Storm Legion 2.2 Hotfixes

[Slipmat]

As with any major updates, some issues can come along and spoil the party, but as usual, Trion are on top of things and have shoved out the first hotfix for 2.2 Carnival of the Ascended

RIFT 2.2 Hotfix #1 - 10:30am PST 2/28/13 [NA] - 2:00am GMT 1/3/13 [EU]

GENERAL

* The Carnival of the Ascended event will kick off at 3:30pm server time (PST or GMT, depending on region) Thursday, 2/28/13!
* The new Torvan Hunter cape appearances are now visible!
* Whetstones and Oilstones apply Attack Power properly again.
* Hotkeys should no longer disappear when using /reloadui.
* Filtering buffs and debuffs from others should be filtering properly now.
* Corrected the text on the Mug of Tempest Mead item.

SOULS

* Chloromancer: Fixed Natural Awareness and Circle of Life not proccing normally.
* Pyromancer: Wildfire should be proccing normally again.
* Warlock: Salvage Corruption no longer requires the target to be in front of the caster.

ZONES

* The endless loading screen is gone from the end of the A Hero Rises chronicle.
* Chronicle: River of Souls: The rare loot chest is now on its own loot table rather than duplicating the Hammerknell Chronicle one.
* Unhallowed Boneforge: All of the Black Revenants from the Forgelord Helix encounter will no longer grant experience or drops.

FREEMARCH

* Measure of One's Enemy: Lord Runeclift will once again appear to smite his Defiant foes.
* Non-Freemarch artifacts will no longer drop from Freemarch sparkles.
* The three missing Freemarch artifact sets now appear in game again.

STEPPES OF INFINITY

* Champions of the Firestorm:
- Killing Rabrongar will now reward five Infinity Stones.
- Players now need to capture only one Weapon Component to receive credit for the second phase of the event.
* The Craft of Conflict: The Nug Battler Nug's health will now scale better with player population.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/official-...1-3-13-eu.html

[Edge-]

Yay, carnival!

[Lathais]

Glad they got the hotkey issue fixed. I did not have a problem last night but several guildies did and it really slowed down our raid last night. The whetstones not working was annoying as well, though not a huge loss as PA ones still worked. Also glad they fixed the Unhallowed Boneforge "exploit". I hope they take back PA XP from anyone who abused it as well, though as quickly as it was fixed I doubt it. I didn't even hear about it until it was too late to use it.

[Slipmat]

It must be Wednesday, here's hotfix #2

RIFT 2.2 Hotfix #2 - 7:00am PST 3/6/13 [NA] - 2:00am GMT 7/3/13 [EU]

GENERAL

* Increased the amount of Valor available on one and two-handed PvP weapons.
* Another set of fixes for the UI options 'Show only my Buffs/Debuffs on target and party members' display.
* Fatigue once again causes damage.
* Corrected your Dimensions window always showing 0 'likes'.

We've fixed a number of issues related to the "Visiting" functionality that went live with T3 PA. With these changes, visiting other shards is easier and better than ever!
* The "Join Instance" unit frame menu option now both appears and works for anyone in your group (or group within your raid), not just members from your shard. We'll be fixing how this works with raid members in other groups and the display of names soon!
* The Summon Group tier 3 PA abilities now work when visiting another shard, and display the name of the party or raid member who summoned you, instead of "????".
* Planar Lures also now work when visiting another shard.
* There’s a new slash command, /shard, that displays the name of the shard you are currently visiting.
* Area lockouts (specifically, for the Volan zone event) and Instant Adventures are not addressed by this hotfix. These are larger issues we hope to address later.


SOULS

CHAMPION

* Shared Suffering: Should now be affected by the Preferred Ally tier 3 Planar Attunement effect.
* Juggernaut's Bearing: Fixed the tooltip to indicate that Juggernaut's Bearing can stack up to 5 times, not 10.

PYROMANCER

* Heat Wave: Will no longer reset the cooldown for the Planar Attunement ability Consuming Flame.

TEMPEST

* Wavelength: Should now be affected by the Preferred Ally tier 3 Planar Attunement effect.

WARLOCK

* Draining Bolt: Fixed an issue where all ranks below max were doing no damage or healing.

