RIFT 2.5: Hotfix #7 12/18/13

RIFT 2.5: Hotfix #7 12/18/13 == FEATURES == Intrepid: River of Souls Chronicle We've reached our final weekly feature of content updated for level 60! Our sixth feature is the Intrepid: River of Souls Chronicle, with mobs brought up to max level, with some new rewards to boot! GENERAL * Account-bound Radiant Infinity Cells can now be used for upgrading items. * Fixed a safety hazard with Empyreal Walkers that caused player limbs to stick out of the mech suit. Please Keep All Limbs Inside the Vehicle At All Times. * The Silverwood Guard's Outfit cannot be dyed correctly. This will be fixed in a future hotfix. FAE YULE * To give more time for snowflake farming and achievement chasing, Fae Yule will be extended a week! Phase 3 now ends on Jan. 9th, 2014. * Some lingering holiday cheer will remain until the 15th, primarily the Store items and the droppable chests. * Many new Fae Yule achievements have been added for in-game activities! * Fae Yule teleporters in Tempest Bay should now work correctly for players that have purchased a race or faction change. Thanks to Beanster on the forums! * Eli Wyllyce, the Fae Yule dimension item vendor, has located his correct inventory. Revelers rejoice! * The bonus Fae Yule artifacts spawned when a Fae Yule village is built up through Instant Adventure have been reworked for better reliability. * Store incentive achievements no longer count towards the Achievement Score. * Dark Ice bells now stack to 99. RIFT STORE AND SERVICES * New Years Fireworks are now available under the Fae Yule section of the store. Happy New Years! * Transcendent versions of Boosts are now available on the Rift Store 24/7! * Life and Death themed costume weapons are now available in the Wardrobe section. * Players viewing a wishlist as it's being modified will see the modifications as they happen. SOULS MAGE WARLOCK * Opportunity: Now reduces the global cooldown of abilities it affects to 1s. * Conflux: Now applied to the Mage instead of the enemy, and is no longer on the global cooldown. * Salvage Corruption: Increased the duration to 30s. * Void Barrage: Can now be used while moving. * Choke: Cooldown reduced to 30s. * Mortality: - Now consumes less Charge. - The mage is now immune to crowd control abilities while this spell is being cast. * Defile: Now increases the chance for damage over time abilities to critically hit by 3%. * Seeping Corruption: Now causes your damage over time abilities to ignore 10/20/30% of your target's Resistances. * Dark Power: Now also increases the range of non-melee damaging abilities by 1/2/3/4/5 meters. Increased range does not stack with the other range increasing effects. * The follow abilities are now affected by talents that increase the range of non-melee damaging abilities: - Persist - Salvage Corruption - Deathly Pall * Improved Void Bolt: Now also reduces the amount of pushback suffered while casting Void Bolt and Life Leech by 33/66/100%. * Neddra's Torture: Can now proc on an enemy cleansing DoTs from the Neddra's Torture target a number of times equal to the number of damage over time effects on the enemy at cast time plus 1, up to 4 times. * Phobia: Has been removed. * New Talent: Crippling Terror: The mage's damage over time abilities gain additional benefit from Spell Power by 4/8/12%. This is a tier 4 talent. * Void Decimation: Now also affects Neddra's Torture. * Radiate Death: Cooldown has been reduced to 20s. * Warlock Armor: Removed the variance from heal procs. * Swift Corruption: Now also increases the chance for damage over time abilities to critically hit by 2/4%. * Life Leech: Now heals for 3% of the Mage's max health over 10s. * Improved Life Leech: Now increases the healing done by Life Leech to 4/5/6% of the Mage's max health over the duration of the effect. * Draining Bolt: Now heals for 10% of the Mage's max health. * Improved Draining Bolt: Now also increases the healing of Draining Bolt by 0.5/1% of the Mage's max health per Death based damage over time effect on the enemy. CHLOROMANCER * Natural Awareness: Now procs from both Life and Death based abilities. ROGUE RANGER * Twin Shots: Fixed an issue where both hits used the same crit roll. DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES ENDLESS ECLIPSE * Regulos: - Piercing Tentacle no longer causes knockback. - Lowered the health of the minibosses. GOLEM FOUNDRY * Locomotive Bulwark - Debilitating Poison will no longer drain the Locomotive Bulwark's energy. GRIM AWAKENING * Salvarola: - No longer sing the praises of Ultaine when players re-enter the instance and head past his room after he has been killed. * Ultane: - Wrath of Maelforge takes slightly longer to cast after phase changes and has more visible VFX. - Lowered the damage of Cursed Blood and Lava Flow. - Mark of the Damned is slightly more forgiving when it triggers. INTREPID: THE DROWNED HALLS * Adjusted the respawn of trash mobs. For real this time. PLANEBREAKER BASTION * A new set of artifacts can now be found inside! * Planebreaker Abominus: - Removed 3rd round of jumps needed when fighting the Overseer Council upon their individual platforms. - Overseer Zor'zyx will now use his fully upgraded Seismic Wave attack upon the 2nd visit to his platform. *As the 3rd visit has been removed. - Removed the random aspect of which Overseer will begin the fight, it will now always begin with Zor'zyx. * Warden Thrax: - Adjusted beam width during Greater Tectonic Transference so that it will cover all edges of the spokes surrounding the Warden Thrax platform. RETURN TO DEEPSTRIKE * Fixed an issue that was preventing players from progressing CRAFTING * Fishing: Droughtlands Fisherman, Moonshade Highlands Fisherman, and Iron Pine Peak Fisherman achievements now function again. ITEMS * Some erroneous loot has been removed from he Fae Yule Bonus Loot boxes. * Various drops from Inyra have had their upgrade recipes fixed. * Fixed some "Desolate" and "of the Endless Eclipse" items on the raid Store that weren't displaying their synergy set bonus tooltip. * Reinforced Ascended's Sublime Scepter and Ascended's Sublime Scepter had their names reversed. This has been corrected.

RIFT 2.5: Hotfix #6.5 12/12/13

RIFT 2.5: Hotfix #6.5 12/12/13 GENERAL * Fae Yule Snowmen are once again Bind-to-Account! ITEMS * The following Essences can now be purchased without Notoriety requirements: - Shadowpriest's Nether Ice - Iceshield's Nether Ice - Shadowcaller's Nether Ice - Shade Stalker's Nether Ice - Shadow Knight's Nether Ice - Death Knight's Nether Ice - Dreadlord's Nether Ice - Note: EU players will not have experienced this issue.

RIFT 2.5: Hotfix #6 12/11/13

RIFT 2.5: Hotfix #6 12/11/13 == FEATURES == Planebreaker Bastion: Aftermath Every week until Fae Yule we're introducing newly updated content for level 60! Our fifth feature is the Planebreaker Bastion: Aftermath Chronicle, which explores what comes after the Planebreaker Bastion raid, and has some new rewards to boot! Fae Yule! Fae Yule makes a return on 12/12/13, this Thursday afternoon, and with the holiday tidings comes bonus loot! Many bosses in expert dungeons, slivers, and raid dungeons now dropping boxes with extra goodies inside. New PvP Mode: Ranked 5v5 Warfronts! These Warfronts are now available for all level 60 players. Participants will be bolstered up to Rank 90 Myrmidon gear upon entering. The leader of a full group must queue through the normal PVP window to enter. Points are scored based on kills; the first team to 25 kills takes the match. To track your 5v5 rating, check the Warfront results window! RIFT STORE AND SERVICES * Dyes can now be previewed in the Store! Go to the dye category and click on dye to preview the color on your character preview. - Additionally, you can also control-click dyes that are in your inventory to preview them. - You can also click on Dye recipes to see a preview of the dye. * Fixed an issue causing the tints on Robe of the Sea to be reversed. It should now have both primary and secondary dye options. * You can now dye many costume capes that previously could not be! DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES EXPERT: GOLEM FOUNDRY * Manslaughter: - Now has a chance to drop a Mechanized Temporal Vault. INTREPID: THE DROWNED HALLS * Removed the loot from the Abyssal Zealots and Defilers before Isskal. * Killing any pack of mobs will now lock players to the instance. * Trash mobs now respawn less frequently. * The drop rate on trash mobs has been reduced. PLANEBREAKER BASTION * Sumpters will despawn after Eggtenders have been defeated. CRAFTING * Elm, Karthite, and Frazzleweed now appear slightly more frequently in Dendrome, Ashora, and Steppes of Infinity. * Low-level capes can now be salvaged by Outfitters. ITEMS * Relic Hunter's Gloves now have spell power. * Caretakers Grips can now be used as a wardrobe item. * The upgrade path for Hunt Prime Flamecaller's Hailshard has been corrected. * Future drops of some items in Intrepid: Drowned Halls will have stats more comparable to other items in the zone. - The Mythical Joloral's Neck Guard - The Mythical Sobek Skin Legguards - The Mythical Riptide Band * The Mythical Crippler of the Tides has been improved, and now has more Storm Legion oriented stats. * The Cold Heart was using the wrong ability, and has been greatly improved. It now also has both a Caster and Melee upgrade path.

RIFT 2.5: Hotfix #5 12/4/13

RIFT 2.5: Hotfix #5 12/4/13 == FEATURES == Intrepid: Drowned Halls Sliver Every week until Fae Yule we're introducing newly updated content for level 60! Our fourth feature is the Intrepid: Drowned Halls Sliver, which bumps the enemies up to level 60, and has some new rewards to boot! GENERAL * Most items from Mech Week are now Bind on Account instead of Bind on Pickup. * Players who were previously unable to submit in-game petitions should now be able to do so again. * You can no longer get around the "Unique" flag on an item by buying it from the front page of the Store. * Vaults of Planarite and other planarite vouchers are now account bound. Thanks Caitie@Zaviel! * Updated the tooltip text on the Transfiguration Bauble to clarify that the item consumed in the process. Thank you, Nitetime@Wolfsbane. * The "G0tt4 C4tch Th3m 4ll" achievement has been moved to the Legacy category. RIFT STORE AND SERVICES * New Patron Perk: Patron Artifact Tracking: A 30 minute buff that shows artifacts on the minimap. Turn on Sliver Sight to see Twisted Artifacts, too! Like other Patron abilities, it has up to 7 charges that are gained at a rate of one per day. * Weekly Patron Gifts will now always contain a Lock Box Key of Rare, Epic or Relic rarity. * Weekly Patron Gifts now also include a guaranteed Greenscale's Supply Crate of Rare, Epic, Relic, or even the Transcendent Limited Edition rarity! SOULS CLERIC DRUID * Cleric Fae pets should no longer display a carnage icon next to their names. WARRIOR CHAMPION * Chains of Life, Chains of Death: Now properly set up for Follow Through. Thank you Yowane@Laethys! ZONES FREEMARCH * Quest: A Bloody Bounty: Fixed some poor grammar. Thanks Toger@Greybriar! * Quest: Stalked in the Forest: Fixed some poor grammar. Thank you, Ayeo@Greybriar. * Quest: Carnage: Rognar: Fixed some typos. Thanks to Goremei@Necropolis! SILVERWOOD * Quest: Carnage: Marshal Ebur: Fixed some typos. Thanks, Hikarighost@Greybriar! STONEFIELD * Quest: Road Rocks: The item drop that starts this quest is now named Oreling Stone instead of Wolf Flank, because what do cuts of meat have to do with rocks? * Quest: Carnage: Bury the Dead: Fixed missing text in the objective. * Quest: A Miner's Job: Fixed some typos. Thanks, Sholock@Threesprings! * Quest: Foul Flesh: Removed some errant text at the end of the quest description. Thanks, Ireka@Typhiria. DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES GRIM AWAKENING * Salvarola: - Additional reduction to Warped Fanatic damage. - Slight reduction in Mindsear and Nova damage. - Increased time before a Warped Fanatic under the effects of Overwhelming Power will explode. ENDLESS ECLIPSE * Regulos: - Changed damage area VFX on Piercing Tentacle and Unholy Contract to provide greater contrast for players with some forms of colorblindness. PLANEBREAKER BASTION * Warden Thrax: – Adjusted "Chain Gang" so that player buffs or talents do not increase the damage to friendly targets. * Planebreaker Abominus - Manifestations of the Hive will no longer be affected by energy draining abilities. - Adjustments to lower graphic lag caused when "Growing Calamity" is cast. REALM OF TWISTED DREAMS * Grandmaster Atrophinius: - Atrophinius now displays a buff that indicates when he is within healing range of a Mead Keg. ITEMS * The Temporal weapons for warriors have been fixed to properly have attack power instead of spell power. * Screaming Howl of Ether now has a melee upgrade path. Thanks Krager@Greybriar! * The upgrade paths on the Ancient Dwarven Promise Ring and the Construct Plate Ring were backwards – this has been corrected. Thanks, Menhir@Deepwood and Blaorm@Deepwood! * The Titan Forged Life Battery now uses the proper dungeon upgrade component as opposed to the world component. Thanks Bnegona@Deepwood! * The Soothing Ring is now sellable. Thanks to Valantra@Deepwood. * Titan-Steel Sabatons now properly have toughness. Thanks, Darkmaester@Greybriar!

