Chris and Sallennia are joined by Fellowship's Walk auction winner Tony to talk about the goings on in the world of Rift. This week's show has us talking about the 2.5 Song of Dreams patch, the dungeons and chronicles revamps and more!
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What we did in game:
Tony


Joined a Guild: Pandium


Finishing Scarwood Reach and moving onto the Droughtland


Working on crafting to level:


Apothecary 164


Outfitter 187


Artificer 183


Mining  182


Foraging 199


Survival 122 (This one is tough any hints)


Butchering 192


Fishing 129 ( just tedious)


Working on notoriety with Scarwood. ( I like to finish before moving on, very close)

 
Sallennia


Guild dimension


Intrepid Hammerknell Chronicle Level 60 version

 
Chris


Chronicles


Started on the new Ember Isles/Underwater Content


Warfronts!


LFG Storm Breaker Protocol

 
News from the Rift
 
Rift 2.5 Song of Dreams is Live
http://forums.riftgame.com/general-discussions/news-announcements/patch-notes/392710-rift-2-5-song-dreams-8-00am-pst-11-6-13-na-1-00am-gmt-11-7-13-eu.html
http://community.riftgame.com/en/2013/11/06/song-of-dreams/


Song of Dreams pits the Ascended against harbingers of the Wanton in an all-new underwater Saga.


Infinity Gate Dimension is available


Store Wish Lists


a new Planar Attunement Nexus-PVP tier 3


six weeks of Level 60 instances (Chronicles, Slivers, and a new dungeon!) courtesy of Grandfather Frost and the Gifts of the Fae.


Nov. 13 – Return To Deepstrike (60)


Nov. 20 – Hammerknell Chronicle (60)


Nov. 27 – Greenscale’s Blight Chronicle (60)


Dec. 4 – Drowned Halls (60)


Dec. 11 – Planebreaker Bastion: Aftermath


Dec. 18 – River Of Souls Chronicle (60)

http://community.riftgame.com/en/2013/11/07/gifts-of-the-fae-6-dungeons-in-6-weeks/


Iron Pine Peak Lower levels (27-35)


International Shards, Now you can play in any language regardless of selected region EXCEPT THEN>>>>


EU Shard Issues

http://forums.riftgame.com/general-discussions/general-discussion/394929-eu-shards-news.html#post4587323


As many of you know, RIFT has had a massive influx of players in the last several weeks. When we did the cluster combinations we had a good understanding of what our capacity would be in the future. There was room to grow in our plans – enough room to fit up to 40% new users comfortably. Our success and your interest has far exceeded this and unfortunately has led to laggy shards in the EU, long queues, and overall a game play experience that isn't up to our standards.

 


We have additional enhancements being made to our clusters, but those enhancements will take time to implement. Because of this, we will once again be temporarily separating the EU shards into two clusters. An English cluster and a mixed French/German/International cluster. When we have additional enhancements made to our cluster technology, we will once again combine EU to be a single whole cluster.

 
>>> Influx of players they were talking about...
Trion Announces Results of the We Love Gamers Celebration
http://www.trionworlds.com/en/news/2013/11/trion-worlds-announces-results-of-we-love-gamers-celebration/


quarter of a million new players to their online games, RIFT and Defiance.


RIFT experienced the highest single day gain in new users since the game’s launch more than 2 years ago.

 
State of the Game
http://community.riftgame.com/en/2013/11/12/rift-state-of-the-game-address/
 


Items they are working on:


Continued Graphical Optimizations


Cross Shard Functionality and Internationalization


Dimension Enhancements


Streamlined Zones and Tutorials


Content Additions


PvP Improvements and Adjustments


Rolling out Content Every Week


Looking forward to 3.0