The devs of RIFT have been playing the Prime progression server right along with you and they’ve noticed a few things that need adjustment. In a RIFT Prime dev update posted to the game’s forums, players are getting a look at changes due to improve ability lag, ability balance and high-level PvP.
On the subject of ability lag, the devs mentioned that Prime’s zone events are breaking records previously held by the game’s beta and launch, which in turn is taxing their server’s CPU despite getting an all-new one. In order to correct this, the devs will be devoting more server cores to handle player ability processing, which will not only benefit Prime players but Live as well.
The devs are also working on a number of ability adjustments to skills such as Elemental Barrage and Wrathful Exuberance. The changes should be complete by this week and abilities that were disabled should return shortly after, though players should also note that these planned changes are Prime-specific.
Finally, high-end PvP is seeing an awful lot of healing. The devs do want to do something about it, but will not be able to this week as any short-term changes would have more negative effect than positive. So, players will need to wait for more news while the team ponders what to do next on that front.
Our Thoughts
Good to know the devs are playing in addition to paying attention to feedback. Here’s hoping that the upcoming adjustments to Prime (and to Live by proxy) end up being beneficial for fans of the MMORPG.
Source: official forums
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