A decent amount of news today; News Tidbits for RIFT on 3rd September 2014:
- RIFT wins “Best Show” MMORPG.com’s PAX Prime Award. Congratulations to Trion Worlds on getting the “Best Show” Award for PAX Prime! [r]
- Nightmare Tide Digital Editions Announced. Digital Editions are now available for purchase on the Trion/RIFT website. Some items will be sent to your mail right now – no need to wait for 3.0. Check out our compilation here.
- Upgrade Item for Mounts like Crocnard. Daglar reiterated that there will be an upgrade item available in the future to upgrade certain mounts like your Crocnard to become Amphibious (water + land). Interestingly, he notes that they have “yet to determine how this item will be obtained.” [r]
- Tier 2 Epic to Tier 3 Relic+: With the latest hotfix and the Digital Editions, there’s now an easy method to go from Tier 2 Epic mark Armor to ‘Dragon Slayer’ gear, which is better than Tier 3 ‘Blood Storm’ Relics. More information here.
- PTS Update: New Minions NPCs. There are now two Minions NPCs – one questgiver, one vendor – in Tempest Bay on the Public Test Shard. [r] These are available to non-testers, but you can’t access the Minions UI.
- Minions Custom Name. Gingers has confirmed that current plans are to allow players to customise their Minions’ names. [r]
- New Nightmare Tide Dimension Kits: There’s a whole heap of new Dimension Kits related to Nightmare Tide. These are: Coral Landscaping; Shell Village; Shipwreck; Scaffolding Ring; and Scaffolding Kits. Feendish has an informative article with screenshots up at The Dimension Touring Company.
New Nightmare Tide Dimension Kits. Prices assumed to be placeholder.
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