RIFT News Tidbits 22nd May 2015

RIFT news tidbits for 22nd May 2015.

Arclight Infiltration Promo Week

The Arclight Infiltration Promo Week is back, this time with a new Necrotic Lifter mount. Event will last from 3:30PM ST on 21st May 2015 to 3:30PM ST on 28th May 2015.

• Guide: Arclight Infiltration Promo Week

General

• Sale: 50% Off Nightmare Tide Packs. Infusion and Ultimate Nightmare Edition Packs are 50% off until May 26th 2015. That means they are now $25 and $75 each. More info here.

• PTS Datamining for 21st May 2015 Part 1. Part 1 of data mining the 3.55GB PTS Update yesterday includes more backpack skins, Twyl’s wings, 3.3 crafted fluff icons, planar fishing poles and various mounts/mob skins. Check them out here!
  • The PTS was down yesterday, but I’ll have a PTS Update ready some time tomorrow!

• New Dimension Items. There’s a whole bunch of dimension items slated for 3.3 as mentioned previously. Morticus has confirmed that some of the items will behind content gates, but that the majority are not Bind on Pickup. [r] The content gates won’t be behind PvP or raids. [r]

• Codex: Wheel of Fate Bug. For some reason the special (and retired) Codex: Wheel of Fate warfront that used to appear during Carnival of the Ascended popped up on Live. This has been removed. [r]

• EU Shard Downtime. EU shards had an unexpected downtime due to a server outage on the EU login server. This has been fixed, although EU Mobile App is still down.

• EU Event Trackers Down. All EU site-based website trackers will not work over the long weekend because the EU Mobile App is down. [r] (Thanks to StatFortress [Site] for the info!)

Community Content

Below is a list of content created recently by the RIFT community!

• Get Up and Go! Contest Entries [Dimension][Contest]. The “Get Up and Go!” Contest by The Dimension Touring Company has ended! Feendish has posted up the entries to the contest. Check them all out here!

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