is rift the new wow?

[Zappy]

I'm almost level 30 now and am starting to learn more of the mechanics of the game play, gear progression etc, and I must say that I'm becoming quickly hooked.

The invasions are absolutely awesome. In my first big invasion in Gloamwood, I got lucky and got a cursed scourgestone (the epic one), so I've been doing every invasion to try to get the second one so I can buy my first epic.

The gear path is very interesting to say the least - if you mix it up, you can actually gear up your character pretty quick and through a variety of methods - pvp vendors, faction vendors for bgs, quartermaster for zones, and from rift rewards. I didn't even realize there were quartermasters in each zone until last night and I got some nice weapons upgrades.

With all the paths for gearing up, i like the fact that there isn't specific pvp gear (aka resilience gear), so at level cap, I'm assuming you can mix it all up and still get some nice gear with plenty of options.

But for now, I thrive on those invasions and look forward to every time one occurs to see what type of raid boss we'll end up fighting.

[Lokked]

With all the paths for gearing up, i like the fact that there isn't specific pvp gear (aka resilience gear), so at level cap, I'm assuming you can mix it all up and still get some nice gear with plenty of options.

This resilience you speak of is called Valor on gear, and it only appears (afaik) on the Favour-purchasable gear, and gear looted from Player corpses.