Are you all excited about RIFT's Patch 1.8: Infernal Dawn? Tomorrow Trion Worlds has announced that they will be hosting their first ever live stream event to explore Infernal Dawn, their new 20-person raid coming this week. Throughout the live stream, the team will be exploring the halls of Infernal Dawn, although they stress that they won't be spoiling any fights. They will, however, be highlighting the lore of the dungeon, as well as answering questions where applicable. At least you'll get to see each boss up close!

You can catch the live stream Tuesday, 4/17 @ 11:30am PDT on RIFT's Official Facebook page. See you there!

Episode 14 is here and Chris is back! Joined with Josh and Trevor, they go over the last Farm Status show before 1.8 hits! They cover a couple small news items, including the changes to Queued Quest Reward Changing, what Survival will do, and the new 1.8 changes to Block Hard/Soft Cap.

Discussion revolves around the future of Raiding from a ZAM Rift round table about individual responsibility in raids and the gating of content in Infernal Dawn.

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Here's the patch notes for this morning's downtime.

RIFT 1.7 Hotfix #17 - 8:00am PDT 4/13/12 [NA] - 1:00am GMT 15/4/12 [EU]

WORLD EVENT

• Earth-based Zone Events should once again be granting the correct loot when completed.
• Phase 6 event goal lowered to 60 due to the events being temporarily unavailable.
• Infernal Awakening properly counts toward the Phase 6 event goal.

GENERAL

• Several Costume items that were previously level-less are now level 1 items and cannot have Runes applied to them.

A group of Rift reviewers from all sorts of MMO sites gathered together on Wednesday to discuss the game’s newest update, Infernal Dawn. Hal Hanlin and Adam Gershowitz started the show, and Scott Hartsman showed up to answer all our questions about patch 1.8, which comes with big changes: a new raid, new auxiliary skills, Leaderboards, the Guild Finder, and more!

Phase 6 of the Carnival of the Ascended is slated to begin on Thursday, April 12. During this phase the denizens of the Earth and Fire planes launch their assault upon Telara, causing both Guardians and Defiants to put aside their differences for the greater good. A new zone event pits the Ascended against the invaders of the Wanton Maw.

Earn your final Pyrite Doubloon during this phase by confronting the Fire and Earth lords in Freemarch or Silverwood. Contribute to the phase goal by defeating Earth and Fire zone events to unlock the Phase 6 title of the Planar Defender. A new Ascended Goods merchant and currency will be introduced, both of which will also be present in the next world event.

This is the final phase that the majority of the carnival event merchants, including the Moneychanger, will be available. Spend your remaining Glass Beads and Prize Tickets before this phase comes to a close. Title collectors should keep a few extra Glass Beads on hand -- the only carnival merchant that will remain after the conclusion of Phase 6 is the Event Title vendor.

Rift will be changing the way queued quest rewards behave with patch 1.8 (anticipated on Live servers next week) and strongly recommend players claim any they have queued up. 

You can read the entire post after the jump or see it on the official forums.

Josh, Chris and Trevor discuss all things Rift! Episode 13 is here, complete with special guest host: Intrinsc from !

The trio cover some of the Infernal Dawn Concept Art, Expert Dungeons dropping two Greater Marks of Ascension or one Infernal Mark of Ascension, and the Cleric Healing changes in PvP. Discussion revolves around the new ID itemization for all four classes. Then there's fan mail!

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We've got a cool new feature that fans of in-game discoveries fans will love: a Rift database of undiscovered stuff. Pulled from Trion's data, you can search by shard for undiscovered achievements, collections, items, NPCs, quests and recipes. Then use information from our extensive wikibase to go get 'em!

The Undiscovered database will be updated along with our Player, Guild and Shard Leaderboards whenever Trion releases new data.

Find the Undiscovered database on our Rift Tools menu, or click here: The Undiscovered at ZAM Rift!

Patch 1.8: Infernal Dawn is expected to hit servers later this month and will feature two new tradeskills, Fishing and Survival, a Guild Finder tool, a new world event and more. Take a look as the Ascended face off against Maelforge and Laethys in Trion's latest trailer!

RIFT 1.7 Hotfix #15 - 8:00am PDT 4/4/12 [NA] - 2:00am GMT 5/4/12 [EU]

GENERAL

• Ember Isle: PvP Dailies: Marakris Implements and Daggers of the Marakris: Reduced the objective count and made the drop rate 100% for these quests.
• Ember Isle: The Ember Watch area now grants rested bonus to experience.
• You can now successfully invite players to private chat channels.

WORLD EVENT

• Phase 5 of the Carnival of the Ascended has been extended to run for an additional week.
• Players should now receive proper rewards for assisting the flag carrier and otherwise participating in the 'Skirmish' zone events during Phase 5.
• Guardian and Defiant NPCs spawned during Skirmish zone events now drop War Trophies.
• Decisive Action: Now has a turn-in point when the boss is active.
• Attack the Outpost: Fixed this spawning too many hostile targets at once.