Patch 1.7 Hotfixes

[Slipmat]

With update 1.7 dropped Trion have wasted no time in refining it already.....

Warriors and Pyro's should be in a happy zone once more

RIFT 1.7 Hotfix #1 - 8:00am PDT 2/3/11 [NA] - 2:00am GMT 3/2/12 [EU]

GENERAL
* Corrected some items that were changed to Bind on Pickup that were previously Bind on Equip, and fixed several items whose required level to equip was inadvertently raised.
* If you are currently over the Favor cap, you can now regain spent Favor when returning an item during the refund buyback period.
* Mobs in Expert dungeons and first-tier Raids and Slivers have powered up and now deal increased damage and have more health.
* Increased hit points slightly on standard population mobs from levels 42-52.
* Augments have returned to providing the same bonuses on crafted items as they did in 1.6. Existing augmented items should be automatically updated.
* Mathosia: A Dim, Dark Eye: King Aedraxis should have his usual appearance back.
* Fixed the occasional doubled message when gaining certain updated Achievements.
* Using /resetuitodefaults should no longer cause a client crash.


PVP
* Reduced the amount of Valor provided by PvP armor sets by 7.5%.


SOULS

CHAMPION
* Weapon Specialization: Now increases damage by 0.4% per point spent in Champion, and no longer has a max damage bonus cap.
* Deadly Strikes: Now enhances damage by 11-33%, increased from 6-18%.

PARAGON
* Teaching of the Five Rings: Now increases damage by 0.4% per point spent in Paragon, and no longer has a max damage bonus cap.

PYROMANCER
* Glyphs of Power: Increased base bonus to 10% from 5%.

RIFTBLADE
* Rift Fury: Now increases damage by 0.4% per point spent in Riftblade, and no longer has a max damage bonus cap.


DUNGEONS, CHRONICLES, SLIVERS, AND RAIDS
* Bosses in Runic Descent and Foul Cascade that come from Rifts are engaging properly again.
* Caduceus Rise: Updated mob placement to make pulls slightly easier.
* Greenscale's Blight: Fixed the Prince Hylas loot tables.
* River of Souls: Chains of Death: The Achievement 'In Service of the Soulstream' will now be granted at the correct time, instead of at the incorrect time, which was not correct.
* River of Souls: Chains of Death: Increased the priority of the 'Essence of the Endless' disguise so that it doesn't drop off when using other disguise/shapeshift items.


WEDDINGS
* Wedding Rings now get converted into Used Wedding Rings if they are equipped at the time of divorce.
* Taking a wedding gift no longer prevents guests from using the forge at a Dwarf wedding ceremony.
* Eth reception guests now show up *after* the ceremony, instead of before it.
* Cancelling while taking a wedding gift no longer prevents you from receiving more gifts.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/official-...3-2-12-eu.html

[Jargan]

I saw a lot of people complaining about how rushed the patch felt. Next day, hotfixes.

[Fencers]

The Warrior changes are nice. Still doesn't make up for the 6 months of punishment we got for 3 weeks of brokenness, but nice all the same.

[Primalthirst]

If they didn't rush the patch they wouldn't need a hotfix

[Tarien]

No way Trion can win on this. You all positively gush about how fast they bring out content and how quickly they react to things, but God forbid they make a mistake and fix it two days later, then they're stupid. Really? You try maintaining the code for a game this big. It's not *nearly* as simple as some of you might think it is, and it only gets worse as they add more patches to it.

So, you can enjoy the fast pace, where they fix stuff quickly if they do mess it up, or, they can slow down and take more time, and then some of you would be unhappy about that. Your choice. Either way, Trion can't seem to win with some of you.

Why do most of your posts seem like an attack on posters?

Primal is bang to rights about this particular patch. They introduced a ton of changes and then 24hrs later announced they were going live. They've never done that before, even with the rapid deployment of patches we usually have at least a week to test changes and feed back any bugs or thoughts. So when we all cried 'You can't go live 24hrs after making these changes' and they do and all hell breaks loose, yes we are quite right to make comments like Primal's.

All of this aside, even though the patch was rushed I feel quite confident that things will be hotfixed within a few days, already we have one patch out and I expect another soon. Even at their worst Trion positively shine compared to other developers in the industry.

