RIFT News Tidbits 15th January 2016

RIFT news tidbits for 15th January 2016.

• RIFT 3.5: Winter’s Wrath. Patch Notes and additional information.
• Arclight Infiltration Promo Week. Come get your Nightmare Lifter mount or save up event currency for the Arclight/Storm Lifter mounts! Ends 3:30PM Server Time on 18th Jan 2016 (NA)(EU). More info here!

General

• RIFT 3.5 Hotfix #5. RIFT was updated on Friday with a small hotfix to reverse changes made to Masteries and The Nightmare mount. Soul Stream/Ethereal Flux and other related Mastery abilities should now work properly again. Full notes here.

• RIFT Bonus XP Weekend. RIFT has +50% bonus exp from kills, prestige from pvp kills, favor, PA xp and guild xp from now until January 18th 2016. [r]

• PTW Exp Issue Status. Trion has found the source of the bug causing Planetouched Wilds mobs to give low-level experience. This will hit the Public Test Shard for the next week or so before going to Live. [r]
  • Earliest it will hit PTS is next Monday.

• Archonix Letter ETA. CM Ocho has re-iterated that Archonix’s Producer/State-of-the-Game Letter might be ready some time during this month. [r]  He has also indicated that Archonix is back in the office from the holiday break. [r]

• “My Number!” Achievement Fixed. The achievement for the warfront Ghar Station Eyn called “My Number!” should be fixed with the latest hotfix and should now trigger properly. [r]

• 1/0 Dimension Bug On-Going. It seems that at least one user is still experiencing the 1/0 bug. It may or may not be linked to PvP-flag use in the dimension. [r] If you are experiencing this bug, please provide further information here.

• About Faction Titles. Senior Game Designer Captain Cursor gave a quick tidbit today explaining that the Guardian PvP titles are all European military titles, whilst the Defiant PvP titles are all Ottoman-inspired ones. [r]

Community Content

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

• RP: Nergui [Dimension]. Feendish over at The Dimension Touring Co. has taken a tour of Nevijjar@Faeblight’s “RP: Nergui” in the latest article over at DTC. Check out a preview of this sand-swept dimension 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.

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