Hotfix #17: 4/15/11

WORLD EVENT
* Exorcising Evil: The Corrupted Essence can be exorcised again after 30 seconds, in case NPCs steal your mob.
* More tweaks to the Phase 2 events for stability under load!

GENERAL
* Added Malformed Soul and Corrupted Soul drops to end-game Rift content.
* Fixed a bug where you wouldn’t loot stacking items when hitting Take All with a full inventory.

COMBAT
* Fixed ability tooltips not displaying the correct damage when it was increased by other abilities, and instead showing lowered damage overall.
* Feign Death should be much more convincing.
* Back-end optimizations of player pet aggro – this should have no visible effect in-game.
* Back-end optimizations of aggro lists and target switching for NPCs in instances and the main world – this should also be invisible in gameplay.

ZONES

GREENSCALE’S BLIGHT [Raid]
* Lord Greenscale: Added some extra failsafes to prevent the plants and minions from sticking around past an encounter reset.

SCARWOOD REACH
* Fixed the Life Rift in Lotham’s Strike either not loading correctly or closing too soon.

SILVERWOOD
* Rift: Gedlo Supply Drop: Addressed issues with mobs getting stuck in stacks of crates.

ITEMS
* The following items had Death Resistance incorrectly set on their stats; this has been removed.
* Magical Tendril, Breath of the Wild, Staff of the Creeper, Spiritguider, Frozen Scepter, Ceremonial Shoulderpads, Ceremonial Visage, Ceremonial Robe, Band of Spells, Sagebrush Spellstaff, Carmintium Spellcutter, Carminite Longsword, Ill-Fated Relic, Voodoo Charm, and Pugilist’s Signet.

Hotfix #15

WORLD EVENT
* Phase 2 of the World Event has been rescheduled for April 16 at 12:00pm server time, due to the stability issues discovered this morning. The World Event UI now shows the updated date.
* For Phase 1, new Trinket items, Lesser Essences, and weapon glow effect items have been added to the World Event merchants.
* Minor Death Rifts now all drop 4 Otherworldly Sourcestone. Major Death Rifts drop 8. Death Zone Events and River of Souls daily quests now award 15 Otherworldly Sourcestone.

GENERAL
* Re-added the ability to promote guild members who are not online.
* Fixed a bug with taunts not always working correctly, especially on initial pulls.
* Audio: Corrected the repeating buff sound from Beastmaster’s Protective Companion.
* Fixed a chat bug that allowed sending of fake server messages.

ZONES

GREENSCALE’S BLIGHT [Raid]
* Players can no longer enter the Hylas arena without being teleported during the critter phase.
* Life Aura should spawn more reliably.

IRON PINE PEAK
* Telara On the Brink: Fixed a bug that would often cause this quest to not function properly.

SHIMMERSAND
* Sight Unseen: Players who die in Farsight Tower should now be able to resurrect at their corpse if they choose to respawn.

MOONSHADE HIGHLANDS
* Increased the respawn time on some named faeries in Faering Woods if no players are nearby who need them for quests.

Editor’s note: How did I miss this one?

Hotfix #14 04/08/11

WORLD EVENT
* Rings from the event merchants are now properly labeled as ‘Unique’. These rings were previously set to be Unique but the text was not appearing on their tooltips.
* Added a display for the level requirements to Shadetouched Weapons Cache quest starting items. The level requirements existed previously but were not displayed on the item tooltip.
* Death Rift: Eternal Souls: You know that dragon that had wings but liked to walk a lot? He flies now!
* The Battle for Freemarch zone event now rewards Otherworldly Sourcestone for participation while the River of Souls event is underway.
* Adjusted the stage objectives for the River of Souls event Rift, ‘Pride Before the Fall’. Added better messaging to the stages involving the Soothing Stone Light.

Hotfix #13: 2:00am BST 5/3/11

GENERAL
* The intensity of Alsbeth’s assault on Telara is increasing! The number of rifts, invasions, and zone events is rising in all zones!
* Fixed a bug that was allowing some creative people to equip one more weapon than they had hands for. This was not an intentional advantage of being an Ascended.
* Removed Valmera mounts from the resourceful Defiant players who managed to purchase them. Don’t worry, we refunded the cost, and hope you enjoyed them while they lasted!
* The Dye Vendors will be returning from their vacation with this update.
* Guild and PvP Quests: Killing the same character more than once will again give credit toward these quests.
* Quest: Harbinger of Sorrows: Modified quest text for better clarity.
* The Saga of the Endless: Trophies of Death: Quest now updates by closing Death Rifts.

Rift 1.1 – 3/30/11

== FEATURED ==
* The Endless Court launches an unprecedented invasion of Telara. Check out WORLD EVENT below for event details!
* In-game video can now be recorded as well as posted on YouTube! Read more under VIDEO CAPTURE.
* You can now report AFK teammates in Warfronts. Check out PVP/WARFONTS for details.
* Rift events no longer track player contribution against other players. See below under RIFTS AND INVASIONS for more.
* Leaders of merged groups now have the option to Unmerge Group through their portrait menu.
* Many quest fixes below under individual ZONES.

Hotfix #9

GENERAL
* Improved visibility of Rogue combo points on the overhead combat meter.

