Rift 4.2 - Hotfixes

[Slipmat]

Now that Update 4.2 - Celestial Storm is up and running, time to address the niggling issues that some players came across, here's hotfix #1.

RIFT 4.2: Hotfix #1 7/21/2017

ZONES AND EVENTS

VOSTIGAR PEAKS

* Zone Events: Fixed a bug causing non-final boss kills in Vostigar Peaks zone events to increment the Eternal Weapon quest.
* Zone Events: Adjusted the damage of Damkina.
* Crucia tried to infect the Ascendeds’ minds with the nonsensical phrase “sadfsdf”, while much argued about it had no noticeable effect on the war in Vostigar. As such, Servillius told her-- respectfully-- to stop doing it.
* Quest: A Game of Chess: Fixed a bug causing the quest to only work correctly for the first player on the server. However, due to the nature of this fix, all quest progress will be reset.
* The rift tear on top of the Uttila graveyard has been removed.
* Quest: The Maze of Steel: Fixed an issue where sometimes players could become locked out of the fight area in the instance. However, additional fixes to this quest are coming in an upcoming hotfix.


DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

TARTARIC DEPTHS NORMAL

* Infernal chasers should now be less likely to clump on the tank.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...21-2017-a.html

[Cobaltius]

They also nerfed/disabled Apex Predator" skill for Primalists Predator soul not sure why.

[Slipmat]

Hotfix #2 is now getting patched to NA, it's back to early Thursday mornings for EU.

RIFT 4.2: Hotfix #2 7/26/2017

SUMMERFEST

* The achievement “Summer Royalty” no longer has “Beach Bash!” as a requirement. “Beach Bash!” has been moved to the Legacy section.
* Quest: Telara Dog and Pony Show - Part 1: In order to accept this quest, players must have a corgi pet in their collection. The list of valid corgi companion pets has been expanded to include Radar and Holly!


GENERAL

* Fixed a bug preventing players from editing their own guild note.
* Fixed a bug preventing guild leaders from managing their guild members properly.
- Note: Guild leaders may not be able to manage guild members that have been inactive for an extended period of time. A fix for this is coming in a future hotfix.
* Nameplates now show up once more while the Low Quality Renderer mode is enabled.


RIFT STORE AND SERVICES

* Level 72 Practice Dummies are now in the store under Dimensions > Interactive > Dummies!


SOULS

PRIMALIST

PRIMAL LORD

* Legendary Scything Strike and its automatic procs now work on legendary abilities.
* Hawk's Wrath and Bear's Fury will no longer be overwritten by multiple primalists.


DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

TARTARIC DEPTHS NORMAL

* Implemented a possible fix for Beligosh resetting. However, if you encounter this issue again, please feel free to post any additional information in our new Bug Reports forum!
* Fixed an issue during Beligosh's final phase that allowed players to avoid flame waves.
* Fixed Beligosh's leaderboard.


TYRANT'S FORGE

* Fixed an issue that may have disqualified players from The Unseen achievement.
* Overwatches no longer rapidly strafe the fight space as soon as they activate.


ZONES AND EVENTS

PLANETOUCHED WILDS

* The Planetouched Wilds achievement Keep What You Kill no longer requires killing Teth Biye.

SCATTHERAN FOREST

* Zone Event: Conflagration’s Wreath of Flames now has a maximum stack size of three.

VOSTIGAR PEAKS

* Daily Quests: Increased the spawn rate of NPCs and objects require to complete dailies across the board.
* Daily Quest: Inside Chaos: Fixed a bug where quest objectives would not respawn.
* Daily Quest: Paint the Base Red: Improved Tasuil's behavior during this quest.
* After observing the Ascended heroics this past week, the Uttila Resistance has warmed to these newcomers. Access to the ranks of Glorified has now been granted!
* Gormon's slaughter of all the infernal copy editors continues to have ramifications in Telara. More typos were fixed, but that only means that there are more to be found.
* The Legion's equipment, though infused with the power of the plane of air, will no longer float unintentionally.
* The Fail Sky Whale is persistent on the Squawk Vox, but Legion magitechnicians swear, under pain of their impending deaths, that the Queen's message to the troops is now being broadcast appropriately.
* Quest: Maze of Steel: SPOILER WARNING: Crucia will no longer trap players outside the arena in the Maze of Steel. That’s not fair Crucia! Tricky dragon.
* Quest: Maze of Steel: SPOILER WARNING: Fixed an issue where Crucia or Ahnket could become unkillable.
* Samova and Bloodseraph Riancha have been converted from Never Spawns to Rare Spawns.

