Tag Archives: General Advice

The Advantages of Gifting

Have you ever wondered why players provide gifting services? What do they gain from charging only 0.7 Plat per Credit for items on the Rift Store (effectively 875 plat per 1,250 Credits, or per REX-equivalent)?

The answer? RIFT Gifting provides you with more plat, or more loyalty, depending on your goal.

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Unstable Artifact Thieves

For those wondering what the Unstable Artifact Thieves are, how to find them and how to catch them, this is a post just for you! Unstable Artifact Thieves are squirrels that run around locations throughout a zone during an Unstable Zone Event. 4 types: Common, Uncommon, Rare and Epic. They give you 1-2 or more […]

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Preparing for Patch 2.6

Patch 2.6 is just around the corner, releasing on the 12th February 2014. There’s quite a few content and feature additions to this patch that will be rolled out over the coming weeks. You can find out more information about Patch 2.6 here. Here’s a few things you may wish to consider in preparing for […]

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Tip: Pay attention to Auction House Tax

The Auction House takes a cut of 5% from any successful sale. As such, when buying or selling items – pay attention to that 5% cut that the AH takes. Sometimes both the seller and buyer can benefit if you go for a trade instead.

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Tip: Rift Event Watcher

Want to know what zone events are up on each shard currently? Rift Event Watcher. Simple-to-use website that lists all the zone events up on each shard in both NA and EU. You can sort by Shards, Events or Zones. Need to know what shards have zone events in The Dendrome? Click on the Zones […]

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News: The Reference List

Riftgrate has added The Reference List page to the site that includes a whole bunch of info that players may wish to refer to from time to time such as reset times, currency weekly caps and information not easily available. Ever had a time where you wanted to know some basic detail post-haste, but your […]

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Guide: Making Platinum without the AH

Making Platinum without the use of the Auction House (“AH”) is something that any F2P player of Rift who hasn’t spent any money on the game will be facing. The fastest way to unlock the ability to sell on the AH without spending any real money is to buy a REX and use it. Summary: […]

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Tip: PvP Trinket – Fast path

So you want a PvP trinket and upgrade to the best ones available asap, but you see on the store that the Level 60 PvP trinket starts off with a trinket that requires Revered notoriety with Ridgerunner Mercenaries before you can purchase it. It can take quite a while to hit that notoriety requirement. There’s […]

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Guide: Accessing the Dummy Foundry

The Dummy Foundry is an instance on the Public Test Shard (“PTS”) that has a large collection of Level 60 and 62 Dummies. They are all Raid-debuffed and you are continuously Raid Buffed when you are in the instance. This place is perfect for testing out new builds, practice rotations and see how much dps, […]

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Tip of the Day: Nothing is working!

I’ve found I’ve stumbled upon this issue several times – suddenly, no abilities are working at all. You can’t even mount. Nothing. This usually occurs after trying to interact with something that ends up disappearing whilst I am interacting with it. The most common culprits would be the gathering nodes that appear after you successfully […]

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