RIFT 2.5: Hotfix #4 11/26/13

RIFT 2.5: Hotfix #4 11/26/13 == FEATURES == Intrepid: Greenscale's Blight Chronicle Every week until Fae Yule we're introducing newly updated content for level 60! Our third one is the Intrepid: Greenscale's Blight Chronicle, which bumps the enemies up to level 60, and has some new rewards to boot! Mount Up For Mech Week! To celebrate Mech Week, there is a new world event and daily for players to complete. Get your first Vault by heading to one of the three main cities! Fall Styles Still In: Until Next Week! The sales prices for Fashion Week may be over on Wednesday, but you'll be able to buy the costume gear and dyes until the end of Mech Week next Tuesday-- make it work! GENERAL * The item upgrade window will no longer sometimes display a white item with incorrect stats. * Work done on alleviating the 4AM PST login problems. RIFT STORE * Dimension items that come from world events have been moved to their own section of the Store. MECH WEEK MADNESS * Mechanized Temporal Vaults have been added! These vaults are special items from the future that can only be opened after ** 24 hours ** have passed. * Open up a Vault for a chance at: - The Red and Iron Empyreal Walker mount. - New Temporal Essences, with the +Resist All. - Exclusive companion pets... and an achievement to catch them all. (Seriously: Complete G0tt4 C4tch Th3m 4ll to get a Pack of Squirrels 2.0!) - Radiant Infinity Cells to upgrade your Raid 1 gear. - Special Mech Week weapons, with some new looks to boot. * Want to open it now? Use a Temporal Aligner to decrease the amount of time needed to open a vault. - Patrons receive additional Temporal Aligners with their regular log in bonuses, and additional ones can be purchased from the Store. * Complete Expert Storm Legion dungeons to get a Temporal Cell! Open one for a Temporal Aligner, and a chance at getting a Greenscale's Lock Box up to relic rarity. SOULS WARRIOR TEMPEST * Wavelength: Now properly resets the cooldown of Arc when used. ZONES * Even in the rarest of circumstances, planar invasions should no longer spawn from Defiant or Guardian wardstones. * Old school kill quests in Freemarch and Silverwood are now treated as Carnage quests. As such, any old factional requirement to do these have been removed. IRON PINE PEAK * Quest: Doctor's Orders: This question now works as intended. DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES GRIM AWAKENING * Salvarola - Lowered damage of Warped Fanatics. - Lowered both the damage bonus and the health of Warped Fanatics under the effects of Overwhelming Power. PLANEBREAKER BASTION * Corrected an issue where the trash immediately before Warden Thrax was not correctly resetting if players died. * Portals to and from the entrance have been added to alleviate travel time. Each one spawns after their respective bosses have been defeated, one after the Eggtenders, and the after Krizzix. RETURN TO DEEPSTRIKE * Ionraic: - Fixed an issue that prevented from summoning his pets on reset of the encounter. * Nemesis IV: - The knockback portion of his cleave has seen a damage decrease, additionally, it no longer has a chance to crit. - The snare portion of Salvo now has a maximum stack count of 1. CRAFTING APOTHECARY * The Stellar Wellspring of Fire Resistance, Life Resistance, and Water Resistance recipes can now be learned again. FISHING * Updated the text on the Verdant Angel and Jasper Snapper so they correctly reflect where they can now be fished. * The Iron Pine Peak Fisherman achievement no longer requires the Jasper Snapper. * The Droughtlands Fisherman and Moonshade Highlands Fisherman achievements no longer require the Verdant Angel. * Dropped the skill requirement for using the Coldwater Seabug, Serene Flatfish, Icebiter, and Glacier Octopus lures. SURVIVAL * The Brine-boiled Crab recipe no longer requires the Striated Crab of Iron Pine Peak; it now requires the Burrowing Crab of the Droughtlands. * All Food-category recipes that require uncommon or rare fish now yield 2 per combine, including Prime Flycatcher, Kraken Hors D'oeuvres, Sun Soup, Aged Eel, Chilled Octopus, Pondleaper in Gravy, Sharpfin Chops, Octopus Broth, Brine-boiled Crab, Flatfish Kabobs, and Blenny Fillet. ITEMS * Equipping or owning the Reinforced Spiked Chitin Loop will no longer result in having a total of 1 Hit. * The Mighty and Greater Strength Serums now work correctly once more.

RIFT 2.5: Hotfix #3 11/20/13

RIFT 2.5: Hotfix #3 11/20/13 == FEATURES == Intrepid: Hammerknell Chronicle Every week until Fae Yule we're introducing newly updated content for level 60! Our second one is the Intrepid: Hammerknell Chronicle, which bumps the enemies up to level 60, and has some new rewards to boot! Welcome to Fashion Week! It's Fashion Week! Winning costumes from RIFTScene's "Dress the Night Away" are now available in the store. Plus, ALL costumes and dyes for 25% off through next Wednesday, 11/27! GENERAL * Getting to Storm legion zones at level 48 is now easier! Speak to the Lycini Ambassador in Sanctum or Meridian to travel to Dusken, Pelladane, or Tempest Bay. * Instant Adventure groups will now only be assigned to complete a zone event if their adventure group size is at least 15 players. * A mini world event and a new daily quest is available in each city to help celebrate Fashion Week! * A number of achievements related to the Sinister Presence are now correctly categorized. * International shards are now marked as International in the “Server Status” Web page. * Russian players should now be able to see French and German characters in chat. RIFT STORE * The Dress the Night Away costume contest results are in... and we liked the top 3 finalists so much that they're ALL on the store. Find them in the Wardrobe section! * A number of dyes have been temporarily added to the RIFT store in celebration of Fashion Week. * A variety of limited time exceptional dyes have been added to the RIFT store in celebration of Fashion Week! * Relic upgrades are now available for the Raid 1 Weapons purchased in the Store. * The essence section of the RIFT store has been adjusted across all level ranges. * Rare essences for levels 10 through 50 are now available in the Store. * New keys have been added to the Store! Each key will open up a Locked Box of the same or lesser rarity. * Existing Deeps' Lock Box Keys are now Skeleton Lock Box Keys, and will continue to open any locked box in the game. * The Portable Auctioneer now grants 5 charges, up from 3. * Two new consumables have been added to the service section of the RIFT Store: Dungeon Charge and Warfront Charge! - These items increase your current number of charges for random warfronts and random dungeons. - You may still only have 7 charges available at any time. - As a friendly reminder, high level currencies have weekly gain caps. These caps have not been adjusted. * Costume Gear: Rake's Duster now has both primary and secondary tint channels for dye application. SOULS CLERIC DEFILER * Unstable Transformation: The heal proc should now last the full duration of the buff. INQUISITOR * Symbol of Corruption: Now works as described. SENTINEL * Banish: Now deals damage ever 1.5s instead of every 1s to match other Cleric damage over time effects. Increased duration to 15s. Updated damage to reflect new duration. * Vigilance: Increased duration to 15s. * Healing Communion: Slightly increased healing done. WARDEN * Signs will no longer proc from Geyser healing. * Overflowing Renewal: Can now be cast on allies outside of your party or raid. Overhealing spread from Overflowing Renewal will affect the targeted ally's party and raid, even if that is not the caster's party and raid. * Ripple: Can now be cast on allies outside of your party or raid that you have Healing Spray or Soothing Stream on. Effects spread by Ripple will affect the targeted ally's party or raid, even if that is not the caster's party or raid. * Oversaturation: Now procs Dangers of the Deep on cast (if you have points spent in Dangers of the Deep). * Oversaturation: Now procs damage when any nearby ally is healed by the Cleric, not just their party and raid members. * Glassy Reflection: Is no longer consumed by the caster's own abilities. MAGE DOMINATOR * Mass Charged Shield: This ability has been removed. * Improved Charged Shield: This talent has been removed. * New Ability: Voltaic Feedback: Deals Air damage whenever the enemy deals damage. Deals Air damage to the enemy and the target of the heal whenever the enemy casts a single target heal. Can occur up to 5 times total. Lasts 15s. Can only affect 1 enemy. This is a 4 point root ability. * New Talent: Extended Feedback: Increases the duration of Voltaic Feedback by 5s, and the number of times it can proc by 2/4. This is a Tier 2 talent. * Split Personality: Pets now despawn if the buff is removed from the caster. WARRIOR PARAGON * Shifting Blades: ow shares a cooldown with Arc. * Tranquility: Reduced damage done at ranks 1-4. This only affects ranks pre-level 50. TEMPEST * Arc: Now shares a cooldown with Shifting Blades. ZONES EMBER ISLE * Added a soul healer to Breaker Point. * Reduced zone event boss Nirzora's health and increased the delay between Tsunami casts. IRON PINE PEAK * Robern Charrette in the forge area of the Chancel of Labors should now properly offer a daily quest to any player that has completed the story quest "Just Punishment". * Achievement: You and What Army?: Now credits any player that has completed the quest Chasing the Snakes from the Chancel. * Achievement: Frozen to the Core: The achievement Nowhere to Run is no longer required for this zone meta achievement. * Achievement: To the Library!: Now credits players for discovering the Forge area. TERMINUS * Endless Cultists in the Lost March area of Terminus no longer grant XP or drop loot. THE DENDROME * Lord Gren'Dar should no longer disappear for some players during large scale encounters. DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES INFINITY GATE * Modan and Viktus - Obsidian Scarabs can no longer crit. PLANEBREAKER BASTION * Inyr'Kta: - Silicon Sandstorm will stop for reals after Inyr'Kta is defeated. - No longer resets aggro when she is at the opposite end of the platform from players. QUEEN'S GAMBIT * Fixed the placement of a randomly appearing loot chest out of the terrain. REALM OF TWISTED DREAMS * Fixed the requirements for the Conqueror Achievement. RETURN TO DEEPSTRIKE * Ionraic: - Pets have more HP. - Summons pet at 75% life instead of 50%. - Will no longer spam his final voice over. - Corrected an exploit with the Collected Them All Fixed achievement. -If a pet is killed during the Ionraic fight, no more pets will be summoned if he is reset. * Ironclad Goliath: - Will cast EMP more often. * Jorthan: - Will now continue to cast Sundering Fists on the tank instead of randomly turning to other players. * Nemesis IV: - Cleaving Claw now has a knockback component for all those behind him. - Will cast Salvo more often. - Lowered the damage on Burst Fire. * P.a.U.L.A.: - Restoration Beam has a beam VFX now. - Now has a lower aggro range to prevent issues with resetting after a party wipe. - Paula's sentries can now be tanked but will not go below 50% HP. Gotta tank'em! TRIUMPH OF THE DRAGON QUEEN * An exit portal now appears after Typhiria is slain. PVP AND WARFRONTS * Fixed an issue causing Mercenary Equipment Caches to not be rewarded for Random Warfront dailies for Prestige Ranks 81-90. CRAFTING * The Stellar Prismatic Wellspring and Exquisite Bottle of Spellstrikes recipes now work again. FISHING * Fishing in Iron Pine Peak is now equivalent to levels 27 through 35 to match the releveled zone. * Fishing skill requirements changes: - Decreased fishing skill requirements for Iron Pine Peak from 180 to 120. - Increased fishing skill requirements for Droughtlands from 150 to 180. - Increased fishing skill requirements for Ashora, Dendrome, and Steppes of Infinity from 270 to 300. * Reduced skill requirements and crafting token costs for Coldwater Seabug, Serene Flatfish, Icebiter, and Glacier Octopus lure recipes. (They were skill 190 or 160, and now are skill 125 or 145.) * The Verdant Angel is no longer fishable anywhere except Iron Pine Peak. * The Jasper Snapper is no longer fishable in Iron Pine Peak. * Fishing-specific artifacts fished up in Iron Pine Peak have been swapped out for those of the appropriate level. * Rewards for the Iron Pine Peak fish exchange dailies have been adjusted to match the new lower-level content. SURVIVAL * The Angel Food Cake recipe and item have been changed to Devil Food Cake. The Verdant Angel in this recipe havebeen replaced by the Stillmoor Devil. This recipe now yields 10 cakes instead of one, since Stillmoor Devils are harder to fish. * Most daily quests for skill level 175 of Survivalist that required Iron Pine Peak fish now require Moonshade Highlands and/or Droughtlands fish instead. ITEMS * Quality of life item improvements: - Chronicle Upgrades: All old upgrade components can be shift-right clicked to their new equivalents. - Raid Upgrades: Radiant Infinity Cell is now the only Infinity Cell used to upgrade ‘Desolate' Raid 1 store gear. The other two upgrade components that previously dropped can be shift-right clicked into a Radiant Infinity Cell. * Level 60 Infinity Stone purchased Necklaces have an additional upgrade path. DIMENSIONS * Placing Pink Ground Cover now correctly gives credit for the Dimension Gardener achievement.

