Rift: Crucia's Claw Changelog

What's new in Rift: Crucia's Claw July 10th 2019

Jul 17, 2019

Battle Pass:
Battle Pass season 1 ends on 7/17 at 7:00 am. Rewards can still be claimed for 1 week after it ends.
Shiny Shenanigans:
The discount on random artifacts will continue until 7/10 at 11:59 pm. There is a known issue where the discount will not be reflected in the Artifacts menu after this patch.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw February 6th 2019 (Feb 14, 2019)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.5 Hotfix #20 (Nov 7, 2018)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.5 Hotfix #19 (Oct 26, 2018)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.5 Hotfix #9 (Aug 20, 2018)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.5 Hotfix #7 (Aug 13, 2018)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.5 Hotfix #6 (Aug 3, 2018)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.5 Hotfix #4 (Aug 1, 2018)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.4 Hotfix #17 (Jun 30, 2018)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.4 Hotfix #6 (Apr 16, 2018)

GENERAL
Creating a guild through the UI now costs one platinum, making it the same price as a guild creation scroll.
Fixed an issue with level boosting potions not always awarding the proper amount of experience to boost you to the intended level.
SOULS
MAGE
FROSTKEEPER
The threat generated from Earthen Rapport has been reduced.
Players and pets can now only have 1 stack of a Frostkeeper barrier on them at a time.
ROGUE
RIFTSTALKER
The cooldown for Rift Disturbance has been removed. Damage has been slightly reduced but threat has been increased.
WARRIOR
PALADIN
The cooldown for Sweeping Strike has been removed. Damage has been slightly reduced but threat has been increased.
Increased the threat to the following abilities: Light’s Vengeance, Light’s Reprisal, and Vengeful Decree.
VOID KNIGHT
The cooldown for Tempest has been removed. Damage has been slightly reduced but threat has been increased.
Increased the threat to the following abilities: Ragestorm, Unstable Reacion, and Discharge.
DUNGEONS & RAIDS
BASTION OF STEEL
Fixed an ending issue for Vindicator MK1’s “Burning Ground” where it could affect players outside of the instance under rare circumstances
THE FALL OF LANTERN HOOK
Fixed a bug where Pyromaster Cortilnald would go taunt immune.
ZONES & EVENTS
DROUGHTLANDS
Zone Event: Saving Lantern Hook: Fixed an issue with the health scaling for Tarthak the Immolator.
Quest: In the Image of My Enemy: Fixed an issue with the Dragonian disguise expiring immediately
PVP & WARFRONTS
Bolstering for Warfronts in the 10-50 range now use the same type of bolstering as 50+ Warfronts. Please post feedback or any bugs encountered with the new system on the forums.
CRAFTING
APOTHECARY
Missing apothecary recipes have returned!
SURVIVALISTS
The Planar Cane reagent has been removed, and any remaining in game are now grey items. The Sugar recipe has also been removed. Sugar can be purchased directly from reagent vendors or the store for 5p.
RIFT 4.4: Hotfix #6 4/11/2018
== PRIME: VIGIL PATCH NOTES ==
== FEATURE UNLOCKS! ==
Note: These will unlock at 9 AM PDT.
THE BATTLE FOR PORT SCION
Everyone’s favorite Warfront has come to Prime!
MORE EXPERT DUNGEONS
Expert versions of the following dungeons are now available: Abyssal Precipice, Charmer’s Caldera, Deepstrike Mines, and Runic Descent!
EPIC QUEST CHAINS
The Life and Death Sagas are now active!
== GAME UPDATE ==
GENERAL
Creating a guild through the UI now costs one platinum, making it the same price as a guild creation scroll.
UI & SETTINGS
Fixed an issue with the suggested Hit value being incorrect.
SOULS
MAGE
FROSTKEEPER
The threat generated from Earthen Rapport has been reduced.
Players and pets can now only have 1 stack of a Frostkeeper barrier on them at a time.
Healing procced by Earthen Barrier has been reduced.
ROGUE
RIFTSTALKER
The cooldown for Rift Disturbance has been removed. Damage has been slightly reduced but threat has been increased.
WARRIOR
CHAMPION
Slightly increased damage of Mighty Blow.
Moderately increased the damage of Titan’s Strike.
Greatly increased the damage of Bladefury.
PALADIN
The cooldown for Sweeping Strike has been removed. Damage has been slightly reduced but threat has been increased.
Fixed an issue where when using Shield of the Hero, auto-attacks would do zero damage.
Increased the threat to the following abilities: Light’s Vengeance, Light’s Reprisal, and Vengeful Decree.
PARAGON
Increased the damage of Shifting Blades.
Greatly increased the damage of Way of the Wind.
Slightly increased the damage of Deadly Parity.
VOID KNIGHT
The cooldown for Tempest has been removed. Damage has been slightly reduced but threat has been increased.
Increased the threat to the following abilities: Ragestorm, Unstable Reacion, and Discharge.
DUNGEONS & RAIDS
The drop rate of mounts from dungeon bosses has been increased.
ABYSSAL PRECIPICE
Caylx the Ancient deals less damage.
CHARMER'S CALDERA
Smouldaron: Deals a bit less damage.
Cyclorax: Deals slightly less damage.
Ryka Dharvos: Deals moderately less damage.
Caelia the Stormtouched: Deals less damage.
THE FALL OF LANTERN HOOK
Fixed a bug where Pyromaster Cortilnald would go taunt immune.
ZONES & EVENTS
DROUGHTLANDS
Zone Event: Saving Lantern Hook: Fixed an issue with the health scaling for Tarthak the Immolator.
Quest: In the Image of My Enemy: Fixed an issue with the Dragonian disguise expiring immediately
PVP & WARFRONTS
Bolstering for Warfronts in the 10-50 range now use the same type of bolstering as 50+ Warfronts. Please post feedback or any bugs encountered with the new system on the forums.
CRAFTING
APOTHECARY
Missing apothecary recipes have returned!
SURVIVALISTS
The Planar Cane reagent has been removed, and any remaining in game are now grey items. The Sugar recipe has also been removed. Sugar can be purchased directly from reagent vendors or the store for 5p.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.3 Hotfix #12 (Jan 18, 2018)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.3 Hotfix #11 (Jan 10, 2018)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.3 Hotfix #10 (Dec 20, 2017)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.3 Hotfix #9 (Dec 13, 2017)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.3 Hotfix #8 (Dec 7, 2017)

FEATURES:
CAPTURED INTEL AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE:
Captured Intel currency can now be earned from more sources
Zone events in Scatherran Forest, Gedlo Badlands, Xarth Mire, and Ashenfell
Defeating bosses in Celestial Adventures
Completing any level 70 random expert dungeon when expending a dungeon charge
ANY Looking For Raid boss kill!
Additionally, Captured Intel Caches are now available for purchase once per day in the Rift store, under Equipment > Upgrade Parts!
FAE YULE ARRIVES:
Fae Yule officially starts on Thursday, December 7, 2017 at 3:30 PM Server Time. Get more time to enjoy the season than last year, with the event concluding on Thursday, January 4, 2018 at 3:30 PM Server Time.
WHAT'S BACK:
All of your favorites are returning, including quests, IAs, zone events, A Very Fae Yule Whitefall Warfront, ugly sweaters, bearded caps, festive mounts – the whole nine yards!
NEW AND IMPROVED FAELIGHT SPARKLE EXTRAVAGANZA:
Everyone’s favorite Faelight Sparkles returns this year. Earn Tier 2 gear with each turn in. As an added bonuses, the first time completing this quest rewards the new Gumdrop Levitation mount as well!
WHAT'S NEW:
New Frosty Moosedantix Power Pack & Other New Packs
New Fae Yule Bagling Supply Crate
New Themed Cosmetic Weapons, Outfit, & Wings
New Holiday Weapon Rune
New Winter Drape Cape (Tier 2, Level 70)
New Seasonal Dimension & Dimension Items
New and Improved Faelight Sparkle Extravaganza Activity Rewards
RIFT Credit Top Up Sale
...And More!
NEW DAILY LOGIN REWARD:
Log in to receive a Box of Bogling Bounty which contains a chance at ANY one of Opie's Artifact Caches, common uncommon, rare, epic or even RELIC! You'll also receive 75 to 100 Captured Intel and 2 to 5 Lucky Coins as well. Enjoy!
GAME UPDATES:
GENERAL:
The max HP stat from planar fragments will no longer be counted while mentored.
Should no longer be possible to look through walls in the first person camera view.
Achievement: Seldom Seen, In the Stream: The amount of npcs has been lowered from 500 down to 20. As a result, the point allotment for the achievement has also been lowered, from 50 to 20.
RIFT STORE & SERVICES:
Fae Yule Patron Sale: For a limited time, get a full year of RIFT Patron for only $99! That’s a savings of over $30 USD!
Updated prices for Souls & Calling available for purchase at character create.
NEW PACKS ARE AVAILABLE:
Frosty Moosedantix Power Pack:
For only $19.99, bring home your very own frosty blue Moosedantix mount, plus other goodies. More details can be found in the Frosty Moosedantix blog post here.
Dragon’s Hoard:
This massive new pack features a Greenscale mount (unlocks for all characters on your account), one random premium mount, Caches of Premium Intel, Widow Makers Costume, and 5,000,000 loyalty (20x normal value) for only $249. This mega pack can only be purchased once per account.
Fae Yule Bagling Cache:
The community has spoken and we listened! Get a tradeable Fae Yule Bagling Mount (usually only available from the Fae Yule Bagling Supply Crate as a random reward), a Cache of Captured Intel, and 500,000 Loyalty (5x normal value) for $99!
ITEMS:
The Uttila merchant has been updated with Vostigar Commander Jewelry Boxes! At 15,000 Intel, these boxes will net you tier 2 jewelry that can be upgraded.
Fragments: The Platinum costs on infusion have been reduced by 50%.
Eternal Armor: Fixed an issue where the activated abilities of the Mask of the Prisoner, Vicious Pauldrons of the Privateer, and Spines of the Planar Conqueror were not functioning correctly or at all.
SOULS:
MAGE:
MYSTIC ARCHER:
Increased the rendering priority of Mystic Archer pick-ups for improved visibility.
ROGUE:
MARKSMAN:
Fixed an issue where the damage buff from Barbed Shot was able to stack from multiple players.
ZONES & EVENTS:
RAID RIFT: IRON LEGION:
The adds on the final wave will now despawn when G.A.K.A.T.T is defeated.
VOSTIGAR PEAKS:
Fixed an issue where players could complete more than five daily quests per day. NOTE: All daily and daily meta quests will now auto-complete upon finishing them as a result.
DUNGEONS & RAIDS:
BASTION OF STEEL:
Fixed an issue where some broadcasts were playing twice. Thanks Aileenbor@Icewatch!
QUEEN'S FOCI:
Fixed an issue where players were able to get outside of the intended play space.
COMET OF AHNKET:
The achievement “Crystal Crushing Craze” should now be rewarding correctly.
UI & SETTINGS:
The correct icon for the Mystic Archer will now be displayed in the soul tree.
Fixed an issue where the crafting skill progress bar could be longer than the window.
ADDONS:
Added new addon command, Command.CopyToClipboard. This takes in a string and puts it into the clipboard

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.3 Hotfix #7 (Nov 29, 2017)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.3 Hotfix #6 (Nov 22, 2017)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.3 Hotfix #5 (Nov 15, 2017)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.3 Hotfix #4 (Nov 9, 2017)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.3 Hotfix #2 (Nov 8, 2017)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.3 Hotfix #1 (Oct 26, 2017)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.2 Hotfix #15 (Oct 20, 2017)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.2 Hotfix #14 (Oct 11, 2017)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.2 Hotfix #13 (Oct 4, 2017)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.2 Hotfix #12 (Sep 27, 2017)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.2 Hotfix #11 (Sep 21, 2017)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.2 Hotfix #10 (Sep 18, 2017)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.2 Hotfix #9 (Sep 13, 2017)

