Rift 3.0 - Hotfixes

[Lathais]

Really not liking how Trion is integrating the cash shop into more and more of the progression systems in the game this expansion.

i think I am now done considering going back to Rift. I think I am done with MMOs in general for a while as this seems to be the kind of direction most are going lately.

[Edge-]

i think I am now done considering going back to Rift. I think I am done with MMOs in general for a while as this seems to be the kind of direction most are going lately.

Eh, there are still a number that aren't doing this type of thing. TERA is still quite solid with its business model, so is Aion (NA, at least). Then there's stuff like TSW/GW2 which have cash shops which aren't bad.

But yeah, I'm not a fan of the direction Trion has been going for a while now. During the first few years of Rift I was absolutely one of their most vocal supporters, as I felt they were essentially the "gold standard" for how a company should support its game and community. But ever since things started blowing up in their face (Defiance tanking, End of Nations being a giant burning pit of money, etc.), they've taken a dramatic turn. I mean, it's expected, but it's still disappointing as hell : (

[Fencers]

I do not mind the Rift cash shop. Though I rarely play since NT due to disinterest. Rift is still well made but it's rather ho-hum. Nothing truly interesting or exciting.

The game for me is an almost perfect parallel to Lord of the Rings Online; well made game, not terribly exciting development or design. It functions as it should for the most part with little overly remarkable, controversial or press worthy.

[Lathais]

Eh, there are still a number that aren't doing this type of thing. TERA is still quite solid with its business model, so is Aion (NA, at least). Then there's stuff like TSW/GW2 which have cash shops which aren't bad.

But yeah, I'm not a fan of the direction Trion has been going for a while now. During the first few years of Rift I was absolutely one of their most vocal supporters, as I felt they were essentially the "gold standard" for how a company should support its game and community. But ever since things started blowing up in their face (Defiance tanking, End of Nations being a giant burning pit of money, etc.), they've taken a dramatic turn. I mean, it's expected, but it's still disappointing as hell : (

Did not like Tera when I played it, nor Aion. TSW was okish but was not a fan of GW2 at all.

You also forgot to mention ArcheAge. While not entirely Trions fault as XLGames is the dev, they have had problem after problem in that game. Recently, some servers were down for 5 DAYS STRAIGHT.

[Edge-]

Looks like they either stealth nerfed minion artifact rewards, or their "fix" broke the fuck out of it. Because I went from getting 4+ artifacts for a 4-5 star completion, to just a single one. Yay.

[Slipmat]

This is probably the last hotfix of 2014, Minions are once again busily working away to give better rewards, the artifacts collecting has especially been looked at, all in Hotfix #11

RIFT 3.0: Hotfix #11 12/17/14

NA: 12/17/14 @ 7:30 AM PST
EU: 12/17/14 @ 11:00 PM GMT

FAE YULE

* PVP: Winning A Very Fae Yule Whitefall should now award a Marauder Supply Cache at level 65.
* The Gift of Giving achievement has been moved to the Legacy category.
* Merry Mink bells now have more jingle.
* The Fae Yule Grand Cape should now have the proper appearance for Mathosian females.
* The burning of Lumps of Coal should once again grant small amounts of Snowflakes.
* Quest: Lost Traveler: The Candle will no longer be removed from inventory prior to quest completion.
* The World Event window now links to the Fae Yule Achievements.
* Game maps now include markers for Fae Yule content.
* The Fae Yule companion pets (Goose, Mav and Ice Bird) should no longer aggro other NPCs.
* Nightmare rifts now count towards the completion of the daily quest "Rift Closed!"
* The Merry Mink mount is now properly flagged to zoom at 155%.

FAELIGHT SPARKLES

* Quest: Faelight Sparkle:
- The quest now displays the purple World Event quest icon.
- The quest now appears in the Fae Yule section of the quest log.
- Players can no longer accumulate more than 500 Faelight Sparkles at once. Any Faelight Sparkles above 500 are removed on turn-in.
* Completing Warfronts and Dungeons with no charges now grants 4 Faelight Sparkles, up from 1.
* Completing Dungeons and Warfronts with charges now grants 6 Faelight Sparkles.
* The Conquest Chest now grants 10 Faelight Sparkles.
* Faelight Sparkle payouts are no longer blocked by the Conquest blocker on accident.
* The Faelight Sparkle payout items now apply the ability to users even if they are dead.
* Added Small Faelight Sparkle caches to the following level 65 quests:
- Daily Raid Rift quests
- Weekly Nightmare Rift quest
- Weekly Instant Adventure quest


