In a surprise post Cyzo, one of the Lead Raid designers, announced plans to open up testing for a new Tier 3 Raid starting next Wednesday, January 29th.
Why is this such a surprise? well currently only two Guilds have even killed the current end-boss in Planebreaker Bastion, Planebreaker Abominus so we all assumed that PPB would be "current" until Expansion 3.0
Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/game-disc...d-testing.htmlCome one, come all and step right up to be one of the first guilds to test tier 3 raid content! With entry to the Planes looming ever closer, some Ascended are reflecting back upon the history of Telara and the binding of the dragons. Revisit the past and join the original heroes of Telara to shackle the Blood Storm at the height of their power.
Starting next Wednesday, 1/29, we will begin to test the first of these encounters: the Binding of Greenscale and the Binding of Akylios. The usual caveats apply: VFX have not had an art pass, tuning will be WAY off, and many mechanics can and will change throughout the process. We're going to leave the zone entrances open on PTS for now but guided tests generally give us the best feedback and are always fun for everyone involved. Contact me via PMs or post here with contact info and I will arrange a playtest. The fights are T3 and will be tuned accordingly so guilds with T2 experience are preferred. I also spoke with Daglar who gave us the go ahead to grant loyalty, credits, and titles to those who help us test the most.
Don't forget that what we killed already was only the 'Avatars' of Greenscale and Akylios, this will be us fighting them at the height of their powers, no one is sure what we'll get, Hammerknell part 2? just one room where we only fight Greenie and Akylios? let the speculation begin
Although we did get a screenie posted