XARTH MIRE

* Some of the more fanatical population of this zone have been scolded for their exuberance and will no longer chase players across the map.
* Fixed a typo in Melanie Dreamdancer's secondary name.

UI AND SETTINGS

* Fixed a bug preventing crafting material tooltips from displaying properly.


ITEMS

* Essences from Raid Rifts now require Cosmic Triggers instead of Stellar Triggers to upgrade, as do certain jewelry items found in Vostigar Peaks.
* The Uttila Resistance quartermaster now sells Cosmic Triggers for 4500 Captured Intel.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...ml#post5316755

[Slipmat]

The new vendor for those Prize Tickets introduced in 4.2 should be active after today's hotfix in NA, early tomorrow morning for EU, all in hotfix #3

RIFT 4.2: Hotfix #3 8/2/2017

GENERAL

* Offline guild members can once again be promoted, demoted or kicked, no matter when they last logged in.


RIFT STORE & SERVICES

* The prize ticket store is here! Save up your tickets to buy mounts, upgrade components, bags, ascended items, and more! Check out the new tab in the Store!
* Prize Tickets are now account wide! In order to populate a correct total, please log into all characters who have earned them. Upon logging in, that character's Prize Tickets will be added to your account’s total.


SOULS

PRIMALIST

* Primalists may now properly queue for dungeons as a support.

PREDATOR

* Primal Fear: Now correctly places a debuff icon on targets who are stunned. This is only a buff icon change.
* Several damage bonuses provided by this soul have been adjusted to reduce their impact in other souls.
* Final Moment and Blindside have had their PVP damage reduced.


DUNGEONS & RAIDS

QUEEN'S GAMBIT CHRONICLE

* Fixed an issue in which players who enter through the portal could get stuck inside the instance.

TARTARIC DEPTHS NORMAL

* Fixed a bug where Tarjulia and the Council of Fate enrage timers were not working as intended.


CURRENCY CHANGES

* Commendations of Renown and Marks of Notoriety no longer drop. Any existing Commendations and Marks can be turned in for Notoriety as they always have.
* Sigils of Valor can be purchased with Affinity once per day.
* A Sigil of Valor can be redeemed in the Rift Store for Writs of Notoriety (Boosts >> Notoriety).
* Sigils of Valor now sometimes comes from Instant Adventure boss fights and rarely from zone events.


INSTANT ADVENTURE

* The lvl 70 weekly Instant Adventure quest “Planar Assault” is now credited for any Celestial Adventure completed.
* All boss fights and close Rift adventures grant Planar Defense Force notoriety.
* Celestial Adventures require a minimum level of 65 to join.


ZONES AND EVENT

VOSTIGAR PEAKS

* Story Quests: Companions will now respawn for story conversations during main story quests.
* Weekly Quests: These now properly reward players on completions after the first turn in.
* Weekly Quest: Enemy of My Enemy Is…: This quest now more accurately keeps track of progress week to week.
* Quests: Playing Doctor, Watch your Step: Made the quest objectives increment for players in a party, and slightly increased the respawn rates.
* Tenon Fortress: Reduced the outgoing damage of the Legion Infantry.
* Primus Augur is now above ground and ready for action.
* Glued various floating object to the ground with industrial strength stonetouched epoxy.
* Quest: The Maze of Steel: Weapons of Mass Destruction no longer get in the way of dramatic character moments.
* Quest: Cracking the Mirror: Exiting the Simulacrum Factory early on in the quest will no longer prevent re-entry.
* Quest: Prophecy of Peace: Added a map indicator for the first objective.
* Daily Quest: Tank and Spank: This quest can now be completed as intended.
* Daily Quest: Deploy SIMBOT: Implemented a possible fix preventing players from being able to complete this quest.
* Updated several quest item tooltips.
* Fixed issues with several quests that could get stuck uncompleted or cause substantial delays for players.
* Entrances to Crucia’s underground facilities are now denoted on the minimap for quests that send you into them.
* The Legion has settled on the appropriate spelling of Auxilia for their conscription forces.