WARLORD

* Everything is a Weapon: Should now be affected by the Preferred Ally tier 3 Planar Attunement effect.


ZONES

ASHORA

* The three Carnage quests inside the Biofoundry are now normal Daily quests offered by questgivers.
* The rewards for the Volan event should now be awarded more consistently to contributing players.

CAPE JULE

* Zone Events: The Jewel of Brevane:
- You will now receive a single buff for all mugs of Tempest Mead you acquire. The ability to drink Mugs of Tempest will not end until you've finished consuming all of your Tempest Mead.
- The error message letting you know that you don't have barrels of Tempest Mead when you fill the kegs in Tulan has been removed.
- All participants in the Jewel of Brevane event will now be able to lend a hand in filling the kegs of Tempest Mead.

FREEMARCH

* I Feel Better Already: Now properly grants the Planar Lure ability.

SCARLET GORGE

* Taking Shards: Reduced the respawn time on shards.

STEPPES OF INFINITY

* Zone Event: Champions of the Firestorm: Fixed an issue causing the Planar Rejuvenators to not always be visible during the event.
* Zone Event: Champions of the Firestorm: Killing the Rageraths during the event will now grant one to two Infinity Stones, in addition to the three given for participating in that stage of the event. [This has some issues with consistently granting stones for Rageraths that are being investigated!]


DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

FROZEN TEMPEST [Raid]

* Kolmsasveli and Toinenveli: Devastating Shock will now put an icon on your character to indicate the DoT effect is on you.
* Fixed the Field and Stream achievement in the Twins fight.
* The Speed Clear leaderboard should now be functioning properly.

GOLEM FOUNDRY

* Fixed the Shock and Roll achievement being granted incorrectly.

STORM BREAKER PROTOCOL

* You should no longer be able to bypass the Plaza section of the Sandstorm Onslaught at the end of the instance.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/official-...7-3-13-eu.html

Looks like the cross-shard "guesting" feature is here to stay

[Myray]

"We've fixed a number of issues related to the "Visiting" functionality that went live with T3 PA. With these changes, visiting other shards is easier and better than ever!"

would be nice to know what issues no longer back to home shard after dead or what (if yes than it would be awesome an i can finally plan some open pvp)^^

[Deleted]

So glad to see the bug get a polish, now it's an awesome feature

[Slipmat]

Does North America change clocks back at a different time? normally 8am PST is 4pm GMT but for some strange reason today's hotfix was an hour earlier at 3pm GMT

Anyhow, in today's goodies, your balloon popping raids just got better, you now get more bang for your buck, start jumping

RIFT 2.2 Hotfix #3 - 8:00am PST 3/13/13 [NA] - 1:00am GMT 14/3/13 [EU]

GENERAL

* Improved the speed of loading the Crafting window for crafters with many, many recipes.
* The Guild UI Info tab now shows a max of 15 online members in a panel, and can be paged through with Next and Previous buttons. NOTE: The column headers on this UI are now offset and we'll be fixing those soon.
* Dendrome should be properly inaccessible.
* Storm Legion notoriety runes that say they work on level 50 items should now work on *all* level 50 items.
* Artifact sets such as Kira's Tools of the Trade are now all searchable in the Character UI.
* Fixed a visual issue caused by polymorphing cape-wearers.


WORLD EVENT

* Carnival Titles are now purchasable!
* Many games in the Carnival now pay out more tickets.
* The Codex: Wheel of Fate: Changed ramp collision slightly to fix an error on the Guardian side of the Warfront.
* The Codex: Wheel of Fate: Added custom description text to this alt mode in the Warfront window.
* The Memory Match game should more reliably complete and grant credit.
* The Behind the Mask achievement is now 0 points.
* Swift Jack should no longer be killed by Gorge Strutters!


SHARD VISITING FIXES

* Join Instance:
- Join Instance now works on all raid members, not just those in your group.
- Join Instance now displays the name of the player you're attempting to join, instead of the party leader's name.
- Join Instance no longer appears when LFG groups form.


DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

* Golem Foundry: Manslaughter will now disappear briefly when resetting.
* Darkening Deeps: Lowered damage of the Deepfang Skitterer adds during the Tenegar Deepfang encounter (Standard and Expert).
* Adjusted damage for various Standard difficulty boss abilities to fix them doing way more damage than they should:
- King's Breach: Shadehorror Phantasm
- Foul Cascade: Matron Verosa, Countess Surin
* Fixed the standard difficulty meta-achievement for Core Chamber in Empyrean Core.


PVP/WARFRONTS

* Pyromancer's Fulminate, Cinder Burst, and Inferno no longer have a damage penalty in PvP.
* Warlock's Consuming Agony no longer has a damage penalty in PvP.


ZONES

* Zone Events: The Jewel of Brevane and Take It All Back!: Corrected a bug where players would not receive an achievement for completing these events. These events now pay 3 Infinity Stones per stage and 6 Infinity Stones on completion, for a total of 15.
* Zone Events: The Jewel of Brevane: Fixed characters who had completed the Not the Rum quest on Ember Isle being unable to interact with the unfilled kegs.
* Rifts: Great Hunt Rift bosses should now drop a Pure Insight Crystal.
* The Achievement 'Go Home, You're Drunk' is now appropriately categorized under Planes - Life.

ASHORA

* Artifact nodes in the Biofoundry now give Ashora artifacts, not Kingsward.
* The Volan achievement 'On Your Knees' should now increment properly.

EASTERN HOLDINGS

* Ursin Grove Bunker: Runecrafter Zekel Strozza is now closer to the Workbench.
* Hands Off My Woman: Aetleron is now attackable by player pets.

SCARLET GORGE

* Taking Shards: Problem Solver no longer disappears when logging out after completing the first objective.

SCARWOOD REACH

* Achievement: Mushroom Soup: Fixed this achievement so it grants proper credit.

SERATOS

* There was a bit of magical construction that took place behind Necropolis that made the Cairn of Vesdar Doc inaccessible. The residents of Necropolis have kindly relocated the remains of this venerable hero and you should once again be able to visit his final resting place.

STEPPES OF INFINITY

* Each of the Champions of the Firestorm zone event Rifts will now grant one to two Infinity Stones, in addition to the three for participating in that event stage.
* Champions of the Firestorm: Fixed the Rejuvenation Assassination achievement not being granted properly.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/official-...4-3-13-eu.html

[Cupcaek]

Wonder how much tickets were increased by,

GENERAL

• Improved the speed of loading the Crafting window for crafters with many, many recipes.
• The Guild UI Info tab now shows a max of 15 online members in a panel, and can be paged through with Next and Previous buttons. NOTE: The column headers on this UI are now offset and we'l be fixing those soon.
• Dendrome should be properly inaccessible.
• Storm Legion notoriety runes that say they work on level 50 items should now work on
• all
• level 50 items.
• Artifact sets such as Kira's Tools of the Trade are now all searchable in the Character UI.
• Fixed a visual issue caused by polymorphing cape-wearers.

WORLD EVENT

• Carnival Titles are now purchasable!
• Many games in the Carnival now pay out more tickets.
• The Codex: Wheel of Fate: Changed ramp collision slightly to fix an error on the Guardian side of the Warfront.
• The Codex: Wheel of Fate: Added custom description text to this alt mode in the Warfront window.
• The Memory Match game should more reliably complete and grant credit.
• The Behind the Mask achievement is now 0 points.
• Swift Jack should no longer be killed by Gorge Strutters!

SHARD VISITING FIXES[*] Join Instance:
- Join Instance now works on all raid members, not just those in your group.
- Join Instance now displays the name of the player you're attempting to join, instead of the party leader's name.
- Join Instance no longer appears when LFG groups form.



DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

• Golem Foundry: Manslaughter will now disappear briefly when resetting.
• Darkening Deeps: Lowered damage of the Deepfang Skitterer adds during the Tenegar Deepfang encounter (Standard and Expert).
• Adjusted damage for various Standard difficulty boss abilities to fix them doing way more damage than they should:
  - King's Breach: Shadehorror Phantasm
  - Foul Cascade: Matron Verosa, Countess Surin
• Fixed the standard difficulty meta-achievement for Core Chamber in Empyrean Core.