EDIT: No sooner have I said it, that it happens: http://community.riftgame.com/en/201...00am-pst-2312/

[Slipmat]

Still rolling out some hotfixes, here comes a fairly sizable hotfix#2

RIFT 1.7 Hotfix #2 - 8:00am PDT 2/8/11 [NA] - 2:00am GMT 9/2/12 [EU]

GENERAL
* Added Guild Bankers to the Manufactory in Meridian and Bahralt Street in Sanctum.
* The Guild Roster tab now has a checkbox to show/hide members logged in on the mobile app.
* Guild quests that require killing Guardian or Defiant players now update properly against Mercenaries.
* Increased the Planar Attunement level cap.
* Fixed a few Master Craftsman's Mark recipes that were not Bind on Pickup.
* Fixed temporary rune effect icons that appeared on your character even though the item was in your inventory.
* Item: Diona's Greaves no longer have Focus.
* Characters should no longer seem to be sinking into the ground in some situations.
* Artifact collections that have 3 lines worth of potential artifacts once again show up properly in the Artifact UI.
* Zone Event notices should now be properly broadcast on European shards.


PVP
* Fixed a case where you would sometimes see system messages intended for the opposite faction.
* Pets below max rank now only gain 2% max reduction in damage taken from players by inheriting Valor from their owners.
* Costume version of Clairvoyant's Shoulderpads are now available from Templar Sanzo in Sanctum.
* Players who did not have their PvP Souls properly removed should no longer see them.
* Fixed a bad interaction between mind controlled players and ability restrictions due to PvP flagging that shouldn't have been restricted.
* Time Remaining display in Warfronts no longer uses abbreviated times.


SOULS

CLERIC
* Planar Attunement - War: Overload: Will no longer prevent the character from dying when the buff is active.

JUSTICAR
* Reparation: Will now properly heal other players who have Mien of Aggression active.

WARDEN
* Healing Flood: Reduced the amount of healing done in PvP.
* Healing Spray: Fixed to heal for the correct amount per interval.


ROGUE
* Falling damage should no longer cause stealth to break.
* Planar Attunement - Earth: Sword Mastery: Fixed a bug where the DPS bonus was not applying correctly to offhand attacks.

ASSASSIN
* Slip Away: Fixed a bug where the player could get taken out of stealth after using Slip Away.


ZONES

CADUCEUS RISE
* Master: Baron Gerf'Ish: Fixed an issue with the Harmful Arrogance aura.
* Master: Faultwalker Alraj: Wicked Eruption now deals less damage.
* Fixed the mob levels on some population and quest mobs in Standard and Expert modes.

CHRONICLE: RIVER OF SOULS: Chains of Death
* Exiting and then re-entering this chronicle after you've completed the main quest will no longer despawn active treasure chests or rare bosses.

HAMMERKNELL
* Akylios has gone back to dropping the number of items he did pre-1.7.

KING'S BREACH
* Expert: Flesheater Autoch: Increased cooldown on Wounding Charge. Decreased Autoch's damage output overall.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/official-...9-2-12-eu.html

[Primalthirst]

I knew he dropped too many items when we killed him this week!

All good changes, especially the Overload and KB ones, those were annoying as all hell.

[Runintowalls]

* Characters should no longer seem to be sinking into the ground in some situations.

awesome

I knew he dropped too many items when we killed him this week!

LOL

[Slipmat]

While we all drool over Nebula and that armoured spider mount, here's a new Hotfix to keep us happy

Can't say i'll miss doing my "Archaeology" for that Calling the Gnars daily....

RIFT 1.7 Hotfix #3 - 8:00am PDT 2/9/11 [NA] - 2:00am GMT 10/2/12 [EU]


GENERAL
* Caduceus Rise: Master: The achievement for defeating all bosses in Master Caduceus Rise is now achievable!
* Ember Isle: Calling the Gnar: Reduced the objective count on this quest.
* Warfront chat now 'sticks' as the default chat channel after chatting with /wf, similar to how other chat channels stay default after used.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/official-...0-2-12-eu.html

[antonatsis]

well of course it is rushed...thats why so many hot fixes.
Thankfully ohter mmo's that take months to release patches with patchnotes the size of the above hotfix,dont have problems and dont fix anything after the patch...since they spent so much time in the patch right...oh wait...

