Originally posted by Issiea I don't mind if it is slow, its just the way that I level. It just needs to be more interesting. Ok, so adventures are dungeons I take it? How about PvP?
The variety makes it interesting. Adventures are good options as long as your adventure has 5+ people. Pvp is also very good as long as you have daily random warfronts available and your faction wins at least half the time. Dungeons work well but there aren't a lot of them so that really isn't an option for the whole process. After level 50 onslaughts open up and those are extremely fast if you have a group of 4+. Also, zone invasions can be awesome and if you get into a group farming raid rifts that works well, too. So you can pretty much always find a different way to level when the method you've been using gets dull.
For me the most consistent way to level quickly is still doing old-fashioned quest runs, but then I wrote a leveling guide for Rift so I'm a bit of an expert on Rift questing.
Instant adventures are just quests without quest givers. In fact, many of them are existing quests. Instead of a purpose (even a half assed one) you are just ported somewhere and told to kill 13 things or maybe kill a named mob.
yes but instead of doing quests alone, you are doing them with others. besides that, you can do other things happening there in the same time, as an opening rift, an invasion, a world boss or whatever.
its special also that game downlvling you and gets you to places and quests in every map, so it gets less boring. plus its nice to play in the whole world map and not only in some territories all the time, doing the same quests and killing the same mobs every day.
i wished this many times for WoW too. so huge and nice world for nothing. you get 1-2 lvl's in every area and thats it. at least RIFT lets you play again there, while you gain loot, xp etc appropriate to your lvl.
so imo in the current mmo market, considering the quality and the payment model, RIFT is the best choice by far.
You are still doing the quests alone. there is no interaction expected or required with the other people, they are NPCs doing the same thing you are doing. And i fail to see how going back and repeating quests you did at level 12 is all that much different than dailies. But I just never understood the appeal of IAs, its soulless content (like most dailies). Now downleveling for older invasions, that is fun imo.
EQ2 has downleveling too, and has significantly more content than Rift and a much better game world. LOTRO also has mentoring. I consider both these games superior to Rift just because they arent as bland as Rift (although LOTRO might be too slow/sluggish combat for most). Rift is in my opinion currently the 4th best WoW/EQ2 style themepark imo. Not as good as the original 3 (WoW, EQ2, LOTRO) but better than the later ones (WAR, SWTOR) and the cheap knockoffs (Allods, RoM). Its not a bad game, but its not a great one either. Although none of the themeparks are great anymore (as opposed to Vanilla WoW, SoA LOTRO and EoF EQ2)
You describe how I feel about rift much better than myself , while its going free to play and marketed here and all these suckers are falling for it like its going to be just so great , they have done absolutely nothing at all to address how stale the world and leveling in this game is. I understand some in this thread are just trying to be helpful like Kano etc but this game just is so damn slow and boring once you hit 50 that most lose complete interest in the game and quit which is why they are going free to play to begin with.
Just like in the myriad of threads complaining on certain things that just plan out suck on the official forums they ignore who complains or close threads , yet they listen to moronic fanbois on their forums that would rather tell everyone who dislikes things they are stupid or they want things to easy etc like another troll did to me in this thread. There is a reason this game is going free to play and its not because of the kindness of their hearts trust me. Its stale bland and boring with gimmicky leveling and a crappy copy and paste of wows endgame , which by the way its about 100x more grinding in rift to get to the fun raiding unlike wow who has raid finder and actual scenarios that help to gear you up unlike rifts crappy daily expert system that you cant even get boss marks anymore....
I play wow and many many haters on this site can talk all the smack they want about how much better rift is than wow yet rift has never even brought in a tiny piece of the sub numbers wow pulls every month even losing steam with only 8.3 million subs now. Also lotr online combat is not slower than rift anymore , they have dumbed down the combat some by making it so you don't miss special attacks anymore and raised stats on weapons so you can kill faster and have auto loot etc so its actually much faster compared to rift nowadays. Also they are about to put in a completely new talent tree system based on the old wow and swtor talent tree style.
BTW ive played rift off and on since beta 1 and have multiple toons that are in their 50s and had plenty of drowned halls GSB river of souls etc experience and its funny I ALWAYS leave after just a month or two from rift to go back to wow no matter how hard I try to stay with Rift. I dont need build help to have fun I know all the builds that work for storm legion and I know how to get to 60 fast if I want which btw people is hunt rifts not carnage quests so get it right. Obviously I just do not enjoy the game until they address why everyone leaves to begin with especially considering they have added more end game content than wow has at times and people still leave in droves.
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You describe how I feel about rift much better than myself , while its going free to play and marketed here and all these suckers are falling for it like its going to be just so great , they have done absolutely nothing at all to address how stale the world and leveling in this game is. I understand some in this thread are just trying to be helpful like Kano etc but this game just is so damn slow and boring once you hit 50 that most lose complete interest in the game and quit which is why they are going free to play to begin with.
Just like in the myriad of threads complaining on certain things that just plan out suck on the official forums they ignore who complains or close threads , yet they listen to moronic fanbois on their forums that would rather tell everyone who dislikes things they are stupid or they want things to easy etc like another troll did to me in this thread. There is a reason this game is going free to play and its not because of the kindness of their hearts trust me. Its stale bland and boring with gimmicky leveling and a crappy copy and paste of wows endgame , which by the way its about 100x more grinding in rift to get to the fun raiding unlike wow who has raid finder and actual scenarios that help to gear you up unlike rifts crappy daily expert system that you cant even get boss marks anymore....
I play wow and many many haters on this site can talk all the smack they want about how much better rift is than wow yet rift has never even brought in a tiny piece of the sub numbers wow pulls every month even losing steam with only 8.3 million subs now. Also lotr online combat is not slower than rift anymore , they have dumbed down the combat some by making it so you don't miss special attacks anymore and raised stats on weapons so you can kill faster and have auto loot etc so its actually much faster compared to rift nowadays. Also they are about to put in a completely new talent tree system based on the old wow and swtor talent tree style.
BTW ive played rift off and on since beta 1 and have multiple toons that are in their 50s and had plenty of drowned halls GSB river of souls etc experience and its funny I ALWAYS leave after just a month or two from rift to go back to wow no matter how hard I try to stay with Rift. I dont need build help to have fun I know all the builds that work for storm legion and I know how to get to 60 fast if I want which btw people is hunt rifts not carnage quests so get it right. Obviously I just do not enjoy the game until they address why everyone leaves to begin with especially considering they have added more end game content than wow has at times and people still leave in droves.