Rift 4.5 - Hotfixes

[Slipmat]

Battle Pass time!, it goes Live later today when the Shards are back up, also some big changes to Pee Vee Pee to tie in with the dailies for Battle Pass, time to dust off my Frostkeeper.

PATCH NOTES - April 11, 2019

4/11: Live Patch notes

FLAMES OF CORRUPTION: Battle Pass Season 1 now Active!!

Progress through 30 levels to claim rewards!
4 (6 for patrons) daily missions, and 3 weekly missions chosen at random
Rewards include a new artifact set, rune unsocketers, loyalty, credits, and an entire new set of fiery cosmetics.
For more details click here! http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...ml#post5374172

DUNGEONS AND RAIDS:

Enclave of Ahnket

Corrected a typo on the Enclave of Ahnket loading screen.
Corrected item upgrade recipes for several pieces of armor from Enclave of Ahnket.
Fixed a bug that caused some bosses in Enclave of Ahnket to consume individual loot charge rolls for bosses in other expert dungeons.
Salasocharv has become less interested in trying to climb rocks.

Bastion of Steel

Adjusted Vindicator MK1’s Irradiated Field to be more forgiving to most tanks.

ZONES AND EVENTS:

CARNIVAL OF THE ASCENDED:

Carnival has been extended by one week. Carnival will now end at 15:30 server time on April 18th.
An additional "Past Its Prime Bonus Pack" can be claimed from the RIFT Store for logging in between 12am Friday April 12th and 11:59pm April 18th (local server time).

CALL TO ACTION - HELLBUGS

Hellbugs from the plane of fire are invading Telara once again. Complete limited time quests to earn Chaos Motes and purchase items from the Call to Action merchant.

PVP:

​​​​​​Over the course of the next several weeks we will be looking at very high level pvp balance. As step one we will be primarily adjusting the pvp heal/damage/absorb multipliers to establish the pacing we’re looking for in pvp. In this update damage is being greatly increased while healing/absorbs will be moderately increased with the intent of reducing time to kill

Fixed a bug that caused earrings for warriors, primalists, and rogues to have significantly higher stats in level 70 warfronts.

BUG FIXES:

Several ability tool tips have had spelling errors corrected.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...ml#post5374590

[Slipmat]

Short Patch Notes this week but Dev Eps did mention a few fixes that are coming so i'll post his comment as well, no guarantee they'll all be in though.

Patch notes - April 17, 2019

Live Patch notes

BUG FIXES:

General Battle Pass quest cleanup. Thank you for all the reports, please keep them coming!

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...ml#post5375032

[Slipmat]

Some more tweaks to Battle Pass dailies and weeklies in this week's Patch, also EU is going offline again for nine hours extended maintenance, same as last week, wonder what's up, moving systems to Google Cloud maybe?

Patch Notes - April 24, 2019

BATTLE PASS:

Purchasing Patron will now instantly update your Battle Pass missions to 6, instead of having to wait for the next day.
Fixed a bug where altmode black garden would not reward bp victory quests.
Lowered the number of victories for the Winner’s Disposition quests from 5 to 3.

Reduced the population require to spin up Plane Touched Wilds Zone Events.
I’m the healer now: number of heals require reduced from 500 to 350 .
Medic here: number of heals required reduced from 1000 to 750.
You need healing: number of heals required reduced from 10000 to 6000.

EVENTS:

Call to Action:

The Call to Action event vendor will now offer Rune Unsocketers for Chaos Motes. Ascended will be able to buy one Unsocketer per month with Chaos Motes.
Mechweek Call to Action will be available 4/26-4/28

CALLINGS:

PRIMALIST:

MYSTIC:

Fixed a bug with Legendary Primal Savagery that caused effects to persist when no longer near the Primalist who cast the ability.

DUNGEONS AND RAIDS:

BASTION OF STEEL:

Commander Isiel / Vindicator MK1: Fixed a bug that prevented Timed Charge and Demolishing Blast from functioning correctly with Hybrid Tank builds.