GENERAL:
Notoriety purchase limits are now character based instead of region based.
Fixed the overly bright sky in the Volcanic Playground dimension.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
Fixed an issue with some lower level zone events giving lower level currency to lvl 65+ players that were properly mentored for the event.
Characters in Intrepid Instant Adventures are now able respawn within the IA without problems.
SHIMMERSAND:
Quest: Follow the Coin: Clarified in the quest text that the quest must be completed in the dungeon on Standard difficulty
VOSTIGAR PEAKS:
Assaulting forts during zone events should no longer occasionally reward low level essences.
Instant Adventures in Vostigar Peaks will now count towards the weekly quest "Planar Assault" as they should.
Daily Quests: Fixed an issue with daily quests available from Erendel Danath resetting progress if not completed before the daily reset
Instant Adventures in Vostigar Peaks will now properly contribute to the objectives for the Celestial Adventures weekly quest.
LOOKING FOR RAID:
Accepting the map invite for LFR if queued while as a premade inside of a raid will now properly teleport you to the correct map.
Queuing for LFR again after completing LFR will now properly place your raid in a new instance of that map and teleport you to the entrance. However, from this point forward, you will be considered a premade, not an LFR raid.
SOULS:
CLERIC:
Eternal Weapons now correctly allow spells to benefit from the bonus damage if they would push your mana below the threshold. Mana cost increase reduced from 100% to 10%.
MAGE:
ARCHON:
Arcane Aegis will now correctly grant the appropriate amount of armor to all affected players. Tooltip will now correctly describe the amount of armor granted.
DOMINATOR:
Death's Edict now correctly triggers Dominant Personality and Swift Control.
ELEMENTALIST:
Weathered will now correctly increase the health of pets.
NECROMANCER:
Legendary Condemn has been reworked. It no longer grants stacks of Deathly Calling when it expires. It instead deals increased damage. It still increases the stack cap of Deathly Calling to 10.
WARLOCK:
Legendary Neddra's Grasp should now correctly apply Lingering Torment in all cases.
PRIMALIST:
FARSEER:
After several…unfortunate side effects on test subjects during experiments with Materialize Soul, it has lost the ability to be cast while dead.
MYSTIC:
Removed an extra damage number from Bind Life and Air Lash. This is only a tooltip change. Functionality remains unchanged.
PRESERVER:
Points in Roaring Rapids no longer incorrectly also grant the benefit of Nature's Keeper.
Cleanse now correctly describes how it affects the Focus bar when cast.
PRIMAL LORD:
Legendary Scything Strike can no longer be triggered on targets more than 35m away.
VULCANIST:
Legendary Molten Wave no longer incorrectly has too large a range.
Ethereal Beam has had its damage in PVP reduced by roughly 50%.
ROGUE:
SABOTEUR:
Removed Charge counter from targets when playing as Saboteur.
Charges will now correctly restrict your explosives again.
TACTICIAN:
Torrents can now trigger weapon enhancements such as Silver Tip Munitions.
WARRIOR:
PALADIN:
Touch of Life now notes in the tooltip that it has reduced effectiveness in PVP. This is only a tooltip change. Functionality remains unchanged.
ITEMS:
Weekly login gifts no longer have a chance to drop lock box keys.
Level 60-65 Mercenary Equipment Caches will now give loot to players above level 65. Note that this will still be level 65 loot.
The cosmetic cape “Sagum of Rain” has been added to the Uttila Resistance vendor at Glorified notoriety level.
Added two new dimension items to the Uttila Resistance vendor.
Reduced the recipe material cost for Blackthorn Burgers slightly.
Fixed some missing wardrobe associations with a few in-game items.
Opie got over her fear of Arkosian Hinterlands and Arjuros and these locations should no longer be a problem to teleport to

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.2 Hotfix #8 (Sep 6, 2017)

UI AND SETTINGS:
Fixed a bug preventing players from seeing another player's icon in the raid frame if they went out of line of sight.
Fixed an issue where you would sometimes fall through the world when changing video settings.
INSTANT ADVENTURE:
Adventure groups in the Featured Adventure and Intrepid Adventure queues will experience more variety of instant adventures.
Vostigar Peaks has been added to the Instant Adventures zone rotation! Hit [.] and select Celestial Adventures to get in on the action.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
Fixed an issue with Zone Event notifications not properly displaying. Now, when the event is starting on a shard different from your home shard, the red alert text and flashing icon properly show in the UI and on the map.
Raid Rift: Iron Legion: Fixed a bug where the slow aura could get stuck on you.
ALITTU:
Queens Foci: The weekly quest giver and the Mages of Alittu Quartermaster have now taken up camp in Camp Quagmire.
Quest: Through Hell and Back Again: Clarified in the quest that it must be completed in LFR difficulty.
GEDLO BADLANDS:
Quest: The Battle of Saint Taranis and the Echo of the Battle of Saint Taranis: Fixed an issue where sometimes Garn would not spawn in Saint Taranis.
MOONSHADE HIGHLANDS:
Fixed floating grass around the Moonshade Highlands porticulum.
TERMINUS:
Quest: Gathering Power: Removed the ability to interact with Sourcestone Ore in Regent’s Fall. (This was mistakenly not removed in the Terminus revamp of yore!).
SOULS:
MAGE:
NECROMANCER:
Soul Bond should no longer incorrectly fall off your pet if it moves more than 30m from you.
PYROMANCER:
Wildfire Procs will no longer show too many reactive icons.
PRIMALIST:
MYSTIC:
Bind Life/Air Lash now correctly describe what focus state they require to be cast.
PRIMAL LORD:
Legendary Scything Strike has been adjusted to provide a reduced bonus, and its location in the math has changed so that it will be less potent when stacked with other effects.
ROGUE:
BLADEDANCER:
Side Steps will now correctly come off cooldown when it says that it does.
SABOTEUR:
Time Bomb and Charges should now work correctly after dying.
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS:
CHRONICLE OF ATTUNEMENT:
The Vigil’s plan to stop Shadavarian by dropping a giant statue on his head did not go according to prophecy. Therefore they have removed their artwork from the Ceremony of Attunement chronicle.
ITEMS:
The Eye of Omnox trinket will no longer incorrectly be triggered by abilities other than damaging and healing ones. It will also no longer be overwritten when multiple players proc it at once.
Tok Box can now only be used in either Allitu or Tok’s Proving Ground.
Eternal: Hellion's Stompers should now correctly activate automatically when equipped and not persist forever

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.2 Hotfix #7 (Aug 24, 2017)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.2 Hotfix #6 (Aug 17, 2017)

SOULS:
WARRIOR:
PARAGON:
Paragons will no longer incorrectly benefit from the talent "Unleashed" without putting points into it.
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS:
MIND OF MADNESS:
The achievement “The Prosecution Ripostes” now implicitly indicates on how to actually trigger this achievement.
TARTARIC DEPTHS:
Malannon: Added additional sounds to this fight.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
Rift assaults in the planes of Fire and Life have returned to Celestial Adventures!
GEDLO BADLANDS:
Instant Adventure: Tools of the Trade: Now functions better for those that have also done the discovery quest of the same name.
SCATHERRAN FOREST:
Fixed an issue where players could not turn in quests in Scatherran Forest if they had also completed the quest, “The Shadow Market”.
VOSTIGAR PEAKS:
Asha and Orphiel no longer spawn as companions in The Front after completing the main story arc.
Fixed an issue that caused the colossi in Vostigar Peaks to not show on the map for a week-- rather than a day-- after brutally murdering them for their shiny loot.
Zone Events: Fixed an issue where players who’d only contribute by killing the final boss were not getting rewards
Zone Event: The Tempest Rises: Fixed a bug where a cannon at the forgotten forest would spawn out of line of sight. Thanks go out to Aileen for this report!
Quest: We Can Build It: Fixed an issue where quest items would not go into a player’s quest inventory.
Quests: The following daily quests have been modified to better share progress for players in a party: “Leaving the Door Open”, “Mind the Mines”, “Return to Sender”. “Ashes to Ashes”, “Death From Above”, and “Ritual, Begone!”.
ITEM:
Fixed the amount of Source Fuel needed for the Jetpack mount’s temp abilities to match the tooltip.
Equipped planar fragments now prompt you if you try to recycle them.
PVP AND WARFRONTS:
Fixed an exploit that allowed you to see the name of the random warfront that popped for you prior to joining it.
PVP AND WARFRONTS:
Fixed an exploit that allowed you to see the name of the random warfront that popped for you prior to joining it.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.2 Hotfix #5 (Aug 9, 2017)

SOULS:
Eternal Weapons - Raid Buffs now have a cooldown of 5 minutes.
PRIMALIST:
PRIMAL LORD:
Fixed some missing sounds on primal lord abilities.
VULCANIST:
Damage of Legendary Molten Wave reduced substantially.
ROGUE:
MARKSMAN:
Legendary Deadeye Shot critical bonus damage reduced to 3.5x. Changed where this damage bonus is calculated to reduce its impact in certain cases.
Legendary Calculated shot now also increases the damage of Channels by 20% while active.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
Zone Event: Feeding Frenzy: Fixed an issue where players would not get the achievement for completing the zone event.
Raid Rift: Decay of Ahnket: Fixed Xerrax’s ability “Soul Rip” so that it cannot be reflected back on him.
Raid Rifts: Egg of Destruction & Decay of Ahnket: Added new sounds.
SANCTUM:
That amazing Statue in Tavril Plaza is now visible from across the bridge.
VOSTIGAR PEAKS:
Quest: The Queen of Suns: Asha, Orphiel, and The Queen of Suns now gather just outside of Kilcual only when defending Kilcual from the Storm Legion rather than forever.
Quest: Power to the Legion: Fixed an issue that prevented a number of players from being able to see the power cells.
Vostigar Peaks Jetpack Quests now have a minimum level of 70.
Quest: Maze of Steel: Added new sounds.
Quest: Source Decay: Bronze Goo in the Source Collectors should regain its form over time. That is if it doesn’t deconstruct all of the comet first. Best not to think on it too much.
Quest: Return to Sender: Fixed an issue with Return to Sender that prevented towers from respawning after having the tracking device placed on them.
Isabella at the Magician’s Tower no longer plays a subtle prank with the EULA on her porticulum master’s fine print.
The citizens of Uttila have learned new, cognitive patterns and created their own postal service: there is now a mailbox near the Uttilan faction vendor. Send letters to all your friends and let them know!
The Storm Legion has reinforced the defenses of the Maze of Steel, Fort Onocro, and Fort Strutio. Enter with caution.
Updated the population of the Forgotten Forest to account for instant adventure mobs!
LOOKING FOR RAID:
Queens Foci is now up in the Looking For Raid menu 100% of the time

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.2 Hotfix #4 (Aug 3, 2017)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.2 Hotfix #3 (Aug 2, 2017)

GENERAL:
Offline guild members can once again be promoted, demoted or kicked, no matter when they last logged in.
RIFT STORE & SERVICES:
The prize ticket store is here! Save up your tickets to buy mounts, upgrade components, bags, ascended items, and more! Check out the new tab in the Store!
Prize Tickets are now account wide! In order to populate a correct total, please log into all characters who have earned them. Upon logging in, that character's Prize Tickets will be added to your account’s total.
SOULS:
PRIMALIST:
Primalists may now properly queue for dungeons as a support.
PREDATOR:
Primal Fear: Now correctly places a debuff icon on targets who are stunned. This is only a buff icon change.
Several damage bonuses provided by this soul have been adjusted to reduce their impact in other souls.
Final Moment and Blindside have had their PVP damage reduced.
DUNGEONS & RAIDS:
QUEEN'S GAMBIT CHRONICLE:
Fixed an issue in which players who enter through the portal could get stuck inside the instance.
TARTARIC DEPTHS NORMAL:
Fixed a bug where Tarjulia and the Council of Fate enrage timers were not working as intended.
CURRENCY CHANGES:
Commendations of Renown and Marks of Notoriety no longer drop. Any existing Commendations and Marks can be turned in for Notoriety as they always have.
Sigils of Valor can be purchased with Affinity once per day.
A Sigil of Valor can be redeemed in the Rift Store for Writs of Notoriety (Boosts >> Notoriety).
Sigils of Valor now sometimes comes from Instant Adventure boss fights and rarely from zone events.
INSTANT ADVENTURE:
The lvl 70 weekly Instant Adventure quest “Planar Assault” is now credited for any Celestial Adventure completed.
All boss fights and close Rift adventures grant Planar Defense Force notoriety.
Celestial Adventures require a minimum level of 65 to join.
ZONES AND EVENT:
VOSTIGAR PEAKS:
Story Quests: Companions will now respawn for story conversations during main story quests.
Weekly Quests: These now properly reward players on completions after the first turn in.
Weekly Quest: Enemy of My Enemy Is…: This quest now more accurately keeps track of progress week to week.
Quests: Playing Doctor, Watch your Step: Made the quest objectives increment for players in a party, and slightly increased the respawn rates.
Tenon Fortress: Reduced the outgoing damage of the Legion Infantry.
Primus Augur is now above ground and ready for action.
Glued various floating object to the ground with industrial strength stonetouched epoxy.
Quest: The Maze of Steel: Weapons of Mass Destruction no longer get in the way of dramatic character moments.
Quest: Cracking the Mirror: Exiting the Simulacrum Factory early on in the quest will no longer prevent re-entry.
Quest: Prophecy of Peace: Added a map indicator for the first objective.
Daily Quest: Tank and Spank: This quest can now be completed as intended.
Daily Quest: Deploy SIMBOT: Implemented a possible fix preventing players from being able to complete this quest.
Updated several quest item tooltips.
Fixed issues with several quests that could get stuck uncompleted or cause substantial delays for players.
Entrances to Crucia’s underground facilities are now denoted on the minimap for quests that send you into them.
The Legion has settled on the appropriate spelling of Auxilia for their conscription forces.
ART:
Fixed the visual effects for the Shiny Wisps of Zoom mount.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.2 Hotfix #2 (Jul 26, 2017)

