RIFT News Tidbits 24th December 2015

RIFT news tidbits for 24th December 2015.

• RIFT 3.5: Winter’s Wrath. Patch Notes and additional information.
• Guide: Fae Yule 2015 World Event. The Fae Yule world event is on-going! Check out a comprehensive guide to all the quests, achievements, minions and currency info here!

General

• Free 7 Day Patron Time. Trion is celebrating the holidays by giving all players who log into RIFT between Thursday, Dec 24th and Sunday, Dec 27th 2015 free 7 days of Patron time! This stacks with any existing Patron time you have. [r]

• Phase 3 Fae Yule Begins. The third and final phase of the Fae Yule World Event has begun! Be sure to grab Phase 3’s story quest in your home city and start looking at completing your shopping and Faelight Sparkle collecting! Phase 3 lasts 2 weeks until 3:30PM Server Time on 7th January 2016 (NA)(EU)!
  • Think you’ve missed some event, activity or must-have item for the current Fae Yule World Event? Check out the RIFT Fae Yule 2015 Guide!

• Promo: Temporal Flux Promo Week. The Temporal Flux Promo Week is back with the Black Empyreal Walker Mount available both at the PRI Quartermaster for event currency. It is also available as a rare chance drop from the Temporal Flux Vault IIIs. Be sure to build up your Temporal Gear currency with various dailies over the next week! More info here.

• Bug: Phase 3 Fae Yule Story Quest. Guardians are not receiving the Fae Yule Grab Bag from the story quest for Phase 3 of Fae Yule. Trion is aware of the issue and they are looking into a way to get the bag into the hands of Guardians who have completed the quest. [r]

• Mind of Madness Progression & Videos. Some more guilds have made it to the World/Region standings for the Tier 3 20-man raid “The Mind of Madness”. You can check out all standings at TopofRift, and a summary of the top standings with kill videos and links to guides here.
  • Lady Justice. Congrats to Khalim’na (Brisesol, EU) for their World 3rd kill!
    • The Fires of Heaven vs Lady Justice – Primalist (Dervish) DPS by Life Is Mystery on The Fires of Heaven’s World First kill of Lady Justice.

RiftGrate’s News Tidbits is taking a break until the new year, but there’s a few more articles scheduled to pop up between now and 2016 including one or two more contests, an ‘A Look Back: Datamining the Future‘ article and more! Hope you all have a merrily happily grateful holidays!

Community Content

Below is a list of content created recently by the RIFT community! Lots of orangey text today due to the amount of contests/giveaways.

• Rift Community Discord 5th Year Celebration! [Contests]. Kiwi is holding FIVE EVENTS taking place in January with a variety of prizes including 30-day Patron, REX and Arclight Rider Mounts to celebrate the upcoming 5th year of RIFT and to promote RIFT’s Discord chat channel! Details to enter each contest can be found here. Summary below:
  • Fae Yule Fun Shot. Ends Jan 5th 12PM PST. Screenshot contest showing how you have fun during Fae Yule. 3 winners with prize pool including REX, Arclight Riders and 30-day Patron.
  • Nico New Yeah! Ends Jan 13th 12pm PST. Screenshot contest with Nico, the dimensional bartender. 3 winners with prize pool includiing REX, Arclight Riders and 30-day Patron.
  • Wild Card Wednesday! Ends Jan 20th. Something celebrating Kiwi’s B’day. Contest details not announced yet, but prize is The Wilds Pack.
  • Forum REX Giveaway. Ends 27th Jan 12PM PST. Post in-game name and shard in Kiwi’s contest thread.
  • Discord Legend! Ends Jan 27th. Be the most supportive/active/encouraging Rift Community Discord Member. Winner receives 1 REX + Arcligh Rider + 30-Day Patron.
  • All contest details/entries and rules are available here.

• The Yule Nug Winners [Contest]. For the latest and final “The Yule Nug (4) – Mink Mayhem” Contest, congratulations to Fandral@Hailol for winning the Merry Mink mount, and to Zysa@Brutwacht and Yeuo@Faeblight for being the two random winners! Thank you all for participating! You can find a full list of “The Yule Nug” series winners here.

• Happy Holidays from the DTC [Dimensions]. Dimension Diva and the folks over at The Dimension Touring Company have wished everyone a happy holidays! They’ve also posted up some of their favorite Fae Yule dimensions from previous years. Check it out here!

• South Park [Dimension]. Feendish over at The Dimension Touring Company has taken a tour of an amazing dimension recreation of the popular TV cartoon series, South Park! Check out “South Park” by Shortyface@Gelidra here!

Missed out on some news? Check out the full list of RIFT News Tidbits here or the PTS/Live Comparison Page for a summary of upcoming changes. Patch Notes, PTS Updates, Datamining and Livestream Summaries are also available.

If you’re interested in the latest RIFT contests or upcoming events, check out RiftGrate’s ‘Upcoming RIFT Events‘ page and calendar.

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