Rift Dev Letter: May 31, 2018

The dev letter is finally here, posted on Rift’s site. In it the team details their plans for this summer, including some Summerfest details, details on the next content update for Prime, and a smattering of bullet points for upcoming changes and additions to the live servers.  To top things off, PTS will be updated to support both Live and […]

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Rift Datamining – May 23 live/prime patch

Today’s Rift patch brings with it changes to Prime XP rates, further class tweaks to Warriors, and an extension of a feature of the Mage’s Harbinger class.  While Summerfest items have not been patched in yet (c’mon Trion! throw us some new assets!), there is a nice chunk of new database information to go over.

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Guide: Confounding Contraptions

Dead Simon’s Confounding Contraptions challenge launched May 16th, 2018… then promptly was completed by the community on May 20th.  That was fast! A total of 110 puzzle boxes (similar to the ones found in the Comet of Ahnket zones) were hidden throughout the original Mathosia zones.  A total of 10 per zone.  Numerous tracking documents popped up immediately, some private, […]

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Final Fantasy 14 – 4.3 Datamining Report!

So, I’m a huge Final Fantasy fan.  As part of an ongoing effort to attempt to report on datamining for other games, today I present to you links to the extensive datamining for FF14’s 4.3 patch!  The /r/ffxiv subreddit discord also has a ton of information regarding this datamining, lots of pics were originally posted there, too! Credit goes to […]

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Rift Datamining – May 16, 2018 Live/Prime patch

Long have Prime players awaited the May 16th patch.  With it, content, balance, and a few other changes.  This datamining report does not have any new game assets, but I’m here to fill you in on client-side database changes that have been made.  These include Prime XP adjustments, titles, and an update to tooltip data for the balance pass!

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Site Update: Rift Patch Calendar & GW2 Resources!

Imathrowback over on our Discord has created a handy calendar to see all of the different patch releases for Rift.  Today, we have a site update to announce the addition of this calendar to The Ghar Station site!  You can view the calendar here or by clicking on the “Update Calendar” link in the menu bar at the top of […]

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Rift Livestream Summary – May 4th, 2018

Thanks to Holyroller for today’s live stream summary, both on The Ghar Station discord and over on the forums! (You can find his post here).  I have added a few additional pieces as I understood them from the live stream. Today’s stream focused on some Q&A from the forums, and going over some balance changes, and showcased Greenscale’s Blight as […]

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