Rift 3.5 - Hotfixes

[Slipmat]

Fast off the mark to get us all sorted before the Christmas break, hotfix #1 takes care of a few issues

RIFT 3.5: Hotfix #1 12/10/2015

NA: 12/10/15 1 PM PST
EU: 12/11/15 2 AM GMT

GENERAL

* Fixed an issue with affinity causing time logged in to not save properly after a crash.
* Fixed an issue with affinity not calculating time logged in properly after logging out.


DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

MIND OF MADNESS


* Arisen Arak:

- Shadow Flare now does more damage the closer you are in Light of Draum mode, less damage the closer you are in Shadow of the Nexus mode.
- Shadow of Asuramyth no longer has a chance to create an unavoidable full death zone.
- Addressed several issues where players could get stuck in a loop of falling.
- No longer returns after a soft reset if he has been killed.

* Dark Genesis:

- Addressed a bug with the fight not resetting correctly when the raid wiped.

* Lady Justice:

- Made the leash timeout for Vigils of Justice slightly more forgiving.
- Reduced the radius of Sphere of Incarceration by 1.5 meters.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...10-2015-a.html

[Slipmat]

This might possibly be the last hotfix of the year before people go on holidays, if not, here's hotfix #2

RIFT 3.5: Hotfix #2 12/16/2015

NA: 12/16/15 7:30 AM PST
EU: 12/17/15 2 AM GMT

FAE YULE

* The Minion Cards associated with Fae Yule have been changed to Bind to Account.
* The daily raid rift quest “The Darkest Magic” now gives Faelight Sparkles for those on the “Faelight Sparkle Returns” quest.
* Fae Yule Minions gotten via Grish have been rebalanced to be more in line with the rest of the minions.


GENERAL

* The portrait badges awarded for Artifact Collecting in Planetouched Wilds are now account wide.
* Your eyebrows have returned from an epic adventure. They would tell you all about it, but eyebrows can’t talk.
* Fixed several crashes relating to graphics.
* You can now apply ascended power abilities to wardrobe weapon slots to get the visual vfx applied to your weapon look. You will not get any of the bonuses unless you apply the ability to your equipped weapon.
* Fixed a bug that would prevent selling items in the store after using the + button from the Crafting Window.


RIFT STORE AND SERVICES

* The Imbued Satchel gained from Ascended Troves is now correctly labled as a 20 slot bag.


INSTANT ADVENTURE

* Hammerknell: Fixed a collision issue with the platforms at Akylios.


ZONES AND EVENTS

NIGHTMARE SAGA QUESTS

* Give Me A Break: Indigestus’ ability “Stomach Acid” has had its AoE radius decreased and is now much easier to see.
* March of the Guffins: Damage and health have been lowered for “Bloodthirsty Guffins” and “Enraged Guffins”.


DRAUMHEIM

Daily Quest Givers: The Bucket List in Margle Palace will now offer its Daily quests as expected again.

GOBORO REEF

* Quest: Braving the Dream: Players in need of the Big Boot to wake the sleepers can return to Kamran Urad in Ghar Station Mem to receive another.

PLANETOUCHED WILDS

* Quest: Siege of Shal Korva: Fixed an issue where chat text did not match VO.

TARKEN GLACIER

* Quest: Remnants of Martrodraum: The crystals will no longer continue to block movement when inactive.


SOULS

CLERIC

CABALIST

* Fixed an issue where Well of Souls would sometimes deal damage to NPCs after the Cabalist had died and been resurrected, causing combat to restart. Well of Souls now cancels when the Cabalist dies.
* Fixed an issue where non-player abilities like temporary abilities could sometimes consume Eldritch Gift.

DEFILER

* Siphon Vitality: Increased damage by 10%.
* Marrow Harvest: Increased damage by 20%.
* Pain Transmission: Increased damage by 20%.

INQUISITOR

* Vex: Increased damage by 18%
* Mental Resilience: Increased from 15% spellpower scaling on Vex, Scourge, and Sanction Heretic up to 20% spellpower scaling.
* Righteous Indignation: Increased from 4% spellpower scaling per point up to 5% per point.

JUSTICAR

* Total Assurance now increases all damage dealt for 30 seconds, in addition to its previous effects.
* Mien of Honor and Mien of Leadership are no longer on the global cooldown. Their shared cooldown has been lowered to 10 seconds.
* The damage buff effect from Mien of Honor now lasts 30 seconds, up from 15 seconds.

SHAMAN

* Massive Blow can no longer consume a stack of Rage of the North when cast.


MAGE

ARBITER

* Arcane Ward’s Outgoing Damage and Healing penalty has been Reduced from 30% down to 20%.


PRIMALIST

DERVISH

* Shearing Winds now deals 80% weapon damage per talent point spent, down from 100% weapon damage per talent point spent.
* Dervish – Lowered damage of the following abilities by ~5%: Tectonic Spike, Air Cutter, Subduction, Whirling Dervish, Earthfall, Aftershock, Savage Twister


TITAN

* Titan Fury's damage buff effect has been increased from 20% up to 30%. Its duration has been increased from 5 seconds up to 6 seconds.


ROGUE

RIFTSTALKER

* Soul Coalescence now only consumes 5 stacks of Soul Synthesis instead of 20.
* Soul Synthesis now increases damage dealt by 5% per stack, up from 1% per stack.


WARRIOR

VOID KNIGHT

* Threat generated by damage from Destructive Forces has been increased by 700%


DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

INTREPID GILDED PROPHECY

* Fixed a bug where players could occasionally get stuck inside the normal mode statue.

RHAZADE CANYONS

* Fixed a bug where Rhazade Canyons was not rewarding LFG rewards.

THE MIND OF MADNESS

* Fixed an issue that could cause the portal to The Nexus from Glacier’s End to not appear.

* Enigma:
- Fixed an issue where Fragments of Chaos would not do damage.
- Fixed an issue with the Range Buff not re-applying correctly.
- Added an additional failsafe to stop Enigma from casting “Pandemonium” after “Sunder”.

* Dark Genesis:
- Has been re-enabled.
- Reduced the life of preservation core by ~30%.
- Addressed a reset issue with the boss.

* Lady Envy:
- Fixed an issue where players could line of sight “Singularity".

* Lady Justice:
- Added a crystal that allows players to return Lady Justice to normal difficulty if her difficulty mode is Justice is Blind or Judge & Executioner.
- Radiant Spores is now excluded from healing that is transferred to Lady Justice by her Libra ability.


PVP AND WARFRONTS

ASSAULT ON BRONZE TOMB

* Standing on the upper platform on the Defenders side in the final room in Bronze Tomb will cause you to be snared, reduce your range by 20 meters, and mark you brightly for murder.

CONQUEST

* Fixed an issue where the timers during the extractor phase and after that were not aligning with the display.


CRAFTING

* The cost on Recipe: Cosmic Bag has been reduced to 150 Grandmaster Marks and 900 Master Marks.
* Fixed a case where clicking to purchase crafting ingredients from the crafting window would take you to the wrong location in the rift store.