ZONES
* Adjusted the amount of Notoriety awarded in Iron Pine Peaks to bring it in line with other level-cap zones.

GLOAMWOOD
* Being polymorphed by the Hag’s Curse is now far less lethal – NPCs that were kill-on-sight are now neutral.

MOONSHADE HIGHLANDS
* Honor Them: This quest will now grant updates for the whole group at once.

SHIMMERSAND
* The Desert Queen: Akala weekly quest now awards Plaques of Achievement on subsequent completions.
* Final Preparations: Focuser Chest is now much more focused on working.

DUNGEONS AND RAIDS
* Another fix for Expert Dungeon lockouts not being reset at their scheduled time.

CHARMER’S CALDERA
* Cyclorax’s Shocking Blast now properly ignores line-of-sight.

GREENSCALE’S BLIGHT [Raid]
* Fixed a bug with Sticky Slime not working consistently.

Prince Hylas
* Slightly reduced the absorption amount of Spiritual Barrier.
* Modified the increase of Soul Fracture damage by Avenging Wrath.

CLIENT
* Coin Lock: Improvements to better detect logins from the same network location when using a large ISP or proxy service.

Rift 1.02 – 3/17/11

COINLOCK FEATURE — Account Security
* If your account is logged in from a significantly different location, your characters will be ‘Coin Locked’ until an additional ownership verification is made.
* A Coin Locked account will receive an e-mail to their registered account address containing a code to enter in-game to unlock the account.

* A Coin Locked icon will appear on the bottom center of your screen if your account is in this state.
* While you are Coin Locked, characters on your account cannot:
- Access the Auction House.
- Send Mail (can still receive and view mail or remove items).
- Sell to vendors.
- Salvage, Runebreak, or destroy items.
- Trade.
- You can continue to play and gain coin and items, but cannot get rid of them.

* If you are Coin Locked, click on the Coin Lock icon and enter the code found in your e-mail from Trion.
* You can also have Coin Lock emails re-sent to your email address by clicking the button on the Coin Lock interface.
* Once you have verified ownership from a new location, that location is whitelisted for future account access.
* If you cannot access your email or are otherwise unable to change your Coin Locked status, contact Customer Service.

MAIL SPAM FILTERING
* Reporting mail as Spam now works a lot more like the chat and /tell spam system.
* Sending mail that the game filter recognizes as spam results in an additional coin charge.
* Mail you receive that has been flagged as spam will go to the Spam tab of your mailbox UI.

GENERAL
* Made a number of changes to how NPCs react to higher level characters:
- Characters under the effect of Exposed no longer have an additional chance to be dismounted.
- Reduced the minimum aggro range of monsters significantly below a character’s level.
- Increased the rate at which aggro range reduces as a character’s level increases relative to a mob.
* Fixed Forest Disruptor companion so his footsteps are not as loud as a full-size Treant.

ZONES
* Runic Descent: Expert: Corrected an issue where this instance could end with players still inside.
* As a result of the above change, the Captured Soul NPC will be re-enabled after this update.
* Moonshade Highlands: Rational Ward: Fixed issues with quest not updating.

RAIDS
* Greenscale’s Blight: Ongoing tuning for Duke Letareus, Infiltrator Johlen, Oracle Aleria, and Prince Hylas.
* Greenscale’s Blight: Prince Hylas is immune to player abilities that reduce healing taken.
* Greenscale’s Blight: Fixed an issue that could cause Greenscale’s protective Life Aura to occasionally not spawn.
* Akala: Reduced health of Stone Wardens in the Akala outdoor raid to make the first phase possible with 10 players.
* Akala: Akala’s Aegis of Stone and Gift of Laethys buffs can no longer be purged.

These are the Official Patch notes for today’s update.

3/10/11

== FEATURED ==
* Experience for appropriately sized groups relative to the difficulty of Rift, Invasion, and Foothold content has been returned to higher amounts as seen previously in Beta.
* Water, Life, Death, and Air Raid Rifts are now available.
* You can now set how many quests to track on-screen at once (up to 10) by changing the setting in the Interface -> Display category.
* Shift-clicking to split stacks of items now works in your bank or bank bags.
* Fixed issues causing player armor to appear the wrong colors after respawning or Soul Walking.

Remember these Patch Notes are not final as they are in a state of flux. They are not live and are subject to change at any time. These are only for testing purposes only.

GENERAL GAMEPLAY
* You can now link locations in chat! Just like other links, shift-right-click your map or minimap while entering chat text. Clicking someone’s location link in chat will place a waypoint on your own map.
* You can now swim up using the jump key while also in mouselook mode (default: right mouse button to look around).
* Added a custom error if you cannot use a questgiving item.
* Raid groups roaming across the lands to destroy non-Rift/Invasion content will see lowered experience rewards.

GENERAL
* Removed the ‘turtle costume’ left over on mounted characters whose turtle mount entitlements were removed for the end of head start.
* Tracking abilities no longer trigger global cooldown, which also reduces their effect on Rift contribution.
* Konstantin will no longer be tricked into respawning after being killed.
* Opening a received mail will not start the 3 day expiration timer.
* Mail containing account-level entitlement rewards will not expire.