RIFT 2.5: Hotfix #2 11/13/13

RIFT 2.5: Hotfix #2 11/13/13 == FEATURES == Return to Deepstrike - Every week until Fae Yule we're introducing content newlymade for level 60! Our first one is Deepstrike Mines, with a new quest, new storylines, and new enemies to defeat. GENERAL * Patrons should no longer have their patron ability charges randomly reset back down to 1. * Missed out on your House Fluffington title? Fear not! The Corgi rifts will make a sudden return appearance between the times of 11/15 @ 19:00 to 11/18 @ 08:00 server time! * By popular request, the Definitely Not A Sinister Companion is now larger in size ! * European players will no longer see "???" characters in their chat window when another player types something in Russian. Instead, they will now see the actual Russian characters. RIFT STORE * You are now be able to purchase items off the wishlists of your cross-shard friends! * Merchants will once again sell their wares to you if they cost a single token, such as the Ascended's Lesser Signet. ZONES * Rifts: The sky will no longer darken when the Sinister Tide Rift is active. * Rifts: Players that are level 51 and below can now properly get the Dark Water Rising achievement when completing the Sinister Tide rift. * Characters that are level 48 or above can now speak to Hunel Pudillo in their home city to teleport directly to Tempest Bay. EMBER ISLE * Quest: Dreams Come Through: Fixed an issue that would cause the Dream Anchors to disappear permanently. * The Atragarian Gift buff will now persist through death. * The NPCs at Breaker Point have put aside their feuds, and will no longer sporadically attack each other. IRON PINE PEAK * All crafting dailies that were previously turned in to Master-at-Arms Varis can now be turned in to Robern Charrette. * Level 50 Abyssal cultists in Steampike Pit have been relocated. * Quest: Just Punishment: Completing this quest will result in a pool of daily quests being offered by Robern Charrette in the Chancel of Labors. * Quest: Thunder Snow: Now functions correctly. * Quest: Train the Recruits: Can now be completed even if you have completed the daily version. * Quest: Storm Legion Awaits!: This quest, given by the Map of Brevane and Dusken, has been removed. Using the map now gives the quest "Storm Legion", which directs players to the Lycini Ambassador in their home capital instead of the two now missing Gatekeepers in Iron Pine Peak. * Quest: Display of Power: This quest has had its objectives fixed, and now correctly turns in to Watcher Natham near Icewatch Ridge. * Quest: Disrupting the Ritual: The order of this quest's objectives have been corrected. * Quest: A Wolf in the Flock: The quest target, Regula, is now properly level 35 instead of 48. DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES * The quest to kill the Sinister Presence is now correctly given to players that have killed the Presence for the first time in the following instances: Queen's Gambit, Unhallowed Boneforge, Empyrean Core and the Planebreaker Bastion chronicle. * Expert Dungeons: The Sinister Presence found in expert level dungeons is now immune to crowd control excluding Taunt and Interrupt. It will also have a small window of delay between attacks after a charge. * Return to Deepstrike Achievements can no longer be mistakenly earned by completing Expert Deepstrike Mines. PLANEBREAKER BASTION * Reduced the radius of the Water Spout ability used by Sea Witches in the Planebreaker Bastion from 12 meters to 10 meters. * The Waterborn Behemoth in Planebreaker Bastion will now cast a much more menacing Tidal Wave. * The duration of the bleed used by the Waterborn Behemoth in Planebreaker Bastion has been slightly reduced. * Proteus: - No longer focuses people who are being attacked by Quicksilver Constructs. TOWER OF THE SHATTERED * General Thunderscar: - Added a short delay before he begins using Electric Bolt. UNHALLOWED BONEFORGE * Aghnox: - Lowered aggro radius slightly.

RIFT 2.5: Hotfix #1 11/8/13

RIFT 2.5: Hotfix #1 11/8/13 GENERAL * Added additional safeguards to protect server stability. PVP AND WARFRONTS * The new Warfront matchmaking system now correctly prioritizes filling existing matches higher than creating new ones.

RIFT 2.5: SONG OF DREAMS 11/6/13

RIFT 2.5: SONG OF DREAMS 11/6/13 == FEATURES == Mini-Saga: Song of Dreams Return to Ember Isle, where expeditions are mysteriously disappearing undersea. Brave madness (and drowning) to discover a new menace to Telara amid the Song of Dreams. Once you hear it, there's no going back! Gifts of the Fae Starting Nov. 13, Grandfather Frost unveils a new Level-60 version of a favorite Telaran instance every week, including community-choice Return to Deepstrike, a completely new adventure into the heart of Stonefield. Iron Pine Peak (27-35) We're thawing the level requirement on quests and content in Iron Pine Peak, the majestic home of the Icewatch. Level your way into the Peak's permanent winter straight from Gloamwood or Stonefield. Infinity Gate Dimension Lay claim to the ancient Brevanic Gateway that started it all, and show off with new Dimension items available only from artifact sets scattered throughout Expert dungeons. Planar Attunement Nexus, PvP Tier 3 Running out of places to spend your Planar Attunement points? Check out new Nature, Cinder, and Storm Nexuses built to combine the best of the existing planes plus PvP Tier 3! Store Wish Lists Gifting and receiving loot has never been easier! Send your friends the loot they're looking for and keep a tidy list of all the items, boosts, and mounts you'd love in return. International Shards Now you can play in any language regardless of selected region – all game and UI text will automatically display in the language of your choice. And More! As usual, this is just the tip of the iceberg, and here's what left to come: Nov. 13 – Return To Deepstrike (60) Nov. 20 – Hammerknell Chronicle (60) Nov. 27 – Greenscale's Blight Chronicle (60) Dec. 4 – Drowned Halls (60) Dec. 11 – Planebreaker Bastion: Aftermath Dec. 18 – River Of Souls Chronicle (60) GENERAL * Missed out on your House Fluffington title? Fear not! The Corgi rifts will make a sudden return appearance between the times of 11/15 @ 19:00 to 11/18 @ 08:00 server time! * New Patron bonus! Patrons can now turn in 10 additional daily quests per day. * Queuing as a fully pre-made LFD group now results in repeating the same dungeons less often. * Transfiguration now supports weapons that come with particle effects, including many PvP weapons. It now also supports weapons and shields with special color settings, such as Overseer's Aegis. * Alts are now part of the mail/gifting auto-complete when typing a name. * Fixed an issue with polymorph effects breaking some wardrobe appearances. * Particle effects from hidden equipment will no longer show up in the wrong place. * Cross-shard players should now be able to open Rifts more reliably. * Profanity filtering for naming characters, pets, guilds, dimensions, and guild ranks now checks for profanity from French, German, and English, regardless of your language or the server's language. RIFT STORE AND SERVICES * You can now purchase stacks of featured items by shift-clicking on the purchase button or shift-right-clicking on the item icon from the Rift Store homepage. * When viewing items, you can now click on various currencies to only show items that use that currency. * There are now 2 additional bank vaults that you can unlock in your Bank! * By popular demand, a number of auto scaling mounts in classic styles have been added. * You are now able to purchase things on the store while running. PERFORMANCE * Significantly increased render range of shadows. Look for this in any large open area with mountains! * Low and Min video settings have been adjusted to use the new options we've added. * Improved performance for alpha-blended particles. * Unlock the main thread CPU affinity by default. The parameter to change this is now called ThreadAffinityMain and takes, as its parameter, a bitmask. SOULS CLERIC DRUID * Fae Step: When teleporting to a player in PVP: - Damage done by the next 4 damaging abilities of the Cleric's pet are increased by 0.3% per point in the Druid soul for 15s. - Damage taken by the Cleric and their pet is reduced by 0.1% per point in the Druid soul for 3s. - These bonuses are multiplied by the number of enemy players within 7 meters of the target, up to a maximum of 10. JUSTICAR * Reckoning: Now increases the caster's unmounted movement speed by 15% for 10s. * Censure: Now applies a healing intercept to enemy players it damages in PVP. - The intercept is equal to 0.17% per point spent in the Justicar soul. - This effect can be applied, at most, once every 15s. SHAMAN * Ride the Lightning: When used to charge a player in PVP: - Damage done by the next 4 attacks of the Shaman is increased by .1% per point spent in the Shaman soul for 15s. - Damage taken by the Cleric is reduced by 0.1% per point in the Shaman soul for 3 seconds. - These bonuses are multiplied by the number of enemy players within 7 meters of the target, up to a maximum of 10. MAGE * Mage ability tooltips now show the correct Charge gain values when they have been modified by a passive talent. DOMINATOR * Death's Edict: The snare portion of this ability no longer stacks with other snare abilities. HARBINGER * Blade Rush: When charging a player in PVP: - Damage done by the next 4 damaging melee abilities of the Mage are increased by 0.1% per point in the Harbinger soul for 15s. - Damage taken by the Mage is reduced by 0.1% per point in the Harbinger soul for 3s. - These bonuses are multiplied by the number of enemy players within 7 meters of the target, up to a maximum of 10. ROGUE ASSASSIN * Expose Weakness: Increases damage taken from the Rogue by 6%, up from 4%. BLADEDANCER * Blade Tempo, Double Coup, Dualism, Blade & Soul Parity, Fated Blades: Triggers Battle Dance, which increases damage dealt and reduces damage taken from enemy players based on the number of enemy players around the Rogue, up to a maximum of 20%. * Dancing Steel: Now hits up to 8 enemy targets. * Hundred Blades: Now hits up to 8 enemy targets. * Improved Deadly Dance: Now increases the damage of your next 3 Combo Point generating attacks by 5-15% per Combo Point spent, up from 4-12%. This bonus applies onto to melee weapon attacks. * Quick Reflexes: Now also increases the Attack Power and Weapon Damage contribution to your melee weapon attacks by 1-5%. * Side Steps: Triggers Recovery Dance that heals the Rogue for 4% of Attack Power every second. The amount healed is increased by a factor based on the number of enemy players around the Rogue when Side Steps is activated, up to maximum of 40. NIGHTBLADE * Enhanced Weapon Enchantments: Now increases the damage of weapon enchantments by 30-90%, up from 25-75%. * Heat Retention: Now increases damage done by 3%, up from 2%. * Nightrage: The effect triggered from Dusk to Dawn now increases the damage of Blazing Strike and Flame Thrust by 20%, up from 15%. WARRIOR BEASTMASTER * Enrage: This ability can now crit. * Strike to Maim: This ability can now crit. The bleed damage is now applied on the first tick. * Swiftness: Updated the tooltip to indicate that it increases both in and out of combat movement speed. CHAMPION * Bull Rush: When activated, increases Critical Hit chance of Warrior AE attacks by up to 60%, based on the number of points spent in the Champion soul and the number of enemy players around the Warrior. Lasts 10s. * Cornered Beast: - Now deals damage over 3s, down from 6s. - Total damage has been reduced. - Awards 1 Attack Point every second. * Gift of the Champion: Refunctioned. Now increases all damage by 1% per point spent in the Champion soul. * Inescapable: Refunctioned. Resets the cooldown of all charges. The next charge no longer has a cooldown and its range is increased by 10m. * Mass Slaughter: New talent. Increases the Attack Power and Weapon Damage contribution to AE attacks by 5-15%. * One on Many: Now increases the damage of AE attacks by 5-15%. No longer increases the damage of single target attacks. * Perfect Timing: Removed. * Quick Footed: Increases Attack Power and Weapon Contribution by 2-6%, up from 1-3%. PALADIN * Righteous Charge: When activated: - Debuffs up to 10 enemy players for 15s, increasing their damage taken by up to 20%, based on the number of points spent in the Paladin soul and the number of enemy players around the Warrior. - Reduces damage taken by up to 60% for 3s based on points spent in the Paladin soul, as well as the number of enemy players around the Warrior. PARAGON * Thread the Trees: When activated: - Increases damage dealt by up to 20% for 15s, based on the number of enemy players around the Warrior and the number of points spent in the Paragon soul. - Reduces damage taken by up to 20% based on points spent in the Paragon soul. - The number of attacks this damage reduction is applied is based on the number of enemy players around the Warrior. * Alacrity: Refunctioned. - Lasts 10s. 1 min cooldown. Off GCD. - Causes Rising Waterfall, Final Blessing and Reaping Harvest to hit twice. * Analyze Weakness: The damage and healing reduction when Turn the Blade is active is reduced to 25/20%. * Combat Focus: Instantly adds 3 AP and causes the next direct damaging Finisher to deal 50% more damage. * Double Jeopardy: Setting Moon now also increases Critical hit chance with Follow Up Attacks. * Grace of the Five Rings: AP and Weapon Contribution increased by 2-6%, up from 1-3%. * Improved Flowing Strikes: Now increases damage dealt by 5-10%, up from 3-6%. * Open the Stream: Damage has been increased. * Predictable Movement: Refunctioned. Now stuns the target for 4s. 30s cooldown. * Setting Moon: Now increases the damage of Follow Up attacks by 25%, up from 20%. * Shifting Blades: Now off GCD. * Strike Like Iron: Now a passive ability. * Sweeping Blades: Refunctioned. Single target ability attacks hit up to 4 other enemies. - Reduces the damage of all attacks by 70%. - No longer a finisher. Off GCD Toggle. * Tranquility: Refunctioned. Deals high direct damage. - Reduces ranged damage dealt to the Warrior by 20%. - Lasts 15s. 15s cooldown. 20m range. * Turn the Blade: Reduces GCD by 0.5s. Reduces power cost by 33%. Reduces damage and healing done by 30%. * Unleashed: Now a passive ability that increases Attack Power and Weapon Damage contribution by 4% per stack, up from 3%. * Way of the Wind: Reaping Harvest now triggers Way of the Wind. Damage has been reduced. REAVER * Shadow of Dread: When activated: - Debuffs up to 10 enemy players for 15s, increasing ability costs by 20%. - Reduces damage taken by up to 60% for 3s based on points spent in the Paladin soul and the number of enemy players around the Warrior. RIFTBLADE * Affinity: Increases non Physical damage by 2-10%, up from 1-5%. * Burst Synergy: Refunctioned. The next 3 Attack Point generating attacks give 3 Attack Points. 1 min cooldown. * Stoneshield: Absorption value has been increased. * Storm Burst: Now also drains up to 10% of the enemy's Mana, 10 Energy or 10 Power. TEMPEST * Arc: Increases the damage bonus by 30-90%, up from 25-75%. Now off GCD. * Charged Pulse: Cast time reduced from 2s to 1.5s. Damage has been reduced. Now has a cooldown of 21s. * Charged Pulse: No longer deals reduced damage in PvP. * Close Training: Now also increases damage done by 10%. * Delayed Blast: Renamed to Delayed Pulse. Refunctioned. Debuffs the enemy and deals Air damage after 5s. Roots the enemy for 5s after the damage is triggered. * Dual Pulse: Damage has been increased. Now has a cooldown of 21s. * Electricity Cascade: No longer applies a damage buff when executed. Damage has been increased. * Electromagnetic Shield: Now also increases damage done by 10%. * Empower: Now stacks with Electromagnetic Shield and Close Training. Now purgeable. * Evasive Redirection: Refunctioned. Now an AE knockback. 1 min cooldown. * Lightning Torrent: Now deals damage over 3s, down from 6s. Damage has been reduced. Awards 1 Attack Point every second. Now has a cooldown of 21s. * Oscillation: Hitting with Storm Torrent, Lightning Torrent or Charged Pulse causes Builders and Double Pulse to deal an additional 4-12% damage for 15s. * Quick Recharge: Now reduces the cooldown on Charged Pulse, Dual Pulse, Lightning Torrent and Storm Torrent by 3-6s. * Storm Torrent: Now deals damage over 3s, down from 6s. Damage has been reduced. Awards 1 Attack Point every second. Now has a cooldown of 21s. * Stormbringer: Now increases the damage of all Tempest abilities by 5-15%. * Wavelength: Refunctioned. Resets the cooldown of all Tempest abilities. For the next 15s, Charged Pulse and Dual Pulse no longer have a cooldown. Charged Pulse can be cast instantly. 2 min cooldown. WARLORD * Battlefield Experience: Refunctioned. Resets the cooldown of King of the Hill, Decisive Strike, Into the Breach, Clear the Breach and Killing Field. For the next 15s, these abilities require 30% less Power and are no longer on cooldown. 1 min cooldown. * Clear the Breach: Enemy players affected by Clear the Breach are debuffed, causing them to take damage whenever a damaging or healing ability is used. Triggered up to 5 times. * Deadly Posture: Now increases Critical Hit Chance by 10%, up from 8%. * Decisive Strike: Damage has been increased. Now on a 15s cooldown, down from 30s. * Disorient: Enemies affected by Charges, Pulls, Summon, Teleports and Finishers now also take 1-2% more damage from the Warrior for 15s. * Everything is a Weapon: Now a passive ability. * Ready Posture: Refunctioned. Increases damage done by 15%. Increases Critical Hit Damage by 5%. Reduces ability cost by 5%. * Recovery Posture: Can now have a critical outcome. * Trained Defenses: Now also increases the damage of all attacks by 1-5%. * Shatter: The debuff from Breaking Blow now lasts 15s, up from 12s. ZONES * ZE: Fixed some scaling issues with Greater Aelfwar Idol, Mark of the Iron Tyrant, and Hellbug Fissures. * The story quests and dailies associated with Tempest Rising, the 1.11 world event, have been removed, as the event has finally come to an end. CAPE JULE * Fixed a few rocks that didn't want to stay visible. THE DENDROME * World Bosses: - Kaaz'Ra has had his total health reduced by 30% to account for the time he is invulnerable and summoned minions. - The out of combat health regeneration rate for the world bosses has been reduced for Kaaz'Ra and Ahkane the Eternal. – It is now easier to trigger these encounters. IRON PINE PEAK * After a facelift, Iron Pine is back and looking younger than ever before, and is now targeted for players between levels 27 and 35. * Quests have been adjusted so that progressing through the zone is more streamlined. * Porticulums have been added to Whitefall Lift as well as Pilgrim's Crossing. * Plaques of the Mountaineer can now also be consumed for 50 Icewatch Notoriety. * The Storm Legion portal in the middle of Cloudbourne Tarn has been removed. * Rare Planar Goods that were formerly found in Whitefall can now be found in at the Endless Watch in Stillmoor. * The amount of Notoriety granted for completing Abyssal Precipice has been increased. * The number of dailies available in Iron Pine has been decreased, but they grant more notoriety than ever before, in addition to granitng2 Plaques of the Mountaineer a piece. TEMPEST BAY * Players stuck in Tempest Bay with no way to return to their home city can now speak to Vasil or Yilessa for a ticket back home. QUESTS * You can now obtain the Heart of Greenscale needed during the Saga of the Aelfwar from any version of Lord Greenscale! * Saga changes: - All Saga quests now are organized in their own section of the Quest Log. - The Life Saga quest "The End of Hylas" can now be complete in the Chronicle versions of Greenscale's Blight. * Personal quests with timers will no longer auto-abandon upon logout. * Added Hailol, Empyreal Alliance, and Achyati notoriety tokens as rewards to "The Notorious Few" daily quest. DUNGEONS AND RAIDS CHRONICLE: A HERO RISES * Made some adjustments to the final encounter: - Lowered initial damage of Voltaic Discharge - Reduced duration of Voltaic Discharge ground effect. - Increased pulse time on Voltaic Discharge damage. - Reduced the number of iron dragons around the Eye. PLANEBREAKER BASTION * Planebreaker Abominus: The Overseer Council should no longer use Graviton Bomb, Seismic Wave, or Growing Calamity while Planebreaker Abominus is firing his Occular Blasts. PVP * The warfront matchmaking system will attempt to match up players of similar PvP skill levels. There have also been improvements to getting groups to be included in matches regardless of size. * Attack distance is increased by 1m if the target is jumping while in PvP combat. * Attack distance is increased by 1.5m if both the attacker and the target are moving while in PvP combat. * Tier 6 PvP armor and weapons can now be consumed by characters of all callings. CRAFTING * Fishing and survival skills can no longer be untrained. ITEMS * White Wedding Garb and Christmas/Santa/Fae-Yule type hats should now all be dyeable. * Snares procced by Sticky Coating will no longer stack with other snare effects. * The system for upgrading chronicle items has been simplified: the number of needed upgrade components has been reduced to 3. DIMENSIONS * Added the Infinity Gate dimension. This is unlocked for purchase once you complete achievements for the Infinity Gate raid. * You can now see the dimensions you've +1'd on the dimension lists. * You can now search for items in your dimension or moving crate. * For those of you who want to measure distance in your dimension, find the new Dimensional Distance Indicator in the Interactive section of the Dimensions store. * A baker's dozen of new music boxes are up for sale! * New dimension items are unlocked for purchase once you complete artifact sets found in certain Expert Dungeons. Find them in the Trophies section of the RIFT Store under Dimensions. * Fixed a bug that would cause some dimension items to be invisible. * Added long and short straight railings to the Rift Store under Dimensions --> Building Blocks, Accessories checkbox. * Players can now always see the item list of the dimension they are visiting. AUDIO * Raptor pets have customized sounds. * Added sound to the Architect Drone Hatchling creature. * Whirlpool SFX added, underwater mix improved. * Fix missing audio in Osmosis Chamber. UI * Added a new alert icon if you have a queued instance that you can join which will allow you to bring the message box back up if you close it. * There are new raid target markers for you to use. * Fixed raid frame UI text flickering. * The macro @gtae specifier now properly respects line of sight. * The master loot window will no longer incorrectly disable player names by calling. * Added room for additional text in the Upgrade Window to accommodate long item names. * Fixed the cooldown overlay in the Bank window so that it lines up correctly with the item icons. * Fixed a path on the Gloamwood map so that it no longer directs you to walk off a cliff. * Fixed the location of the title name in the Achievements window. * Fixed the location of the title and the spacing of UI edges in the Crafting window. * Fixed the location of the title within the Quest Log UI. * Fixed the location of the presets scrollbar within the Soul Tree window. * Fixed the location of the title in the Chronicles window. * Fixed the background of the Warfront leaderboards.