ITEMS

* The Savior’s Touch proc found on Tier 3 trinkets now has a maximum healing value of 200,000.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...16-2015-a.html

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Wooo, finally can make my weapons glow again. Yay.

[Slipmat]

Was away for a few weeks so playing catch up on the latest hotfixes, have included all past ones as well

RIFT 3.5: Hotfix #2.5 12/22/2015

Note: This was a client patch, and required no shard downtime. Restart your client to receive the fix.

GENERAL

* Implemented a possible fix for a client crash on login

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...22-2015-a.html

RIFT 3.5: Hotfix #3 1/6/2016

NA: 1/6/16 7:30 AM PST
EU: 1/7/16 2 AM GMT

GENERAL

* Implemented possible fix for a crash on login.


ITEMS

* Dormant Argonaut's Defensive Amulet and Dormant Necklace of the Zone Guard now have the correct item upgrade paths.

COMMUNITY

* The Trove Bundle is now available on the Rift Store! Look for it under Dimensions.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...-6-2016-a.html

RIFT 3.5: Hotfix #4 1/13/2016

NA: 1/13/16 7:30 AM PST
EU: 1/14/16 2 AM GMT


FEATURES

EQUIPMENT PICKER

* You can now quickly equip items without having to search your bags! In the character sheet, roll over an equipment slot to see all available items that can be equipped to that slot.


PROMOTIONS

* Scout Captain Feldain is back on duty for the remainder of Arclight Infiltration.
* Scout Captain Feldain can now also be found in the Trollblight Caverns.
* The Arclight Infiltration event will now run until Monday, Jan. 18th to allow for players to complete their achievements.
- Note: The old countdown timer will still tick down, and a new one will start immediately afterwards. Do not be alarmed!
* Removed the Attractor Minion Mission requirement from the Lifter Larceny achievement.


GENERAL

* After a server restart, items in personal and guild dimensions will still be visible.
* The client will no longer crash when you try to buy an extra character slot if you have the maximum number of character slots.
* Fixed a bug where recipes and other non-harvest nodes say ‘recommended ’ instead of ‘requires’
* Minion: Fixed the stats of Haligan the Firetouched.
* The minion reset time should now properly occur at 4 AM server time.
* Targeting mobs should no longer cause dramatic FPS drops.
* When a character’s level is changed via mentoring, an appropriate message is displayed in the General console window informing the player of the level change.


UI AND SETTINGS

* Added a possible fix to issues with the Warfront scoreboard rapidly rearranging the UI.
* When dragging equipment from bags or the bank, if the character sheet is open, the corresponding slots will now be highlighted where the equipment can be placed.
* Linking an item
from the RIFT Store or Auction House will no longer sometimes link it twice.


SOULS

MASTERIES

* All of the level 65 contextual abilities that had a cooldown timer but did not display one now do.


ZONES AND EVENTS

DROUGHTLANDS

* Text edit to the quest Into the Wilds.

TARKEN GLACIAR

* Finding the Finder: Reduced the outgoing damage of Researcher Jessa and Corrupted Hatchlings.


PLANETOUCHED WILDS

* The Khadluu Kahn Yearling’s Pound will do less damage.
* Corpse Maggots in Planetouched Wilds will no longer drop loot.
* Quest: Khadluu Ukher: Increased the cast time and cooldown of “Roar of Terror”.

RAID RIFT: PLANE CRAWLER PROJECT

* Removed the initial rift stage, reducing the number of combat stages from six to five.
* Increased the amount of time players have to reflect Pulse Turret.
* The Plane Crawler no longer casts Doom Cannon back-to-back and the cast time of this ability has been increased.
* Reduced the health of Unstable Tethers by 60%.
* V’Goth no longer casts Energy Shield.
* V’Goth now summons Earthen Launchers less frequently.

RAID RIFT: THE DARKEST MAGIC

* Stage One now has only one Rabbit boss.
* Maximum HP of the Rabbit boss has been increased.
* Lograr no longer casts Lesser Evil or Greater Evil.
* Reduced the HP of Lograr’s Unlit Braziers by a third.
* Reduced the number of Shadows summoned by Silenek.


DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

BINDINGS OF BLOOD

* Maelforge: The ability ‘Dark Cabal’ has been changed so the buff is dispelled upon leaving the instance.

NIGHTMARE COAST: EXPERT

* Fixed an issue that could cause Nightmare Eruption warning VFX to not show up during the Hydal Ithral encounter.

THE MINDS OF MADNESS

* Dark Genesis: Fixed the reliability of and achievement firing off correctly.
* Dark Genesis: Duo Diligence can no longer be soaked by a player pet.
* Dark Genesis: The End will continue to cast on target death.
* Dark Genesis: Jumping off the third ring will now teleport you to the opposite side (of the current side) of the middle ring.
* Dark Genesis: Player pets no longer receive damage from soul fire.
* Dark Genesis: Fixed a bug where Shadow Genesis would not cast any abilities.
* Lord Arak: Despair crystals will refrain from crossing the room while Divide and Conquer is in progress.
* Lord Arak: Added safeguards to stop some instances of Despair crystals from moving diagonally across the room.


PVP AND WARFRONTS

* The Warmonger’s PVP trinkets are now properly part of the Warmonger’s Vengeance set.
* The upgraded Reinforced Warmonger’s Axe now has the correct weapon proc.


ITEMS

* Fixed an issue where the mount, The Nightmare, could not be targeted with Underwater Mount Training.
* The upgraded versions of Empyreal Conqueror’s Slippers now properly award the Worldly Cloth Boots item appearance.
* Recovered Greatspear from IGP renamed to Ancient Recovered Greatspear. Ancient Recovered Greatspear now correctly upgrades into two different relic weapons: Nalsoth, the Agony Shard and Nalsoth, the Hope Shard.


ART

* Fixed a skinning issue with the Bahmi female animations on raptor mounts.
* Death foothold now has VFX in personal dimension.
* The Nightmare Coast final boss "Destroy Reality" ability now has correct warning and AoE VFX.
* Violet Twistflower now has VFX again.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...13-2016-a.html

RIFT 3.5: Hotfix #5 1/15/2016

NA: 1/15/16 11:30 AM PST
EU: 1/16/16 2 AM GMT

SOULS

* The following change has been removed: All of the level 65 contextual abilities that had a cooldown timer but did not display one now do.
- This will fix the issue that was causing some level 65 Masteries to not work in some cases.


ITEMS

* The following change has been removed: Fixed an issue where the mount, The Nightmare, could not be targeted with Underwater Mount Training."
- Note: This will be fixed (again) in a future hotfix.
- Note: Players who were already granted Underwater Mount Training for it will still be able to use it underwater.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...15-2016-a.html

[Slipmat]

The MoM Raid (20-man Mind of Madness Tier 3 Raid instance) just got a bit more interesting with all the changes/fixes to Arisen Arak and a few of the other bosses, all in Hotfix #6

RIFT 3.5: Hotfix #6 1/20/2016

NA: 1/20/16 7:30 AM PST
EU: 1/21/16 2 AM GMT


GENERAL

* Minions: Halgian the Pyretouched’s death stat was slightly too high and will now max out at 10.


