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So you want a PvP trinket and upgrade to the best ones available asap, but you see on the store that the Level 60 PvP trinket starts off with a trinket that requires Revered notoriety with Ridgerunner Mercenaries before you can purchase it. It can take quite a while to hit that notoriety requirement. There’s […]

Happy Thanksgiving to all you Americans out there! Don’t know much about the holiday, but I know you’re thanking someone and there’s a turkey involved, so here’s a free turkey: Don’t go too crazy on those Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals! Play it safe! P.S. – I’m going to look so silly if there’s […]

With 2.5, the pre-Storm Legion zone, Iron Pine Peak was heavily revamped from a Level 40-48 zone and into a Level 27-35 zone. Story, quest and the look and feel of the zone were revamped. There’s now less running back and forth across long distances and kill quests have been converted to carnage quests. This […]

TehFrank on the Rift forums doesn’t let up when it comes to datamining the Rift client for information on possible future content not yet mentioned by any Trion staff directly. This time he’s discovered the following: Nightmare Rift achieves Gyel Fortress dungeon achieves Possible Zones: Goboro Reef, Draumheim and Tarken Glacier Various pets with festive […]

Trion has launched Mech Week! World Event for this week that lasts from 11/26/2013 to 12/4/2013. Update 11.27.13: Looks like the daily quest only rewards a Vault the first time you complete it. The rest are Temporal Aligners (time shorteners). Summary: Limited Time Mechanized Temporal Vaults that open in 24hrs containing random items including a […]

Trion will be updating RIFT with RIFT 2.5 Hotfix #4 at 8am PST on 26th November 2013 (NA) and will be updating RIFT at 2AM GMT on 27th November 2013 (EU). Summary: Intrepid: Greenscale’s Blight Chronicle is out. Mech Week World Event. Warrior – Tempest – minor change. Zone Changes – Minor. Dungeons/Raids Changes – […]

A group of Essences with suffix “Graceful” have popped up on the Live client. There’s an entire set for them – one of each element for each class’ DPS and Tank roles. These cost an insane amount – 40,000 Planarite and 24,000 Infinity Stones each. However, they do not require any Notoriety. So I’m assuming […]

Recently came across a player who got shard first for an item called “Eternal Leggings of Echoes” and what popped out was the set bonus. “Notoriety Boost (0/2): Increases Notoriety gained from all sources by 10%”. Update 11.27.13: Looks like there’s a ton of different types including currency, token, notoriety, experience as well as +% […]

So you’ve become a Myrmidon (PvP Rank 90) and you are finally able to get your Myrmidon weapons, but you don’t like the default spell crit/physical crit piece. What can you do? You can side-grade by ALT+left-clicking on the weapon and using a Reconfiguration Cell. There’s 3 options – the default weapon with spell crit/physical […]

A “Ranked: The Black Garden” warfront has made it onto the Public Test Shard (PTS) in one of the first indications of some of the PvP content Daglar had mentioned may be coming. It is Group Join only, 5 v 5 and “Ranked Deathmatch”. Give it a shot if your 5-man group can find another […]