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Trion had their 31st January 2014 Friday Livestream Extravaganza with Community members Greg “OverloadUT” and Elizabeth “Dahanese” as well a guest appearance by Game Director Bill “Daglar” Fisher at the end of the Rift portion of the livestream. They went over some of the features coming to Patch 2.6. Click here for a replay of […]

Daglar dropped a bombshell reveal during the 31st January 2014’s Livestream, stating that there are plans to turn the Warrior’s Reaver soul from a Tank soul into a DPS soul. ETA: “Not in the short-term, but a little further out.” – Daglar Dev Vladd has also posted information on the changes: Mitigation across Paladin and […]

The Runic Athenaeum is the area where the Tier 3 Raid encounters are currently located on the Public Test Shard (“PTS”), and given the new porticulum there – it is likely to remain as a location for content when it appears on the Live servers. Dev Cyzo has hinted that lower-level content will be included […]

There’s a Patch 2.6 Playtest this Friday, 31st January at 3pm Server Time. Click here for a time converter. They’ll be testing: Air Saga Quests Zone Events Bloodfire Strongholds and more! This will likely mean that throughout the test the various phases of the Air Saga World Event will be activated (as the Air Saga […]

With every update, TehFrank has datamined data for us to peruse. The 29th January 2012 PTS Update added a ton of stuff. Summary: Bindings of Laethys assets. Gyel Fortress Model. Possible Mount. Warfront 11. 3 Faction Icons. Doctor Bag. Promo Event Icons. As always, anything datamined may be subject to change, and may never make […]

Trion will be updated RIFT with RIFT 2.5 Hotfix #12 at 1pm PST on 30th January 2014 (NA) and will be updating RIFT at 2AM GMT on 31st January 2014 (EU). Summary: Fixed issue that caused server to crash. Greenscale’s Trove now giftable when viewing from Chest/Keys Category. Rogue Bard Soul – Fanfare of Power […]

A new 323MB update has been released on the Public Test Shard (PTS) which likely includes bug fixes and further additions to Patch 2.6 – as well as some encounters now open to the public for Tier 3 Raids. This is on top of the 500MB update back in December which added in some of […]

Thanks in part due to feedback from Rift players, Dev Faratha has decided to remove the cooldowns on the Median and Greater Dream Orbs with the next PTS update and instead increase the Dream Ribbon cost. As always, everything on the PTS is subject to change. Dream Orb CD Change Nothing’s final until it hits […]

Trion will be updating RIFT with RIFT 2.5 Hotfix #11 at 8am PST on 29th January 2014 (NA) and will be updating RIFT at 2AM GMT on 30th January 2014 (EU). Summary: Mage Warlock changes. Conquest Power now decays after 1 week of not gaining Conquest Power, up from 2 days. Minor Item adjustments. Dimension […]

Dev Pithos graced us with an early peek at one of the changes coming with this week’s hotfix: Conquest Power will now start to decay after 1 week (up from 2 days) of not gaining any Conquest Power. Source: Pithos Very good news – no account-bound Conquest Power yet, but that one week gap will […]