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RIFT 3.1 PATCH NOTES

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Welcome to RIFT 3.1: STORM AT SEA!
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RIFT 3.1: Hotfix #3 2/11/15

NA: 2/11/15 7:30 AM PST
EU: 2/12/15 2 AM GMT

GENERAL
* An "I'm Stuck" button has been added to the in-game help menu from the start button tray. You can still use "/stuck".
* Fixed the problem that made the mouse not work at all in experimental Oculus mode.

GUILDS
* Increased the max guild level to 30.
* Added new Sigil versions of each of the guild banners, except Banner of Clairvoyance.
- These Sigil buffs require all 3 ranks of their respective banners in order to unlock for purchase.
- The buffs are upgraded versions of the banners which increase their respective stats by a percentage instead of the current flat amounts.
- They also differ by applying the buff directly to raid members instead of requiring the raid to remain within range of the banners, and do not drop an object on the ground.
- These buffs have the same duration as the banners, will last through death and follow the same stacking rules as the banners.
- They require the new Combat Sigil reagent to cast.
* New perk: Renown: Increases notoriety gains by 3/6/9%. Please verify this works as expected.
* Increased the max rank of Regroup to 3.
* Increased the max rank of Rift Extraction to 4.

SOULS

MAGE

CHLOROMANCER
* Living Shell: Fixed an issue that was preventing this ability from generating Charge. It should now generate 9 Charge when used.

STORMCALLER
* Storm Armor: No longer benefits twice from the Warlock's Improved Mage Armor talent.

ROGUE

MARKSMAN
* Static Shot: Cooldown has been increased to 30s.
* Removed PVP reductions/restrictions on Strafe, Sniper Training, Deadeye Shot, and Empowered Shot.

WARRIOR

REAVER
* Fixed an issue where debuffs Decaying Defenses, Septic Wounds, and Vile Affinity could stack multiple times. This debuffs are now limited to one stack on the player/enemy no matter how many Reavers are casting on it.
* Rancid Cleave: Now respects line of sight.
* Plague Bringer: Fixed tooltip to properly reflect the number of additional enemies that can be effected.
* Decaying Defenses: Fixed an issue where fire resists were not being reduced.
* Dire Corruption and Precision Strikes: Fixed an issue where these were not working together. Both should be working as intended now.
* Stumbling Morass snare should no longer stack with other player cast snares.

ZONES

DRAUMHEIM
* Weekly Quest: Spirit of Adventure: Now requires level 60 to accept.
* Misty Rayne in Flargle Plaza in Draumheim now offers a Daily to complete a random level 65 Chronicle.
* Raid Rift: The Darkest Magic: Decreased the health of the second wave of Rabbits.
* Raid Rift: The Darkest Magic: Increased the cooldown of Lograr’s Lights Out ability to 12 seconds.

DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES

BLOODFIRE STRONGHOLD
* Corrected an issue that was preventing players from zoning in.

MOUNT SHARAX
* Increased the range at which Martrodraum will engage players with his abilities.

TYRANT'S FORGE
* Darth Elevator has been replaced with a teleportation device in Crucia's fight.
* Crucia is no longer immune for 8 seconds after players destroy Storm Capacitors.
* The Tyrant's Bay Tendril will no longer return after Johan has been defeated.
* The cast bar for Johan's ability Overload now correctly displays 15 seconds.
* Fixed a bug where players were able to drop combat during the PUMPKIN encounter.

THE RHEN OF FATE: CHRONICLE
* The protective bubbles that appear during Rage of Storms now despawn two seconds after Rage of Storms end.
* Reduced the damage of the Scoundrel Shootists by 20%.
* More trash mobs now move away.
* Increased the number of Bloat Gumps to eight per cage.
* Chronogos now allow players to skip past boss vignettes.

THE RHEN OF FATE: SLIVER
* The protective bubbles that appear during Rage of Storms now despawn two seconds after Rage of Storms end.

PVP AND WARFRONTS

BLIGHTED ANTECHAMBER
* Added line of sight blockers to the starting platforms. Players will no longer be able to attack from on top of your starting platform.

GHAR STATION EYN
* Corrected an issue in Ghar Station Eyn where enemies could enter your base.

PORT SCION
* Reduced the point value granted for killing the idols in Port Scion to 100 due to player feedback.

WHITEFALL STEPPES
* Attempting to enter any bases while carrying a Stormstone will reset the Stormstone.

CRAFTING
* Earrings can now be crafted by the Artificer profession!
* Basic Amender recipes have had their cost to acquire from the trainer greatly reduced.
* Uncle Stan's Fishing Derbies in Tempest Bay can now be done by players of Fishing skill greater than 375. This is a temporary measure until new Fishing Derbies are released for high level players.

UI AND SETTINGS
* Fixed a case where target player names would not use the guild color, even though they are in your guild.
* Fixed a display issue for recipes in the favorites tab of the crafting window.

ITEMS
* Fixed an issue with the Icezerker! proc that prevented it from gaining duration for additional Nightmare Tide weapons equipped. It now:
- Has a 100% chance to build a stack on critical hit, up from 50%.
- Has a 5 second internal cooldown between triggering stacks.
- Has build-up stacks that last for 15 seconds, up from 10 seconds.
- Has a lockout duration of 15 seconds, down from 20 seconds.
- Has a reduced size of the Icezerker! proc's transformation by 33%.
* The Ancient Glacial Shards proc now more reliably hits up to 5 targets in a line between the caster and their target, when triggered.

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RIFT 3.1: Hotfix #2.5 2/4/15

Note: This fix is already live. If you see a small client update when you next try to launch the game, this is it!

GENERAL
* Potentially fixed a bug that could cause players to crash to desktop.

DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES

TYRANT'S FORGE
* Fixed a bug where P.U.M.P.K.I.N. could respawn after victory.

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RIFT 3.1: Hotfix #2 2/4/15

NA: 2/4/15 7:30 AM PST
EU: 2/5/15 2 AM GMT

== FEATURES ==

NEW RAID: THE TYRANT'S FORGE!
The Tyrant's Forge has accelerated production of all top secret weapons projects. Now players face a race against time to infiltrate and Crucia's new monstrosities before they can be unleashed upon the world. Join together with your friends in this new 20 man raid instance to defeat the Storm Legion super soldier Johan, the deep sea war machine codenamed P.U.M.P.K.I.N, and the murderous masterpiece forged in the image of the Tyrant herself!

GENERAL
* Added text to the looking for group window stating that xp and coin will be rewarded based on dungeon difficulty.
* The Psquid Psychiatry achievement will now trigger if you are in a group.
* Guild Quest: Digging Deeper: This quest will once again give credit for collecting Twisted Artifacts.
* Fixed a bug where guild chat would occasionally vanish for an entire shard.

RIFT STORE AND SERVICES
* Patron's Focus now applies its cooldown reduction to the Rift Consumable abilities from the new Dust, Dusk and Steam PA planes.

SOULS

CLERIC

INQUISITOR
* Unified Theory: Fixed an issue where Unified Theory was awarding stacks of Echoing Concord both when the Unified Theory was applied and when it was consumed.

MAGE

NECROMANCER
* Possession: Temporary Abilities are now on the Global Cooldown. In addition to its other effects, it now reduces the Necromancer's Global Cooldown to 1 second while active.

ROGUE

MARKSMAN
* Free Recoil: Removed VFX.

WARRIOR

LIBERATOR
* Dichotomy of Pain: Now has a 35m range by default.

REAVER
* Fixed an issue where certain abilities had their old tank role aggro multiplier.
* Desecrating Blow: Added "enemies" to the description.
* Dire Corruption: Has been fixed to no longer prevent flag captures or proc effects other than power leech. Should no longer cause Cloak of Death to break.
* Dire Step: Should now function correctly with Shadow Warp.
* Fester: The debuff now says damage instead of Death damage.
* Mind Break: Now properly says the duration is 45s instead of 30s. No longer be purgable from a target, thus allowing Spasm to hit again.
* Renamed the auto attack increase ability for Reaver to Plagued Reach. Description should now state Reaver instead of Tempest.
* Plagued Reach and Electrified Strikes (Tempest) should no longer stack to increase auto attack range to 55m.
* Pestilence: Clarified tooltip to better denote that it is a 1h long term buff.
* Stumbling Morass: Now does not snare those under immunity from movement effects.

WARLORD
* Everything is a Weapon: Tooltip now shows the proper value of 20%.
* Warlord's Focus: Now properly consumed by Piercing Thrust and Wave of Steel.

ZONES AND EVENTS
* The following places have once again been grant Rested status (and allow logout without a 20 second wait): Choreburg crafting area, Ghar Station Rosh hub, Ghar Station Tau hub, Gemini Bluffs hub, and the Octus Monestary hub.

DRAUMHEIM: RAID RIFT: THE DARKEST MAGIC
* Now drops the appropriate rift loot.
* Shadow Smite can no longer be reflected.
* Fixed an issue that could allow some Rabbits to gain too much HP.
* Fixed an issue that could potentially trigger Greater Evil when interrupting Phantom Pain.

GOBORO REEF
* Instant Adventure objectives in the Gyel Fortress area have been moved outside of the Fortress walls.
* Removed the text reading "Unwalkable" from the ocean floor between Goboro Reef and Tyrant's Throne. Be on the lookout for Skelf hooligans with spray paint and a sense of humor.

TARKEN GLACIER
* Certain Shaghi of Ghadaul Tundra will no longer respawn instantly upon death.
* Omi is being a little more generous these days to those trying to get the "Boxed In" and/or "Thinking Out of the Box" achievements in Tarken Glacier. She is now allowing a bit more time to get the required boxes.

DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES

CHRONICLE: THE RHEN OF FATE
* Reduced the number of times the Drekanoth of Fate summons World Eaters.
* Fixed an issue that could cause Ungolok’s lockout barrier to not reset properly.
* Dimension items obtained through The Rhen of Fate achievements are now bound to account.

CITADEL OF INSANITY
* Corrected an obscure bug that could cause the tank to die after leaving Citadel of Insanity.

MOUNT SHARAX
* Warmaster Ilrath will now attack every 1.5s instead of every 1s. This should dramatically reduce his damage output.
* Fixes numerous bugs with Threngar's encounter reset, added a failsafe to activate phase 4 mechanics at sub-25%.

RETURN TO IRON TOMB
* Realizing his work was done, the Invisible Man packed it up and went home, no longer asking the Ascended to work.

CRAFTING

FORAGING
* Risarian Minim drop rates from Foraging nodes have been increased.

ITEMS
* Fixed an issue that could cause tooltips for item effects to report being more effective than the actual procs. This is a tooltip change only.
* The Frost Reap debuff no longer reduces the enemy's resistances.

UI AND SETTINGS
* Fixed chat linked ability tooltips not having a close button.
* Fixed a problem with players being unable to change loot settings for their group from the player portrait menu.
* Fix the white flickering that could occur when opening the soul tree.
* Fixed problem with trying to craft recipes in the crafting window where you click the recipe link arrow button to go to another recipe.

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RIFT 3.1: Hotfix #1 1/29/15

GENERAL
* Fixed an issue affecting players who have more than 1283 total Planar Attunement points. If you're still experiencing trouble, please contact CS.

ZONES AND EVENTS

DRAUMHEIM
* Raid Rift: The Darkest Magic: Silenek’s Cower Together can no longer be reflected.

TARKEN GLACIER
* Certain Shaghi of Ghadaul Tundra will no longer respawn instantly upon death.

TYRANT'S THRONE
* Adjusted the placement of some harvesting nodes that were trapped under terrain.
* ZE: Leviathan: Fixed an issue that was causing Crucia to spam her broadcasts.

DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES

CHRONICLES
* Fixed an issue that inadvertently disabled the following Chronicles: Hive Kaaz'Gfuu: Queen's Gambit, Infernal Dawn: Laethys, and Planebreaker Bastion: Aftermath.

THE RHEN OF FATE: SLIVER
* The Captive Terror’s Vile Spit damage is now back to normal.

CRAFTING
* Risarian Minim should drop from resource nodes much more frequently again.

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RIFT 3.1: STORM AT SEA

== FEATURES ==

A NEW ZONE: TYRANT'S THRONE
Discover the Storm Legion's secret island lair in the Dreaming Seas. Reveal the dread experiments that the exiled Crucia commanded her armies perform upon the forbidden horrors of the Plane of Water, and prevent the Storm Queen's conquest and destruction of the planes. With 5 new story quests and much much more, the Tyrant's Throne is waiting for you.

THREE NEW ZONE EVENTS
Three new zone events have been added!
* The Ravenous Devourer: Fight a ravenous cephalopod that threatens to devour all life in Draumheim!
* Leviathan: Attempt to vanquish the monstrous Akvan that exists between the folds of reality. The mighty Yrlwalach has broken free and threatens Goboro Reef and beyond!
* Aphogglach: The ancient demon Aphogglach has risen from the depths of Nightmare Tide to terrorize the Calceron Sea!

NEW NIGHTMARE RAID RIFT
From beyond the veil of sanity comes the new raid rift The Darkest Magic. Nightmare beings both evil and strange are tearing their way into Draumheim, and only the Ascended can stop the madness before it takes over.

NEW CHRONICLE: THE RHEN OF FATE
Wondering what would become of Finric had you never stepped foot in the planes? Relive the action of the first Nightmare Tide Sliver in a new 2-player The Rhen of Fate Chronicle.

MINION UPDATES
* Minion Adventure cards now have a shuffle button above them that you can use to cycle a new Adventure card. A shuffle can be purchased for either aventurine or credits.
* Minions can now have their stamina recharged through a lightning bolt button on the UI! Each minion can only be recharged once every 24 hours.
* Another minion slot is now available.
* 6 new minions have been added!

DIMENSION UI IMPROVEMENTS
We've given the Dimensions UI some love!
* Personal and guild dimensions how have special permissions that allow you to give permissions to individual characters on a per dimension basis!
* You can now also ban individual characters from your personal or guild dimensions.
* New free movement camera for editing dimensions.
* Improved the +1 UI for visitors.

CRAFTING UI IMPROVEMENTS
We have added a crafting favorites category to the crafting window!
* You can now flag recipes as your favorite from any of your crafting professions and they will all display when you select Favorites from the crafting profession dropdown.
* A new checkbox has been added that takes you to your crafting favorites when right-clicking on crafting workstations if you have a recipe in your favorites that uses that crafting station.

PLANAR ATTUNEMENT LEVEL INCREASE
We've expanded Planar Attunement and added 3 new Nexuses! These are Steam (Fire/Water), Dusk (Life/Death), and Dust (Earth/Water). Each of these require that you have completed all 3 tiers of both the base planes that make them up.

== GAME UPDATE ==

GENERAL
* You can no longer fish while a loot window is open to prevent the loss of loot.
* Fixed Nightmare Tide rare mobs to give kill credit for the appropriate leaderboard category.
* Auction House: The Level and Stack column headers on the Bid tab of the Auction House are no longer reversed.
* Auction House: Fixed problem when creating auction buy orders from crafting recipe chat links. It should now correctly create a buy order for the recipe and not the item the recipe makes.
* Porticulums at friendly hubs are now unlocked when a player discovers the area near the porticulum - there is no longer a need to talk to the NPC to unlock it!
- If the porticulum is a part of an unfriendly hub, then players will still need to click on that porticulum master to unlock that porticulum.
- Players that have already discovered an area containing a porticulum, but have not yet unlocked that porticulum, will still need to talk to the NPC to do so.
* Adjustments have been made to the amount of experience gained while Mentoring and Sidekicking.
- Mentoring experience gained from kills has been increased.
- Sidekicking experience gained from kills has been reduced.
* Guild Quests: The following quests no long require targets of specific levels to count for credit, only that they grant experience or favor:
- War on Many Fronts
- Battles Old and New
- Planar Desperation
- Plagued by the Planes
- Destroy the Machineborn
- Upping the Ante
- Greatest Threats
- Kill Us Some Guardians
* Fixed a rendering bug that could cause distant objects show up as white.
* Fixed a client combat issue that sometimes caused players to automatically target a dead NPC.

RIFT STORE AND SERVICES
* Molten Thresher Supply Crates are now available on the Store!
* You now have access to your bank within your dimension. Find the Bank Vault item in the RIFT Store within the Dimensions > Interactive section.
* Expert and Raid practice dummies for level 65 have been added to the RIFT Store! Get them now in Dimensions -> Interactive section.
* Hovering over a currency icon on a purchase button in the Store no longer prevents you from clicking it.
* Fixed the skill profession filters in the Store under the Crafting/Reagents category. The toggle button now also works for the skill profession checkboxes.
* The Planar Squirrels are now available in the Trophies section of the Store.
* The Chest O Shinys Dimension item is now available on the Trophies store as requested.

UI AND SETTINGS
* Changing your portrait frame and turning on the portrait rare icon have been moved out of the Options Window, and are now part of the portrait menu you get when you right-click your player portrait.
* The in-game teleport to shard menu will now show a description of the server type after the name for special servers such as Oceanic, RP, and PvP.
* Fixed problem with chat console tabs not being clickable.
* Fixed nameplates being visible through objects with some combinations of render settings.
* Fixed a problem with renaming bank vault 8.
* Bank vault names now allow numbers in them.
* Improved the look of the Planar Focus background UI.
* Fixed /reloadui causing your bagbar icons to disappear.

