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I think i just can't connect to the game..
Hi folks!
I started just yesterday with a friend and played another char on my own today.
One thing ahead: I'm definately not burned out on the genre. I loved WoW and EQ2 for years and started Rift after a 1year break from everything mmorpg. But i don't know...somehow it just doesn't click with me here. The game is quite solidly done and i love the visuals of all the spells. But then, i just can't seem to care for anything going on. The story doesn't hook me, the environment's design is uninspiring (just like various sorts of mobs seem to be placed randomly allover a map and not in sort of their own "habitat"). I'm missing the old orc fortress on that mountain into which you fight your way in and out for hours and 4 quests, the huge underground cave or the haunted village you better enter with enough consumables. Like the Jintha Alor, Cauldron, Hearthglen stuff etc. I'm also not connected to my character in any way (i blame the awkward animations).
Common mobs fall like flies, no challenge at all. With the GCD and some dots getting casted, it takes longer to apply all of my dots than they actually tick before the mob is down. Playing together with my friend leveling got a hack'n'slay vibe as we carelessly pulled and destroyed everything. We couldn't do rifts on our own and there was no one to group with around. Plus our level rifts got constantly closed by lvl50s on their 110% mounts grinding for the event before we reached the location.
I spent alot of time on both days trying to create a char that goes somewhere off the beaten track. But it seems like the combinations of classes aren't that plenty as Trion likes to present. "Build your own class" does only work to a limited extend and then you may likely not end up with "your" class, but everyone else's. Just a few combos/trios do really have a synergy and make sense with each other. Therefore i couldn't seem to get around given cookie cutter specs without building something that is quite nonsense and no fun. Also, having all the souls available at my teacher makes me care for rather none of them. Many of the talents aren't quite exciting, i found myself spending point after point for 1crit or 1spell dmg again and again. This is a major flaw i think, since in the early levels they should have it designed so that you can't wait to open the next tier or get the next point -who cares for 1 spell dmg more or less at lvl 8? I guess the whole system starts to play out earliest at mid level and i may have to get deeper into the whole materia, but this is so far my initial impression.
My friend whom i invited with a free key usualy is a lively girl to play with, yet she barely spoke on Teamspeak while we played and i had the feeling she wasn't enjoying herself that much, but just hung it out for me. When we quit our session she immediately said that she wasn't going to play today.
I guess i could add alot more to my random rambling, but in the end ...i just don't know. At this point, i'm not shure how to make it though my 30days.
If you made it to down here, thank you for reading.
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So you just started playing Rift yesterday, but have a month history of predicting Rifts doom. Why do you continue to post here on a game you have not played in months according to your very own post history?
Do you get a laugh out of it because I really do not?
I played betas, Headstart, then six months. I think when (if) I go back, it'll be at least six months. I usually don't quit a game and go back just because of a few changes. Usually that doesn't do it for me. I like to let the game "marinade" a bit and if I read things are really good I do a trial.
Of course by then, I've usually forgotten how to actually play the game and don't last long lol (like when I went back for Cataclysm).
I'm just playing Arkham Asylum and Arkham City until SWTOR comes out. Not even touching anymore mmos until then; I don't think they are worth it because I've seen pretty much all I want to see now. A feature added here/there isn't enough in the short term.
Off-topic: Walmart is selling both Arkhams as a package so if you didn't play either like I did yet, it's a far better deal than a mmo right now as they rock so far.
Just do rifts as much as you can until your sub ends. That's usually the most fun to be had in this game as far as I'm concerned.
"TO MICHAEL!"
I see your points, but I'm finding myself to enjoy Rift a lot. This is my second time subbing, when I bought it I just had no time with school and work. Coming back to it I am very glad I did.
I think part of what keeps me is the rifts and invasion. Although they are generally the same thing, I love that it happens randomly, and is as close to a dynamic event as anything I have experienced in an mmo.
