RIFT 2.3 Hot Fix #7 - 6/26 NA @ 8.00AM PT || 6/27 EU @ 1AM GMT
RIFT 2.3 Hot Fix #7 - 26/6/13
GENERAL
* Soul Presets are correctly working again if you have the Storm Legion souls. For real this time!
* Becoming a RIFT owner now appropriately adds 2 additional bag slots to all characters, instead of just to new ones. Characters that were stuck at 3 bag slots even after becoming a RIFT owner have had their slots upgraded from 3 to 5.
* Crafters rejoice-- Empyrean Assault crafting dailies now give appropriate notoriety!
* You can now delete mail after taking the last attachment wihtout having to close and reopen the mail.
* Lure of the Eye and Lure of the Unseen now share a cooldown, and will only open the appropriate rift for your faction.
* Performance has been improved for characters standing near lots of merchants. In capitol cities, for instance!=
* Fixed an issue that caused the tutorial zone quests to randomly auto-complete.
* Hunt Legend Mender's Rough Greater Rotward now works with absorption spells.
RIFT STORE
* All mounts that lack faction requirements on the store can now be gifted to your friends!
* Level 50 Armor, Essences and Weapons found in Deeps' Lock Boxes and Supply Crates have been increased in power.
* Bundles of Deeps' Supply Crates are now available in Chests & Keys!
* Fixed an issue causing previewed items or bundles to show incorrect color tints.
* Some locked items in the Rift Store were not displaying their locked icon status though you were unable to purchase them; fixed so you can again see that they are locked.
* Storm Legion lures are now available under the Rifts category.
* Updated the description on Raid and Elite Portrait Loyalty rewards.
* Orb of Loyalty, Fragment of Loyalty and Shard of Loyalty now display how much Loyalty they will grant when consumed.
* Flare: Hailol, Flare: Empyreal Alliance and the new Stronghold Summoner can now be purchased with Credits!
DIMENSIONS
* You now earn rest experience from hanging out in dimensions. Welcome home!
* A few dimension items have had their prices adjusted, mostly for the cheaper.
* Some dimension items have been renamed to more accurately reflect what they are.
* Corrected the zone-in location for Empyrean Mill.
* The Brevane Jar dimension item is now resizeable.
SOULS
MAGE
HARBINGER
* Lightning Charge: A new ability that imbues your weapon with electrical energy. Damaging attacks have a 5% chance to deal additional Air damage. Lasts 1h. This is a 0 point root ability. Does not stack with Harbinger weapon buffs.
ROGUE
ASSASSIN
* Subterfuge: The extra combo point from Nightblade "from stealth" attacks is now granted more reliably.
MARKSMAN
* Decoy: The Ranger's Dismiss Pet is no longer activated when Decoy is summoned.
WARRIOR
PARAGON
* Balance of Power: Now properly affected by damage modifications. It now causes attacks that follow a block to deal an additional 20-60% of your Endurance as Life damage, down from 30-100% of Endurance.
* Way of the Mountain: Fixed a bug that caused the buff that made the Warrior to take 5% more damage instead of 5% less damage.
* Deadly Parity: Now properly affected by damage modifications. The additional damage dealt has been adjusted to 1 Physical damage every 12/8/4 Attack Power, from 1 Physical damage every 5/3/1.5 Attack Power.
RIFTBLADE
* Storm Blade: Now properly affected by damage modifications. Damage has been reduced.
* Burning Blood: Now properly affected by damage modifications. Now deals 6% of Attack Power as Fire damage when struck in Melee combat, down from 20%.
* Scald: Now properly affected by damage modifications. Now deals 4-12% of Attack Power as Air damage based on Attack Points used, down from 10-30% of Attack Power.
* Elemental Touch: Now properly affected by damage modifications. Now deals an additional 3% of your Attack Power as Air damage, down from 15% of Attack Power.
BEASTMASTER
* Strike to Maim: Now properly affected by damage modifications. Now causes melee critical hits to deal damage based on 10-50% of your strength or your pet's strength over 8s, down from 20-100%.