ARTIFACTS
* Nightmare Tide artifact sets from Fishing and Nightmare Rift now give Nightmare Tide level rewards instead of Storm Legion level rewards.
* The various artifact tracking vials now work more consistently with each other.
* The Normal Tracking vial now lasts 30 minutes and tracks Normal Artifacts ONLY.
* The Twisted Artifact Tracking vial is back and also last 30 minutes. It track ONLY Twisted Artifacts, and also casts a version of either Omen sight or Quantum sight so you can see them.
* The Unstable Tracking vial remains the same and tracks ONLY Unstable Artifacts.
* The Patron Artifact Tracking ability tracks all three types. However, it does NOT automatically cast Omen or Quantum sight. These will need to be cast separately if you want it to track Twisted artifacts.
* Level 61-65 Invasions can now, very rarely, drop artifact items.

EXTRA LIFE DONATORS
* We've begun implementing some of the awards for people who donated to our devs during Extra Life. If you don't see your reward here, rest assured that they're still on their way!
* There is a new Artifact set celebrating some of the heroes from the recent Extra Life event! It is a 17 Artifact set with the required artifacts dropping in every zone, although even the common ones are quite rare.
* Goodwill Ambassador NPCs can now be found in Telara's capital cities!
- Lady Seralena, Sharpshooter Rhyladri, and Sir Mikko "Killer" Konnat can be found in Epoch Plaza in Meridian.
- Sir Llewellyn Lionheart, Myrmidon Allizboon and Sister Faerugue can be found on Thontic Row in Sanctum.
- Sir Stan the Lesser and Lady Emmrin can be found in Plaza Aurentine in Tempest Bay, attending the royal court.

MINIONS
* You can now link your minions to the chat window directly from your Minion Window! All you have to do is have a text input open in the chat window and shift-click on a minion.
* Attanium has been pulled out of the 5 and 6 star rewards for dimension adventures. Instead, it will now be looted alongside said boxes.
* Evil Finric has been renamed to Morid Finric.
* All minions should now have flavor text.
* Adjusted some existing minion flavor text.
* The small minion stamina status tooltip will now show you the time it will take to gain a stamina point if your minion is low on stamina.
* Adventure cards that are part of a chain set will display a chain icon on them.
* The minions window will now show a reminder of the time duration for in-progress and completed claimable adventures.
* You can no longer claim minion rewards while the loot window is open.
* All achievements relating to claiming X adventures should automatically complete for all your characters upon log in.
* Max level minions now have a new frame which replaces the minion leveling bar.

SOULS
* When using a preset that has mastery points spent for you, you can now click ‘spend soul points' to spend your mastery points as you level up.
* Updated some soul descriptions.
* Fixed an issue that could occasionally cause damage from Power Manipulation, Arcane Manipulation, and Energy Manipulation masteries to fizzle on targets at extreme range.

CLERIC

WARDEN
* Soothing Stream: Removed the reference to healing decreasing over time from the buff tooltip.

MAGE

MASTERIES
* Healing Exigency: Now also reduces the cast time of Mass Grave by 100%.
* Healing Exigency: The range increase now also affects the range of the Necromancer's Essence Link.

NECROMANCER
* Has received a sizeable rework! Please see the next post for details.

WARLOCK
* Swift Corruption: Now correctly affects Ethereal abilities as indicated.

PYROMANCER
* Internalize Charge: Now has a 3s cooldown.

ROGUE

MASTERIES
* Mastery choices are now included in Talent Presets for Roguesabove level 60.
* Ascended Biology:
- Now increases the range of your damaging non-melee abilities by 5m. Does not stack with Keen Eye.
- No longer increase the range of Codas.

ASSASSIN
* When unequipping the older Assassin Synergy crystals that buff poison damage, they will remove all poison buffs.

BARD
* All Codas: Now have a 35m base range.
* Chord of Inspiration: No longer adds healing but adds an absorb shield equal to 3/6/9% of attack power. Number of affected party or raid members increased to 10.
* Improved Motif of Regeneration: Now Karine's Requiem. Increases damage done by Coda of Wrath and Coda of Fury by 30% while the target is under 30% health.
* Invigorated Soul: Now targets 10 party or raid members instead of 5.
* Motif of Regeneration: Now affects all party or raid members by default.

MARKSMAN
* Has received a sizeable rework! Please see the next post for details.

NIGHTBLADE
* Enhanced Weapon Enchantments: Now 20% per talent point, down from 30%.
* Heat Retention:
- Now 1/2/3% per talent point invested per stack of Heat Retention.
- Now has a 100% chance to apply on a combo point generating damaging ability being used.
- Internal Heat no longer removes stacks of Heat Retention, and is 10/20/30% bonus damage to finishers per talent point invested.
* Living Flame: Increased range to 10m, up from 5m.

RANGER
* Fleeting Instincts: Now persists through death.
* Keen Eye: No longer increases the range of Codas.

WARRIOR

MASTERIES
* Mastery choices are now included in Talent Presets for Warriors above level 60.
* Resonating Strikes: Updated the description to indicate the absorb shield it applies is equal to 3% of Maximum Health instead of 4%. This is a correction to the description only, and does not affect how the Mastery functions.
* Dying Breath: Fixed an issue where the HoT was being removed by the buff blocker.

BEASTMASTER
* Call of Kinship: Can now crit. Significantly increased the amount of healing done.

PALADIN
* A Good Defense: Corrected tooltip so that it now reads: Increases damage of abilities that generate Attack Points and healing done by 2/4/6/8/10%.

REAVER
* Has received a sizeable rework! Please see the next for details.

TEMPEST
* Long Range Training: Does not stack with the range increase granted by Planar Attunement.

WARLORD
* Decisive Strike: Increased damage.
* Everything is a Weapon: Increased to 20%.

ZONES AND EVENTS
* Classic and Storm Legion zone daily quests to close rifts now require only 2 rifts closed.
* The number of kills needed for most Carnage quests in Storm Legion zones has been reduced by approximately 33% on average.

INSTANT ADVENTURES
* All Instant Adventure rewards have been reworked to consistently reward in a manner appropriate to a player's real level, no matter where the adventure takes place.
* Planar attunement XP crystals have been removed.
* Zone chase items from Shimmersand, Stillmoor, and Ember Isle are no longer zone specific, and can rarely appear in any Adventure Cache.

DRAUMHEIM
* Fixed an issue with The Gutter in Bottomtown that could cause both the character and the environment to go invisible.
* Margle Palace, Flargle Plaza, and the crafting area of Choreburg are now designated as PvP Safe Areas.
* Misty Rayne in Flargle Plaza now offers a Daily to complete a random level 65 Chronicle.

EMBER ISLE
* Ember Isles rares should now give achievement credit even if one-shot by a max-level player.

GOBORO REEF
* Extended the Season Copse scene to the east and south to include more of the coastline.

MOONSHADE HIGHLANDS
* Hero's Unrest lures should now work in this zone.

TARKEN GLACIER
* Daily Quest: Roll the Bones: Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause the anvil fire effects to not be visible.
* Carnage Quest: Dalendel the Reanimated: Dalendel will now actually reanimate! We've fixed the issue with his respawn mechanism.

DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES

RETURN TO IRON TOMB
* A bonus loot event has been added to the crypts of the Iron Tomb.

MOUNT SHARAX
* The path to Threngar will no longer kill you after the platform has assembled unless Threngar has been aggroed.
* The platform is now more likely to be there for players summoned to the top.
* A few achievements have been made Legacy, as we felt were not in the spirit of what achievements are all about.
- Guardian? Defiant? I'll just be over here...
- Take One For the Team
- Attention Doxy
- You Had One Job
- So... Uh... I Guess We Win?
- Harbinger of The Yrlwalachalypse

PVP AND WARFRONTS
* Marauder Supply Caches no longer drop equipment with 3 stat rolls.

BLIGHTED ANTECHAMBER
* The max time limit is now 15 minutes.
o Increased scoring for kills to 3 per kill.
o Increased scoring for capturing a stone to 150 per capture.

DOMINATION: KARTHAN RIDGE
* Increased all scoring mechanisms.

DOMINATION: THE BLACK GARDEN
* Increased scoring.

GHAR STATION EYN
* The max time limit is now 15 minutes.
* Increased scoring for kills to 4 per kill.
* Increased scoring for using a station to 2 per use.

KARTHAN RIDGE
* The max time limit is now 15 minutes.

PORT SCION
* The max time limit is now 20 minutes.
* Increased all scoring mechanisms.

THE BLACK GARDEN
* The max time limit is now 15 minutes.
* Increased scoring for kills to 3 per kill.

THE CODEX
* The max time limit is now 15 minutes.
* Increased scoring for kills.
* Increased scoring for control points.

WHITEFALL STEPPES
* The max time limit is now 15 minutes.
* Decreased the amount of time until the first Stormstone spawns.

CRAFTING

FISHING
* Fishing achievements should now be sorted in a much more meaningful way.
* We've added ten new fishing achievements including one with a new title!

ITEMS AND VENDORS

GENERAL
* Fixed an issue where effects which increased damage or healing from Nightmare Tide weapon procs were not increasing those procs.
* Danew Yoder in Tempest Bay once again sells Synergy Crystals.
* All 3 types of Adventure Caches now stack to 99.
* Added new World Gear merchants to Sanctum and Meridian to sell all the same gear found on the classic Rare Planar Goods vendors from the various pre-50 zones.
* Transplanar Crystals are now Bound to Account.
* Rift consumables-- such as Salvaged Tablets, Renewing Pods, and Petrified Barnacle Runes-- no longer share a cooldown with other consumables such as health potions. Instead these now have a shared cooldown with all levels of the same planar type of rift consumables. (ie. Rift tablets of all levels share a cooldown.)
* Ascended Powers are no longer auto-consumed on pickup, and are Bound to Account.

PROGRESSION UPDATES
* Various changes to the level 65 gear progression are in progress. These changes are intended to create a smoother and more enjoyable gearing experience for players. Additional changes will be made in upcoming hotfixes.
- Rebalanced the cost of level 65 gear available on the Store for in game currencies – these are all reductions in cost.
- Rebalanced the upgrade cost for many level 65 items, including Abyssal Gear, Lockbox Gear, and Marauder Chest Gear – these are all reductions in cost.
- Void Stones now have a weekly cap of 47,000 for Patrons, and 40,000 for all other players.
- Abyssal Crusader marks now have a weekly cap of 20,000 for Patrons and 15,000 for all other players.

ESSENCES
* Reduced the Illusory Mote requirements of the final Greater Essence upgrade.
* Reduced the Illusory Mote requirements of most lesser essence upgrades on the Store.
* Low level lesser essences are now Bound to Account.

PVP
* Block Values for Ephemeral and Dreambreaker shields have been reverted.

EXPERTS
* Boosted the expert trinket drop rate. Thanks, livestream viewers!

RAIDS
* Lots of love for relic weapons from Mount Sharax:
- Two handed weapons now proc for more damage.
- Boosted the proc rate for totems and the offhanded DPS proc.
* Fixed an issue with the Frost Reap proc on The Fixed Point. The resists provided by the buff is now correctly reflected in the character sheet while the buff is active.
* Damage for the proc on Rakure Re has been corrected. Thanks meph1111!
* Dreadwind, the Stormbringer has had its proc reverted to a healing proc. Thanks Warfyre!
* Fixed renderable on Dead Dreams and Call of the Stormbreaker. Thanks Razzle!
* Shij Ir, the Gatherer of Shadows and Ekor Ira, Hand of Threngar will now drop with a damage oriented proc.
* Fixed Upgrade on Alison the 4th so that it will no longer lose block from upgrade.

NECROMANCER UPDATE
* Bone Armor: The damage bonus now affects the caster's pets as well.
* Bone Frenzy: The cooldown has been reduced to 15 seconds.
* Corpse Explosion: Corpse Explosion has been reworked.
- Casting Plague Bolt on a target affected by your Corpse Explosion now causes a pulse of damage to up to 5 targets within 7 yards.
- Enemies who are affected by your Corpse Explosion debuff will trigger the debuff's explosion if they take damage from another Corpse Explosion. This effect can only occur once per application of Corpse Explosion.
- The Duration on Corpse Explosion has been reduced to 15 seconds, down from 20.
- The Cooldown on Corpse Explosion has been removed, down from 10 seconds.
- Corpse Explosion is now restricted to one stack per target for any given Mage.
- Corpse Pile now gives Corpse Explosion a 50%/100% chance to spread to up to 5 enemies if hit by Grave Rot, in addition to its previous effects.
* Deadly Plague: Now also applies to Corpse Talon.
* Empty the Crypts: The Cooldown has been reduced to 1 minute, and the charge cost has been reduced to 50.
* Essence Link: The spellpower scaling component has been increased by 36%. The internal cooldown on the heal proc has been increased from .5 seconds up to 1 second. The tooltip has been clarified to explicitly state this internal cooldown.
* Improved Soul Purge: Has been reduced to heal 10/20/30% of damage done.
* Last Gasp: No longer re-applies itself to a healed target if that target already has 5 stacks of Last Gasp.
- Now deals Death damage each time a target receives a heal if that target has 5 stacks of Last Gasp.
* Loyal Minion: Now sacrifices 25% of your pet's health and gives the Mage a shield equal to 15% of the Mage's Max health. The duration of the control immunity effect granted by Loyal Minion has been reduced to 5s.
* Mass Grave: The cooldown has been reduced to 1 minute, and the duration has been reduced to 15 seconds.
* Plague Bolt: Can now trigger the Velocity buff from Elementalist. The spellpower coefficient has been increased by 25%.
* Soul Purge: Now requires only 4 seconds to channel its full effect, and its spellpower scaling coefficient has been increased by 51%.
* Symbiote: Now increases healing from Essence Link by 25% per point.

MARKSMAN UPDATE
* Barbed Shot:
- Has changed places in the talent tree with Ranged Combat Mastery.
- Now deals minimal instant damage and applies a 15s bleed afterwards, with no movement required.
- While bleeding, it increases the chances of the target being critically hit by Marksman channeled abilities by 10%.
* Free Recoil: No longer a short term combat buff. Now a 1h self buff that persists through death. New description is: Rapid Fire Shot consumes a max of 2 Combo Points. Cast time of Deadeye Shot is reduced by 0.5s.
* Decoy: Has been removed.
* New Ability: Calculated Shot: Replaces Decoy. Instant cast, 12s cooldown ranged physical damage. Removes movement buffs provided by Swift Shot and Hasted Shot. If a movement buff is removed, cooldown is set to 0. Awards 1 Combo Point.
* Lightning Fury: Now has a 12s cooldown, with the armor debuff lasting for 30s.
* Ranged Combat Mastery:
- Has changed places in the talent tree with Barbed Shot.
- Now a 1hr self buff with a 10s cooldown and 10 energy cost.
- Increases ranged and channeled damage by 5%.
* Quick Reload: Now a passive that awards a Combo Point every 3s while the Rogue is out of combat.
* Rapid Extrication has been removed. With its removal, all Marksman abilities with cooldowns have had their cooldown timers reduced.
* New Talent: Flawless Precision: Has been added in place of Rapid Extrication. Now increases the damage of Swift Shot, Empowered Shot, Lightning Fury, Sentry Battery and Rapid Fire Shot by 10/20%.
* Sentry Battery: Increased damage done, and lowered the channel time from 4s to 3s.
* Shoot to Kill: Fixed an issue where this ability was not affecting Sentry Battery.

REAVER UPDATE
* The default range of all Reaver abilities is now 30m.
* Deadly Reach: Now increases the max enemies hit by your Desecrating Blow, Rancid Cleave, and Explosive Infestation by 1/2/3.
* Plague Bringer: Now affects up to 7 additional targets instead of 4.
* New Ability: Desecrating Blow: Acquired at 20 points in the root. 30m ranged AoE finisher.
* Dire Blow: Now a ranged attack with 30m base range.
* Fester: Now increases all damage types.
* Flesh Rot: Now has a 10s cooldown. Damage has been increased to compensate.
* From the Shadows: Now reduces damage taken by the Reaver by 2/4/6/8/10%.
* Intense Training: Now increases all damage types.
* Necrotic Wounds: Increased damage.
* Pestilence: Changed from a passive talent to an activated self buff.
* Planar Attunement: Now also increases range of ranged attacks by 1/2/3/4/5. Range increase does not stack with Long Range Training.
* Rancid Cleave:
- Now a ranged attack with 30m base range.
- Removed the default damage bonus for Reaver DoTs on Rancid Cleave.
- Now affected by Shadow Strike.
* Ravaging Strike: Now a ranged attack with 30m base range.
* Reaping Touch: Now affects Desecrating Blow.
* Shadow Strike:
- Lowered bonus damage added by Shadow Strike from 33% to 25%.
- Capped out the max contributing Reaver DoTs to 3.
- Now affects Desecrating Blow and Rancid Cleave.
* Shadow Warp:
- No longer a targeted teleport, but a 15m blink in front of the Reaver.
- Now removes all crowd control effects when used. Cooldown reduced to 20s.
* Soul Sickness: No longer has a cooldown.
* Walks with Death: Now increases damage over time effects by 2/4/6%.
* Viral Stream: Corrected the description to be more accurate of the damage done.
* Shadow of Dread: Cooldown lowered to 15s.