RIFT STORE AND SERVICES

* The Fae Yule Tree Staff and Snow Globe now have credit prices. (They can also be gifted!)
* Removed Radiant Infinity Cells as a requirement to upgrade the level 60 Necklaces in the World Event category.
* Level 65 Necklaces are now available in the World Event category.
* Boosted the power of the level 65 essences in the World Event category.
* Updated the text on the Fae Yule Bonus Boxes to more clearly reflect what can be expected when opening them!
* Fixed an issue with dropped and purchased Snow Ki Rin being 100% less Bound to Account then they should have been.


MINIONS

* Revamped Fae Yule Promotional Adventure Rewards!
* Fixed the Fae Yule minion adventures that were not displaying the correct reward art while the adventure was in-progress.
* Yulogon has gained expertise in assassination! Yulogon, Ivory and Atrophonius from the Fae Yule minion pack have become hardier and had their Stamina values improved.

GENERAL

* Fishing Artifacts from Nightmare Tide should now appear in the Auction House in the Fishing Artifact category instead of Normal.
* Artifacts from the Depths of Murder set should now appear in the Other Artifact category, instead of Quest category.
* Nightmare Rift artifacts should no longer have flavor text from Death Invasion artifacts.
* New Minion achievements have been added for completing additional adventures.


RIFT STORE AND SERVICES

* The Typhoon Edition of the Nightmare Tide Collector's Edition is now available in the RIFT Store for credit purchase.


SOULS

CLERIC

MASTERIES

* Divine Favor: Fixed an issue where Divine Favor was not recalculating its healing values when it procced additional heals.

CABALIST

* Mass Reversal: No longer affected by the Global Cooldown.


MAGE

DOMINATOR

* Reflective Presence: No longer affected by the Global Cooldown.
* Haunting Pain: The damage over time effects now count as cast time effects, rather than instant effects.

NECROMANCER

* Possesion:
- Reduced cooldown to 60 seconds, down from 120 seconds.
- Reduced duration to 15 seconds, down from 30 seconds.
- Abilities gained from Possession no longer replace the caster's ability bars, and instead appear in the temporary ability bar, to be used alongside most of the caster's abilities.
- Now prevents pet-summoning abilities from being cast.
* Putrify: No longer affected by the Global Cooldown.


ROGUE

MASTERIES

* Planar Rejuvenation: Fixed an issue where Planar Rejuvenation was not correctly affecting Necrotic Core after the hotfix.

ASSASSIN

* Poison Mastery: The bonus Weapon Damage and Attack Power have been increased to 3% per point, up from 2% per point up to 3% per point.


ZONES

* Achievement: Harmony of Heroes: Removed the experience requirement. Level 60+ players will now be able to close rifts in Mathosia, Brevane and Dusken without issue.
* The Golden Devourer: The Golden Mark now contains more information on the effect and lasts for 1 hour.

TARKEN GLACIAR

* Quest: The Goddess: Viewing the Visions of Fate will no longer knock players out of stealth.


DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES

* Nightmare Tide Expert Dungeons: Players must now kill at least one boss in a dungeon before requeuing.

GYEL FORTRESS

* Various bug fixes.

MOUNT SHARAX

* Fixed an issue where several Cleanse effects were not triggering the damage from Threngar’s Conduit of Martrodraum.
* Freezing Void can no longer be reflected.

NIGHTMARE COAST: EXPERT

* Exiting the dungeon after completion and re-entering no longer grants rewards.

SHADOW FROM THE BEYOND

* Fixed an issue causing the instance to not reset at the objective "Investigate below the monastery" after a soft reset.
* Fixed an edge case where players would not increment the chronicle quest.


ITEMS

* Corrupted Stave now upgrades to Corruption's Nerve.
* The Dreamsource greater essence now only works with single target damaging abilities.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...ml#post4972643

[Edge-]

So...does that mean they're un-stealth nerfing artifact mission rewards for minions?

[Lazuli]

I don't get the P2W QQ, the game is entirely free and I doubt they have that many subs.

Gotta make money somehow and you can still just grind the unlocks out with plat or void stones or w/e. Anything can be purchased or unlocked by playing the game, and it don't take thaaat long especially if you've been hoarding plat for ages.