As far as the class issue goes; of course there are going to be cookie cutter builds out there, but its up to you to find one you like. Just because a build you use does the most single target dps, or aoe dps, doesn't mean you will enjoy it. Do something off the beaten path that you think YOU will like. That's what I like about rift, it gives variety. And of course there will be balance issues, there are in every game, and of course people complain about it more in rift because you do have such a variety, but its about what you enjoy.
Sorry to hear you didn't enjoy your time in the game, but I respect your post because you didn't do hardcore bashing that most people do in forums.
Hope you find something that will keep your interest, its a hard market out there in my opinion right now.
Good luck.
Waiting for: GW2
The problem with lower level Rifts is, as the OP stated, level 50s come and close em on you quite often. Events can be very problematic because you bust your ass particpating in it, the big bad boss spawns, but can often be killed by the time you get there and you get no achievement for doing so. You still get the currency thing, but the no achievement thing is very frustrating.
OP is pretty spot on though, but im a little skeptical it took him 1 day to figure out what takes most people a couple weeks.
The prediction of Rift's doom is not dependend on whether i have first hand experience beyond lvl X, but rather to Trion's overall handling of the game which can be very well witnessed by people without an active sub. Hence there are plenty of users on this forum who aren't playing anymore for month but still actively posting about the goings all around Rift and Trion.
Still I've been through all the betas, played various chars within the free weeks/weekends and have plenty of friends at which i frequently saw the game and it's state over a course of several month. Yesterday was my first attempt with Rift on my own active account, as i wanted to give it another chance - yet it wasn't my first experience with the game.
That being said, i'm not wondering to have caught you with my posting within a few minutes of it being fired up.
Please stick to the topic and give me a hint as to what to do with the game or leave it if i annoy you. But leave your personal agenda and your mission outside. Thank you.
I mean thanks for being a critic, but admitting to hardly playing a game then posting all of that all there and expecting to be taking seriously is kind of silly. I do not play WoW anymore. You do not see me on the WoW sub forums lecturing them about the old days and giving my views on why I quit 3 years later.
I just do not get the point of rehashing old stuff over and over and over again as talking points.
That said, rifts were the best things in the game. If even they are taken away now for noobs, I guess they could do typical WoW hubquesting there but the OP said he's already done that with other toons before so, that isn't an option at all.
With only two starting zones you don't have much choice to do something else if you come back to the game and reroll other than speed level to get away from that.
edit: wait, wasn't the PA system supposd to solve high levels from coming to lowbie zones to kill rifts? 50s can just open up the rift they need through PA right? So I'm not sure why they still are in the noob zones. What is Trion doing now to make them want to go there with this patch?
/boggle
"TO MICHAEL!"
Thanks for all your replies.
Today i took a very different approach. I always liked the idea of playing sort of a bowhunter, without a pet and very mobile instead. So i made a marksman, but on purpose i didn't take the ranger in addition like everyone seems to. Instead i went with the nightblade for some melee ability (since i don't have a tank pet) and it's early talents went quite well along with the marksman's ranged abilities.
With this char, i then took the content "as it happened" so to say. That means it did not went rushing through quests A > B > C and from hub to hub. Instead, i picked up some quests here and there, explored some, stealthed around for artefacts, grinded some and took some rifts along the way. I left the hubs unfinished as soon as the questmobs went below my own level (this also leaves some stuff left for another char). So instead of mainly questing i tried to mix it up as colorfull as possible and keep the challenge up.
I'm glad to say it went very well for me...my char was fun and challenging, constantly on the move or being able to melee a mob down. Taking content and happenings as it came along the way instead of following the strict quest route seems to be the thing for me.
If you are tired of the mainstream, it takes some effort to not get dragged with it, but rather tailor the gameplay to your preferences -but it is possible. Instead of getting the fun from just "building my own class" i had to reach quite further and basicly build my very own gameplay/experience from scratch. Glad it worked out so far.