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RIFT 3.0: Hotfix #14 1/21/15

NA: 1/21/15 @ 7:30 AM PST
EU: 1/22/15 @ 2:00 AM GMT

GENERAL
* Fae Yule: The reservoir of Faelight Sparkles has dried up. They can longer be earned!
* Fixed a rare issue that caused healing spells to sometimes miss friendly targets.
* Fixed how our twitter integration uploads links to twitter.

RIFT STORE AND SERVICES
* The Arclight Rider is now a 155% mount. Zoom zoom and stuff!

MINIONS
* Fixed a problem that would cause some people to incorrectly see 0 or negative stamina for their minions when their minions actually have stamina.

ZONES AND EVENTS

STEPPES OF INFINITY
* IA: The Fuse Is Lit: Should function correctly once again.

DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES

GYEL FORTRESS
* Fixed an exploit allowing players to attack the houndmaster without fear of retaliation.

MOUNT SHARAX
* The Yrlwalach now drops a Heart of the Frozen due to popular demand.

THE RHEN OF FATE
* Defeating Finric now awards one Heart of the Frozen due to popular demand.

ITEMS
* The raid items Lightblade and Dreadwind have received an update.
* The mobile scratcher no longer pays out Unique Snowflakes.
* Fixed an issue where effects which increased damage or healing from Nightmare Tide weapon procs were not increasing those procs.
* The Abyssal Crusader's Weapons now upgrade to Epic from Rare.
* Reduced the Void Source Accelerator Upgrade cost of some crafted weapons and armor.

PVP AND WARFRONTS
* Equipment rewards from Marauder Supply Caches have been significantly increased in power. This includes the base drops, as well as all upgrades.

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RIFT 3.0: Hotfix #13 1/14/15

NA: 1/14/15 @ 7:30 AM PST
EU: 1/15/15 @ 2:00 AM GMT

GENERAL
* Fae Yule: The Faelight Sparkle quest is no longer given. It can still be completed over the next week.

MINIONS
* Fixed a bug that could cause players new to the Minion system to lose their minions.

SOULS

CLERIC

JUSTICAR
* Gaining Convictions no longer appears in the combat log.

MAGE

STORMCALLER
* Gaining stacks of Conductive Medium no longer appears in the combat log.

ROGUE
* Fixed an issue where Finishers were not calculating correctly for having a weapon in the off-hand.

WARRIOR
* Fixed an issue where Finishers were not calculating correctly for having a weapon in the off-hand.

BEASTMASTER
* Pack Mentality: Now correctly increases HP and damage when a primal companion is summoned.

CHAMPION
* Shared Suffering: No longer triggers procs such as Building Rage.

PARAGON
* Run Like the Wind: Now correctly reduces the cooldown of Fleet of Foot.

VOID KNIGHT
* Gaining Pacts no longer appears in the combat log.

ZONES AND EVENTS

STONEFIELD
* IA: Cleansing the Source of Evil: Now functions correctly once more.

TARKEN GLACIER
* Quest: No Escape for the Wicked: The Sharax Ritual Lure now only works in Tarken Glacier.

DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES

GYEL FORTRESS
* Fixed the loot tables for the Lady Glasya fight.

MOUNT SHARAX
* Achievement: Is Something Burning: Now properly awards players that complete the challenge.
* Jinoscoth:
- Iced: The cast time has been increased to 1.8 seconds, up from 1.5 seconds.
- Frost Bulwark: The cast time has been increased to 1.8 seconds, up from 1.4 seconds.

THE RHEN OF FATE
* Fixed an issue causing Stealth to be removed throughout the fight with the Drekanoth of Fate.

ITEMS
* The damage bonus to Nightmare Tide weapon procs provided by the Chill of the Void debuff now only benefit the person who procced the effect. However, each person can now apply their own copy of the debuff to the enemy.

PVP AND WARFRONTS
* PvP and Conquest Weekly quest rewards have been increased. They now reward 300 Fragments of Horror, up from 100, and 650 Abyssal Crusader's Marks, up from 500.
* Reduced the cost from the first upgrade on equipment granted from Marauder Supply Caches.
* Blighted Antechamber: Carrying a Flag now reduces the healing you receive.
* Fixed an issue with some AoE abilities doing too much damage in PvP.

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RIFT 3.0: Hotfix #12 1/17/15

NA: 1/7/15 @ 7:30 AM PST
EU: 1/8/15 @ 2:00 AM GMT

GENERAL
* Fixed the text description of Sourcestone currency.

MINIONS
* Artifact adventures loot tables have been adjusted so that the likelihood of getting duplicate drops has been significantly reduced!
* The new adventures completed achievements have been fixed, affecting 10,000 completed adventures and above.
* Yulogon has gained expertise in assassination! Yulogon, Ivory and Atrophonius from the Fae Yule minion pack have become hardier and had their Stamina values improved.

SOULS

CLERIC

MASTERIES
* Divine Favor: Now recalculates its healing values when it procs additional heals.

ROGUE

MASTERIES
* Soul Steal: Hemophilia now correctly increases Assassin damage while active.

BARD
* Coda of Jeopardy: Now a static value equal to Corroded Defenses and Illuminate.

BLADEDANCER
* Dancing Steel and Untangle now work effectively against debilitate effects.

WARRIOR

MASTERIES
* Deliberate Strikes: No longer increase channeled and cast time ability damage. This was a leftover from its original design.

BEASTMASTER
* Spotter's Call: Is now a static value equal to Corroded Defenses and Illuminate.

PARAGON
* Death Touch: No longer deals a variable amount of damage.

REAVER
* Fester: Can now be applied to the same mob by multiple Warriors.
Dire Corruption: Now affected by Precision Strikes

RIFTBLADE
* Blade of the Ascended: No longer purgable.

ZONES AND EVENTS
* Water rifts in the Plane of Water should no longer have a chance to have a rare spawn of a Planarch.
* The Golden Devourer: Fixed a typo in the ability description of The Golden Mark.

NIGHTMARE RIFTS
* Epic and higher quality Nightmare Caches now always contain at least 1 Illusory Mote.
* The chance to get more motes remains unchanged. However the quantity of motes you get in this situation has been reduced.
* Overall, this is a decrease in randomness of Illusory Mote acquisition, and a slight increase in overall Illusory Mote acquisition.

TARKEN GLACIER
* ZE: Horns of Doom: Aroksus and his friends have reluctantly agreed not to vacation in Draumheim during this event.
* Raid Rift: The Plane Crawler Project: The Plane Crawler once again heals itself to full health after every stage.

DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES

MOUNT SHARAX
* Fixed a number of Mount Sharax loot drops that were missing the ability to trade them to other raid members for a limited amount of time.

THE RHEN OF FATE
*Finric's damage absorption shield now persists for the duration of Sacrifice.

CRAFTING
* Weaponsmith: Changed the recipe for Coral Whetstones to be more in line with the materials needed for Coral Oilstones.
* Apothecary: Storm Legion and Nightmare Tide critical hit potions should now correctly override the Tempest Soul ability Focus Fire.

ITEMS
* The absorb proc from Wall of Frost now only affects the character with the shield equipped and no longer benefits allies around them.
* The Cleric weapon "Ekor Ira, Hand of Threngar" now has Spell Power instead of Attack Power on it.

PVP AND WARFRONTS
* Marauder Supply Caches have had their chance to grant usable equipment considerably increased.
* Blighted Antechamber: Capturing a Flag will now award your team 100 points, up from 50.
* Crafted buffs in conquest should work again once more.

GHAR STATION EYN
* Reduced the number of Deadly Numbers to 5 from 11.
* Carrying a Deadly Number now increases your damage output by 25%.
* Reduced required score to 1000 to win from 1500.

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RIFT 3.0: Hotfix #11 12/17/14

NA: 12/17/14 @ 7:30 AM PST
EU: 12/17/14 @ 11:00 PM GMT

FAE YULE
* PVP: Winning A Very Fae Yule Whitefall should now award a Marauder Supply Cache at level 65.
* The Gift of Giving achievement has been moved to the Legacy category.
* Merry Mink bells now have more jingle.
* The Fae Yule Grand Cape should now have the proper appearance for Mathosian females.
* The burning of Lumps of Coal should once again grant small amounts of Snowflakes.
* Quest: Lost Traveler: The Candle will no longer be removed from inventory prior to quest completion.
* The World Event window now links to the Fae Yule Achievements.
* Game maps now include markers for Fae Yule content.
* The Fae Yule companion pets (Goose, Mav and Ice Bird) should no longer aggro other NPCs.
* Nightmare rifts now count towards the completion of the daily quest "Rift Closed!"
* The Merry Mink mount is now properly flagged to zoom at 155%.

FAELIGHT SPARKLES
* Quest: Faelight Sparkle:
- The quest now displays the purple World Event quest icon.
- The quest now appears in the Fae Yule section of the quest log.
- Players can no longer accumulate more than 500 Faelight Sparkles at once. Any Faelight Sparkles above 500 are removed on turn-in.
* Completing Warfronts and Dungeons with no charges now grants 4 Faelight Sparkles, up from 1.
* Completing Dungeons and Warfronts with charges now grants 6 Faelight Sparkles.
* The Conquest Chest now grants 10 Faelight Sparkles.
* Completing a Nightmare Tide zone event now grants 4 Faelight Sparkles, up from 1.
* Faelight Sparkle payouts are no longer blocked by the Conquest blocker on accident.
* The Faelight Sparkle payout items now apply the ability to users even if they are dead.
* Added Small Faelight Sparkle caches to the following level 65 quests:
- Daily Raid Rift quests
- Weekly Nightmare Rift quest
- Weekly Instant Adventure quest

RIFT STORE AND SERVICES
* The Fae Yule Tree Staff and Snow Globe now have credit prices. (They can also be gifted!)
* Removed Radiant Infinity Cells as a requirement to upgrade the level 60 Necklaces in the World Event category.
* Level 65 Necklaces are now available in the World Event category.
* Boosted the power of the level 65 essences in the World Event category.
* Updated the text on the Fae Yule Bonus Boxes to more clearly reflect what can be expected when opening them!
* Fixed an issue with dropped and purchased Snow Ki Rin being 100% less Bound to Account then they should have been.

MINIONS
* Revamped Fae Yule Promotional Adventure Rewards!
* Fixed the Fae Yule minion adventures that were not displaying the correct reward art while the adventure was in-progress.
* Yulogon has gained expertise in assassination! Yulogon, Ivory and Atrophonius from the Fae Yule minion pack have become hardier and had their Stamina values improved.

GENERAL
* Fishing Artifacts from Nightmare Tide should now appear in the Auction House in the Fishing Artifact category instead of Normal.
* Artifacts from the Depths of Murder set should now appear in the Other Artifact category, instead of Quest category.
* Nightmare Rift artifacts should no longer have flavor text from Death Invasion artifacts.

RIFT STORE AND SERVICES
* The Typhoon Edition of the Nightmare Tide Collector's Edition is now available in the RIFT Store for credit purchase.

SOULS

CLERIC

MASTERIES
* Divine Favor: Fixed an issue where Divine Favor was not recalculating its healing values when it procced additional heals.

CABALIST
* Mass Reversal: No longer affected by the Global Cooldown.

MAGE

DOMINATOR
* Reflective Presence: No longer affected by the Global Cooldown.
* Haunting Pain: The damage over time effects now count as cast time effects, rather than instant effects.

NECROMANCER
* Possesion:
- Reduced cooldown to 60 seconds, down from 120 seconds.
- Reduced duration to 15 seconds, down from 30 seconds.
- Abilities gained from Possession no longer replace the caster's ability bars, and instead appear in the temporary ability bar, to be used alongside most of the caster's abilities.
- Now prevents pet-summoning abilities from being cast.
* Putrify: No longer affected by the Global Cooldown.

ROGUE

MASTERIES
* Planar Rejuvenation: Fixed an issue where Planar Rejuvenation was not correctly affecting Necrotic Core after the hotfix.

ASSASSIN
* Poison Mastery: The bonus Weapon Damage and Attack Power have been increased to 3% per point, up from 2% per point up to 3% per point.

ZONES
* Achievement: Harmony of Heroes: Removed the experience requirement. Level 60+ players will now be able to close rifts in Mathosia, Brevane and Dusken without issue.
* The Golden Devourer: The Golden Mark now contains more information on the effect and lasts for 1 hour.

TARKEN GLACIAR
* Quest: The Goddess: Viewing the Visions of Fate will no longer knock players out of stealth.

DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES
* Nightmare Tide Expert Dungeons: Players must now kill at least one boss in a dungeon before requeuing.

GYEL FORTRESS
* Various bug fixes.

MOUNT SHARAX
* Fixed an issue where several Cleanse effects were not triggering the damage from Threngar’s Conduit of Martrodraum.
* Freezing Void can no longer be reflected.

NIGHTMARE COAST: EXPERT
* Exiting the dungeon after completion and re-entering no longer grants rewards.

SHADOW FROM THE BEYOND
* Fixed an issue causing the instance to not reset at the objective "Investigate below the monastery" after a soft reset.
* Fixed an edge case where players would not increment the chronicle quest.

ITEMS
* Corrupted Stave now upgrades to Corruption's Nerve.
* The Dreamsource greater essence now only works with single target damaging abilities.

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RIFT 3.0: Hotfix #10 12/11/14

NA: 12/11/14 @ 6:30 AM PST
EU: 12/11/14 @ 2:00 AM GMT

FAE YULE
* The Fae Yule Gift Portrait is now properly unlocked when consuming the portrait from the 2014 Fae Yule Minion Adventure Pack.

MINIONS
* Fixed an issue causing Minion reward payouts to be lower than intended.
* Fixed a bug causing players to not always receive an artifact when completing an artifact mission.

SOULS

ROGUE

MASTERIES
* Planar Replenishment: Fixed an issue where Planar Replenishment was not correctly affecting Necrotic Core.

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RIFT 3.0: Hotfix #9 12/10/14

NA: 12/10/14 @ 7:30 AM PST
EU: 12/11/14 @ 2:00 AM GMT

== FEATURES ==

Fae Yule is Back in Telara!
Seek out Stuttk Fyrirthig in Flargle Plaza and pick up a new weekly quest Faelight Sparkle for some amazing rewards!

Conquest Returns for Level 65!
Both Conquest: Stillmoor and Conquest: Steppes of Infinity are making their triumphant return! They now award level 65 appropriate currencies, as well as a very rare chance at a Heart of the Frozen. The first match will occur later today-- keep your eyes peeled for the notice!

GENERAL
* Players will now retain the water surface high jump ability granted in the Plane of Water while dead.
* Tidal Aura in the Plane of Water now applies to dead players.
* Some rewards given out via the Minion system have been brought in line with the intended payouts.
* Unsocketing bind-on-equip planar essences now gives back a soulbound planar essence instead of another bind-on-equip one.
* Improved how the in-game mail spam filter works.

RIFT STORE AND SERVICES
* Underwater Mount Training is now available for purchase in the RIFT store!
* New Patron Perk: Increased Weekly Cap!
- Patrons now have a higher weekly cap on currencies. Non-Patron caps remain unchanged.
* The Weekly Patron Currency Cap is now:
- Raid: 5,400
- World: 42,000
- Expert: 15,000
* The Weekly Non-Patron Currency Cap remains:
- Raid: 4,500
- World: 35,000
- Expert: 12,500

SOULS

CLERIC

PURIFIER
* Ward of Flame: Updated the animation.

MAGE

MASTERIES
* Final Breath: Updated the description to help clarify how the Mastery works.

ARBITER
* Soothing Waters: Now heals for 7.5% of Maximum Health at 100 Charge consumed.

ARCHON
* Updated the stacking priority of Archon Auras. They should no longer be overwritten by weaker or equivalent buffs.

CHLOROMANCER
* Boon of Life: Stacks now also affect Healing Torrent.
* Natural Conversion: No longer affected by the global cooldown.
* Living Shell: Reduced the cooldown of Living Shell to 30s. It no longer restores mana and is not affected by the global cooldown.

WARLOCK
* Contaminate: Fixed an bug causing this ability to reduce the Charge cost of the Dominator's Lightning Wall to 0.

ROGUE

MASTERIES
* Energy Manipulation: Can no longer miss.

ASSASSIN
* Debilitating Dart: Can now be applied to the same mob by multiple Assassins.

TACTICIAN
* Necrotic Core: No longer interrupt actions after the first damage tick.

PHYSICIAN
* Life Insurance: Can now only target players.

WARRIOR

MASTERIES
* Power Manipulation: Can no longer miss.

ZONES
* Lower level zone events should now award Notoriety Tokens to level 61+ players if they mentor down to the appropriate level for the zone event.
* Inscribed Sourcestone is now just called Sourcestone.
* Anything that previously awarded Corrupted, Cursed, or Vile Sourcestone now awards Sourcestone.
- An upcoming update will convert these currently held lower tier currencies to Sourcestone.
* Rare Planar Good gear costs have been revised to focus on the unified Sourcestone currency.
* Instant Adventures should reward much more consistently appropriate to the players level.
* Various rare rewards now sometimes appear in the Instant Adventure caches from every zone.

