Rift 3.7 - Hotfixes

[Slipmat]

Seems North America had it rough for a few hours after getting 3.7 as the servers seemed to crash a lot, most of us Europeans were snuggled up asleep when we got the Update

Anyhow, time to sort it out, here's Hotfix #1 quick off the mark

RIFT 3.7: Hotfix #1 7/14/2016

NA: 7/14/16 12:30 AM PDT
EU: 7/6/16 8:30 AM GMT (UTC)


GENERAL

* Improved server stability.
* Mitch’s World Tour Minion chain should now reward the appropriate new Minions.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...14-2016-a.html

[Slipmat]

Was a rough 24 hours or so after the update with the servers not happy, all sorted now though thanks to Hotfix #2 and copious amounts of coffee and redbull

RIFT 3.7: Hotfix #2 7/15/2016

GENERAL

* Fixed several crashes to improve sever stability.
* Veteran Rewards: Removed testing text from the veteran buffs.
* Fixed numerous text entries, including the description of the Limited Edition: Burning Husk Trove.

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

[Slipmat]

Once again Trion throws all it's Rift players a nice bonus box of goodies to make up for the server issues during last week's 3.7 patch

RIFT 3.7: Hotfix #3 7/20/2016


SUMMERFEST

* Claim your Summerfest Friendship Gift in the RIFT Store, available now through August 5th! Each gift contains 40 Affinity, 125 Summerfest Merit Badges, 1 Summerfest Friendship Bracelet and a 3 Day Patron Pass, claimable once per account. Thanks for your patience during the downtime last week!
* Artifact Piñatas will no longer allow you to pick up the Artifacts unless you were an appropriate level (or mentored level) when the Piñata died. It must be green or higher to you, or else you will not be able to pick up Artifacts or get loot in your Rift bag.
* Artifacts from piñatas will no longer prompt a need/greed roll regardless of loot settings.
* In an effort to curb the extinction of the local swarmlord population, the achievement “Bug Juice” no longer requires 300 kills of Swarmlord Khargroth. 1 seems sufficient.
* Little Shiny no longer makes any noise. Hopefully his remaining forms of communication are still intact.
* Thundersmack is now available to all callings. Get this player-named weapon while you can!


GENERAL

* Fixed an issue when purchasing tokens and vouchers.
* Fixed a crash that could occur relating to the Captain Dagon minion.
* Fixed an issue with the intro movie causing a client crash on startup.
* Pressing enter while attempting to buy partial stacks or split stacks in the inventory will now function correctly.
* Fixed a crash when trail-type particle effects are triggered.


SOULS

CLERIC

MASTERIES

* Fixed an issue that could result in Faith's Reward being removed when another Cleric casts Overflowing Renewal on you.

RUNESHAPER

* The Precision Inscribing talent now affects Rune of Soul Binding and no longer affects Rune of Smiting. Runestrike and Inscribe Fate are still affected by the talent.

SHAMAN

* PVP: Massive Blow damage reduced by 20% in pvp environments.


MAGE

FROSTKEEPER

* PVP: Break Free now works as expected again.
* Frozen Ground now properly applies immunity after stunning a player.
* Infuse Magic now heals for 67% less in PVP.


ZONES AND EVENTS

* Weekly Quest: Aquias Avenger: This quest is now correctly listed in the Weekly section of the quest log.

TEMPEST BAY

* Have the Prophecies of Ananke come to pass? Will they be fulfilled? Why are there imps all over Tempest Bay? Do you have a few moments to talk about Aia, the goddess of fate?


DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

COMET OF AHNKET

* Lord Fionn now has a chance of dropping a warrior one-hand weapon with the Ethereal Ascension activated ability.

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

[Slipmat]

It's mostly quality of life changes this week in Hotfix #4

RIFT 3.7: Hotfix #4 7/27/2016


SUMMERFEST

* Weapons: Reduced the hit rating of the Thundersmack Conker.
* Weapons: The hit rating of the intermediate Thundersmack Basher is now in line with the other weapons.
* Added Visible Phase Icon on artifact Piñatas to aid colorblind people.
* Quest: Estranged Brew: The item Lenny’s Finest is no longer a unique item.
- Note: It will not stack due to technical limitations with how charged items work.


