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!