RIFT Patch 1.8 – Infernal Dawn
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Posted on April 18, 2012 by
Update 1.8 - Infernal Dawn

Welcome to RIFT 1.8: Infernal Dawn!

== FEATURES ==
* Infernal Dawn: The new 20-player Raid that challenges players with seven new boss encounters as they enter Mount Carcera to prevent the rise of Laethys and the release of Maelforge from his imprisonment beneath the volcano.
* Kick back on the shores and relax, or go on a wilderness adventure; the new Fishing and Survival skills let you do both! See more under FISHING AND SURVIVAL, listed below.
* Players and Guilds can have an easier time finding each other through the new Guild Finder tool. See GUILD FINDER below for how to use it!
* New Leaderboards feature allows you to compare and compete against your friends, guildmates, and other players in a variety of categories. More under LEADERBOARDS, below.
* All-new appearances and animations for Druid Faerie pets, Beastmaster Primal Companions, and Ranger pets!
* Instant Adventure comes to Ember Isle; level 50 characters can now join the action immediately with the new Ember Isle queue available in the Instant Adventure menu.
* Achievements that are partially completed are now highlighted in the In-Progress Achievements list on the Achievement window.

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Tanking Stat Caps for 1.8
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Posted on April 10, 2012 by

Just picked this up from the forums (Zinbik, Cleric lead developer):

Block Chance
Soft Cap: 45%
Hard Cap 60%

Block Reduction
Soft Cap: 50%
Hard Cap: 65%

Dodge
Hard Cap: 40%

Parry
Hard Cap: 20%

This applies to warriors and rogues as well (deflect for rogues I believe).  The change between 1.7 and 1.8 is that there was a bug allowing people to go over the caps for block.  Looks like a lot of people were stacking to extremes in block and ignoring other stats…

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Raids
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Posted on March 26, 2012 by

Congrats to Late Knights and AbNormal on multiple upgrades both tonight and last week.  Looks like we are getting up to the last boss in both Gilded Prophecy and Drowned Halls!  That’s roughly 6 pieces of loot, plus a bunch of marks of ascension!

Just a friendly reminder, we have set aside some time slots for organizing and running raids.  Those two (current) slots are Mondays and Thursdays at 7pm server time.  If you are looking for more raid times or just to get in touch with people, be sure to check out the forums.

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Forums are back online!
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Posted on March 21, 2012 by

The guild forums are back online!  With increased complications of managing higher end tradeskills and our entry into the 10 man raiding scene (with another guild), I felt it was time to bring the forums back.  Hopefully this can facilitate some better communication out of game.

As a side note, I did purge the old messages (excluding the now outdated charter, check the note in the public forum for the primary, significant change to that).

If you have trouble getting access to your old account (don’t remember the password/username), let me know and I can either delete your old account or reset your password.

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Rift Mage DPS (for Experts) Quick Start Guide
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Posted on March 13, 2012 by

This is a quick guide to give entry level Mages wanting to fill the Damage role for Expert dungeons in Rift.  It goes over installing and using a simple damage per second (DPS) tool (called SimpleMeter) and a rundown of a common build for Mages called the Pyrolock (combining Pyromancer and Warlock).

This guide is filled with personal anecdotes and I’m sure plenty of opinion.  Read on if you dare…

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