GENERAL

* All Normal, Twisted, Unstable, Poison, Burning and Nightmare Artifacts no longer pop up the Need/Greed Window.
* Fixed the Guild Finder from constantly closing.
* Using abilities and items when using the inventory search will no longer clear out the current text search.
* Ember Watch forge no longer sells items for Infernal Marks of Ascension.
* A character who is a member of a starter guild and who switches factions during the game is automatically added to the appropriate starter guild of their new faction.


DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

MIND OF MADNESS

* Fixed an issue with the Shadow of C’zyth getting in a state where he would not attack.

MOUNT SHARAX

* Threngar: The damage from Consuming Darkness has been severely lowered.

PVP AND WARFRONTS

* * AFK players are now more effectively removed from matches.


CRAFTING

OUTFITTING

* The recipe for Cosmic Bags now creates a non-bound box that contains a Cosmic Bag. The Cosmic Bag Box can be traded with other players.


ITEMS

* The ground paint effect has been removed from the following dimension items: Star Flower, Closed Star Flower, Firepetal, Tentacled Firepetal, Firepetal Stalk, Firepetal Clump, Lifespreading Podflower, Death Spine Group.

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

[Slipmat]

Quiet week for a change, except for some unhappy Mages playing Elementalists in PvP Warfronts

RIFT 3.7: Hotfix #5 8/3/2016

GENERAL

* Trophy items can now be purchased from Odi Rovan in The Canals of Tempest Bay.
* Tower Sigils and similar upgrade components can no longer be Runebroken.
* Improved stability of in-game experience when a user’s character is a member of a starter guild.


SOULS

MAGE

ELEMENTALIST

* Reclaim Elements now only heals you for 25% of your Maximum HP in PVP.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...-3-2016-a.html

[Slipmat]

There was an issue with the Starfall Prophecy tokens that a few "ducks" managed to exploit so they were all removed yesterday, this hotfix addresses all that, this is why we can't have nice things

RIFT 3.7: Hotfix #6 8/5/2016

STARFALL PROPHECY PREORDERS

* Starfall Prophecy tokens are now properly awarded once a day per account in your daily login boxes. (This only applies to boxes gained going forward.)
* We’ve removed any existing Starfall Prophecy tokens due to an error with how they were being distributed.
* We’ll be setting up a “Sorry!” pack next week to make up for it. Thanks for your patience!

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...-5-2016-a.html

[Slipmat]

Earrings slots now buyable again with void stones, Rift: Essentials Pack in the Store forever, some class tweaks like Paladin and some Primalists ones, all in Hotfix #7

RIFT 3.7: Hotfix #7 8/10/2016

STARFALL PROPHECY PREORDERS

* Due to the issues with Starfall Prophecy tokens last week, we’ve added a one time claimable reward in the RIFT Store, Package of Prophecies, that contains 5 bonus tokens. Sorry for the inconvenience!


GENERAL

* Fixed a memory leak that caused server instability.
* Fixed art issues with some armor for all dwarves and female bahmis.
* Players in starter guilds remain in the same guild when they hop shards.


RIFT STORE AND SERVICES

* Rogue Synergy Crystals no longer appear when filtering by Warrior or Primalist.
* The option to purchased Earring Slots and Planewalker: Water for Voidstones has returned! Both can be purchased for 50,000 Voidstones each.
* The time limit to purchase the RIFT: Essentials Edition has been removed. It can be found in the RIFT Store under the DLC category.


SOULS

CLERIC

DRUID

* Fae Mimicry now affects 5 abilities for 100% of their damage dealt (up from 4 and 70% respectively),

SHAMAN

* Massive Blow now receives roughly 33% less benefit from Spell Crit when calculating bonus damage.


MAGE

HARBINGER

* Rending Slash now causes the target to take 15% more damage from the Mage (up from 10%).


PRIMALIST

DERVISH

* Primal Avatar: Wind Serpent now increases damage dealt by 25% and lasts 20s.
* Wind at your Back now increases Air damage by 15%.
* Might of the Earth now grants 2% WD and AP per point (down from 4%).
* Shearing Winds now deals 105% of your Weapon Damage per point (up from 80%).
* Seismic Smash now increases the damage of Air Cutter casts by 35% (up from 20%).
* Subduction cooldown is reduced to 4 seconds (down from 6) on a target below 35% HP.

MAELSTROM

* Font of Sublimination will no longer be consumed by Scald if it is already instant when you gain the Font effect.

TYPHOON

* Storm Strength now grants 2% WD and AP per point (down from 4%).