ART

* Fixed the visual effects for the Shiny Wisps of Zoom mount.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...ml#post5317911

[Cobaltius]

Looks like they nerfed Predator into uselessness.

[Slipmat]

The smallest "hotfix" ever but for the sake of completeness here it is.

RIFT 4.2: Hotfix #4 8/3/2017

GENERAL

* Fixed a server crash.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...ml#post5318058

[lokoma]

so glad they Fixed a server crash....even better for it to be patch note Worthy

[Jaylock]

The smallest "hotfix" ever but for the sake of completeness here it is.



Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...ml#post5318058

Slipmat, while its cool that you post all this official stuff about rift, and im sure its helpful to some people, i have to ask, do you work for Trion Worlds?

[Slipmat]

As if the Elites at Crucia's base weren't bad enough right now, seems they've gotten reinforced in Hotfix #5

RIFT 4.2: Hotfix #5 8/9/2017

SOULS

* Eternal Weapons - Raid Buffs now have a cooldown of 5 minutes.


PRIMALIST

PRIMAL LORD

* Fixed some missing sounds on primal lord abilities.

VULCANIST

* Damage of Legendary Molten Wave reduced substantially.

ROGUE

MARKSMAN

* Legendary Deadeye Shot critical bonus damage reduced to 3.5x. Changed where this damage bonus is calculated to reduce its impact in certain cases.
* Legendary Calculated shot now also increases the damage of Channels by 20% while active.


ZONES AND EVENTS

* Zone Event: Feeding Frenzy: Fixed an issue where players would not get the achievement for completing the zone event.
* Raid Rift: Decay of Ahnket: Fixed Xerrax’s ability “Soul Rip” so that it cannot be reflected back on him.
* Raid Rifts: Egg of Destruction & Decay of Ahnket: Added new sounds.


SANCTUM

* That amazing Statue in Tavril Plaza is now visible from across the bridge.

VOSTIGAR PEAKS

* Quest: The Queen of Suns: Asha, Orphiel, and The Queen of Suns now gather just outside of Kilcual only when defending Kilcual from the Storm Legion rather than forever.
* Quest: Power to the Legion: Fixed an issue that prevented a number of players from being able to see the power cells.
* Vostigar Peaks Jetpack Quests now have a minimum level of 70.
* Quest: Maze of Steel: Added new sounds.
* Quest: Source Decay: Bronze Goo in the Source Collectors should regain its form over time. That is if it doesn’t deconstruct all of the comet first. Best not to think on it too much.
* Quest: Return to Sender: Fixed an issue with Return to Sender that prevented towers from respawning after having the tracking device placed on them.
* Isabella at the Magician’s Tower no longer plays a subtle prank with the EULA on her porticulum master’s fine print.
* The citizens of Uttila have learned new, cognitive patterns and created their own postal service: there is now a mailbox near the Uttilan faction vendor. Send letters to all your friends and let them know!
* The Storm Legion has reinforced the defenses of the Maze of Steel, Fort Onocro, and Fort Strutio. Enter with caution.
* Updated the population of the Forgotten Forest to account for instant adventure mobs!


LOOKING FOR RAID

* Queens Foci is now up in the Looking For Raid menu 100% of the time.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...-9-2017-a.html

[Slipmat]

It's back to playing solo again in Vostigar Peaks as Asha and Orphiel will no longer help you once you've finished the storyline.

RIFT 4.2: Hotfix #6 8/16/2017

SOULS

WARRIOR

PARAGON

* Paragons will no longer incorrectly benefit from the talent "Unleashed" without putting points into it.


DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

MIND OF MADNESS

* The achievement “The Prosecution Ripostes” now implicitly indicates on how to actually trigger this achievement.

