Didnt get very high, got to level 8 on a few characters.

TLR version: Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee I like the rifts!

So i was just running around and I took a wrong turn and went to a zone with level 20 mobs. Well, I ran into this town at the beginning of the zone. There was a hill off to one side so i ran over there to see what I could see and came to a cliff. There was a shiny (collectible) on the ground that I picked up.

When I turned around, the sky above me was shimmering. Apparently before a rift opens, there are "tears" that appear like that. Everyone has an ability called planar lure they can use to draw them out. So I opened the rift =P Out come level 20ish mobs from the rift and im insta smoked.

No big deal. I rezzed and then ran off to the side of the rift so I could observe what would happen. For about 5 minutes the mobs just milled about. Then, a gong went off and the "raid warning" portion of my screen warned me that there was an invasion happening. A mini boss and some minions broke away from the rift area and ran down into the town and start ganking guards. Once they had killed some of the guards, they started attacking this "waystone" in the town. They got it to about 3/4 life before more guards came and the invasion was stopped.

So that was cool. What happens if the waystone dies I wondered? So im standing around and the screen all of the sudden goes crazy. Apparently like 12 smaller rifts somehow spawned off of this one all over the zone and shit was going DOWN. I go back to check out the town and the waystone is dead and i look on my map and there is whats called a "Foothold". I dont know what the implications are, but shit was growing in the town. I didnt get a chance to see what was happening in the rest of the map cause i was too low level to get over there.

Anyways. Long story short, the rift stuff looks cool as hell. =)