I'm a lvl 10 mage on Snarebrush now, what faction are you? I'm a Mathosian Mage which is on the Guardian side afaik.

Liking the game so far, not sure about the multiple spec's early game, it feels weird having a mage with a tank pet.

Really enjoyed the couple of rift battles that i've played so far

Just a heads up for you new players. Make sure to sign up on a "high population server" instead of something like "medium". Because "medium" even during prime time hours are pretty freaking dead. And when I say dead, they are DEAD.

If you are going to do pvp server, try and get onto Briarcliff which has a good population. Though one downside with high populations servers I heard are that on weekends primetime , the server queues could last over 2 hours. But trust me it's worth it. Nothing is more irritating/boring when you have to do quests alone.

I just hope to god they allow server transfers soon.

Friend of mine sent me an AIM last night:

"Goddamned RIFT free 7 day trials... 300 person queue on Briarcliff"

They gave me enormous amounts of **** for making them start on Briarcliff when the game came out and we had 3k+ person queues to get in (3+ hour wait) but I'm sure they appreciate it now.

I play on the Deepstrike server which is bascially High pop but doesn't have any queues

Dwarf Warrior!

This. It's so hard finding groups even with the queues!

I have reached the level 15 cap for the trial, not before purchasing a mount with the gold that I had earned! I enjoyed the game but don't really have any IRL or school friends who play so I think that buying the game and levelling solo might become tedious. What I'm going to do is play the WoW trial again, see how I like it and make a decision to buy one or the other after that.

Good Idea. The only reason I play is because I have one good friend who I play with and 2 friends across the country that I keep in touch with because we play together.

Can anyone tell me if they have added the ability to view enemy nameplates yet like in WoW (V/ cntrl +V)

I never got past lv9 because the graphics were so high quality that I could not tell the difference between a dirt road and a dirt road with about 32 mobs waiting to kick the **** out of me. I then decided that until they add such a basic feature then the game is not worth grinding up and getting upset over. Even RTS games have enemy nameplates now.

I haven't played an MMORPG since WoW, which was about 5 years ago. I thought the genre would have advanced and wasn't expecting a blatant almost carbon copy of WoW.

im still playing & enjoying it

Is it me, or are the graphics just bad?

I played on ultra, but I still think it's ugly..

Must be you, I'm playing on the lowest setting and I think they are great.

I dunno, played wow for a year, and i thought those graphics were fine.
Wasnt playing on high though.

Graphics from rift reminds me of Age of Conan

I too disliked the Rift graphics.

It may have just been because it reminded me of Lineage 2, which triggers my gag reflex because of how badly L2 screwed me.

in my opinion even the GuildWars graphics are better, and thats a game from 2006.

Im not saying its a bad game because I only trained a charr to lvl 5. But my first thought was: what a bad graphics and what a wow rip-off.

But thats just me =)