SUMMERFEST:
The achievement “Summer Royalty” no longer has “Beach Bash!” as a requirement. “Beach Bash!” has been moved to the Legacy section.
Quest: Telara Dog and Pony Show - Part 1: In order to accept this quest, players must have a corgi pet in their collection. The list of valid corgi companion pets has been expanded to include Radar and Holly!
GENERAL:
Fixed a bug preventing players from editing their own guild note.
Fixed a bug preventing guild leaders from managing their guild members properly.
Note: Guild leaders may not be able to manage guild members that have been inactive for an extended period of time. A fix for this is coming in a future hotfix.
Nameplates now show up once more while the Low Quality Renderer mode is enabled.
RIFT STORE AND SERVICES:
Level 72 Practice Dummies are now in the store under Dimensions > Interactive > Dummies!
SOULS:
PRIMALIST:
PRIMAL LORD:
Legendary Scything Strike and its automatic procs now work on legendary abilities.
Hawk's Wrath and Bear's Fury will no longer be overwritten by multiple primalists.
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS:
TARTARIC DEPTHS NORMAL:
Implemented a possible fix for Beligosh resetting. However, if you encounter this issue again, please feel free to post any additional information in our new Bug Reports forum!
Fixed an issue during Beligosh's final phase that allowed players to avoid flame waves.
Fixed Beligosh's leaderboard.
TYRANT'S FORGE:
Fixed an issue that may have disqualified players from The Unseen achievement.
Overwatches no longer rapidly strafe the fight space as soon as they activate.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
PLANETOUCHED WILDS:
The Planetouched Wilds achievement Keep What You Kill no longer requires killing Teth Biye.
SCATTHERAN FOREST:
Zone Event: Conflagration’s Wreath of Flames now has a maximum stack size of three.
VOSTIGAR PEAKS:
Daily Quests: Increased the spawn rate of NPCs and objects require to complete dailies across the board.
Daily Quest: Inside Chaos: Fixed a bug where quest objectives would not respawn.
Daily Quest: Paint the Base Red: Improved Tasuil's behavior during this quest.
After observing the Ascended heroics this past week, the Uttila Resistance has warmed to these newcomers. Access to the ranks of Glorified has now been granted!
Gormon's slaughter of all the infernal copy editors continues to have ramifications in Telara. More typos were fixed, but that only means that there are more to be found.
The Legion's equipment, though infused with the power of the plane of air, will no longer float unintentionally.
The Fail Sky Whale is persistent on the Squawk Vox, but Legion magitechnicians swear, under pain of their impending deaths, that the Queen's message to the troops is now being broadcast appropriately.
Quest: Maze of Steel: SPOILER WARNING: Crucia will no longer trap players outside the arena in the Maze of Steel. That’s not fair Crucia! Tricky dragon.
Quest: Maze of Steel: SPOILER WARNING: Fixed an issue where Crucia or Ahnket could become unkillable.
Samova and Bloodseraph Riancha have been converted from Never Spawns to Rare Spawns.
XARTH MIRE:
Some of the more fanatical population of this zone have been scolded for their exuberance and will no longer chase players across the map.
Fixed a typo in Melanie Dreamdancer's secondary name.
UI AND SETTINGS:
Fixed a bug preventing crafting material tooltips from displaying properly.
ITEMS:
Essences from Raid Rifts now require Cosmic Triggers instead of Stellar Triggers to upgrade, as do certain jewelry items found in Vostigar Peaks.
The Uttila Resistance quartermaster now sells Cosmic Triggers for 4500 Captured Intel

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.2 Hotfix #1 (Jul 24, 2017)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.2 (Jul 20, 2017)

FEATURES:
FOUR NEW PRIMALIST SOULS:
FARSEER:
A powerful area of effect healer who can twist and bends the threads of fate to divert harm, adjusting the very flow of time itself to bring back their largest and most powerful healing spells!
PRIMAL LORD:
A damage dealer who summons beasts of the wilds to augment their powerful swings with primal force. They deal with single targets incredibly well, and tear through their foes with bestial efficiency!
PREDATOR:
A stealthy burst damage dealer who emerges from the shadows to unleash death and fire upon their foes, striking with the fury of an Apex Predator! Their victory is assured because of the speed and ferocity of their strikes.
MYSTIC:
A support who bends the elements of Life and Air to empower and embolden their allies. Bringing the force of a storm under control to aid their adventures makes the Mystic a powerful member of any group!
NEW ZONE: VOSTIGAR PEAKS:
A prophecy of doom, a war between destruction and tyranny, and the destruction of an alpine paradise by the clash of cosmic powers: this is the war being waged in Vostigar Peaks. The Storm Queen Crucia has descended upon the Comet of Ahnket to end the threat of the Tenebrean Tower. Victory for either side is not certain, but one thing remains clear: no matter who wins, Telara and the Ascended lose.
Vostigar Peaks was once a beautiful mountain realm from the Plane of Life, where the flora residents guarded seculuded glens of power and mystery. Now the Storm Legion controls much of its ancient hillsides, and those that do not bow to Crucia still feed the Legions appetite for power one way or another. As terrifying as the Storm Legion is, the forces of the Tenebreans may still be worse. While to this point Ahnket has been content to observe and study the Ascended, once she engaged in battle Ahnket would burn the very laws of magic itself to fuel her ambition for total domination of the cosmos.
Travel with the Defiant general Asha Catari and her elusive mentor Orphiel Farwind— the recently revealed Tenebrean trickster— as they help the Ascended of Telara find a lasting peace, or failing that, an endless war to occupy their enemies.
TARTARIC DEPTHS: NORMAL MODE:
The Tartaric Depths Normal difficulty mode is now open! Players can enter the new portal located near the LFR portal in Ashenfell. New challenges and loot await you!
Tartaric Depths Normal will be unlocked for all at 12pm PDT / 7PM UTC!
SUMMERFEST RETURNS:
Summer is here and it's time for fun in the sun! All your favorite activities have returned, like scavenger hunts and artifact pinatas! The festivities begin on Friday July 21st at 3:30 PM server time. With Summerfest comes...
NEW ITEMS & CUSTOMIZATION:
New Outfits and Vanity Weapons: Carriage Livery, Coral weapons, Fairy Catcher Pack, and more!
New Seals!
New weapon VFX runes
NEW DIMENSION ITEMS:
Dimension Key: Turnis River Bunker
Dimension VFX: Bubbles, bubbles, and more bubbles
Dimension Terrain Paint Recipes: Vostigar Peaks and Scatherran Forest
GENERAL:
There are now a total of 30 Bank Vaults for purchase!
Our very long menu list of Target Marks have been reorganized into 3 separate Mark Target submenus for easier use. There is a separate menu for Numbers, Roles, and Symbols.
Fixed a bug that could cause ascended items to interfere with mentoring.
Fixed an issue preventing players from using /loadequip with certain unique items. Now, players may use the /loadequip command if the unique items in different sets are in the same slot.
IE: Having a unique earring in your first earring slot means that any other equipment sets must also have the unique earring in the first slot for /loadequip to work.
MINIONS:
Artifact Mission rewards have been totally reworked!
Character level now has some impact on artifact rewards.
Long and Premium missions now give 4 artifacts each now.
Long missions give access to Standard, Twisted, and Fishing artifacts of all rarities.
Premium missions give access to Unstable, Poison, Burning, Nightmare, Special (mostly Chronicle), and Bounty artifacts of all rarities.
Some artifacts sets, such as those from World Events, no longer are returned via Minion Missions.
Finally, rewards have been updated to include artifacts released up through the launch of Prophecy of Ahnket!
SOULS:
Presets have been updated, and now have suggested Legendary choices!
As Masteries can be changed at will, they no longer reset when purchasing a soul reset.
CLERIC:
Mastery: Punishing Strike cooldown reduced to 8 seconds.
CABALIST:
Condensed Obliteration should no longer fire when the Cleric dies.
Sigil of Ruin and Sigil of Binding no longer benefit from Dominion.
DRUID:
Righteous Protection mastery will now only trigger when consuming the Resounding Blow buff as expected.
Legendary Resounding Blow now correctly affects all abilities rather than just melee abilities.
Nature's Edict debuff increased to 7% per stack (up from 3%).
Eruption of Life secondary damage increased by roughly 65%.
Legendary Resounding Blow no longer incorrectly boosts Fae Mimicry damage.
Legendary Resounding Blow damage bonus reduced to 75%.
Legendary Fervent Strike bonus increased to 15% for 60s. Bonus doubled on elemental damage.
SHAMAN:
Legendary Icy Blow now affects all elemental damage (up from just Air and Water).
MAGE:
Eternal Weapon: Should now only consume stacks on abilities that can benefit from the proc.
ARCHON:
Archon's Bulwark: Damage buff generated by Primary Bolts has been increased to 100%.
The following abilities no longer apply a penalty to the Mage when cast. Additionally, the mage now benefits from these Auras: Arcane Aegis, Burning Purpose, Shared Vigor, Vitality of Stone.
The following abilities no longer incorrectly appear multiple times in the spellbook: Searing Vitality, Patron's Rage
ELEMENTALIST:
Conduit of Power has been buffed in the following ways
Air Elemental - Increased damage buff to 30% (Up from 25%).
Water Elemental - CDR increased to 35% (Up from 15%).
Fire Elemental - Channeled spell bonus also applies to spells who had cast times.
Earth Elemental - Damage reduction increased to 25% (up from 15%).
FROSTKEEPER:
Fixed a typo in Ablative Crystals.
NECROMANCER:
Deathly Calling now correctly always has a stack limit of 5 without Legendary Condemn.
PYROMANCER:
Legendary Flame Volley now deals substantially more damage. (Roughly 65% more.)
Pyromancer's Armor's damage bonus is doubled on critical hits.
Legendary Fire Storm: Now causes primary bolts to apply the vulnerability to affected targets for 10 seconds.
WARLOCK:
Legendary Conflux no longer has a stack limit. It now lasts its full duration.
PRIMALIST:
MAELSTROM:
Legendary Flamewalker damage bonus doubled for Maelstrom abilities and ability is now instant cast."
PRESERVER:
Cultivate is now correctly tagged as a Fury ability.
VULCANIST:
Legendary Molten Wave has been reworked and now is an instant cast damage over time effect on a single target. It increases damage taken from fire and earth by 10% per stack (max 3). This bonus is tripled for vulcanist abilities.
ROGUE:
Eternal Weapon: Mortal Edge no longer breaks polymorph effects.
Eternal Weapon: Buffs granted by Rogue Eternal weapon now last 10s. This prevents them from dropping immediately while below 75 energy.
ASSASSIN:
Poison Malice tooltip updated to clarify that it has a 1m cooldown after the buff ends.
BARD:
Planar Replenishment Mastery will now cast the correct version of Motif of Regeneration.
Legendary Motif of Regeneration now only stacks 3 times and heals for 60% of the potential heal over time when cast with full stacks.
MARKSMAN:
Legendary Targeting Telemetry now affects Tactician Torrents.
RANGER:
Rejuvenate Passive now correctly appears in the spellbook.
Legendary Call: Razorbeast is now tagged as a buff in the UI.
SABOTEUR:
Fixed a bug involving Saboteur and mentoring.
WARRIOR:
BEASTMASTER:
Gaping Wounds - Cooldown reduced to 15s.
PALADIN:
Light's Balm smart casting now works as expected.
RIFTBLADE:
Legendary Rift Burst will now correctly show its cooldown when the player has no attack points.
WARLORD:
Legendary A Quick Death: Now can be used on targets below 60% hp. Damage increased by roughly 13%.
Legendary Ready Posture: Damage bonus of A Quick Death Procs increased to 300%. Number of casts reduced to 1. The internal cooldown of this effect has been reduced drastically.
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS:
MIND OF MADNESS & INTREPID IA:
The temp ability "Enter the Light of Draum" will now be removed on leaving the instance.
TEMPLE OF ANANKE:
Adjusted the damage reduction of certain bosses to better reflect their intended function.
Fixed a reported issue in Ananke where players where supposedly able to get to the Maelfernus waiting area ahead of Tasuil without triggering Tasuil to teleport to the fight area.
TUATH'DE COVEN:
Adjusted the damage reduction of certain bosses to better reflect their intended function.
Implemented a possible fix to prevent the last boss in Tuath’de Coven normal from unexpectedly resetting.
Corrected minor text errors.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
QUESTS:
Instanced daily quest titles now begin with "A Celestial Tale".
The weekly quest "Celestial Tales" description now directs players to complete the Celestial Tale daily quests.
Prophecy of Ahnket weekly quests now award sparkles if you are on the quest Phenomenal Sparkles!
The Eternal Weapon: Feeding the Beast
Killing the War Bulwark during the zone event The Battle Of Cape Jule now correctly increments the objective to kill colossi. Thanks to Barbinrehard!
Defeating the Nug Battler Nug during the zone event The Craft of Conflict now correctly increments the objective to kill colossi.
SCATHERRAN FOREST:
Quest: Mael Salach: Added missing boss immunities to Mael Salach.
VOSTIGAR PEAKS:
Warden Xilmarth should no longer rest after using Horn Gore.
ITEMS:
The Eternal Weapon active upgrade requirement to defeat Malannon now counts both the LFR and normal versions.
DIMENSIONS:
The Dimensions window now has Menu options to show Cross Shard dimensions for Weekly and All time best

