The Rift Podcast

Today, in our final episode, we have Scott Hartsman and Cindy Abigale Bowens join us to talk a bit about the game from back when no one knew about it, through to today. We also reminisce about the podcast origins and touch on some pertinent subjects for the game

* The path of Rift and the Podcast

* Guild Banks

* Server Transfers coming soon

* Dungeon Finder tweaking

* Not necessarily the end, just a goodbye

* Haha Rapture

Thank you, to everyone

This week James 'Elrar' Nichols, Amanda 'Amary' Fry, Erick 'Zann' Adams and Cindy 'Abigale' Bowens join Arithion and Desikis to talk about their many different playstyles and the adaptability of the soul system as well as the process of creating the podcast.

• Podcast preparation

• Casual to hardcore playstyles

• Soul system adaptability

• Appropriate preparedness of roles for group content

• Fun versus versatility

Will Cook, Rift and Events lead and Cindy 'Abigale' Bowens join Arithion & Desikis in today's episode to talk about the following and more:

• Learning from World Event 1

• The Future of World Events

• Dynamic Content Expanded

• 1.2 and Rifts

• Authenticators

Make sure to check out the potential changes up and coming in Patch 1.2!

Elrar and Abigale join Shyntyrr and Arithion to talk about the prospects of patch 1.2, and the unfolding of the world event.

• Patch 1.2 potential changes

• Guild Bank Soon™

• River of Trash Souls

• World Event

• CSR & Authenticators

• Funny Phishing Emails

With the prospective changes to several souls, the outlook for 1.2 is currently positive. Stay tuned for a lot more information about this looming patch. Hope everyone is enjoying RoS.

Adam ‘Gersh’ Gershowitz joins the podcast team today in order to clarify and answer some things which arose with Patch 1.1

• Class Balance and Changes

• Raid Healing Alterations

• Corrupted Soul scarcity

• New Rift contribution system

• World Event

• Profession Plaques

• Dungeons Plaques

• The Missing Dye Vendor

Joined by Cindy 'Abigale' Bowens, James 'Elrar' Nichols and Cody 'Micajah' Bye from ZAM, the podcast talks about a few of the concerns and topics brought up by Patch 1.1

• Class Changes

• Dailies and Plaques

• World Event

• Scarring Telara

• Customer Service Improvements

Next week Adam Gershowitz will be on the Podcast. Don’t forget to send in any questions regarding Patch 1.1 you might have for him.

As Patch 1.1 approahces, we sit down with Adam Hetenyi from the Rift Dungeons and Raids team to talk about the release of their new Raid instance: River of Souls, and get some questions answered about it and the current state of endgame dungeons and raids.

* River of Souls detailed

* Raid rewards and gearing guidelines

* Dungeon rewards post 1.1

* Content patch abilities and intentions

* Players and loopholes

The first live content update looks promising.

Cindy 'Abigale' Bowens and James 'Elrar' Nichols join the podcast team this week to discuss things post launch, including:

• Hacked and compromised accounts

• Account Security

• Ingame Spam

• Fansites

• Potential server transfers

• and more!

We hope you enjoy the podcast

Esloan from HorRiftic Intentions and BC from RIFTIrc join Ari and Desi today to discuss some of the hot topics surrounding the launch game - including:

• Hacked Accounts

• Customer Service

• AFK in Warfronts

• EndGame concerns

• & some ingame stories!

We hope you enjoy a laid back version of the podcast this week.

Today Ari and Desi are joined by - Cindy 'Abigale' Bowens, Karen Bryan of Massively, and Esloan from HorRiftic intentions to discuss and comment on the headstart, launch and ingame experiences.

• Server Queues on Headstart

• Hacking and Spamming

• Expectations versus Reality

• Likes and Dislikes

• Community Expansion

Keep having fun in game, and make sure you feedback anything buggy to Trion!