Most games will roll out content less than perfect, shall we even say... broken content? I'm glad to see Rift Game taking a better approach to content release than previous game publishers.
Take for instance the puzzles in each zone. Not all of what you do is fighting off the hoards of undead minions of Alsbeth. In several zones are puzzles that take a brain (or a puzzle solver) to complete, and net a very nice item as reward. These rewards are based on a minimum level. We at LordRcane did research this past week to verify information from beta users about the maximum level of Rift puzzles. During beta several of these Rift puzzles didn't work correctly, so it's good to see they all work, and give very nice rewards!
So if you need something to do during this next week, other than continuing to fight off the invasions, take a look at the Rift Puzzles and their nice equipment. Perhaps you'll be better prepared for the River of Death that is on the horizon.
Phase 2 of World Event Rescheduled for April 16
UPDATE: Phase 2 will be held on Saturday, April 16 at noon server time. Phase 1 has been extended for a week. During that time, death rifts and invasions will drop more Otherworldly Sourcestone and new rewards will be added to the world event merchant.
Phase 2 of the River of Souls world event was originally scheduled to begin on the North American servers today, April 9, at noon PDT, but Trion Worlds just announced that it's been delayed. Here are the details from Assistant Community Manager James "Elrar" Nichols:
"With the opening of the final phases of the River of Souls World Event in Europe we have identified several issues that only came to light in a live server environment. Due to this we have had to temporarily disable the World Event in Europe and are delaying the opening of the event on North American shards until a full investigation and corrections can be made."
Trion currently does not have an updated launch time for Phase 2. Until it goes live, players in both North America and Europe can continue to participate in Phase 1 and earn Otherworldly Sourcestones.
In addition, the world event quest "With Death Denied" has been disabled "due to a potential exploit that would trivialize the Phase 2 events." If you have it in your log, you'll need to abandon it.