I can see a concern for newer players but seeing these vets kick and scream P2W is kinda funny...

It takes me 10x longer to make gold in GW2 to exchange for gems, not that I would because it's a waste of time and their gem shop sucks major dicks but hey.. it could be worse in Rift.

Maybe someone could point out a better F2P MMO that isn't trying to stick their hands in your wallet 24/7 but I doubt it.

[Lathais]

I don't get the P2W QQ, the game is entirely free and I doubt they have that many subs.

Gotta make money somehow and you can still just grind the unlocks out with plat or void stones or w/e. Anything can be purchased or unlocked by playing the game, and it don't take thaaat long especially if you've been hoarding plat for ages.

I can see a concern for newer players but seeing these vets kick and scream P2W is kinda funny...

It takes me 10x longer to make gold in GW2 to exchange for gems, not that I would because it's a waste of time and their gem shop sucks major dicks but hey.. it could be worse in Rift.

Maybe someone could point out a better F2P MMO that isn't trying to stick their hands in your wallet 24/7 but I doubt it.

I did not see anyone mention P2W until you did. Fact remains, they are integrating the cash shop in to progression more and more. That's still not P2W, just Pay 2 get there faster. The thing is, IMO, progression should not be tied to the cash shop at all. Souls are one thing, equipment slot unlock are getting pretty bad, now the fact that you gotta have patron to increase weekly caps? Getting a bit over the top. Not P2W, no, but still. I mean sure, you can say you can buy it all with Plat but for some people, that's not an option. Personally, I have never been very good at making money in games. That's probably due to the fact that I want to log on, play and and log out. Not log on, spend time doing things I don't like(trying to find ways to make money) then logging out. Some of us have pretty limited time to play, after working 50+ hours a week then coming home and spending time with my daughter, that leaves me a couple hours to myself each night before bed. I like to keep caught up on some TV Shows and Anime as well as playing D&D a couple nights a week(DMing one game so need prep time as well), so that really cuts my playing time down. I'd rather not have to log in and say, sorry guys, can't raid tonight, gotta go farm.

So yeah, not P2W, but P2W at a reasonable pace. Prior to this expansion, the game was paced to play without having the sub, then if you got the sub, you got there faster. Now the game seems paced to play with having the sub and if you do not have it, you get there very slowly. Minor difference, I know, but it's there. On top of that, if I want to be able to raid, gotta have those equipment slots unlocked so either need to give up doing what I enjoy to farm or pay up, on top of the sub. It's just getting to be too much.

I can't point out another F2P MMO that is better either though. I realize F2P is the future of online gaming, it just seemed to me the way it was handled in SL was right and they are moving more towards wrong.

[Lazuli]

I prefer B2P being the future of online gaming rather than F2P. Usually people will at least pay the initial box price, and I would think that makes devs more money.

I think gamers these days expect far too much for free because F2P is popular now, but if devs don't make money then there is gonna be problems and if you ask me Trion is hurting when they integrate so much into cash shop.

I agree it is not cool but I must have got my threads mixed up or assumed you guys were with the P2W group. It is all over the official forums like the plague and everywhere I look Rift is apparently 'P2W' now.. lawl


PS: I love how Daglar is Rifts version of Ghostcrawler.

[Lathais]

I prefer B2P being the future of online gaming rather than F2P. Usually people will at least pay the initial box price, and I would think that makes devs more money.

B2P does not make more money, that's why so few games do it. Sub model is better for devs then B2P because in a sub model, like WoW or FFXIV, you buy the game then pay a sub too. How could B2P possibly make more money than that, unless they came out with practically required DLC weekly? GW2 and D3 are really the only B2P games that do well for themselves I can think of.

[Edge-]

B2P does not make more money, that's why so few games do it. Sub model is better for devs then B2P because in a sub model, like WoW or FFXIV, you buy the game then pay a sub too. How could B2P possibly make more money than that, unless they came out with practically required DLC weekly? GW2 and D3 are really the only B2P games that do well for themselves I can think of.

Because B2P games are monetized almost exactly like F2P? They have cash shops too, you know. And D3 isn't a MMO, it's simply an online game (with forced always online DRM), so not really B2P in the same sense as a MMO like GW1/2 or TSW.

[Lazuli]

Because B2P games are monetized almost exactly like F2P? They have cash shops too, you know. And D3 isn't a MMO, it's simply an online game (with forced always online DRM), so not really B2P in the same sense as a MMO like GW1/2 or TSW.

