RIFT 2.5: Hotfix #13 2/5/14

RIFT 2.5: Hotfix #13 2/5/14 == PROMOTION == A new Frosty Budgie mount can be acquired from Limited Edition: Budgie Troves, available on the Rift Store and by completing the new achievement Chicken Run! A new Ashen Budgie mount can also be purchased with Bird Seed, which is obtained from the Limited Edition: Budgie Trove and by completing new daily quests in Silverwood (Guardian Only), Freemarch (Defiant Only), Pelladane, and Cape Jule. Note: This event runs from 8:15am server time on February 5th and ends at 8:15am server time on February 12th. PVP AND WARFRONTS * It is no longer possible to join a team and then quickly leave it before the invite pops up. * To queue up a raid for conquest, every person in the raid must have the same conquest faction assigned (be it none, or a specific team). - Note: The button for a raid with people from one conquest faction and unaligned members will still be clickable, but won't do anything - this will be fixed in a later change. ZONES IRON PINE PEAK * Mobs in Iron Pine Peak will now once again rarely drop dimension items or random rare/epic items. STEPPES OF INFINITY * Fixed an issue with The Craft of Conflict zone event that would cause the Nug Battler Nug to remain untargetable during the pie throwing phase during the event.

RIFT 2.5: Hotfix #12 1/30/14

RIFT 2.5: Hotfix #12 1/30/14 GENERAL * Fixed an issue that would cause the servers to crash. RIFT STORE AND SERVICES * Fixed issue with being unable to gift Greenscale’s Trove when viewing it from the Chest & Key’s category in the Rift Store. SOULS ROGUE BARD * Fanfare of Power and Fanfare of Vigor are now instant cast. DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES RETURN TO DEEPSTRIKE * Batua: - Now gives credit to advance Seismic Anomalies at the start of his dialog. - Entering into the next room will trigger the same objective as a failsafe. * Added time jump crystals to Jorthan and Ionraic so you do not have to listen to their dialogs before engaging in the encounter.

RIFT 2.5: Hotfix #11 1/29/14

RIFT 2.5: Hotfix #11 1/29/14 NOTE: If you patched once already, there is likely another small patch waiting for you, or there will be soon. Don't panic: there are no patch notes for it because it's a behind the scenes change. :) GENERAL * Several instances of the word critical have been fixed in text. SOULS MAGE WARLOCK * Neddra's Torture: Multiple mages can now cast this ability on the same target at the same time without causing complications. * Defile: Refreshing Defile with abilities such as Persist or Void Barrage will no longer cause it to sometimes stop consuming Charge. Sorry, there's no such thing as a free lunch! ZONES THE DENDROME * Shadow Shifting during the zone event The Awakening should no longer break stealth. PVP/WARFRONTS * Conquest Power now decays after 1 week of not gaining any Conquest Power, up from 2 days. * Fixed a long outstanding issue with Guardians Respawning facing the wrong way in The Codex. ITEMS * A ring from Sharad X9 now has a proper name, instead of the less descriptive. Thanks, Kmjuggernaut@Greybriar! * Certain non-reinforced items no longer appearing as reinforced when upgrading. DIMENSIONS * Being invited to a dimension will now send you to the dimension entry point instead of the default entry location. * You can now invite people to guild dimensions if you are a member of the guild with access to the dimension.

RIFT 2.5: Hotfix #10 1/22/14

RIFT 2.5: Hotfix #10 1/22/14 SOULS WARRIOR RIFTBLADE * Bursts now only trigger on damage being dealt instead of on a successful cast. TEMPEST * Focused Fire: No longer overwrites crit buffs from Bottles of Spell Strike & Critical Strike. ZONES STEPPES OF INFINITY * Fixed the spawn point of 2 artifacts near the Infinity Gate. (Thanks to forum-member Lllok!) * The rare Steppes of Infinity artifact "Detricus' Mistake" should now show up as intended. (Thanks to Lllok again!) DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES * Raised the amount of Frozen Eclipse Stones that drop from Planebreaker's Bastion, Infinity Gate, and Grim Awakening bosses. * Many AoEs no longer affect pets: - Viktus: Gathering Radiance - Mordan: Expunge Darkness - Progenitor Saetos: Bounding Malevolence, Entropic Abyss, Zone of Defilement, and Soul Rupture - Matriarch of Pestilence: Aura of Corruption - Goloch: Baleful Smash - Kaliban: Crushing Silence - Kyzan: Phase Rip and Delayed Annihilation - Ix'ior: Sandstorm DIMENSIONS * Fixed a problem with non-owners placing and moving the Dimension Entry Point in a dimension and having it not actually change the entry point. Sorry about that!

RIFT 2.5: Hotfix #9 1/15/14

RIFT 2.5: Hotfix #9 1/15/14 GENERAL * You can now set the entry point for your Dimension! Dimension Entry Point can be found in the Interactive section of the Dimension category in the RIFT Store. * Players no longer take drowning damage in dimensions. SOULS WARRIOR RIFTBLADE * Icy Burst and Fiery Burst now have a maximum range

RIFT 2.5: Hotfix #8 1/8/14

RIFT 2.5: Hotfix #8 1/8/14 GENERAL * The New Years 2014 achievement no longer counts toward the Achievement Score. * An error preventing characters from being created on Russian clients using English characters has been resolved. * Fixed some issues with the accuracy of timed quests (not timed quest objectives). * Fae Yule: The achievement Fae Yule Feasting now lists the food items that count towards the achievement. * Reduced the drop rate for all critter tears minus Snake Tears. * Critter Tears are now Common rarity, with the exception of Snake Tears that are now marked as Rare. RIFT STORE AND SERVICES * You can now buy the Extended Hair Style Set, Hair Color Set Bundle, and Skin Color Set Bundle for other players from their wishlist! SOULS MAGE WARLOCK * Defile: The max rank will now stack correctly on an enemy when cast by multiple Mages. WARRIOR PARAGON * Sweeping Blades: No longer triggers on abilities that already hit multiple enemies. ZONES FREEMARCH * Quest: Unholy Alliance: No longer incorrectly offered to Guardian players. * Abyssal Cultists in Freemarch no longer drop artifacts from the Abyssal Jars set. DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES ENDLESS ECLIPSE * Players can now use a time crystal to bypass the vignette before Regulos. EXODUS OF THE STORM QUEEN - EXPERT * Thedeor's Last Stand now begins immediately when players arrive to the area. INFINITY GATE * Volan's arm armor now shatters after three entropic orbs. INTREPID: GREENSCALE * Players can now use a time crystal to bypass the vignette before Hylas. * Reduced the damage of Toxic Blooms and Strangle Plants in Lord Greenscale's encounter. INTREPID: RIVER OF SOULS * Players can now use a time crystal to bypass the vignette before Plutonus and Alsbeth. REALM OF TWISTED DREAMS * Players can now engage Atrophinius immediately without having to wait for him to finish his speech. ITEMS * Dark Ice Bells no longer drop essences or necklaces for other classes. * Sword of the Reborn now has appropriate upgrade path.

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.