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.