UI AND SETTINGS

* You can now see upgrade paths on items in the RIFT Store.
* Fixed the equipment picker to not display items in the bank when not using the bank.
* The equipment picker will no longer show items out of level or for other classes.
* Adjusted the placement of weapons in the equipment picker.
* Added option to disable the equipment picker in Settings > Interface > Misc.


SOULS

* Pets: Fixed an issue where pets could become unresponsive after being used in PVP. Should your pet become unresponsive after being in a Warfront, keep them summoned for at least 2 minutes and they will return to their normal selves.

CLERIC

SHAMAN

* Massive Blow can no longer consume a stack of Rage of the North.
* Massive Blow now always critically hits.
* Courage of the Panther now increases damage done by 10%, down from 14%.
* Furious Blows now provides 10% increased spellpower contribution per point, up from 5% increased spellpower contribution per point.


PRIMALIST

TITAN

* Fixed an issue preventing Overwhelm from interrupting non-spell abilities.


ZONES AND EVENTS

* New quests added to lead the players to the Nightmare Coast, Gyel Fortress, Citadel of Insanity, Glacial Maw, and Rhaza’de Canyons. These quests are tied to completion of key points of the storyline quests.
- Note: Ascension Gone Wild currently does not complete when Rhaza’de Canyon is complete. This will be addressed in a future hotfix.

INSTANT ADVENTURE

* Fixed an issue with stalling instant adventures.

DRAUMHEIM

* Quest: War Across the Seas: The objective now correctly directs players to complete zone events in Planetouched Wilds in addition to the Plane of Water.
* Zone Event: The Ravenous Devourer: Added an additional measure to force Ojingeodon to transition from Phase 1 to Phase 2 successfully.
* Zone Event: The Ravenous Devourer and Aphogglach should trigger less frequently.

DROUGHTLANDS

* Tigram Stillstep will no longer offer endless headbands when spoken to.

GOBORO REEF

* Quest: Crab Corralling: Added a more accurate failure message to the Lasso.
* Zone Event: Leviathan: Scaled down Aberrations and Reflections of Insanity.
* Zone Event: Leviathan: Also reduced the amount of Aberrations that can be spawn to two, down from six.

HAMMERKNELL

* Intrepid Instant Adventure: The madness of Akylios has been somewhat quelled, and the platforms should no longer shift through various planes of existence.

MORBAN

* Instant Adventure: Well Done: The first objective now correctly directs players to speak with Caretaker Scouts.

SCARLET GORGE

* Zone Event: A Royal Raid: Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause the event to fail immediately after Kayahn spawns.
* Zone Event: Shambling Hordes: The Murder of Zombies boss now has a clear leader which can be defeated to complete the event.

TEMPEST BAY

* A rascally model had escaped from the art factory and was seen masquerading as a Mercenary in Tempest Bay named Selina. She has now been returned to her rightful form.

TYRANT'S THRONE

* Zone Event: Leviathan: Added a failsafe to transition the Yrlwalach to a vulnerable state after “Reflections of Insanity” are killed.
* Zone Event: Leviathan: Lowered the frequency on how often the zone event triggers.


DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

MIND OF MADNESS

* Arisen Arak: Fixed several bugs causing player ability range not increasing for zone of effect type abilities.
- Note: Power Core and Riftstalker Burst attacks will still fail. This will be addressed in a future hotfix.
* Arisen Arak: Removed the aggro drop on players switching between Light of Draum and Shadow of the Nexus so that tanks aren't miserable.
* Arisen Arak: Addressed the Ethereal Pocket safety window gap by adding an AOE to the Terror of Arak which grants protection for 5 seconds to players within 12m of the Terror of Arak when it's killed.
* Arisen Arak: Added a say action to the Terror of Arak when it's hit by Light of Ruin so that players understand this despawns the Terror of Arak. Made it so that the increased damage dealt to Dream of Arak does not impact AOE abilities.
* Arisen Arak: Updated the tagging of Light of Draum and Shadow of the Nexus so it does not consume Eldritch Armor procs.
* Arisen Arak: Corrected a typo in the ability name Genesis of Ruin.
* Arisen Arak: Added an entity tag to Ethereal Pocket and setup a cleanup for Ethereal Pocket entities on reset of the fight.
* Arisen Arak: Added a kill action to all living players when reset is triggered to ensure aggro cleanup.
* Arisen Arak: Removed the drunken VFX from Enter Light of Draum and Enter Shadow of the Nexus.
* Arisen Arak: Removed the green leaf AOE VFX from the Ethereal Pocket.
* Arisen Arak: Fixed a pathing bug at the edge of the platform that interfered with fight mechanics.
* Dark Genesis: Fixed a bug where Duo Diligence was able to be reflected.
* Dark Genesis: Addressed an issue with Shadow Genesis running down to the bottom ring.
* Lady Justice: Hardmode now correctly modifies the damage and health of Lady Justice.
* Lord Arak: Repulsion, Fright, and Anguish crystals can all be targeted while Lord Arak regains his strength.
* Lord Arak: Phantom Wounds and Phantasmic Defense damage no longer overlap with Divide and Conquer.
* Lord Arak: Fixed an issue causing Phantasmic Defense damage to stop being cast when Nightmare Guardians respawn.


PVP AND WARFRONTS

* If a player has reached his/her weekly limit for acquiring Warmonger’s marks and attempts to purchase more Marks, then the purchase attempt will fail and an error message will be show to the player.


DIMENSIONS

* The Peaceful Hills dimension now applies Rest State when inside the dimension.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...20-2016-a.html

[Slipmat]

Some interesting changes and fixes in this weeks hotfix, 10 hour Minion missions are now reduced to just 4 hours for a while, you can now upgrade gear from the Hammerknell Instant Adventure to make it Tier 1 Raid equivalent, all this in Hotfix #7

RIFT 3.5: Hotfix #7 1/27/2016

NA: 1/27/16 7:30 AM PST
EU: 1/28/16 2 AM GMT

GENERAL

* You can now use Rune particle effects items on your Off-hand wardrobe weapon slot, as long as the wardrobe weapon type you have selected is listed in the list of usable weapon items on the Rune tooltip.
* Achievement: Instant Adventurer: The menu text for the title rewarded by this achievement now correctly displays as The Manugoist.
* The auction house will no longer reset the browse item list to the top when purchasing something.


MINIONS

* For a short time only all ten hour adventures are now four hours!
- As an added bonus, your minions will still earn the same amount of experience as they did before!


