The RIFT

For our last Episode Scott Hartsman and Cindy ‘Abigale’ Bowens join us to talk a bit about the game from back when no one knew about it, through to today. We also reminisce about the podcast origins and touch on some pertinent subjects for the future of the game:

• The path of Rift and the Podcast
• Guild Banks
• Server Transfers coming soon
• Dungeon Finder tweaking
• Not necessarily the end, just a goodbye
• Haha Rapture

We’d like to thank everyone for all their support. Each and Every person at Trion who helped us make this podcast, every fan who ever was and whoever downloaded and listened. Thank you for being a part of this journey.

Thank you to Typefrag.com for their sponsorship – if you want a quality ventrilo server, look no further. These guys are great.

Thank you to Doghouse Systems for their support – they have amazing systems – head over and take a look.

And thank you to Enjin freaking awesome Rift Guild Hosting for their faith in us and a wonderful partnership. Seriously, check it out.

Thank you Thank you Thank you

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This week James ‘Elrar’ Nichols, Amanda ‘Amary’ Fry, Erick ‘Zann’ Adams and Cindy ‘Abigale’ Bowens join Arithion and Desikis to talk about their many different playstyles and the adaptability of the soul system as well as the process of creating the podcast.

• Podcast preparation
• Casual to hardcore playstyles
• Soul system adaptability
• Appropriate preparedness of roles for group content
• Fun versus versatility

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Will Cook, Rift and Events lead and Cindy ‘Abigale’ Bowens join Arithion & Desikis in today’s episode to talk about the following and more:

• Learning from World Event 1
• The Future of World Events
• Dynamic Content Expanded
• 1.2 and Rifts
• Authenticators

Make sure to check out the potential changes up and coming in Patch 1.2

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Elrar and Abigale join Shyntyrr and Arithion to talk about the prospects of patch 1.2, and the unfolding of the world event.

• Patch 1.2 potential changes
• Guild Bank Soon™
• River of Trash Souls
• World Event
• CSR & Authenticators
• Funny Phishing Emails

With the prospective changes to several souls, the outlook for 1.2 is currently positive. Stay tuned for a lot more information about this looming patch. Hope everyone is enjoying RoS.

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Due to many requests, we’ve changed the inline player to a pop up window player. Now you can surf the site, as you listen. Let us know what you think.

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Adam ‘Gersh’ Gershowitz joins the podcast team today in order to clarify and answer some things which arose with Patch 1.1

• Class Balance and Changes
• Raid Healing Alterations
• Corrupted Soul scarcity
• New Rift contribution system
• World Event
• Profession Plaques
• Dungeons Plaques
• The Missing Dye Vendor

Sadly the 2^nd phase of the World Event has been postponed until next weekend. There are some mentions of it starting on the previous Saturday as was originally intended.

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