Datamining – April patches (iRotP Spoilers)

April has been another slow month for datamining.  Rift’s 4.2 update is in the works, and the PTS updates this month have been focused largely on class updates, implementing and fixing the Primalist Primal Lord and Farseer souls, and tuning Intrepid Rise of the Phoenix.  Despite this, there are a few things to show off this month.  I was hoping […]

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RIFT 4.1: Hotfix #5 4/26/2017

Hotfix #5 arrives today.  With it comes some a reduction in open world planar fragment drops, the chance for cosmic cores to drop from content, the ability to add Visionary runes to Nightmare Tide level 65 gear, and an upgrade to the crafted +75 fishing skill rune to make it more useful.

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Dev Chatter – Early April

The following conversations were taken from the Skype Dimensions chat, Rift Community Discord, and the April 13th live stream. Come join us on discord here: https://discord.gg/BQJnPQ6.  As a reminder, Discord is more than just a pure voice service, it also serves as a text chat service similar to IRC and old style chat rooms, but far more modernized.  This is […]

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RIFT 4.1: Hotfix #3 4/12/2017

Hotfix #3 is here, and with it comes nerfs for the Hellbug Zone Event as a way to farm colossi for the Eternal Weapon quest, fixes for some of the Rift Intermediate and Starter pack items, and what looks like a potential fix for the Legendary Ability display bug.

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Dev Chatter – March 22 – 24 (4.2 + Primalist spoilers)

The following conversations were taken from the Rift Community Discord, live stream chat, the dimensions skype channel, and Seshatar’s stream. Come join us at the Rift Community discord here: https://discord.gg/BQJnPQ6 As usual, these have been anonymized, and edited for topic flow and some minor grammar tweaks.  We got talk on a breadth of topics, including cross shard trading, server tech […]

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RIFT 4.1: Hotfix #2 4/4/2017

Hotfix #2 is up and ready.  Though the patch notes were released on 4/4, the actual patch is available 4/5.  The PvP daily/weekly quests are fixed, and some Quality of Life fixes are in for Tartaric Depths.  Small patch, but we did get a hotfix last week.  I expect the 4/12 hotfix to be a bit more impactful. Not stated […]

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