Questing Solved in Rift

[FiveXFun]

I posted this on page 4 of a Ghostcrawler thread, but after I did so, looked at it and thought it might be of use to people in the Rift forum, so included it here as well.

Rift becomes F2P on the 12th. I started playing it about a month ago and am very much enjoying it. The leveling experience is amazingly good compared to WoW. I started out on one team of five doing quests up to level 18 or so. Much like WoW, there are a number of collection quests that are pretty annoying. Rift has IWT, so getting or completing quests isn't too bad, but leveling was similar in speed to WoW.


Then I discovered Instant Adventures. They are glorious and a huge innovation over anything I saw in WoW. Once you party (or raid) up, your whole team is instantly teleported somewhere in the world and automatically given a quest like kill 30 spiders. You join other people doing the quest as well, then have a ton of people all working on the same goal. When it is done, you automatically get quest reward experience and get a new quest. The army of folks mounts up, runs a short distance, then starts on the next quest. No obtaining quests, no turning them in, no choosing quest rewards, all of that is automatic and you can continually focus on completing quest objectives. You automatically get class and level appropriate quest rewards in your bags.


The exp is better than regular questing, the quest variety is plentiful, you get to work with others, you get to see the world of Rift, which was all brand new to me - what's not to like?


Anyway, once I figured that out, I quickly got another five boxes and started ten boxing - very little additional effort to level ten instead of five. My teams are now over level 40 and I'm having a great time. I have fiund Rift very similar to WoW but more fun and free.

[Apps]

Great post.

Yet, I believe GhostCrawler has finally put a stance in the public for not supporting multiboxers. Still a great post none the less. What server / faction are you on? I am also ditching WoW and their shortsided views to go play Rift. Ive not even bought one Rift game yet. No clue what Im about to get into.

Its reviews and comments like this that give me confidence that Rift will be a suitable substitute and transition from pre patch 5.2 WoW

[FiveXFun]

Faeblight, guardian side. Although we're going to see F2P soon, I went ahead and bought the Storm Legion pack for all my 10 accounts. It is only $20 at GameStop, includes the original game, 30 days of game time (which I think will translate in Patron days on the 12th), and a few things you'd have to buy individually once F2P rolls around: full bags slots, character slots, and all three new souls.

To me, the $20 per account for all that was a no brainier, as I think just the slots and souls will cost much more than that once F2P hits.

One other note - before the 12th you can go onto the PTR to try out the money store. Any in game currency you buy and spend on the PTR will be refunded onto your normal account multiplied by somewhere between 1.5 and 2. So basically if you think you will be spending some money on Rift in the future, you can get 150% to 200% of the value if you act before the 12th. Compared to what I spent on WoW every month, it is a pretty easy call to put $100 down now in the Rift store. When you spend $100, you get a 23% bonus as well, then the 150% to 200% bonus on top of that before the 12th - makes for a pretty good deal IMHO.

[Apps]

Ok, thanks. Done deal.

I visited my local GameStop today during my lunch hour. Turns out they emptied their SKUs when the announcement of F2P went out. Each box was sold for $4.99 USD. Yes, I said $5 a box. Soooo, I asked if there were any in stores close by.. yup! I have 5 copies coming, and should be at my local store by next tuesday. $25 + tax - 5% Powerup Rewards points = $25.36 total.

See you soon!

[FiveXFun]

Nice Apps, that's a steal for sure!

Hmmm.... At that price, I may as well get ten more copies and 20-box it. There ARE 20 man raids and I know you can 20-man Instant Adventures....

Oh, I guess I'm forgetting the $6K for two more systems + 31" monitors. Oh well, was a good thought

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I've been considering reactivating one account as a "premium" one and my other 4 as F2P when it's settled down a bit. Cheap fun, IMO.

[JohnGabriel]

I've been considering reactivating one account as a "premium" one and my other 4 as F2P when it's settled down a bit. Cheap fun, IMO.

I see one little problem if your leader is the premium patron, he will have a +10% increased mount speed.

They do increase all party members mounted speed if a mentored party member has a faster mount than you, but I think thats just in instant adventures and lfg.

[ebony]

I've been considering reactivating one account as a "premium" one and my other 4 as F2P when it's settled down a bit. Cheap fun, IMO.

"premium" can be done as little as 3 days the xp buff and mount buff would mass off the "alts" am just going to get 3 days "premium" go all out in the 3 days when leveling to the boosts.

[Smedbox]

One thing about questing in Rift. They fixed pretty much all of the "collection" type quests in the expansion (level 50-60 quests), so everyone in the group gets credit when one character "collects" an item. Makes questing much more enjoyable.

[FiveXFun]

Ah, that's great to know, Smedbox. My guys are getting pretty close to the level 50 mark and I've been told that doing the SL quests as normal (as opposed to doing Instant Adventures for the last ten levels) is the way to go because you get a much better set of starting armor for 60 and gain important reputation with valuable factions. I wasn't looking forward to going back to regular questing compared to the ease of IAs - this makes me feel better about it.