RIFT 2.4: Hotfix #9 10/30/13

RIFT 2.4: Hotfix #9 10/30/13 GENERAL * Experience gains in 50+ content have been adjusted to be more in line with pre-50 progress, resulting in a smoother levelling experience to 60. * Reduced the health of non-dungeon Storm Legion NPCs between the levels of 50 and 53. * Fixed some rendering issues in Hive Kaaz'Gfuu. RIFT STORE * The Glowing Ruby Ki Rin and the Glowing Sapphire Ki Rin are now both flagged as Bind on Account. * As we have previously done with old World Events, the section in the store for Autumn Harvest will be going away once the event ends. However, we've decided to keep the World Event section available for an additional week, including the special lockboxes and grab bags, so be sure to get them before they go away on November 6th! SOULS CLERICS * Shaman - Furious Assault can no longer be purged and now lasts through death. DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES PLANEBREAKER BASTION * Fixed an issue where a Hive Augmenter could become trapped inside of terrain. REALM OF TWISTED DREAMS * Approximately halved the number of trash pulls within the dungeon. * Twisted Lord Twyl - Reduced his health and damage output.

RIFT 2.4: Hotfix #8 10/25/13

RIFT 2.4: Hotfix #8 10/25/13 RIFT STORE * New Raid Rings are available in the RIFT Store for both Empyreal Slayers Marks and Credits. * Exceptionally Pumpkin Dye is now available under the World Event category! * Swimsuits are now under the Premium category in the store so that they're easier to find. * The new lockbox, Regulos's Trove, is available between now and November 1st! Open it for a chance at the black squirrel mount or Tier 1 raid accessories! DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES PLANEBREAKER BASTION * Breaker X-1 - The fight no longer hangs if the Breaker's main target uses a portal during the Breakdown phases. * Planebreaker Abominus - The platforms of the Overseer Council will more reliably teleport players to the current active platform if they resurrect upon them. - Graviton Bomb: No longer kills pets or damages adds. - Obliteration Cannon: No longer channeled shortly after a Graviton Bomb has been activated. - Nutronic Blast: Now fires more randomly at targets, and no longer does critical damage. - Dire Reckoning: Now begins to cast after 2 of the resurrected Overseer Council members have been slain.

RIFT 2.4: Hotfix #7 10/23/13

RIFT 2.4: Hotfix #7 10/23/13 GENERAL * Shard Unification has taken place this morning. Please click for additional details. * The Autumn Harvest scratcher game for Rift Mobile has been updated to include new rewards. * The number of auctions an individual character may have up is now capped at 200. Anyone with more than capped amount after the update will be allowed to finish those auctions normally. RIFT STORE * The costume armor in the following bundles are now Bind on Account: Avenger's, Overseer's, Pathfinder's and Virtuous. * The Autumn Harvest Sky Projector is now available for purchase! * Due to popular demand, swimsuits have been added to the store permanently. Find them in the main Wardrobe category. ZONES * Fixed an issue with some Instant Adventures failing to show the quest objective location. EASTERN HOLDINGS * Quests: Dream Hive: Players who need to hand in these quests but have left the dream can now teleport into the dream at the location indicated on the map. DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES GOLEM FOUNDRY * Locomotive Bulwark - Added immunity to the effects of Transference and Traitorous Influence. INFINITY GATE * Breaker X-1: - Portals to the core should now more reliably appear after the start of the 2nd breakdown phase. PLANEBREAKER BASTION * Eggtenders: - Bile Faucet now rotates slightly slower. - Pool of Bile no longer deals damage immediately. - Massive Eggs do not appear as frequently. * Planebreaker Abominus: - Crushing Implosion is now cast soon after Cascade Reaction or Growing Calamity. - Gravitronic Bomb no longer damages players during a phase change. - Council members now stop casting their channeled or large build up casts when entering their phase changes. * Warden Thrax: - Pets will no longer be hit by the beams from Greater Tectonic Transference. PVP AND WARFRONTS * Conquest: Dead turrets at extractors should no longer be super hostile. * Guns for Hire weekly quests should now update in Monster Mash: The Black Garden. (This was actually fixed last week without needing sever downtime.) ITEMS * Puppet pets have been restored to their bobble headed glory. * Omen of Forlorn Fate and other relic totems no longer have AC.

RIFT 2.4: Hotfix #6 10/16/13

RIFT 2.4: Hotfix #6 10/16/13 RIFT STORE * Thanks to new Ascended technology, you can now browse the store while you're dead! DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES * The mobs in Normal Storm Legion dungeons have had their health and damage reduced. INFINITY GATE * Breaker X-1: - To reduce load screen times during the encounter, the "Core" room has been relocated. PLANEBREAKER BASTION * Planebreaker Abominus: - Should now reset properly when a wipe occurs. - Growing Calamity: Now does less damage. * Inyr'Kta: - Aggressive Infection: Willno longer be cast on targets afflicted with Intensifying Anguish. * The trash mobs throughout the instance have had their health reduced by 20%. * The reward for completing the Planebreaker Bastion artifact 'Secrets of the Planes' set will no longer vanish when acquired. The vanity item now has a cooldown and will persist on the player. It must be used at least once in order to grant the achievement. REALM OF TWISTED DREAMS * The Night Terrors achievement is now easier to acquire. * Reduced the aggro radius of the Lil' Luggos and Bugsplat Sprouts which could aggro players and obstruct recovery from a failed attempt. CRAFTING * High-level crafting dailies once again provide the correct reward boxes and chests. ITEMS * The weekly cap for Empyreal Slayer's Mark has been increased to 16,000.

RIFT 2.4: Hotfix #5 10/9/13

RIFT 2.4: Hotfix #5 10/9/13 GENERAL * Some of the new Mayhem achievements have had their scores reduced to zero. * Fixed projected textures on compatibility renderer when Pixel Granularity is set below 100. * Implemented a possible improvement for some users experiencing extreme stuttering and FPS drops. However, we continue to gather information and investigate this issue. * Notoriety rewards have been increased by 25% for numerous sources, including Daily Quests, Weekly Quests, Instant Adventures, Crafting Quests, and completing RIFT stages. This affects the following factions: - Qaijiri - Caretakers - Eternal City Survivors - Hailol - Achyati - Lycini - Torvan Hunters - Empyreal Alliance * The achievements associated with Mayhem weekly quests have been moved into the Legacy category. * Text nameplates will no longer show through solid objects with the Low-Quuality Renderer and Pixel Granularity enabled. ZONES STEPPES OF INFINITY * Quest: Infinite Readings, Readins from theN Beyond: The objective to analyze the Infinity Gate has been moved away from the entrance to Planebreaker Bastion. DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES ENDLESS ECLIPSE * Matriarch of Pestilence - Now obtains slightly less healing from Corpse Devourerers. - Unholy Anguish now scales at a slower rate. - Wrack damage has been slightly lowered. - Increased the damage boost from Dark Matter. FROZEN TEMPEST * Twin Giants - Removed the tank swap mechanic. - Very slightly reduced the damage of tank attacks. - Reduced the damage of Devastating Shock. - Reduced the damage of Electric Field. INFINITY GATE * Breaker X-1 - Upon the boss' reset, the debuffs that prevent players from re-entering the core will now be removed. - Adds should no longer target players who have Kinetic Distortion for Ambersap Spray. PLANEBREAKER BASTION * Inyr'Kta: - Earthern Fissures are now immune to banishing effects. * Proteus: - Added a very short use time to the harpoons. * Warden Thrax: - Death avoidance abilities, such as Chimera's Gift and No Permission to Die, will no longer allow players to survive Execution. - The lasers during the Greater Techtronic Transference will no longer be cast outside of the channel effect. - The lasers during the Greater Techtronic Transference no longer trigger twice in a row. REALM OF TWISTED DREAMS * Atrophinius - Lowered damage of Last Call. * The total HP for all NPCs has been reduced. * The total damage dealt by Swindler Maelow, Lord Greenscale, Atrophinius and Frozen Terror has been reduced. * By popular request, the density of the fog and 'waviness' of the atmosphere has been reduced. STORM BREAKER PROTOCOL * Telaphalon (Standard version): - Removed Chitin Weave. - Reduced overall damage. CRAFTING * The highest-level of crafting dailies now provide Dendrome notorieties. * High-level crafting dailies now provide more notoriety.

