
Trion has updated RIFT with RIFT 3.1 Hotfix #5 as at 2/25/15 7:00 AM PST (NA) and 2/26/15 2 AM GMT (EU). Download is approx. 124mb.
Summary:
- Carnival of the Ascended World Event. The Carnival of the Ascended 2015 World Event begins on Thursday, February 26th at 3:30PM Server Time. You will be able to find ‘John Tintan’ in the Plane of Water and ‘Publicist Sijay Creg’ in Sanctum/Meridian with new quests. Instant Adventures in Goboro Reef will also feature ‘Adventure Pinatas’ that give Pinata Prize Bags.
- Crafting Changes:
- Mining Recipes. Thalasite Nightmare Alloy and Thalasite Dream Alloy no longer share a CD. They also no longer require Storm Legion materials.
- Mounts can no longer be runebroken!
- Lowered Recipe Price. Nightmare Ichor and Faint Dreams have been dropped from 75/250/1000 to 10/35/90 Grandmaster, Master and Artisan marks respectively.
- Peerless Thalcrystal Choker now has less Endurance, more Spell Power.
- Peerless Sarfiber Shortbow now has same proc as Peerless Sarfiber Longbow.
- NT Guild Quartermaster. A new Guild Quartermaster called “Emby the Cat Herder” can be found in Margle Palace near the porticulum. This new NPC will give NT-related guild quests like playing Manugo, killing Nightmare Rift creatures and clearing NT expert dungeons. You can find him at /setwaypoint 5785 5612.

New NT Guild Quartermaster in Margle Palace
- Inquisitor Cleric Change. Unified Theory is no longer a separate buff, and instead its bonus/effect will apply on the 4th stack of Life and Death Concord. Supposed to fix hard-casting, but for some players it is having the opposite effect and forcing them to hard-cast BoD fairly often.
- Raid: Crucia Change. It is no longer possible to defer Crucia’s Phasing casts in Tyrant’s Forge.
RIFT 3.1 Hot Fix #5 – 02/25/15
CARNIVAL OF THE ASCENDED RETURNS! GENERAL GUILDS SOULS CLERIC INQUISITOR ZONES AND EVENTS DRAUMHEIM GOBORO REEF TARKEN GLACIAR DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES TYRANT’S FORGE CRAFTING ITEMS |
You can check out previous patch notes here.
I noticed that in some places you have carnival starting at 3pm and others 3:30pm. Just thought I’d point that out. 😉
Thanks Chickie for pointing that out! Yea, they’re supposed to launch at 3:30PM ST as per usual time, but CM Morgana posted in Hotfix #5 that it’s 3PM. Since it is now past 3PM I’m guessing it’s just a typo on her part.
Also, for some reason I don’t see the event pop up on EU even though it’s several hours past the usual time. Or maybe I’m just too low level (17) to see the event. The World/Promo Event tracker is also grayed out.