TARTARIC DEPTHS

* Malannon: Added additional sounds to this fight.


ZONES AND EVENTS

* Rift assaults in the planes of Fire and Life have returned to Celestial Adventures!

GEDLO BADLANDS

* Instant Adventure: Tools of the Trade: Now functions better for those that have also done the discovery quest of the same name.

SCATHERRAN FOREST

* Fixed an issue where players could not turn in quests in Scatherran Forest if they had also completed the quest, “The Shadow Market”.

VOSTIGAR PEAKS

* Asha and Orphiel no longer spawn as companions in The Front after completing the main story arc.
* Fixed an issue that caused the colossi in Vostigar Peaks to not show on the map for a week-- rather than a day-- after brutally murdering them for their shiny loot.
* Zone Events: Fixed an issue where players who’d only contribute by killing the final boss were not getting rewards
* Zone Event: The Tempest Rises: Fixed a bug where a cannon at the forgotten forest would spawn out of line of sight. Thanks go out to Aileen for this report!
* Quest: We Can Build It: Fixed an issue where quest items would not go into a player’s quest inventory.
* Quests: The following daily quests have been modified to better share progress for players in a party: “Leaving the Door Open”, “Mind the Mines”, “Return to Sender”. “Ashes to Ashes”, “Death From Above”, and “Ritual, Begone!”.


ITEM

* Fixed the amount of Source Fuel needed for the Jetpack mount’s temp abilities to match the tooltip.
* Equipped planar fragments now prompt you if you try to recycle them.

PVP AND WARFRONTS

* Fixed an exploit that allowed you to see the name of the random warfront that popped for you prior to joining it.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...ml#post5319609

[Slipmat]

If you enjoyed wearing your buttpack mount as a female Bahmi, the bad news is that it got fixed in this latest Hotfix #7.

RIFT 4.2: Hotfix #7 8/23/2017

GENERAL

* Fixed an issue where Jetpack become stuck at incorrect area for Bahmi Female characters.

RIFT STORES AND SERVICES
* A new Power Pack is available in the RIFT Store! Pick it up today and unlock the Nightmare Razorback mount!

DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

TARTARIC DEPTHS NORMAL

* Fixed an edge case where the VFX for Drahknar’s “Fiery Pool” ability could persist on a player.

ZONES AND EVENTS

ASHENFALL

* Quest: Lost Messenger: A shade of Ambriel will now be at the turn in location if you have started any of the Ashenfell questline.

SCATHERRAN FOREST

* Quest: Shadow Market: Turning in quests in Scatherran Forest while on this quest will no longer cause a continuity error that erases Tasuil from existence.

VOSTIGAR PEAKS

* Fixed an issue where invasions would run into Tenebrean Schism and Ashenfell.

XARTH MIRE

* Invasions that cleave a bloody path of destruction through Bailghol will no longer get hung up on imaginary opponents.
* Quest: Circle of the Thirteen: Fixed an issue with pet healing skills affecting the Skub companion, and not the player’s pet.

ITEMS

* Marks of Prophecy can no longer be runebroken.
* Opie Whistle now has an 8-second activation time and can only be used within Vostigar Peaks.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...ml#post5320441

[Slipmat]

There was no hotfix last week in case you thought i was slacking
Back to business as usual now as we got one this week in the form of Hotfix #8, some interesting additions and fixes, going to be fun to see how they do the Instant Adventures in Vostigar Peaks, will probably have to avoid the Elite areas

RIFT 4.2: Hotfix #8 9/6/2017

UI AND SETTINGS

* Fixed a bug preventing players from seeing another player's icon in the raid frame if they went out of line of sight.
* Fixed an issue where you would sometimes fall through the world when changing video settings.


INSTANT ADVENTURE

* Adventure groups in the Featured Adventure and Intrepid Adventure queues will experience more variety of instant adventures.
* Vostigar Peaks has been added to the Instant Adventures zone rotation! Hit [.] and select Celestial Adventures to get in on the action.


