Dallas;3871827 said:
Duane -
Can you throw the patch notes into a post? I hate to bother you but our Bluecoat broadband conservation application is doing a splendid job atm.
Thank you
Detailed patch notes:
Rift 1.01 - [NA] 3/10/11 8:00am PST
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.
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 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.
* 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.
* Cash loot is now auto-split in all group loot modes, including Free-for-All.
* Players are now automatically bound to the Soul Recall point of the first Porticulum Master they speak to.
* Achievement: Seeking Solace: Fixed an issue causing the achievement to grant early and prevent you from looting the other objects.
RIFTS AND INVASIONS
* Fixed a bug during Major Rifts where low ranking contributors wouldn't get Planarite. All contributors should receive at least some Planarite.
* Reduced the amount of zone event participation required to earn the rare Sourceshards.
* Experience for Rift, Invasion, and Foothold content now scales down from these increased levels when very oversized groups are participating – with the net result being that very large groups should see experience values similar to the amounts granted prior to this update. Smaller groups will see increased experience reward.
* Reduced Notoriety gained from Invasions from 75 to 50 total.
* Increased the bonus health given to Rift NPCs when nearby player population is high. Also added increased damage based on population.
* Added additional fail-safes to ensure Colossi bosses appear at the end of events.
CULT SAGA
* The Care and Imprisonment of Changelings: Changed to not require you to have claimed the colossi mob. You only need to participate in the kill.
* Links in the pages of the book 'Clever Kehmeh' have been fixed so all seven pages are readable.
* Anthousa Mona and Kaspar Massi have updated character models. Kaspar also has a new voice!
* The necklace rewards for the Epic Cult Saga have had their power increased.
ANCIENT WARDSTONES
* Quests for Ancient Wardstones are now labeled as such in your quest journal.
* After turning in quests at some Ancient Wardstones, a Rare Planar Goods Merchant might appear so you can purchase sweet gear with the currency you just earned.
GUILD PERKS
* Journeyman has been fixed and will now work as described.
COMBAT
* Abilities and other effects that increase the duration of other effects now do so before that duration calculation is modified by diminishing returns.
* You can no longer cycle between ranged and melee weapons while casting an ability.
* Fixed several maintained buffs that would cause non-offensive polymorphs to break (ex: troll disguise in Stonefield, etc).
SOUL
* Clerics: Fixed a bug causing some procced heals to consume effects that modify next heal.
ARCHON
* Ashen Defense: Corrected the debuff tooltip to match the ability description.
* Mental Flare: The cooldown reduction provided by Swift Thoughts is now reflected in the ability tooltip.
* Pillaging Stone: Rank 9 and 10 now give the correct buff values when cast.
* Searing Vitality: Damage can now critically hit.
* Consuming Flames: The self-damage portion of this ability will no longer critically hit the caster.
* Burning Purpose: Polymorph, Confuse, Root, and Fear effects will not trigger the damage proc.
ASSASSIN
* Expose Weakness: Fixed a bug so that the charges of this ability are only consumed by physical damage effects. Also fixed so it correctly adds extra damage.
* Poison Malice: Removed from global cooldown. Now costs 25 Energy to activate.
BARD
* Deafening Music: This ability now updates the tooltip damage numbers for Coda of Fury and Coda of Wrath.
* Coda of Cowardice: Debuff should now be in the same stacking group as the Archon's Ashen Defense and the Shaman's Vengeance of the Piercing Cold.
* Using Verse of Fascination or Verse of Captivation now turns off auto-attack, since these effects break on damage.
BEASTMASTER
* Backhanded Blow: Now gives an Attack Point and triggers the global cooldown.
BLADEDANCER
* Dancing Steel: Fixed so that it includes immunity to knockback when active.
* Blade Tempo, Blade and Soul Parity, Dualism, Double Coup: Removed from global cooldown. These now cost 25 Energy to activate.
CABALIST
* Nebulous Haze: Now only increases cast time by the 20% shown in the tooltip.
CHLOROMANCER
* Entropic Veil: Will no longer be overwritten by less effective buffs.
* Nature’s Touch: Rank 2 now gives 22 Charge when cast.
* Essence Surge: Reduced aggro generated by this ability.
DOMINATOR
* Instant-cast spells no longer consume Quick Thinking proc effects.