PVP/WARFRONTS

• Pyromancer's Fulminate, Cinder Burst, and Inferno no longer have a damage penalty in PvP.
• Warlock's Consuming Agony no longer has a damage penalty in PvP.

ZONES

• Zone Events: The Jewel of Brevane and Take It All Back!: Corrected a bug where players would not receive an achievement for completing these events. These events now pay 3 Infinity Stones per stage and 6 Infinity Stones on completion, for a total of 15.
• Zone Events: The Jewel of Brevane: Fixed characters who had completed the Not the Rum quest on Ember Isle being unable to interact with the unfilled kegs.
• Rifts: Great Hunt Rift bosses should now drop a Pure Insight Crystal.
• The Achievement 'Go Home, You're Drunk' is now appropriately categorized under Planes - Life.

ASHORA

• Artifact nodes in the Biofoundry now give Ashora artifacts, not Kingsward.
• The Volan achievement 'On Your Knees' should now increment properly.

EASTERN HOLDINGS

• Ursin Grove Bunker: Runecrafter Zekel Strozza is now closer to the Workbench.
• Hands Off My Woman: Aetleron is now attackable by player pets.

SCARLET GORGE

• Taking Shards: Problem Solver no longer disappears when logging out after completing the first objective.

SCARWOOD REACH

• Achievement: Mushroom Soup: Fixed this achievement so it grants proper credit.

SERATOS

• There was a bit of magical construction that took place behind Necropolis that made the Cairn of Vesdar Doc inaccessible. The residents of Necropolis have kindly relocated the remains of this venerable hero and you should once again be able to visit his final resting place.

STEPPES OF INFINITY

• Each of the Champions of the Firestorm zone event Rifts will now grant one to two Infinity Stones, in addition to the three for participating in that event stage.
• Champions of the Firestorm: Fixed the Rejuvenation Assassination achievement not being granted properly.

http://forums.riftgame.com/official-...4-3-13-eu.html

[Tarien]

I bet the latency on Icewatch is even worse now that everyone is visiting to do Great Hunt rifts, DRRs etc. Trion have jumped on this accidental error because everyone loved it, but it's poorly thought out and poorly implemented.

[Slipmat]

I bet the latency on Icewatch is even worse now that everyone is visiting to do Great Hunt rifts, DRRs etc.

You'd think so but Volan popped at around midday or so and was smooth as silk, even with half the French and German servers there

[Tarien]

You'd think so but Volan popped at around midday or so and was smooth as silk, even with half the French and German servers there

Middle of a working/school day, I wonder why

I logged on last week around 5pm in Tempest Bay and there were already micro stutters and noticeable lag just pottering about the capital. You're not seriously going to argue that more players on Icewatch isn't causing more latency.

[Puremallace]

So now that Scott is gone Gersch got to bring back his BrightPyros from 1.2

PVP/WARFRONTS

Pyromancer's Fulminate, Cinder Burst, and Inferno no longer have a damage penalty in PvP.
Warlock's Consuming Agony no longer has a damage penalty in PvP.

[Tarien]

So now that Scott is gone Gersch got to bring back his BrightPyros from 1.2

http://forums.riftgame.com/rift-gene...ml#post4187346

The 10% PvP reduction is gone. That's hardly even noticeable.

[Puremallace]

http://forums.riftgame.com/rift-gene...ml#post4187346

The 10% PvP reduction is gone. That's hardly even noticeable.

When they can already hit for 5k+ yeah it really is

[Lathais]

When they can already hit for 5k+ yeah it really is

A 10% increase on a 5k hit is......500. Wow, game breaking and super noticeable you get hit for an extra 500 damage. That's not 500 DPS mind you, just 500 on one hit.

[Tarien]

When they can already hit for 5k+ yeah it really is

Yeah it's concerning that abilities with 30/45 second cooldowns can hit fractionally harder, or that a finishing move that you can only use when a player is pretty much dead already hits for slightly more.

Mages have been suffering in PvP for a long time now, more or less completely at the mercy of rogues and warriors. It's about damned time they boosted mages a bit, especially when the PvP population is so skewed in one classes favor that a Dev comments on it.