RIFT STORE AND SERVICES

* A new tier of upgrades have been added to level 65 lock box gear.
* Crafter’s Energy Infusion, Earring Slots, Planewalker: Water and Bag of innumerable Pockets are now credit only to purchase.
* The RIFT: Typhoon Edition can now only be purchased with USD, GBP or Euros.
* REX is no longer available for Referral Coins.
* New Dream Orbs have been added to the Rift Store! Look for them under Equipment -> Dream Orbs!


SOULS

MAGE

MASTERIES

* Fixed an issue where Sparking Destruction could fail to trigger on distant targets when the player’s range had been enhanced by another ability.

CHLOROMANCER

* Fixed a bug allowing Living Aegis to be purged.

DOMINATOR

* Fixed a bug allowing Pain Armor to be purged.

ELEMENTALIST

* Fixed a bug allowing Elemental Armor, Prismatic Armor, and Stone Armor to be purged.

HARBINGER

* Fixed a bug allowing Eldritch Armor to be purged.
* Reworded the tooltip for Eldritch Power to be clearer.
* Added a new effect to Eldritch Power: While Eldritch Armor is active, each slashing attack which does not trigger Eldritch Gift causes your next attack to have a 5/10% increased chance to trigger Eldritch Gift.

NECROMANCER

* Fixed a bug allowing Bone Armor to be purged.

PYROMANCER

* Fixed a bug allowing Pyromancer’s Armor to be purged.

STORMCALLER

* Fixed a bug allowing Storm Armor and Tempest Armor to be purged.

WARLOCK

* Fixed a bug allowing Dark Armor and Warlock to be purged.


PRIMALIST

TITAN

* Fixed an issue causing Vitrify to cancel effects from Paladin/Life’s Rapture or Purifier/Flame of Life.
* Living Wall is now replaced by Life’s Rapture or Flame of Life, allowing their HoT effects to have full uptime.


INSTANT ADVENTURE

* Gear obtained from Intrepid Instant Adventure caches can now be upgraded an additional time to be equal to Tier 1 gear.
* Instant Adventure: Hammerknell: Potential fix for the inconsistent behavior of the Akylios platforms.


ZONES AND EVENTS

* Quest: Ascension Gone Wild: Can now be completed.
* New quests to lead the players to the Nightmare Coast, Gyel Fortress, Citadel of Insanity, and Rhaza’de Canyons should now have markers guiding you to the entrance.
* Fae Yule: Guardian characters that have completed the Fae Yule quest, ‘Gift for a Bogling’ and were not given a Fae Yule Grab Bag reward can speak with Merga in Tavril Plaza to claim their grab bag.


COSMIC STEPS

* Baac mobs in Cosmic Steps now grant experience.

PLANETOUCHED WILDS

* New Achievement and Title: Royal Advisor: Become Revered with Shal Korva.
* Quest: Pain in the Ancestors, A Tigress’s Funeral, and Deadly Proposal have had their onslaught objectives adjusted and fixed. They should all spawn less invasions at a slower interval. There will also be no elite invasions that spawns.

SILVERWOOD

* Zone Event: Forest Fire: This event now correctly awards Void Stones when completed.
* IA: Sobering Realization: Fixed an issue with objectives spawning.
* IA: Fire and Venom: Fixed some objectives not crediting properly.


DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

MIND OF MADNESS

* Dark Genesis: Fixed a bug where Holy Genesis would sit without acting.
* Fixed an issue where players could get stuck in combat during the trash event before the Enigma.
* Arisen Arak: Killing the Terror of Arak will now grant you a buff which allows you to drop an Ethereal Pocket at your location when you desire to do so.
* Arisen Arak: Fixed a bug that was interfering with the fight reset in some instances.

DIMENSIONS

* The issue with the, ‘Blue Stage Curtain’ dimension item not appearing when placed in a dimension has been fixed.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...27-2016-a.html

[Slipmat]

The move to increase the platinum cap for F2P players to 5,000 plat should behappening right now with this patch, all in hotfix #8

RIFT 3.5: Hotfix #8 2/3/2016

NA: 2/3/16 7:30 AM PST
EU: 2/4/16 2 AM GMT


GENERAL

* As part of our efforts to improve the RIFT economy, we're increasing the cap on currency for Free players to 5,000 Platinum.
- Note: Because these sorts of changes can produce effects that can't be completely predicted, this change is an experiment in progress. As such, we'll observe its impact and adjust as necessary in the future.
* Updated the description of the Wilds Pack.
* Updated the text on Earring Slots to reflect that they unlock for all characters on the account.
* Fixed a memory leak that may have caused some instability.


RAIDS AND DUNGEONS

RHAZA'DE CANYONS

* Reduced the damage of Basilily’s Searing Wave such that it will no longer instantly kill players that fail the LOS check.
* Reduced the difficulty of all bosses within this instance. Health has been reduced 15-25%, damage dealt has been reduced between 20-30%.

MIND OF MADNESS

* Arisen Arak: The phase transition beams now deal 1/3rd of the damage they had been dealing.


ITEMS

* Fixed an issue which prevented more than one player from using “Ethereal Ascension” on a target at the same time.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...2-3-201-a.html

[Slipmat]

A fairly hefty Hotfix this week, plenty to wrap the mind around, a welcome return for Mayhem Events in the lowbie starter zones, if you're into fashion, 20 more Wardrobe slots, Minions get a new rare adventure, crafting has some slight changes, mat prices are up and some recipes will need less mats, all in Hotfix #9

RIFT 3.5: Hotfix #9 2/10/2016

NA: 2/10/16 7:30 AM PST
EU: 2/11/16 2 AM GMT

== FEATURES ==

PATRON BUFFS

We’ve updated Patron benefits with TWO brand new bonuses! Patrons are now immune to soul vitality loss, and have a 50% reduction on Auction House fees and commissions.

In addition to these new bonuses, the following convenience perks are now exclusive to Patrons:
- Stacking charges for Dungeons, Warfonts, and Instant Adventures.
- Accumulating rest experience.
- Queuing for specific Warfronts and Dungeons.

For further details, please check out the discussion thread.


CALL TO ARMS

The planes will enter mayhem mode in Freemarch and Silverwood once again the weekend of February 12th through the 14th with new repeatable quests and rewards.

Patrons can speak to the Planar Challenger in Sanctum or Meridian for a new and exclusive Daily and Weekly quest. Jump in and join the fight!


RARE ADVENTURES COME TO MINIONS!

Now when adventuring, special rare adventures can appear, signified by a special icon! When completed, these rare adventures offer extra bonus loot in addition to their normal rewards. They can also be shuffled away for free, should you wish to do so.


== GAME UPDATES ==

GENERAL

* You can now buy an additional 20 wardrobe slots! Find them in the character sheet.
* There are now 4 more Bank Vaults for purchase!
* Fixed several instability issues when changing graphics settings with parallel rendering enabled.
* A number of chats have been made cross-shard, allowing you to talk toanyone in these chats on a cluster level! They are as follows:
- All level range chats
- World Defense
- Events
- Trade
- CrossEvents
- Note: Any time a player logs in, they will see a message pop up in the chat console several times saying that they are already in that channel. This is a bug, and will be fixed in an upcoming hotfix.
* Fixed an issue with the UI sometimes showing white icons.