ENCLAVE OF AHNKET:

Fixed a bug that caused players to fall through the world when entering Enclave of Ahnket when riding certain mounts.

RIFT Store:

Login between the update on April 24th and May 1st (by 11:59pm server time) to claim an Altostratus Rewards Cache as a small apology for the extended maintenance in the EU.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...ml#post5375437

[Slipmat]

A few more tweaks to Battle Pass quests, you could keep gaining XP past level 30 even though there's no rewards, level 30 is the cap.

Patch Notes - May 2, 2019

BATTLE PASS:

Season 1 experience will no longer accrue post level 30.
weekly - tyrant's forge: Mecha Crucia
fixed a text error in the description.
daily - In Control: Codex
reduced the number of enemy players killed near capturepoints from 50 to 25.
increased battle pass XP granted.

BUG FIXES:

DUNGEONS & RAIDS:

EXPERT CHALMERS CALDERA:

Fixed a bug where players could be locked in Cyclorax's room after killing him

INTREPID ADVENTURES:

Fixed a bug where the quests would also get credit from the other IA

MASTER DUNGEONS:

Fixed a bug that put players in the wrong difficulty when attempting to enter at Master difficulty

CALL TO ACTION:

Updated Zone Events from Mechweek Call to Action to contribute to Battlepass quests.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...ml#post5375786

[Slipmat]

Gamigo responded quickly to players asking that the fire effects from Battle Pass rewards get made into Bind On Account (BoA) items.

Patch Notes - May 8, 2019

BATTLE PASS:

Hot Hands, Hot Feet, Blast Off!, and Flaming Eye's have been set to Bind on Account

GENERAL:

Players will no longer be locked in Cyclorax's room if they kill it too quickly.

CALL TO ACTION: BUDGIE MADNESS

Minions from the plane of death have ripped a hole into the pocket dimension that is the native habitat of the Budgies. In an effort to help protect the local budgie population, the Planar Research Institute is looking to the Ascended to help combat these minions of the plane of death who seek to subdue and corrupt additional budgies.
Representatives from the Planar Research Institute will be present in Tempest Bay, Sanctum, and Meridian offering quest and trading items for Chaos Motes. Complete daily quests to earn Chaos Motes, which can be used to purchase Budgie Mounts, Companion Pets, Minion Cards, and more!

The Budgie Madness event will run from 5/10 to 5/12 server time.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...ml#post5376016

[Slipmat]

EU Cluster has already received this Patch so if you swap between EU and NA you might have 'issues' until NA is also patched later.

Patch Notes - May 16, 2019

KNOWN ISSUES:

Purchasing Credits/Consuming REX will result in a display error causing your total available credits to be reported as 92450. Relogging/opening a category deeper in the store will update your total. This is a visual only error, and will have no impact on your total available credits.


CALL TO ACTION:

The Planar Research Institute has increased the amount of Chaos Motes given out for completing their daily missions during Call to Action events.
Fixed bug that prevented the Call to Action section of the store from appearing during the Budgie Madness event.
Fixed a bug that prevented the Daily Quest Minions of Migration from completing.

ITEM MAILS:

Fixed an issue where certain item and cash mails would not enable the “Take All” button. This does not retroactively existing item mails, but “Take All” will successfully remove all attachments even from older mails that do have the issue

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...ml#post5376667

[Slipmat]

It's been a while since we had a 'meaty' weekly hotfix, most weeks wouldn't even fill two lines but this week we got a few goodies, Season Two of the Battle Pass, some long overdue changes to Clerics and the first of ongoing changes to the Daily Reward Calendar.

Patch Notes - August 28, 2019

Battle Pass Season 2: Tendrils of Blight begins!

Complete Battlepass missions to gain levels and unlock new life themed awards. This season features over 90 daily missions and over 50 weekly missions. This season also includes the new reroll feature, which lets an Ascended replace a Battle Pass mission with a different one. Players can reroll one daily mission for free per day, and one weekly mission for free per week.