NIGHTMARE RIFTS
* Nightmare Rift tooltips on the map now list their tier and stage.
* Potentially fixed an issue that would occasionally cause Nightmare Rifts to not to hand out caches--an especially notable occurrence on stage 20.
* Players should no longer be teleported by Nightmare Rifts that have already closed.
* Nightmare rifts now rewards much more Planarite.
* Kills within the Nightmare Training Shoal instance no longer update the Nightmare I: Waking Terror daily quest.
* Reduced the price for Lure: Nightmare V Instance Duo.

GOBORO REEF
* Sea of Ladon Raid Rift:
- Reduced the range of the Shockbite’s Death Stare to 15 meters.
- Arcane and Electro Shields no longer block line of sight.
- New VFX for The Slibberjacks' Nexus Dart and Quogon’s Nexus Demise.
- Removed the Slibberjack from Stage 3.
- Increased the Shockbite's HP.
- Reduced the HP of the other bosses.
* Quest: Captive Breeding: The Coastal Sharks are now actually sharks.

TARKEN GLACIER
* Quest: Secrets of the Leviathan: Fixed an issue that would cause Kivankor to teleport players to nightmare rifts.

DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES
* The Bloodfire Stronghold instance will no longer show up in the Looking for Group dungeon list.
* Reduced the difficulty of expert dungeons. Trash now hits for 20% less, and bosses auto attack less frequently, reducing the tank healing requirements.

CITADEL OF INSANITY
* Fixed a bug causing Skylla to let down Lord Arak more than usual, and let the ascended just waltz past him.

GYEL FORTRESS
* Fixed a bug that could let players skip Hound Master Kytus.

MOUNT SHARAX
* Arc is no longer super effective on Manifesting Darkness. It is now just effective.

RETURN TO IRON TOMB
* Fixed a bug causing the Three Kings were giving their death buffs to lowly minions.

THE RHEN OF FATE
* Rage of Storms bubbles will no longer path out towards the docks.
Ungolok: Fixed an issue allowing one Bloat Gump to absorb damage from two Pressure Bursts.
o Finric: Rage of Storms bubbles will no longer path into Absorption Vats.

PVP AND WARFRONTS
* Guild Quest: Battles Old and New: These quests have been adjusted to the new level 65 level cap.
* The weekend warfront version of level 65 Port Scion now properly points to level 65, rather than level 60.
* Adjusted the effectiveness of Dodge in PvP.
* Increased the healing penalty for PVP at level 65 to 77.5%, up from 75%.
* The following old PVP curenncies have been converted to Platinum, at a rate of 1 Platinum per 100 Marks:
- Freelancer's Mark
- Warlord's Mark
- Mark of Conquest
- Myrmidon's Mark
- Warlord's Mark of Conquest
* Conquest: Every 100 kills made in conquest earns you 1 Void Stone.
- Note: Next week, this will be bumped to 10 Void Stones.

ITEMS
* Increased healing for Fish Sausage.
* Fixed the upgrade on Monk's Pyrestone essence.
* Fixed an issue with the appearance for Dreambreaker and Ephemeral Chestguards.

AUDIO
* Added new sound to Lamb critters.

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RIFT 3.0: Hotfix #8 11/25/14

NA: 11/25/14 @ 7:30 AM PST
EU: 11/26/14 @ 2:00 AM GMT

GENERAL
* Players that have the Nightmare bank vault will no longer see an incorrect price when they try to purchase bank bag slot unlocks.

SOULS

CLERIC

MASTERIES
* Avenging Shield: Fixed a typo.

MAGE

MASTERIES
* Ride the Wind: No longer triggers Mental Cynosure.
* Arcanist’s Shield: Fixed a typo.

ZONES
* Invasive Species, Sinister Tide, and Hero's Unrest Lures now function in Droughtlands and Moonshade Highlands.

DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES

CITADEL OF INSANITY
* Corrected some creative grammar in Lord Arak’s lines.

GLACIAL MAW: EXPERT
* Fixed a bug where Shigoroth would not reset if pulled out of her fightspace.

MOUNT SHARAX
* Screaming Winds will no longer return after a soft reset.
* Corrected a bug that allowed players to soul walk during a boss fight under certain circumstances.
* Improved the behavior of Conduit of Martrodraum.
* Izkinra:
- Will no longer desynchronize from terrain when becoming enraged.
- A portal connecting the entrance to the 4th boss will now spawn after Izkinra has been defeated.
* Yrlwalach:
- Fight time for this encounter has been decreased.
- The dps required to kill him before enrage has been slightly decreased.

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RIFT 3.0: Hotfix #7 11/19/14

NA: 11/19/14 @ 7:00 AM PST
EU: 11/20/14 @ 1:00 AM GMT

== PROMOTIONAL EVENT ==

Unicornalia[ returns to Telara this Thursday, November 20th at 3:30 PM server time, running until the following Thursday, November 27th at 3:30 PM server time.

GENERAL
* Fixed an issue with item set bonuses not reactivating after unmentoring.
* Fixed an issue with mentoring stat calculation that affected Absorbs and other abilities
* Fixed an issue with player mounts getting stuck on the edge of nightmares.
* Fixed a server side crash in the minion system.
* Players now keep their extra planar charges while mentoring.
* Fixed an issue that prevented the Nightmare Tide Faction category from displaying a name in the Notoriety window.

SOULS
* Abilities: Anti-Planar Augmentation, Holy Champion, and Fury of the Ascended now share the same cool down group.
* Abilities: Defiant's Flare and Guardians Flare now work in Nightmare Tide zones.
* Planar Attunement: Air: Preferred Ally no longer modifies the duration of Holy Champion, Fury of the Ascended and Anti-Planar Augmentation.

CLERIC

SHAMAN
* Strike of the Maelstrom: Fixed an issue causing this ability not to spread Frozen Wrath when mentored below level 50.

MAGE

MASTERIES
* Ethereal Flux: Range increasing effects will now also affect the range of this mastery debuff.

STORMCALLER
* Storm Locus: Range increasing effects will now also affect this ability.

WARLOCK
* Radiate Death: Range increasing effects will now also affect this ability.

ROGUE

MASTERIES
* Timed Focus: Increased the damage done by Unstable Energy after being reduced due to a bug fix last week.
* Energy Manipulation: Now has a damage variance.
* Watch Over: Should no longer cause issues with the secondary effect if another Rogue with the mastery is present in the Party/Raid.
* Ascended Biology: Cadenza should now heal for the full amount of talent points invested in Invigorated Soul.

RANGER
*Rejuvenate: Increased the healing value.
RIFTSTALKER
* Power of the Planes: Now a single target damaging finisher, and counts as Plane Shifting for triggering effects.

SABOTEUR
* Advanced Combat Training: Changed to increases Weapon Damage and Attack Power by 2% per point invested.

TACTICIAN
* Expanded Workload: Now affects base health instead of Endurance.

WARRIOR

MASTERIES
* Deliberate Strikes: Increased the damage done by Building Rage after being reduced due to a bug fix last week.
* Power Manipulation: Now has a damage variance.

PALADIN
* Aegis of Light: Increased the healing done.
* Hardened Defenses: Should now function as intended.

REAVER
* Dire Corruption: No longer persists on corpses.

VOID KNIGHT
* Accord of Resilience: Should now function as intended.
* Fusion of Flesh: No longer requires a pact on the Warrior to cast.

ZONES

DRAUMHEIM
* Trade chat is available in Choreburg!

GOBORO REEF
* Quests: Captive Breeding and Emancipation Through Proclamation: Added scene requirements to the quest items.

DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES

CITADEL OF INSANITY
* Corrected some VO overlap issues.

MOUNT SHARAX
* Achievement: So… Uh… I guess we win?: Now grants correctly.
* Izkinra: Fixed a bug where the avalanche would sometimes not spawn boulders.
* Yrlwalach:
- Fixed a race condition which could cause Yrlwalach not to spawn when the instance first starts up.
- Fixed an issue with the enrage timer in this fight.
* Bulf: Has taken anger management courses, and no longer takes out his frustration on wiped raids.
* Manifest Horror is no longer purgeable.

NIGHTMARE COAST
* Fixed the lag that players would experience when Lord Arak spawned.
* Akylios will become very angry if players attempt to swim near him.

RETURN TO IRON TOMB
* Achievement: Side Step: Fixed a bug causing this achievement to not award properly.

SHADOW FROM THE BEYOND
* Added two memory crystals to the chronicle. Players who have previously completed it will now be able to skip the intro vignette with Quintarus, as well as the vignette with Cavalla.

THE RHEN OF FATE
* Achievement: Nah, We're Good: Can now be attained by using three or fewer Syphoning Orbs in the second boss fight.
* Achievement: Conqueror: The Rhen of Fate: Now grants the Evil Finric minion.
* Achievement: Rapid Assault: The Rhen of Fate: Added this achievement.
* Only killing bosses now saves players to the instance.
* Drekanoth:
- Chains of Fate damage is now capped at 30k per tick.
- Slowed the interval Chains of Fate does damage from every two seconds to every three.
- Increased the grace period before Chains of Fate does damage by one second.
- Fixed the Scorching Light mechanic.

PVP AND WARFRONTS
* Increased the healing penalty for PVP to 75%. Up from 70%.
* Fixed an issue with Dodge having little effect in PvP.
* Fixed an issue with PvP guild quests not awarding kill credit.

ITEMS
* Nightmare Caches now properly bind to account upon acquisition.
* Burnoulli can now swim.
* Corrected some Raid dropped items that had lower than expected Hit values.
* Fixed the VFX on The Burning Crown of Raziel.
* The Mystic's and Savant’s synergy crystals no longer benefit healing from the Justicar's Salvation ability.

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RIFT 3.0: Hotfix #6 11/12/14

NA: 11/12/14 @ 7:30 AM PST
EU: 11/13/14 @ 1:00 AM GMT

AUTUMN HARVEST
* Autumn Harvest has been extended by a week! It now runs until 11:59 PM server time on November 19th!
* Minions: Autumn Harvest adventures now appear more often. Rejoice!

GENERAL
* Player buffs are now automatically recast when the player's mentor level changes.
* Fixed auction house sorting on several dropped items.
* Fixed a rare issue with Soulwalk sometimes ending prematurely.

MINIONS
* The minions window has a new checkbox called "Auto-match Attributes". If checked, then whenever you select an Adventure, it will only show minions that have the attributes shown on the Adventure card.

SOULS
* Abilities: Holy Champion, Fury of the Ascended and Anti-Planar Augmentation have been modified to function more like they did prior to the launch of Nightmare Tide.

CLERIC

MASTERIES
* Fixed an issue where Benevolent Presence would stop functioning.

MAGE

MASTERIES
* Fixed an issue where Rejuvenating Presence would stop causing Lucent Slash to spread Blazing Light.

ROGUE

BARD
* Fixed an issue where the Bard passive gift was not awarding the bonus Base Health.

WARRIOR

MASTERIES
* Fixed an issue with Building Rage that was causing it to trigger Sweeping Blades.
* Fixed the passive on Decisive Strikes so that it now affects charges appropriately.

PALADIN
* Blessed Aegis: Now increases HP by 10% instead of 5%.
* Hardened Defenses: Now 5% resist per point and swaps places with Aggressive Guardian.

REAVER
* Rancid Cleave: Damage is now augmented by the number of Reaver dots on the target.

VOID KNIGHT
* Accord of Power: Now increases block by 5% in addition to the Weapon Damage and Attack Power bonus.
* Destructive Forces: Fixed an issue where the bonus Attack Power percentage was not being calculated correctly. It is now a true 0.05/1.0/1.5% of your Attack Power.
* Devourer: Now increases damage reduction by 2% per point invested for all damage types.
* Devouring Shield: Cooldown has been reduced to 90s from 2m.
* Protective Shield: Now reduces damage taken by 6% per pact consumed. Max 5. Cooldown increased to 2m.
* Residual Absorption: Now passive and is 3% spell damage reduction per point invested.
* Rift Distortion: Now reduces all damage by 2% instead of just spell damage by 4%.
* Rift Shield: Now absorbs damage equal to 5% of your Max HP per pact consumed. Cooldown increased to 45s.
* Surging Touch: Now reduces damage when blocking by 1.5% per point invested instead of reducing spell damage.
* Unstable Void: Now increases HP by 10% instead of 5%.
* Void: Now reduces all damage taken by 3%.

ZONES
* Low level players completing rifts and Instant Adventures in high level zones now gain less experience.
* Failing Planar Fortress Events will now offer slightly better rewards.

NIGHTMARE RIFTS
* Fixed an issue with Nightmare Rifts sometimes creating unkillable, zombie players.
* Achievements: All "Reach stage X" achievements are now given upon reaching the listed stage, rather than upon its completion.

DRAUMHEIM
* Quest: The Key to the City: The keys should now be delivered to Arlana Eshen at Ghar Station Rosh.
* The Nightmare Bandits in Shadow Scion can now be attacked by player pets.

GOBORO REEF
* Quest: Joy to the Fishes: Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause the Young Bluetails to be untargetable.
* Quest: Biodegradable: This quest has been completely reworked.
* Raid Rift: Sea of Ladon:
- Quogon's Arcani and Electro Demise abilities have become Nexus Demise, which can be removed by either Electro or Arcane shields.
- Quogon no longer casts Inhale or Spray.
- Reduced the damage of various abilities.
- Slibberjacks no longer cast Fang Spike.
- Nexus Rivos and Flokum no longer give experience.
- Reduced the damage of Nexus Cannons.
- Increased the cooldown of Turret Shot to 45 seconds.

TARKEN GLACIAR
* Quest: Akvan Underground: Now completes with Frekker, who should never be dead.
* Quest: Breaking the Ice: Now works correctly.
* Quest: Burnt Threads: Now requires 8 Fate Weavers to be incinerated instead of 7.
* Quest: Roll the Bones: The locator for the second step of this quest now points to the correct location.

DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES
* Several Expert Dungeon dropped items can now be traded to group mates within a 30 minute grace period.
* Achievement: Nightmare Coast: Conqueror: This achievement now has an item reward.
- Note: VFX

GYEL FORTRESS
* Achievement: Multi-Kill: Now requires you hit 7 NPCs instead of 8, making this achievement slightly less annoying.

MOUNT SHARAX
* Bulf:
- Bulf's death will no longer enrage Jinoscoth.
- Bulf will no longer angrily chase after players who have wiped.
* Jinoscoth:
- It seems not even Jinoscoth is completely invulnerable to the cold...Frost Bulwark now takes 1.4 seconds to cast, up from 1.3 seconds.
* Izkinra:
- We have refactored the fight enrage timer slightly. The same enrage time is now divided among the different phases which gives a minimum time to complete each.
* Threngar:
- Threngar's achievements are now visible in the appropriate section.

RETURN TO IRON TOMB
* Fixed a bug where Nightmare Totek was not awarding achievements like he should.

THE RHEN OF FATE
* Achievement: The Rhen of Fate: Defeating all the bosses now grants this achievement.
* Unthralled Brutes are now faster on their feet.
* Finric:
- Fighting Finric no longer automatically removes stealth.
- Finric has gained the ability Far Strike, enabling him to pummel his target at a distance.
* Drekanoth of Fate:
- Fixed an issue that could cause the The Chains of Fate cast by the Drekanoth of Fate to not resolve properly.
- Fixed an issue that kept the Drekanoth of Fate from casting his Doom ability.
- Will now wait a few seconds after the last World Collapser is destroyed before casting Scorching Light.
- Chains of Fate can now only hit players twice within a three second period.
* Weyloz, Hidrac, Oonta:
- When one dies, they now stop pulsing the Comrades Near or Comrades Far AoE. However, the last boss standing will continue casting Comrades Near.
- When fighting these bosses, the Chosen of Iron and Stone debuffs are now removed when the fight resets, and not when the player exits combat.

PVP AND WARFRONTS
* The level 65 version of Guns for Hire and Carnage: Ascended now grant Void Stones as rewards.
* Players level 61 and above now gain more experience from PVP activities.

ITEMS
* Fixed a bug that would allow bows to drop for Clerics from Marauder Supply Crates.
* Fixed a typo in the item description of the Pelagic Powerstone. It now correctly lists that it gives 350 Spell Power instead of 325.

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RIFT 3.0: Hotfix #5 11/5/14

NA: 11/5/14 @ 7:00 AM PST
EU: 11/6/14 @ 1:00 AM GMT

== NEW RAID: MOUNT SHARAX ==
This Thursday at 12:00 PM PST / 8 PM GMT the Mount Sharax 20-man raid will be unlocked. Face the mighty Sharax giants and Akvan of legend in a decisive battle over the fate of all the cosmos!

AUTUMN HARVEST
* Random Discarded Puppet Boxes are available for purchase using event currency.
* The duration of Autumn Eyes potions has been dramatically increased!
* The number of Rifts that need closing for the daily quest has been reduced to 3.
* The World Event store cost of Autumn Eye potions has been changed to 200 Ambersap.
* Autumn Eyes potions no longer require you to have a target when consuming them.
* Touch of the Shade, Random Discarded Puppet: Fae and Random Discarded Puppet: Nobles have had their event currency price restored.

GENERAL
* NPCs no longer walk on water.
* Fixed a bug where unregistered users could not create Customer Service petitions.
* Fixed a possible client lockup for a short time when surrounded by many other players that all get an achievement at the same time, such as killing a zone event boss.
* Promote leader now works properly for cross shard party members, and no longer requires raid frames to function.
* The postmaster will remember to raise the mailbox flag when players receive a COD payment from another player.
* Fixed the problem that resulted in a weekly currency cap reset when the daylight savings time change occurred.