[Puremallace]

Yeah it's concerning that abilities with 30/45 second cooldowns can hit fractionally harder, or that a finishing move that you can only use when a player is pretty much dead already hits for slightly more.

Mages have been suffering in PvP for a long time now, more or less completely at the mercy of rogues and warriors. It's about damned time they boosted mages a bit, especially when the PvP population is so skewed in one classes favor that a Dev comments on it.

From someone who has been pvp'n for close to 5 weeks straight everything said in that thread is bullshit. Warriors are all carring sword and board for a reason because we are getting owned. Give me back lingering wounds, then we can talk. Healing is not a rare thing in war fronts. Go play Defiants to realize how full of shit that statement is.

The new codex is a utter joke because of healing. You concentrate the entire team at codex and stack healers = auto win

[Tarien]

From someone who has been pvp'n for close to 5 weeks straight everything said in that thread is bullshit. Warriors are all carring sword and board for a reason because we are getting owned. Give me back lingering wounds, then we can talk. Healing is not a rare thing in war fronts. Go play Defiants to realize how full of shit that statement is.

The new codex is a utter joke because of healing. You concentrate the entire team at codex and stack healers = auto win

Yes, warriors are all carrying tank (sword n board) specs because they lose only a tiny amount of the DPS from damage dealing specs, but gain significantly in mitigation and health pools. Any warrior with even a single pocket healer is unkillable, and has been for so long I cannot remember what it is like to not view warriors as unkillable walls.

Not only do warriors have amazing tank specs but they've been as good or better than anyone else at bursting down every other class and spec bar melee rogues for over a year now. Thank god Lingering Wounds is gone, TTK just went up 0.5s.

You want to balance the game now based on a complain about a class from over a year and a half ago, talk about over reacting much.

The reason that healers become an issue is that CC in RIFT sucks, it breaks too easily, it goes on DR too easily. You cannot play tactically, so healers are much harder to fine tune.

And by healers I mean clerics, lets not kid ourselves that mages are actually useful as healers in PvP.

[Kelimbror]

Wonder how much tickets were increased by

I can go ahead and tell you the answer is...not nearly fucking enough. Most things give 2-3 tickets now. Whoop dee fucking do. Still as pointless as ever.

I had hope that this would rectify the ballon raid situation...nope...still as unfun and shitty as ever. Jesus I hope Dendrome just knocks my socks off.

[Slipmat]

As you join all the kool kids riding around on your brand new spanking mount Aurora, Trion continue to make sure you can enjoy the game still, here's this weeks goodies, hotfix #4

RIFT 2.2 Hotfix #4 - 8:00am PST 3/20/13 [NA] - 1:00am GMT 21/3/13 [EU]

GENERAL

* The following Runes should now trigger properly: Baneful Rune, Crushing Runeshard, Feral Rune, Icewall Rune, Invigorating Rune, Smoldering Rune, and Windshielding Rune.
* Tanking Relic Weapons have gotten an upgrade.
* PVP: Reduced the AoE damage reduction applied during PVP. Basically, AoE abilities deal slightly more damage.
* Crafting: All recipes granted as an occasional reward from crafting dailies can now be sold to vendors, if desired.
* Fixed a bug that prevented some quest items from dropping for cross-faction groups.
* Fixed some more difficult-or-impossible to reach Artifact spawn locations.


WORLD EVENT

* Auroral Doubloons and Pyrite Doubloons are now auto-consumed into the Currency tab instead of your inventory.
* Added an item to the Moneychanger NPC to grant 50 tickets in exchange for 1 Pyrite Doubloon.
* Gaining control of a location in Codex: Wheel of Fate should no longer break stealth for your team.


ZONES

* The Random Expert Dungeon daily now offers Frozen Eclipse Stone.
* Ardent Domain: Feeding Frenzy Zone Event: Lost Survivors are more survivable.
* Eastern Holdings: The rare spawn Prototype Watcher will properly path around the reservoir and should no longer engage in combat with Shane Hawkins.
* Additional adjustments to the start of Freemarch and Silverwood to improve quest flow.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/official-...1-3-13-eu.html

Tier 2 is getting close, you now get a raid mark for running your daily Expert