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Hey All,
It’s been a while since we’ve updated RW, but I wanted to throw out a link for everyone. I’ve started a new podcast! It’s the official podcast for our parent site, Vagary.TV.
I would love it if RW fans would check it out and give us some constructive feedback. We want to make the show all that it can be, and can only do that if the listeners tell us what they like, dislike, and want to hear in the future. Thanks for taking the time, and I hope you enjoy it!
You can find it here: http://vagary.tv/archives/14229
I’ll try to get it on iTunes soon as well!
 

Featuring: Chris, Jeremy, Adam, Gavin,  Ryan Kenward, and Arithion.
Also thanks to Katabri and Shyntyrr for keeping the chatroom rocking!
Hi Everyone,
As we mentioned in our last post, this is the final episode of the Rift Watchers podcast. We had the whole crew on during this recording, with Gavin joining us midway through, and a special appearance by Arithion of the RIFT Podcast towards the end. Special guest this time is Ryan Kenward, the head of the Vagary TV network, good friend of the show, and recent RIFT convert. We spend the hour talking about the history of the show and our time with RIFT, as well as our favorite parts of the game and what we think makes it so special. There’s no news here, just fans and friends talking about a game they all still love and what it’s done for them. It is, without a doubt, one of the …

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Guests: Cindy “Abigale” Bowens, Erick “Zann” Adams, James “Elrar” Nichols, and Amanda “Amary” Fry 
Update: Blah! We owe a BIG apology to Mark Litchfield who submitted the great cleric segment at the end of the show. Two names with ‘M’ and one over-tired editor make for silly mistakes. Sorry Mark!
Welcome to another episode of Rift Watchers! This episode really stands out to us as one of the most special we’ve done. The excellent community team over at Trion Worlds sat down with us with a simple theme in mind: A Day in the Life of a Patch. Simple in concept but wonderfully deep to explore. If you like to get behind the scenes, this is the episode for you. We track a patch from inception, to delivery, to maintenance, and everything in between. Ever wonder how Trion decides what feedback to take? They tell you, right here.
We were joined again by …

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Here at Rift Watchers, we strive to make a quality show and bring you discussions on the latest happenings around Telara. This week we bring you an exclusive interview with Cameron McNeil, Senior System’s Lead for Rift.  We chat with Cameron about how 1.3 is being received, some of the stuff we can look forward to, server transfers and more.   That isn’t all though!  We still have the commentary that you have come to love right after the interview.  Chris leads us into a discussion of Cameron’s answers, while Jeremy and the chat room make fun of Gavin for not realizing Rift had days and nights.
Rift Watchers is also looking at possibly doing more shows like this in the future.  We have no intentions of becoming a full time interview show (we enjoy talking too much) but we would like to bring you more content from the people at …

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Once again, Rift Watchers is back to help you drown out the boredom and slack off at work.  Joined by rogues Krystal, Matt, Jeff, and Agathorn, Gavin hosts the rogue round table.
Topics we Discuss

Souls
Leveling
Builds
Playstyles
Gearing
PvP
PvE
and more.

 
A few of the many builds they shared with me:
Agathorn: This build is always being tweaked, but I find it works real well.  The points can be slightly shifted depending on your gear and whether you need more DPS or Defense, butwith this build I can take down level 50 elites for dailies, I can take on entire packs of mobs with ease, including standard (non elite) invasion groups and the roaming patrols in Stillmoor with the Elite captains.  I can solo minor rifts through bonus stages 90% of the time.  It isn’t a min/maxers dream, but its a lot of fun to play.

http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=0MpVN.VcbIhq0o.E0dAosRMGdz

Jeff: Lately I have been doing a lot of spec’ing, respec’ing, and …

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Afternoon all! Another week’s gone by and that means another Rift Watchers! This week we were honored to be joined by Casey Tigue from the Player Versus Rift podcast. We had a great time breaking down everything we know about 1.3 and found ourselves laughing even more often than usual! No official notes this go-round but discussion includes:

Massively’s hands-on with Patch 1.3
The massive PvP changes coming next month (valor updates)
The Hammerknell E3 walkthrough (spoilers!)