RIFT 2.4: Hotfix #4 10/2/13

RIFT 2.4: Hotfix #4 10/2/13 == FEATURES == PLANEBREAKER BASTION The Infinity Gate has been attuned to the Plane of Earth and now allows entrance into the Planebreaker Bastion. GENERAL * Improved game perforamnce in low-memory conditions. RIFT STORE * There's a new dance available for purchase in the store! Haven't seen it? Check out a preview! * Increased the number of characters you can type into the Gifting To: field so you can gift items to people with long names cross shard. * Tier 1 raid items now have their credit prices attached. * Fixed several items in the Trophy section of the store that were incorrectly set to unique. SOULS ROGUE ASSASSIN * Expose Weakness: Now debuffs the target, increasing damage taken from the Rogue by 4%. MARKSMAN * T'Scain Marksman Crystal 4 piece bonus: Reworked. Marksman finishers now buff the Rogue for 15s, increasing damage dealt with Marksman attacks by 250. * T'Scain Glowing Marksman Crystal 4 piece bonus: Reworked. Marksman finishers now buff the Rogue for 15s, increasing damage dealt with Marksman attacks by 300. NIGHTBLADE * Primal Death: Reworked. Now increases the Critical Hit chance of Primal Strike and Dusk Strike by 5-15%. * Blazing Path: Reworked. No longer leaves a trail of fire. Now removes all crowd control effects, teleports the Rogue 15m forward and increases run speed by 50% for 5s. * Flame Blitz: Damage has been increased. Now has a 20% chance per Combo Point to apply Fiery Spike to enemies hit if the target is affected by Fiery Spike. SABOTEUR * Spike Bomb: This abilities effect is now removed when the affected target resurrects or changes zone. WARRIOR BEASTMASTER * Calliope's Beastmaster Crystal 4 piece bonus: Reworked. After using Messy Wounds, the Warrior deals an additional 500 damage with Beastmaster attacks for 30s. * Calliope's Glowing Beastmaster Crystal 4 piece bonus: Reworked. After using Messy Wounds, the Warrior deals an additional 600 damage with Beastmaster attacks for 30s. CHAMPION * Calliope's Champion Crystal 4 piece bonus: Reworked. After using Titan Strike, the Warrior deals an additional 500 damage with Champion attacks for 15s. * Calliope's Glowing Champion Crystal 4 piece bonus: Reworked. After using Titan Strike, the Warrior deals an additional 600 damage with Champion attacks for 15s. * Chains of Death: Should no longer get twice the benefit from Calliope's Champion Crystal. PARAGON * Calliope's Paragon Crystal 2 piece bonus: Reworked. For 15s after using a follow up attack, the Warrior deals an additional 140 damage with Attack Point generating abilities. * Calliope's Glowing Paragon Crystal 2 piece bonus: Reworked. For 15s after using a follow up attack, the Warrior deals an additional 165 damage with Attack Point generating abilities. RIFTBLADE * Calliope's Riftblade Crystal 4 piece bonus: Reworked. After using Rift Implosion, the Warrior deals an additional 500 damage with Riftblade attacks for 15s. * Calliope's Glowing Riftblade Crystal 4 piece bonus: Reworked. After using Rift Implosion, the Warrior deals an additional 600 damage with Riftblade attacks for 15s. * Fiery Burst: Should no longer get twice the benefit from Calliope's Riftblade Crystal. ZONES STONEFIELD * Quest: Dust to Dust: The Dead Adventurer in the crypt below The Harrow once again offers this quest. * Quest: Lights Out: Now displays properly in the quest log. * Quest: Dead Drop: Is once again available from quest giving objects in the Towering Steppes. * Quest: War on the Dreadbone: Should be appropriately offered in Coterie Camp to players that have completed the quest A Strange Kind of Magnetism. THE DENDROME * Quest: Look to the Skies: Added a failsafe to handle rare cases if a player's leaps are interrupted in mid-air. DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES INFINITY GATE * Volan: Fix a graphical issue with one of Volan's attacks. * Volan: Outbreak will now correctly trigger on all cleanses. GRIM AWAKENING * Kyzan: Now more forgiving on resetting while near the edge of his fight space. REALM OF TWISTED DREAMS * Achievement: Short Order Cook: Is now properly granted to the whole party when completed. THE FALL OF LANTERN HOOK * Quests: Wash it Away, Burning Faith: These quests are no longer available due to complications with cross-faction play. Thank you for understanding! CRAFTING * The recipe for Soulbind Leather Hood now requires Outfitter skill 250. * Survival: Eating a feast now requires level 50. ITEMS * Using the Glowing Sourcestone results in a smaller placed crystal. * The following items from the chronicle Infernal Dawn: Laethys have had their final upgrade paths fixed: - Epaulettes of the Gold Worm - Pauldrons of the Gold Worm - Hoarder's Collar - Laethys Slayer Epaulettes - Laethys Slayer Shoulderguards - Epaulettes of the Laethic Hoard - Pauldrons of the Laethic Hoard

RIFT 2.4: Hotfix #3 9/26/13

RIFT 2.4: Hotfix #3 9/26/13 GENERAL * Fixed an issue with incorrect character stats after consuming an equipped item. * Returned Flaring Charge to tier 3 of the Attunement of Fire. * Returned Flowing Charge to tier 3 of the Attunement of Water. RIFT STORE * We continue to optimize the store to help people experiencing slowness or crashes while browsing crafting recipes.

RIFT 2.4: Hotfix #2 9/25/13

RIFT 2.4: Hotfix #2 9/25/13 GENERAL * Players with low video settings can no longer accidentally walk through solid objects. * The transparency on some in-game objects has been fixed. * Fixed an issue that caused some players to be unable to view their wardrobe. * Previewing glass objects in the RIFT Store no longer sometimes causes visual artifacts. * Fixed an issue that allowed movement during some stun effects. Hold still! * The ground-effect targeting reticle will now be more visible on transparent surfaces. * Players should no longer be occasionally locked out of their own random LFD instances. * Fixed a bug that could (rarely) send players clicking on the "Return to Graveyard" button to the Plane of Water! (This was less exciting than it sounds, because they'd crash due to not having patched the map yet...) * For the select few users that have completed the achievement "Patience is a Virtue", you now have a new option! Under Interface > Display there is a new checkbox that allows you to set your character portrait frame as the rare mob diamond.* RIFT STORE * 2.4 Achievement rewards are now available in the Trophy section of the store. Note that you must have the achievement before you can purchase the items. * Fixed an issue with a few items in the trophy section erroneously being unique! * Players with Storm Legion Souls can once again purchase these items as gifts for their friends who don't yet have the Storm Legion Souls. SOULS MAGE NECROMANCER * Corpse Explosion: A target can now have no more than 3 stacks of Corpse Explosion on them from all enemies total. * Corpse Pile: Now causes Corpse Explosion to deal an additional 25/50% of its damage over 6 seconds to enemies it hits. ROGUE BLADEDANCER * T'Scain's Glowing Bladedancer Crystal: Effect now lasts 24s instead of 21s. WARRIOR BEASTMASTSER * Twin Cuts: The bleed portion of this ability now benefits from damage modifications. * Cutting Slash: The bleed portion of this ability now benefits from damage modifications. CHAMPION * Savage Sweep: The bleed portion of this ability now benefits from damage modifications. PALADIN * Light's Balm: Can now crit. * Light's Blessing: Can now crit. REAVER * All Reaver Corruptions are now off GCD. PARAGON * Flurry: Now a 3s channeled ability, down from 6s. Total damage has been reduced. Awards 1 Attack Point every second. * Run like the Wind: Now also increases passive movement speed by 2-6%. * Predictable Movements: No longer a Finisher. Causes the next 3 melee ability attacks to be reflected back against the attacker. * Open the Stream: The bleed portion of this ability now benefits from damage modifications. WARLORD * Tactical Advantage: Now works correctly. * Battlefield Medic: Can now crit. ZONES * The Water Saga quests Joining the Cabal and Initiation should now function correctly for the assault on the Wardstone. EMBER ISLE * The minimum level required for Ember Isle quests has been reduced to 48. STONEFIELD * Quest: Assistance for Granite Falls: Now correctly teleports characters to Coterie Camp. * Quest: Lights Out: This quest is no longer repeatable and now properly rewards coin and XP.* * Quest: Troll Bait: This quest is once again available in The Last Valley.* DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES EXODUS OF THE STORM QUEEN * The Blackstorm Vangaurds during the Hot Lead, Cold Steel event should no longer get stuck in the roof. INFERNAL DAWN: LAETHYS * Fixed an issue that could cause Maklamos's Doom to root both players. * The item rewards for completing Monitron On for the first time have been moved to the The Golden Worm instead. * Fixed an issue that could cause players outside Laethys's chamber to trigger a fight reset. INFINITY GATE * Players now have a Leaderboard entry for the Infinity Gate raid. * Added a new achievement, Rapid Assault: Infinity Gate, for players who complete the instance within 32 minutes of activating the gate. * Added a new achievement, Conqueror: Infinity Gate, for completing all achievements in the raid, which grants a Infinity Gate Conqueror's Treasure Box upon completion. * Mordan/Viktus: Trash mobs for the life and death pulls now correctly aggro as a group. * Mordan/Viktus: The trash mobs before this fight no longer respawns. * Volan: No longer spams broadcasts. REALM OF TWISTED DREAMS * Greenscale: Players who successfully became roasted, tenderized and seasoned will now be properly granted the achievement The Perfect Dish. * Greenscale: Pets will now correctly be able to attack Greenscale after he lands. * The jump puzzle reward, Definitely Not A Sinister Companion, is now Bind to Account. * Earning the achievement Conqueror: Realm of Twisted Dreams now grants Companion Pet: Sneeps. * Fixed an issue that would cause players to not obtain the LFD cooldown upon entering the instance via the LFD system. STORM BREAKER PROTOCOL * Quest: Storm the Estate: Now only requires one wave of enemy troops to be defeated defeated before completion. PVP AND WARFRONTS * Set 6 Armor/Weapons can now be Shift-Right Click and consumed to return the amount of Favor it would have cost to purchase them. - Note: Your inventory screen will need to be open when consuming these items. * Fixed an issue causing bolstering to grant more Valor for rings and essences for players wearing lower ranked gear than the Freelancer's set. CRAFTING * The new augment recipes can be found rarely in expert dungeons as well as strongholds. * The new Epic cape recipes are now significantly more common, and the Relic recipes are now slightly more common. * Recently learned crafting recipes will no longer show in the Store and properly show as learned without having to relog. ITEMS * Frozen Eclipse Stone drop rates for Tier 1 raid bosses have been corrected: 50 from 20-man bosses, and 25 from Sliver bosses. * Reinforced Aggressor's Exalted Parrying Dagger is no longer Unique equip. * Dendrome Raider's Power Cell now has an Empreal Slayer's Mark cost as well as a Credit cost and can be purchased from the Rift Store. * Raid 2 Chloromancer trinket upgrade paths have received the ability upgrades that the cleric trinket set did: - Prophet of the Bleeding Tree - The Screams of the Rising Wind - Light of the Infinite Firmaments * The Survivor Hood can now be worn in a Wardrobe slot by all classes. * Added reward package for new Infinity Gate conqueror achievement. * Added appropriate icon to Snizzip pet. * The few potions whose stack sizes were less than 99 have had their stack sizes increased to 99.