* Improved Mana Wrench: Now correctly affects the energy drain of Mana Wrench rank 4.
* Transmogrify will no longer land on the Dominator if it is reflected.
DRUID
* Satyr: Reduced size of the model; it's now approximate in size to a Bahmi.
* Faerie’s Favor: Now limited to one stack per caster, instead of one stack total.
ELEMENTALIST
* Icy Carapace: Fixed an issue with the ability description and debuff tooltip. They now correctly show damage values. This is also correctly modified by all effects that apply to Water damage.
INFILTRATOR [PvP]
* Fixed a number of ability tooltip issues.
INQUISITOR
* Soul Drain: No longer applies Clinging Spirit without the caster having spent any points on that ability. Changed tooltip to better indicate that this is a player-based area of effect ability.
* Bolt of Judgment: Fixed the Spell Power contribution on ranks 1-9.
* Clinging Spirit: Fixed the tooltip to reflect that this only increases magical damage taken.
* Life and Death Concord: Description now properly indicates that the effect may not occur again for 6 seconds, rather than 8.
JUSTICAR
* Righteous Mandate: No longer blocks itself from being recast on the same target.
* Doctrine of Loyalty: Rank 5 now properly removes a Conviction.
MARKSMAN
* Hit and Run, Controlled Fire, Close Quarters Combat, and Fire and Forget: Removed from global cooldown. Now cost 25 Energy to activate.
* Quick Reload: Removed from global cooldown.
* Retreat: Should now put you 20 meters back from your current location at use.
* Lightning Fury: Fixed a tooltip error so it properly indicates that this reduces armor by a fixed value, instead of a percentage. Tooltip also now updates when spending points in Collateral Damage.
* Fan Out: Tooltip now updates when you add points into Collateral Damage.
* On the Double, Gateway: The additional effect making you immune to Snares and Roots (when you've purchased Gateway) is now displayed on On the Double.
NECROMANCER
* Skeletal Zealot: Fixed ranks 1, 2, 4, and 5 to properly respawn if it was alive when the owner died in a Warfront.
* Lich Form: Fixed a tooltip issue.
NIGHTBLADE
* Fell Blades: Healing debuff should now be in the same stacking group as the Druid's Spiteful Spirit.
* Ebon Fury: Taken off of global cooldown. Now costs 25 energy to activate.
* Scourge of Darkness: Can no longer miss, be parried, dodged, or blocked.
PALADIN
* Balance of Power, Tip the Balance: Fixed an issue where these were being additionally affected by Attack Power, making the heal amount greater than it should have been.
* Paladin’s Reprisal: Now has icons that match between the ability and the Soul Tree.
* Aegis of Salvation: Now stacks correctly with other Endurance buffs.
PURIFIER
* Searing Transfusion: Will no longer consume effects that don't actually modify it, such as Flashover, Enflamed Rejuvenation, or Greater Empowerment.
* Life of the Era: Fixed the tooltip to clear up confusion with the radius appearing to be the buff value.
* Fiery Blessing: No longer triggers the global cooldown, as the tooltip already claimed it did.
PYROMANCER
* Heat Wave, Internalize Charge: Will no longer be overwritten by less effective buffs.
* Withering Flames: Increased damage.
* Wildfire: Procs now appear in the reactive abilities UI.
* Backdraft: Rank 1 tooltip now lists the correct damage values.
RANGER
* Fleeting Instinct: Fixed so that it doesn't cause stealth to break when active.
* Master Huntsman: Fixed a spelling error in ability description.
* Track Beasts, Track Humanoids: Updated the tooltips to indicate that only one tracking ability can be active at a time.
* Prey on the Weak: Fixed a tooltip bug.
REAVER
* Crest of the Abyss: Now properly applies its armor buff.
RIFTSTALKER
* Boosted Recovery: The incoming healing bonus has been reduced to 2-6%, down from 10-30%, to be in line with the Warlord ability Figurehead.
* Ruthless Stalker, Rift Barrier, Freedom of Movement, Hasted Time: No longer causes Stealth to break when using Shadow Shift, Shadow Stalk, Shadow Warp, and Flashback.
* Stalker Phase: No longer causes Stealth to break when using Shadow Stalk.
* Track Air Rifts: Updated the tooltip to indicate that only one tracking ability can be active at a time.
