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 it is expected to be for Prime.

As always, these are very rough notes [Holyroller] took and tried to get as much as [he] could, but certain missed a number of things so always be sure to actually watch the recording rather relying, jumping to conclusions or responding just to the notes alone.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/257676611?t=11s

Misc Notes:

• Tok’s 2 is still happening. There’s also another big project coming that Dead Simon is working on once Tok’s 2 is up and running.
• There’s a possibility that the Demon wings will be available before Autumn Harvest, but that’s the intended event.
• Dev will look at Guard tooltips for level 70 (They are not showing correct values for T1/T2 raids at 70)
• Dev letter will be coming later this month to give some better timelines for what will be happening over the year.
• Live Mounts – They love putting and would like to continue putting mounts up for direct purchase on the store and as long as they continue to “perform” well, then that will still happen. That’s not to say that there won’t ever be any lockbox mounts and the lockboxes themselves will like never go away. Personal Note: It sounds like as long as people show with their wallets that they’ll buy mounts directly, they’ll mostly keep them out of lockboxes.
• Loyalty – They have discussed Rainbow tier loyalty, but there are currently no plans to release any more.
• New Planar Attunement will be coming, but it’s still being discussed when that will come.
• No plans for any new PvP gear on live at the moment, but they will discuss it.
• Fragments – Are completely on hold as other things (Class Balance) take a higher priority.
• Planar Plucker – There wasn’t any real reason why they didn’t just allow the mount to gather all types of materials (mining, foraging, butcher). Dead simon went to concept with ideas for more, new mounts. They’re considering and likely will allow something similar to water training so that you can pick which tradeskill mount you like the best and then teach it to actually gather all of those materials. It needs to first be looked at in order to see if that’s possible on the tech end without it being too much extra work.
• Daily Login Calendar- They have plans to and want to bring over the Prime version of the calendar, including the free mount at the end of the month, but they’re unsure when that will be.

Live Notes:

• All balance changes that are being done on Omega (Prime PTS) will also be applied to Live. None of them should be nerfs to anything on live, but they’re going to look at everything to make sure that’s not the case.
• When asked if there would be any new upgrade paths for eternal weapons, Archonix replied with “that sounds like a good idea ”
• New Zone: A new zone was strongly hinted at during one of the last live developer streams, but it was only clarified that it’s not quite a zone in the sense that Vostigar Peaks was. Part of it has to do with Dead Simon’s new project outside of Tok’s 2. They’re not ready to discuss anymore than that.
• There are a lot of warrior changes ongoing behind the scenes that will come to both Live and Prime.

Prime / GSB Notes:

• River of Souls might be T2, but it sounds undecided by the team or they’re just not ready to discuss it yet.
• Void stone costs for essences on Prime are being looked at
• The team is thinking about some exp per level changes now that more people are 50 to allow others to catch up. Levels 30-40 will be about 5% less exp to get there and then levels 40-50 will be about 25% less. They’re looking for more feedback on this as they don’t want some people logging in and automatically leveling since the experience reductions would be retroactive. They don’t want to the experience of leveling your character naturally from the people who like to do that.
• GSB could be pushed back again if they’re not satisfied with the changes they’re making over the weekend. So far it’s looking good, but they will let people know by Monday **IF** it’s going to be pushed back.
• They’re not ready to answer how long GSB will go for before T2 is released. Much of it will be based on player participation / completion.
• GSB will have the exact same mechanics with the exception of some mana drains that existed in vanilla. The mob damage and HP will be significantly different from both the original version and compared to Drowned Halls and Gilded Prophecy. It will also be more difficult, but not too difficult where the vast majority of players can’t complete it.
• Greenscale will have a chance to drop the Greenscale mount. Drop chance was not clarified nor do we know if this will be available in I:GSB as well.
• 3rd character slot coming next week.

Unofficial (non-livestream) notes!

This information comes through the grapevine (heard from other players, rampant rumors, etc.)

• Greenscale’s Blight on Prime will be considered T1.5 gear-wise.
• Coming alongside GSB on Prime will be a new Incremental Personal Loot feature.  This is a “a system to ensure a player cannot go to many rolls in a row without getting an item drop” and was hinted at by Tacitus on the Forums back in April (click for link).