These forums topics:

Interview: Trion’s Debut Rift Closes In On 1M Sell-Through
Dear Pro-Addon Crowd
Gearscore is Already Up at RiftUI!

Don’t forget to stop in and say hi to Casey! We thank the crew over at PvR for sharing him with us Saturday night.
CONTEST: Don’t forget, we’re giving away two great Enjin plans to kick off our new partnership! All you have to do to win is one of the following: 1) Leave us an iTunes review; 2) submit …

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Hi Everybody! Welcome back to another week of Rift Watchers. We have a very special episode for you this week: Our first class roundtable! Jeremy and I were joined by four expert clerics and had a great discussion of all things pious. Guests include: Adam Trzonkowski, Mark Litchfield, Michael Bartok, and Sonny Woods. They were excellent guests — informed, charismatic, and a lot of fun to talk to, so show them some love.
We broke this show into five basic parts: PvE (Leveling, Endgame), PvP, and Listener Emails. Our main goal with these is to inform and entertain. I think we did that here. Let us know what you think in the comments section!
During the show, we talk a lot about builds. Here are some of the most noteworthy:
Adam:
Group: http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=00Gjx.E00E0Ldqz.E0Ebbczco Purifier (34) / Sentinel (32) / Templar (0)
Raiding: http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=00jGx.E0x.EgkEItdqz Purifier (51) / Sentinel (15) / Templar (0)
Mike:
Leveling: http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=10rnj.VuRsmee0oo.Ved00M.V0x Justicar (38) / …

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Hey Gang,
It’s been an awesome week in the world of RIFT and we break it down in this week’s Rift Watchers. In case you were on vacation, RIFT got patch 1.2 and all of the tweaks and changes that accompany such a large patch. I’ve been loving playing my cleric with the updated combat pacing. Adam (playing the role of Jeremy until, well, Jeremy plays Jeremy) and Gavin have a lot to love, but also raise some questions about the LFG tool and how it’s changed experts and plaque rewards. While the entire chat room disagreed with them, I have to say, Adam makes a pretty strong case for why many players will receive fewer plaques now. What do you think?
As always, we fill this show with lots of laughs and lots of ribbing. We also have a special audio segment at the start of the show. Some of our… …

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Welcome back to another episode of Rift Watchers! As you know, this is where RIFT players come to talk, and this week we’re joined by Sarc of Lagwar.com and the WASD podcast. You may also remember him from several of the great emails he sent in to the show. This week was a real treat. The conversation was great, the laughs were flowing, and I can honestly say it’s one of the best we’ve done. I hope you all like it. On the topic docket are:

Patch 1.2 and the Spoils of War prequel
The masses of additions to the 1.2 patch notes
Doth thou believe in ArRrRPeEeE? (Or RP name enforcement INC!)

Like every week, we also go over some great community posts in Forum Watch and highlight what the fansites are up to in the Community Spotlight.
Remember: We’re looking for your builds to highlight in our Build of the Week segment! Send …

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We are back with another episode full of audible pleasure for all you Rift fans! This week we go over a few of the responses to the event and quickly dive into the rough 1.2 alpha server features. Things like a new LFG Tool, appearance slots, and some improvements/additions to the zone and world invasion systems.  This is a great show and marks our first officially weekly episode.  As always don’t forget you can tune in to participate with us as we record via Our Livestream Saturday nights at 8:30PST/11:30EST.  It is a great time and allows for you to see what happens behind the scenes here on Riftwatchers.com!  Full show notes just past the break.
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Introduction -

Welcome to Rift Watchers Weekly!

 
News -

Massively’s Hartsman Interview/Patch 1.2 Patch Notes

Launch/Success

He said that back before launch the team whipped up projections of how the post-first month landscape would …

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