RIFT 2.6: Hotfix #9 3/19/14

RIFT 2.6: Hotfix #9 3/19/14 == FEATURES == AIR SAGA Crucia returns in the next phase of the Air Saga! New quests and zone events become active on Thursday, 3/20, at 3:30 PM server time. BLOODFIRE ARMY INVASION A pair of mysterious gateways have manifested in Freemarch and Silverwood, radiating with power from the Plane of Fire... The Bloodfire Stronghold goes live on Thursday, 3/20, at 3:30 PM server time. CARNIVAL OF THE ASCENDED ITEMS * Fixed the Spell Power on the following Carnival Cleric tank weapons: - The Inquisitor's Firebrand - Firebrand of the Inferno - Firebrand of Wildfire - Firebrand of Conflagration GENERAL * Quest: Mayhem: Silverwood and Freemarch - Now increments for all members of the group. * The Rift Mobile Carnival Scratcher is no longer available. PROMOTIONAL EVENTS * Return to Deepstrike will now correctly grant credit for the "Complete a Level 60 Expert Dungeon" step of To the Strongest and Smashing the Competition when P.a.U.L.A. is defeated. * Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause the Temporal Flux rift to produce level 1 creatures. * The minor version of the Temporal Flux rift now has a chance to show up in Dusken and Brevane in addition to Mathosia. LOOKING FOR GROUP & MENTORING * The Looking For Group (LFG) feature and how it works with mentoring has changed. * The LFG system no longer cares if the player is current mentored. * Players that queue for specific dungeons can change their mentor level while inside the instance. * Players that queue for random dungeons can not change their mentor level while inside the instance. Random Storm Legion Expert Dungeons * Does not mentor the player, since the dungeons are level 60. * Party members in the instance can not change their mentored level. Random Classic Expert Dungeons * Always mentors the player to Level 50. * Party members in the instance can not change their mentored level. Random Normal Dungeon (with Queue as Mentor unselected) * Does not force the palyer to mentor, since groups are placed in dungeons that are the highest-level available. * Party members in the instance can not change their mentored level. Random Normal Dungeon (with Queue as Mentor selected) * Mentors the player as appropriate, depending on which dungeon they are put into. * Party members in the instance can not change their mentored level. Specific Dungeon * Always mentors the player to the level appopriate for the select dungeon. * Party members in the instance can change mentored level. Special case: * If a specific-dungeon party is joined by a player that queued for a random dungeon, then no members of the party can change mentor levels while in the instance. * The Queue as Mentor checkbox ahas been moved down, as it now only applies to the Random Normal Dungeon. - If unselected, then the Random Normal Dungeon queue will place players in the highest level dungeons they have access to, excluding low level dungeons. - If selected, then the Random Normal Dungeon queue will place players in any normal dungeon they have access, to including low level dungeons. SOULS WARRIOR PALADIN * Protector's Fury: Removed "life" from the damage increase description. The description is now accurate for how the ability has been functioning for some time. PARAGON * Way of the Wind: Added Reaping Harvest to the description of the ability. The description is now accurate for how the ability has been functioning for some time. ZONES * The expansion version of Invasive Species will no longer mistakenly appear in old world zones. DUNGEONS AND RAIDS INFINITY GATE * Island hopping will now trigger correctly. PVP AND WARFRONTS * Conquest: Steppes of Infinity and Conquest: Stillmoor Conquest: Steppes of Infinity * Now ends after 10k has been scored by a team. * The team that fully upgrades a dreaming focus removes 25 points from both other teams. - This point reduction cannot happen if the teams are below 25. * Fixed spawn in location for Oathsworn to face a direction that is not out to the wrong edges of the map. * Fixed an issue with the chest ability so that it cannot land on someone that already has it active. CRAFTING APOTHECARY * Sovereign Solution will now start sorting under Crafting --> Materials --> Plants in the Auction House, along with the other plant distillates. WEAPONSMITH * Crafting rifts can no longer trap you inside the forge. ITEMS * Empyreal Source Stones have been removed from the game, replaced by a smaller amount of Infinity Stones. * Voucher: Empyreal Sourcestone to Infinity Stone can now be purchased, allowing conversions at a ratio of 35 Empyreal Sourcestone to 10 Infinity Stones. * Hunt Legend Flamecaller's Greater Sandstone: Reallocated some of this item's wisdom into intelligence. Based on Forum Feedback. * Several upgrade components are now stackable. * Fixed the hit values on the Windborn Scepter. * Artifacts from the "Depths of Murder" set are no longer BoP.