* Fixed a bug allowing Riftstalker teleports to cause them to occasionally fall through the world.
SABOTEUR
* Carpet Bombing: Taken off of global cooldown. Now costs 25 Energy to activate.
* Annihilation Bomb: Should now deal damage if the enemy is immune to stuns instead of failing both damage and stun components.
* Track Constructs: Updated the tooltip to indicate that only one tracking ability can be active at a time.
SHAMAN
* Frozen Earth: No longer stacks with other snares.
* Courage of the Bear: Fixed the tooltip to include restriction of only maintaining one Courage at a time.
* Bitter Wind: Tooltip now explains that this ability does not trigger a global cooldown.
* Lightning Hammer: Fixed Rank 7's tooltip.
* Endless Winter: Will now show the icon with Show Ability Icons option enabled.
* Brutalize: Updated the icon to actually look like a bleed effect instead of using the same icon as Massive Blow.
STORMCALLER
* Arctic Blast: Now has a 20 second cooldown.
* Improved Electrocute: Now properly affects the cooldown of Electrocute.
TEMPLAR [PvP]
* Echoes of Ascension: Now also restores 20% mana.
* Blessing of the Stone, Creeping Remedy, Little Off the Top: All of these will now correctly appear with Show Ability Icons setting enabled.
VOID KNIGHT
* Discharge: To better fit with desired usage, Discharge has a few new changes. Cooldown has been changed to 8 seconds. Damage reduced to come in line with other large-hit abilities. The Damage effect is now increased by Attack Power, to scale better with characters and gear.
* Singularity: Tooltip now displays the correct durations for each Attack Point.
* Rift Summon: Fixed tooltip.
* Quality Care: Clarified the tooltip on this ability to help explain it better.
WARDEN
* Healing Cataract: Fixed a bug causing the mana cost to be calculated as a single-target heal rather than a raid heal.
* Crushing Wave: Range reduced to 20 meters.
* Overflow: Now with more actual heals!
WARLOCK
* Reconstruct: Reduced aggro generation of this ability.
WARLORD
* Intercept: Can now be used on allies that are behind the Warlord.
* Aspect of the Elements: Power cost changed to match with other Aspects.
* Empowering Strike: Threat generation has been increased to match Leader's Mark.
ZONES
DROUGHTLANDS
* The Stray One: Podovaxus should now properly give quest credit.
* Podoxavus is no longer quite so spammy on death.
* Tampering With the Well: Fixed an issue causing this quest to not update correctly.
* Splitmouth Shamans have changed to Splitmouth Elementalists and regained their casting class, including more pew pew!
FREEMARCH
* There is a new porticulum at Knight's Stand to make travel around Freemarch easier. We also added a path from one side of Smith's Haven to the other.
* Washed Away: Reduced Mayor Jerrin's respawn time.
* I Heard a Storm Was Coming: Reduced the Fathomlord's respawn time.
* No Mercy for the Merciless: Reduced Iriri the Merciless' respawn time.
* Burning Down the Hill: Increased the number of tents that can be set on fire, and decreased the respawn of kerosene urns. Decreased general frustration level by 80%.
*The Living and The Dead: Fixed an issue that could cause innocent bystanders to be teleported to Scarlet Gorge during this quest.
* A Rift location close to Meridian that spawned NPCs inside of rocks should no longer do so.
IRON PINE PEAKS
* Fixed a missing quest - Protector of Your Weak - in the Guardian quest flow.
* Dagda Skullthumper, the Redsnow bandit, should no longer return to life instantly when slain.
MERIDIAN
* Removed the obsolete reagent vendor. These were not the items you were looking for.
MOONSHADE HIGHLANDS
* Hammerlord Post has more generally 'interesting' things going on in it.
* Polish to loot tables for Rift events.
SCARLET GORGE
* The Living and the Dead: Now with voiceover!
* A Failure of Leadership: Fixed an issue that caused this quest to take a long time to reset.
SCARWOOD REACH
* In the Blighted Pit, characters with pets should no longer aggro Gnarlbone while he is still behind his energy field.
* Crushing Chitin: Total amount of Bloodsilk Mageweavers has been increased, which should make this quest less frustrating.
* Friend to Nature: Tamed Beast no longer auto-flags Defiants for PvP when they defend themselves.
* Rift - Eaters of the Dead: The Sable Broodmother should now be killable.
