This week we talk a little bit about the upcoming Carnival of the Ascended and some concerns coming for the PTS.

What we did this week

Sallennia

  • River of Souls and Greenscales Blights raids start to finish with a pug group and 5 or 6 guild mates.  Loved that I had been in ROS Chronicles, made it feel a lot more familiar and helpful finding my way around, same with GSB.
  • won the roll for the Relic item in ROS, ‘Staff of the Inevitable’.  Awesome stats and finally replaced the dagger/tome combo I had been using since last June!  And… it glows Purple!
  • Also did XAP, we fly through it so fast with all that shiny gear, we actually died a few times rushing into stuff.  And I fell off the cliff for the first time, now that the ‘log’ is gone.
  • oh yeah… and onslaughts

Chris

  • Two raids in one week. Crazy! River of Souls and Greenscale’s Blight were awesome!
  • No relics for me, but lots of upgrades!
  • Bard PvP is so much fun! My rogue is now level 39, approaching 40. LOVING PvP as a bard. I like the support class, yet I’m still able to do some minor damage. Very survivable, but I don’t feel OP. I still die lots, just not as much as usual.
  • Speed run xAP. No achievement though. :(

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News from the Rift

Changes coming to Resists?
http://forums.riftgame.com/public-test-shard/300821-unfair-changes-nerfs-lesser-essences-players-forced-buy-new-sigils.html

Preview of Carnival of the Ascended on Rift Junkies
http://www.riftjunkies.com/2012/02/22/carnival-of-the-ascended-reasons-to-celebrat/

Rift coming to South-east Asia
http://www.trionworlds.com/en/news/press-releases/2012/02/asiasoft

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Rift S.O.S.

Tier Requirements and you!

DPS warriors and rogues need to concentrate on Hit -100 for Expert Dungeons,  200 for Tier 1 Raids, 300 for Tier 2 Raids

Tank warriors and rogues need to concentrate on Toughness – 100 for Experts Dungeons, 150 for Tier 1 Raids, and 200 for Tier 2 Raids.

DPS Mages and Cleric need to concentrate on Focus -100 for Expert Dungeons,  200+ for Tier 1 raids, 300+ for Tier 2 Raids Plus Spell Power (850 or more for Raid T1)

Healing Clerics focus on Spell power – 950+ for Tier 1 raids

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Community

Cool forum thread of many of the easter egg/real world reference in-game
http://forums.riftgame.com/rift-general-discussions/general-discussion/301698-our-devs-human.html

Last Week’s Poll

Have you noticed a negative or positive change to the quality of ‘level’ chat channels, either from an influx of shard transfers, or Rift lite participants?

Negative 35%
No real change 35%
Positive 30%

This Week’s Poll

What do you think of only being able to get one mount during the upcommig event.

Horrible! Let me get both now!
Mounts? You can get more than one?
Whatever. I can just get them both during the next event.
One is enough for me!

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