I have been checking out Rift, because I know that several of my gaming partners are getting kind of burned out on WoW. I love WoW, been playing since Vanilla and I am thoroughly enjoying Mist, but if they leave I won't have any desire to play it any longer.
We've tried other games, Guild Wars 2 was promising but lack of end-game raiding made us kind of stop, despite how beautiful it was. We still play on rare occasion. Star Wars sucked... I did not enjoy it in the least.
I'd like to try Rift, but after spending so much money on other games that failed us, I am just not putting another $60+ into something until I know I'll like it. I was browsing the website but didn't see a free trial or anything like that. Does one exist? (Trying to limit my browsing while at work).
Looked into a few classes... Blade Dancer, Assassin and Nightblades appealed to me a lot, but I haven't looked into deep details on what each does.
PVP isn't really my thing, but PVE and raiding is huge for me. Would this game deliver, do ya think? Any details would be great!