Archive | September, 2013

Video: Rift PvP – 010 – Close Black Garden Match Cleric Sentinel Heals

A video of a Rift Warfront – Black Garden match where I run as a Cleric in a Sentinel spec (healing spec). Pretty close match with a ton of healing going on. Analysis – as always – in the video text summary. Hope you enjoy! Note: If your internet connection can handle it, try watching […]

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News: 2.4 Client Performance Improvements Overview

A new Community Page has popped up with some details of the client performance improvements introduced in 2.4. You can access the page here. Below is a quick summary: Culling Improvements “Culling Improvements” gets slightly technical but in essence with 2.4, Rift has added support for the Umbra 3 culler which uses “multiple CPU cores […]

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News: Extra Life 2013

Trion are up and at it again with Extra Life 2013 and there’s more goodies and titles you can gain for participating in this 2-day Charity Event. For those who don’t know, Extra Life is a charity event that is held each year where gamers play games to raise money for local kids. The official […]

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News: Mayhem in Mathosia Event (October)

Trion have planned another Mayhem in Mathosia event starting October 5th. This will have 4 phases and will rapidly change between zones over the course of a week. Autumn Harvest World Event will follow shortly after this third Mayhem in Mathosia event and Tacitus have stated that the “Devouring Swarm” 1-week event that was supposed […]

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News: RIFT 2.4 Hotfix #3

Trion has updated RIFT with RIFT 2.4 Hotfix #3. RIFT 2.4 Hot Fix #3 – 26/9/13 GENERAL * Fixed an issue with incorrect character stats after consuming an equipped item. * Returned Flaring Charge to tier 3 of the Attunement of Fire. * Returned Flowing Charge to tier 3 of the Attunement of Water. RIFT […]

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News: PvP ‘God Mode’ Bug and Merc to Favor

For those wondering what in the world happened today with what was apparently a server crash; this was in fact an intended server reset to resolve an issue that caused some players to be in ‘god mode’ where they hardly took any damage and seemingly had unlimited hp. Basically with the introduction of the ability […]

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News: RIFT 2.4 Hotfix #2 Round 2

CM Morgana has updated RIFT 2.4 Hotfix #2 with a couple of lines that were missing from the previous notes. Below is the updated notes with the extra lines in Maroon so they can be easily identified to those who have read the previous version of these notes. RIFT 2.4 Hot Fix #2 (Extra Notes) […]

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News: New Conqueror Achievement Rewards

Trion have updated Rift with new Conqueror Achievements and rewards that were missing in the 2.4 Patch. The main one is the Infinity Gate conqueror achievement reward called “Infinity Gate Conqeuror’s Treasure Box. This contains: Infinity Gate Dodecahedron Infinity Gate Ring Slow Infinity Gate Dedocahedron Slow Infinity Gate Ring Stationary Infinity Gate Cube Stationary Infinity […]

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News: RIFT 2.4 Hotfix #2

Trion has updated RIFT with RIFT 2.4 Hotfix #2. RIFT 2.4 Hot Fix #2 – 25/9/13 GENERAL * Players with low video settings can no longer accidentally walk through solid objects. * The transparency on some in-game objects has been fixed. * Fixed an issue that caused some players to be unable to view their […]

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Livestream Summary: 20th September 2013

Trion had their Friday Livestream Extravaganza with Community members OverloadUT and Dahanese as well as dungeon/raid devs Cyzo and Havlon just recently (Friday, in fact!). They went over the second upcoming Tier 2 20-man Raid, Planebreaker Bastion. Click here for a replay of the 20th September Friday Livestream Extravaganza video on twitch.tv. tl;dr: Planebreaker Bastion […]

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