I started playing rift when Storm Legion launched. I absolutely adore the talent trees even if they have been dumbed down since nightmare tides launched. and I like the challenge rift has to offer. but rift has problems. namely animations.
I love lightning. any game I pick up I make sure my character has some kind of access to lightning. So when I discovered that storm legion was bringing in the tempest I was floored. that soul was the reason I started playing Rift. wearing full plate and dual wielding while throwing massive bolts of lightning. whats not to love right. so I tried it and muscled through the low level stuff but never felt powerful at any point. instead of hurling bolts of lightning I shocked my enemies with a kind of zap zziit zap rotation. never once throwing anything like a lighting bolt. not compared to say swtor or wow. storm caller is the only soul I really like to this day but I wish it was single target viable, i'm always playing with the trees seeing if I could make it work.
but this is a problem i've seen with nearly all souls for all callings. I understand that rift has a very different look than most mmos but I feel that I have to kind of extrapolate a sense of power from my character base on numbers. wow just redid a massive number of animiations for the legion expac launching next month and it breathed new life into wow and it made me realize what I felt was missing in rift but could never put my finger on.
I know the rift devs don't have a monster budget but I honestly feel that if the rift devs could start doing animation updates on spells and attacks it could go a long way to revitalizing rift. I really hope they do. I miss rift but can't bring myself to play it for any length of time.
My problem with rift