Exactly... glad someone got the picture.

[Lathais]

Because B2P games are monetized almost exactly like F2P? They have cash shops too, you know. And D3 isn't a MMO, it's simply an online game (with forced always online DRM), so not really B2P in the same sense as a MMO like GW1/2 or TSW.

Ah, have not played too many B2P MMOs. I realize D3 is not an MMO, never said it was. Just said it's the one of the only B2P games I know of that really does well for itself. I kinda forgot GW2 has a cash shop as well.

[Fencers]

Almost all B2P games do well for themselves... because the majority of games sold are B2P. It is the oldest, longest running and most collectively profitable method of video game sales.

Games like FF14 and World of Warcraft are technically both B2P and sub based. The latter payment method actually being a kind of lease for play time.

[Slipmat]

The turkey has been well and truly stuffed by now, Willy Wonka reruns have run out, time to get back to business with the first hotfix of 2015

RIFT 3.0: Hotfix #12 1/7/15

NA: 1/7/15 @ 7:30 AM PST
EU: 1/8/15 @ 2:00 AM GMT


GENERAL

* Fixed the text description of Sourcestone currency.


MINIONS

* Artifact adventures loot tables have been adjusted so that the likelihood of getting duplicate drops has been significantly reduced!
* The new adventures completed achievements have been fixed, affecting 10,000 completed adventures and above.
* Yulogon has gained expertise in assassination! Yulogon, Ivory and Atrophonius from the Fae Yule minion pack have become hardier and had their Stamina values improved.


SOULS

CLERIC

MASTERIES

* Divine Favor: Now recalculates its healing values when it procs additional heals.


ROGUE

MASTERIES

* Soul Steal: Hemophilia now correctly increases Assassin damage while active.

BARD

* Coda of Jeopardy: Now a static value equal to Corroded Defenses and Illuminate.

BLADEDANCER

* Dancing Steel and Untangle now work effectively against debilitate effects.


WARRIOR

MASTERIES

* Deliberate Strikes: No longer increase channeled and cast time ability damage. This was a leftover from its original design.

BEASTMASTER

* Spotter's Call: Is now a static value equal to Corroded Defenses and Illuminate.

PARAGON

* Death Touch: No longer deals a variable amount of damage.

REAVER

* Fester: Can now be applied to the same mob by multiple Warriors.
Dire Corruption: Now affected by Precision Strikes

RIFTBLADE

* Blade of the Ascended: No longer purgable.


ZONES AND EVENTS

* Water rifts in the Plane of Water should no longer have a chance to have a rare spawn of a Planarch.
* The Golden Devourer: Fixed a typo in the ability description of The Golden Mark.

NIGHTMARE RIFTS

* Epic and higher quality Nightmare Caches now always contain at least 1 Illusory Mote.
* The chance to get more motes remains unchanged. However the quantity of motes you get in this situation has been reduced.
* Overall, this is a decrease in randomness of Illusory Mote acquisition, and a slight increase in overall Illusory Mote acquisition.

TARKEN GLACIER

* ZE: Horns of Doom: Aroksus and his friends have reluctantly agreed not to vacation in Draumheim during this event.
* Raid Rift: The Plane Crawler Project: The Plane Crawler once again heals itself to full health after every stage.


DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES

MOUNT SHARAX

* Fixed a number of Mount Sharax loot drops that were missing the ability to trade them to other raid members for a limited amount of time.

THE RHEN OF FATE

*Finric's damage absorption shield now persists for the duration of Sacrifice.


CRAFTING

* Weaponsmith: Changed the recipe for Coral Whetstones to be more in line with the materials needed for Coral Oilstones.
* Apothecary: Storm Legion and Nightmare Tide critical hit potions should now correctly override the Tempest Soul ability Focus Fire.


ITEMS

* The absorb proc from Wall of Frost now only affects the character with the shield equipped and no longer benefits allies around them.
* The Cleric weapon "Ekor Ira, Hand of Threngar" now has Spell Power instead of Attack Power on it.