VULCANIST

* Primal Avater: Drake now affects 7 abilities.
* Heart of the Volcano now increases Earth and Fire damage by 30%.
* Furious Power now grants 2% WD and AP per point (down from 4%).
* Greater Salvo now increases the damage of your Vorpal Salvo by 15% per point (up from 10%).
* Moment of Brilliance now increases the damage of Stroke of Brilliance when Fury and Cunning are equal by 40% per point (up from 25%).
* Infusion now causes an additional 12% damage as Ethereal (up from 10%).


ROGUE

SHADEBORN

* Shadow Twin now causes 35% of the damage dealt as Ethereal (Down from 40%).


WARRIOR

PALADIN

* Light’s Shield now has a 60% chance to proc and a 2s cooldown.
* Light's Decree - Projectile now moves roughly 50% faster.
* Life's Rapture has been removed.
* NEW: Sanctuary - Replaces Life's Rapture. Ground Placed zone where all incoming damage is greatly reduced. Zone lasts up to 4 seconds or until the Paladin ceases channeling. Cannot move while channeling.
* NEW: Wall of Light - Moving Channel. Allies who stand in a cone behind you take substantially less damage. Requires a stack of Light's Shield.
* NEW: Purify Land - Place a powerful zone that erupts after 1 second, dealing heavy damage and incredible threat to all targets in the area.
* NEW: Call of the Divine - Enemies in the target area are teleported to you. Requires one stack of Light's Shield.


PARAGON

* Strike Like Iron now increases damage by 30% (up from 25%).
* Shifting Blades now affects 4 attacks (up from 3).

WARLORD

* Shatter now grants 2% damage per point (up from 1%).
* Deadly Posture now increases Crit Chance by 12% (up from 10%).
* Surges can no longer be improperly purged.


PLANAR ATTUNEMENT

* Fading Light is no longer incorrectly locked out by certain control effects.
* Fading Light and Resilient Hide (Primalist) no longer incorrectly appear in the general tab of your spellbook. They are now correctly listed with other Ascended Powers.


ZONES AND EVENTS

TEMPEST BAY

* Have you heard the revelations of Ananke? The Tempest Bay Chamber of Commerce has passed regulations limiting proselytizing imps to only speak once every 25 minutes rather than once every 25 seconds.


DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

COMET OF AHNKET

* Hericius: The invisible waves cease to exist once Hericius enters the Shroomageddon.

HAMMERKNELL FORTRESS

* Sicaron: The achievement ‘Contractual Obligation’ now requires you to defeat Sicaron in 25 contracts or fewer up from 20 contracts or fewer. This change will not grant the achievement retroactively, so if you have defeated Sicaron with fewer than 25 contracts in the past, you will have to do so again to earn the achievement!

MIND OF MADNESS

* Arisen Arak – The Shadow of C’zyth’s abilities have been fixed to properly damage players and display warning telegraphs. The below changes were implemented to accommodate this:
- The Shadow of C’zyth will no longer rotate and follow its current target during Wrath of C’zyth.
- The duration of Wrath of C’zyth and Weight of Worlds has been increased by one second.
- The cooldown period for Wrath of C’zyth and Weight of Worlds has been increased by two seconds.
- Inversion should now properly display and affect players as before.


ITEMS

* Frozen Horror Tights are now spelled correctly.
* Fixed a typo in the description of the Snaggletooth companion pet.

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

[Slipmat]

Not a lot in this week's hotfix, here's #8

RIFT 3.7: Hotfix #8 8/17/2016


GENERAL

* The Level 40 Boost bundle now gives the correct size Ascended Pouch. Players with the old Pouches now own limited edition collector’s items. Congratulations!


GUILDS

* Fixed an issue where players’ guild tag would show up incorrectly when in the Starter Guild.


SOULS

WARRIOR

PALADIN

* Call of the Divine can no longer incorrectly affect entities that are immune to teleports or knockbacks.



ZONES

SILVERWOOD

* Primalists completing the quest Servants of Twyl can now claim a two-handed mace as a reward.

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

[Slipmat]

Good news if you liked playing the bomber spec in Rogue, Saboteur has gotten some luv, all in hotfix #9

RIFT 3.7: Hotfix #9 8/24/2016

GENERAL

* Players in starter guilds remain in the same guild when they hop shards.


ZONES AND EVENTS

SILVERWOOD

* Primalists completing the quest Servants of Twyl can now claim a two-handed mace as a reward.