RIFT STORE AND SERVICES

* Dream Weavers can now purchase recipes to craft Cosmic Aggressor and Defender Essence Supply Caches! Look for these recipes on Bob and the Rift Store. Open these caches to find incredible essences, even epic ones that can be upgraded to unbelievable strength!
* Dimensioneers, looking for Planetouched Wilds items? Check out the Korvan Dimension Item Grab Bag added to the Rift Store!
* A new grab bag has been added to the Rift Store containing brand new ice building blocks!
* The Flipped Wedding Garb costume is now available in the RIFT Store. A variant of the existing Wedding Garb with a twist: tuxedo for the ladies / dress for the gentlemen!


ECONOMY ADJUSTMENTS

* As part of our efforts to improve the RIFT economy, we're increasing the cap on currency for Free players to 5,000 Platinum.
- Because these sorts of changes can produce effects that can't be completely predicted, this change is an experiment in progress. We'll observe impact, and adjust as necessary in the future.
* After observing the shifts in the RIFT economy, a number of store-bought crafting materials used in Savant recipes have had their prices increased to account for inflation. The following items now cost 1p50g, up from 1p:
- Shell Grinding Stone
- Crustacean Oil
- Coral Lacquer
- Byssal Cord
-Disintegrating Blend
- Essence of Reverie
- Teal Wax
- Inelastic Thread
- Salt Flux
-Waterproof Ink


INSTANT ADVENTURE

INTREPID: HAMMERKNELL

* Caches from boss kills now have a chance to drop an unstable version. The unstable versions are locked but when opened have a guaranteed chance at an item drop along with other loot.
* Rewards from Hammerknell Instant Adventures now properly upgrade to have higher stats.


ZONES AND EVENTS

* Zone Event: Bloodfire Behemoth: The colossi that spawns should no longer gain the Planar Evacuation buff and despawn pre-maturely. The colossi should also no longer gain the Burning Out buff which allowed it to be killed in a very short amount of time.
* As an experiment, we've rebalanced the way that zone events spawn. They should now spawn more evenly across all zones. Since it is an experiment, we'll be monitoring the results, taking feedback, and tweaking until we're happy with it!

ASHORA

* Quest: Army Ants: The quest objective has been reduced to 60 kills, down from 100.
* Achievement: Burning Ants: All Architects in Ashora now count towards this achievement. Additionally, all Architects in Ashora are now valid targets.

GLOAMWOOD

* Quest: Crystal and Key: The location of Jary Snoes ghost has been moved slightly to no longer appear under a frequent rift spawn.

IRON PINE PEAKS

* Quest: In the Wrong Place: Sentinel Veliz should once again offer this quest in Icewatch Ridge.
* Quest: Shipment Triangulation: The red tracking markers should appear more reliably on all graphics settings.

PLANETOUCHED WILDS

* Quest: A Tempting offer: Fixed an issue that could cause this quest to become stuck after a client crash.

SCARLET GORGE

* Zone Event: Shambling Hordes: The individual zombies that accompany the boss are no longer immune to attack when they first spawn.


CRAFTING

IMPERISHABLE PRISMATIC MOTES

* In an effort to reduce the amount of components required for various crafting upgrades, Imperishable Motes have been replaced by a new unified component: Imperishable Prismatic Motes.
* All existing Imperishable Motes now convert to Imperishable Prismatic Motes when right-clicked.
* All recipes that originally called for Imperishable Motes now use the new Imperishable Prismatic Mote.
* All Crafting Rifts that dropped the various Imperishable Motes now drop the new, unified Imperishable Prismatic Motes.
* Imperishable Prismatic Motes drop less frequently than their elemental counterparts did, but should be much easier to obtain as you no longer need to hunt for a specific drop.

APOTHECARY

* The Phenomenal Bottle of Spell Strikes and Phenomenal Bottle of Critical Strikes recipes now require 6 Sarleaf Extracts, down from 12.
* The Illustrious Bottle of Critical Strikes and Illustrious Bottle of Spellstrikes recipes now require 12 Sarleaf Extracts, down from 24.

ARMORSMITHING

* The Tormenting Metal Amender recipe now requires 24 Pelagic Requirements, down from 48.

ARTIFICER

* The Opaque Ornament Amender recipe now requires 24 Pelagic Fragments, down from 48.

RUNECRAFTING

* The Rune Amender recipe now requires 18 Capricious Stars, down from 20.
* The Advanced Rune Amender recipe now requires 8 Capricious Stars and 7 Nightmare Stars, down from 10 and 8, respectively.
* The Opaque Rune Amender now requires 24 Pelagic Fragments, down from 48.


ACHIEVEMENTS

* We've added a slew of new achievements!
- Planar Novice, Planar Acolyte, Planar Adept, Planar Master, and Planar Commander: Complete tiers of Planar Attunement.
- Fashion Icon: Unlock Wardrobe slots.
- Revered Crafter: Become Savant in 4 crafting professions.
- Legendary Crafter: Become Savant in 8 Crafting professions.
- Vault Keeper: Unlock 10 bank Vaults.
- Just Role With It/Role Tide!: Unlock 5 character roles for your calling.
- I Was Framed!: Unlock five portrait frames.
- Badge of Honor: Unlock 7 portrait badges.
- Fancy Pets/ Pampered Pets: Unlock combat pet skins.
- Patronly: Use a Patron ability.
- Bank Holiday: Unlock 30 bank slots.
- Fully Loaded: Unlock 8 bag bar slots.
* The following achievements have been moved to Legacy:
- Quantity Over Quality
- Try Not To Look Too Desperate
- Pie For An Eye
- Compulsive Gifting
- Dirt Hurts
- Rampant Dysmorphia
- Single Barrel Blast
- Water Bomber
* The following achievements have had their point values increased:
- A Most Nec-romantic Getaway
- I Get Around
- Quick On The Draw


DIMENSIONS

* We’ve increased the buildable space in the Shal Korva dimension! Dimensioneers should now have much more room to build and explore.

DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

MIND OF MADNESS

* If a character dies far from the starting point of Minds of Madness, the character will now respawn correctly at the start point.