RIFT 2.4: Hotfix #2 9/25/13

RIFT 2.4: Hotfix #2 9/25/13 GENERAL * Players with low video settings can no longer accidentally walk through solid objects. * The transparency on some in-game objects has been fixed. * Fixed an issue that caused some players to be unable to view their wardrobe. * Previewing glass objects in the RIFT Store no longer sometimes causes visual artifacts. * Fixed an issue that allowed movement during some stun effects. Hold still! * The ground-effect targeting reticle will now be more visible on transparent surfaces. * Players should no longer be occasionally locked out of their own random LFD instances. * Fixed a bug that could (rarely) send players clicking on the "Return to Graveyard" button to the Plane of Water! (This was less exciting than it sounds, because they'd crash due to not having patched the map yet...) * For the select few users that have completed the achievement "Patience is a Virtue", you now have a new option! Under Interface > Display there is a new checkbox that allows you to set your character portrait frame as the rare mob diamond.* RIFT STORE * 2.4 Achievement rewards are now available in the Trophy section of the store. Note that you must have the achievement before you can purchase the items. * Fixed an issue with a few items in the trophy section erroneously being unique! * Players with Storm Legion Souls can once again purchase these items as gifts for their friends who don't yet have the Storm Legion Souls. SOULS MAGE NECROMANCER * Corpse Explosion: A target can now have no more than 3 stacks of Corpse Explosion on them from all enemies total. * Corpse Pile: Now causes Corpse Explosion to deal an additional 25/50% of its damage over 6 seconds to enemies it hits. ROGUE BLADEDANCER * T'Scain's Glowing Bladedancer Crystal: Effect now lasts 24s instead of 21s. WARRIOR BEASTMASTSER * Twin Cuts: The bleed portion of this ability now benefits from damage modifications. * Cutting Slash: The bleed portion of this ability now benefits from damage modifications. CHAMPION * Savage Sweep: The bleed portion of this ability now benefits from damage modifications. PALADIN * Light's Balm: Can now crit. * Light's Blessing: Can now crit. REAVER * All Reaver Corruptions are now off GCD. PARAGON * Flurry: Now a 3s channeled ability, down from 6s. Total damage has been reduced. Awards 1 Attack Point every second. * Run like the Wind: Now also increases passive movement speed by 2-6%. * Predictable Movements: No longer a Finisher. Causes the next 3 melee ability attacks to be reflected back against the attacker. * Open the Stream: The bleed portion of this ability now benefits from damage modifications. WARLORD * Tactical Advantage: Now works correctly. * Battlefield Medic: Can now crit. ZONES * The Water Saga quests Joining the Cabal and Initiation should now function correctly for the assault on the Wardstone. EMBER ISLE * The minimum level required for Ember Isle quests has been reduced to 48. STONEFIELD * Quest: Assistance for Granite Falls: Now correctly teleports characters to Coterie Camp. * Quest: Lights Out: This quest is no longer repeatable and now properly rewards coin and XP.* * Quest: Troll Bait: This quest is once again available in The Last Valley.* DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES EXODUS OF THE STORM QUEEN * The Blackstorm Vangaurds during the Hot Lead, Cold Steel event should no longer get stuck in the roof. INFERNAL DAWN: LAETHYS * Fixed an issue that could cause Maklamos's Doom to root both players. * The item rewards for completing Monitron On for the first time have been moved to the The Golden Worm instead. * Fixed an issue that could cause players outside Laethys's chamber to trigger a fight reset. INFINITY GATE * Players now have a Leaderboard entry for the Infinity Gate raid. * Added a new achievement, Rapid Assault: Infinity Gate, for players who complete the instance within 32 minutes of activating the gate. * Added a new achievement, Conqueror: Infinity Gate, for completing all achievements in the raid, which grants a Infinity Gate Conqueror's Treasure Box upon completion. * Mordan/Viktus: Trash mobs for the life and death pulls now correctly aggro as a group. * Mordan/Viktus: The trash mobs before this fight no longer respawns. * Volan: No longer spams broadcasts. REALM OF TWISTED DREAMS * Greenscale: Players who successfully became roasted, tenderized and seasoned will now be properly granted the achievement The Perfect Dish. * Greenscale: Pets will now correctly be able to attack Greenscale after he lands. * The jump puzzle reward, Definitely Not A Sinister Companion, is now Bind to Account. * Earning the achievement Conqueror: Realm of Twisted Dreams now grants Companion Pet: Sneeps. * Fixed an issue that would cause players to not obtain the LFD cooldown upon entering the instance via the LFD system. STORM BREAKER PROTOCOL * Quest: Storm the Estate: Now only requires one wave of enemy troops to be defeated defeated before completion. PVP AND WARFRONTS * Set 6 Armor/Weapons can now be Shift-Right Click and consumed to return the amount of Favor it would have cost to purchase them. - Note: Your inventory screen will need to be open when consuming these items. * Fixed an issue causing bolstering to grant more Valor for rings and essences for players wearing lower ranked gear than the Freelancer's set. CRAFTING * The new augment recipes can be found rarely in expert dungeons as well as strongholds. * The new Epic cape recipes are now significantly more common, and the Relic recipes are now slightly more common. * Recently learned crafting recipes will no longer show in the Store and properly show as learned without having to relog. ITEMS * Frozen Eclipse Stone drop rates for Tier 1 raid bosses have been corrected: 50 from 20-man bosses, and 25 from Sliver bosses. * Reinforced Aggressor's Exalted Parrying Dagger is no longer Unique equip. * Dendrome Raider's Power Cell now has an Empreal Slayer's Mark cost as well as a Credit cost and can be purchased from the Rift Store. * Raid 2 Chloromancer trinket upgrade paths have received the ability upgrades that the cleric trinket set did: - Prophet of the Bleeding Tree - The Screams of the Rising Wind - Light of the Infinite Firmaments * The Survivor Hood can now be worn in a Wardrobe slot by all classes. * Added reward package for new Infinity Gate conqueror achievement. * Added appropriate icon to Snizzip pet. * The few potions whose stack sizes were less than 99 have had their stack sizes increased to 99.

RIFT 2.4: Hotfix #2 9/25/13

RIFT 2.4: Hotfix #2 9/25/13 GENERAL * Players with low video settings can no longer accidentally walk through solid objects. * The transparency on some in-game objects has been fixed. * Fixed an issue that caused some players to be unable to view their wardrobe. * Previewing glass objects in the RIFT Store no longer sometimes causes visual artifacts. * Fixed an issue that allowed movement during some stun effects. Hold still! * The ground-effect targeting reticle will now be more visible on transparent surfaces. * Players should no longer be occasionally locked out of their own random LFD instances. * Fixed a bug that could (rarely) send players clicking on the "Return to Graveyard" button to the Plane of Water! (This was less exciting than it sounds, because they'd crash due to not having patched the map yet...) * For the select few users that have completed the achievement "Patience is a Virtue", you now have a new option! Under Interface > Display there is a new checkbox that allows you to set your character portrait frame as the rare mob diamond.* RIFT STORE * 2.4 Achievement rewards are now available in the Trophy section of the store. Note that you must have the achievement before you can purchase the items. * Fixed an issue with a few items in the trophy section erroneously being unique! * Players with Storm Legion Souls can once again purchase these items as gifts for their friends who don't yet have the Storm Legion Souls. SOULS MAGE NECROMANCER * Corpse Explosion: A target can now have no more than 3 stacks of Corpse Explosion on them from all enemies total. * Corpse Pile: Now causes Corpse Explosion to deal an additional 25/50% of its damage over 6 seconds to enemies it hits. ROGUE BLADEDANCER * T'Scain's Glowing Bladedancer Crystal: Effect now lasts 24s instead of 21s. WARRIOR BEASTMASTSER * Twin Cuts: The bleed portion of this ability now benefits from damage modifications. * Cutting Slash: The bleed portion of this ability now benefits from damage modifications. CHAMPION * Savage Sweep: The bleed portion of this ability now benefits from damage modifications. PALADIN * Light's Balm: Can now crit. * Light's Blessing: Can now crit. REAVER * All Reaver Corruptions are now off GCD. PARAGON * Flurry: Now a 3s channeled ability, down from 6s. Total damage has been reduced. Awards 1 Attack Point every second. * Run like the Wind: Now also increases passive movement speed by 2-6%. * Predictable Movements: No longer a Finisher. Causes the next 3 melee ability attacks to be reflected back against the attacker. * Open the Stream: The bleed portion of this ability now benefits from damage modifications. WARLORD * Tactical Advantage: Now works correctly. * Battlefield Medic: Can now crit. ZONES * The Water Saga quests Joining the Cabal and Initiation should now function correctly for the assault on the Wardstone. EMBER ISLE * The minimum level required for Ember Isle quests has been reduced to 48. STONEFIELD * Quest: Assistance for Granite Falls: Now correctly teleports characters to Coterie Camp. * Quest: Lights Out: This quest is no longer repeatable and now properly rewards coin and XP.* * Quest: Troll Bait: This quest is once again available in The Last Valley.* DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES EXODUS OF THE STORM QUEEN * The Blackstorm Vangaurds during the Hot Lead, Cold Steel event should no longer get stuck in the roof. INFERNAL DAWN: LAETHYS * Fixed an issue that could cause Maklamos's Doom to root both players. * The item rewards for completing Monitron On for the first time have been moved to the The Golden Worm instead. * Fixed an issue that could cause players outside Laethys's chamber to trigger a fight reset. INFINITY GATE * Players now have a Leaderboard entry for the Infinity Gate raid. * Added a new achievement, Rapid Assault: Infinity Gate, for players who complete the instance within 32 minutes of activating the gate. * Added a new achievement, Conqueror: Infinity Gate, for completing all achievements in the raid, which grants a Infinity Gate Conqueror's Treasure Box upon completion. * Mordan/Viktus: Trash mobs for the life and death pulls now correctly aggro as a group. * Mordan/Viktus: The trash mobs before this fight no longer respawns. * Volan: No longer spams broadcasts. REALM OF TWISTED DREAMS * Greenscale: Players who successfully became roasted, tenderized and seasoned will now be properly granted the achievement The Perfect Dish. * Greenscale: Pets will now correctly be able to attack Greenscale after he lands. * The jump puzzle reward, Definitely Not A Sinister Companion, is now Bind to Account. * Earning the achievement Conqueror: Realm of Twisted Dreams now grants Companion Pet: Sneeps. * Fixed an issue that would cause players to not obtain the LFD cooldown upon entering the instance via the LFD system. STORM BREAKER PROTOCOL * Quest: Storm the Estate: Now only requires one wave of enemy troops to be defeated defeated before completion. PVP AND WARFRONTS * Set 6 Armor/Weapons can now be Shift-Right Click and consumed to return the amount of Favor it would have cost to purchase them. - Note: Your inventory screen will need to be open when consuming these items. * Fixed an issue causing bolstering to grant more Valor for rings and essences for players wearing lower ranked gear than the Freelancer's set. CRAFTING * The new augment recipes can be found rarely in expert dungeons as well as strongholds. * The new Epic cape recipes are now significantly more common, and the Relic recipes are now slightly more common. * Recently learned crafting recipes will no longer show in the Store and properly show as learned without having to relog. ITEMS * Frozen Eclipse Stone drop rates for Tier 1 raid bosses have been corrected: 50 from 20-man bosses, and 25 from Sliver bosses. * Reinforced Aggressor's Exalted Parrying Dagger is no longer Unique equip. * Dendrome Raider's Power Cell now has an Empreal Slayer's Mark cost as well as a Credit cost and can be purchased from the Rift Store. * Raid 2 Chloromancer trinket upgrade paths have received the ability upgrades that the cleric trinket set did: - Prophet of the Bleeding Tree - The Screams of the Rising Wind - Light of the Infinite Firmaments * The Survivor Hood can now be worn in a Wardrobe slot by all classes. * Added reward package for new Infinity Gate conqueror achievement. * Added appropriate icon to Snizzip pet. * The few potions whose stack sizes were less than 99 have had their stack sizes increased to 99.

Dual Grief Mage Spec

Alright Well here is probably my last mage spec posting, I do not Play rift, much at all. I get on every now and then to help and talk to people. I am trying to move on to a different MMO but i am having such bad internet problems that i get d/c every 10 seconds. It was a struggle for me to even get this posting out because of how poor my internet is being right now. So hopefully you guys like the Spec

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About this Spec

It has Heals, It has good Survive, It has Crowd Control, It has Grief Damage (dual Grief Damage) and It has a Main Macro which is about all you need to use, but you can use other things and i highly do suggest other moves too that are not in there, because it is missing out a few important moves that couldnt be added to the macro, or would just have been confusing to do so. You will Always have a 25% increase to Intellect if you use the macro that is given.

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Tree Setup


36 Chloromancer, 36 Dominator, 4 Warlock

36 Chloromancer

Row 1- 5 in Natural Awareness
Row 2- 3 in Empowered Veil, 3 in Nature's Corrosion, 2 in Healing Slipstream, 1 in Bloom
Row 3- 5 in Circle of Life
Row 4- 5 in Call of Spring
Row 5- 1 in Resurgence, 3 in Natural Power
Row 6- 3 in Raised In Nature
Row 7- 1 in Essence Surge, 3 in Nature's Swiftness
Row 8- 1 in Healing Balance
Row 9- None

36 Dominator

Row 1- 3 in Clinging Form, 4 in Mental Fortitude
Row 2- 2 in Improved Charge Shield, 5 in Acumen
Row 3- 3 in Improved Mana Wrench
Row 4- 5 in Dominant Personality, 1 in Transference, 1 in Quicken Form, 2 in Durable Control
Row 5- 2 in Microburst, 1 in Reflective Presence
Row 6- 1 in Split Personality, 2 in Splintered Mind
Row 7- 2 in Prolonged Break, 1 in Traitorous Influence
Row 8- 1 in Broken Influence
Row 9- None

4 Warlock

Row 1- 4 in Magical Affinity
Row 2- None
Row 3- None
Row 4- None
Row 5- None
Row 6- None
Row 7- None
Row 8- None
Row 9- None


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Macro Setup

Main Macro

#show Reflective Presence
suppressmacrofailures
cast Break Free
cast Reflective Presence
cast [shift] Withering Vine
cast [alt] Haunting Pain
cast [alt] Storm Shackle
cast [alt] Life Leech
cast Ruin
cast Traitorous Influence
cast Death's Edict
cast Flourish
cast Transference
cast Thunder Blast
cast @self Resurgence
cast Radiant Spores
cast Split Personality
cast Degeneration
cast @self Deny
cast Neural Prod
cast Dark Touch
cast @self Reflective Command
cast Renewing Seed
cast Archaic Tablet
cast Petrified Rune

Macro #2 Aoe

#show Mass Exhaustion
suppressmacrofailures
cast Break Free
cast @gtae Mass Exhaustion

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Screen Setup

#1 Mana Wrench
#2 Transmogrify
# 3 Main Macro
# 4 Bloom
#5 Essence Surge
#6 Natural Healing
#7 Natural Conversion
#8 Blight
#9 Macro #2 AoE
#0 Entropic Veil
Buffs go somewhere else!

