Trion Worlds Previews Infernal Dawn Raid On Facebook Livestream

Written by: Jason Winter (@winterinformal) | April 17, 2012 3:46 pm

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Trion Worlds had one last treat for Rift fans prior to the launch of Update 1.8.

The company hosted a livestream on Facebook this afternoon, showing off the Infernal Dawn raid that will be rolled out with the update that goes live tomorrow in North America — Thursday morning in Europe.

Maelforge, the dragon god of fire, has a plan to convert all of Telara’s oceans to lava. So, naturally, he’s constructed a ship to sail on the fiery seas: the Dread Fortune. Captain Rusila Dreadblade is just one of the raid’s many bosses, which includes the dragons Laethys and Maelforge themselves.

The small snippets we saw of both dragon fights looked amazing.

Trion confirmed that most mobs — boss and regular — in the raid will drop crafting materials that can be used to create some excellent new gear.

The raid will be opened up in phases, with wings being available about a week apart, followed by parts one and two of the Maelforge fight. Yes, he’s such a badass, you have to take him down twice and you’ll need over 400 hit/focus for a full clear, though some early parts might have slightly gentler gearing requirements.

Then there was the boss Ituziel, the Herald of Flame, who was described as having “a well-sculpted posterior.”

You think he drops leggings?

Trion Worlds Previews Infernal Dawn Raid On Facebook Livestream

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http://twitter.com/Luke_Malcolm Luke Malcolm

Meh doesn’t look interesting at all to me, even though Dragon Soul was shitty, still think it was much better story wise. but the Hype will be like any patch update in any MMO its great the first couple days or week than just becomes boring and the unsubbing continues.
- http://twitter.com/Aoewin Maxime Beaulieu
  
  At least they do not use old boss/environnement models like Blizzard… Trion is doing amazing job, keep up the good work!
  - http://twitter.com/Luke_Malcolm Luke Malcolm
    
    Nothing is wrong with that actually, If you use for them for the right reason or content it saves time and allows you to work on more things & improve it. Even though you are right in some ways you are also wrong.
    - Chris Ramby
      
      Rift subs are increasing actually (Per game informer Apr ’12).
      - http://twitter.com/Luke_Malcolm Luke Malcolm
        
        link plz & ty
Polarzbek

Can’t wait to see ID! Thanks for the update, hope to see more Rift news on GBTV soon!!
- http://twitter.com/Luke_Malcolm Luke Malcolm
  
  They did have Rift news for awhile actually, but stopped back in May 2011 as there was very little interest for it. So they bumped all of its news to TWIMMO.
http://twitter.com/pandamanana Tom 紳

I stopped playing Rift because of the sub fee, but I’m still SUPER hype.
- http://twitter.com/Luke_Malcolm Luke Malcolm
  
  If Rift went to a B2P or F2P model, I think it would be alot more successful honestly.
  - http://twitter.com/Avaloner81 Jason Cobley
    
    But I doubt they would release content as fast.
  - kyle robinson
    
    This guy is a troll…ok we get it you personally don’t like Rift but most hard core MMO’ers consider Rift the best MMO to come out since vanilla wow. Rift blows swtor out the atmosphere. Gw2 going to fall in comparison to rift also. The game is amazing and is only getting better….sorry bro go troll else where. And to the writers there is no reason that you guys can’t do sanctum at least once a month desn’t have to be a weekly episode but we would really appreciate a monthly installment.
kyle robinson

People QQ about paying $12 a month really shouldn’t be worrying about playing video games…like really $12…again…$12 dollars. Funny thing in the long run you’ll pay way more if it was to go f2p because it then turns into a cash shop game p2w.