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Earring Slots, Planewalker: Water, Bag of Innumerable Pockets and Crafter’s Energy Infusion are now Credits-only; REX is no longer available for Referral Coins; Level 65 lock box gear has new tier of upgrades, and Intrepid IA cache gear has new upgrade path to Tier 1; Various Mage purge-related bug fixes; You can now use weapon vfx items on off-hand weapon slot, as long as the weapon type is listed as being usable in the vfx items’ tooltip; and various other bug fixes.

Upcoming Region downtime for NA and EU with some server maintenance for NA; and reminder and further information about tomorrow’s Void Stone to Credit cost change for Earring unlocks and Planewater: Water attunement. Also, be sure to enter Wardrobe Wednesday’s Ultimate Wardrobe Challenge with big prizes!

Trion announces Earring Unlocks and Planewalker: Water Void Stone costs being replaced by Credits on January 27th 2016; Livestream Summary is up for last week’s Tech Talk RIFT stream; 3 more PvP Guide Videos from Grim; No plans to add IAs to PTW, although they are working on MoM IAs; dimensions permissions issue and Trove Music box being looked at; and onslaught-related PTW issues to be fixed this Wednesday. Wardrobe Wednesday’s Ultimate Wardrobe Challenge contest is now up and running! Enter now!

Latest RIFT Livestream talks all about engineering and tech in the game. Stream goes over roles, bug & code testing processes as well as info on big engineering projects in 2015 and 2016.

Archonix Producer Letter delayed until ~early February; Lead Engineer Snedhepl will also have a Letter; Public Test Shard will probably be back up next Monday; RIFT and Grim upload series of videos introducing players to PvP; Trion starts a series of ‘Pillars of Telara’ articles; Morticus requires players resend requests for invite to Trion’s dimensions Skype channel; and missing dimension item details will likely be fixed with Patch 3.6. Rift-Wardrobe’s January Wardrobe Contest final submissions deadline is Noon on 24th Jan 2016; and there’s various fan videos, music, pvp videos and a new dimension touring article!

This Friday’s RIFT Livestream about Tech and Engineering; Budgie Madness Promo Week is back with new Spooky the Nightmare Budgie; A Look Back: The Planes of Heroes of Telara; weapon vfx bug to be fixed in next patch so you can use weapon wardrobe vfx on off-hand slot; and Mind of Madness Progression with new Dark Genesis kills. Zither over at The Fires of Heaven guild has also posted up raid guides for Lady Justice and Dark Genesis.

Budgie Madness Promo Week is back with a new Spooky the Nightmare Budgie. Come grab your chance at the mount and participate in the daily Budgie Races for Bird Seed. Bird Seed can be used at any PRI Quartermaster to obtain the Umbral, Ashen and Frosty Budgie mounts!

Notice: NA Shard Restart at 4:15PM PST on 21st Jan 2016 in order to fix the issue preventing players from purchasing the Limited Edition: Spooky the Nightmare Budgie Troves.

With RIFT’s 5th Anniversary coming up on March 1st, let’s take A Look Back at the past few years of RIFT, what has come and gone, and what the 5th year may hold. We begin with “A Look Back: The Planes of Heroes of Telara”, taking a look at the many iterations of RIFT that have come and gone, and what the game was like before it was known as RIFT.

RIFT 3.5 Hotfix #6 is up with Cleric Shaman changes, lots of bug fixes; IA mob-teleport issue; Sky Projector bug; RIFT posts cosplay from Gamescom 2015; and RIFT Livestream this Friday at 3:30PM PST. Official joint Rift-Wardrobe/Trion wardrobe contest starting soon “Wardrobe Wednesday’s Ultimate Wardrobe Challenge” – entries open on 25th Jan 2016 – big prizes!