ZONES AND EVENTS

* Fixed an issue with Zone Event notifications not properly displaying. Now, when the event is starting on a shard different from your home shard, the red alert text and flashing icon properly show in the UI and on the map.
* Raid Rift: Iron Legion: Fixed a bug where the slow aura could get stuck on you.

ALITTU

* Queens Foci: The weekly quest giver and the Mages of Alittu Quartermaster have now taken up camp in Camp Quagmire.
Quest: Through Hell and Back Again: Clarified in the quest that it must be completed in LFR difficulty.

GEDLO BADLANDS

* Quest: The Battle of Saint Taranis and the Echo of the Battle of Saint Taranis: Fixed an issue where sometimes Garn would not spawn in Saint Taranis.

MOONSHADE HIGHLANDS

* Fixed floating grass around the Moonshade Highlands porticulum.

TERMINUS

* Quest: Gathering Power: Removed the ability to interact with Sourcestone Ore in Regent’s Fall. (This was mistakenly not removed in the Terminus revamp of yore!).


SOULS

MAGE

NECROMANCER

* Soul Bond should no longer incorrectly fall off your pet if it moves more than 30m from you.

PYROMANCER

* Wildfire Procs will no longer show too many reactive icons.


PRIMALIST

MYSTIC

* Bind Life/Air Lash now correctly describe what focus state they require to be cast.

PRIMAL LORD

* Legendary Scything Strike has been adjusted to provide a reduced bonus, and its location in the math has changed so that it will be less potent when stacked with other effects.


ROGUE

BLADEDANCER

* Side Steps will now correctly come off cooldown when it says that it does.

SABOTEUR

* Time Bomb and Charges should now work correctly after dying.


DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

CHRONICLE OF ATTUNEMENT

* The Vigil’s plan to stop Shadavarian by dropping a giant statue on his head did not go according to prophecy. Therefore they have removed their artwork from the Ceremony of Attunement chronicle.


ITEMS

* The Eye of Omnox trinket will no longer incorrectly be triggered by abilities other than damaging and healing ones. It will also no longer be overwritten when multiple players proc it at once.
* Tok Box can now only be used in either Allitu or Tok’s Proving Ground.
* Eternal: Hellion's Stompers should now correctly activate automatically when equipped and not persist forever.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...ml#post5321874

[Edge-]

* /suicide will now successfully deal enough damage to kill the player.

They should really think about changing the command for this, that's a pretty bad choice. At least Secret World uses /reset for this kind of thing.

[Eleccybubb]

Adventure groups in the Featured Adventure and Intrepid Adventure queues will experience more variety of instant adventures.

Bet it still rolls Hammerknell in Intrepid.

- - - Updated - - -

They should really think about changing the command for this, that's a pretty bad choice. At least Secret World uses /reset for this kind of thing.

Is a tad extreme. I mean yeah suicide is the correct term but well....

[Slipmat]

They should really think about changing the command for this, that's a pretty bad choice. At least Secret World uses /reset for this kind of thing.

Apparently it's a Dev only command which got put in the notes by mistake, didn't work for ordinary players so it's gone from the patch notes now.

[Orange Joe]

They should really think about changing the command for this, that's a pretty bad choice. At least Secret World uses /reset for this kind of thing.

I don't understand this word obsession some people have. Does it really matter when in the end they both mean the same thing?

[Slipmat]

Not too often we get to see the Patch notes before it's applied so here we go with Hotfix #9.

RIFT 4.2: Hotfix #9 9/13/2017

Note: These notes will not be live until tomorrow's update.

GENERAL

* Notoriety purchase limits are now character based instead of region based.
* Fixed the overly bright sky in the Volcanic Playground dimension.

ZONES AND EVENTS

* Fixed an issue with some lower level zone events giving lower level currency to lvl 65+ players that were properly mentored for the event.
* Characters in Intrepid Instant Adventures are now able respawn within the IA without problems.