CHAMPION
* Take No Prisoners: Now works on all damage finishers, including bleeds.
VOID KNIGHT
* Destructive Forces: Now properly affected by damage modifications. Reckless Strike and Ragestorm now deal weapon plus 0.6-3% of Attack Power as additional Air damage for each active pact, down from 1-5% of Attack Power. Devouring Blow now deals 0.3-1.5% of your Attack Power for each Attack Power used per Pact as Air damage, down from 0.3-1.66%.
ZONES
* Some zone events in Storm Legion will drop less Empyrean Sourcestone.
* Lure of the Eye and Lure of the Unseen now share a cooldown, and will only open the appropriate rift for your faction.
* The immunity buff applied to invasions when they spawn now displays as a Buff.
ASHORA
* The achievements "Hold the Line" and "Insecticide" from the Empyeral Assault in Ashora are now Legacy achievements. The remaining achievements have been moved to the Ashora zone category.
FREEMARCH
* Saving that Which is Sacred: Removed the cooldown from the objectives.
* Wild Growth: Quest updates are now shared with all members of a party.
IRON PINE PEAK
* Iron Pine Peak zone events are back to being level 44, down from 50.
SHIMMERSAND
* IA: Gnar Gems: Will once again spawn high gem amounts when there are more players present during the adventure.
THE DENDROME
* Quest: Momentous Motes: The map indicators are now more accurate.
* Quest: The Council of Batua: The map indicator for borrowing the Boar Spear is now more accurate.
* Torvan Hunter Decree notoriety items are now awarded upon the completion of Hunt zone events.
* Increased the Torvan Hunter notoriety awarded for killing level 62 stronghold bosses from 900 to 1300.
* Conduits in Great Hunt rifts now broadcast warnings when their health is low.
* A new Stronghold Summoner item is now available from flare merchants in the Dendrome! This item can be used to summon your group/raid to your location when you are near a stronghold.
* Zone Event: Swarm of the Century: Has seen a few optimizations to reduce possible server latency.
* Onslaught: The Place of Dogs: This area is now more attractive to invaders! This should help anyone completing their daily kill quest.
* Daily quests in The Dendrome now properly pay out appropriate amounts of coin and experience. The Satyrs of Hailol are done messing with players...for now.
* World Raid Boss: All:
- Players should more reliably get credit for kills in very high population situations.
- Even during high strain situations, these NPCs should no longer disappear in an attempt to improve performance.
* World Raid Boss: Ahkane the Eternal:
- Eternal Wrath will now be cast less frequently.
- Eternal Sacrifice now causes more raid damage if left uninterrupted.
* World Raid Boss: Kaaz'Ra:
- The duration for the ability Catastrophic Sandstorm has been reduced from 120s to 90s.
UI/SETTINGS
* The rollover tooltip for the two unlockable bag slots now display the correct hotkey.
* By popular request, Crucia has had her loading screen replaced with a new glamor shot.
* Fixed a bug in the Rift Store that was causing filter text to not display correctly.
* The vehicle bar will now display correctly after a relog or /reloadui.
CRAFTING
* Improved crafting reagent vendor store windows.
* Apothecary: New relic-quality Exceptionally White Dye and Exceptionally Black Dye recipes have been added to the Rift Store! The recipes can only be purchased with Master and Grandmaster Marks.
* Fishing: Junk, when fished from pools of wine in Hailol, is now more amusing than previously-fished junk.
* The Stellar and Prime Prismatic Wellsprings are now sellable to vendors.
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS
EXODUS OF THE STORM QUEEN
* Thedeor’s Last Stand: Fixed an issue where the storm legion troopers would not aggro on players that are far away from the quest location.
GRIM AWAKENING
* Ultane:
- Spirit Shackle checks twice as quickly to determine if the end of the tether is in range.
- Spirit Shackle is no longer only cast on the highest agro target during the second Hellspawn phase.
HIVE KAAZ'GFUU: QUEEN'S GAMBIT [Chronicle]
* Och and Krok: Riftstalkers can no longer get stuck in the collision around the pillars.