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.1 Hotfix #16 (Jul 13, 2017)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.1 Hotfix #15 (Jul 4, 2017)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.1 Hotfix #14 (Jun 22, 2017)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.1 Hotfix #13 (Jun 14, 2017)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.1 Hotfix #12 (Jun 8, 2017)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.1 Hotfix #11 (Jun 5, 2017)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.1 Hotfix #10 (May 24, 2017)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.1 Hotfix #9 (May 19, 2017)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.1 Hotfix #8 (May 18, 2017)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.1 Hotfix #7 (May 10, 2017)

FEATURES:
INTREPID RISE OF THE PHOENIX:
Intrepid Rise of the Phoenix is here, and going live at the same time on EU and NA servers! The time is tentatively set for 12:00 PM PDT / 7 PM UTC.
This sliver promises a hot challenge for max-level raiders! Jump through the eons to an Eth Empire under siege by powerful Dragonian forces. Living flames have swept across Stonefield, warping Eth sorcerers and turning High Priest Arakhurn into a raging phoenix. Stop the devastation before otherworldly calamity spills unhindered through the planar gate and into this dimension.
RIFT STORE AND SERVICES:
NEW PACKS:
We've added new packs that are available to players: the Prophecy of Ahnket Access Pack and the Celestial Adventures Pack!
The Prophecy of Ahnket Access Pack is exactly as it sounds: it grants access to the Comet of Ahnket expansion, the new Raid, the expanded level cap, and a lot more content that's coming this year!
The Celestial Adventuers Pack has a number of extra add-ons, and does not include the expansion itself. Instead, this will net you the ferocious Ethereal Drake Mount, the legendary style of Asha Catari's Raiment (there are both male and female versions!), and a Gorgeous Ring of Ahnket Portrait Frame.
All the glorious details of both packs are available here: https://www.prophecyofahnket.com
Green Butterfly Wings have been added to the Rift store!
SOULS:
CLERIC:
INQUISITOR:
Legendary Radical Coalescence now correctly increases the damage of Bolt of Light. Buff increased to 50%.
RUNESHAPER:
Rune of Travail will now correctly refresh Legendary Seal of Vulnerability.
SHAMAN:
Furious Assault air and water buff increased to 45%.
MAGE:
ARBITER:
Ebb and Flow no longer incorrectly casts Legendary Ebb and Flow in addition to another copy of Ebb and Flow.
CHLOROMANCER:
Vile Spores no longer shows up too many times in the spellbook.
NECROMANCER:
Deathly Calling can now correctly stack to 10 with Legendary Condemn.
PRIMALIST:
VULCANIST:
Molten Wave now correctly requires spending a legendary point to behave as legendary.
WARRIOR:
TEMPEST:
Legendary Skyfall - Lightning Rod damage can now only affect 3 targets. No longer hits the primary target automatically. Damage of Lightning Rod damage reduced by roughly 50%.
Legendary Wavelength - Air damage buff reduced to 30%, down from 35%.
Lightning Arc now affects the next 2 pulses.
VOID KNIGHT:
Unstable Void no longer stacks incorrectly in some cases.
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS:
MOUNT SHARAX:
Changed Corrupting presence to Corruption to clarify the achievement ‘My Little Piggy’.
TARTARIC DEPTHS:
Fixed an issue in the Malannon encounter where players could become immune to Armageddon despite not having correctly cleansed Mark of Acrimony/Supremacy.
TUATH'DE COVEN:
Fixed an issue where players could leave the fight space against Nathairacha.
Fixed a bug that caused two of the witches in the Nathairacha fight to not engage the players.
PVP & WARFRONTS:
The Battle for Port Scion warfront has been removed from the game. All related achievements have been moved to Legacy status.
CRAFTING:
Crafting costs for the first tier of planar items have been adjusted to no longer require Planar Attuners.
Upgrading Planar Crafted gear now requires Prophetic Amenders. Prophetic Amenders are made by upgrading (alt-click) a Visionary Amender with two (2) Planar Attuners.
Planar Crafted helms and ranged weapons now have additional tiers of upgrades.
ITEMS:
Ruin Seal - Now cannot heal for more than 10000 per tick.
Genesis Seal - Now heals for a maximum of 75000.
Nightmare Seal - Now drops to 5% effectiveness at level 68+.
Cleric Eternal Weapon: No longer incorrectly affects Justicar's Salvation heals or Shaman's Glory of the Chosen heals.
Rogue Eternal Weapon: Assassin Poisons no longer incorrectly get the damage boost as they are procced effects.
AUDIO:
Fixed issue with Sanctum music box not looping

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.1 Hotfix #6 (May 4, 2017)

GENERAL:
Players can no longer accidentally end up on hidden shards.
Fixed a bug causing contextual abilities to improperly display costs associated with them.
WARFRONTS:
The following warfronts are available for play once again
Ghar Station Eyn
Assault on Bronze Tomb
Domination: Black Garden
Domination: Karthan Ridge
TOKEN BOOST CLEANUP:
The guild perk “Cache Finder” now increases gains of Tower Fragments and Ethereal Shards
Token Tablets now increase gains of Tower Fragments and Celestial Remnants
The patron “Bonus Rewards” now increases gains of Ethereal Shards & Tok Tokens
The loyalty perks “Treasure Map” & “Treasure Map Overload” now increases gains of Tower Fragments, Celestial Remnants, Ethereal Shards & Tok Tokens.
The loyalty perk “Distinguished Gift” now increases gains of Tower Fragments, Celestial Remnants, Ethereal Shards & Tok Tokens.
CLASSES:
CLERIC:
MASTERY:
Faith’s Reward: Stacks are no longer incorrectly consumed by Seal of Vulnerability and Legendary Bolt of Light.
MAGE:
ELEMENTALIST:
Legendary Crystalline Missile now correctly counts as an instant cast spell and will no longer incorrectly consume effects that affect spells with cast times.
ROGUE:
BARD:
Legendary Cadence energy cost reduced to 15.
WARRIOR:
REAVER:
Legendary Ravaging Strike no longer gets overwritten by multiple warriors.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
SCATHERRAN FOREST:
Quest: Teeny Tiny Adventures – Fixed an issue where a player could rarely get into a state where they could not complete the final objective.
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS:
EMPYREAN CORE:
Unstable Experiments will no longer drop loot.
TARTARIC DEPTHS:
Implemented a possible fix to prevent an issue causing Beligosh to be trapped in the second flight phase.
Meteor should no longer overlap with Malannon’s Runic Power.
Council of Fate, Tarjulia: Fixed an issue where the leaderboard data was not being updated correctly
ITEMS:
The Comet Forged chests can now be dyed.
The Comet Forged legs have had their dye-able areas improved

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.1 Hotfix #5 (Apr 26, 2017)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.1 Hotfix #4 (Apr 20, 2017)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.1 Hotfix #3 (Apr 13, 2017)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.1 Hotfix #2 (Apr 5, 2017)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.1 Hotfix #1 (Mar 31, 2017)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.1 (Mar 29, 2017)

FEATURES:
TARTARIC DEPTHS:
Venture deep into the prison created by the Alaviax to imprison the dragons of the Red Flight so as to never again be subjugated under their rule. With Mount Pyre sundered, the way is now open. Go forth and stop Queen Carli’s plan to bring forth the Apocalypse and fulfill the prophecies of Aia!
While primarily designed to be accessible by new raiders, the Tartaric Depths still contain a number of rewards relevant to experienced raiders as well, including tier currency and active upgrade triggers.
WARDROBE DYE ENHANCEMENTS:
What’s better than getting new loot? Making it look awesome with armor dyes!
Thanks to our improved tinting system, your armor’s going to look better than ever. Not only have we updated our existing dyes so that the effects on your wardrobe are more accurate and more impressive (we have been adjusting individual armor pieces to maximize dye effects), but we’re also introducing 21 more dyes to increase options available to you, purchasable either together or individually!
Additionally, we have added another 27 Deep dye shades (darker than dark!) and these are all available immediately for free!
ETERNAL ITEMS:
Arm yourself with the power of Eternal items!
Eternal items represent a new tier of power for equipment in RIFT. Every Eternal item is best in slot, and each of them features game changing abilities, including raid-wide damage reduction, enhanced resource regeneration, and Calling-specific buffs!
There are two ways to get Eternal items: either find them as drops or take on the Eternal Weapon questline.
Drops are exactly what you’d expect: kill stuff and you might find yourself looting an incredible new piece of equipment. However, when your first pick up an Eternal item, it isn’t going to be quite as powerful as it could be. If you want to unlock your new gear’s true power, you’re going to have to complete its active upgrades first. Still, the reward of having one of the most powerful items in all of Telara is well worth the challenge.
The Eternal weapon questline (started by speaking with Lessa Korin outside of Alittu) is similar. While it will grant you an Eternal weapon near the beginning of the chain, you’ll be required to complete an epic journey that will see you battling deadly enemies, delving deep into expert dungeons, and even facing off against Malannon in the Tartaric Depths if you wish to unlock the weapon’s full potential.
6TH ANNIVERSARY: CARNIVAL OF THE ASCENDED:
The Carnival of the Ascended is back and better than ever!
In addition to all your favorite events, there are a ton of incredible new items available as event rewards and on the in-game marketplace. We are talking about massive Tuskar mounts, super cool Usukhel outfits, stylish Tenebrean Wings, adorable Tasuil Balloons and much, much more. Words really can’t do these justice, so take a look and then come on out and join us in celebrating 6 years of heroism and adventure.
GET STARFALL PROPHECY WITH CREDITS OR AFFINITY:
Don't have Starfall Prophecy, but want to get the most out of 4.1's exciting new content? You can now purchase a copy of Starfall Prophecy using Credits or, if you're a RIFT Patron, Affinity!
GENERAL:
Fixed an issue with auto scrolling on Quest Log so that it now ends upon user interaction.
Updated the quest sticky to properly show the Artifact tooltip and link to the Artifact tab.
Removed Conquest from the UI.
All mounts have been sent back to training and have learned how to walk. Even backwards!
Experience gain from killing NPCs while sidekicking has been significantly.
The achievements pertaining to conquest have been added to legacy. In addition, the weekly and guild quests for CQ have been removed.
Fixed a display issue with icons on the Artifacts Tab.
Fixed issue with Alittu music entry stinger.
On the search your bags tooltip you can now find information on additional commands to improve searching. These commands are:
/quest
/sellable
/artifact
/dimension
/crafting
/usable
/wardrobe
CROSS SHARD TRADING:
Players on different home shards can trade items and coin with each other via the trade dialog.
RIFT STORE AND SERVICES:
New Challenger’s Mark gear is available in the store now! Seals and Foci now have PVP versions that can be purchased with Challenger’s Marks!
Level 65 boost bundle is now purchasable in the store along with trade skill boosts to 450!
Individual Reward charge packs can be purchased in the store in quantities of 5, 20, and 50.
Six new Alittu-themed Building Block textures are now available in the store. Three can be found under Metal, and three under Stone.
New Music Boxes are available in the store.
A new dye bundle is available in the RIFT Store under Cosmetics -> Premium: Celestial Bundle of Dye Buckets.
Just like all Dyes these will not show up as usable until you log out and log back in after purchase.
Wardrobe – Some additional weapon skins have been added to the Storm Legion section of the Weapon Cosmetics area of the Rift store.
The Nightmare Thresher mount, Sinister Cappie mount & Umbral Baby Budgling pet are now available in the Affinity section of the RIFT store.
The full changelog can be found here: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-discussions/patch-notes/493981-rift-4-1-forged-flame-3-29-2017-a.html

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.0 Hotfix #23 (Mar 23, 2017)

