Trion’s most recent Twitch.tv stream featured the familiar faces of Elrar and the RIFT developer team giving players a sneak peak at the Dendrome, but that wasn’t all the new content eagle-eyed viewers spotted. In the background of most of the video was a whiteboard covered with ideas, and since the Twitch stream aired players have been eagerly guessing what it could all mean.

There’s certainly good reason to assume that the whiteboard could be a legitimate vision of the future. Previously in March 2012 the “RIFT Anniversary” official video featured a quick shot of a whiteboard noting Fishing and a Mentoring System, both of which appeared later in patches 1.8 and 1.9 respectively. So what can this “behind the scenes” glimpse tell us about future content?

In a recent news post, Trion announced that the team will be holding a special live stream event on Friday, April 26th that will focus on the Architects, “an ancient race whose technology has the power to traverse the very fabric of space and time.” The live stream will also delve into the story surrounding the Architects and how that story will evolve when Dendrome is released in RIFT 2.3. The live stream event will take place at 1:30 PM PST on Trion’s Twitch channel.

For more information, see the official announcement.

Elrar announced yesterday that we’ll be seeing the arrival of the new Moonshade Pools dimension next week. This dimension will be one of the largest personal dimensions in-game and will sport a 1000-item limit. It also, of course, features one of the most gorgeous areas of Moonshade Highlands. Elrar also announced that the team will handing out some dimension goodies (two ferns to be exact) for players who are signed up to receive the RIFT newsletter. The team will also be holding a couple of special live stream events for the grand opening of Moonshade Pools:

Originally posted by Elrar (Source)

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TWO LIVE STREAMS – www.twitch.tv/trionworlds

Dimensional Thunderdome – Friday, 4/12 @ 1:30PM Pacific: 3 Teams Enter, 1 Team Leaves. Show off your dimensioneering skills and compete for prizes!

Moonshade Pools Tour – Friday, 4/19 @ 1:30PM Pacific: The two winners of our Joy of Dimensions Contest have been hard at work decorating their own Moonshade Pools. We’ll show you just how awesome it can look!

For an early tour of the empty dimension, check out our Moonshade Pools Dimension Preview.

Hey, RIFT lore enthusiasts, remember this Q&A thread from well before the launch of Storm Legion? It was one of threads that we all kind of celebrated because lore, while present in-game in all of its fantastic nooks and corners, does not always make appearances outside of the game. Developers don’t often discuss lore, and lore questions tend to get glossed over during interviews. Well, the poor Q&A thread certainly got glossed over for more than a few months now, but rest assured– the folks at Trion are actually going to dive into that thread this coming Thursday, March 7th during a live stream event starting at 10:00 AM PST.

This live stream will be hosted by Elrar, of course, and Captaincursor, Trion’s appointed loremaster, will be making an appearance and taking a peek at questions players may have regarding lore and sharing some thoughts. Elrar has also invited players to come up with new questions for the loremaster and post them in this thread.

In Trion’s last live stream that took place Friday, Elrar showed off some of the new items we’ll be able to grab when Carnival of the Ascended 2013 goes fully underway in the coming weeks. He showed off a new mount that will be available who’s named Aurora. Aurora is a recolored version of Nebula from last year and is a galaxy-inspired steed that’s lighter blue in color and features a mane with icy fire effects. She also breaths out a frozen cloud of vapor every now and then.

Aurora, Nebula, and Tindrel (the clanking spider) will all be available this year. From the sounds of it, Pyrite Doubloons, which were what was used to purchase the two mounts last year, will not be making a return this year. That may mean that the mounts may be purchasable with Glass Beads or obtained during a quest similar to the quests involved in choosing one of the mounts from both Fae Yule and Autumn Harvest.

Keep reading to take a peek at a couple screenshots of Aurora that were taken from the live stream as well as a preview of some of the various Carnival of the Ascended-themed masks and other goodies.

Storm Legion’s mega beta weekend is in full swing along with Extra Life 2012 today, but just in case you aren’t able to attend the festivities, Trion held another fun live stream yesterday, this time focusing on Dimensions. Let me just say– player-made Dimensions are going to be hot in RIFT. The amount of creativity that players can put into them is frankly quite astounding, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the game attracts some new players due to the seemingly unlimited potential Dimensions have.

Let’s get right into the action and go over the highlights of yesterday’s live stream and Dimensions in general, shall we?

The team at Trion seems to have fallen in love with hosting live streams. Not that I’m complaining– quite the opposite, in fact. What’s not to like? We get the chance to see a little of what goes on behind the scenes (and see staff members make fools of themselves!), we get to watch some juicy Storm Legion beta action, and we even get a chance to ask the team some questions. Trion has quite the ambitious schedule of live streams planned proceeding the launch of Storm Legion, and yesterday that schedule was kicked off with a stream focusing on the questing and dynamic content of Storm Legion.

The entire stream’s available on Trion’s TwitchTV page for your viewing pleasure, or if you’d like a rundown of the highlights, my random commentary, and any new information that was revealed, keep reading. Oh, and as a warning– the actual stream does contain some spoilers of early Storm Legion storyline quests. During my writeup, I’ll steer far away from spoilers as possible!

Storm Legion’s first closed beta weekend event may be under NDA wraps, but thanks to yesterday’s Rogue reveal live stream, we can now share some new information about the Tactician– the Storm Legion Rogue soul. Ever want to use a flamethrower in RIFT? Now’s your chance. Tacticians come complete with a fully-stocked arsenal of technological gadgets including the flamethrower, mechanical cores, engines, and if paired up with the Saboteur soul– even a Molotov Cocktail or two.

The Tactician’s style of gameplay shares a few things in common with both the Tempest Warrior soul and the Harbinger Mage soul. Trion wanted to throw some new, cool stuff into the soul, along with aspects that synergize well with other souls and help fill any sort of gap in the current souls to choose from. The Tactician is bit of a hybrid soul, combining AoE damage and AoE healing power along with a wide assortment of utilities and support abilities that synergize well with many Rogue souls, including Bard, Saboteur, and Nightblade. Ability wise, the soul carries lots of fire power– flame tech and magical tech specifically.

By now we’ve all heard that Friday, October 5th is the Storm Legion Rogue soul reveal live stream, which happens to be revealing, of course, the Tactician. It will take place at 2:30 PM PST on Trion’s TwitchTV page, and will also be available after the show for viewing. The team at Trion started the official thread yesterday asking for questions from the playerbase that the team will answer during the stream.

Rogue players, get your questions ready! As always, Rift Junkies will be providing highlights and screenshots for the live stream later in the weekend.

Keep reading to see the full announcement.

The Storm Legion Rogue reveal (Tactician!) live stream has been confirmed by Elrar to take place next Friday, October 5th. In that same forum reply, Elrar also gave us another bit of exciting news. Here’s the full reply, which starts off with an answer regarding the date of the Rogue reveal:

Originally posted by Elrar (Source)

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It will indeed be next Friday, October 5th!

Getting all the ducks in a row and we should announce Monday – and if our plans work out you’ll be seeing at least one live stream a week up through launch starting in October as we explore all that Storm Legion has to offer, full steam ahead!

One live stream a week? Yeah, I’d say that’s full steam ahead. Live streams are a great way to show off all the features (and souls!) waiting for us in the expansion, and if this plan succeeds, Trion will undoubtedly create a charged-up cloud of excitement. No, wait. Storm of excitement. There we go. Stormy metaphors to the max.

In other news, Trion also released some more information about the new Hunt Rifts coming to Storm Legion in a short blog post.