ARISEN ARAK
* Added functionality to unset Hard Mode if hard mode has been set for Arisen Arak.
- This re-assigns to a random phase order which cannot be the hard mode phase order.
* Added a collision wall that blocks line of sight to the Arisen Arak fight space. This is disabled once the fight begins.
* Pets can now reliably engage Arisen Arak without issue.
* Spectre of Nightmare no longer has an AOE damage component on it auto attack, or a cleanse component and deals slightly increased damage to tanks.
* Shadow of C'zyth now has an 8m aura called Inversion which applies stacks of Crushing Void to players every 2 seconds.
* Implosion now pulls players to within 6m of Shadow of C'zyth.
* Shadow of C'zyth's Implosion now has a minimum radius of 9m, changed from 15m.
* Shadow of C'zyth now uses his abilities with increased frequency.
* Shadow of Asuramyth no longer creates an unsolvable Trial by Fire pattern in some rare instances.
* Arisen Arak can no longer use Tyrannus Genesi while Shadow of Asuramyth is active.
* The rate of Tyrannus Genesi during Shadow of Lythinia has been greatly reduced (40s cooldown instead of 18s cooldown).
* Shadow of Lythinia now called out her target for Performance Envy and has a 3 second cast time for the ability.
* Arisen Arak can no longer use Titanic Swing while Shadow of Lythinia is active.
* Titanic Swing and Gigas Flare now have highest priority in Arisen Arak's ability rotations, thus preventing repeated kills on the Dream of Arak from blocking Titanic Arisen Arak: Swing. (Thanks Fires of Heaven for catching this!)
* Twisted Desire can now spawn during the Gigas Flare phase of Arisen Arak's encounter if a Dream of Arak is killed.
* Shadow God’s Wrath now affords 3.8 seconds to react before dealing damage and can no longer be cleansed.
* Searing Radiance no longer acknowledges procced effects as potential triggers.
* Adjusted health of Soul Beacons, damage received from players with the ability to perceive vs passive cleave such that neither strategy offers a net damage benefit over the other.
- There is no net change to the total damage required for victory during the encounter.

Source; http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...10-2016-a.html

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Patrons can speak to the Planar Challenger in Sanctum or Meridian for a new and exclusive Daily and Weekly quest. Jump in and join the fight!

This is mildly concerning...what do the quests reward, is what I want to know...

[justinhalfout]

Sorry,you need to be a patron to know that

[Slipmat]

After some "fun" on NA Shards with the new chat channels getting merged into crossevents a fast hotfix pushed out by Trion already to Europe and later today for NA has fixed it, also fixed are misbehaving Minion missions, all in Hotfix #10

RIFT 3.5: Hotfix #10 2/11/2016

NA: 2/11/16 7:30 AM PST
EU: 2/11/16 2 AM GMT


GENERAL

* Fixed a bug that would allow a player to bypass maximum absorb amounts
* Flipped Wedding Garb will now unlock the matching appearance in the Wardrobe.
* The Auction House now appropriate displays the 50% discount for patrons when creating an auction or
* Fixed an issue with Auction House deposits displaying erroneously for patrons. It now shows the correct price, which is 50% cheaper than it is for non-patrons.


ITEMS

* Cosmic Defender's Essence Supply Cache, Cosmic Aggressor's Essence Supply Cache, and Cosmic Fragment now do not become soulbound when picked up and can be freely traded.


CHATS

* The level chat channels are back!
* You will no longer be placed into CrossEvents automatically every time you log in.
* When you reach level 65 for the first time on a character, you will automatically be placed into the CrossEvents chat channel.


MINIONS

* Fixed an issue preventing rare ‘diamond’ minion adventures from being shuffled for free.
* Fixed an issue where certain rare minion adventures were paying out a little too well on the good stuff.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...11-2016-a.html

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I actually logged in yesterday and crossevents was completely and utterly unusable in a way it had never been before. Curious as to if this fixes anything, will have to check.

Because if yesterday was any barometer, the change was utterly horrid.

[Slipmat]

If you're a collector of "shinies" (artifacts) then this Hotfix #11 has some good news for you

RIFT 3.5: Hotfix #11 2/17/2016

NA: 2/17/16 7:30 AM PST
EU: 2/18/16 2 AM GMT

== FEATURES ==

ROLLING FOR ARTIFACTS!

Stuck hunting for that one last artifact you need to finish a set? Your worries are over. You can now purchase a random artifact drawing from incomplete artifact sets in the character sheet!


== GAME UPDATE ==

GENERAL

* Fixed a bug involving NPCs that are meant to spawn with buffs not receiving them appropriately.
* Patrons now correctly no longer suffer soul damage when force resurrecting in a graveyard.
* Adjusted the drop rate of several Bounty artifacts that were much too rare.
* Fixed a bug related to resurrecting and using the Plane Touched Wilds jump ability at the same time.
* Achievements: Fashion Icon IV: This achievement now requires unlocking 58 Wardrobe slots instead of 59.
* Minions: In-progress minion adventures now display rare icons if they are rare adventures.


RIFT STORE AND SERVICES

* Users can now purchase recurring patron subscription plans from the in-game RIFT Store!
* New purple, black, green, orange, pink and blue carpets, pillows and curtain decorations have been added to the Store! Look for them in the new scratchers as well!


UI AND SETTINGS

* Global chat channels no longer display a shard name if you right click your chat tab and go to settings.


MAYHEM EVENTS

* Mayhem Zone Events now pay out additional Voidstones or Abyssal Crusader Marks, for characters below level 65 and at level 65, respectively.
* Mayhem quests now award extra Mayhem Adventure Caches.
* Players below level 65 will not be rewarded with Cosmic Fragments from Mayhem quests.


ZONES AND EVENTS

PLANETOUCHED WILDS

* Twisted Artifacts are now in Planetouched Wilds!


DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

MIND OF MADNESS

ARISEN ARAK

* Terror of Arak now spawns before Shadow God’s Wrath to provide easier access to ethereal pocket.
* Searing Radiance now excludes all chloromancer abilities as valid triggering events. This actually also extends to several more forms of cleave attacks and should make the raid damage more predictable.
* Addressed an exploit with tank positioning on the Shadow of C'zyth phase.
* Corrected an absorb calculation issue with the Shadow of Rakindu shield which was double dipping.
* Adjusted the health of the Nodule slightly to compensate for Shadow God's Wrath cast length increasing to 50s from 45s. Fixed an issue where players who didn't leap to avoid Shadow God's Wrath weren't taking damage.
* Fixed it so that T3 relic weapon effects worked on Arisen Arak.


CRAFTING

* Fixed an issue with the reward selection from the Crafting Skill Boost that would block selection of Weaponsmith if you have Survivalist above skill 375.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...17-2016-a.html

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Not a lot to 'fix' this week, some improvements to rendering effects, some UI issues fixed, all in hotfix #12

RIFT 3.5: Hotfix #12 2/24/2016

NA: 2/24/16 7:30 AM PST
EU: 2/25/16 2 AM GMT

GENERAL

* Made stability improvements regarding shader resource management with multithreaded rendering enabled.
* Made stability improvements when changing game resolution with multithreaded rendering enabled.
* Fixed shadow flickering issues with the parallel renderer.
* Rewards for completing the collection of artifact set are now appropriately granted to a player’s character when they complete the collection by buying a random artifact draw.


RIFT STORE AND SERVICES

* Fixed an issue where the store’s Patron purchase info would sometimes not show.


UI AND SETTINGS

* Updated UI layout to prevent store from being stuck off the top of the screen.
* The planar charge icon no longer glows strangely.


ZONES AND EVENTS

TARKEN GLACIER

* Slightly moved the Manugo stations in Ghar Station Tau to be more easily used.


DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

MIND OF MADNESS

* Arisen Arak: Addressed an issue preventing hardmode from being completed.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...24-2016-a.html

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It may be unlucky 13 for some people but not if you're struggling through the Mind of Madness raid, you might welcome these nerfs, eh 'retuning of the entry bosses

RIFT 3.5: Hotfix #13 3/2/2016

NA: 3/2/16 6 AM PST
EU: 3/2/16 2 PM GMT

GENERAL

* Reworked Quest UI to display patron bonuses for Prestige, Favor, Notoriety, etc.
* Trade chat is no longer a global chat channel.
* To cut back on griefing, ready checks can no longer be initiated in Warfronts, Conquests or IAs.


GRAPHICS/PERFORMANCE

* Improved performance in areas with lots of players.
* Fixed cloak flickering issues with multicore rendering.
* Fixed render issues with portraits, characters, and other embedded 3D targets while using multicore renderer.
* Fix incorrect transparent UI elements with parallel renderer.


SOULS

CLERIC

PURIFIER

* Fixed an issue which caused Ward of Flame to absorb 100% of incoming damage, instead of 85% of incoming damage.


ZONES AND EVENTS

* Tutorial Quest: Advanced Lessons: Soul Tree: Fixed an issue that prevented Defiant Primalists from progressing this quest.

EMBER ISLE

* Quest: Rage in the Machine: Fixed the kill objective from incorrectly incrementing twice per objective.


DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

MIND OF MADNESS

* Dark Genesis: Healing trinkets will now work on the Preservation Core for 200,000 health worth of healing.
* Arisen Arak: Fixed a gap in collision that caused players to projectile into the air during the Arisen Arak fight.

Lord Arak:

* Terminal Sedation now does smaller amounts of damage throughout its duration.
* Greater Weakness now reduces players’ outgoing damage by less.
* Reduced Theta Waves healing by a third.
* Reduced Night Stalker health to 7 M from 10 M.
* Reduced the damage of Divide and Conquer.
* Despair crystals now hit for 90% of health.
* Fixed an issue that could allow all stacks of Phantasmic Defense to fall off without killing all Nightmare Guardians.

Pagura:

* Pagura no longer casts Curse of Six.
* Pagura now casts Curse of Four until 40% health.
* At 40% health, Pagura now casts Curse of Five.
* Reduced the damage increase caused by Hex Frailty.
* Increased the amount Hex Frailty can stack.
* Increased the cast time of Shattering Roar.
* Scourbites’ Torn Flesh causes the target to receive less damage than previously.


ITEMS

* Fixed a visual issue with Elf Female Ornate Aelfwar Tunic.
* Fixed many items which granted Absorb shields to all have 15% bleedthrough.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...-2-2016-a.html

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Hardly worth an entire hotfix all to itself, here's #14

RIFT 3.5: Hotfix #14 3/3/2016

NA: 3/3/16 7:30 AM PST
EU: 3/3/16 2 AM GMT

RIFT STORE AND SERVICES

* Fixed an issue with the anniversary special pricing for in-game 1 year Patron subscriptions.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-discussions/patch-notes/478761-rift-3-5-hotfix-14-3-3-2016-a.html

[Slipmat]

The main meat this week is for the 5th Anniversary Celebration, a few other fixes also made it into Hotfix #15

RIFT 3.5: Hotfix #15 3/9/2016

NA: 3/9/16 7:30 AM PST
EU: 3/9/16 2 AM GMT

== FEATURES ==

5th Anniversary Celebration – Adventure of a Lifetime!

It’s been five glorious years of massive battles and ascended souls… and that means it’s time to party! Grab your friends, gather your guildmates, and prepare for a month-long celebration that will rock the planes. The 5th Anniversary Celebration kicks off on March 9th, with a World Event that rewards incredible prizes for those that achieve greatness, and through April 5th, you can earn 5th Anniversary Tickets for doing the stuff you normally do! All the events below will pay out throughout the entire event but each week will also have a special focus, where a specific game activity pays out even more tickets:

* Instant Adventure: March 9 – 16
* Random Chronicles: March 16 – 23
* Random Warfronts: March 23 – 30
* Random Dungeons: March 31 – April 6
* Zone Events
* Weeklies

Speak to Maguck the Ticket Master in Tempest Bay to see the in-game rewards offered, including the Mystical Carousel Ram, Tier 3 Raid gear (rings and earrings), 46 soul vanity capes (one for each soul!), the Haunted Terminal dimension, and more!

We’ve partnered with Enjin, a premier guild hosting site, to host the Leaderboard for us. Click here to visit the Leaderboard and track your progress through the event. We suspect they have a special deal for guilds looking for a home as well! The Top 100 players on the Leaderboard are guaranteed to win prizes, and even more Ascended in the Top 1,000 will be eligible to win random prizes. The Leaderboard will be updated several times each day, and rewards will be given out after each week’s events. Ascended, prepare yourselves for the Adventure of a Lifetime!

The RIFT 5th Anniversary only happens once - make sure you can say you were here and battled for some of these amazing rewards! For full event details see our blog post here.

== GAME UPDATE ==

GENERAL

* Corpse Moth breeding is under control. You should no longer find huge piles of them.


RIFT STORE AND SERVICES

* Added the additional benefit of No Soul Vitality Damage on Death to the description of Patron Benefits in the Store.


UI AND SETTINGS

* Fixed a bug that caused quest stickies to not reappear when going into edit mode inside a dimension.
* Fixed the missing home button in the store for NPC merchants.


AUCTION HOUSE

* When doing auction house searches, you can now add a ‘+’ to the front of your search text to do an exact string item name search.
- This will now be the default behavior when right-clicking on items in your bag or from the Crafting Window to trigger auction house searches.
- This will result in the auction house not showing other items in your search results.


ZONES AND EVENTS

* The distribution of zone events should be more even among the various zones.


DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

MIND OF MADNESS

* Arisen Arak: Addressed an issue where hard mode loot could be given out to a non-hard mode kill.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...-9-2016-a.html

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Multicore rendering is finally here, albeit in a Beta form, but from testers on Live during the past few weeks, it's hopefully stable enough for everyone, all in Hotfix # 16

RIFT 3.5: Hotfix #16 3/16/2016

NA: 3/16/16 7:30 AM PST
EU: 3/17/16 1 AM GMT

== FEATURES ==


MULTICORE RENDERING OPEN BETA

* Multicore rendering is now in open beta!
* You can enable it through the Advanced Video settings.
* Note: This is not a final release and there may still be stability and performance problems. Please report any issues!


== GAME UPDATE ==

5TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

* The Maguk Representative now also appears in Sanctum and Meridian in addition to Tempest Bay.


GENERAL

* Fix single-frame black flicker issue with multicore renderer.
* Implemented a potential fix for the bug where you start drowning on land. Please PM SupermanSocks on the forums if you see this issue occur again.


UI AND SETTINGS

* Already collected wardrobe text in tooltips will now always be a light gray.


