The MMORPG Rift is celebrating its fifth anniversary. The developers have prepared some improvements.
Plenty of new content
In the upcoming April, RIFT will already be 5 years old. This means the return of the “Festival of the Chosen” event, where players can grab a variety of rewards. To celebrate this small anniversary properly, there will be significantly more to gain this time than in previous years.
The update will be packed with content. In addition to new daily quests and a story quest, the Shimmering Sand arena will feature a total of 6 new raid encounters, and a fresh instant adventure will be available in the Storm Bay. However, since content of this type is only half the battle, there will be numerous new items, such as mounts, masks, backpacks, emotes, dimension keys, new minions, and new minion adventures.
Those who desire more customization should have already noticed with patch 3.6 that there is a new soul for each calling. Going forward, the following souls will be addressed with significant changes aiming to make them more interesting and engaging: Chloromancer, Preserver, Archon, Ranger, and Beastmaster.
But technically, there are upgrades as well: With the update, Rift will finally support multicore technology, which should lead to noticeable performance improvements on many systems. Anyone who felt uncomfortable in Rift despite a good machine due to poor performance should definitely give the game another chance.
And this is by no means all. The patch also brings daily login rewards for all players, numerous changes to the PvP economy, and an entirely new tier of level matching. This is just the first part of the update, with the second part set to follow in May.
However, there should already be a small “preview event” in March, which will set the stage for the celebrations and precede the actual update.
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