SHIMMERSAND

* Quest: Follow the Coin: Clarified in the quest text that the quest must be completed in the dungeon on Standard difficulty

VOSTIGAR PEAKS

* Assaulting forts during zone events should no longer occasionally reward low level essences.
Instant Adventures in Vostigar Peaks will now count towards the weekly quest "Planar Assault" as they should.
* Daily Quests: Fixed an issue with daily quests available from Erendel Danath resetting progress if not completed before the daily reset
* Instant Adventures in Vostigar Peaks will now properly contribute to the objectives for the Celestial Adventures weekly quest.

LOOKING FOR RAID

* Accepting the map invite for LFR if queued while as a premade inside of a raid will now properly teleport you to the correct map.
* Queuing for LFR again after completing LFR will now properly place your raid in a new instance of that map and teleport you to the entrance. However, from this point forward, you will be considered a premade, not an LFR raid.


SOULS

CLERIC

* Eternal Weapons now correctly allow spells to benefit from the bonus damage if they would push your mana below the threshold. Mana cost increase reduced from 100% to 10%.

MAGE

ARCHON

* Arcane Aegis will now correctly grant the appropriate amount of armor to all affected players. Tooltip will now correctly describe the amount of armor granted.

DOMINATOR

* Death's Edict now correctly triggers Dominant Personality and Swift Control.

ELEMENTALIST

* Weathered will now correctly increase the health of pets.

NECROMANCER

* Legendary Condemn has been reworked. It no longer grants stacks of Deathly Calling when it expires. It instead deals increased damage. It still increases the stack cap of Deathly Calling to 10.

WARLOCK

* Legendary Neddra's Grasp should now correctly apply Lingering Torment in all cases.

PRIMALIST

FARSEER

* After several…unfortunate side effects on test subjects during experiments with Materialize Soul, it has lost the ability to be cast while dead.

MYSTIC

* Removed an extra damage number from Bind Life and Air Lash. This is only a tooltip change. Functionality remains unchanged.

PRESERVER

* Points in Roaring Rapids no longer incorrectly also grant the benefit of Nature's Keeper.
* Cleanse now correctly describes how it affects the Focus bar when cast.

PRIMAL LORD

* Legendary Scything Strike can no longer be triggered on targets more than 35m away.

VULCANIST

* Legendary Molten Wave no longer incorrectly has too large a range.
* Ethereal Beam has had its damage in PVP reduced by roughly 50%.

ROGUE

SABOTEUR

* Removed Charge counter from targets when playing as Saboteur.
* Charges will now correctly restrict your explosives again.

TACTICIAN

* Torrents can now trigger weapon enhancements such as Silver Tip Munitions.

WARRIOR

PALADIN

* Touch of Life now notes in the tooltip that it has reduced effectiveness in PVP. This is only a tooltip change. Functionality remains unchanged.


ITEMS

* Weekly login gifts no longer have a chance to drop lock box keys.
* Level 60-65 Mercenary Equipment Caches will now give loot to players above level 65. Note that this will still be level 65 loot.
* The cosmetic cape “Sagum of Rain” has been added to the Uttila Resistance vendor at Glorified notoriety level.
* Added two new dimension items to the Uttila Resistance vendor.
* Reduced the recipe material cost for Blackthorn Burgers slightly.
* Fixed some missing wardrobe associations with a few in-game items.
* Opie got over her fear of Arkosian Hinterlands and Arjuros and these locations should no longer be a problem to teleport to.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...ml#post5322755

[Edge-]

* Weekly login gifts no longer have a chance to drop lock box keys.

That's for the Patron weekly rewards, correct? Because if so that's...not good.

[Eleccybubb]

That's for the Patron weekly rewards, correct? Because if so that's...not good.

Bit of a stupid thing to take away a weekly reward for being a monthly sub if you ask me.

What was wrong with them dropping a lock box key?

[Edge-]

Bit of a stupid thing to take away a weekly reward for being a monthly sub if you ask me.

What was wrong with them dropping a lock box key?

The cynic in me instantly jumps to monetization and declining revenue, but I'd be curious as to if there was an actual reason that they gave elsewhere. Though I'm totally ready for it, if it exists, to be as hilariously cringy as when they tried to present the removal of free players ability to store up 7 days of dungeon charges/queue for specific dungeons as somehow beneficial for players overall : /