GENERAL
* Due to popular demand, the Library of the Runemasters is now a standard warfront available full-time. Achievements and daily quests will come in a future patch.
* Removed the “You cannot preview this item” message that occasionally displayed (occasionally A LOT) when opening the Character Sheet.
* Fixed an issue with incorrect items sometimes appearing in your Off Hand on the Character Sheet.
* It is now possible to fully hatch a second Ash Strider after collecting one.

GENERAL
* Marksman: Strafe now correctly enjoys the benefit of the Marksman’s increased range.
* Shimmersand: Ritual Firebrand items are once again quest items and can be stored in the quest bag.
* Achievements: Expert Deepstrike Mines: Fixed a bug where killing Dichrom was not crediting the Expert: Deepstrike Mines achievement.
* Achievements: Gilded Prophecy: Added a speculative fix for a case where achievements would not be granted during the Thalguur fight.
* The Eth Agility racial ability correctly works again when swimming.

ZONE EVENTS
* Slightly increased the Planarite reward from zone event encounters.
* Tweaked the level ranges on some NPCs and Invasions during the zone events Army of the Wind and Prince of Earth.
* ‘The Crucible’ zone event in Scarlet Gorge has returned, and the fire colossi Fenkor and Derengal with it! Take on these colossi to earn your Ashes to Ashes and Kiss of the Flame achievements.

CHRONICLES
* Artifacts collected inside Chronicles now properly count toward the guild quest: Digging Deeper.
* The treasure chest achievements inside the Hammerknell and Greenscale’s Blight chronicles should award more reliably now.
* Fixed a bug in the Hammerknell chronicle that could prevent the Faceless Man or Borrin from assisting you with Murdantix.
* Hammerknell chronicle: The Painstalker Broodmothers should no longer get stuck at low health.

* AddOn API: Fixed a bug when setting the position of a RiftSlider immediately after creating it.

GENERAL
* Fixed an issue causing characters to lose health when mounting.
* Fixed a character sheet bug where unequipped items would continue to be displayed and would overlap equipped items.
* PvP: You can no longer enter a Chronicle or Warfront while in combat.
* Planar Attunement Rift opener abilities now always open a Rift of the correct type.
* Corrected the Genesis Pylon effect so it once again has a cooldown.
* Zone event colossi, now with even greater hit point scaling.
* Tuned down the drop of epic currency from zone events with sub-bosses.
* Fixed a rare case where an ex-LFG tool group would enter a Master mode and receive a replacement group member popup.
* You can once again see experience rewards granted from LFG instance completions in the LFG window.
* Fixed a bug where the LFG UI would occasionally not show any queues to join.

CHRONICLES
* Killing base population mobs in the Greenscale’s Blight and Hammerknell Chronicles now causes you to be saved to the instance.
* Sanctum: Ceremony of Attunement: You should no longer get occasionally stuck in combat in the courtyard area.
* You can now auto-attack with the flower weapons from the Greenscale’s Blight chronicle. FLOWER POWER.
* Fixed another case in the Greenscale chronicle where Lord Greenscale could get stuck at 1% and not reset properly. Also reduced the length of his flight phase to 20 seconds from 30.
* Meridian: Ceremony of Attunement: Reduced the likelihood of getting stuck after your progress is saved when fighting Kain.

WARFRONT ACCOLADES
* Changes to the following solo accolades: Killing Spree, Rampage, Unstoppable, Savior, Juggernaut, Invincible, Defender, Double Threat, Sabotage, Massacre.
- Reduced the experience, Favor, and Prestige granted to the player earning the accolade by 10%.
- Teammates now earn roughly 30% of the experience, Favor, and Prestige when others on their team earn these solo accolades.

DUNGEONS AND RAIDS
* Many dungeon terrain shortcuts have been fixed. Please bug report any that are still an issue!
* Instances can once again only be reset 5 times per hour. This was broken with 1.5.
* Darkening Deeps [Master]: Villizar: Break Free type abilities now work against Flame Javelin’s stun.
* Darkening Deeps [Master]: Tegenar: Break Free type abilities no longer work for Cocoon.
* Hammerknell: Akylios: The death region on the dock should properly deactivate on Akylios’ death.
* Hammerknell: Inquisitor Garau’s minions no longer grant experience.

