I took a long break from gaming and blogging after my mother passed away. What initially brought me back was the desire to level from start to finish with a gaming friend. RIFT STILL FELT FRESH Our game of choice was Rift. A long time WOW player, he hadn't joined the crush of adventurers when the game launched. The character I created would turn into my third to have made it into level 30 content, third cleric and second to max level. Although the excitement of highly populated zones was gone, Rift's leveling content holds up exceptionally well. The options are diverse and the content so dense, that I never felt bored from having done those levels before. For me, Rift’s PVE game ranks right up there with the behemoth, World of Warcraft. A RETURN TO WOW After a few weeks being at max level again, my excitement started to...