Rift News: Prime and the 4/18 Patch

April 17, 2018

It’s been a while, so let’s get back up and running with some Rift Prime news!

Coming to Prime in the April 18, 2018 patch, will be the Drowned Halls and Gilded Prophecy 10-man raids. Between some Discord conversations, forum posts, and the live stream, we now know plenty about how Prime raid lockouts and gearing will work. Let’s summarize.

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Prime Raiding – Gearing & Release schedule

According to Tacitus, Rift Prime’s raids will utilize Individual Reward Charges (IRCs) to roll on gear in raids. In addition to this, the LFR tool can be used to queue up for and join a raid for your raid party. Because of this, there will not be a raid lockout! Also, mage tank loot is being added! rejoice!

To summarize:

You will be able to queue for raids using LFR
LFR raids in Prime will NOT be a different difficulty!
There will not be any raid lockouts!
Each player may roll for loot 2 times per week per raid boss before they need to use IRCs for that boss
Rolling on boss loot costs 1 IRC
Some raid trash drops will be Bind on Equip (and sellable on the Auction House)
Mage Tank loot is being added to loot tables
Mage Tank loot is being added to the Raid vendor
Raid vendor will hold the same gear as the original level 50 T1 raid vendor
Raid vendor comes on April 25th alongside the Greenscale’s Blight raid
Drowned Halls and Gilded Prophecy will open up on April 18th