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| I'd disagree with the WAR assessment by WITTGENSTEIN 03/06/2011, 7:21pm PST | ||||
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| WAR's gimmick was that enough activity in the zone triggered a "public quest" showdown with some big monster. If you participated and got enough points you got a lame-ass goodie that was indistinguishable from all the other goodies. And this was considered the BEST WAY to get gear of any kind. If anything, I think the PVP has more in common with WAR, as the first battleground for 10-20 consists of a game of 10v10 Kill the dude with the thing
Rift's work/reward ratio is a lot better. The Rifts are mostly "random" (in time, not place) and can be done by anything from 2-3 guys to a 40-man raid group. The more "public" quests are region-wide and have more in common with the Scourge/Lich King "invasion" holiday events from WOW than they do with WAR, with elite level mobs in swarms rushing towards quest hubs en masse while rifts pop up off the beaten paths...only more as a game feature instead of a once-a-year gimmick. There's a full on WOW-style crafting system for everything from accessories to weapons. There are weapon rewards for win streaks in the PVP battlegrounds, and the servers are cross-linked for battleground purposes. WAR was pure sodomy. Just a brutal, brutal level grind where from 9-10 was a days work, and if you hit every quest in the zone you just MIGHT make it to the end of the zone ready for the next tier of content at the appropriate level, and gear scaling was a joke. The level grind in Rift is nowhere near as soul-sucking, and the crafting/PVPing/questing/Rifting allows enough diversity that gear scaling is never a problem depending upon what you enjoy. I'm still not sold on it at the moment. Up to level 15 and have yet to really be wowed. The capital for the Defiant side is really not nearly a treat in the same way that say, walking through Stormwind or Darnassus for the first time was, and I'll admit that Bram wants to play it a lot more than I do, but it hasn't yet actively made me feel like my time would be better spent pounding nails through my dick with a hammer the way WAR did around level 11 when you realized that you had pretty much experienced the gamut of the content from 1-10. |
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Rift has 4 classes that have 9 talent trees, you use 3 talent trees at a time by 02/20/2011, 1:19am PST  Tried it by 02/20/2011, 2:48pm PST Skeptical, purchasing anyways, will report back NT by 03/05/2011, 11:57am PST I'd disagree with the WAR assessment by 03/06/2011, 7:21pm PST Couldn't hold my interest. Also AT&T is imposing bandwidth caps by 03/17/2011, 4:25pm PDT hey ICJ this two-post review should probably be on the front page NT by 05/19/2011, 11:41pm PDT |
