Rift

[Lyonheart]

Is this game slated to have competitive PVP?

Trion has yet to make an official statement on the legality of boxing in their game, I wish they would respond to one of the many threads on the subject! They will have BGs, ( called Warfronts ) very similar to WoW, WAR. You can start doing Warfronts at lvl 10. They also have a reward system in place to spend PvP currency on loots. Right now there are a few methods of obtaining rare+quality loots, quests, drops from mobs or players you kill, PvP currency, Rift currency. So there are vendors that let you spend currency you get from PvPing and vendors for currency you get when you help close rifts.

This game has a lot more ways to gear up then WoW does, and I am looking forward to it now. I actually am sad beta ended, i would love to test some more classes/specs before it goes live. I am hoping one of the final beta stages is an extended one, I mean it comes out in March, and you would think they want to test the entire leveling experience all the way to end game, right?

[Zappy]

I ventured a round a bit more last night got to almost level 26, but made a point to check out the other zones for what I could. Definitely a big change of pace there as there is a lot of new eye candy out there. While farming rifts with a few other players in the second zone, I noticed one really cool thing that boxers will love -- the experience gain. Doing nothing but farming rifts in big groups will net you some nice experience. Most rifts can be done with 5 people or less, so by having our own group, that will be a quick way to level.

While rift fighting, I found myself being attacked by some guardians, and that spawned off a nice outdoor war that went on for a good hour or so. The pvp in the game is good right now. I won't say great as there is definitely some class imbalances out there, but even with the those, it's still solid. Clerics seem to be the overpowered class right now.

[outdrsyguy1]

There was a crazy invasion that me and about 80+ others defended outside of sanctum. couple of HUGE treebeard looking dudes and TONS of minions. I went from 16 to almost 18 in about 30 minutes, it was CRAZY XP and a total blast. As long as someone in your group hits (doesn't even have to tag it) the mob, you get full xp.

[confusedtx5]

Where did I say I only played for half an hour? This is my second beta wave and my "main" is 20. What I said is this game feels like playing a console with cheats, and the fun of being OP and having all challenge removed wears off quickly.

My Apologies, it just came across that way when you said "It's all fun to be overpowered and stuff for about half an hour"

[MiRai]

Multiboxers will ultimately shine in this game. When you're in a zone and you're solo, if you cannot find enough people to
help close the Rifts, that seem to spawn fairly quickly even without an invasion, your quest hubs will soon become overrun.
Even if you're dual-boxing a Tank/Healer combo you're going to be better off than a single, solo, player because you can still
seal these Rifts.

This is just an observation from playing WAR which had similar "zone-based" content like Rift. At launch, these zone
objectives are nice and fun when everyone is busy leveling up, but when the activity dies down these objectives become
much more difficult to accomplish. In WAR this wasn't necessarily an issue because you could just continue to quest, but in
Rift, the zone is invaded and you lose your quest hubs for awhile. For example, when I was in Stonefield, I barely got any
Rifts sealed because people were becoming much more spread out. Sure it's beta and there is less of a player-base at the
moment, but after the initial rush of people you may find that you have indeed rolled on, what ends up to be, a low
population server. There's no way to tell at launch, but if you're multiboxing you most likely will not be affected at all by this.

This isn't a groundbreaking thought, but something I figured I would mention since a lot of people are becoming interested
in this game and this might help someone decide whether they'd like to multibox it or not.

[Negativ1337]

Hey guys,

I've preordered the collectors edition yesterday via steam. I will be playing Rift as a warrior (paragon/beastmaster) since it will look awesome. If i quit WoW and decide to go crazy on rift and multibox that, we will see how that will go

I prefer to wait for some multiboxing addons. And read some experiences of other multiboxers. We should make one realm a multiboxer/community server. That would be fun

Kind regards,

Negativ1337

[MiRai]

I prefer to wait for some multiboxing addons. And read some experiences of other multiboxers. We should make one realm a multiboxer/community server. That would be fun

Trion isn't allowing 'addons' the way World of Warcraft allows them. Source

[Lokked]

I would be interested in playing with other boxers.

As I will primarily be playing DPS (3-4 Mages).....

Originally while writing this, I was looking for the Defiant Kelari Race bonus to link for you guys, but I came across this:
http://www.fohguild.org/forums/1927978-post5572.html

If they change the bonuses around so they are about equal, I don't care which faction.

[Mokoi]

im going for the bad guys, i played alliance in wow and i always wish i was horde. so im going dark in rift =)

[outdrsyguy1]

the dark side was like 4x more populated on the server i tried in beta so far. I actually re-started as a guardian because it was 20 minute que for the other side and guardian was 4 second que lol. not sure which side i'll be when it all starts