Buffs are

Mass charged Shield
Lifegiving Veil
Dark Armor

(please do not that 2 of your buffs cannot be debuffed, therefor the buffing order doesnt mater.)

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 Use
Your main Buttons will be # 1,2,3,0
Always Transmogrify before a fight, most of the time it will allow the person to use Break Free
Cool down is somewhere near 10 seconds that a person cannot have it done to them again.
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I am terribly sorry how long this spec took to get out, seriously i have had so bad internet issues that i cannot play a single minute in the game. I spent the last few hours logging in for a minute to get d/c just so i can view my outline of this Spec, so i hope you guys enjoy it. Remember That you can only have mass charged shield debuffed from you, but it is still one of the more important abilities/buffs you should have up, so remember to make sure you have it up. It also helps a good bit during warfronts since so many people dont target just a healer, it allows the people who are being hit to take down the health of the attackers without needing to switch from their targets. ENJOY

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Sumdeus
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It's Dwarfin Time!

RIFT 2.4: Hotfix #1 9/19/13

RIFT 2.4: Hotfix #1 9/19/13 GENERAL * The damage and HP of old world (Mathosia/Ember Isle) mobs have been slightly reduced. They are still more difficult than they were before 2.4, just not as difficult. DUNGEONS AND RAIDS STORM BREAKER PROTOCOL * Fixed an issue that prevented Proximity Mine Autodeployers and Eternal Sentinels from being placed. ITEMS * Procs for the follow essences have been corrected: - Hunt Prime Flamecaller's Rotward - Hunt Prime Mender's Rotward - Hunt Prime Mender's Brimstone UI/SETTINGS * The Multipass Terrain option has been removed, and instead will always be enabled for all characters. There is still an additional optimization ahead. * Known recipes are once more filtered correctly. * Recipes once more display "already learned" on their tooltips.

