RIFT 1.5 Hotfix #9 - 8:00am PDT 10/20/11 [NA] - 1:00am GMT 21/10/11 [EU]

[Azuri]

RIFT 1.5 Hotfix #9 - 8:00am PDT 10/20/11 [NA] - 1:00am GMT 21/10/11 [EU] dropped today:

RIFTS AND INVASIONS
* Rifts will now drop Sourceshards and Inscribed Sourcestones based on their opened level, preventing some Rifts opened with the Planar Attunement lures from dropping incorrectly low-level Sourceshard items.
* Due to the above change, Inscribed Sourcestones now drop from level 40+ Rifts (lowered from level 45+).
* Zone events have been updated to allow for any Rift or Invasion of a specified planar type to count toward the event objectives.
* Increased the rate at which Invasions scale in high-level zones; the Invasions should be somewhat beefier when the zones are highly populated.

GENERAL
* Hammerknell: Taught certain NPCs why killstealing is bad, to fix a case where raids could kill Akylios without getting credit.
* Hammerknell: Grugonim: Corrosive Bile and Unstable Spores have had their projectile speeds reduced, damage lowered, time between uses increased, and a new warning message.
* Fixed the Mathosian version of the Exponent's Hauberk so it looks like the version everyone else got!
* The Harbinger of Regulos companion pet item is now tradable.
* Nightblade: Blackout: No longer causes spell-based attacks to miss. Duration has been reduced to 5 seconds from 6 seconds.
* Gloamwood: A Woman Scorned: Seriously, the Hag's Curse shouldn't get stuck on people anymore.
* Quests in instances containing cross-shard LFG members (ex: dungeons) now work properly with quests that require you to use a quest item in a specific location.
* Dark Pulsing Crystals are now available for purchase with Inscribed Sourcestone.
* Fixed a bug with selecting targets for abilities cast through the /cast slash command.


WORLD EVENT
* Slightly reduced the difficulty of the first unstable stage of Ashes of History Rifts, 'Gold Tenders' and 'Forged Menace'.
* The World Event quest sticky has less blank space around the on-screen text.

CLIENT
* The client should now be able to log back in properly after recovering from a crash!

* Dark Pulsing Crystals are now available for purchase with Inscribed Sourcestone.

This is good for Hammerknell raiding guilds since their drop rates have been hit miss. 100 sourcestones each for 2nd and 3rd roles. Spend your sourcestones wisely though the new essences in 1.6 are 150 sourcestones each but I would also imagine will drop from the new raid rifts too.

[Puremallace]

Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/public-te...ml#post3295614

Before people cry

Hey guys,

The gear from HK is the true gate here. The crystals were never supposed to be a massive time sink based on RNG.

There is no "gaining HK gear" from inscribed. You are gaining your synergy crystals - which were designed in a manner that players would want multiple of them - and absolutely require the gear from HK to be useful. Consolidating them with our existing schema for gaining other synergy crystals is the logical move. You can expect to see this being the standard method of synergy crystal acquisition going forward.

They also still drop in HK for those that do not wish to engage in other types of content - they have not been removed.

~Daglar

[Mega Gengar]

Wish they would fix the annoying colour changing bug x.x