CALLINGS:

WARRIOR:

Warchanter:

Comradery now properly reduces the cooldown of Encouragements when using finishers other than Survivor's SlashArchon:

MAGE:

Archon:

Lava Field no longer applies its buff to Pets or NPC allies.

CLERIC:

Cabalist:

Fixed a bug that caused Legendary Shadow’s Touch to grant a 20% damage increase to all Cabalist abilities.

Shaman:

Legendary Icy Blow stacks reduced from 2 to 1
Legendary Icy Blow's elemental damage buff increased to 48%
Massive Blow damage increased by 30%
Brutalize damage increased by 100%
Jolt damage increased by 50%

Druid:

Eruption of Life stacks changed to be unlimited over 20 seconds, and is now on a 0.5 second Internal Cool Down.
Legendary Fae Mimicry now ignores the cool down of up to 5 casts before ending.
Legendary Fae Mimicry now refreshes Eruption of Life on the target
Conduit of Nature the Faerie Seer grants 0.5 Global Cooldown
Peace of the Forest now Restores 12% mana and Consumes 6% health.
Trickster’s Bolt decreased mana cost
Increased the damage of Legendary Resounding Blow
Overproliferation now increases the effect of spell power on Eruption of Life by 16% and 32%.
Removed the portion Eruption of Life and Overproliferation’s tooltips that referenced stacks.

Inquisitor:

Radical Coalescence cooldown reduced from 2min to 1min
Legendary Radical Coalescence cooldown reduced from 2min to 1min
Increased the bonus damage from Agent of Affliction to 3/6/9/12/15%
Adjustment to damage values of Bolt of Retribution and Bolt of Judgement

PRIMALIST:

Reduced the amount healed by Fortune Protection by 25% in PvP
Reduced the amount healed by Legendary Fortune Protection by 25% in PvP
Reduced the healing boost granted by Primal Avatar: Ouroboros to be in line with other healing abilities in PvP
Updated Primalist level 64 Mastery Heavy Handed to reduce critical chance as specified in tooltip.
Reduced healing of Impending Fate by 50% in PvP.
Reduced healing of Fortune Protection by 50% in PvP.

DAILY REWARDS CALENDAR:

As the initial part of the daily calendar revamp some rewards have been altered based on player feedback.
Opie’s Artifact Stashes will now attempt to give you an artifact that you have not collected yet, when possible.
Primal Planarite Cache contains more planarite for most level ranges.
The Individual Reward Charge from Day 14 has been changed, it is now a bind to account item that does not stack. When consumed the item will grant an individual reward charge, it does not extend the cap of 100 charges and charges in excess of 100 will be lost.
Day 5 now drops 1,000 Celestial Remnant instead of Voidstones.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...ml#post5382011

[Darkageman]

The sad part is you are not playing game but you are linking those stuff like rift is fine attitude thats what bothers me the most tho. BTW Classic impact Rift already Yesterday EU servers were like literal Ghost Town. Those changes are needed to be made like a year ago but they've done it eventually which is nice. Those changes on Rewards calender still joke tho. Anyway thats all.

[Slipmat]

The sad part is you are not playing game but you are linking those stuff like rift is fine attitude

Yeah, i gave my account to Eleccybubb, Rift's biggest fan.... guess that's not me playing then earlier.

[Slipmat]

Just a few additions/fixes to the Battle Pass this week, extra quests for Patrons is always nice.

Patch Notes - September 5, 2019

9/5: Live Patch notes

BATTLE PASS:

Fixed a bug that prevented some life footholds from updating the “Lively Footholds” battlepass mission.
Updated the number of extra battlepass daily missions granted to Patrons.
Updated the list of Rare Mobs that count for Celestial Hunter and Hunting Rarity.
Updated French and German translations of battlepass missions.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...ml#post5382421

[Darkageman]

Just a few additions/fixes to the Battle Pass this week, extra quests for Patrons is always nice.



Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...ml#post5382421

Did you reach your max level Slipmat.

[Slipmat]

The slow trickle of hotfixes continues, seems to just the usual minor class tweaks, although the change to some zone event bosses immune to damage by max level heroes is a nice addition.