RIFT STORE AND SERVICES
* The amount of Aventurine awarded from Supply Crates and Troves should now be a value significantly higher than 1!

MINIONS
* Fixed a bug in the minion system where chain hurrying adventures could put the system in a bad state.
* Achievements that refer to adventures completed now properly refer to adventures claimed.
* All achievements which require you to collect a certain number of minions will automatically complete on new or existing characters if you've earned the achievement on another character.
* Fixed a rare case in the minion system where it would be impossible to hurry a mission.

SOULS

CLERIC

MASTERIES
* Fixed an issue where it was possible to have Shroud of Agony active with the Benevolent Presence Mastery.

JUSTICAR
* Intercede: Now replaces the target's Guard with the caster's Guard. It no longer references Toughness.

SHAMAN
* Windwalk" Now increases Dodge by 35%. It no longer references Parry.

MAGE

ARBITER
* Shared Agony: Now replaces the target's Guard with the caster's Guard. It no longer references Toughness.

PYROMANCER
* Arcane Manipulation: No longer consumes stacks of Internalize Charge.

WARRIOR

MASTERIES
* Building Fury from Decisive Strikes can now crit. Damage values have been adjusted to account for this.

PALADIN
* Amnesty: No longer grants Toughness, but Guard instead.

REAVER
* Viral Stream: Description now states that it adds attack points on each pulse.

VOID KNIGHT
* Impunity: No longer grants Toughness, but Guard instead.

ROGUE

MASTERIES
* Unstable Energy from Timed Focus can now crit. Damage values have been adjusted to account for this.

BARD
* Anthem of Fervor: Tooltip now correctly displays the amount of reduction in ability cost.

MARKSMAN
* Lightning Fury: Armor reduction now correctly scales with level.

RANGER
* Piercing Shot: Armor reduction now correctly scales with level.

RIFTSTALKER
* Acquittal: No longer grants Toughness, but Guard instead.

SABOTEUR
* Splinter Bomb: Armor reduction now correctly scales with level.

TACTICIAN
* Cores now display a buff on the Rogue to track how long they have remaining.

ZONES

PLANE OF WATER
* Remnants of Maelforge: Unhatched Eggs should no longer sometimes regenerate their health.
* Increased staged payouts for zone events with those to 40 from 25 void stones
* Increased final payouts for zone events to 125 from 100 void stones.
* Increased colossus payouts for zone events to 40 from 20 void stones.
* Increased daily quest payouts to 40 from 25 void stones.
* A bug with Raid Rift loot chests that could cause them to spawn empty has been fixed.
* Raid Rifts now have a chance to drop higher tier loot.

NIGHTMARE RIFTS
* Planarite from Nightmare rift stage completion will be doubled in the earlier Tiers, and more than tripled in the later Tiers. We'll keep an eye on this and adjust as needed!
* Nightmare rift dailies now award some Illusory Motes and Void Stones.
* Nightmare rift mobs are no longer be affected by Rift Prison or Rift Tomb abilities.
* Slightly reduced the requirements of some Nightmare I, II, III, and IV achievements.
* Reduced the Nightmare III and IV "Master" achievement requirements from 20 to 18.
* Quest: Nightmare III: Plague the Mind: Now increments properly.
* Corrected some overtuned abilities on the Nightmare rift bosses Bokrunor and Rakanarth.
* Due to a few bugs that made Nightmare I and II rifts far easier than intended, the leaderboards for these two have been reset.
* Clarified the requirements for the Nightmare rift "Reward Phase Streak" achievements, and renamed them to "Bonus Streak."
* Semblance of Power and Semblance of Mending item buff duration will increase with each upgrade.
* Reduced AoE range of the Maddening Shield and Maddening Heal abilities. These abilities will also now teleport you out of the rift if you fail to turn away.
* Sphere of Insanity will appear more often, at greater range, and now also applies a healing debuff.

DRAUMHEIM
* Ghar Station Bet has laid off the silly seaweed during network transmissions. Commander Zaviel's apparition less immortal.
* Quest: Murky Water: Now all giants, no matter how awkward, count for something.
* Fixed some typos. Princess Mala no longer allowed to write quest text.
* Practice dummies added to Choreburg below the crafting district.

FREEMARCH
* Quest: I'm an Old Soul: The Endless Court Captive is no longer so cheerful when addressing Ascended. Thanks to Qauntea@Faeblight!
* Quest: Point Taken: The Burned Barricade in Warden’s Point will no longer sparkle for players that have completed the quest it offers. Thanks to Bobami@Faeblight!
* Quest: Like Moths to a Flame: Now gives credit more consistently.

GOBORO REEF
* Raid Rift: Sea of Ladon: Fixed an issue causing the Arcane and Electro Shields buffs to stop working.
* Raid Rift: Sea of Ladon: Fewer Flokum now spawn to devastate the shields and cannons.
* Quests: Feeding Frenzy Redux: Reduced the range of the Fish Ray.
* Sithicis is no longer stealthed.

TARKEN GLACIAR
* Killing Living Ice no longer erroneously gives credit for the quest Nightmare I: Waking Terror.
* Raid Rift Tears no longer appear in Tenebrean Craters.
* Raid Rift: The Plane Crawler Project: Reduced the maximum number of Technic Thralls that can spawn in Stage 01.
* Quests: The Once and Future Rhen, The Eater of the Sun, Rounding Error, and The Missing Variable: These quests no longer erroneously remove the Word of Power from the quest of the same name if they are completed while on Words of Power.
* Quest: Divine Words: Xoxii will now appear at the proper time.

DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES
* Nightmare Tide dungeons have all been given "per boss" kill achievements. The point value for kill and meta achievements has been adjusted (5 for a standard or expert kill, 10 for the standard meta, 15 for the expert meta).
* Killing bosses in Expert mode now also grants the standard versions of the kill achievements.

GLACIAL MAW
* The "A Mannly Demise" and "A Broken Heart" achievements have been moved to the legacy category. Expert and Standard mode now award the same achievements: Doing Science and Putting on the Ritz.
* The Frozen Akvari are growing restless. After sitting undisturbed for some time they realized freeing themselves was easier than they believed. It is now easier for players to trigger the Akvari XIII achievement.
* The Forgotten Slayer's called by Shigoroth are now more reliable in coming to join the fray!

NIGHTMARE COAST
* Players that descend into madness during the Shade of Akylios should now be able to consistently see the orbs.
* The achievement titled "Nightmare Coast" which claimed to be given by completing the Arak fight without any Manifest Terrors successfully casting Horrific Transformation has been removed, and removed from Conqueror: Nightmare Coast.

RETURN TO IRON TOMB
* The achievement "A Trusty Villain" (defeat Nightmare Ragnoth) is now correctly granted upon defeating nightmare Ragnoth, rather than when completing the "Not in Your Wildest Dreams" achievement (something other than defeat Nightmare Ragnoth).
* Nightmare Ragnoth has gotten a decent amount of exercise lately and as a result he will now chase players faster!

SHADOW FROM THE BEYOND
* Fixed a possible edge case where Keeper Turrets would not fire and bring down Altha's shield.
* Players should now more reliably be granted the "I, Tenebrean" achievement.
* Artifacts in this chronicle can now be tracked.

THE RHEN OF FATE
* Fixed an issue causing Weyloz to not enrage when the encounter times runs out.
* Dominance scores are now correctly recorded for all bosses.
* Mindless Spawnlings' Last Gasp is no longer purgeable.
* Tank items will drop slightly less often.
* The mobs waiting near Finric will no longer reaggro on players without provocation after a raid wipe.
* Fixed an issue that could cause Finric to stop attacking.
* Once Finric enters combat, the Ascended Jumper buff will be reapplied to players throughout the fight.

PVP AND WARFRONTS
* Reduced the PVP healing and absorb penalty from 85% to 70%.

CRAFTING
* The "Consumed by Nightmares I" achievement can now be earned!
* Fixed typos in the the "Consumed By Nightmares" line of achievements.
* Fixed typos in flavor text on some Nightmare Seals

ITEMS
* Illusory Motes and other Nightmare rift items that were intended to Bind on Account will now actually be Bound to Account.

AUDIO
* Reduced volume of Arethea singing through loudspeakers.

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RIFT 3.0: Hotfix #4 10/30/14

NA: 10/30/14 @ 7:30 AM PDT
EU: 10/30/14 @ 1:00 AM GMT

GENERAL
* Fixed a bug where unregistered users could not create Customer Service petitions.

MINIONS
* Fixed a bug in the minion system where chain hurrying adventures could put the system in a bad state.

DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES

THE RHEN OF FATE
* Fixed an issue causing Weyloz to not enrage when the encounter times runs out.

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RIFT 3.0: Hotfix #3 10/29/14

NA: 10/29/14 @ 7:30 AM PDT
EU: 10/30/14 @ 1:00 AM GMT

== AUTUMN HARVEST ==

The spoils of Autumn Harvest are back! The festivities begin at 3:30 PM server time on 10/30/14, and they run until 3:30 PM on 11/13/14!

Your favourite activities are back: portals to the Realm Of Autumn Harvest, Halloween rifts, and the Black Garden Monster Mash!

On the store you'll find Armored Nightmare Lock Boxes-- containing the mount of its name-- and Autumn Harvest Grab Bags, full of new costume weapons, two new masks, and the masks of years previous!

Plus, new Minions will make an appearance: Scythe, Necrawler, and Azumel! Send them on special Harvest Adventures to reap the most candy of all.

GENERAL
* Nightmare Tide Daily Quests now award 25 Void stones. Enjoy!

RIFT STORE AND SERVICES
* Totems from lock boxes should once again have Hit.

MINIONS
* The Minions window will now remember your sorting selections. Stamina sort sorts by the minions exact stamina from high to low.
* You can no longer get Small diplomatic awards from Long adventures (you'll get Medium diplomatic awards instead).
* You can no longer get more than two artifacts from Short artifact adventures, but the potential rarity of those artifacts has been increased.
* Increased chances of getting Attainium for Long and Promotional artifact adventures.
* Fixed the flavor text on some hidden minions.

ZONES
* Zone Events: If Planar Fortress Zone Events fail, players should now receive a small amount of Voidstone rewards based on the number of Forward Bases that were controlled.
* Moved multiple resource nodes that were hiding inside rocks.
* Lures for the rifts Invasive Species, Sinister Tide, and Hero's Unrest will indicate that they cannot be used in the Plane of Water, and will not consume the item.
* Low level players who enter the Nightmare Training Shoal instance will now be able to leave through the portal.

DRAUMHEIM
* Quest: Debt and Taxes: The quest now correctly informs you to kill a single Final Debt rather than multiple, even though only 1 is required.
* Quest: The Collective Unconscious: The second lost dream will no longer appear inside of a wall.
* Quest: The Center of Oblivion: The End of Oblivion instance should now properly resurrect you after respawning and re-entering the instance.
* Quest: The Extinction of Sanity: Should now work better for players suffering from aggressive VFX culling.
* The Lurking Fall-dwellers in Rended Falls will no longer drop Foraging materials when Butchered.
* Fixed an issue causing players to fall through the floor in Ghar Station Rosh.

GOBORO REEF
* Quest: Numerically Complex: Quest text now directs you to return to Hekhet at Ghar Station Mem rather than Temple of Ranri.
* Quest: Parasites Below: The Infected Skelf Eggs will now despawn after being cleansed.
* Quest: Eyes on the Oculon: Fixed an issue preventing Tempest from using the cannon abilities during this quest.
* Quest: Man-Made Reef: Added more dormant coral and removed restrictions on them which was making the quest frustrating to complete
* Fixed a spawn point for the rare spawn Pyrus to not spawn in terrain.
* Fixed the achievement for “Scouring the Depths” so that killing Ultana increments the achievement.
* IA: Flamescapers: Removed a non-active ability from this adventure.
* IA: Dreambound Crawlers: Fixed the incorrect Empowered NPCs that were showing up.
* IA: Savior of Lost Knowledge: Moved a book that was not reachable.
* IA: Increased the minimum group size for being sent on Major Rift adventures to 7.

TARKEN GLACIER
* Aegmar's Head wasn't located in Aegmar's Pass, now it is. Our argument is once again valid.
* Quest: Rounding Error: Populations of the research snorox are now fixed and afflicted snorox guaranteed to be present when using the isotope scanner.
* Fixed the rare spawn Numera to no longer spawn in terrain.

STILLMOOR
* IA: Fixed an issue with a couple of Instant Adventures that did not want to work for Sidekicked players.

SHIMMERSAND
* IA: Fixed an issue with a couple of Instant Adventures that did not want to work for Sidekicked players.

DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES
* Increased XP granted from killing mobs and bosses in Nightmare Tide dungeons by 30%.
* Fixed a bug where Rapid Assault achievements did not appear to exist for some Nightmare Tide dungeons.
- Note: Gyel Fortress and Citadel of Insanity do not have them, but an update for them is coming in a future hotfix.

CITADEL OF INSANITY: EXPERT
* Skylla is now slightly more forgiving.

SOULS
* Planewalker's Call can no longer be used while in combat.

MASTERIES
* Planar Conservation no longer removes other Anthems aside from Anthem of Fervor.

ROGUE

RIFTSTALKER
* Rift Disturbance: The debuff now scales to the player's level.
* Guardian Phase: No longer removed while the player has Safeguard and either zones or logs in.

WARRIOR

VOID KNIGHT
* Accords are no longer removed when the Warrior dies.

ITEMS
* Many Nightmare Tide items now have hit suitable for entering expert dungeons:
- All crafted items
- Grim Maw items
- Most level 65 quests.
* Pressure Proof Treads stats has been adjusted.
* Focus of Nightmares is now Bind to Account.

CRAFTING
* Corrected all crafted seal recipes to create the correct seal. Already existing seals, will be upgradable to the next seal tier. No stats are being changed or nerfed in this process.
* Changed Fine Sarfiber Shortbow & Longbow to require a Workbench instead of a Forge to craft.

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RIFT 3.0: Hotfix #2 10/24/14

NA: 10/24/14 @ 3:00 PM PDT
EU: 10/25/14 @ 1:00 AM GMT

GENERAL
* Searching for minions in the auction house with the usable only flag on now works, and will only show you minions you have not yet collected.

ZONES
* Fixed a bug causing Nightmare I rift lures to fail to open a rift if a zone event is running.
* Marks of Notoriety should now be awarded from zone event completion in Plane of Water zones.

EMBER ISLE
* Quest: Rage Inside the Machine: The Enraged Spirits will now properly grant credit when killed.

GOBORO REEF
* The elite population around the exterior of Gyel Fortress no longer grant far too much notoriety.
* Quest: Bioluminescence: The Atragarians have coaxed additional Luminar Crabs out of the coral to assist them in Luminous Passage.

TARKEN GLACIER
* Quest: Frozen in Time: Ngiantetha’s Seal will no longer respawn immediately.

DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES

CITADEL OF INSANITY: EXPERT
* Several of the NPCs in Citadel of Insanity did not give PA XP. They have since realized the errors of their ways, and now reward PA XP.

GYEL FORTRESS
* Running Rabid will now award properly.

NIGHTMARE COAST: STANDARD
* Akylios: Waves of Madness no longer does damage along its entire path, and now only damages when standing near the wave itself.
* Fixed a bug where the last boss in Nightmare Coast was awarding too much Manugo faction.

NIGHTMARE COAST: EXPERT
* Fixed a bug where Lord Arak was receiving the LFP reward at the end instead of players.

SOULS
* Abilities: Fury of the Ascended, Anti-Planar Augmentation, and Holy Champion will now persist after Respawning.

WARRIOR

TEMPEST
* Delayed Pulse: Now roots again on damage.

PVP AND WARFRONTS
* Prestige gained past Rank 90 is now saved through logout.

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RIFT 3.0: Hotfix #1 10/23/14

NA: 10/23/14 @ 11:00 AM PDT
EU: 10/24/14 @ 1:00 AM PDT

ZONES

GOBORO REEF
* IA: The Instant Adventure bosses Beherit and Gorgo will no longer declare war on their planar brethren in Gyel Fortress.
* Increased the spawn rate of cursed balloons in the Atragarian Well.
* Increased the spawn rate of Skelfbinders in Skelfmere.

DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES

NIGHTMARE COAST
* Expert gear no longer incorrectly drops from standard mode.

DIMENSIONS
* Fixed an issue causing players to be unable to move/rotate certain dimension items.

ITEMS
* Removed a proc from Abiding Thalasite Rifle, which was not intended to have one.
* Added procs to Abiding Sarfiber Quarterstaff and its upgrades.

SOULS

ROGUE

RANGER
* Increased the threat generated by Razorbeast pets.
* Wilderness Training: Fixed an issue where the weapon damage was not scaling with talent points invested.

WARRIOR

PALADIN
* A Good Defense: Fixed an issue where the +healing provided was not scaling with talent points invested.

RIFTBLADE
* Adjusted Burst finishers to be less effective when only used with 1 Attack Point.

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RIFT 3.0: NIGHTMARE TIDE 10/22/14

RIFT remains completely free-to-play with the Nightmare Tide expansion, offering you all of the new levels, zones, class features, and so much more...for free!

