RIFT official live stream 2 - We Want Your Questions!

[Ferrel]

Hello everyone!

I am here to announce that the community team is gearing up for another exciting RIFT live stream. This is your opportunity to have a glimpse into an area of RIFT that perhaps you haven’t yet seen. You also will have the chance to have James “Elrar” Nichols and Elizabeth “Dahanese” Tobey answer some of your questions.

The second live stream event will take place on Wednesday, July 18th at 5:30 PST/8:30 EST! This particular thread is to give you an opportunity to submit some questions to me so that the Trion team can be ready to answer them.

On this episode Trion will be demoing:

A Recap of 1.9 – Elrar and Dahanese will talk about Summerfest and some of the fun activities there.

• Beat the Heat, summer is here and people all across Telara are taking a break
• The barber/surgeon has seen a lot of customers, perhaps Elrar will be one again

Primeval Feast – Trion takes a dive in this exciting 10 player sliver

• Meet Atrophinius and hear his tale
• Come along on a trip through some of the masterfully scripted encounters within the sliver

There will also be some interesting discussion about what you can look forward to in Storm Legion, RIFT’s first expansion!

All you have to do is show up and tell us what you’d like to know. The questions you submit here, during the show, and via twitter just might be the ones that are answered.

Submit questions in this thread or via Twitter @RIFTgame #RIFTLS (please use the hashtag or we might miss your question).

[Riane]

Looking forward to this!

[Buffee]

1. In the SL expansion there is a new main city for both factions, guardian and defiants; will meridian and sanctum still be necessary?

2. Are there any plans for adding a new class, or a new race, or even just an option to swich to a different race in our existing faction, IE bahmi male turned into a kaleri female?

3. Could we have a hint about any of the four new souls?

4. With 3 raids announced, will there be a lot of variation in gear, for example, non linear progression?

5. Will there be new costume pieces, and maybe costume weapon slot?

6. With the level cap raise, does that mean there will be more soul points to spend?

7. In the expansion will there be new kinda of rifts that dont exist now?

8. What other ways will there be to customize our characters in the future?

9. Will there be tameable pets from the wild that we can train in battle and raise in addition to our pets from souls?

What are your favorite things to do in rift now, in and out of combat. Also what exciting things do you forsee yourself spending alot of time on in the expansion and onward?


Thank you in advance for answering any of my questions, as always have fun and rift on!

[Sedesta]

1. Can we expect this Phase Two of the Scavenger hunt to be dummied for those players who don't have 40 hours in a week to contribute to getting one character through this scavenger hunt second phase? (i.e Shimmersand, Moonshade and Scarelt Gorge take too much time)

2. Will you ever reconsider the guild vault prices? Or give us item specific vaults for lower cost like a food & fish vault?

3. Will you ever consider adding more guild weekly quests to the round up? Like Fishing quest or a colllective guild crafting quests?

4. Will you ever add the ability to dye our weapons?

[Zengar Zombolt]

1. After Patch 1.10, will the game be finished as far as major patches go until Storm Legion arrives?

2. Any hints at what 1.10 will be bringing us?

3. Are there any plans to further expand on the Conquest system? Ie: New maps or new/different objectives being added in?

4. Is there any chance we might see one of the new souls being fist-oriented?

5. Can we get sounds for the Armored Tiger mount please?

6. How is Planar Attunement going to work with Storm Legion and the new level cap?

7. How far away is the Storm Legion beta?

8. To hopefully shed a bit of light on recent concerns: Is the Armored Tiger mount a sign that Trion will be moving toward "double-dipping" by adding in a regularly-updated cash shop? Also why does the mount alone cost $15.00 when the Ashes of History and Collector's Edition content (which includes more than just a mount) only cost $10.00 apiece?

9. Is the Storm Legion expansion bringing anything new for PvPers? Ie: Another Conquest map, new Warfronts, or something completely new that's different from what we have right now?

10. To go with #9, how will PvP prestige ranks be handled at 60?

11. Will there be any changes to professions in Storm Legion other than higher levels/better craftables? Will we maybe be seeing a new profession?

