PTS Update for 10th April 2015

RIFT’s Public Test Shard (‘PTS’) was updated on the 10th of April 2015 with an approximately 250mb update.

Patch version is TEST-302-11-A-996030.

Table of Contents:

• Crafting Weekly – Fragments of Madness. Now reward option for 640 Fragments of Madness.
• Achievements. A drop in achievement points due to Wardrobe achieve reductions.
• Eye of Untold Madness. Tier 2 Relic upgrade component.
• Tier 2 Gear Drops. You can now access all Tier 2 gear for itemization feedback.

As always, everything below is subject to change prior to hitting Live and some things included below may never make it to Live release.

Crafting Weekly – Fragments of Madness.

Congealed Dreams NT Crafting Weekly

Relatively small PTS Update today, but first up, the crafting weekly now gives the additional choice of 640 Fragments of Madness. (Thanks to snipebad for the info!)

The NT Crafting Weekly NPC (Howard) can be found next to the daily NPC in Choreburg, Draumheim. /setwaypoint 5841 5528. [Location]

Achievements

Achievements have dropped from 37,009 to 36,217. Drop of 792pts.

• Wardrobe achieves have dropped from 1,387 to 595pts.
• The old Level 50 HK achievements still have no appeared under Legacy yet.
• There’s still no additional rewards besides 10x Illusory Motes for Nightmare VI: Master.
• Hammerknell: Runes of Corruption Level 50 Chronicle is still empty of its old achieves. Unsure if this is going to become Legacy as well or not.

Eye of Untold Madness

The Eye of Untold Madness is the new Tier 2 Relic upgrade component. Likely to drop from Akylios. Unsure if it will drop from any of the other bosses.

Tier 2 Gear Drops

All Tier 2 gear have been placed under the Master Mode Dummy Foundry NPC for 2 silver. Also available via Raidmare who is outside Hammerknell Fortress.

These are the actual gear drops from the upcoming Tier 2 20-man Raid, Return to Hammerknell. Trion would like feedback on the itemization. If you have any, please post them here.

Cleric Tier 2 Gear Drops

Tier 2 Raid Drops – Cleric DPS

Tier 2 Raid Drops – Cleric TANK

Mage Tier 2 Gear Drops

Tier 2 Raid Drops – Mage DPS

Tier 2 Raid Drops – Mage TANK

Warrior Tier 2 Gear Drops

Tier 2 Raid Drops – Warrior DPS

Note: The Tier 2 Warrior DPS gear pack included “Test Warrior DPS Blade”. Unsure if this is the actual stats of a gear drop, or if this item was accidentally included in the pack.

Tier 2 Raid Drops – Warrior TANK

Rogue Tier 2 Gear Drops

Tier 2 Raid Drops – Rogue DPS

Note: The Tier 2 Rogue DPS gear pack included “Test Rogue DPS Shanker”. Unsure if this is the actual stats of a gear drop, or if this item was accidentally included in the pack.

Tier 2 Raid Drops – Rogue TANK

The stats on the Tier 2 gear might change depending on feedback. If you have any feedback, please post them in Vladd’s thread here and use the post format here.

Not too much has changed with the latest PTS Update. Probably mainly bug fixes/etc. HK IA still not accessible.

For past PTS Updates, click here. You can also find past datamining here.