts.
Dailies, rep grinding, instance farming for tokens for gear, all the same in Rift as WoW (except there's no cap the number of dailies you can do.)
At this point I think for myself (and many others) that we're simply MMO'd out. It's not that Rift is bad, it's just that it's another MMO. I can farm gold/achievements/gear/etc in WoW or Rift, and the only reason I know I'll go back to WoW is simply because I have more time invested in it and feel more attached to it. Rift is a great game, and if I wasn't playing WoW I would definitely be in Rift full-time.
I tried it. Bought the Collector's Edition because if I do ever go back to it, I'll have all the perks with it.
But I won't be subscribing too it.