GENERAL:
Fixed a bug where players wouldn’t be walking with their mount if they were walking before they mounted.
Players stay on the shard on which they are playing when they exit a private dungeon into a public instance, rather than their home shard.
The Starfall Appreciation Trove is no longer being distributed.
Fixed dimension item selection issues that caused addons to think the wrong items are selected.
RIFT STORE AND SERVICES:
Many weapon skin unlocks for the wardrobe have been added to the store: Cosmetics > Costume Weapons
The Khadbukh combat pet skin has been added to the store.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
Tooltip added to Condemned Souls, Alavaxian Footdevils, and Penitence Demons when on the quest Let The Hate Flow to indicate the proper mobs to kill for quest credit.
CELESTIAL LANDS:
Onslaughts – Fixed all turret and shield NPCs to no longer attack friendly turrets. Also fixed some Planar Charge Shards having line of sight issues, or not giving planar charges when killed.
SCATHERRAN FOREST:
Quest: Kick the Barrel – Fixed a few of the barrels that would not increment the quest objective when used.
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS:
INFERNAL DAWN:
Fixed the text in the achievement, “Battle Prod, to indicate it requires players to defeat Maklamos on Hard Mode.
Fixed Rusila’s Dread Shot ability to properly give the temp ability. This fixes the achievement, “If You Can Dodge a Wrench”.
HAMMERKNELL FORTRESS:
Decreased the spawn timer for Runic Vengeances in the King Molinar encounter. You should now have a small window of opportunity to kill the bosses before Enrage triggers, while having the required amount of Runic Vengeances spawned.
INTREPID GILDED PROPHECY:
Fixed the achievement “Too Rich to Fail” to now be triggered correctly.
MOUNT SHARAX:
Moved the achievement “Against All Odds” to the Legacy category.
TOK'S PROVING GROUNDS:
Shadi Pinkoo in Tok’s Proving Grounds now has Scoria Lures for sale. This will ensure Scoria fish when fishing in lava!
TRIUMPH OF THE DRAGON QUEEN:
Fixed the achievement, “Superiority Complex”, from being able to be completed before Cyril had cast Mien of Superiority.
MIND OF MADNESS:
The achievement “Hung Jury” should now be granted when the correct conditions are met.
Fixed the achievement “Between an Arak and a Hard Place” to now be properly awarded under the correct circumstances.
XARTH MIRE:
A Tale of Twilight of the Tuath’de – Quest now pays out the correct notoriety on quest completion.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.0 Hotfix #20 (Mar 8, 2017)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.0 Hotfix #16 (Feb 15, 2017)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.0 Hotfix #15 (Feb 9, 2017)

FEATURES:
NEW EXPERT DUNGEON: GYEL FORTRESS"
A new 5-Man Expert is now available at level 70 in Starfall Prophecy. Adventure into the domain of Lady Glasya and discover her dark dealings with the Oculons of Fire. A new title, Bane of the Bloodfire, is available for those who discover all the secrets that lie within!
GAME UPDATE:
GENERAL:
Fixed an issue with music in Alittu.
LOOKING FOR RAID:
Fixed an issue preventing players from being able to leave a raid after completing LFR.
You can now bypass the LFR queue if you queue with a full raid and it should be instant. It is not required that you have the proper raid composition when queuing for this but you still must meet the gear requirements.
Note: The roles displayed might not be relevant to what the boss requirements are.
SOULS:
MAGE:
CHLOROMANCER:
Rapidly casting Natural Healing now correctly grants stacks of Boon of Life as expected.
FROSTKEEPER:
Legendary Earthen Renewal now correctly consumes Opportunity procs granted by Warlock and Eldritch Armor procs granted by Harbinger.
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS:
Random Chronicles: Increased the level 66+ platinum reward for players completing random Chronicles.
GREENSCALE'S BLIGHT:
Fixed an issue with Infiltrator Johlen where if Devastating Bomb timed out, Shadow Phase would not be removed.
HAMMERKNELL FORTRESS:
The achievement “Surviving Obliteration” has been correctly changed to a Legacy achievement and removed from the Hammerknell Conqueror achievement.
MIND OF MADNESS:
Fixed the following achievements: “It Can’t Be Done”, “Racing Towards Destruction”, “Envy and Ruin, Order, Chaos” and “Chaos, Order, Envy and Ruin”
Fixed the following achievements to grant the correct titles: “It Can’t Be Done” and “Conqueror: The Mind of Madness”
TOK'S PROVING GROUNDS:
Changed the Artifacts that come out of the Chest of Shiny things in Tok’s Proving Grounds from “Bind on Pickup” to “Bind to Account on Pickup”.
TRIUMPH OF THE DRAGON QUEEN:
Fixed an issue with the achievement “Superiority Complex” not being granted properly if Cyril was killed with Mien of Superiority.
INSTANT ADVENTURE:
Mind of Madness has been re-added to the Intrepid Adventures queue.
ITEM:
Starfall Prophecy Weapon runes can no longer heal enemies in certain circumstances.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.0 Hotfix #14 (Feb 3, 2017)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.0 Hotfix #13 (Feb 1, 2017)

GENERAL:
To combat people spam declining, you can now only decline one LFR queue pop within a certain period of time before being penalized.
You can no longer queue for LFR if you fail to meet any of the requirements. This is in hopes that people who do not meet the requirement for tank but queue as tank will notice that they were queued, just not as a tank.
UI AND SETTINGS:
Added Individual Reward charges to the currency tab of the character sheet.
Updated the day 14 calendar reward image.
Fixed some popups (including the recycle planar fragment confirmation) which may have blocked users from interacting with other UI elements.
Fixed an issue with recycling multiple Planar Fragments while auto loot is enabled.
Updated the Planar Fragment Inventory UI to have the option to recycle multiple fragments at a time.
CLASSES:
CLERIC:
WARDEN:
Alluvion Talent now correctly affects Legendary Healing Flood.
PRIMALIST:
BERSERKER:
Legendary Icy Cleave duration increased to 30s.
DERVISH:
Legendary Font of Savagery Aftershock damage bonus reduced to 9% per stack.
Legendary Tectonic Spike Aftershock damage bonus reduced to 75%.
Legendary Seismic Smash range increased to 30m.
MAELSTROM:
Legendary Scald no longer incorrectly benefits players other than the caster.
Singed Spirit now only procs on damaging abilities. Fonts should no longer activate it.
ROGUE:
ASSASSIN:
Poisons can no longer be purged.
BLADEDANCER:
The error message on Quick and Precision strike is now clearer.
MARKSMAN:
Munitions can no longer be purged.
NIGHTBLADE:
Weapon Enchantments can no longer be purged.
PHYSICIAN:
Legendary Maintenance Therapy no longer incorrectly works with Tactician Torrents.
RANGER:
Legendary Ace Shot now shows a reactive when it procs.
RANGER:
Legendary Call: Razorbeast now shows correct information in the buff tooltip.
WARRIOR:
REAVER:
Soul Sickness, Necrotic Wounds, and Flesh Rot tooltips now correctly describe their initial damage. A bug has been corrected that caused the initial damage of these abilities to be inconsistent. They have been corrected.
RIFTBLADE:
Legendary Flamespear procs now correctly do Fire damage.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
Rifts – Wild, Wild, Wyrd – Taught the Ravenous Mire Toads to now attack and move correctly. Beware the frogue!
Increased the chance to get coin from humanoid NPC’s in Starfall Prophecy zones by 15%.
ALITTU:
Dungeonologist Cox and Cleidomanolist Manjax in Alittu now display the proper currency totals in the lower left hand side of the vendor UI.
XARTH MIRE:
The quest Clear the Forest is no longer a daily weekly quest, but a weekly weekly, as intended.
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS:
DARKENING DEEPS:
Spiders no longer drop low-level loot in non-normal modes.
ADDONS:
Updated addons to show infusion level for Planar Fragments.
Updated Addon support for Planar Fragments to expose “infusionLevel” “fragmentTier” and “fragmentAffinity”
Updated Addon support to expose “maxHealth” stat on items
Updated Addon support for Inspect.Item.List to include fragment inventory
Updated Addon support to include Utility.Item.Slot.Fragments
Updated Addon support to include Command.Fragment.Recycle, which accepts an item, or list of items to recycle

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.0 Hotfix #12 (Jan 26, 2017)

LOOKING FOR RAID:
Looking for Raid has been re-enabled. Last week, we discovered that it was causing intense load on a vital server process, and that has now been fixed.
We've also made minor improvements to queue times, though we still expect it to be slower than what we'd like.
The good news is that we should have some significant improvements to queue time coming with the next hotfix.
In the meantime, Queen's Foci will be available all week both through LFR and through a portal in Quagmire!
GENERAL:
Fixed a bug related to teleporting to the wrong spot.
RIFT STORE AND SERVICES:
The following additional weapon skins have been added to the Rift store: Chainblade, Runeblade, Skyblade.
CLASSES:
The following abilities will no longer show mutliple reactive icons. Vaporize, Effervescent Blast, Rune of Smiting, Crystalline Missiles, Plague Bolt, and Vorpal Salvo.
The following break free abilities now work as expected - Fading Light, Sever Bonds, Earthwalk.
CLERIC:
INQUISITOR:
Radical Coalescence no longer incorrectly removes buff stacks of Life and Death Concord on cast if you already had 4.
SENTINEL:
Banish and Bolt of Light no longer provide an incorrect number of Life and Death Concord stacks when cast.
MAGE:
HARBINGER:
Piercing Beam tooltips now correctly show how much of a bonus is granted.
NECROMANCER:
Legendary Plague Bolt no longer incorrectly procs Plague Carrier.
Legendary Soul Bond now correctly affects Reaper's Touch.
PRIMALIST:
DERVISH:
Legendary Tectonic Spike now correctly benefits from the talent "Seismic Activity".
MAELSTROM:
Drown tooltip updated to correctly mention that you must successfully interrupt the target to receive the damage debuff. Tooltips clarified to show this debuff is global, rather than just against the caster. Target now correctly receives the debuff as expected.
Vaporize's buff now correctly tells the player the increase in critical damage and healing it provides.
TITAN:
Legendary Essence Strike no longer incorrectly benefits from the Indomitable Mastery.
Legendary Upheaval now correctly benefits from the Reverberations talent.
TYPHOON:
Legendary Torrential Rain now correctly benefits from the Forest Matron mastery.
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS:
INTREPID DARKENING DEEPS:
Spiders no longer drop low-level loot.
QUEEN'S FOCU:
Fixed a *sunglasses* bug where Hexalotl’s were sharing an enrage timer. They now all get upset as individuals.
RHEN OF FATE:
Rhen of Fate Chronicle trash mobs no longer drop loot.
CRAFTING:
Fixed an issue where Warriors would not get the best stat roll from Prophetic Dream Orbs.
Runes and Orbs now get re-validated on bolstered gear, turning them off when appropriate. Additionally a bug was fixed that caused pvp essences to get down bolstered.
Crafted Rune healing procs should now correctly be reduced only a single time in PVP. ICD reduced from 45 seconds to 12 seconds. These abilities should proc more consistently on healing abilities and no longer incorrectly fire on abilities they were not intended for.
ITEMS:
PVP: Fixed an issue with the Reaper Supply Caches to drop Leather Leggings.
Xarthian Tome now has the intended amount of Hit stat.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.0 Hotfix #11 (Jan 23, 2017)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.0 Hotfix #10 (Jan 20, 2017)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.0 Hotfix #9 (Jan 18, 2017)

