Welcome to RIFT 1.7: Carnival of the Ascended!

[Elrar]

At last the day has arrived – since the release of Update 1.6 and Ember Isle the big question since last year has been: What’s next?!

As the first update of 2012 Update 1.7 answers that question with a mighty bounty of new features, content, and improvements. No matter your play style there’s something waiting for you in 1.7! We’ve added a new chronicle, powered-up PvP and endgame items and are introducing Ascended Weddings as our first Gathering. There’s no doubt 1.7 is a biggun – lucky for you there’s tons of information to sink your teeth in or log in to see it for yourself!

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[RickoT]

YAY! I am super excited for this patch, I cannot wait to get home tonight to check it out. I am holding my breath for the Carnival!

[Primalthirst]

This has been brought live way too soon. There was less than 24 hours to test the latest changes, even less time for any problems to be identified, let alone fixed. I'm shocked at what Trion has done here.

[Muffinmans]

This has been brought live way too soon. There was less than 24 hours to test the latest changes, even less time for any problems to be identified, let alone fixed. I'm shocked at what Trion has done here.

Whats the big deal? If its really that bad, it will be hotfixed on friday or early next week. I am very thankful that they released it today.

[Zeyn]

Been looking forward to this update soo much since being guardian, defiants constantly overpowered most the time. Well, now I get on and upgrade gear, go pvp. My bolts that crit for 2-3k now crit for 300! my dots that were 200-500 a tick are ticking for 5. WTF! we are getting rolled even worse, and yes, i pretty much put all my points into war attunment. Something is not right, even though we lost alot the old way, this new way is horrible when my damage drops 90% with upgrades. Thanks for the update, i will start looking for new game and am unsubscribing now. Call me what u want, but I play this game for pvp 80% pve 20% and when all my builds lose that much damage, its not even an ounce of fun.

[Ravin Nightwing]

Figured it would be sooner rather than later.

[Muffinmans]

Been looking forward to this update soo much since being guardian, defiants constantly overpowered most the time. Well, now I get on and upgrade gear, go pvp. My bolts that crit for 2-3k now crit for 300! my dots that were 200-500 a tick are ticking for 5. WTF! we are getting rolled even worse, and yes, i pretty much put all my points into war attunment. Something is not right, even though we lost alot the old way, this new way is horrible when my damage drops 90% with upgrades. Thanks for the update, i will start looking for new game and am unsubscribing now. Call me what u want, but I play this game for pvp 80% pve 20% and when all my builds lose that much damage, its not even an ounce of fun.

They are reducing the valor buffs that they just put into place since it seems that they over did it. Dont worry, wait a week, it will be better.

[Muffinmans]

Ok just tried out some PvP on live servers. I friggn love it! This is the first time in a while where pvp was auctully competitative and one side didnt always blow the other side out. I love how you dont die in 1 hit. The only thing I miss is the big numbers, but I can live without it. Trion, pvp is great where it is at, no need to drastically change it I love it.

[Xillean]

It needs work, people die so slowly its like watching paint dry. I do love not dieing in 2-3 hits but they need to scale the valor back a bit or adjust the healing of clerics and make a way for chloro's and bards to not be totally fubared by the valor as it hurts their healing a ton. In short people not dieing instantly = good, people living forever with a full raid one them = bad.

I am still confident Trion can find a happy middle ground for us, though having us test it then pushing it live the next day caught me off guard and did upset me, its like why did I just spend my time testing your game when you push it live the very next day? It did feel like they didn't care about our feedback and there was plenty of it from those who did the latest pvp event on the pts.

Just my thoughts, I do think overall Trion values their testers but surely the devs must see things from our point of view, you ask testers who practically are paying you to spend their time testing your game to provide data and feedback and without so much of a word we see a post a few hours later saying 1.7 is going live. It just leaves a bad taste in my mouth and doesn't encourage me to spend my free time testing if I feel it doesn't matter what we find.

I do understand they have to push it out and have deadlines to meet but a simple we are aware of your concerns about pvp and will be monitoring it when they announced 1.7 was in fact going live would have made a big difference to the testers instead of its going live deal with it type of feeling we got imo.

[MickNico]

Well as a cleric which was so soft since 1.4 im happy with the changes. I filled my AP war and can now go toe to toe with the other 3 classes. Im sure the rouges will cry, well suck it up you had your fun being OP but they have to find a balance with the classes and being 2 shot as a p8 fully geared cleric has been no fun so thank you for patch 1.7. Im sure future patches will improve balance between classes but don't bag the change because your more in line with other classes but if your class is that far below other classes like clerics have been then put it up in your class post.

[Primalthirst]

Whats the big deal? If its really that bad, it will be hotfixed on friday or early next week. I am very thankful that they released it today.

Or they could have used the Test Server to you know, test the changes before they brought it to live. Then they wouldn't need to hotfix it because the problems would already have been identified.

A lot of Rift's popularity comes from its frequent, quality updates.
If they start becoming frequent, bugged updates then a lot of people won't be such big fans anymore.

Taking an extra week to test these changes would have identified most of the issues and Trion would have another great patch on their hands.
Instead they have a real split in the playerbase, you ask any warrior how they feel about the dps changes not being tested.

[Hunt55511]

Or they could have used the Test Server to you know, test the changes before they brought it to live. Then they wouldn't need to hotfix it because the problems would already have been identified.

A lot of Rift's popularity comes from its frequent, quality updates.
If they start becoming frequent, bugged updates then a lot of people won't be such big fans anymore.

Taking an extra week to test these changes would have identified most of the issues and Trion would have another great patch on their hands.
Instead they have a real split in the playerbase, you ask any warrior how they feel about the dps changes not being tested.

Testing changes on the Public Test Shard? What a novel idea.....

[Sebb]

Carnival seems like a good name so far.

[Hunt55511]

Carnival seems like a good name so far.

Clowns running around everywhere, neh?

[Eaderbreca]

Thank you!!