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What Rift does better than WoW
There are many reasons why a tired WoW player may be ready to move on. With that in mind here is a list of what Rift does better than WoW based on my experience in betas 3 & 4:
Graphics - high res, beautiful and not cartoony
Dynamic content - read up on rifts, invasions & footholds - you have a living, breathing world. Sometimes the rift invaders will attack your town and sometimes they will battle each other... try to break up the fight and both sets of rift invaders will turn on you and your party - be ready!
Quad Spec on the fly vs WoW Dual Spec on a timer - you can have 4 quickly swappable specs - once you've purchased an extra "role" (spec) you can change in just a few seconds and even while in combat!
Deeper class system - hundreds of combos to choose from - be an expert, hybrid or anything in between - no right or wrong builds!
$10/month? - that's right - founders can commit up to March 15th for the best value in AAA mmo gaming
More & varied ways to level - take on highly polished quests solo or with your friends. Take a break and PVP and get good XP for doing so. Then join a Rift hunting raid and run around defending Telara with sweet planar loot in store for the victors. Or you can easily group up for challenging dungeons!
Better fast travel system - Porticulums, once discovered, allow you to instantly warp back and forth to your desired destination. No more waiting on those slow WoW gryphons!
Challenging - you can actually die in this game if you're not paying attention to your surroundings. So don't think you can skip along whistling your favorite nursery rhyme and be safe on a road or pathway.
Combat - you may be used to spamming the same 1 or 2 keys over and over again in your current mmo. Welcome to rift where you will have access to more useful attacks and abilities than you can fit in your hotbar!
UI - no need for 3rd party mods. The UI is completely customizable!
No latency/lag issues - hats off to Trion on this one, even when the fps drops in heavy battle I never once experienced that dreaded game freezing lag
Feel free to add your own and watch as the Rift preorders pile up!
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I would have to agree with you well written. O.P.
Yup. Rift is a great mmo. Look forward to see what they add in before release.
A well-written list, I must say.
wait what does this mean? it's 10 bucks a month instead of 15 if you sub before march 15th?
I just pre-ordered after this beta weekend. Already anxious about the next beta, Feb 24th.
The sheer number of combination of classes you can make, makes this a no brainer for me
It's $10/month if you commit to 6 month interval billing before March 15th. You will be billed $60 twice a year. I had absolutely no problems making this commitment!
What!!! Feb 24th? Where did you get that info? I can't wait that long! I think you are talking about the early head start for preorders. The next beta should be within a week or two tops.
From my reciept
Dear xxxxx,
Thank you for purchasing RIFT Standard Edition . Here is the receipt for your transaction.
On January 10, 2011, we successfully charged EUR 49.99 to the Visa ending in xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
You will automatically gain access to all remaining beta events and Head Start (scheduled to begin on February 24th). Trion will send you an email before each beta event, and again before Head Start begins, with download instructions. Please make sure to add "@trionworlds.com" to your Safe Sender's list.
Thank you for being a member of the community!
Sincerely,
The Trion Team
Until March 15, you can opt to pay for 6 months of gametime at a time. If you do the 6 months gametime subscription, it's 60 bucks.
SO you pay 10 bucks a month, if you choose 6 month sub, before March 15. On a brand new AAA title.
I pre-ordered and sub'd for 6 months last nite. I have done all 4 beta events and I'm in love with this game.
Great fun.
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I've been waiting for an excuse to build a new pc, Rifts is it, tyty.
That's head start. Beta 5 will be much sooner! I hope!
So soon? That's awesome.
I don't really think Rift does everything better to WoW (referring to your title). It's a very polished game and it certainly has its perks, but comparing those two games is not exactly a great idea, because WoW is a several year old game and a giant in the MMO industry. I am not saying that Rift isn't a good game, just that not everything you listed is true (in my opinion).
Yes just to be clear, you only get the $9.99 per month deal if you pay for 6 months (compared to WoWs $13.99) and you sub before March 15th. If you cancel your sub then come back, you lose the founders pricing. For those who pay month to month, Rift is still $14.99.
I think you are trying way too hard to convince people to purchase this game. Why? What purpose does it serve unless you work for them and have something to gain by pitching this product (and badly I might add)?
Please try not to mislead people.
Yeah yeah buddy. RIFT in March, most of WoW community will be on it . Cata change Aleroth and so the community will be finding new homes in Telara. WoW mage students are very happy about this move because in Telara Mage students becomes WIZZARDS!!!
Since you're offering information and seem to be familiar with the game, I might as well ask a few questions.
"Quad Spec on the fly vs WoW Dual Spec on a timer - you can have 4 quickly swappable specs"
Completely free to swap back and forth as often as you want? Can you swap out souls as part of the specs, or do all four specs have to be based on the same three souls? What if you want to swap between more than four? Massively expensive pain, or just a minor hassle?
"$10/month? - that's right - founders can commit up to March 15th for the best value in AAA mmo gaming"
Someone below said that's a package deal if you buy six months at a time. For someone who prefers to pay monthly, is it still $15/month? I usually prefer short time periods of payments so that if the company does something I really dislike, I can express my displeasure by cancelling in a timely manner. Though actually, I don't see the difference between $10/month and $15/month as a big deal.
"Better fast travel system - Porticulums, once discovered, allow you to instantly warp back and forth to your desired destination."
Better travel system than WoW isn't saying much. Is it comparable to WoW except instant? Or is it more versatile yet, like map travel in Guild Wars? Is the fast travel completely free, does it charge a nominal fee, or is it actually rather expensive to use?
"Welcome to rift where you will have access to more useful attacks and abilities than you can fit in your hotbar!"
Are there cooldowns to prevent it from degenerating into spamming your 1-2 strongest attacks repeatedly?
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Some questions of my own:
How many character slots do you get? This could be per server, per account, included with the subscription, after buying extra character slots, or whatever.
How hard is it to get the extra souls? Can you quickly get three or four souls of your choice and swap between them a lot in the leveling process, or is it mostly a way to branch out at max level?
What is the combat tempo like? How long does a "typical" small battle take, and how long do you have to sit and wait between consecutive battles?
yea i was playing as a mage, and didnt pay attention to my area and i was surrounded by extra mobs, even though i died not once but twice, i still had loads of fun watching out and battling the mobs.
All 8 souls in beta were available right off the start for which ever arch you chose. The next thing many nooblixes did not realize was you could actually switch your chosen soul anytime you wanted. What I mean here was if you paid for a soul respec, you can actually swap out the souls as well, and not be stuck with the 3 you orginally chose. For a more detailed explaination, you have 4 roles total. Each role is allowed 3 souls, i.e. a spec. Well after you fill each 4 roles and you find out later your choices were bad, you can pay for a soul respec then swap out those 3 souls for any of the 8 available. Also there is a 9th soul available for pvp, in beta it costs 2500gold, or 25pp. This soul only has 21 point max to reach its end limit. That's just some info for all of you who have not gotten to experience the beta's to this point.
How many of these threads are you going to start man? Talk about Rift fanboy jeebus.
Just let the game do the talking. You cheapen the whole comparison with stuff like this.
If I wanted to mislead people I'd say that Rift is horrible and to stick with WoW! Since I'm giving an honest assessment I have to speak my mind!
Good rebuttals for the most part. I think Rift will be way at the other side of the spectrum in terms of success than FF14.