PVP AND WARFRONTS

* Marauder Supply Caches have had their chance to grant usable equipment considerably increased.
* Blighted Antechamber: Capturing a Flag will now award your team 100 points, up from 50.
* Crafted buffs in conquest should work again once more.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...1-17-15-a.html

[Slipmat]

Unlucky 13 hits your Rift update this week, a few class 'tweaks', second boss in Mount Sharax made "slightly" easier, all in hotfix #13

RIFT 3.0: Hotfix #13 1/14/15

NA: 1/14/15 @ 7:30 AM PST
EU: 1/15/15 @ 2:00 AM GMT


GENERAL

* Fae Yule: The Faelight Sparkle quest is no longer given. It can still be completed over the next week.


MINIONS

* Fixed a bug that could cause players new to the Minion system to lose their minions.


SOULS

CLERIC

JUSTICAR

* Gaining Convictions no longer appears in the combat log.


MAGE

STORMCALLER

* Gaining stacks of Conductive Medium no longer appears in the combat log.


ROGUE

* Fixed an issue where Finishers were not calculating correctly for having a weapon in the off-hand.


WARRIOR

* Fixed an issue where Finishers were not calculating correctly for having a weapon in the off-hand.

BEASTMASTER

* Pack Mentality: Now correctly increases HP and damage when a primal companion is summoned.

CHAMPION

* Shared Suffering: No longer triggers procs such as Building Rage.

PARAGON

* Run Like the Wind: Now correctly reduces the cooldown of Fleet of Foot.

WARLORD

* Gaining Pacts no longer appears in the combat log.


ZONES AND EVENTS

STONEFIELD

* IA: Cleansing the Source of Evil: Now functions correctly once more.

TARKEN GLACIER

* Quest: No Escape for the Wicked: The Sharax Ritual Lure now only works in Tarken Glacier.


DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES

GYEL FORTRESS

* Fixed the loot tables for the Lady Glasya fight.

MOUNT SHARAX

* Achievement: Is Something Burning: Now properly awards players that complete the challenge.
* Jinoscoth:
- Iced: The cast time has been increased to 1.8 seconds, up from 1.5 seconds.
- Frost Bulwark: The cast time has been increased to 1.8 seconds, up from 1.4 seconds.

THE RHEN OF FATE

* Fixed an issue causing Stealth to be removed throughout the fight with the Drekanoth of Fate.


ITEMS

* The damage bonus to Nightmare Tide weapon procs provided by the Chill of the Void debuff now only benefit the person who procced the effect. However, each person can now apply their own copy of the debuff to the enemy.


PVP AND WARFRONTS

* PvP and Conquest Weekly quest rewards have been increased. They now reward 300 Fragments of Horror, up from 100, and 650 Abyssal Crusader's Marks, up from 500.
* Reduced the cost from the first upgrade on equipment granted from Marauder Supply Caches.
* Blighted Antechamber: Carrying a Flag now reduces the healing you receive.
* Fixed an issue with some AoE abilities doing too much damage in PvP.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...1-14-15-a.html

[Slipmat]

More Frozen Hearts sources, hoverbikes now make sounds, all in Hotfix # 14

RIFT 3.0: Hotfix #14 1/21/15

NA: 1/21/15 @ 7:30 AM PST
EU: 1/22/15 @ 2:00 AM GMT


GENERAL

* Fae Yule: The reservoir of Faelight Sparkles has dried up. They can longer be earned!
* Fixed a rare issue that caused healing spells to sometimes miss friendly targets.
* Fixed how our twitter integration uploads links to twitter.


RIFT STORE AND SERVICES

* The Arclight Rider is now a 155% mount. Zoom zoom and stuff!


MINIONS

* Fixed a problem that would cause some people to incorrectly see 0 or negative stamina for their minions when their minions actually have stamina.


ZONES AND EVENTS

STEPPES OF INFINITY

* IA: The Fuse Is Lit: Should function correctly once again.

DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES

MOUNT SHARAX

* The Yrlwalach now drops a Heart of the Frozen due to popular demand.

THE RHEN OF FATE

* Defeating Finric now awards one Heart of the Frozen due to popular demand.


ITEMS

* The raid items Lightblade and Dreadwind have received an update.
* The mobile scratcher no longer pays out Unique Snowflakes.
* Fixed an issue where effects which increased damage or healing from Nightmare Tide weapon procs were not increasing those procs.
* The Abyssal Crusader's Weapons now upgrade to Epic from Rare.
* Reduced the Void Source Accelerator Upgrade cost of some crafted weapons and armor.


PVP AND WARFRONTS

* Equipment rewards from Marauder Supply Caches have been significantly increased in power. This includes the base drops, as well as all upgrades.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...1-21-15-a.html