[Slipmat]

Just in time for all you lovers on St. Valentine's Day...here's a new Hotfix, number 4 in the series

RIFT 1.7 Hotfix #4 - 1:00am PDT 2/13/11 [NA] - 2:00am GMT 14/2/12 [EU]

GENERAL
* Target Nearest Enemy and Target Nearest Friendly now do exactly that, instead of conflicting with the normal targeting area.
* Wedding instance items are no longer used up if you choose to not enter the instance.
* A married character that transfers shards is now automatically divorced on transfer.
* Sacred Heirloom of Eth, Sunken Heart of Eons: Effect no longer hits NPCs.
* Older versions of Twitching Spider Leg can be traded again.
* Trial: PvP: Trial characters can now enter the Library of the Runemaster when available.
* Additional server-side preparation for tomorrow's wedding event and future World Events.


ZONES
* Ember Isle: Increased the number of Rift tears available, and increased the delay before they automatically open into Rifts.
* Ember Isle: Rifts now award Sourcewell Fragments.

* Caduceus Rise: Expert/Master: Reduced the movement speed bonus from each stack of Coalgut's Simmering Rage.
* Caduceus Rise: Master: Fixed a visual effect bug causing Coalgut's Frozen Crystals to indicate a larger radius than they actually hit.
* Caduceus Rise: Master: Reduced health of Coalgut's Frozen Crystals.
* Caduceus Rise: Master: Reduced damage from Faultwalker Alraj's Wicked Eruption.

* Chronicle: River of Souls: The treasure chest awarded for subjugating Gaurath now appears at the dungeon entrance - where you are teleported to via Zareph's portal - rather than next to Alsbeth and her impenetrable bubble of death.

[Slipmat]

Still time to drool over a Hotfix before the Carnival arrives in town...

RIFT 1.7 Hotfix #5 - 8:00am PST 2/21/12 [NA] - 2:00am GMT 22/2/12 [EU]

GENERAL
* Item tooltips now show the stat impact comparison to the item you have equipped.
* Item tooltips also now update properly when you have the tooltip showing when you right-click to equip an item.
* Instant Adventure: Potential fix for the Jerra Loves Hillsborough adventure trying to auto-complete when you reach the end and the vampire lord has already been slain.
* Weddings: More wedding presents for everyone! The Gifted buff now lasts for 1 hour instead of 2.
* Added a /stuck command that brings up the existing Customer Service stuck window to allow you to teleport back to a graveyard.
* Using the Writ of the Ironclad (granted for having attached an authenticator to your account) once again grants the correct title.


WARDROBE
* The 'No Wardrobe'-wardrobe now allows you to set the visibility of your main equipment like other wardrobe slots.
* This 'No Wardrobe' pane shows what items you're wearing in your regular equipment slots, and doesn't allow you to change equipment from this view.
* The top of the Wardrobe UI now shows which Wardrobe you are currently viewing.
* Fixed the Wardrobe visibility checkboxes having a super large clickable area.


PVP/WARFRONTS
* Prismatic Glory will no longer be removed when teleporting.
* Fixed a case where multiple PvP Rifts could be opened in separate zones.


SOULS
* Channeled abilities can no longer be cleansed off the target to prevent them from hitting.
* Rogue and Mage ability tooltips have been updated to hopefully be simpler, but more accurate.

ASSASSIN
* Expose Weakness: No longer increases the damage of Spotter's Order, Illuminate, and Coda of Jeopardy.

DOMINATOR
* Degeneration: Fixed an issue where this would not purge the target if they were immune to damage.


ZONES
* Caduceus Rise [Expert]: Fixed a bug that could prevent players from using the zone-out portal from Upper Caduceus Rise.
* Iron Pine Peak PvP Quest: Construct Charging Stations, Concentrated Source: Fixed Firebrand Steelclaws occasionally despawning during combat.
* Terminus/Mathosia: Fixed an issue preventing characters from leaving the Sanctuary of Rebirth or the Life Factory if they logged out before exiting the building.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/official-...2-2-12-eu.html

[Puremallace]

GENERAL
* Item tooltips now show the stat impact comparison to the item you have equipped.