Patch Notes | October 10, 2019

CALLINGS AND ABILITIES:

Fixed a bug that could cause Clerics and Mages to be flagged for the wrong role. As a result the Warden soul will only be seen as a Healing soul and the Archon soul only be seen as a Support soul.

CLERIC - DRUID:
Fixed a bug that caused Legendary Fae Mimicry to trigger on the incorrect ability. As a result Legendary Fae Mimicry will no longer trigger on Eruption of Life. The ability’s tooltip has been updated to reflect this change

WARRIOR - VOID KNIGHT:

Increased the amount of threat generated by Tempest.

BATTLEPASS:

Electrostatic Transmogrifier will now count toward the battlepass mission ‘A New Look.’
Increased the number of times that the Golden Devourer can spawn on each server.
Limited the spawning condition of the Golden Devourer to only occur during certain world events and when a player has the Fool’s Gold weekly Battlepass mission.
All rare mobs marked with a diamond will count for Battlepass missions that require players to kill rare mobs.

CALL TO ACTION EVENTS:

The versions of Bydus that appear during the Freemarch and Silverwood zone events will not be damageable by ascended who are higher than level 30.
The versions of Bydus that appear during the Stillmoor and Shimmersands zone events will not be damageable by ascended who are higher than level 55.
Fixed a bug that prevented the Friendship achievement from triggering when using the Opal Unicorn.

WORLD:

Reduced the cooldown of Zone Events.
Changed the Daily Reward charges granted from the Login calendar to be auto consumed.
Updated the quest, ‘No one is safe!’ to reward the Rask companion pet, this pet was formerly granted by reaching level 5 in Atlas Reactor.

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...ml#post5383166

[Slipmat]

It's Christmas...eh Fae Yule time in Rift, plus some love for Mages and Cleric Inquisitor soul finally....

Patch Notes - December 12, 2019 [7:30 AM PDT (4:30 PM CET)]

As the winds grow cold and the days grow short, the fae once again return to the homes of the Ascended seeking to spread cheer throughout Telara. Join in the celebration of Fae Yule and assist the fae with their tasks and earning Dark Icicles and Unique Snowflakes, which can be used to purchase seasonal items from the RIFT store during the yule season.

QUESTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS:

Reduced the number of cosmic particles required for Eternal Weapon Upgrades and related achievements.

CLASSES:

MAGE:

PYROMANCER:

Pyromancer’s Blessing – Increased passive buff to fire damage by 1% per point spent in the soul.
Legendary Fusillade – Increased passive buff to Cinderburst by 5%.

HARBINGER:

Legendary Vengeful Shock – Ability is now marked as a Primary Bolt.
Rising Storm – Increased passive buff by 1% per point spent in the soul.
Lucent Slash – Increased ability damage.
Legendary Empyrean Ascension - Increased passive boost to slashing damage to 115%.
Rending Slash - Debuff now increases Mage’s slashing damage on the enemy by 18%.

WARLOCK:

Atrophy – Increased damage per tick.
Defile – Increased damage per tick.
Death’s Door – Increased damage per tick.
Dark Touch – Increased damage per tick.
Legendary Life Leech – Increased damage per tick.
Life Leech – Increased damage per tick.
Legendary Void Barrage - Increased passive boost to damage over time abilities to 65%.

CLERIC:

INQUISITOR:

Aggressive Inquisition – Reduced cooldown to 30 seconds.
Mental Resilience – Increased duration to 60 seconds.
Bolt of Depravity – Increased damage.
Scourge – Increased damage per tick.
Vex – Increased damage per tick.
Sanction Heretic – Increased damage per tick.
Legendary Radical Coalescence - Increased passive boost to damage over time and bolt abilities to 65%.
Legendary Radical Coalescence - Increases the damage of Nysyr's Rebuke while active. (PvE only)
Nysyr's Rebuke - Increased damage per tick.

Additionally:

Battle Pass Season 2 will end on the 16th of January

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...ml#post5385389