Yes, I am still playing Rift Prime, though I haven’t spent much time there over the last few of weeks. I’ve made a bit of progress, but events in New Eden and a growing sense of ennui has dominated my play time.
Tiger racing through the sticks, trumped by spaceship politics
While I was caught up in levels… or so I felt… I did linger about Stonefield for a bit longer to wrap up a few achievements. Alas, I could not find two more quests to get the achievement for that, but I did find the torch up on the rocks above Granite Falls for the Dancing with Squirrels.
Stop… Squirrel Time
From there I headed into Scarlet Gorge, the next zone up the chain.
Looking into Scarlet Gorge
I did notice that, as I passed into the zone there was a quest giver standing off to one side who gave me passage through the portal into Iron Pine Peaks. That was nice, and I filed that away for later, because in my head, IPP was a higher level zone and not something I would bother with at that point.
Scarlet Gorge started as I remembered and I ran through the initial quest chain and followed it northward up the valley until it sort of stopped at about the mid point. It felt like I missed a chain or a turn somewhere. I rode further up and ended in mobs that were four and more levels above me. That wasn’t playing. My brain seemed to insist that there was more to do, but wasn’t pointing me at anything viable.
I did recalled that I needed to go up the sky tram at the starting hub to an encampment up on one of the peaks. There I found myself just within the right level range, but that quickly led me into Scarwood Reach. I was still just level 27 so that did not bode well.
In looking at the map however, I noticed that I had another option.
Map of my area
I can still find references to Iron Pine Peak starting at level 41, but that appears to have been revamped somewhere along the way and was now right in the level range for me. I took a side trip up there into the snow and ice.
So I headed through the local portal and went to play in the snow.
The quest chain in IPP seemed familiar in that way things do when you’re been away for five years but still have bits and pieces of bouncing around in your head. IPP was not one of my favorite zones, but I hauled around there through level 28 and into level 29.
Level 29 in the snow
That done, I actually hit the portal at the west end of IPP and headed back to Scarwood Reach where I started in on the quest line there. For some reason Scarwood Reach is another zone that I remember pretty well, so I have been following the chain of tasks there.
I’ve been here before… I know where the artifacts spawn
Scarwood Reach as a zone is pretty good and I have move through it well enough.
Overall however, momentum in Rift Prime has clearly slowed down. The guild I am in, which was semi-active, with everybody playing at least a bit each week, has now pretty much dragged to a halt. I may be the only one who has logged into the game in the last two weeks.
As I mentioned at the top of the post, activity in EVE Online has been eating up a good portion of my gaming time. But the ennui bit is also a factor too. I’ve probably played more Age of Empires II in the last week than Rift Prime in the last two weeks. I also had a good game of Civilization II going over the weekend, though that has reached a bit of a “me vs. the world” stalemate… which I still played for a while rather than log into Rift.
I’m not calling it yet, but my nostalgia time here seems to be in peril.
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