FEATURES:
FORTRESS SIEGE: CRACKING XARTH'S SKULL:
Cracking Xarth's Skull is ready for prime time! Our NEW Fortress Siege zone event is LIVE!
A sole warrior may wish to face challenges around the exterior walls of the fortress, picking off less protected foes, a vital task to support those further in.
Further feats of valor are within the grasp of a group of Ascended, as they penetrate deeper into the concentric rings of fortifications, facing lieutenants with their squadrons.
With enough skilled veterans on hand, it may even be possible to wrest control of powerful siege weaponry to blast down the inner gates themselves!
Listen for the call to battle that will sound at times of direst need. This signals a far more intense and challenging fight!
It is estimated that the Fortress Siege zone event will initiate every four hours. If the Ascended are successful in beating it, a raid will then open, via the new Looking for Raid system!
LOOKING FOR RAID:
We're serving up this Siege with another brand new feature, Looking for Raid. LFR is bound to control + i by default; similar to the LFG keyboard default of i.
LFR ties in with our new Individual Loot system, so that you no longer have to compete with others for coveted drops for your build. This game feature, at its core, is a priority-based queue system based on raid karma. Like LFG, LFR will respect your ignore list.
What is raid karma? Raid karma is a value that lives on each character that is constantly reduced over time. The more LFR raids you successfully complete, the higher your raid karma will be. This will result in having a higher priority over other players when queuing for LFR.
How do you gain raid karma? After the raid ends, all players anonymously vote on their fellow raid members, which results in positive or negative change for raid karma. Voting is entirely optional! Being vote kicked or leaving the raid early also effects raid karma, to address players who bail out early or affect other raid members so adversely that they get kicked out. The end goal is a much more positive experience for everyone.
When you queue for LFR you can select whether to queue as a leader or not, if you select this, the system will try to put you as the leader of a group of people without anyone who selected to queue as a leader. If it cannot find another group that doesn't have a leader within a certain period of time it will pick one of the group members to become the leader.
Raid bosses are locked behind a "ready check" that the leader can either initiate or skip.
If initiated, the ready check needs to pass before the encounter. You can see who is playing what role, and also select a recommended preset if you do not have the correct spec for a fight.
The LFR will note if the players in the queue have a role combination that makes it impossible to complete. For example, if a boss in the raid requires two tanks, but you have three people queuing as tank only, there is no way you can meet the required roles. Therefore, it will not let you queue unless the roles are adjusted.
Another way the matchmaking is different from LFG is that LFR has a specific set of roles that must be met on a per-boss basis, as opposed to LFG which just always requires a static set of roles. LFR checks your raid composition against every boss' role requirements, so if one boss in the raid requires a certain composition and the next boss requires a different one, and so on, it will ensure that the people it forms your raid with will always be able to meet some sort of valid role distribution for every boss in that raid.
When you enter LFR, you might notice a few differences as a group made through LFR is very different internally than one made through other means. First of all, you cannot change raid leaders while inside or invite people - you can only add new members through the LFR system. If you walk into the portal, you can invite as normal and none of the designer scripting for LFR will be there.
The raid leader is designated for the entire raid unless they leave or are vote kicked. It is the raid leader's responsibility to initiate the actual bosses themselves, as these encounters are locked until certain criteria is met. There is a NPC in front of every boss in LFR. The leader will talk to them and is offered two options: initiate a ready check, or skip the ready check and fight the boss. If you skip the ready check the boss simply activates and you can fight it. If you decide to do a ready check, a boss window opens which explains the boss mechanics and gives you the option to choose a preset of what you queued for, which will assign you a new toolbar and spec. It does not overwrite your old spec - you can switch back at any time. At the bottom of the window there is a ready button. When pressed, your name and role for that boss will appear to everyone else to show you are ready. Once the entire raid is ready, the boss will unlock. You only have to perform this once per boss.
While you are at the boss, you can press control + i again to see the boss window and mechanics again. If you want to open the actual LFR window itself, you have to manually go to the toolbar and click on [Activities -> Looking For Raid].
One of the new concepts of LFR is the idea of "temporary raids." This was designed specifically for the Fortress Siege, but is expandable for future use. In the case of the Fortress Siege, the zone event must be successfully completed to unlock LFR for the associated raid, for a limited amount of time. When this happens, a countdown timer appears in the LFR window. When the timer reaches zero, the raid will disappear from LFR. At this point in time anyone in the queue will be informed that they are removed from it, and players still inside the raid can continue on.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.0 Hotfix #8 (Jan 11, 2017)

SLASH COMMANDS:
When using /target, if there are multiple things that match equally well, the command will pick the closest of them.
Added a new slash command, /recycleallplanarfragments. This will recycle all planar fragments in your planar fragment bag, any that you want to keep must be manually put in your inventory.
Expanded combat logging now has the proper amount of digits in milliseconds.
FAE YULE:
Fixed a tooltip error on the Jolly Hellbug minion.
Added Fae Yule puppets and wisps to Fae Yule 4 hour missions.
Extended the availability of Fae Yule minion missions to January 19th.
INSTANT ADVENTURE:
INTREPID ADVENTURE MIND OF MADNESS:
Terror of Arak no longer gives XP.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
Fury of the Ascended will now properly affect all invasion npcs in Celestial Lands zone events.
Starfall Prophecy Daily Quests: The following Daily quests now give consistent experience when completed: Pure Hearted and Kick the Barrel.
Starfall Prophecy carnage quests: The quest Carnage: Cinderweave Spiders now has proper map indicators.
Guild Quests: Guild quests that require participation in The Battle for Port Scion have been removed from the Weekly rotation.
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS:
MIND OF MADNESS:
Dream of Arak and Terror of Arak no longer give XP. Also fixed an issue where they could respawn indefinitely after Arisen Arak is killed.
TOK'S PROVING GROUND:
The time requirement for the Pyramid Sky maze has been removed for solo version of this puzzle.
The Rat maze should be a little more friendly to player pets. I still recommend not having pets throughout Tok’s just to be safe though.
Fixed a couple of Typos and Soul bindings for a few items.
Also, Shadi Pinkoo has some very valuable items for sale if you have enough Tok Tokens. But be warned, Shadi is a bit of a scalper, so I would go to him as a very last resort if I were you...
CRAFTING:
FISHING:
Rare fish pools in Starfall Prophecy zones now work properly once more.
Added a Tenebrean Eel Lure recipe to fishing trainers in Tempest Bay.
ITEMS:
Stat adjustment to the Cowl of the Tower.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.0 Hotfix #7 (Dec 21, 2016)

FAE YULE:
The Fae Yule version of Whitefall should be active once again! Enjoy!
The achievement "Winter Homemaker" has been moved to Legacy status.
The achievement "The Nightmare Before Fae Yule" no longer has "Winter Homemaker" as a requirement.
The stat allocation for the Fae Yule lesser essences has been adjusted to include Attack or Spell Power.
GENERAL:
The Clockwork Lifter no longer disappears when the rider is selected.
Added bag size information to the Fragment Inventory.
RIFT STORE AND SERVICES:
There is now a "Buildings" section for Dimensions in the Store. Many new dimension buildings can be found in this section!
Added healer focused synergy crystals to the store.
New essences that come from Reaper Supply Caches now have tertiary stats!
SOULS:
Level 65 masteries that no longer have damage ranges no longer incorrectly indicate that they do in the tooltip.
MAGE:
MASTERY:
Arcane Manipulation now correctly points at the proper damage entries, and will correctly scale.
PYROMANCER:
Legendary Internalize Charge now only removes the charge cost of damaging abilities.
ROGUE:
SABOTEUR:
Legendary Satchel Charge no longer stacks incorrectly. Multiple Rogues can now apply it correctly.
PRIMALIST:
MASTERY:
Steadfast Rejuvenation - Should now correctly affect Legendary Font of Savagery.
Ethereal Meditation - Should now correctly work with Legendary Cultivate.
WARRIOR:
PARAGON:
Legendary Swift Strikes can now be applied by multiple warriors at once.
Legendary Punishing Blow can now be applied by multiple warriors at once.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
Starfall Prophecy Daily Quests – The following Daily quests now correctly require completion of their associated slivers the same day in order to receive credit.
Starfall Prophecy invasions – The Whipvine Bloodseeker will now animate properly.
ALITTU:
The Museum of Alittu has had a docent create exhibit labels for the main display. Displays on loan to the Council of Mages are slated for labeling later in the year.
Closing rifts and killing invasions in Starfall Prophechy/Planar Assault now counts towards Mages of Alittu rep.
Raid Testing Dummies - Simulated Bosses now correctly take damage as expected.
ASHENFALL:
Quest: Echo of King’s Fall – Moved the exit portal that spawns in the throne room after you kill Duke Arcarax. It is now located off to the right of the throne to prevent accidentally teleporting players who have the bad luck to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
GEDLO BADLANDS:
Quests: The Battle of Saint Taranis and the Echo of the Battle of Saint Taranis: Fixed an issue where Garn’s character model would not draw correctly for some players.
Quest: The Echo of the Battle of Saint Taranis: Fixed an issue where players who got out of the Dragonslayer Ballista during the objective to weaken Garn, to use the Dragonslayer Ballista.
Quest: Cleaning Up the Badlands: Lowered the amount of goblins in each goblin camp pertaining to the quest.
Quest: Smash Time: Fixed an issue where if a player had the quest, “Taming Flame”, and completed “Smash Time”, the horn would from “Taming Flame” would be consumed
Quest: Safe Passage: Fixed an issue where the “Dismissal” ability was able to be used at the incorrect health percentage of the NPC
Quest: Draconian Solution – Garn and the drake assault will now reset after 30 seconds if there are no players in the area
SCATHERRAN FOREST:
Quest: Echo of Mael Salach: Fixed an issue where a player could use the second Memory Crystal during Lord Fionn’s monologue. This Memory Crystal will now despawn before Lord Fionn despawns.
The Simulacrum Pests in Critter Glen no longer grant experience.
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS:
TOK'S PROVING GROUND:
The maximum number of entrances to Tok's Proving Grounds has been increased to 5.
Rat should no longer be able to get into the Crafting Halls.
Added a teleport to the Pyramid by the Lab tables. It takes you to the Off switch for other traps.
Dead Simon tip: Great for Rat or Shiny hunting!
However, you still need to do the challenges to get the key to the chest at the top.
If you fall through the sky maze, you can use this to bypass the traps, so long as long as you've done them prior to falling.
Added a new Race quest to allow players to earn a little more Notoriety per day.
The Shiny chest has been fixed. All the puzzles now grant a one time bonus of Notoriety as compensation.
The Shield abilities are no longer timed.
Made improvements to Shield reliability.
Note: This may be a lag issue of sorts. While the fix was tested on a simulated high-lag server, it cannot catch all things. Be sure to report on the forums in case you experience further trouble!
The Boglings now behave more predictably with respect to how fast they start to interfere with the Sudoku table.
Boglings now do not Fail Boglings Denied quest if you've completed the quest but haven't yet turned it in.
You can no longer get trapped in the Glass maze anymore.
You can no longer cheat on the Math Test. A failing grade to those that did this!
Fixed an exploit with Notoriety.
The teleports on the Sky maze are now a little more forgiving, and the active indicator effects a little more lag tolerant.
Slightly increased the Rat spawn rate.
A bunch of other small bug fixes and tweaks!
ITEMS:
Block has been removed from crafted Shields.
The Opie mount now removes the effects of Micro Brew upon use.
CRAFTING:
The materials for the Gedlo Curry Pot have been adjusted. The number of items produced has also been adjusted.
DIMENSIONS:
Mac Conn at the Shadow Market on the border between Scatherran and Xarth now has many dimension items for sale.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.0 Hotfix #6 (Dec 15, 2016)

FEATURES:
FAE YULE RETURNS:
It’s finally time! Telara beckons with an amazing array of new items and features, along with all our traditional favorite events, Instant Adventure and Warfront! Join us again and celebrate the season, from December 15th, 2016 @ 3:30 PM server time through January 11th, 2017!
All the Fae Yule quests are back, as well as the Instant Adventure: Fae Yule In Iron Pine Peak and Warfront: A Very Fae Yule Whitefall! The traditional zone events are back as well – listen and watch for “There Arose Such A Clatter” and “Fae Yule Gifts” in various zones, as well as Fae Yule-themed Air Rifts.
In the RIFT Store are new items and returning items for Fae Yule currency OR credits, including Festive levitation, Turtledove Wings, the Brasse-approved Fae Yule Bearded Cap, winter themed weapons, winter-themed weapons and MORE!
Dimensioneers, a NEW dimension is available as well! Subzero has plenty of space to build your ideal winter scenes, not to mention new dimension items to fill your dimension with!
GAME UPDATE:
GENERAL:
Fixed frame rate issues on 64-bit client, particularly in Tok’s Proving Ground.
Players who leave a Planar Assault when their adventure group moves to a new map instance are booted from the instance map.
Fixed a bug where recycling a planar fragment while attaching it to mail would cause an unexpected failure.
Fixed a bug with items upgraded by achievement progress were reporting their progress too often.
RIFT STORE AND SERVICES:
Strife Trigger upgrade components are no longer giftable in the Rift Store.
SOULS:
Masteries of all callings now have their damage and healing scale up as you approach level 70, rather than remaining static.
CLERIC:
DRUID:
Legendary Fae Mimicry can no longer affect its own cooldown.
Conduit of Nature - Faerie Seer now correctly reduces cooldowns by 15%.
MAGE:
NECROMANCER:
Legendary Grave Rot now has a 75s cooldown and can correctly be broken free from.
PRIMALIST:
VULCANIST:
Ethereal Beam damage increased. Tooltip now correctly reflects expected damage.
ROGUE:
BLADEDANCER:
Hundred Blades now deals 25% reduced damage in PVP.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
Story companions will now leave an after-image in locations where quests can be turned in so you can better locate the final objective of the quest.
Fixed an issue where Coronation couldn’t be turned in while Cyril and Veist were companions.
Using an ability to dismiss your pets will no longer dismiss your quest companions.
An edge case that prevented turning in “Of Devils and Prophecy” has been fixed.
ASHENFALL:
Quest: King’s Fall and Echo of King’s Fall: Trash mobs no longer drop loot.
Quest: King’s Fall and Echo of King’s Fall:: Fixed some scripting that should more reliably make Duke Arcarax targetable and aggressive after the three Soul Prisons have been killed
Quest: A Tale of the Devil Who Would Be King: Fixed a bug where it was possible to complete the quest by completing another quest.
GEDLO BADLANDS:
Quest: Of Devils and Prophecy: This quest now has a minimum level of 66.
Quest: The Tale of Scarlet Night: Fixed a bug where it was possible to complete the quest by completing another quest.
SCATHERRAN FOREST:
Quest: I, Razorbeast: Fixed map locators for stray Tuath’de Hunters, making it easier to find them.
XARTH MIRE:
The Tuath’de who appear as Planar Invasions and at the Planar Anchors will no longer fight with the Tuath’de who wander the open swamps of Xarth Mire.
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS:
INTREPID DARKENING DEEPS:
Reduced the outgoing damage buff of Swedge’s Fury and Gerbik’s Vengeance slightly.
Increased the damage of Gerbik’s Crimson Pyre.
Fixed the following achievements ‘Stop the Madness’, ‘It’s all wrapped up’, and ‘Pressure Cooker’.
Fixed a bug where Scarn was not getting the heat index.
TEMPLE OF ANANKE:
Fixed a small exploit on Killthraxus where players could destroy the Obsidian Pillar with a single explosive
TOK'S PROVING GROUND:
Fixed some bugs and exploits in Tok’s Proving Grounds.
ITEMS:
Fixed an exploit where players could get more than one of the same family essence in a focus. Any essences fixed in this fashion should end up in your inventory.
CRAFTING:
Skinning: Increased the rate of Infused Starhide from lvl 68+ mobs. Added a chance for Infused Starhide from level 65-67 mobs in Starfall Prophecy.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.0 Hotfix #5 (Dec 9, 2016)

