Shards have just come down for the update ETA: 4 hours!
Happy rifting to you all <3
"Greeting Ascended!
The time has come at last. RIFT 2.3: Empyreal Assault is upon us.
ALL RIFT SHARDS - that means Europe & North America - will be brought offline at 8:00AM Pacific/3:00PM GMT. We estimate it could take up to ***4 HOURS*** to apply the update.
At that time all rift services may be unavailable intermittently. During the downtime you may be unable to login to the Trion Account Center web page, the forums, or any other RIFT services.
We will update this thread & let you know once the update is complete and RIFT is back online!
There's a lot to look forward to in RIFT 2.3: Empyreal Assault - it might just be our biggest update yet!
Patch notes will be updated, but you can find the highlights of this MASSIVE update @ community.riftgame.com
See you in the morning"
"And we're off!
ALL Shards are now Offline in EU & NA as we begin the release of Update 2.3 - once again this could take up to 4 hours with intermittent outages for ALL RIFT services.
See you soon"
http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...ml#post4288743