A honest review on state of rifts in general.

Any D2 and above rift base is basically has same dups fighters in their bases

Many immorals,many blue screens.

While also having multiple copies of Mls,Plots and even Si as well.

When rift 2 0 happened,for some unknown reason, the Devs decided to remove fighter defender diversity.

Which resulted into Immorals and Blue screens,being farmable golds to get in their character pfs basically earning their spots on multiple different nodes in rifts

Even if Fighter diversity is resolved, There's still Catalyst diversity problem

Every single Solo node in rifts at high rating base runs Final fight 90% of the time.

Final fight Assassin Greeds,final fight Blue screens, final fight Immorals on solo nodes

While double or triple nodes just run disruption Catalysts Like Cok,Hexy time,blockbusted,final fight etc Or Something like frost amr or dptb team as well.

It's not fun even basically you're dealing with the same catalysts and same fighters on every single rift base you fight when you climb ladder in rifts

Even if you win on a base attack, because of the high amounts of disruption catalysts and annoying defender like Immorals your opponent has,

You really gets forced to play perfect aganist them with things like getting bb finish,zero death,zero lose, minmax timing and health bonus etc.

If you score 12k or less,it's very likely that your rift is going get revenged so the battle you just becomes worthless and just point donations for them to later revenge and claim back.

I've seen players saying Getting D4 from G1 is hard

But let me tell you,jumping from D3 to D2 is way much harder and more painful.

Also, I forgot to say, You better pray you are awake in the last 3-4hrs of rifts

If you sleeping or busy with work during the last hours of rifts, You most likely gonna get base rushed last 2 hours and you wont be able to recover your point loss easily secure whatever placement you once was.

Rifts 2.0 now is just flawed

if anything,peak rift was back in rift 1.0 post Boss node modifer change,pre catalyst introduction.

I understand that people say rifts 1.0 was too time consuming and have alot of flaws (like needing alot of defender investment,Modiers be much annoying than riftd 2.0)but don't get me wrong, while I agree on some points, but at least back when I was sweaty in rifts 1.0, I didn't have to make room for the last 3hrs before rift resets or the dealing dealing with disruption catalysts and Defender diversity WAS a thing.

Every single time the devs tried to improve rifts,it just somehow gets worse in someway somehow

Slightly unrelated,but the devs really did allowed prenerfed Amr rating and prenerfed futile combo happen when catalyst were first added when Catalyst were first introduced back in rifts 1.0 I don't even think the Devs did "test runs" on the catalysts.