== FEATURES ==

LEVEL 61 AND BEYOND: MASTERY ABILITIES
Not only are there 5 more levels of adventure, but Nightmare Tide also introduces a new way to advance your class. From levels 61-65, you can choose Mastery Abilities for each Role slot, allowing you to customize your Soul to even greater heights of power!

NEW ZONES
Three brand new zones await you in the Plane of Water! Plunge through walls of water in Goboro Reef to save the Atragarians from the rampant flames of the Bloodfire Army. Battle the rise of nightmares in the dream city Draumheim. Climb the frozen cliffs of Tarken Glacier, across crevasses to the edge of the cosmos, and confront the Plane of Water's most dangerous avatar: Martrodraum.

Speak with any porticulum master to begin your journey. The minimum level requirement is 58.

NEW AND UPDATED DUNGEONS
New dungeon experiences are live! We've added Gyel Fortress, Citadel of Insanity, and Glacial Maw. These dungeons are sure to provide challenging experiences for characters leveling their way up to 65. And once they're there, each of these dungeons will have an expert mode to tackle, too!

We've updated some classic dungeons, too: try out the new Return to Iron Tomb and Return to Empyrean Core! They're available as expert dungeons once an Ascended reaches level 65.

And, finally, the terrifying Nightmare Coast isn't done with the Ascended yet. First added in 2.8: Madness Wakes, this dungeon now has a level 65 expert mode!

NEW CHRONICLE
Once an Ascended hits level 65, new challenges awaits them; including the new solo Chronicle, Shadow From the Beyond! Expose the beginnings of a mysterious plot devised by a shadowy force from the unknown. Gain insight on the Tenebreans, a mysterious and powerful race from beyond the stars in this story driven chronicle.

NEW SLIVER: THE RHEN OF FATE
In this sliver realm, the prophesy that Finric turns down a path of evil and enslaves the Plane of Water has come to pass. The Ascended must destroy this version of reality to keep it from affecting their own.

NIGHTMARE RIFTS
From Silverwood and Freemarch to Tarken Glacier, Nightmare Rifts are tearing across Telara, offering progressive challenges that make these rifts fearsome indeed. But with more danger come greater rewards—and Nightmare Rifts are a source of the most epic of planar essences.

Competition for these rifts will be fierce, and a Nightmare Leaderboard tracks the most powerful of Ascended as they do battle against the latest threats to Telara.

TWO NEW RAID RIFTS
The Architects of the Plane of Earth are once again building weapons of planar destruction. The Ascended are called upon to thwart this latest technological threat. Take them out in the Plane Crawler Program!

Magical forces are summoning beings directly into Goboro Reef from a distant and dangerous place; The Sea of Ladon! Without intervention, these monsters will cause destruction across the settled seas.

NEW WARFRONT: GHAR STATION EYN
Contact with Ghar Station Eyn was lost centuries ago. Now, battle to be the first to uncover the secret of its dire numerological research into the fringes of mathematics. In your hands, the Manugo number the researchers discovered could be the key to the cosmological constant. However, if possessed by your enemies, it could rain destruction upon the entire plane of water.

Capture Deadly Numbers and hold them to gain points. Those in control of Deadly Numbers may also further make the number go up by activating Manugo Stations. Beware, however, as the Deadly Numbers will destroy your very soul.

MINIONS!
You've gone on so many adventures for Telarans, it's about time they did some adventuring for you. Minions is a resource-gathering minigame within RIFT. It's themed as a card game: collect minion cards, then pick adventure cards for your minions. The more adventures your minions complete, the better they get at finding loot.

How to Start
Head to the nearest Fanatic of the Ascended and take the quest they have for you. They're located at the following locations:

* Meridian: On the south side of the front ramp of the city
* Sanctum: In Mariel-Taun's Village near the Marriage Coordinator
* Tempest Bay: In the Canals near dimension item vendors
* Atragarian Well: Inside the well, at the end of a short corridor with the crafting NPCs

If you need any help finding them, feel free to talk to any guard in those four locations.

Talk with Stofie (the Minion Card Vendor near the Fanatic) to learn more, or just press V to open the Minions interface. Want to know even more about minions? Check out our introduction article here!

Tips:
* If the Minion window is too large for you, make it smaller by going to Settings > Interface > Display. There's a UI Scale slider!
* If you'd rather have some peace and quiet, you can mute your Minions by going to Settings > Audio > and uncheck "Accolades Enabled"!

EXPANDED MENTORING

You can now mentor up to play with your high-level friends by sidekicking! To do so, join a party with a higher level player, right click your portrait, and select Sidekicking: Enable. You will then be mentored up to the max level allowed in your current zone.

Mentoring has also received a balancing pass:
* Buffs now cancel when mentoring down. Recast them to get proper mentored values.
* Item procs no longer trigger while mentored down.
* Stat bonuses from Planar Attunement no longer benefit players who mentor below level 50.

NIGHTMARE CRAFTING
You can now reach skill level 450 in all crafting and harvesting professions! Here are the main ways in which it's different:
* There is no wood for crafting in the Plane of Water. Instead, Foragers process the plants they find into a lumber-like material.
* Instead of directly crafting most high-level gear, crafters make Amenders that anyone can use to upgrade their gear. Different types of gear require different Amenders.
* Runecrafters use their own special set of Amenders to upgrade runes.
* Amenders require Attainium Crystal, which you can get from Minions adventures.
* Amenders require Risarian Minim. Once you reach maximum skill in a harvesting profession, you start having a chance to harvest Risarian Minim from the nodes (or NPCs) associated with that profession.
* To level Fishing faster, remember to fish from Schools of Clever Fish, and move on to Tarken Glacier water to reach skill 450.

REAVER RENEWED
* Due to the extensive nature of this rework, please scroll down to the final post, which has nothing but Reaver details!

AND MORE COMING SOON!
Fall is soon upon us, and the Autumn Harvest will return once more! Plus, Mount Sharax looms on the horizon, opening soon...

HEALTH POOL UPDATE
* The goal of these changes is to reduce the disparity between the health pools of tanks and non-tanks.
* Tanks should not lose any health from this change, and may in fact gain a relatively small amount.
*All other builds will notice a very large gain in their health pools.
* All buffs and effects that increase Endurance by a percentage now modify Base Health instead.
- Base Health is the amount of health your character has without any gear and or spent soul points.
* The amount of health gained at every level has been increased.
* A number of stats have been converted for this new system:
- All Parry is now Guard.
- All Deflect is now Block.
- All toughness is now Hit.
* Additionally, Planar Attunement PVP nodes have also been updated:
- All Valor nodes are now Endurance nodes.
- All Vengeance nodes are now Attack Power/Spell Power nodes.

GENERAL
* When teleporting to an Instant Adventure, you should now be facing a reasonable direction, instead of off a big cliff or something.
* Fixed a visual issue when changing faces in the character creator.
* /Chatinfo will now list channel owners last (for ease of reading with well populated channels).
* It is now possible to move forward or backward while swimming up or diving.
* Players now need to be out of combat for at least 5 seconds before making changes to their soul tree.
* Gaining Planar Attunement points will no longer display a Level Up animation. It will instead show a message of how many points you gained in the chat console.
* Notoriety boosts and modifiers are now added together before being applied.
* Fixed an issue with Planar Attunement points resetting too often after changing faction multiple times.

GRAPHICAL OPTIMIZATIONS
* Big changes to shadowing! We've replaced the old Environmental Only/Full Shadows dropdown with Low, Medium, High, and Ultra settings.
* The old "full shadows" setting is the new "low quality" setting, and it goes up from there.
* We've also introduced another series of optimizations to make shadows much faster than they used to be, so check your video settings and see if you can turn it up! Please report any visual artifacts or issues that you encounter.
* Implemented a fix for shadows on NVidia SLI computers.
* Shadows now update properly when the sun moves quickly.

RIFT STORE AND SERVICES
* A new patron benefit! Patrons receive an experience boost to their minions.

UI AND SETTINGS
* To make room for the new bag slot, we have adjusted the look and layout of the bag bar.
* Minimap location icons related to quests and NPCs will now show a depth arrow. An up arrow will display if the location is above you, and a down arrow will display if the location is below you.
* Removed the gradient from the chat window, so players that want 100% opaque background can now have that. To change this setting, right-click any of your chat tabs and select Settings then change the Background Opacity slider. You will need to repeat this for each of your chat tabs.
* Currency tooltips will display how much more you can earn for the week for currencies that have a weekly earnings limit.
* Fix issue where VFX could stop playing properly after a short loading screen.
* Fixed a bug which caused the tutorial quest sticky's check mark to be off the screen.
* Equipped planar essence in your character sheet will now show their item rarity color border.

ZONES
* Quests now have earrings as rewards in some pre-3.0 zones!

TEMPEST BAY
* A second porticulum has been added! Find it in the Canals area.

SOULS

ABILITIES
* All abilities are now 1 rank.
* Anti-Planar Augmentation, Holy Champion, and Fury of the Ascended now scale based on the number of surrounding invasions and colossi.
- This will reduce initial damage increase against small numbers of invasion creatures, but bring you to roughly the same damage increase when fighting 20 or more invasion creatures.
- These abilities are also now 1 hr duration buffs that cost 3 planar charges and persist through death.
* War Planar Advancement Tree: Guard is now called Defend.

CLERIC
* Cleric PVP PA: Retribution is now instant cast.

INQUISITOR
* Echoing Concord: Stacks now appear in their own UI element.
* Bewilder: Increased the duration to 4s.
* Excommunicate: No longer affected by the global cooldown and now also snares the affected enemy by 30% for up to 10s.
* Fanaticism: Reduced the cooldown to 30s.
* Harsh Discipline: Now deals increased damage, and returns 15% of the caster's Maximum Health over its duration. Cooldown is now 60s.
* Life and Death Concord: Stacks now reduce the cast time of Bolt of Depravity by 0.2/0.4/0.6s per stack. Maximum stack size is now 4. Adiditonally, will be triggered by damaging Ethereal abilities.
* Perseverance: No longer affected by the global cooldown. Reduced the cooldown and duration to 60s.
* Radical Coalescence:
- No longer increases damage for 15s, and instead allows Inquisitor channeled abilities to be cast while moving for 10s.
- Now only resets the cooldown of damaging Inquisitor abilities.
- Now also grants Fanaticism when cast.
* Spiritual Scrutiny:
- The armor and resist penetration portion of this ability now correctly affects the secondary damage proc of Sanction Heretic and other similar effects.
- The global cooldown reduction now affects all Cleric abilities.
- Now prevents Bolt of Judgment from consuming stacks of Echoing Concord (from Unified Theory).
* Trepidation: Now only breaks on damage after the enemy has received damage equal to 5% of the caster's maximum health.
* Unified Theory:
- Now triggers at 4 stacks of Life and Death Concord.
- Increased the stack size of Echoing Concord to 10.
* Aggressive Renewal: Has been removed.
* New ability: Aggressive Inquisition:
- Casts Bolt of Depravity every 0.5s. Does not occur on initial application.
- 2s channel. 60s cooldown.
- 44 point root ability.
* Mental Resilience: Now also causes single target channeled abilities to apply a buff to the caster, increasing damage by 2/4/6% for 30s.
* Symbol of Corruption:
- Now deals its damage over 3s, unless the target already has the caster's Symbol of Corruption, in which case it deals full damage instantly.
- Now causes Bolt of Depravity to deal 10/20/30% of its damage over 3s. Down from 15/30/45%.
* Approbation: Now also causes damaging single target channels to reduce the cooldown active cooldown of all damaging single target channels by 1.5/3s.
* Righteous Indignation: Now increases Spell Power contribution to Bolt of Judgment, Bolt of Depravity and Bolt of Retribution by 4/8/12%. Down from 5/10/15%.

JUSTICAR
* Thorvin's Wrath: Wrath generated by this ability is now 400% of Endurance, up from 100%.

PURIFIER
* Flame of Life: Now heals for 150% of the caster's maximum health. Down from 300%.

SENTINEL
* Wrathful Exuberance: Resetting soul tree points now removes the buff from any target the Cleric has it on.

SHAMAN
* Deep Freeze: No longer modifies the damage of Corroded Defense.

WARDEN
* Ripple: Increased radius to 20m, up from 15m.
* Distant Shores: Now correctly increases the radius of Ripple and Monsoon.
* Alluvion: Now also increases the number of targets hit by Healing Flood by 5/10.
* Under Pressure: Now also reduces the mana cost of Geyser, Healing Cataract, Healing Flood and Soothing Stream by 8/16/24%.
* Soothing Stream: Healing no longer decays over its duration, and will now heal a consistent amount each tick.
* Dangers of the Deep:
- Stacks now appear in their own UI element for Wardens, and no longer appear in the buff bar.
- Stacks now also reduce the cast time of Warden abilities by 0.03/0.06/0.1s per stack. While out of combat, Dangers of the Deep applies 1 stack of its buff every 4s.
- Now applies a stack of the buff every 4s while the Warden is out of combat.

MAGE

ARBITER
* Arcane Ward: Now enables Block, and derives Block from the Mage's Intelligence. Now also reduce the GCD of Ethereal abilities.
* Frosted Ward: Now also reduce the GCD of Ethereal abilities.
* Empowered Wards: Now a tier 8 talent, up from tier 7.
* Arcane Shielding: Now a tier 7 talent, down from tier 8.
* Arcane Protection: Now increases Block by 1/2/3/4/5%.
* Protection of Wind: Now increases the damage reduction when Blocking an attack by 2/4/6%.
* Mockery: Now returns 3% of Max Mana when Blocking an attack.
* Threatening Visage: Threat generated by this ability is now 400% of Endurance, up from 100%.
* Avalanche: Reduced damage.

CHLOROMANCER
* Lifebound Veil: Healing now affects pets if the Mage has cast Synthesis on the pet.
* Blight: Updated icon.
* Natural power: Fixed an issue where the bonus from was not persisting through death, even though Lifegiving Veil or Lifebound Veil would.

HARBINGER
* Furious Assault: Now also reduces the GCD of Ethereal abilities.
* Piercing Beam: The ability description no longer references Ice Shear.
* Luminous Weapon: Corrected a tooptip error, where it would state that the ability would do much more damage than it actually does. This does not affect the actual damage of the ability.

NECROMANCER
* Soul Bond: Reduced the damage intercept to 15%.

PYROMANCER
* Fire Storm: Fixed an issue where base damage was not being increased as the Mage levelled.
* Consuming Flame: Consumables will no longer consume stacks of Internalize Charge, proc instant Cinder Bursts (with Pyromancer's Blessing), or generate stacks of Pyromancer's Fury when used.
* Accelerant: Now falls off when the target dies. No longer increases the damage of procs from the caster.
* Pyromancer's Armor: Removing this ability now removes the Spell Power bonus from the synergy crystal 4 piece bonus.
* Pyromania: Now increases the effect of Spell Power on Fire abilities by 2/4/6/8/10%.
* Incinerating Flames: No longer allows Heat Wave to remove Crowd Control effects.
* Fusillade: Can no longer be channeled while moving.
* Spark: Now also reduces the GCD of Ethereal abilities.

WARLOCK
* Sacrifice Life: Damage now increases Death damage by 20%, and all other damage by 10%.

ROGUE

ASSASSIN
* Poisons now have a base 50% chance to proc, up from 30%. Since these occur more frequently, the damage and associated effects such as healing have been reduced to compensate.
* Poison Mastery: Now adds 2% Weapon, Attack Power, and Damage to poisons per point spent, down from 6%. Each point increases the proc chance by 10%, up from 6%.
* Debiliating Poison: Has been removed.
* New Ability: Debilitating Dart: Debuffs the target and causes attacks made by the rogue on the target to deal extra water damage, snare them, and sap mana/energy from them for the next 10s. 30s cooldown. 20m range, off the GCD, and does not break stealth.
* Debiliating Dart and Enfeebling Poison have been swapped.
* Heartseeker: Now 3% damage to Assassin abilities and 3% Weapon Damage and Attack Power per point spent.
* Poison Malice: Now increases damage of poison attacks by 125% instead of 100%.

BARD
* Verse of Fascination: Has been removed.
* New Ability: Verse of Purity: Removes a Curse, Poison, or Disease every 3s for 3s on up to 10 party/raid members. 10s cooldown.

BLADEDANCER:
Dual Mastery: Now increases damage of all Bladedancer abilities, instead of just off-hand attacks.

NIGHTBLADE
* Death from the Shadows:
- No longer requires stealth.
- Adds 2 combo points instead of 3.
- Now has a 30s cooldown.

RANGER
* Wilderness Training: Now increases Weapon Damage and Attack Power by 2% per point invested.

RIFTSTALKER
* Guardian Phase: Now enables block instead of deflect, as well as guard.
* On Guard: Increases your Block chance by 1/2/3/4/5% and reduces the damage you take when blocking by 1/2/3/4/5%.

WARRIOR
* Presets: Updated Righteous Defender and Pactbreaker presets to not use Reaver as the sub-soul. Added new Plague Lord preset for use with the revamped Reaver soul.

LIBERATOR
* Dichotomy of Pain: Now a single target healing finisher.

PALADIN
* Shield of the Hero: Now enables guard.
* A Good Defense has swapped places with Vengeful Wrath.
* A Good Defense: Increases damage and healing by abilities that generate attack points by 2/4/6/9/10%.

Tier 2:
(Repurposed) Vengeful Wrath: Increases weapon damage and attack power by 2/4/6/8/10%.