SOULS
* Recasting buffs like Rogue poisons will now replace the existing buff rather than a random one.
* Dominator: Fixed an issue where Charged Shield [Rank 5] and Mass Charged Shield [Rank 4] would double-proc when triggered.
* Marksman: Vampiric Munitions: Fixed a bug where the healing siphon caused the Marksman to break stealth when the debuffed target was healed.
* Nightblade: Fell Blades: Fixed a bug where the healing siphon caused the Nightblade to break stealth when the debuffed target was healed.
* Pyromancer: Burning Bonds: Fixed an issue with the Unbreakable Bonds ability where Burning Bonds would only root a PvP target for 4 seconds instead of 8, even if the target was not under the effect of diminishing returns.

CLIENT
* Client optimizations!
* The game now tries to work around a bug in AMD Llano CPUs (AMD models A4-3XXX, A6-3XXX and A8-3XXX) that was causing frequent crashes. If you use one of these processors you should notice improved client stability.

GENERAL
* Call of the Ascended now correctly consumes 3 Planar Charges instead of all current charges.
* You can now turn in Moted Life collections and receive your rewards!
* Fixed a bug introduced with 1.5 that allowed the effects from Necrotic Rage to stack up to three times.
* Players can now enter a Chronicle as a raid, assuming the total number of characters in the raid meets the chronicle size limits.
* Soulrender Zilas’ minions no longer reward experience.
* Veteran Reward achievements and items no longer count as shard firsts.
* Players with characters on Trial shards will be able to see and log in to those shards again!

Also calling out an additional note that should have been part of the 1.5 patch notes:
* Hammerknell – Swarmer mobs in population groups no longer drop loot or grant XP.

GENERAL
* Corrected an issue causing Warfronts to become unavailable.
* Area-of-effect heals should once again land on group members who have been battle-ressed in an instance.
* Fixed some consumable items being double-consumed on use.
* Fixed a bug where previewed items would stick around improperly on the preview window or character sheet.
* The practice dummies are a bit less threatening to the guards in Sanctum and Meridian.
* More minor Rift tears should be available in leveling zones, and more of both minor and major tears in the high-level zones.
* Alsbeth is back from vacation and her stunt double has been retired!
* Darkening Deeps: Master: Fixed a case where the barrier behind Glubmuk wouldn’t properly remove on a re-started instance where he had already died.
* Auxilia’s Gloves now correctly require Skirmisher’s Gloves and not the Skirmisher’s Helm to purchase.

EXPERIENCE GAIN
* The experience bonus for killing mobs in Chronicles has been reduced.
* The experience bonus for completing a Chronicle’s zone quest has been greatly increased, to make up for the individual mob reduction.
* Rampant Seaclaws no longer award experience.
* Experience Bonus Vials will only affect mob and pvp kill experience.
* Using Planar Attunement experience-granting items inside of a Chronicle will no longer give an additional bonus experience.

SOULS
* Archmage [PvP]: Double Tap: Fixed an issue where this would not proc off of abilities using mesmerize, confuse, or polymorphs to interrupt casting.
* Archon: Favored Ally: Fixed an issue where this was no longer affecting the radius of Archon auras.
* Bladedancer: Weapon Barrage: Will no longer fail to interrupt casting if the target is immune to Silence.
* Chloromancer: Essence Surge: Fixed an issue causing this to be reflected by spell reflect buffs.
* Pyromancer: Improved Glyphs of Power will correctly affect the PvP version of Glyphs of Power.
* Burning Shield: Ranks 2-8 no longer require a Ground spell in order to cast them.

GENERAL
* You can once again enter Runic Descent!
* Added a variety of fix cases for the Chronicles of Attunement where players could get into a stuck situation in the event.
* Swift Murdantix Spawn mounts are once again epic mount speed.
* The Swift Murdantix Spawn named item will no longer drop in the Hammerknell Chronicle. A renamed version, the Ancient Murdantix Spawn, will drop instead.
* Corrected World Event merchants and Rare Planar Goods merchants still requiring Crystal Sourcestone to purchase items. These should now all use Inscribed Sourcestone.
* Special in-game mail sent from the Trion system or NPCs will no longer be auto-deleted when using the Take All button. Auction mails will still be deleted when taking all attachments.