^ TOR feature

[Tarien]

GENERAL
* Item tooltips now show the stat impact comparison to the item you have equipped.

^ TOR feature

^ but previously a WoW feature, and before that it was in a WoW addon for years

Doesn't really matter, it's a great feature, glad to see it.

[Fluffygong]

Source: Source!

RIFT 1.7 Hotfix #6 - 8:00am PST 2/29/12 [NA] - 2:00am GMT 29/2/12 [EU]

GENERAL
* Ember Isle can no longer be accessed by characters under level 48. Characters currently in Ember Isle below this level will be teleported back to their home city.
* Updated the way Rifts and Invasions track contribution so you should be more reliably rewarded for participating.
* A number of random Bind On Equip Rift drops that incorrectly had no level requirements to equip now actually do.
* Various fixes to Vote Kick while in a raid-converted group in LFG or Instant Adventure.
* Using /target with a partial name now prefers to select living targets over dead ones.
* Instant Adventure: Jerra Loves Hillsborough: This adventure should no longer fail to complete when you kill Androj too quickly.
* Guardian wedding instance is now accessible by RIFT Lite accounts.
* Gold Wedding Rings are now able to be equipped by RIFT Lite players.


WORLD EVENT
* Piñatas that drop Hammerknell artifacts now drop a more appropriate amount of them - not multiples of the same item.
* Fixed a bug allowing characters to receive too many beads from grey-con Piñatas.
* Made some small tweaks to Piñata loot to balance out the relative frequency of 'bonus' drops.


ZONES, DUNGEONS, RAIDS
* Zone Events in Ember Isle, Stillmoor, Shimmersand, and Iron Pine Peak are now aware of each other, and only one high-level zone event will be active at a time.
* PvP Quests obtained and completed within Port Scion as a Mercenary will once again grant Notoriety rewards.
* Caduceus Rise [Master]: The damage of the general population's Furious Shout has been reduced.
* Ember Isle: There are now 'breadcrumb' quests in Sanctum and Meridian to point players toward Ember Isle at level 50.
* Fall of Lantern Hook [Expert]: Maelforge is back to looking like his old self again.
* Hammerknell: Akylios: Tidal waves during the later phases of the encounter no longer knock players back.
* Hammerknell: Akylios: Added on-screen text warnings to Akylios' breath attacks.
* Hammerknell: Akylios: The damage over time component of Mind Decay now ticks half as quickly as it previosly did.
* Hammerknell: Inwar Darktide: Dead Water is now a Curse, and cleansable by abilities that remove Curses.


SOULS
* Justicar: Healer's Creed: Now with 100% more WORKING.
* Sentinel: Banish: Tooltip now properly states the ability deals Life damage, not Death.

[Khelendros]

I'm pretty supportive of Trion, but I cannot support those Akylios nerfs. I understand nerfing content to allow progression especially with Infernal Dawn coming but removing entire mechanics from the Akylios fight? If I were the dev that designed that fight I would be so pissed. I feel horrible for the guilds who were 10/11. They need to revert those changes and go about it another way. They should never ever remove mechanics wholesale from a fight. I don't think even Blizzard does that. Sad.

[Primalthirst]

These Akylios changes make me die a little inside.

Nerfing content is an accepted and necessary process but I cannot condone removal of the fights defining mechanic whilst it is still the pinnacle of raiding in the game.

If these changes occurred the day ID was released I would be far less concerned.

[Puremallace]

Not to point out the obvious, but so far there is this:

1. Flicker
2. Way of the mountain
3. Big ass addon that flashes blue and tells you the waves are coming

Weren't people essentially ignoring the waves anyways? This really seems like a pity nerf and some guilds out there must be stuck on this.

Anyways 12 pages of pissed of people and other people telling them to calm down lol

http://forums.riftgame.com/rift-gene...lios-nerf.html

btw the encounter got this nerf 6 months in. Go see some of the Dragonsoul nerfs if you want to see pissed off hardcores lol

[Primalthirst]

I was one of those pissed off posters.

I don't fully trust my Flicker, I dodge like a boss.

Dragonsoul nerfs pissed off regular raiders, I like to hold Trion to a higher standard than Blizzard.

[Fencers]

This is why if you don't kill it before nerfs it doesn't matter.