FEATURES:
NEW DUNGEON: TOK'S PROVING GROUND:
Puzzle me this! Give one insane RIFT designer free reign to create a dungeon based on puzzles, and what do you get? A truly unique dungeon with SIX mind bending puzzles, exclusive to Starfall Prophecy: Tok’s Proving Grounds!
This dungeon invites scholars – as befitting a quiet questline, the challenges are meant for solo or duo players. No full groups or raids here, just a significant commitment of cooperation and exactitude. Those who invest enough time in Tok’s service may well earn some of the most spectacular appearance gear to be found on Telara, with swirling, animated colors based on the planes: Fire, Earth, Air, Water, Life and Death.
Some time ago, we gave you a sneak preview of Tok’s Proving Grounds on the RIFT livestream. You can view that episode, as well as some of the new rewards, with Brasse and Simon “Dead Simon” Ffinch on YouTube! (WARNING: Lots of spoilers in this video!)
GAME UPDATE:
GENERAL:
64 bit: Fixed Several Crashes related to add-ons. We do love our add-on makers!
Fixed an issue that would cause the purchase soul walk popup to close unexpectedly.
Fixed the combat log formatting if you are using the non-expanded version of it.
Daily Login Rewards: The day 12 reward now gives level specific upgrade components.
Devs may now be allowed to take actual lunch breaks, as long as they promise to scour the forums and bug reports for further loose ends. Eventually, they may also resume normal sleep routines.
RIFT STORE AND SERVICES:
Added an Orange Guffin dimension NPC to the store for those that have progressed far enough in the Nightmare Saga.
SOULS:
CLERIC:
PURIFIER:
Legendary Flame Lance's buff tooltip now correctly shows how much healing is increased by.
Legendary Flame Lance is now instant.
SENTINEL:
Legendary Bolt of Light's buff tooltip now correctly shows how much healing is increased by.
Bolt of Light no longer incorrectly consumes 2 stacks of Legendary Shadow's Touch.
WARDEN:
Legendary Waterjet's debuff tooltip now correctly shows how much the target is snared for.
MAGE:
DOMINATOR:
Legendary Neural Prod no longer stacks.
HARBINGER:
Legendary Empyrean Ascension now correctly buffs Slashing and Timed spells.
PYROMANCER:
Legendary Firestorm now only affects fire damage you deal. No longer affects fire damage dealt by other players or entities.
Legendary Internalized Charge now correctly increases the damage of abilities by the noted amount.
Flame Bolt can no longer be cast rapidly when on cooldown.
PRIMALIST:
TITAN:
Legendary Essence Strike should no longer trigger more times than intended. Healing reduced.
ROGUE:
MARKSMAN:
Legendary Deadeye Shot now correctly benefits from increased crit chance as intended. Bonus critical chance is increased from 2x to 2.5x.
RANGER:
Animalism cooldown reduced to 45 seconds. Now also passively increases the damage of abilities that generate combo points by 65%.
Legendary Ace Shot proc rate has been increased.
WARRIOR:
CHAMPION:
Legendary Bull Rush now correctly deals damage in PVP.
PLANAR ASSAULT:
Fixed an issue where rift boss mobs in major rifts would spawn with 1 HP.
Killing the boss in an Planar Assault adventure results in players receiving only one Starfall Adventure Cache each.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
Two convenience Porticulum unlocks have been added! Upon hitting level 48, Tempest Bay is unlocked. At level 60, Hailol is unlocked.
Hostile Tuath’de Slavers will no longer hang around the Shadow Market, attacking the darkness.
Rifts: Changed the npc rank of mini-bosses and bosses in fire rifts to the correct level.
Zone Events: Fixed the level of zone event quests to display the correct con color to match the zone level.
ALITTU:
Practice dummies for Starfall Prophecy dungeons are located outside Alittu.
ASHENFALL:
Quest: King’s Fall and Echo of King’s Fall: Moved the objective locator for the “Enter the throne room” objective to be closer to the throne room entrance
GEDLO BADLANDS:
Achievement: Shrine It All: The model of the Hidden Kobold Shrine has been changed to avoid the confusion between these totems, and those required in the quest, “Wicked Trickery”.
An excerpt has been recovered from an unknown location
Brasse: So what are you working on?
CaptainCursor: HALLUCINATIONS!
Brasse: Is that part of a new quest line or-
CaptainCursor: NO YOU JUST GO OUT TO THE DESERT AND SEE THINGS THAT AREN'T THERE!
Brasse: Do you need shout everything you say?
CaptainCursor: HALLUCINATIONS!
Brasse: *pulls her helm lower over her ears to dampen the noise* Ow! Do they give clues or insights into the greater story?
CaptainCursor: NO! WEIRD FOR THE SAKE OF WEIRD! ALL THROUGHOUT THE GEDLO BADLANDS!
Brasse: I'm going to stop asking you things.
CaptainCursor: PROBABLY FOR THE BEST!
SCATHERRAN FOREST:
Quest: For a Warfare: Fixed the missing conversation text with the Atrophinius companion in Hailol.
Quest: End of Mael Salach & Echo of Mael Salach: Added safeguards so players cannot accidentally trigger an objective out of order
Quest: Into the Wyredode: Changed scripting to allow players to regain the Wyredode Attunement temp ability in the objective to “Commune with the forest”. Now if you use the temp ability it
1. Does not go away until the leave the quest area, allowing players to attempt the objective again if for some reason it did not increment the first time and
2. if you leave the area for any reason and come back, you will regain the temp ability,as long as you are on this specific objective.
XARTH MIRE:
Relocated an npc in Xarth Mire that was suck in terrain.
Quest: Bailghol Blues: Bloated Parasites will no longer accumulate endlessly in Bailghol. The Bloated Parasite threat of 2016 is officially at an end.
PVP AND WARFRONTS:
The Ascended Repulsor ability that blocks summoning abilities near spawn points no longer breaks stealth.
CRAFTING:
Fixed Prophetic Dexterity Serum tocorrectly boost Dexterity instead of Armor.
Crafting cooldowns have been removed from Apothecary Vials.
Crafting daily quest recipes will once again properly skill up professions.
ITEMS:
Faetouched Powerstones now grant 2,000 Spell Power (was 1,000).
Visionary Weapon runes now properly trigger the Visionary tier of the proc.
Fixed an issue where planar fragments could give stats other than what they show.
You can now sort planar fragments by tier.
Fixed an issue causing Primalist melee weapons to not drop from Expert dungeons.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.0 Hotfix #4 (Dec 2, 2016)