UI/SETTINGS
* Fixed the chat message for posts on the guild wall that would break from certain characters. In other words, <3 all up over the place!
* Fixed some text fields (most notoriously, inventory search) holding keyboard focus longer than intended.
* If you try to purchase an item but don't have the items necessary to buy it, the error message will now tell you what you're missing.

CLIENT
* Several client crash case fixes, including when combining chat windows and one involving artifact collections.

== FEATURES ==
* New Chronicles, epic storyline experiences for solo and duo players, become available with 1.5. See CHRONICLES, below.
* New Planar Attunement system lets you continue to grow your character past level 50 and choose how you want to enhance their abilities. Details under PLANAR ATTUNEMENT!
* Veteran Rewards are being added as a bonus for longtime Ascended.
* Master-mode Dungeons challenge even the most experienced and well-equipped players who come looking for a fight! See below for more details on what to expect and how to enter them.
* A new Weekend Warfront joins the mix – check out LIBRARY OF THE RUNEMASTERS, below!
* New competitive rewards have been added for purchase with high-level zone event currency. Find them on the Planar Goods merchants in Sanctum and Meridian! More details under ZONE EVENT REWARD UPDATES.
* The Golden Maw unleashes chaos from an abandoned kingdom across the sea, as the Ashes of History world event begins SOON!
* AddOns for RIFT will soon be going into live beta! These are optional tools that can be used to enhance your personal gameplay experience.

HAMMERKNELL
* Updated Zilas’ minion spawns so there is less variance in the Mage spawns.

* Runeburst Umbral updates:
- Death’s Hand has new visual effects indicating the range of the AoE grasp that Torment will generate.
- Torment has new visual effects showing the range of its AoE grasp.
- Torment’s damage has been reduced and the snare effect has been removed.
- Dark Fear has a longer casting time.

* Estrode:
- Binding Will: Now begins by affecting 3 targets, down from 5.

* Matron Zamira:
- Hideous Blast: Can no longer be resisted.
- Scowling Shade: Slightly reduced hit points.

* Akylios:
- Jornaru will prefer to not cast Orb of Suffocation on players affected by Mind Decay.
- Mind Decay: Should no longer cause a lag-hitch when removed.
- Writhing Regeneration: Can no longer critically hit.
- Cerebral Bore: Redesigned to simplify this ability.

GENERAL
* Lesser Dragon Motes should no longer be problematic for quests below level 50. Also adjusted them for more reliable respawning.
* Riftblade: Earth Burst: Fixed a bug causing Earth Burst to not be broken by abilities that remove crowd control effects. This also addresses the case where some bosses that are otherwise immune to Snare were able to be affected.
* Guilds: Fixed a case where sometimes a guild would not level up when it should.
* PvP: Being reported in Warfronts will no longer break you out of stealth.
* Updated the description on Heroic Prestige Vials to indicate that Prestige gain is only increased on kills.
* Gloamwood: Ral Teralar is back to making his normal rounds in Tearfall Creek.
* King’s Breach: Strange Plots of the Aelfwar should reset better for players re-entering the instance to complete this quest.
* Fixed the spawning of mismatched or non-animating Rift visuals.

GENERAL
* PvP Rifts: Fixed a bug that would allow you to take extracted sourcestone through a porticulum or into a Warfront.
* PvP: All Mage and Warrior pets now inherit 100% of their owner’s Valor. Rogue and Cleric pets have already been receiving this bonus.
* Life Saga: Damming the Steam: Players can now properly summon the bosses for this quest, and resummon them again if they have not completed all quest objectives.

HAMMERKNELL
* Rune King Molinar: Reduced health of Molinar and Dollin. There will now be more time between Incorporeal Revenant activations.
* Grugonim: Bloodplague Essence damage bonus has been increased.
* Akylios: Increased enrage timer by 5 minutes. Health slightly reduced.
* Jornaru: Health slightly reduced.
* Inwar Darktide: Dark Tide: There is no escape – you can no longer use line of sight to avoid this ability.