Rift's patch 1.6 expected this week, and ZAM is ready!

[Calthine]

Rift patch 1.6, "From the Embers," is expected to hit live servers this week! We've been busy on the Public Test Server and have all the guides you need when exploring the new content.

The largest chunk of content is Ember Isle. Start with our Ember Isle zone page, but you might also be interested in:

• Travel Stones - How to get there, and how to get around.
• Sourcewell - What are they, how did they get there, and why they are important.
• Ember Isle Quest Series - All the quests, listed geographically.
• Ember Isle Maps
• Ember Isle Lore - The Story behind the Kelari, the Sourcewells, the Pyrkari and the Civil War.
• Emerald Enigma - the Emerald Isle puzzle!

Also expected with Patch 1.6 are a new raid zone and sliver:

• Rise of the Phoenix - a level 50 raid zone in Stonefield
• Caduceus Rise - a dungeon in Ember Isle with four Modes.

Last, but certainly not least, the first Telaran holiday will make it's appearance with the Fae Yule Celebration! You'll be spending snowflakes for your Wassail and Candy Canes as you honor the Yulemother.

We welcome your contributions! Anyone with a (free) ZAM account can edit our guides, and don't forget to upload your discovery logs to help our database grow!

[p3t3r1]

Good info, and I love your map!

Unless I am mistaken, this bit is not correct : Caduceus Rise - a 10-player Sliver in Ember Isle.

Caduceus is a 5 man dungeon. There are 3 versions of it. The normal one for level 40ish players, the Lower T2 and the Upper T2 Experts.

[Mist26]

Good info, and I love your map!

Unless I am mistaken, this bit is not correct : Caduceus Rise - a 10-player Sliver in Ember Isle.

Caduceus is a 5 man dungeon. There are 3 versions of it. The normal one for level 40ish players, the Lower T2 and the Upper T2 Experts.

Thought the normal was a 47-50 dungeon since it is on Ember Isle? With the two T2 versions and a master at a later date.

[Mayakov]

Also, the raid zone in stonefield isn't really a raid zone. It's a sliver aka 10 man

[the_real_seebs]

You've omitted what may be for many people one of the most significant things:

Addon API can now do at least some bag manipulation. Remember addons like Altoholic that told you how many of an item you had across your alts? They're now possible. (Not as tooltip modifications, yet, but they're possible.)

[Calthine]

You're right! I had my labeling backwards on those. Thanks! (That's because I wasn't the one who did those zones on Test, and I mis-read my notes.)

As for the API changes, we don't have a guide on that, lol. Our sister site http://www.riftui.com/addons.php might!

[Ogdru]

Nice post thank you for all the info!

[Calthine]

Nice post thank you for all the info!

You're welcome! As this goes live we'd love your contributions to help fill in any blanks!

[dsasteel]

HOT ZAM!

[Alyvian]

any confirmation yet that its indeed coming wednesday?

[Fridge-RaideR]

So where would y'all put your money on, patch wednesday evening, with a 50% murphyslaw chance that things go wrong n it will be thursday morning?

[Calthine]

HOT ZAM!

ROFL!

Bludwyng wanted me to mention changes to Foraging and Mining:

With Patch 1.6 Foragers can now forage from the corpses of Treants and Boglings. Miners can now mine ore from the corpses of Earth Elementals, Orelings, and Golems. These will give the same kkind of results you get from traditional nodes in the area.

[Calthine]

any confirmation yet that its indeed coming wednesday?

So where would y'all put your money on, patch wednesday evening, with a 50% murphyslaw chance that things go wrong n it will be thursday morning?

I wouldn't put my money on anything besides "probably this week," which is all Trion has said Game companies learned a while back that when you give hard dates Murphy likes to screw with them. Several people have tried to convince me it's Wednesday, but without hard evidence, I'll refuse to commit

[Bragol]

Looks great!

[Jaserion]

yay, thanks for the info!