SOULS

ROGUE

SABOTEUR

* Saboteur has been completely rebuilt from the ground up as a 3 target cleave/AoE spec.
* Key Points:
- Many abilities have been pruned and/or reworked completely.
- Charges have been changed to a personal resource that are used to cast Sticky Bombs.
- Sticky Bombs are triggered by the Detonate ability (and Satchel Charge if talented).
- Several reactives have been added to improve gameplay readability in general.


DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

COMET OF AHNKET

* Replaced the activated abilities on Rogue daggers from Lord Fionn with passive abilities.
* Fixed an issue that allowed some items with activated abilities to be triggered when not equipped.


ITEMS

* The Warmonger’s Charm will no longer trigger damage to players taking damage from Intercede.
* Replaced the activated abilities on Rogue daggers from Lord Fionn with passive abilities.
* Fixed an issue that allowed some items with activated abilities to be triggered when not equipped.

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

[Puremallace]

Thanks for updating as always Slip

[ryanmahaffe]

So, whats with the like...millions of sunglass emoji all the time :P

[Eleccybubb]

So, whats with the like...millions of sunglass emoji all the time :P

Because he thinks the game is still cool I guess. Some kind of cute thing.

[Deleted]

Or maybe part of his job, look at all those words and !

http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...nto-scene.html

[Puremallace]

Or maybe part of his job, look at all those words and !

http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...nto-scene.html

Would be sort of cool if he were a dev.

[Slipmat]

Some "interesting" Chloromancer fixes, going to have to test them out tomorrow when EU get's patched, here's hotfix #10 with a cool emoji for the special fans out there

RIFT 3.7: Hotfix #10 8/31/2016

GENERAL

* Fixed a bug where the current zone for a character that joins a starter guild Is listed as ‘Unknown’.
* Hunt Rift: Quest: As the Planarch Commands: Infused Planarch Glyph will no longer continue to drop once the quest has been completed.


SOULS

MAGE

CHLOROMANCER

* Entropic Veil now only affects Chloromancer healing.
* Lifebound Veil no longer incorrectly triggers Natural Awareness.
* Lifegiving Veil no longer incorrectly triggers Natural Awareness.
* Entropic Veil no longer incorrectly triggers Natural Awareness.
* Symbiosis no longer incorrectly triggers Natural Awareness.


ROGUE

SABOTEUR

* Scattered Flurry now correctly scales with talent points. It is now applied on impact rather than on detonation.
* Saboteurs now no longer incorrectly consume other Sabotuer’s sticky bombs.


WARRIOR

WARCHANTER

* We Stand United! now requires 18 points.
* Catch Your Breath! now requires 6 points.


DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

BINDINGS OF BLOOD

* Maelforge: The Tritium Core achievement reward no longer does damage or knocks back players.

MOUNT SHARAX

* Due to the removal of mana drain, the achievement “Brain Drain” has now been moved to a Legacy achievement.

[theWocky]

with a cool emoji for the special fans out there

So, an obvious attempt at provoking other players? Doing your job as "Rift Community Ambassador" ?

*snip*

Yeah nope. Not going there. -Edge

[Slipmat]

Still time to push a hotfix even though it was a holiday weekend, here's hotfix #11.

RIFT 3.7: Hotfix #11 9/7/2016

GENERAL

* Instant adventure groups in an Intrepid instant adventure are assigned to a new adventure after they finish final quest in the adventure chain.


ZONES AND EVENTS

* Fixed a bug that would prevent advancement in the Caldwelddi puzzle chain.


ITEMS

* The Vengeful Curio’s damage effect is no longer triggered by auto-attacks, items, or procced effects.
* Fixed a bug where the Protector’s Crystal was not giving the appropriate amount of guard radius.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...-7-2016-a.html

[Slipmat]

Ger ready for some Opie hype, you can now start to collect planar pellets which 'fuel' this artifact hunting squirrel

RIFT 3.7: Hotfix #12 9/13/2016

FEATURES

PLANAR PELLETS

Many of you are getting close to being able to own Opie, and now Planar Pellets will now be available to harvest or purchase! Any harvest node of any type will have a chance of yielding some pellets. You can also visit your local Artifact collector if you wish to purchase them for either lucky coins or credits. Pellets will also be tradeable, so be sure to check your local auction house too!


