Ambiturner
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Rift was pretty successful well into their 1st expansion. That's when they decided "Fuck your fun builds, 61 points into a single spec or you're shit"
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Rift was pretty successful well into their 1st expansion. That's when they decided "Fuck your fun builds, 61 points into a single spec or you're shit"
Kriptini
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Intrinsic
Person of Whiteness
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This is true. Even if it isn’t no one would disagree with you, which still makes it true.
rhinohelix
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So many great builds in this game, I remember my warrior healer significantly baseline healing in open world rifts by damage done, then them nerfing almost everything. Part of the allure of Ashes of Creation to me is the callback to at least a little of how Rift did its classes.
I, too would love to know the backstory to Scott leaving and how they fucked up the game.
This game was really good while it lasted but didn't have the polish of WOW and lost the war as people went back. People launching new games to compete with WoW didn't realize that you couldn't compete with launch WoW, you needed to compete with WoW as it presently was.
The other game that was nerfed to hell was a Superhero game that was radically changed between only between HeadStart and retail launch, that late. It was fine all through beta but right before it went live they fucked it up. They double super nerfed the FUCK out of it. Champions Online? OMG it was so bad. It as a great game at head start, by the time retail launch arrived, time to level literally doubled, and content areas no longer matched character level at all. Basically some MMO personality came in super late in beta (Ralph Koster? IIRC) and told them they were ruining their game by making it too easy and the Studio janked their game.
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RobXIII
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I absolutely loved Ember Isle, and working on my AA's.
Only thing I remember about the 1st expansion is that the main storyline just.....stopped. I thought I was bugged and petitioned lol
The puzzles were neat though.
Tearofsoul
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I wish they kept the intensity of rift invasion from Alpha/Beta. Other than that, no complain from launch all the way to Hammerknell. I quit right at the end of Hammerknell due to other commitments.
I don't remember Ember Isle at all, is that after Hammerknell?
I don't remember Ember Isle at all, is that after Hammerknell?
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Nirgon
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The beta invasions were so fucking awesome and I was hoping for so much more content of mobs that would just pop out and go nuts in the zones for big dogs to take down
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GuardianX
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BETA rifts were amazing and then they got toned down so hard for release.
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Kriptini
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Yeah, Ember Isle was the third tier of raids that also introduced the new zone and the additional attunement tree.
Dandai
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I definitely have fond memories of HK. I was in the world first Akylios kill. I missed out on the EQ leet guild experience so it was neat to at least get a taste of that in Rift.
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