RIFT 2.4: BEYOND INFINITY 9/18/13

RIFT 2.4: BEYOND INFINITY 9/18/13 == FEATURES == RAID: INFINITY GATE As the Ascended rush to control the Infinity Gate, its ancient magic stirs to life and summons furious enemies from the planes beyond. Defeat Breaker X1, Swarm Lord Twins Mordan and Viktus, and a Karthan juggernaut to secure the gate and pave the way to Planebreaker Bastion. (Maximum of 20 players.) DUNGEON: REALM OF TWISTED DREAMS A stroke of cosmic unluck has given rise to a nightmarish Realm of the Fae, a dream world where Atrophinius' deepest fears take on physical form and threaten Telara itself. Chimeric versions of familiar foes now await the Ascended, grinding axes (and teeth and claws) for the twisted battles to come. (Maximum of 5 players.) CHRONICLE: INFERNAL DAWN Adventure through an alternate Telara where a victorious Laethys reigns from the depths of her volcanic lair. Sabotage the dragon's plans for invasion by laying low Maklamos the Scryer, Rusila Dreadblade, and Laethys herself! (Maximum of 2 players.) PVP PRESTIGE RANK 90 Ascend to new heights of power with PvP Rank 90 armor and weapons. CROSS-SHARD INSTANT ADVENTURE Unite with Ascended from all realms for adventure on-demand! When joining a queue for Instant Adventure, players on PvE shards will only join adventures on other PvE shards. Players on PvP shards may be sent on adventures on either PvE or PvP shards. NEW HAIRSTYLES The Barbershop gets a makeover: Choose from new colors and extra hairstyles for your character. Unlocking a pack of hairstyles, hair colors, and skin colors unlocks those options for your entire account. NEW USER EXPERIENCE To improve the New User Experience, we've added: * A new type of quest for Tutorials. These quests are usually given when the character levels up from 8 to 20 and introduces the player to core features of the game such as Instant Adventure, Dimensions, and the Soul Tree. They do not count towards your max quest count and have a different UI when in the quest tracker. * A Help Tip Encyclopedia that can be found under the ? icon on the player menu in the lower left corner of the screen. Here players can search for and read help tips. Players can also view and replay new video tutorials. If you wish to disable all tips, you can do so under Settings>Help. GENERAL * Right clicking on items in your inventory to auto move them to your bank will now make use of your unlocked bank vaults that you are not currently viewing. * Fixed an issue with PvP-shard characters not receiving direct heals while visiting a PvE shard. * Reporting people by clicking on their name in the chat window can not only be used to report spam, but also to report offensive language. * Upgrading a guild dimension will now use funds from the guild bank. * Guild foraging quests with incorrect max levels have been fixed. * Fixed an issue with mind control abilities in dungeon instances sometimes causing players to revert to the wrong faction. * /mentorlevel now supports relative arguments (eg; /mentorlevel +2) so that players could put one in a macros to more quickly get in the action when hopping from zone event to zone event. * Macros will no longer attempt to play once the player logs out. * Blink now works under water. * Lucky coin loot take from mail sent by the Rift Mobile App will now show up in the chat dialog. * The macro @gtae specifier now respects line of sight properly. * Fishing Derby daily quests are no longer timed. More importantly, this means that fishing derby quest progress will not be lost when not logged into the game. RIFT STORE * The store now has a section called Trophies! Only characters that have unlocked specific achievements can purchase items from this section of the store. These trophies are typically bind-on-account items. * Loyalty dimension items are now available on the Rift Store. * Portable Auctioneer is now available in the Services category. * There is now a slider that allows you to scale the size of just the Rift Store under Settings/Display. * Icon overlays are now viewable in the Rift Store; these are the small icons that show which items are upgradable. * Characters that have learned a lot of crafting recipes should see a performance increase when browsing items in the Rift Store. * You can no longer purchase the Storm Legion souls multiple times for yourself. * Cleaned up the ordering of items in Wardrobe -> Premium. * Credit prices for 2H PVP weapons are now twice that of the price of 1H weapons. * Fixed prices on some runes-- thanks for pointing this out on the forums! * Tasuil's World Tree Nectar is now available from the Rift Store and drink merchants. * Swift Platinum Eldritch War Steed Bridle is now purchasable by both factions. SOULS * The following abilities were being incorrectly interpreted as cast time abilities by numerous talents and buffs, and now correctly count as instant or channeled abilities as appropriate: - Archon: Purification - Chloromancer: Soul Tether - Dominator: Death's Edict, Degeneration - Elementalist: Raging Elements - Necromancer: Desecrate, Oblivion, Putrify - Pyromancer: Glyphs of Power - Stormcaller: Electric Charge, Lightning Arc, Static Nova - Cabalist: Tyranny of Death, Unleashed Oblivion, Unbounded Oblivion - Druid: Slumber - Justicar: Absolution - Purifier: Eruption, Fire Wall - Sentinel: Wrathful Exuberance - Warden: Healing Flood, Orbs of the Tide, Orbs of the Stream, Healing Effusion, Pool of Restoration, Shared Excess, Wave of Renewal CLERIC CABALIST * Bound Fate: While Obliterate is active, PVP damage is slightly increased. DEFILER * Empowered Affliction: Updated so that it better shows the max health reduction in the health bar. INQUISITOR * Qil's Inquisitor Crystal 2 piece bonus: Now causes Armor of Awakening to increase the Cleric's Spell Power by 100. * Qil's Inquisitor Crystal 4 piece bonus: Now causes casting Scourge to increase damage done by the Cleric's Inquisitor abilities by 400 for 15s. * Qil's Glowing Inquisitor Crystal 2 piece bonus: Now causes Armor of Awakening to increase the Cleric's Spell Power by 115. * Qil's Glowing Inquisitor Crystal 4 piece bonus: Now causes casting Scourge to increase damage done by the Cleric's Inquisitor abilities by 460. PURIFIER * Ward of Flame: Fixed an issue where ranks 1 – 9 were healing for their full value each tick of healing instead of over the duration of the channel. * Flare-Up: Now works correctly with Symbol of the Torch. * Flame Speaker: Now correctly increases the chance for healing and for absorb abilities to critically hit. * Soul Brand: Updated so that it better shows the max health reduction in the health bar. SENTINEL * Nyol's Hope: Now removed if the Cleric dies. SHAMAN * Qil's Shaman Crystal 2 piece bonus: Now causes casting Lightning Hammer to increase damage done by the Cleric's Shaman abilities by 100 for 15s. * Qil's Glowing Shaman Crystal 2 piece bonus: Now causes casting Lightning Hammer to increase damage done by the Cleric's Shaman abilities by 115 for 15s. WARDEN * Dangers of the Deep stacks no longer modify the duration channeled heal over time effects. MAGE CHLOROMANCER * Living Infusion: No longer appears in the ability binder. This does not affect how the gift functions. DOMINATOR * Split Personality: The buff can no longer be resisted by the caster. ELEMENTALIST * Updated the models used by the Elementalist's Earth Elemental pets. NECROMANCER * Death's Ally: Now increases all damage, as the description indicates, instead of only Death abilities. ROGUE BARD * Multiple Oscillation: Now off the GCD. MARKSMAN * T'Scain's Marksman Crystal 4 piece bonus: Marksman Finishers now cause the target to be vulnerable, increasing damage taken from Marksman ability attacks by 250 for 10s. No longer increases the damage of procced attacks. RANGER * Blood Raptor model has been replaced with a newer, more epic looking one. * Fleeting Instinct: Other instincts can now be applied while Fleeting Instinct is active. WARRIOR * Passive bonuses from Gifts should no longer be displayed under the buff section of the ability binder. * Planar Attunement: Power cost of Guard has been reduced to 20, down from 35. BEASTMASTER * Calliope's Beastmaster Crystal 4 piece bonus: Enemies affected by the Warrior's Messy Wounds take an additional 500 damage from Beastmaster ability attacks instead of all attacks. No longer increases the damage of procced attacks. * Brutal Strike: Now deals an additional 30% damage per damage over time effect on the target, up to 150%. * Claw Swipe: Is now properly categorized as a Debuff instead of a Buff. As such, its bleed effect will not be removed by Purges. The bleed effect now ignores armor. * Vicious Blow: Now deals an additional 15% damage per damage over time effect on the target, up to 75%. CHAMPION * Champion characters should no longer retain the old Thunderous Kick ability, which was moved to the Tempest soul long ago. * Calliope's Champion Crystal 4 piece bonus: Using Titan's Strike causes up to 5 enemies within 7m to take an additional 500 damage from Champion attacks for 15s. No longer increases the damage of procced attacks. * Chains of Life: The healing from Chains of Life has been increased. * Weapon Defense: Total amount absorbed has been increased. PALADIN * Calliope's Paladin Crystal 2 piece bonus: No longer increases the damage of procced attacks. PARAGON * Calliope's Paragon 4 piece crystal: Bonus damage dealt has been reduced from 8000 to 6000. * Feint: This ability has been removed. * New ability: Grasping the Horizon: Increases the range of Swift Strike, Setting Moon, Reaping Harvest and all Follow Up attacks by 20m for 10s. 30s cooldown. * Death Touch: Now on a 15s cooldown, down from 30s. * Run Like the Wind: Now also reduces the cooldown of Fleet of Foot by 5-15s. * Way of the Sun: Now stacks with Blade of Elemental Affinity and Recovery Posture. * Shifting Blades: No longer deal reduced damage in PVP. * Weapon Familiarity: Now increases your Attack Power and Weapon Damage by 2-10%. * Wrist Strike: No longer a follow up attack. * Shield of Will: Total amount absorbed has been increased. RIFTBLADE * Calliope's Riftblade Crystal 4 piece bonus: Enemies affected by Rift Implosion take an additional 500 damage from Riftblade ability attacks instead of all attacks. No longer increases the damage of procced attacks. * Blade of Elemental Affinity: Now stacks with Recovery Posture and Way of the Sun. * Scald: Damage dealt has been increased to 6-18% of Attack Power based on Attack Points used, up from 4-12%. * Earth Burst: Now deals damage to up to 5 enemies, up from 3 enemies. * Rift Travel: Now off the GCD. TEMPEST * Calliope's Tempest Crystal 4 piece bonus: Now increases the damage of Tempest ability attacks by 500 instead of all ranged attacks. No longer increases the damage of procced attacks. * Arc: No longer deals reduced damage in PVP. * Amped: Now increases your Attack Power and Weapon Damage by 2-10%. * Jolt: Now off the GCD. * Storm Shield: Total amount absorbed has been increased. VOID KNIGHT * Calliope's Void Knight Crystal 4 piece bonus: No longer increases the damage of procced attacks. * Devouring Blow: Now tagged correctly as an Air damaging attack. Any effects that modify Physical damage will no longer affect it. * Staggering Rage: Now causes Furious Rage to silence the enemy for 4s on a successful interrupt, up from 2s. WARLORD * Calliope's Warlord Crystal 4 piece bonus: Hitting with Piercing Thrust or Wave of Steel causes Empowering Strike, Decisive Strike, A Quick Death, King of the Hill and Breaking Blow to deal an additional 600 damage for 15s. * Recovery Posture: Now stacks with Blade of Elemental Affinity and Way of the Sun. * Thick of Battle: Now reduces damage taken from ranged attacks by 5-15%, up from 3-9%. * Strength of Arms: Now increases your Attack Power and Weapon Damage by 2-10%. * Battlefield Medic: Now off the GCD. ZONES * Level 50+ characters doing Instant Adventure in old world zones will now get loot rewards (chests with gear or sourcestone currency) appropriate to their level. * The damage and HP of all mobs in the old Telara world have been increased, except for raid mobs. * The Epic quest line 'The Saga of Endless' has been cleaned up to address many long standing issues. We have also made changes to allow Defiant players on the quest line to complete dungeon portions of the quest while grouped with Guardian players. * Various quests up through level 20 now offer cloak, ring, and necklace items. Cloaks are now also offered on some quests from levels 26 to 50. ARDENT DOMAIN * Quest: One Way Thicket: The quest-giving item "The Witch's Head" should no longer drop if you are on or have completed the quest. ASHORA * Increased cost of the porticulum at K'Rom's Fortress to match the cost of other Ashora porticulums. CAPE JULE * Quest: Tempest Bay: You should now be able to upgrade your cloak properly and complete this quest even if you have previously completed the Pelladane quest "God Engine Excursion". CITY CORE * Players who changed faction after completing quests in City Core can now see Salvarola when playing through quests with their new faction. DROUGHTLANDS * Quest: Crocodelicacy: Now requires fewer items to be completed. * Quest: Crocodelicacy: Crocodile catches for Crocodelicacy now reappear much faster. * Mordant Swarmlings no longer award XP or loot when killed. EMBER ISLE * Nykantor Ruins: Defiant resurrection point is no longer guarded by Shadetooth Skulker. GLOAMWOOD * Gloamwood is no longer quite so gloomy. It is now a brighter zone in several areas. * Adjusted quests so that progression through the zone is more streamlined. * The following rare mobs will now steer clear of rifts more often, and will spawn in fewer locations: Zatzak Browncap, Barkeater Bandits, Dozer, Scarbite, Xaksha, Scald, Lunar Shadestalker, Stalker of the Grove, Gnarl Nighthunter, Millrush Moonstalker, and Stalker of Tears. * Achievement: Gloamwood Samaritan: Now requires only 57 quests to be completed. * Achievement: Graveyard Shift is now a Legacy achievement. * Quest: Non-story kill quests in the zone have been converted to Carnage quests. IRON PINE PEAK * The following rare mobs will now steer clear of rifts more often, and will spawn in fewer locations: Dagda Skullthumper, Frostpaw Mauler, Arctic Peakstalker, Frosthide, Swirling Tempest, Mad Hogger, Redsnow Thugs, Blackblood Drake, Netherworld Wanderer, and Razormane. * Mad Hogger will no longer sometimes choose a suicide path through three rifts and into the waiting arms of the Whitefall guards. * Quest: The following quests now require fewer of their required interactions, items, or kills to be completed: - Wildlife Removal - Mercy is for the Weak * Quest: Blood on the Snow: Adjusted number of required kills. * Quest: Conquered Minds & Imprisoned Minds: Decreased the chance of the dominated villagers turning agro and thus awarding no quest credit. KINGDOM OF PELLADANE * Quest: God Engine Excursion: You should now be able to upgrade your cloak properly and complete this quest even if you have previously completed the Cape Jule quest "Tempest Bay". MOONSHADE HIGHLANDS * Quest: The following quests now require fewer of their required interactions, items, or kills to be completed: - Essential Extraction - Umbral Implosion - Doom Abides - A Surge of Sorcery - Tainted Tubers - Into The Woods MORBAN * Quest: Tax Returns: The quest-giving item "Treasure Map" should no longer drop if you are on or have completed the quest. SCARLET GORGE * Quest: Where Have They Gone?: Updated map marker to be more accurate. SCARWOOD REACH * Quest: The following quests now require fewer of their required interactions, items, or kills to be completed: - Kain's Hunt - Stalking Prey - Drawing The Poison - All Seeing Eye - Dying to Help - Take No Prisoners * Quest: A Temporary Solution: Increased drop chance for Drake Fangs and Basilisk Eyes. * Quest: Merciful Flame: Crematory Torch no longer consumes on a single use. * Quest: A Slight Malfunction: The cooldown for Control Disruptor has been reduced from 20s to 5s. * Quest: Realigned Priorities: The cooldown for Construct Safety Override has been reduced from 20s to 5s. * Shatterbone Hold: Quest givers no longer get continuously pulled into combat. SERATOS * The adventures of Sereborn continue with a new quest chain that begins in The Crawl. SHIMMERSAND * Removed hostile mobs near several graveyards. STEPPES OF INFINITY * Logging out at some spots near the Infinity Gate should not result in the player being teleported hundreds of meters away on login. STILLMOOR * Quest: Evidence of Death: Updated map marker to be more accurate. STONEFIELD * Adjusted quests so that progression through the zone is more streamlined. * Non-planar Rocs in this zone should now be skinnable. * Quest: A Kind of Magnetism: Fixed a bug that could sometimes block this quest's progress. TERMINUS * Parts of this zone have been given a facelift. THE DENDROME * Quest: Life Finds a Way: The Living Seed now has a cast bar when used. Additionally, tooltip text has been added for this item. * Quest: For Science!: Rewards have been corrected. * Quest: Moitiest Motes: Reduced likelihood of getting stuck on tree branches. DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES * Experience granted from Storm Legion dungeons has been increased. * Loot master allocations are now told to all members of the raid within the dungeon. * New artifact sets now drop in all lvl 60 expert dungeons, with new titles for collecting each set. * New cloak recipes can be found on expert dungeon bosses as rare drops. UNHALLOWED BONEFORGE * Necrotic Throne - The wall that surrounds the Necrotic Throne when in combat should come down more reliably when the encounter resets. DEEPSTRIKE MINES * Quest: Reclaiming What's Ours: Guardian players that acquire this Deepstrike Mines quest can now turn-in the quest inside the instance. EMPYREAL CORE * Quest: Investigate the Core: Corrected the map marker location as well as the zone. ENDLESS ECLIPSE * Leaderboards have been added for this raid. PVP AND WARFRONTS * Set 9 armor (Myrmidon) is now available. * Myrmidon's Marks, the new top tier currency, have a weekly cap of 8,700. * Warlord's Marks no longer have a weekly cap. * Warlord's armor and weapons can be upgraded via Myrmidon's Empowered Cells available on the Rift Store and Quartermasters in Tempest Bay. * Selecting a faction in conquest mode is more randomized now. Individual join faction buttons have been removed and a single Join button has been added. If you are grouped then it will attempt to join all of your group members to the same faction. * Fixed an issue with Conquest quest timers disappearing after players leave and re-enter. You can no longer follow other players while in a warfront or conquest map...for real this time. * Players who crash during a random warfront and then reconnect now properly get the random warfront bonus if they win. * Players will no longer be whisked away from warfronts or conquest to be placed in Instant Adventures. (Nor will they be cruelly mentored down and abandoned without a team in a warfront...*malevolent Crucia laugh*) * Fixed an issue with Whitefall Steppes Leaderboards. CRAFTING * The error message for attempting to salvage an item without a high enough skill level is now clearer. * New harvesting Recipes now exist for Grandmasters on the trainer – each new recipe has a 20 hour cooldown. * New cape recipes now exist for Outfitters and Armorsmiths – These recipes can be found in Storm Legion Expert Dungeons as random drops. Epic and Relic versions exist. * All new cape recipes share a 20 hour crafting cooldown within their specified trade. * New Augment Recipes has been added for all professions. These recipes can be found in Storm Legion Expert Dungeons as random drops, as well as from Strongholds in The Dendrome. Each augment has its own 20 hour cooldown. * New Reagent: Sovereign Solution: May now be crafted by Apothecaries and is used in several new recipes. rain this at your grand master trainer. This has a 20 hour cooldown. * New Reagent: Infinity Cauldron: May now be purchased for Infinity Stones and is used in several new recipes. * New high-end Seal recipes now exist for all seal-making tradeskills. DIMENSIONS * Placed dimension items that are soulbound due to formerly having a soulbind trigger (bind to account, bind on pickup, etc) can now be picked up by anyone with the appropriate dimension permissons. * NPCs now rarely drop dimension items in the sub-level-60 zones. ITEMS CURRENCY * Frozen Eclipse Stone has been converted into Empyreal Slayer's Marks at a one to one ratio. * Freelancer's Marks have been converted to Freelancer's Marks of Conquest at a ratio of 2:1, rounded up. If you are over the cap after the conversion, you will need to spend Freelancer's Marks of Conquest before any new ones can be obtained. * The weekly cap on Frozen Eclipse Stones is now 6,460. * The weekly on Empyreal Slayer's Marks is now 14,355. RAID TIER ONE * The Desolate armor set is now available for Empyreal Slayer's Marks. * Raid Tier One now awards Empyreal Slayer's Marks primarily, rather than Frozen Eclipse Stone. Bosses and reward chests found in Frozen Tempest, Endless Eclipse, Triumph of the Dragon Queen, and the Dendrome Raiders Cache's now drop Empyreal Slayer's Marks. * A small number of Frozen Eclipse Stones can still be found in the raid zones. * Raid tier 1 bosses now drop Empyreal Slayer's Marks: 400 for 20-mans, 200 for slivers. RAID TIER TWO * The Plane Breaker's armor set has been added to the game for purchase with Frozen Eclipse Stones. It's stats are highly customizable at any time through a series of upgrades and sidegrades, allowing you to customize a set of relic gear for your individualized spec. * A new tier of Synergy Crystals is available in Tempest Bay. It works with armor from Infinity Gate, Planebreaker Bastion and Grim Awakening. GRIM AWAKENING * An upgrade path has been added to all armor from Grim Awakening to allow it to be used with the new tier of Synergy Crystals. * Trinkets from Grim Awakening: 'Empowered' Trinkets from Grim Awakening have been renamed to more thematic names. * A new Relic upgrade tier has been added to the Trinkets from Grim Awakening, increasing the usefulness of the effect. For example: Upgrading the chain-healing trinket, Substantiating Hand of Enrichment, will cause it's heal to leave an additional Heal Over Time Effect on each target. Upgrading the Tanking trinket, The Lightning Shield, will add an increased incoming healing while the shield is active. EXPERT DUNGEONS (LEVEL 60) * The Empyreal Avengers armor set has been added as an upgrade to the Empyreal Marauder's set, allowing players to enter the Raiding tier stronger than previously possible. * All dungeon dropped Epic armor pieces offer an upgrade path to the same tier as the new Empyreal Avengers armor set. * End-Bosses in expert dungeons no longer drop Rare items! These items can be found on other bosses in each respective dungeon. * New Epic items can be found in every Expert Dungeon. * New artifacts can be found dropping in every Expert Dungeon. New achievements and unlockable rewards for this are "coming soon." * New crafting recipes are available as a rare drop from all expert dungeons. WORLD STORE (EXPERT TIER INFINITY STONE GEAR) * The Empyreal Subjugators armor set has been added as an upgrade to the Empyreal Hero's set. Allowing you to AFK in raid rifts like never before. TORVAN HUNTERS * Hunt Prime lesser essences can now be upgraded into greater essences by using the level 60 rare greater essences. * The following Hunt Prime lesser essences have an error in their upgrade paths; this has been corrected and will go live next hotfix: - Hunt Prime Flamecaller's Rotward - Hunt Prime Mender's Rotward - Hunt Prime Mender's Brimstone STRONGHOLDS * New augment recipes can be found on Strongholds. CHRONICLES * "Hard Mode" fights in Infernal Dawn: Laethys' defeat awards Empyreal Slayer's Marks. MISC * Ascended's Exalted Poleaxe and Aggressor's Exalted Poleaxe have been reforged as Ascended's Exalted Battle Axe and Aggressor's Exalted Battle Axe to align with their price, hit, and upgrade path. * Equipping the Scourgehide Tunic will no longer sometimes result in an invisible chest. * Fixed an issue prevent Noise Canceling Coating from proccing. * Reawakened Stormshield now absorbs 14,988 damage, up from 11,877. * Fixed an issue where the Empowered Command of the Soul Caller would not work correctly with a newly summoned pet. * When damage over time stacks of Legacy of the Everburning Ashes reaches 3 stacks, the stacks explode, dealing the full damage of each stack instantly to the affected target. * A new icon overlay that shows a small exclamation point on items which give you a quest. * A new icon overlay that shows a small key, this will only display on lockboxes that require a key to open. * Call of the Awakened now has a grace window. * The Exceptional Oilstone description now correctly reports the correct amount of Attack Power that is granted by the item. AUDIO * The drake hover animations now have sound. * Added sound to a Juggernaut death animation. * Mimic Bots now have unique breathing and death sounds. UI/SETTINGS * The character window now lists all the tiers of Notoriety. * Storm Legion souls now have a proper tooltip in the soul respec dialog. * Alt-clicking on items will no longer bring up an upgrade window if the item is not upgradable. * Purchasing a wardrobe slot will now trigger the coin sound and populate information in the chat telling you what you bought and how much you spent. * Fixed a chat console issue that would spam a ton of bonus loot notification lines. * Significant performance improvements made with shadows. If shadows were too slow for you before, try turning them on again! * New Setting: Pixel Granularity: This setting will lower the rendered resolution of the gameworld while retaining a high-resolution UI. This is useful if you want a crisp, easily readable UI with a faster framerate. * The /pixelgranularity command can be used to instantly change the size of the 3d pixels without affecting UI resolution. This will allow players to create an emergency "/pixelgranularity 50" macro. * Item upgrade ingredients can no longer be right-clicked to invoke a cast cursor. The only way to upgrade items now is by alt-left clicking on the upgradeable item and using the dialog. * Resizing the client during a loading screen with Low Quality Renderer enabled should no longer cause a client crash. * New setting: There is now a color blind toggle in Options/Display. Turning it on will: - Add a text description of Item Rarity to Item tooltip rollovers. - Add an item rarity text description to recipe tooltips. - Display recipe difficulty in the Crafting window and Skill Trainer window. * The main map you see when teleporting now shows additional information to help you remember where you wanted to teleport to. * There is now a Rift Store button on the Dimension Bar that is a shortcut to take you directly to the dimension item category in the Rift Store. * Dragging an ability from your Soultree to your action bar while using Storm Legion souls now uses the proper rank you have trained, instead of rank 1. * Fixed an issue with item rollover stats comparison for planar vessels.