ZONES AND INSTANCES

PLANETOUCHED WILDS

* The Twisted Krillado in Sky Fishery will no longer try to hide inside rocks.

INSTANT ADVENTURE

* Hammerknell – Fixed some of Matron Zamira’s abilities so they are unable to be reflected.
* Mind of Madness – Fixed some Arisen Arak abilities so they are unable to be reflected.


SOULS

CLERIC

DEFILER

* The Defiler has received a facelift, including updates to Aggressive Avarice and how it interacts with Greed stacks, increased damage over time across the board, and more. Check it out!


DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

COMET OF AHNKET

* The Alaviax devils now know how to correctly spell their own names.

MIND OF MADNESS

* Arisen Arak will not respawn on a soft reset of the instance.

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

[Slipmat]

Time to farm those nodes for your planar pellets, also must be the first time you can #upgrade' a Collector's Pack if you wanted the extra goodies, all in hotfix #13

RIFT 3.7: Hotfix #13 9/21/2016

OPIE

* Increased the drop rate of Planar Pellets from Harvesting nodes.
* Shard hopping will no longer cause Opie to recharge the pellet cost of tracking abilities.
* Opie’s tracking abilities persist through logging in and out of the world and now have a 10s cooldown upon being used.
* Opie’s Tip Toe ability now persists through logging in and out of the world and has a 10s cooldown upon being used.
* When dismounting Opie, the effect of Tip Toe will be removed.
* Opie’s Squirrel Jump ability now has a 5s cooldown.
* Planar Pellets now have a max stack size of 999.


GENERAL

* Fixed a bug with the Auction House creating incorrect pricing based on stack sizes over 999.


RIFT STORE AND SERVICES

* Picked up the standard edition of Starfall Prophecy and now you regret missing out on all the awesome stuff in the Deluxe Edition? No problem friend! The Starfall Prophecy Upgrade pack is now available on RIFT Store! This pack will instantly unlock the Ethereal Drake Mount, Asha Catari's Raiment & Ring of Ahnket portrait.


INSTANT ADVENTURE

MIND OF MADNESS

* Arisen Arak – The damage of Shadow God’s Wrath has been lowered and should not one shot a player unless they are very low on health.


ZONES AND EVENTS

DRAUMHEIM

* Landquarium - The rare spawn creature Lord Twyl will now leash correctly.


DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

MIND OF MADNESS

* Enigma – Due to the change to Defilers, the damage to Overwhelming Force has been lowered.
* Arisen Arak – Fixed an issue where Arisen Arak would not initialize hard mode even though all criteria was met.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...21-2016-a.html

[Slipmat]

Not mentioned in the Patch notes but due to have been put in are some fixes to the UI of the artifact hunting squirrel Opie, meanwhile Dimension builders got some new toys to play with, all in hotfix #14.

RIFT 3.7: Hotfix #14 9/28/2016

GENERAL

* A character who happens to have the same of a character who was previously in a guild but is no longer a member can engage in guild activities.
* Fixed a bug when relisting auctions from the mail box with a stack size over 999.


DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

INTREPID GILDED PROPHECY

* The achievements “It Only Stings a Little” and “Like Crushing An Insect” will now be correctly granted when meeting the achievement requirements

HAMMERKNELL

* Inquisitor Garau has momentarily shrugged off the madness of Akylios and realized the achievement “Gooooooolem” could never be completed. In this moment of clarity, he has moved it to the Legacy list. He was also able to remove it from the requirements to complete “Conqueror: Hammerknell Fortress” before madness overtook him once more.


DIMENSIONS

* The new Mystery Box: Imperial Wonders contains a selection of new dimension items not available anywhere else in the game. Most of these items are from Sanctum and Meridian. Each Mystery Box also includes a chance for the new Harvest Meadow dimension key.
* The new Beasts of Burden Dimension Grab Bag contains a random horse, vaiyuu, or yarnosaur dimension NPC.
* There are new recipes available to craft Matte Black Building Blocks.
* New Metal Building Blocks and Glowing Building Blocks are available in the store.
* New Dimensional Beam VFX are available in the store.
* The max item count of the Anywhere dimension has been increased.
* The Shal Korva Dimension Key Grab Bag and Korvan Dimension Item Grab Bag have been retired.
* A Guild Vault dimension item is now available for purchase.
* The new Telaran Bottle Six-Pack (Not found in stores) includes a random selection of 6 new tavern bottles.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...28-2016-a.html