Root:
Interfere: No longer generates an Attack Point
Reverent Protection: Renamed to Vengefu Decree. 20m range, 30s cooldown. Deals Life damage based on Attack Points to up to 5 enemies.

PARAGON
* Shifting Blades: Now 10/20/30% of initial attack. For each point above 28 spent in Paragon, damage percentage is increased by 0.36% per combo point used.
* Shifting Blades has been swapped places with Sweeping Blades.

TEMPEST
* Arc: Now 10/20/30% of initial attack. For each point above 28 spent in Arc, damage percentage is increased by 0.36% per combo point used.

VOID KNIGHT
* Accords are no longer augmented by number of pacts. They grant flat value bonuses. Actual amounts.
* Accord of Resilience has swapped places with Void Propulsion.
* Accord of Resilience: Enables Guard. Increases Armor by 3%, and Resistances by 9%. Does not stack with Shield of the Hero.
* Devouring Shield: No longer a finisher. Absorbs a flat amount. Off GCD. 2m cooldown. Stacks with Rift Shield and Fusion of Flesh.
* Fusion of Flesh: Absorbs damage equal to 75% of the Warrior’s max HP. Lasts 20s.
* Devouring Shield has swapped places with Rift Summon.
* Destructive Forces and Empowered Armor have been swapped in the talent tree.
* Destructive Forces: Now grants 0.5/1.0/1.5%. Fixed a data error where the ability only improved .1% per talent point, and is now actually the correct value.
* Efficient Conversion: Also now increases duration of pacts by 5/10/15s, to make up for Energy Retention going away.
* Empowered Armor: Now Increases Armor by 2/4/6/8/10%.
* Energy Retention: Increases weapon damage and attack power by 2/4/6/8/10%.
* Spark: No longer generates an Attack Point.
* Ragestorm: Changed to Air damage from Physical. Cooldown lowered to global. Consumes up to 3 pacts on use.

WARLORD
* Battlefield Medic and Brothers in Arms have swapped positions.
* Battle Surge: No longer has a 10% damage taken penalty.
* Decisive Strike: No longer refreshes cooldown on Piercing Thrust or Wave of Steel. Now 9s cooldown and awards 2 attack points.
Piercing Thrust & Wave of Steel: No longer off global cooldown, no longer have a cooldown. Deal significantly more damage if used following a finisher.
* New Passive Ability: Warlord’s Focus: Unlocked when Piercing Thrust is acquired. Triggered after using a finisher, lasts 6s. Greatly increases the damage of the next Piercing Thrust or Wave of Steel.

DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES
* Many Storm Legion daily and weekly quests that awarded XP now award Planar Attunement XP instead.

PVP AND WARFRONTS
* Bolstering has been updated for level 65!
- When bolstering is active, your bolstered armor now gains the benefits of all your Runes, Temporary Enchants and Dream Orbs!
- Bolstering now works in both directions: In addition to boosting up your gear that is too low for PVP, it now also replaces any gear that is more powerful than what's currently available in PVP.
* Warfronts can now attempt to balance dedicated healers, damagers, or people on losing streaks on each team. * The warfront summary screen now includes healing values from indirect heal spells, like Justicar's Salvation.
* Player corpses no longer need to be looted to receive rewards. Coin will be automatically looted, and any other rewards will show up in the Rift reward container.
* Conquest Points and Conquest Perks have been removed from Conquest Mode.
* PVP Rifts have been retired, and can no longer be opened.

DIMENSIONS
* Fixed invisible dimension object indicators for people using the low-quality renderer.
* Dimensions that don't change Time of Day now say so on mouseover.

CRAFTING
* High-level items from Storm Legion will salvage into Plane of Water materials. Enjoy your head-start!

ITEMS
* Nightmare Tide Essences are Bind to Account until upgraded. At that point, they become Bind on Pickup.
* Healing potions, tonics and philters will no longer be affected by abilities and effects that modify healing.

AUDIO
* Fixed an issue with the Empyreal Walker's sound effects. Spell effects now reappear on the player after dismounting from the Empyreal Walker.

== REAVER ==

GIFT
Reaver's Soul Gift: Each point spent in Reaver increases damage by 1%.

ROOT ABILITIES

0 points:
* Ravaging Strike: Melee: Deals Weapon damage plus Death damage. Awards 1 Attack Point.
* Soul Sickness: Ranged: 15s cooldown: 20m: Deals Death damage over 15s. Awards 1 Attack Point.

2 Points:
* Dire Blow: Melee Finisher: Deals Death Damage based on Attack Points.

4 Points:
* Binding of Affliction: Self Buff: Increases Damage of non-Physical attacks by 5%. Lasts 1h.

10 Points:
* Dire Corruption: Targeted Aura: Ranged: 20m: 30s cooldown: Applies Dire Corruption on target enemy, dealing Death damage every 2s for 30s to the target and up to 10 enemies within 10m. Awards 1 Attack Point.

16 Points:
* Necrotic Wounds: Ranged: 6s cooldown: Deals Death damage over 15s. Awards 1 Attack Point.

24 Points:
* Infestation: Ranged: 20m: 30s cooldown: After 8s, detonates and deals Death damage per Reaver non-finisher damage over time effect on the target. Awards 1 Attack Point.

32 Points:
* Crest of Entropy: Self Buff: 60s cooldown: Off Global Cooldown: Absorbs damage. Lasts for 15s.

38 Points:
* Stumbling Morass: GTAoE: 20m: 30s cooldown: Applies Stumbling Morass to the ground. Enemies caught in the morass are snared. Lasts for 30s.

44 Points:
* Cloak of Death: Self Buff: Off Global Cooldown: 90s cooldown: Envelops the Reaver into the shadows that conceals them from being seen. Removes all movement debuffs. Lasts for 6s. Does not break on damage taken. Movement speed is reduced by 30% while cloaked.

48 Points:
* Plague Bringer: Toggle: Off Global Cooldown: Causes the Reaver's damage over time abilities to affect up to 4 additional enemies. Damage done to the additional targets is reduced by 70%.

51 Points:
* Flesh Rot: Ranged: 20m: Deals Death damage over 15s. Awards 1 Attack Point.

54 Points:
* Pestilence: Passive: Increases the damage of Reaver damage over time effects by 25%.

58 Points:
* Explosive Infestation: Ranged: 20m: 30s cooldown: Effects up to 5 enemies. After 8s, deals Death damage, increased by 45% per Reaver damage over time effect on the enemy, maximum of 4. Awards 1 Attack Point.

61 Points:
* Viral Stream: Ranged: 30m: 30s cooldown: Channels Death damage each second over 3s to the target. Damage is increased 30% for each Reaver damage over time effect on the target. Can move while channeling. Awards 1 Attack Point per second channeled.

TALENTS

Tier 1:
* Planar Attunement: 5 points: Increases damage over time abilities by 2/4/6/8/10%.
Entropic Embrace: 5 points: Increases non-Physical damage by 2/4/6/8/10%.

Tier 2:
* Rancid Cleave: 1 point: Ability: Melee: AoE: Deals Weapon plus Death damage to 5 targets. Awards 1 Attack Point. (This replaced Blood Fever.)
* Shadow Strength: 5 points: Increases Strength by 2/4/6/8/10%.
* Deadly Reach: Augments your Binding of Affliction to increase the range of your ranged Reaver abilities by 3/6/10m.
* Soul Feast: 1 Point- Soul Sickness, Necrotic Wounds, and Flesh Rot heal you for 8% of the damage done.

Tier 3:
* Reaping Touch: 2 points: Dire Blow does 10/20% more damage against targets below 30% health.
* Plagued Grip: 5 Points: Increases Weapon damage and Attack Power by 2/4/6/8/10%.
* Spasm: 1 Point: Ability: 20m: 8s cooldown: Interrupts an enemy.

Tier 4:
* Power Leech: 3 Points: Those affected by your Dire Corruption deal 1/2/3% less damage.
* Septic Wounds: 1 point: Those affected by your Necrotic Wounds also have healing received reduced by 15%.
* Shadow Mastery: 3 points: Increases critical hit chance of non-Physical abilities by 2/4/6%.

Tier 5:
* Fester : 5 points: Enemies affected by Infestation and Explosive Infestation get a debuff that causes them to take increased Death damage from the Reaver by 3/6/9/12/15%.
* Shadow Warp: 1 point: Ability: 20m range: 15s cooldown: Teleports the Reaver behind their target.
* Mind Break: 1 Point: Required: Spasm: Spasm now stuns the target for 3s. The target cannot be affected by Mind Spasm again for 30s.

Tier 6:
* From the Shadows: 5 points: Increases damage done by Dire Blow and Ravaging Strike by 2/4/6/8/10% when striking from behind.
* Dire Step: 1 Point: Required: Shadow Warp: Increase movement speed by 15% for 3s after Shadow Warping. Removes all damage over time effects on the Warrior.
* Lingering Shadows: 2 points: Infestation has 50/100% chance to grant an additional Attack Point.

Tier 7:
* Decaying Defenses: 1 point: Increases the damage of Dire Corruption by 10%. Those affected by Flesh Rot have their armor and resists reduced by 5%.
* Rapid Infestation: 3 points: Reduces the countdown to detonation on Infestation by 2/4/6s and increases damage done by 5/10/15%.
* Sinister Intent: 1 point: Increases the initial damage of Soul Sickness, Necrotic Wounds and Flesh Rot by 30%.

Tier 8:
* Walks with Death: 3 points: Reduces the cooldown of Infestation, and Explosive Infestation by 3/6/9s.
* Vile Affinity: 1 points: Reduces the cooldown on Dire corruption by 20s.
* Shadow Strike: 1 point: Dire Blow and Ravaging Strike now deal 25% additional Death damage for each Reaver damage over time effect on the target.

Tier 9:
* Shadow of Dread: 1 point: Ability: 20m range: 60s cooldown: Applies all known Reaver damage over time abilities to the target. Awards 1 Attack Point.

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RIFT 2.8: Hotfix #14 10/15/14

NA: 10/15/14 @ 7:00 AM PDT
EU: 10/16/14 @ 1:00 AM GMT

ZONES
* Zone Event: Bloodfire Behemoth: Amon T’Drok will no longer cast Rising Fissure on player pets.

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RIFT 2.8: Hotfix #13 10/10/14

NA: 10/10/14 @ 10:15 AM PDT
EU: 10/11/14 @ 1:00 AM GMT

GENERAL
* Implemented some additional logging to track down a source of lag.

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RIFT 2.8: Hotfix #12 10/9/14

NA: 10/9/14 @ 10:15 AM PDT
EU: 10/10/14 @ 1:00 AM GMT

== PROMOTIONAL EVENT: TRIPLE THREAT ==
For a limited time, Temporal Flux, Budgie Madness, and Unicornalia will all be making an appearance!

* Temporal Flux: Thursday October 9th to Saturday October 11th
* Budgie Madness: Saturday October 11th to Monday October 13th
* Unicornalia: October 13th to Wednesday October 15th!

All events begin and end at 3.30 PM server time.

GENERAL
* Fixed an issue causing the quest complete splash to appear at odd times.

UI AND SETTINGS
* Price history graphs will now appear when browsing for items in the Auction House when right clicking items from your bags or crafting window.

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RIFT 2.8: Hotfix #11 10/1/14

NA: 10/1/14 @ 7:30 AM PDT
EU: 10/2//14 @ 1:00 AM GMT

GENERAL
* PVP and Dungeon quests that consume charges now auto complete.

DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES

BINDINGS OF BLOOD
* Many of the creatures in the Bindings of Blood have been extremely bothered by nightmares lately… those affected by Troubled by Nightmares have had their damage output decreased by 25%, and are 25% more susceptible to damage.

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RIFT 2.8: Hotfix #10 9/18/14

NA: 9/18/14 @ 11:15 AM PDT
EU: 9/19/14 @ 1:00 AM PDT

AUCTION HOUSE
* Auction House postal agents will no longer go home early if asked to send out mail in a language they don't understand. This fixes the issue with partial auctions (and buy orders, if the auction was resolved by one) not going through. The backlog of resolved partial auction orders will be mailed out to everyone.

PVP AND WARFRONTS
* Updated ELO matchmaking to remove a flaw affecting a handful of players.

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RIFT 2.8: Hotfix #9 9/17/14

NA: 9/17/14 @ 7:30 PM PDT
EU: 9/18/14 @ 1:00 AM PDT

DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES

BINDINGS OF BLOOD: GREENSCALE
* Lord Greenscale now has the Reaping Spikethrower (Tier 3 gun for Warriors) on his normal loot table.

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RIFT 2.8: Hotfix #8 9/10/14

NA: 9/10/14 @ 7:30 PM PDT
EU: 9/11/14 @ 1:00 AM PDT

AUCTION HOUSE
* Players who successfully purchase an item on the Auction House using a buy order will pay a commission, just like auctions.
* Partial purchases now handle partial deposit returns and partial fees.
* Players who successfully purchase an item on the Auction House using a buy order will have their listing fee refunded to them.
* For a more detailed explanation of how we've simplified the auction house, please click here!

DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES

BINDINGS OF BLOOD
* Greenscale: Fixed the bug causing Greenscale to drop less than his appropriate 3 souls.

DIMENSIONS
* Fixed an issue causing players to be unable to move/rotate certain dimension items.

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RIFT 2.8: Hotfix #7 9/4/14

NA: 9/4/14 @ 2:30 PM PDT
EU: 9/5/14 @ 1:00 AM PDT

RIFT STORE AND SERVICES
* Fixed a problem with wishlists.

DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES

BINDINGS OF BLOOD
* Corrected the boss reset error players were experiencing in various T3 encounters.
* Triple your pleasure, triple your fun! The Bindings of Blood Bosses now drop three Soul of the Bloodstorm each time they are defeated!
- Known Issue: There is a known issue with Greenscale causing him to only drop one soul. However, your Raid Leader can petition in to Customer Support and request they be added to the appropriate players.
* Souls of the Bloodstorm should no longer have issues with stacking and master looting.

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RIFT 2.8: Hotfix #6 9/3/14

NA: 9/3/14 @ 7:30 PM PDT
EU: 9/4/14 @ 1:00 AM PDT

GENERAL
* Experimental Oculus Support: You should now be able to interact with entities in the world by clicking on them while in Oculus mode.
* Improved NPC pathing around obstacles, specifically addressing an issue with Krok and Och in the Hive chronicle.

RIFT STORE AND SERVICES
* A number of MTX boosts displayed visually as purgeable, even though they were never actually purgeable. They now correctly appear to not be purgeable.

SOULS

CLERIC

WARDEN
* Ripple: Increased the radius to 20m, up from 15m.
* Distant Shores: Now correctly increases the radius of Ripple and Monsoon.
* Alluvion: Now also increases the number of targets hit by Healing Flood by 5/10.
* Under Pressure: Now also reduces the mana cost of Geyser, Healing Cataract, Healing Flood and Soothing Stream by 8/16/24%.
* Soothing Stream: Healing from this ability no longer decays over its duration, and will now heal a consistent amount each tick.
* Dangers of the Deep:
- Stacks now also reduce the cast time of Warden abilities by 0.03/0.06/0.1s per stack.
- While out of combat, Dangers of the Deep applies 1 stack of its buff every 4s.
- Stacks now appear in their own UI element for Wardens, and no longer appear in the buff bar.

DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES

BINDINGS OF BLOOD
* Double your pleasure, double your fun! The Bindings of Blood Bosses now drop two Soul of the Bloodstorm each time they are defeated!
* We have updated parameters to correct an obscure bug where tank death could sometimes cause certain bosses to reset even though the raid was still alive.

BINDINGS OF BLOOD: GREENSCALE
* Until the next Hotfix, Lord Greenscale has a special treat for DPS warriors.

ITEMS
* Relic upgrades for Raid 2 store armor no longer requires Heart of the Planebreaker.

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RIFT 2.8: HOTFIX #5 8/27/14

NA: 8/27/14 @ 7:30 PM PDT
EU: 8/28/14 @ 1:00 AM PDT

GENERAL
* Use your Rift on RIFT! Implemented experimental Oculus Rift support.
- /oculus 1 to enable.
- /oculus 0 to disable.
- /oculusrecenter to recenter position tracking.
- You must resize your window to be the appropriate size (1920x1080 for the DK2) and use extend desktop mode.
- Direct mode is not supported.
- This is an experimental, unsupported, side project - use at your own risk – support may be disabled in the future if problems arise.
* Fixed an issue causing the "Copy to PTS" to time out!

AUCTION HOUSE
* Right-clicking on item or material icons in your crafting window while the Auction house is open to the browse tab will now auto search for that item on the auction house.

SOULS

CLERIC

DRUID
* The Druid soul no longer counts as a partial support soul for the purposes of determining which role icon to display for a character. It now counts as DPS only.
* Subtlety: Now affects secondary damage effects of abilities, such as Sanction Heretic, Dark Water, Lightning Hammer and Eruption of Life.

INQUISITOR
*Nysyr's Rebuke: Removed PVP damage penalty.

ORACLE
* Defend the Fallen: Fixed an issue which could prevent this ability from applying its blocker debuff.

SHAMAN
* Deep Freeze: No longer modifies the damage of Corroded Defense.

MAGE
* Fixed an issue with some Pyromancer effects incorrectly triggering the Fungal Blossom debuff on the Greenscale fight.

