RIFT 2.1 Hotfix #7 – 2/6/13

GENERAL

• Racial Abilities: Dwarven racial ability, Density, has been removed. Replaced with Dwarven Breakfast – Restores 8% health and mana per second over 13 seconds.
• Fixed Swift Spotted Armored Valmera Collar as well as Spectral Horse so they now scale to your highest-speed mount.
• Continued pass to correct floating or inaccessible artifact locations.
• Continued updates to improve shard stability and performance.

PLANAR ATTUNEMENT

• Swift Saddle Planar Attunements now function as expected!
• Safe Fall Planar Attunement abilities have been replaced with Planar Enhancement – increases Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, Wisdom, and Endurance by 2.

RAIDS & DUNGEONS

FROZEN TEMPEST

• Crucia: Unstable Coolant will now only freeze the target after the initial dispel portion has worn off.
• Crucia: Will no longer target those under the “Blessing of the Storm Queen” for Lightning Rod.
• Crucia: Corrected Pulse Stream so the damage effect matches that of the graphic.

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New Kirin Mount for Rift China

Someone over at mmo-champion happened to post two small screenshots of what looks to be a new mount, Kirin, that is available for RIFT China. I’m not sure on the details on it but here are the two screenshots that were posted:

Looks like a cross between a goat, Chinese dragon and horse. If there are different colors available, that’s really awesome because I’d like to get my hands on the aqua-colored mount!

2.2 In-Progress Notes Set #4 – 1/30/13

SOULS

CLERIC

INQUISITOR

• Vex: Reduced mana cost.

MAGE

ELEMENTALIST

• Summon: Greater Air Elemental: The ability description for the top two ranks no longer claim that the pet is capped to level 27.

ROGUE

ASSASSIN

• PTS ONLY: Expose Weakness: The increased physical damage taken from the Rogue now scales even more from Attack Power.
• Physical Trauma: Increases the damage of your damage over time attacks by 10-20%, up from 5-10%.

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RIFT 2.1 Hotfix #6 – 1/30/13

GENERAL

• Swift mounts (110% speed) and higher now all scale to your fastest purchased mount’s speed. [Currently the Swift Spotted Valmera is not scaling like it should after this change.]
• The Specialty Crafting Goods vendors in Sanctum and Meridian now sell lower-tier planar dusts in exchange for the next higher tier dust.
• All Feasts now persist through death – whether you respawn, resurrect, or Soul Walk.
• Warrior PvP PA: Thunderous Leap can no longer be used in instances other than Conquest/Warfronts – such as Dungeons, Raids, Weddings, etc.
• Corrected some unreachable Artifacts and some sneaky typos!
• Fixed a bug where characters who temporarily had Storm Legion access (on a trial basis) would lose the Prestige they had gained at the end of the trial period.

PVP/WARFRONTS

• Teleporting to a Dimension from an active Warfront now applies the Ascended Disgrace debuff.
• Personal Mailboxes can no longer be summoned in Warfronts.
• Conquest: Conquest Marks are now granted to all participants for every 100 kills that occur during a match.

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2.2 In-Progress Notes Set #3 – 1/25/13

SOULS

CLERIC

INQUISITOR

• Nysyr’s Rebuke: Damage reduced.
• Scourge, Vex: Damage increased.
• Spiritual Scrutiny: Now a 1-hour buff. Reduced the armor and resistance penetration it grants to 20%. Now reduces the casting time of Bolt of Judgment by 1.5 seconds.

JUSTICAR

• Mien of Leadership: Increases threat generation by 200%, down from 350%.
• Increased the base threat generated by Justicar melee abilities.

MAGE

CHLOROMANCER

• Essence Conversion: Corrected this ability improperly consuming stacks of Healing Balance.

WARLOCK

• Void Decimation: Now increases the damage of Void Bolt and Void Barrage by 2-10% for each of your Death-based damage over time effects on the target.

WARRIOR

PARAGON

• Deadly Parity: Fixed a bug where Deadly Parity is incorrectly including weapon damage in the final damage calculation.

TEMPEST

• Empower: Now increases the damage of ranged attacks by 5%, down from 10%.
• Electricity Cascade, Lightning Torrent: Damage reduced.
• Polarization: Now increases the bonus on Enhanced Conductivity by 3-6%, down from 4-8%.
• Stormbringer: Now increases the damage of Charged Pulse, Lightning Torrent, Storm Torrent, and Electricity Cascade by 5-15%, down from 5-25%.

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