Giving Rift another go

Weekend starts, bored of D3 (click, click, click just isn't my thing I guess). Last time I've seen Rift was almost a year ago, in a free trial that didn't exactly played on my strings. A game with such resemblance to WoW, yet the gameplay just didn't feel like it stood where it needed to stand. I tried it while still playing WoW and since the monthly fee was the same as Blizzards game, I decided not to buy.

But now, free of WoWs grasp,  I decided to try Rift again. Checking Trions site, I notice they now offer a  trial with no time limitation, which is ok, I guess. Installation took exactly 15 minutes (God bless optic fiber connection!). The install and startup was fast, painless, game ran smoothley and nice. Create a character, something generic, let's go with mage! But wait here is when things get complicated. With so many choices I actualy had to stop and took a minute to read what does each subclass do. Not bad, Trion, not bad.

After choosing Guardians, I made a pyromancer and head out into the world. Nice intro, lovely graphics and the world feels amazingly alive, unlike some new MMOs (*cough SW:TOR cough*). I'm already level 5, questing with a random hunter. I belive he joined me via some public group system which is quite a nice touch. Looking at settings, the progress Trion made on the game since release is visible and it also keeps a steady amount of around 300k subs.

I will be playing most of the weekend, you can find me on Sagespire (PvP), under the name Cochana.