HARBINGER
* Empyrean Ascension: Now has a 60s cooldown, but lasts for 15s.
* Dancing Limbs: Reduced the cooldown and duration of this ability (which is gained from Empyrean Ascension) to 6s.

PYROMANCER
* Accelerant: Now falls off when the target dies.

STORMCALLER
* Conductive Medium: No longer breaks the disguise from the quest A Bit of Subterfuge.

ROGUE

PHYSICIAN
* Biofeedback: Rank 9 of this ability no longer targets enemies.

DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES

BINDINGS OF BLOOD: LAETHYS
* Fixed an issue with the Not Golden achievement not always being awarded correctly.

NIGHTMARE COAST
* Fixed an issue with Sleeping on the Job having missing quest text.

ZONES AND QUESTS

THE DENDROME
*NPCs: Daya Patth in Achyati Village will no longer move from his position.

PVP AND WARFRONTS

THE BLIGHTED ANTECHAMBER
*Deaths in Blighted Antechamber will no longer cause Soul Damage.

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RIFT 2.8: HOTFIX #4 8/20/14

NA: 8/20/14 @ 7:30 AM PDT
EU: 8/21/14 @ 1:00 AM GMT

== PROMOTIONAL EVENTS ==

The Budgies are Back – in Pink!
New Lovely Budgie mounts can be acquired from Limited Edition: Budgie Troves, available on the Rift Store and by completing the achievement Chicken Run! Umbral, Ashen, and Frosty Budgies can be purchased with Bird Seed, obtained from the Limited Edition: Budgie Trove and by completing daily quests in Silverwood, Freemarch, Pelladane, and Cape Jule.

This event starts at 3:30 PM server time on August 21st, and ends at 3:30 PM server time on August 28th!

GENERAL
* Fixed an issue where fishing could be interrupted continuously.

UI AND SETTINGS
* A new way to take beautiful screenshots has been added! By default, Control + P will now take a screenshot with your UI hidden rather than having to hide it manually. You can rebind this ability in the keybindings window.
* Fixed an issue causing faraway objects to be permanently shadowed.
* The main map now works correctly while using the low-quality renderer.

AUCTION HOUSE
* Due to the increased volume of successful auction house sales, we have reduced the deposit costs for both auctions and buy orders of short, medium, and long durations.
* There is now a dropdown selector in the Auction House that will let you specify the default price you want to see for items when you are creating auctions and buy orders. Suggested price will give you a recommended price from our servers and My Last Price will give you the prices you used when you last created an auction with this item.

SOULS

MAGE

PYROMANCER
* Cinder Burst: Reduced damage done.
Accelerant: This debuff now increases damage taken by 2/4/6/8%. Down from 3/6/9/12%.

WARLOCK
* Expanded Contagion: This talent no longer references Combust.

DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES

NIGHTMARE COAST
* Mobs and bosses in the standard version of Nightmare Coast now deal 50% less damage in order to bring them in line with standard dungeon difficulty.

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RIFT 2.8: HOTFIX #3 8/13/14

NA: 8/13/14 @ 7:30 AM PDT
EU: 8/14/14 @ 1:00 AM GMT

GENERAL
* No longer will you be summoned by a mystery player when you receive a Rift Summon! The proper name will once again display.
* Fixed an issue causing unusable duplicate gift items to spam player mailboxes.

SOULS

CLERIC
PURIFIER
* Flame of Life: Reduced the duration of the blocker buff from Flame of Life by 1s.

MAGE
PYROMANCER
* Pyromancer's Blessing: Fixed an issue where Pyromancer's Blessing could stop proccing after the Mage died.

WARRIOR
CHAMPION
* Proper Timing: Now affected by Follow Through.

PALADIN
* Life's Rapture: Reduced the duration of the blocker buff from Life's Rapture by 1s.

DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES

BINDINGS OF BLOOD: MAELFORGE
* Asias now reduces fire damage to a lesser extent than he had been and provides benefits for Inquisitor DPS spells.
* Maelforge's True Form has been fixed and now correctly calculates the damage modification for tank focused attacks.

NIGHTMARE COAST
* Removed the weird camera during the Lord Arak fight.
* Corrected several achievement trigger events which were awarding their achievements.
* Adjusted the faction of the Shadelings spawned by Dreamscrapers so they wouldn't fight other NPCs around them
* Made some performance improvements to the dungeon.
* Fixed some grammatical errors in the opening vignette.
* Reduced the overall damage dealt by the trash and certain boss attacks in the dungeon.
* Reduced the health of the summoning portals created by Dalraak the Shadowlord.

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RIFT 2.8: HOTFIX #2 8/9/14

GENERAL
No longer will you be resurrected by mystery players! The name of the person who resurrects you will now properly display again.

RIFT STORE AND SERVICES
* Additional Buy Order slots for the Auction House are now available for purchase on the Store.

AUCTION HOUSE
* Creating an auction with a large deposit now requires player confirmation before it goes through. This also applies to relisting items from an expired auction mail.
* In the Browse and Create tabs of the Auction House, the seller name has been added back in. It displays under the item name.
* Auction Listings and Buy Orders have new durations - 12 hours, 48 hours, and 7 days.
* You can no longer abandon buy orders by transferring to another server.
* Auction Listings and Buy Orders have new costs - 0.75% for 12 hours, 2% for 48 hours, and 5% for 7 days.

SOULS
* All Warrior and Rogue abilities are now consistent in how they are affected by debilitate.

ROGUE

BARD
* Virtuoso: Now a 60s cooldown instead of 120s.

DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES

BINDINGS OF BLOOD: MAELFORGE
* This raid now contains a hard mode option which offers a new achievement, title, and an additional piece of equipment if succeeded.

NIGHTMARE COAST
* Fixed an issue preventing Dalraak and dungeon completion from granting achievements.
* Reduced the damage dealt by certain trash NPCs and Whirling Death
* Reduced the health of Dalraak’s summoned tears by 50%

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RIFT 2.8: HOTFIX #1.5 8/7/14

NA: 8/7/14 @ 2:45 PM PDT
EU: 8/8/14 @ 1:00 AM PDT

GENERAL
* Fixed a server crash.

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RIFT 2.8: HOTFIX #1 8/7/14

NA: 8/7/14 @ 11:00 AM PDT
EU: 8/8/14 @ 1:00 AM PDT

GENERAL
* Fixed a rare edge case where players could get stuck drowning while on land.
* Fixed a bug with the Buy Order feature on the Auction House, and re-enabled it as a result.

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RIFT 2.8: MADNESS WAKES 8/6/14

NA: 8/6/14 @ 7:30 AM PDT
EU: 8/7/14 @ 1 AM GMT

== FEATURES ==

3.0 PRELUDE: MADNESS WAKES STORY QUESTS
Cyril Kalmar and Kira Thanos have been dreaming darkly in the city of Tempest Bay. Help them put these Dark Dreams to rest...

NEW DUNGEON: NIGHTMARE COAST
The Infinity Gate has been set adrift by a sinister force has sailed across the world to Fortune's Shore with an army of fanatic cultists called themselves the Dream Coven in tow. The city defenses have fallen and now the clock is ticking as the cultists begin a ritual to open a portal to another world. Will the ascended be able to thwart this diabolical plot or will a new age of darkness descend upon Telara? Join together with four other brave Telarans and find out!

The Nightmare Coast is a new 5 man dungeon for players at level 60 that offers powerful new items, quests, challenging new encounters and the answers to the mystery of the Sinister Presence. The entrance can be found in Shimmersand near Fortune’s Shore.

PYROMANCER REBORN
The Pyromancer soul has received a large update. More instant Cinder Burst casts, no more Combust stack management and deadlier Fireballs are just a few of the changes waiting for you. Come check out the updated abilities and talents now available.

For more information and a detailed list of changes, check out the thread on our forums here!

REVAMPED AUCTION HOUSE!
The auction house has been overhauled and is now vastly improved!
* Improved searching
* Recommended prices
* Buy individual items from a stack
* Item previewing
* Price history
* Buy orders
* Relist auctions through your mailbox
* Search by stats
* Replaced arbitrary durations of short, medium, and long with real times, such as 23h, 51m
* Read all about the auction house improvements here!
* NOTE: At this time, there is a 2.5 to 5% listing fee, depending on the duration of the auction. Upon cancellation or expiration, that fee is not refunded. This will be changed in a future patch to the following:
- Short - 12 Hours - 0.75%
- Medium - 48 Hours - 2%
- Long - 168 Hours - 5%

UPGRADED INSPECT
Inspecting gear on other players just got more detailed! You can now tell if an item comes from a mob or an achievement, and which one it is!

ACTION BARS: SHAREABLE ACROSS ROLES
* You can now toggle any of your Secondary Action bars to be shared across all Roles for a character. Open options/interface/action bars and click any of the shared action bar toggles. Action bars that you toggle to shared will keep the same abilities on them when you switch to a different Role.
* The first time you turn on a shared action bar, it will make a copy of the buttons from the bar it is replacing.

GENERAL
* You can now dive while swimming! The default key for this is X. To change this, look for it in the movement portion of the key bindings menu. Sheath weapon, which previously defaulted to X, has been moved to Shift+Z.
* During a celebration, dungeon token increases will now be an overall percentage increase, instead of a chance to receive extra tokens.
* Haters to the left: players can now add people who are offline to their ignore list.
* Players using Cast on Target's Target will now have their auto attack target updated to match their target's target more often.
* Players in Warfronts can no longer queue for Chronicles.
* No longer will you be teleported by a mystery player! When using friend summon on a friend not in your raid, party, or zone, it will properly display your name for them.
* Multi-lingual players wishing to join multi-word official channel names will no longer have to encase the channel name in quotes. For example, the following should join your server's German language level 30-49 channel: /join Stufe 30-49
* Improve performance for people who keep items on their action bars that they don't have in their bags.
* Abilities in the action bar will now grey out more accurately if the ability can not be cast on the selected target.
* Fixed an issue with some abilities failing to queue when cast from a macro.
* When Rift crashes due to Mumble, we now properly inform the player that mumble crashed.
* New slash commands:
- /setwaypoint x z – Sets a waypoint on your map with the two specified coordinates.
- /clearwaypoint – Clears your current waypoint.
* Guild Perks - Fixed an issue with the Planar Knowledge. It should now increase experience as expected.

RIFT STORE AND SERVICES
* Patron Fast Pass will no longer dismount players when activated.
* Added items to the Store that allow players to open random Great Hunt 1-3 and 4-5 rifts, without achievement requirement and at a slightly cheaper price. Note that essences from chests are random and not based on the plane type of the rift.
* Bonus Dungeon Charges Patron ability can now be used if the player is below cap for any dungeon tier, not just max tier.

UI AND SETTINGS
* Stat values in the character sheet dialog no longer change color based on if the stat is buffed/debuffed.
* Key bindings text no longer references Deeps' Depot.
* Players with lots of achievements no longer have to wait quite so long when opening their achievements window.
* We now display more soul presets, improved the sorting within the UI, and added a shortcut to the Rift Store when an expansion soul pack is required.
* Instant cast purges and cleanses will show in the combat log as [person] begins casting [spell].
* Purgeable buffs now show up with a blue border.
* The artifact turn in window no longer auto-closes if you have more artifact sets to turn in.

GRAPHICS AND RENDERING
* Significant improvements to the shadow code! We've drastically boosted shadow performance – if you had shadows turned off because they were slow, give it another shot.
* Significantly reduce shadow shimmering.
* Improved framerate when not staring directly at the sun. Don't look at the sun, kids.
* The water collision camera now works properly. Additionally, it also now ignores water collision by default.
* Fixed occasional terrain lighting seams.
* Fixed an issue with the incorrect player model appearing briefly during a polymorph transition.
* Fix black flickering rendering errors.

SOULS
* Updated the Flamecaller and Fire Hunter presets to reflect the updated Pyromancer soul.

CLERIC

SENTINEL
* Faith Rewarded:
- Now has a 1 hour duration and is no longer a toggled buff.
- It will not persist through death.
* Vigilance:
- Now has a 1 minute duration.
- Increased the healing of Vigilance.
* Divine Call: Increased healing done.
* Light of Redemption: Reduced mana cost by 50%.

SHAMAN
* Dauntless Courage: Now increases Spell Power by 2/4/6/8/10%.
* Frozen Wrath: Now only increases the damage of Vengeance of the Winter Storm and no longer affects damage from Vengeance of the Primal North.

MAGE
* Charge now regenerates while out of combat.

ARCHON
* Earthen Barrage, Volcanic Bomb, Spark Shower and Surging Flare are now categorized as Raid Support abilities.

DOMINATOR
* Transference:
- Updated ability description to correctly indicate that it increases mana costs by 125% and power and energy costs by 50%.
- This is an ability tooltip update only and does not affect how the ability functions.

PYROMANCER
* The Pyromancer soul has received a large update. More instant Cinder Burst casts, no more Combust stack management and deadlier Fireballs are just a few of the changes waiting for you. Come check out the updated abilities and talents now available. For more information and a detailed list of changes, check out the thread on our forums here!

STORMCALLER
* Conductive Medium:
- Now has a max stack size of 3.
- Now awards a stack of Conductive Medium every 4/2s while out of combat.
* Conductive Medium: Damage bonus from this ability no longer buffs damage procs, such as damage from Lightning Blade or Warlock Armor.
* Spontaneous Charge: Talent has been removed.
* Static Charge: Updated ability description to indicate it only increases Air and Water damage.
* New Talent: Superconductor:
- This replaces the Spontaneous Charge talent.
- Increases the maximum number of Conductive Medium stacks you can have by 1/ 2.
* Voltaic Strength:
- Now causes Electrified stacks to increase the damage of Stormcaller single target Air and Water abilities by 1/2/3/4/5/6% per stack.
- Now causes Electrified stacks to increase damage of all other Air and Water abilities by 0.5/1/1.5/2/2.5/3% per stack.
- Damage bonus from this ability no longer buffs damage procs, such as damage from Lightning Blade or Warlock Armor.
* Living Storm: Stormcallers can no longer have this buff active on multiple targets at once.

ROGUE

NIGHTBLADE
* Ebon Fury: Increased duration by 2s.

TACTICIAN
* Curative Engine: Reduced the healing done in PVP by 50%. PVE remains unchanged.

WARRIOR

PARAGON
* Shifting Blades: Damage reduced to 20/40/60% based on combo points used.

TEMPEST
* Arc:
- Damage reduced to 20/40/60% based on combo points used.
- Removed the 50% damage reduction in PVP.

RIFTS AND ZONES

HUNT RIFTS
* Reduced Hunt rift invasion stage timers from 2min to 1.5min.
* Reduced Great Hunt rift invasion stage timer from 5min to 3min.
* Increased the frequency of invasions at higher population levels in both Hunt and Great Hunt rifts.
* Changed the Great Hunt rift boss ability “Burgeoning Power” to apply slightly less damage reduction. However, it now also increases the boss's outgoing damage if not removed by turrets.
* Reduced the weight of upgradeables (turrets) when determining Great Hunt rift invasion strength/quantity.
* Slightly reduced the base damage done by Great Hunt 1-3 bosses.
* Slightly increased the health of the Great Hunt rift population scaling buff.
* Removed the Planarch Quoras flight phase and buffed his damage slightly.

EMPYREAL STRONGHOLDS - DENDROME
* Reduced health and damage of all Empyreal Stronghold mobs and bosses by up to 50%.
* Doubled the chance of rare and epic loot drops from Empyreal Stronghold bosses.
* Reduced the Empyreal Stronghold player population scaling buff.
* Increased Torvan notoriety on Empyreal Stronghold boss kills.
* Added Empyreal Alliance notoriety on Empyreal Stronghold boss kills.
* The summoned Empyreal Mech will cut through the Stronghold's shield faster.

DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES
* Fixed missing geometry in Infinity Gate and Grim Awakening.

BINDINGS OF BLOOD: MAELFORGE
* To account for raid DPS changes with this patch, the cooldown for Dark Cabal has been adjusted from 240 seconds to 210 seconds. The duration has also been increased, from 10 seconds to 12 seconds.
* Burning Convinction now cleanses any effect that it currently blocks from being applied.
* Fusion now occurs less frequently, and also uses the correct damage calculation type.

FROZEN TEMPEST
* Artifex Zaviel now enrages more reliably when pulled out of her room.

INFINITY GATE
* Mordan and Viktus:
- Obsidian Scarabs now attack slower, and don't attack immediately.

PLANEBREAKER BASTION
* Warden Thrax:
- Chain Gang's damage has been reduced.
- Greater Tectonic Transference now has a slight delay before it deals AoE damage.
* Inyr'Kta
- The final silicon Sandstorm when Inyr'Kta uses Shard Swarm for the second time has been removed.

REALM OF TWISTED DREAMS
* Adjusted the luggos in the Realm of Twisted Dreams to be more responsive to approaching players.

PVP AND WARFRONTS
* Players will no longer be stuck in spirit form if they join Conquest while dead.
* Players who die in warfronts after leveling past the warfront's level cap will no longer be stuck in spirit form.
* Players from PVP shards who were away from home are warned when a teleport returns them home.

ITEMS
* Fixed an issue with the essence Voice of the Undead King. It will now affect pets summoned after equipping the essence.
* The Sands of Time now procs off of damaging Archon Raid Support abilities

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