12. Any plans on making the current endgame raids somewhat relevant for level 60 gameplay (ie: introducing "Expert" modes or something like that) so post-Storm Legion players might still have incentive to check them out?

13. Will we be seeing any sort of "Looking for Raid" feature in the near future?

14. Will Storm Legion still have a large variety at endgame like Rift currently does at level 50 (in the forms of Chronicles, Instant Adventures, Slivers, Experts, Raids, and so forth) at the beginning or will that all be added in over time through new patches?

15. Any chances we'll be seeing another huge advertising campaign for Rift once Storm Legion arrives?

[Alyvian]

what will happen to raidgear in SL.

[NearioNL]

1. Will you raise the Guildlevel cap. Or at least make quest specially for lv20 guilds, with enough rewards.
2. How obsolute will ID-gear become in SL. Will this gear be replaced by simple questing, or will most be replaced at lv60 raids.
3. What are your plans with conquest? More maps? And how will you handle the current system for EU, where only a very few can play and the rest will be in a queu?
4. Will ID/PF (and maybe even HK) made interesting for raidguilds after SL? With an extra difficutly aimed at lv60 players?
5. Do you guys think about adding some more RP stuff in the game? Simple things like: to be able to sit on a chair/bench, give the /pet emote to pet my pet, get drunk, stuff like that
6. Will you implement a LFR feature, and if so will you add a difficulty for this or will you nerf the current raids for it.
7. When will PAt3 be released? Before or after SL

For the rest: rock on Trion!

[Selescion]

Will there be a service to switch faction (make my Guardian a Defiant for example)?

[Intim]

I only have one question.

When and how would a looking for raid tool be added? I remember a mention to it being looked into but hope you could shed some light into your thinking.towards such an idea.

Cheers for the outreach

[Senoko]

1. Any plans to update Female High Elf melee animations, they seem awkward, incomplete, and buggy such as when using finishers and strafing it causes the character to glide? Doesn't seem to flow well.

2. Will we ever see race change micro transactions?

[Milyssa]

I would like to ask if the new SL areas are for 50-60 only or if we lower level characters will have a reason, and a means of transport there.

IE:Is it just 50-60 questing areas and you have to travel long and far in dangerous wildlife to get to the main city, or can you step out of a porticulum into the main city.

I assume that if they porticulum is in the main city it wont be locked to players over 50 as the current Ember Isles port is.


Also - Along with this, I'm curious about player/guild housing and its accessability. Can we lower level characters reach these areas or is it player over 50 housing (or with an escort)

[Alex113]

I only have one question.

When and how would a looking for raid tool be added? I remember a mention to it being looked into but hope you could shed some light into your thinking.towards such an idea.

Cheers for the outreach

Surely you must mean "Looking For Free Lewtz" tool? LFFL.

[Questoften]

Will 50 gear be almost imedantly obsolete, or will it still be useful for leveling, how big will the sat jump on gear in storm legion be?

[Talila]

1. Are we ever going to see walking animations for mounts?
2. Do you have any plans to remove the restrictions for armor in the wardrobe - so that rogues for example could equip plate armor in the wardrobe slot - seeing as many of the costume pieces already allow a mage to look like a warrior and the restrictions otherwise doesn't seem to make any sense?
3. Alternatively, would you consider adding more of the regular armor models (from greens and blues) as white, stat-less costume pieces? (Similar to what you did with the starter armor for each class)
4. Could we get an achievement for collecting 400 artifact sets seeing as it is now very possible to achieve?
5. The dailies for Summerfest have been very focused on fishing & survival, which is awesome to some extend - but now that we're so far into the event, I'm starting to get really bored of doing the same fishing and cooking every day. For future world events and when Summerfest returns, would you consider making some more diverse dailies and perhaps allow them to rotate from day to day as we've seen in some of the other events?
6. How exactly are you planning to recycle the items from previous world events which you have pulled out? Are we going to see recycled items for the future world events as we have with Summerfest?

[thundara]

inb4 Alistair's Troll questions.