Category: Player vs Player (PvP)

Is the Grass Greener on the Other Side of the Life Rift?

Well, as mentioned in my last post … recently hit 50 Guardian side in Rift.

While the win/loose ratio was about 1:1 for my 10-49 experience… it was both a challenge and rewarding.

The second I hit 50 that all changed in a bad way, it could have been a bad mix of premade vs single / duo groups.

However, going from 1:1 to about 1:25 doesn’t seem like it’s the fault of the match making and / or the server; and instead is driven by the people playing the game.

So now we’ve decided to change it up a bit, and rolled Defiant characters on the PvP-RP server Harrow.

Right now we’re sitting at around level 20, I’m playing more or less the same character (Belatris – Female Elf Chloromancer).

In the end, it’s not the first time I’ve jumped factions to have a more enjoyable PvP experience, although I’m certainly happy that I’m not the one that brought it up.

Either way, everything’s looking good right now, with any luck we can get these characters to 50 within a month or so … give or take.

categories Player vs Player (PvP), Rift | | datetime July 25, 2011 3:24 pm | comments Comments (0)

Rift – End Game

Well, we finally made it to 50 in Rift.

While we didn’t do much once we dinged last evening, we did start the PvP ‘grind’… which honestly isn’t much of a grind.

Port Scion is actually reasonably fun, and the quantity of NPCs makes it less painful then the other Warfronts.

Thanks to my hording of favor from 1-49, I pretty much had the complete level 50 starter set (about 5 peices of gear in total). So I’m not doing to bad in the Valor department with around 12% damage reduction.

I last only slightly longer then my better half, who’s sporting less valor … but has chain armor (instead of cloth).

Warriors seem a bit of a pain at the moment, but I’ve no idea if this actually due to a game imbalance or a gear imbalance. At this point I’m leaning towards gear… but when I’m able to survive longer against a rogue then a warrior … I do have to question it.

We hit about 15% into PR1, so with any luck I might be able to have PR2 by the weekend. According to what I’ve seen ‘Hardcore PvPers’ have been able to get PR6 within a couple of weeks … a month tops.

While I’m not them, at least anymore I shouldn’t be THAT far behind.

categories Player vs Player (PvP), Rift | | datetime July 18, 2011 1:53 pm | comments Comments (0)

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