Last night of open beta, did some exploring

[Redbeard]

The reason I say forced grouping Lyon is... I saw the timer on the rift, it said 100 minutes left. Correct me if im wrong, i am just getting into the game a bit so dont have all the details.

But say they take over the town for 100 minutes. Are there multiple places to quest or is it linear? If its linear, and youve infested the zone im in, youve basically shut me down for 100 minutes or until somebody bands together and deals with the rift.

If the rifts are not soloable, I need a group to clear them. If I want to keep leveling, the grouping is forced. Thats what i meant.

I could be way off base.

[Lyonheart]

Most zones have quests in a few areas. Some are linear. some are level based. I was doing a mix of PvP..quests and rift grinding, so i ended up with a lot of unfinished quests before i moved on to the next zone. But i found several quests through each zone that were not a result of opening them up via a previous quest.

Yes, invasions can overrun quest hubs. So if the quest hub you are working out of gets taken, then yea, you would have to take it back. If your 5 boxing you should be able to do it solo, but chances are people will be there to help. good news is, once you remove the foothold in a quest hub, the quest NPCs spawn pretty fast. But you would not be locked out for the entire duration of the invasion. When invasions are happening, your quest hub could very well be swarmed by wave after wave until they all are closed/dead. So i guess that would be forced grouping for a short time.

When I got to the 26+ zone ( Gorge something ) I was at the quest hub down in the bottom of the gorge. And it got invaded, I was 26 when the raid started and was almost 28 when it ended lol. It was non stop for like 15 minutes and ended with a raid boss.