Rift In Progress....

Sorry about the lack of posts this week, we have begun our Heroic Mode Progression (Halfus down) in Cata. The guild > Rift, but I am leveling my Warrior in Rift. So far my first impressions are good. I have to say that Rift had me hooked off the bat with its Character creation, and gaining Souls is a blast. You start off with choosing your class (Rogue, Warrior, Mage, Cleric) all of these are customized with Souls (Talent Trees) into your perfect Tank, DPS, or Healer. The game recomends that you pick certain Souls that compliment each other, but you can pick to be an all out damage dealing char with basically 0 defense lol.

You get your Souls through the first 6 levels of game play, which I will say is as linear as Super Mario. When you get these Souls they have 2 uses to you, the Tree is passive abilities and some CD's, increasing your buffs, procs, defense... and the Roots. The root system is pretty cool. The more points you put into the tree the further you progress into your roots the more abilities you get. Basically each Soul you get comes with 2 basic abilities, spend 4 points get another ability. Unlike the new WoW 31 talent trees, you are not required to put in a set number of points into a tree before you can start working on another tree. This means you can put points into any tree at any time and reap the rewards.

I think the Souls are awesome, you can truly customize your character how you want them. There is a lot of abilities and you will probably want to do some research before you start spending points where ever.

To Be Continued....

Rift Beta Key Giveaway!

I got my beta key!!!

The RIFT beta continues this week with the next beta event, Battle of the Ascended, which is set to begin Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011 at 10:00 AM PST (18:00 GMT) and run through 10:00 AM PST (18:00 GMT) on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011.

If you do not know what Rift is please push up on the rock, climb out, and do your homework! Go down a couple of posts and read up on it, once you have and you realize, oh snap, why don't I have a beta key?! Well you can its easy, but their running out, so let me tell you how you can get your little paws on this shiny new super flash MMO from Trion in 7 simple steps!

1. Head over to Curse.com make a profile (not curse premium). Log in.
2. Then head to the Beta Key Giveaway and claim your key.
3. Then head back over to Trion Account and make one of those. Verify your email!
4. On the left you can "apply your key" do that!
5. Wait for the email saying you have been chosen!
6. Head back over to Trion Account Click the client D/L. Then log in to the game and d/l!
7. Wait till Tuesday!

Game On

RIFT!

The hype is growing as the new highly anticipated shiny MMO Rift inches closer to its North American release date of March 1st 2011. If you have not heard of Rift because you either live under a rock or you just are not into the MMO genre, you need to check this game out. I have seen the commercials and even the guild chat is buzzing about it. Will this new game on the block stop me from raiding Cataclysm Hardmodes?! Probably not. But I will definitely check it out... here is some info.

The visuals look awesome, and it plays alot like most MMO's. If you play WoW then you should have no problem stepping into Telara, but you might need to buy a new video card... but that's probably long over due. Lets start with what makes Rift different from lets say WoW. First like I mentioned the graphics are far beyond WoW, to me its a mix of Elder scrolls and Guild Wars, all effects seem very fluid, and over all the game looks awesome.

The actual Rifts....So while your questing and doing the usual leveling grind most of us are familiar with...Rifts happen. A Rift is like a random spawn of TONS of NPC bad guys that are just going to kill anything around you! This kind of random stuff is what WoW has needed for a long time. It makes the game feel less staged and more organic. It also adds a level of excitement that boring fetch quests lack to provide. You also gain XP and a form of currency for doing these rifts. I hope that this mechanic is well tuned and polished for release because after all, it is what the game is named after...

The big thing that separates Rift is its character customization. Basically there are four classes to choose from you have the Warrior, Cleric, Mage, and Rogue each with 6 talent trees (with roots) that you can customize yourself. This means if you want to change up your character to your play style you can, this is awesome, I know I am making a warrior that can stealth, heal, cast cc and maybe throw fireballs? Lol. Rift seems ambitious which I like, but I hope they know how to swim in the deep end...

Keep an eye out for Rift coming March 1st, and in the mean time check out this video from BFF over at ZAM.com.

Game On