ZONES AND EVENTS

CITY CORE

* IA: A Mouths to Bleed: A previously hidden pack of Terrormaws is now revealed on the map.


DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

MIND OF MADNESS

* Arisen Arak: The Lady Justice rings no longer instantly kill players.
* Arisen Arak: The middle platform can no longer be chosen for first destruction.

THE RHEN OF FATE: CHRONICLE

* Fixed an issue causing this Chronicle to not pay out rewards from the random chronicle queue.


DIMENSIONS
* Vengeful Sky Dimension: Fix an issue where players could walk through mountains

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...16-2016-a.html

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More nerfs, eh i mean "adjustments", made to some bosses in Mind of Madness to make them a bit more accessible to progressing Guilds, new Instant Adventure weekly quests for players below level 65, multicore should work properly now, all in Hotfix #17.

RIFT 3.5: Hotfix #17 3/23/2016

NA: 3/23/16 7:30 AM PST
EU: 3/24/16 1 AM GMT

MULTICORE RENDERER BETA

* Fixed an issue causing the Multicure Renderer to be slower than intended.
* We've disabled the experimental multicore renderer when using the low-quality renderer.


GENERAL

* 5th Anniversary Celebration: Fixed a display issue with the World Event quest that would cause it to display incorrect text.
* The achievement “Empyreal Assault Adventures!” has been moved to Legacy.
* Turning in a Bounty set should no longer dismount you.


QUESTS

* The following weekly quests are now banded by level, no longer require the completion of specific zone events:
- Shield of the Land and Frontlines of the Planes (level 45 to 50)
- Shards of Infinity (Level 51-60)
- War Across the Seas (Level 61-65)
* The quests to complete 7 zone-specific Instant Adventures has been removed from the following zones:
- Cape Jule
- City Core
- Pelladane
- Seratos
- Morban
- Steppes of Infinity
* The daily quests given in Sanctum and Meridian have been replaced with weekly quests. Their rewards have been substantially improved. These quests are available from level 10-49.
* A weekly quest to complete Instant Adventures has been added to Tempest Bay. The quest is given by Tacitus the Elder and is available levels 50-59.


ZONES AND EVENTS

* Fixed an edge case that could occasionally result in an IA raid not getting any quest objectives. (Thanks, Soulshield!)

PLANE TOUCHED WILDS

* Increased the drop rate of Golden Maw artifacts from the Rival Bounty Hunter in Planetouched Wilds.


DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

MIND OF MADNESS

* Fixed Dominance leaderboards for Lady Justice, Dark Genesis and Arisen Arak.
* Arisen Arak: Shadow of C’zyth now prioritizes Implosion in his rotation and no longer requires a target in clear line of sight to activate.
* Pillars of Justice: Reduced the health of this encounter by 10%, reduced the outgoing damage on spike hitting attacks by 10-15%, reduced the damage gain from Injustice by 3% per stack, increased the cast time of interrupt mechanics and Stay/Order of Execution (42 seconds to 48).
* Fauxmire: Decreased boss health by 10%.
* Lady Envy: Decreased boss health by 10%.


PVP AND WARFRONT

CONQUEST

* The reward chest in Conquest will no longer give Void Stones or Hearts of the Frozen.
* Instead, they now grant Abyssal Crusader Marks by default, with a small chance to instead get a Warmonger’s Mark.
* PVP weekly quests have had their reward package increased to include 5000 Favor in addition to everything else they currently reward.


ITEMS

* Battlemaster’s Brew now stacks to 99.
* Fixed an issue that would cause tanks with Tier 3 relic weapons to damage enemies around their corpse when they were resurrected.
* Explosion of Vigor now heals the caster for 30% of their maximum health, up from 15%.
* Explosion of Vigor now damages nearby enemies for 30% of the caster’s maximum health, up from 15%.
*The Nexian Spellbinder, the mage off-hand from Mind of Madness, now correctly has a sidegrade to the tanking version, Fortified Nexian Spellbinder.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...23-2016-a.html

[Slipmat]

A special treat awaits you if you're still not at the required hit for T1 and T2 raids, all in hotfix #18

RIFT 3.5: Hotfix #18 3/31/2016

NA: 3/30/16 7 AM PST
EU: 3/31/16 1 AM GMT (UTC)

== FEATURES ==

LIMITED TIME BOLSTERING FOR RAID CONTENT!

In honor of Rift’s 5th Anniversary, we’re introducing a limited time zone wide buffs that will bolster players up to an effectiveness capable of fully participating in T1 and T2 raid content!

Tier 1 will now grant 1,200 hit and 1,500 additional endurance, while Tier 2 will grant 1,520 hit.

Additionally, we have changed the lockout for The Rhen of Fate from weekly to twice per week!


== GAME UPDATE ==

UI AND SETTINGS

* Fixed an issue where some abilities could display as being off cooldown while still mid cooldown.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...31-2016-a.html

[Slipmat]

The last hotfix for Update 3.5, next week we'll be into Update 3.6

RIFT 3.5: Hotfix #19 4/6/2016

NA: 4/6/16 7:30 AM PDT
EU: 4/7/16 1 AM GMT (UTC)

GENERAL

* Further multicore stability improvements.
* Guild mates can now appropriately pick up dimension objects a guild mate’s personal dimension, if the correct permissions are set.


ZONES AND EVENTS

* Zareph's Return, Wyrmbane Spire, and Chancel of Labors Teleport Devices’ cooldown periods now time out when logged out.

ZONE EVENT REWARDS

* The rewards from zone events have been adjusted!
* For players level 60-65, zone events now reward Abyssal Crusader Marks in addition to previous rewards.
* For players level 60-65, the rewards for completing lower level zone events while mentored has been greatly increased.
* For players levels 42-59, the Void Stone rewards have been reduced slightly.
* Unstable Zone Events no longer count towards the weekly Zone Event quests.

DRAUMHEIM

* ZE: Ravenous Devourer: Fixed an issue where sometimes Ojingeodon would not be at full health when he spawns.

KINGSWARD

* IA: Feathered Foes:
- Increased the number and spawn rate of the Regal Cloudstalkers needed for this quest.
- Map markers now better indicate the locations of the Regal Cloudstalkers.

STEPPES OF INFINITY

* IA: Grid Unlocked:
- For larger groups of players, the number of Conservatory Automatons to kill has been reduced.
- Conservatory Automations have been scaled up and Defenders have been scaled down.
* IA: Anti Arta: Reduced the health of Coralio Arta.
* IA: Brain Freeze:
- Fixed an issue causing Legion adds to not spawn.
- Coralio Arta’s Brain Wave attack is no longer blocked by the curvature of the roof.
- Increased the rate that Cryomod Canisters respawn.
- Additional broadcast instructions on what to do with Cryomods.


ITEMS

* The “Follow Up” passive on weapons found in Mind of Madness is now prevented from triggering on DoTs, Poisons, or small amounts of damage generated from long-duration buffs.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...-6-2016-a.html