GENERAL:
Level boosters will now always put you in the level channel most appropriate to your newly boosted level.
Starfall Prophecy notoriety rewards are no longer giftable.
Updated ability cooldown display times to correct incorrect cooldowns in Addons.
RIFT STORE & SERVICES:
Those who purchased a Nightmare Thresher over the weekend should now have them delivered to their in game mailbox on all characters on their account.
The Heroic Prophecy Pack no longer grants a Large Artifact Bundle.
Your Celestial Remnants and Challengers Marks are now displayed when viewing accessories in the Rift Store.
COMBAT LOG IMPROVEMENTS:
Added a new slash command: /combatlogexpanded to enable the new combat log features. If you do not want to use them you can still use /combatlog
Elaborated on combat log lines.
All times are now in the form of mm-dd-yy:hh:mm:mms.
When initiating combat, the combat log now shows the buffs and debuffs of all of your party members.
SOULS:
Fixed a bug where a character could get more than five legendary abilities. In the case that a character does have more than five legendary abilities they will experience a soul reset.
CLERIC:
CABALIST:
Legendary Shadow's Touch now affects your next 3 abilities.
DEFILER:
Legendary Aggressive Avarice healing reduced by 50% in PVP.
DRUID:
Legendary Fervent Strike now lasts 30 seconds.
Legendary Fae Mimicry now affects 7 abilities and causes 125% of damage as life damage. Causes your next 2 cleric abilities to not trigger cooldowns.
INQUISITOR:
Legendary Bolt of Judgment proc chance increased drastically.
ORACLE:
Legendary Insignia of Blood proc chance increased drastically.
SHAMAN:
Legendary Crushing Blow cooldown reduced to 12 seconds.
Legendary Icy Blow now affects both Water and Air damage. Damage bonus increased to 15% per stack.
Legendary Furious Assault now passively causes Glacial Strike to deal an additional 45% of its damage over 3 seconds. Air and Water damage increased by 30%.
WARDEN:
Legendary Waterjet snare increased to 30%. Now also passively reduces damage taken by 3%.
Note: Tooltip incorrect, to be corrected in a future hotfix.
PURIFIER:
Legendary Flame Lance now increases healing by 15%.
Note: Tooltip incorrect, to be corrected in a future hotfix.
SENTINEL:
Legendary Bolt of Light now increases healing by 15%.
Note: Tooltip incorrect, to be corrected in a future hotfix.
MAGE:
DOMINATOR:
Legendary Neural Prod now increases the damage of the next 3 abilities by 30%.
Legendary Neural Prod's debuff description now correctly matches the ability tooltip.
ELEMENTALIST:
Prismatic Armor and Cycle of Fire now correctly stack their Global Cooldown adjustments.
FROSTKEEPER:
Earthen Renewal now correctly consumes Cold Snap stacks if it was already instant when Cold Snap was cast.
HARBINGER:
Legendary Storm Slash no longer consumes charge twice while Charged Blade is active.
Legendary Storm Slash now affects the next 3 abilities.
Legendary Piercing Beam now increases damage and healing by 20% and lasts 30s.
Legendary Empyrean Ascension also passively causes slashing attacks to deal 50% more damage and spells with cast times to deal 30% more damage.
Legendary Vengeful Shock damage increased by roughly 150%. Tooltip clarified to show it always strikes twice.
Charged Blade damage bonus increased to 30% for slashing and 10% for all other abilities.
NECROMANCER:
Legendary Plague Bolt now casts 20% faster and deals 20% more damage for each stack of Plague Carrier.
Legendary Grave Rot no longer stacks with other slows.
PYROMANCER:
Legendary Flame Bolt now affects the next 3 abilities.
Legendary Fire Storm now lasts 30 seconds.
Legendary Fusillade now also passively causes Flame Bolt and Searing Bolt to reset the cooldown of Cinder Burst and reduce the cast time of your next Cinder Burst by 3 seconds and cause it to deal 50% more damage.
Cinder Burst now deals 30% more damage to targets afflicted by the damage over time effect from Fireball.
Fireball now deals 75% of its base damage over 5 seconds when both Heat Wave and Fusillade are on cooldown. This effect doesn't stack.
WARLOCK:
Legendary Neddra's Grasp now correctly applies Lingering Torment.
Radiate Death and Healing Expertise now spread the correct versions of Life Leech and Neddra's Grasp.
Legendary Void Barrage now also passively increases the damage of all damage over time effects by 100%.
PRIMALIST:
MAELSTROM:
Legendary Effervescent Blast now has a 4 second cooldown.
Legendary Scald now lasts 25s.
VULCANIST:
Legendary Molten Wave duration reduced to 6s. PASS
TYPHOON:
Now correctly shows both legendary and non legendary versions.
ROGUE:
RANGER:
Legendary Animalism now lasts 10 seconds and has a 60 second cooldown.
SHADEBORN:
Legendary Strangulate is now correctly tagged as a debilitate and can be broken free from.
TACTICIAN:
Legendary Curative engine buff tooltip now correctly matches the ability tooltip.
WARRIOR:
BEASTMASTER:
Cunning Ruse now correctly only removes your damage over time effects.
CHAMPION:
Legendary Bull Rush now correctly triggers diminishing returns.
LIBERATOR:
Legendary Liberation Treatment now lasts 30s.
PALADIN:
Legendary Retaliation can now only trigger once every 2 seconds per target.
REAVER:
Legendary Shadow of Dread now passively reduces Reaver Damage over Time damage by 25%.
Plague Bringer now increases target cap by 2 (down from 7).
Explosive Infestation now have a base number of targets of 2 (5 when talented).
Rancid Cleave, and Desecrating Blow now have a base number of targets of 3 and are no longer affected by Deadly Reach.
Legendary Dire Corruption damage reduced by roughly 22%.
Legendary Viral Stream damage reduced by roughly 30%. Tooltip should now correctly reflect expected damage again.
VOIDKNIGHT:
Reckless Strike will no longer sometimes proc twice in rapid succession. It also no longer has stacks to remove a case where stacks would be consumed too fast, preventing some procs. Damage reduced to compensate.
WARLORD:
Tactical Advance no longer effects Legendary Sergeant's Order.
Sergeant's Order no longer incorrectly benefits all warriors. Now only benefits the caster.
INSTANT ADVENTURE:
Instant Adventure: Instant adventure participants are now correctly mentored to the correct level when they move to new adventure zones.
When a player queues for an instant adventure, they will queue up for instant adventures on shard on which they are playing currently.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
Shal Korva notoriety Decrees have been added to the possible rewards from the quests "A Reputation for Adventure" and "Seas of Plunder".
The Nightmare Saga: The quest By the Sword no longer requires players to participate in Conquest.
AHA, just got the notes from Dev, because they were working on it until 9pm last night and passed out before they remembered to add to Patch Notes, hehe. Copying it here for you:
[EDIT: The Temple of Ananke is again OPEN for business... err... mayhem and destruction!
Life Shards for the last boss fight in Temple of Ananke are set to roughly 6 million for expert, and 1.5 million for standard.
Fixed a bug where Life shards stopped spawning after Maelderoth reaches max stacks of Burning Corruption
Life shards no longer give a reactive and instead remove 2 stacks of Burning Corruption from Maelderoth when destroyed as long as he is within 30m of it
Maelderoth can no longer be accidentally killed, and Ananke cannot be harmed until phase 3
~Brasse]
ALITTU:
Added a small selection of books to the Alittu library. They will randomly appear as people read them.*
GEDLO BADLANDS:
Quest: Of Devils and Prophecy – Fixed an issue where if players were grouped, only one player could loot the first Prophecy of Ananke.
Quest: Draconian Solution – Fixed an edge case where a player would be unable to use the Dragon Nest. Also fixed the map locator for this objective.
The Battle of Saint Taranis and Echo of the Battle of Saint Taranis – Gedlo goblins in Saint Taranis now despawn after the kill objective is complete.
Zone Event: Horrific Horticulture – Bee Beard will now spawn correctly at the end of the event.
ASHENFALL:
Quest: King’s Fall and Echo of King’s Fall – Fixed NPCs from incorrectly dropping items reserved for planar NPCs.
SCATHERRAN FOREST:
Quest: Tuath’de Blades: The onslaught will no longer spawn invasions along the road to Critter Glen.
The Whipvine Lasher no longer has an incorrect title.
Quest: Kick the Barrel: Fixed an issue where barrels could be used multiple times before despawning.
Quest: Into the Wyredode – Fixed a scripting issue where Leofwine would play his VO multiple times if multiple players talked to him one after another.
XARTH MIRE:
Onslaught: The Marsh Gate – This quest now has a map indicator for the Marsh Gate onslaught. Additionally, invasions should now give credit every time instead of only in certain parts of the scene.
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS:
INTREPID DARKENING DEEPS:
Fixed a bug where LFP rewards were not always being paid out.
PVP AND WARFRONTS:
Rogues in stealth leaving the Warfront spawn areas should no longer be knocked out of stealth.
Destruction Synergy Crystal now has the proper 2 piece and 4 piece set bonus values.
Increased favor slightly for killing level 66 to 70 players.
Fixed an issue where Starfall Prophecy PVP quests were not awarding the proper amount of favor.
DIMENSIONS:
Some Dimension Items from achievements were incorrectly flagged as Unbound are now once again Soulbound.
Additional Dimension Items have been added to Stan's Super Secret Lure.
CRAFTING:
All crafted gear has been increased in power-- this time for real!
The title for the achievement "Exalted Angler" has been corrected.
Visionary crafting daily quests now auto-turn in when completed.
Many Starfall Prophecy recipes have had their Chondritic Dust material costs reduced or removed.
Planar foothold have a small chance to drop Chondritic Planar Dust.
Prophetic leg runes now apply the proper rune.
DREAM WEAVER:
Dust of the Void has been removed from many Dream Weaver recipes. Dream Ribbon costs have slightly increased to offset the difference.
Added the following Dream Weaver recipes to the Visionary Recipe Vendor: Recipe: "Giant Lava Dome" and "Recipe: Black Electric Egg".
MINIONS:
The minion card Opie is now an attractor minion that adds Artifact cards to the decks. These special Artifact missions can also reward Planar Pellets and (rarely) Lucky Coins!
ITEMS:
Starfall Adventure Cache now have a chance of containing Chondritic Planar Dust.
Fixed an issue with Starfall Adventure Caches that it would sometime give both a level 65 item and a level 66+ plus item depending on the level of the player.
Greatly increased item drop chance from Starfall Adventure Caches such as armor and weapons.
The vendor price of Scoria Fish and Scoria Fish livers has been reduced.
Cosmic Cores now stack to 999 and no longer have a resell value.
Consumable token boost potions now correctly state that they do not boost Tower Fragment or Celestial Remnant gains.
Consumable token boosts and patron token boosts now boost Tok Token gains.
Starfall Prophecy Weapon Runes now all correctly respect PVP damage reductions.
Starfall Prophecy Weapon Runes no longer fall off when you die.
Wardrobe: The appearance set “Ovog Ceremonial Garb” now appears in the Appearance Sets tab of the Character screen.
Mossclaw Defense, Thunderguard, Devouring Soul, Lava Stone, and Combustion Soul no longer contribute to the Comet of Destruction set.
Cowl of Prophecy now has mage stats.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.0 Hotfix #3 (Nov 23, 2016)

RIFT STORE AND SERVICES:
New PVP synergy crystals are available on the store.
Added Slayer’s Vengeance and Slayer’s Garb set bonuses to PVP store bought gear.
ZONES:
All graveyard locations have had any local hostile population moved back to a safe distance.
Onslaughts: Onslaught fallow time has been reduced from five minutes to one minute to prevent excessive waiting for those who need quest completion.
The daily quests Notoriety Republic and A Golden Reputation are now available at level 65 and have rewards that scale up to level 70.
ASHENFALL:
Quest: Blood and Circuses: Players now only need to defeat 6 invasions in Path’s End instead of 8 to complete this quest.
Quests: Dragon Detritus and Hellish Relics: Fixed quest text and object names.
Shourloth, Ghorgas, Zlobar, and Carli have had their balance tuned for story quests.
GEDLO BADLANDS:
Quest: Ascension: Implemented possible fix.
Quest: Carnage: Ascended: Killing player characters over level 65 now gives credit for this quest.
SCATHERRAN FOREST:
Quest: Tuath’de Blades: Players now only need to defeat 4 invasions in Path’s End instead of 8 to complete this quest.
TUATH'DE COVEN:
Art: Added attack animations to Swamp Toads in Tuath’de Coven
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS:
DARKENING DEEPS: INTREPID:
Fixed a bug where Scarn would despawn until the instance was soft reset.
TEMPLE OF ANANKE:
Reworked the last fight to be more clear and a bit easier.
TUATH'DE COVEN: EXPERT:
Should now be at the appropriate difficulty. All enemies are roughly 20% tougher.
PVP:
Lowered the amount of stats granted by up bolstered gear in the level 65-70 PVP bracket. Specifically, tertiary stats.
Fixed an issue where PVP fragments were being up bolstered.
Fixed the stats on Prophetic consumables. They should now be more in-line with general Starfall Prophecy balance.
You can no longer use /stuck while in a warfront.
CRAFTING:
The materials needed for the crafted Starhide Leather armor set have been adjusted to require less cloth and more leather.
All crafted gear has been increased in power.
The achievement Celestial Angler should now credit properly.
You can no longer infuse planar fragments while in combat (thanks Tsulong!)
Disabled the ability to infuse planar fragments while dead.
Disabled the ability to switch planar fragment sets while dead.
Visionary crafting Amenders now require skill level 500 (was 510).
ITEMS:
Stan's Infra-cell Fishin' Pole and Cosmological Fishin' Pole from the Affinity store are now Bind to Account.
MINIONS:
Rare Minion Missions will now reward Planar Fragments and Celestial Remnants to lvl 65+ players that own Starfall Prophecy.
Visionary buff foods now grant the correct buffs.
Visionary Seal Runes now can properly be applied to level 65 items.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.0 Hotfix #2 (Nov 21, 2016)

NETWORK ISSUES COMPENSATION:
All players can log in between now and 11:59:59 PM server time on 11/30 to receive a Bundle of Affinity, containing 100 Affinity for your account. Claim it from the RIFT Store! There is an additional compensation coming next week for Patrons -- stay tuned!
SOULS
PLANAR ATTUNEMENT:
Wild Overgrowth, Raze to the Ground, and Stormtouched are no longer incorrectly removed by Hasted Shot.
Primalist: Resilient Hide no longer incorrectly has a range.
Rogue: Fixed a tooltip typo in Raze to the Ground.
Warrior: Storm Sigil now correctly grants Strength.
CLERIC:
PURIFIER:
Flash of the Phoenix can now correctly be cast on dead allies again.
MAGE:
Removed some confusing extra text from the Reaper preset.
ARBITER:
Ebb and Flow, Biting Wind, Misdirection and Swirling Winds no longer have two entries in the player spellbook.
FROSTKEEPER:
Earthen Renewal no longer incorrectly consumes multiple stacks of Telluric Burst.
HARBINGER:
Eldritch Armor is no longer incorrectly consumed by instant effects.
PRIMALIST:
Recategorized the difficulty of several Primalist presets.
BESERKER:
Primal Avatar: Tiger now correctly grants Restrained Fury.
Icefall now correctly shows an icon for its snare when applied. Now correctly mentions Shatterforst.
VULCANIST:
Beacon of the Drake: Tooltip has been corrected to indicate it deals damage over time, rather than on cast.
ROGUE:
SABOUTEUR:
Charges should no longer break quest polymorphs.
RIFTSTALKER:
Scatter the Shadows is no longer incorrectly dropping the PVP Flag.
Maelstrom - Hot to the Touch now provides the correct amount of Pushback reduction based on talent points.
SHADEBORN:
Shadeborn is now correctly categorized as an offensive soul.
Nexus of Darkness clarified that it cannot affect scourge of darkness.
WARRIOR:
Cleaned up the description of the Freedom Fighter preset.
REAVER:
Dire Corruption tooltip is now more clear.
ZONES AND QUESTS:
Zone Events: The Alittu, Camp Veist, and Camp Quagmire wardstones will now all affect the defend the wardstone objective correctly if destroyed.
Quest: Coronation: Tasuil only attends his own coronation once.
Quest: Isolation: It appears that Ahnket’s Sentinel was indeed capable of wiping out the known cosmos. We dialed her power back a bit to save some for later battles.
GEDLO BADLANDS:
Quest: Draconian Solution – Fixed a missing map locator for one of the objectives.
SCATHERRAN FOREST:
Story quests given in Feilbocan that give you story companions should now reliably be removed, allowing players to see Tasuil so they can turn in and receive quests.
Quest: Mael Salach – Fixed an issue where if a player dropped the quest, they could not get the quest back from the quest giver
ITEMS:
The Notoriety Quartermaster store interfaces now display the Tower Fragment currency.
Fixed an issue causing Starfall Prophecy Synergy Crystals to increase Synthesis heals beyond their intended values.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.0 Hotfix #1 (Nov 18, 2016)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 4.0 (Nov 16, 2016)

NEW ZONES:
ALITTU - QUEST HUB:
A makeshift city constructed in the shadow of the Tower of Ahnket, Alittu is home to the Tenebrean mages and offers sanctuary to any who come to the Comet. While the inhabitants seem friendly and knowledgeable, do they hide the secrets to destroying the Tower and saving Telara?
SCATHERRAN FOREST - LEVELS 65-66:
Freed from the great dragon Greenscale’s insatiable hunger, the faeries, unicorns, and satyrs of Scatherran had returned to a peaceful existence. Unfortunately, when the Comet store their mystical forest from its home plane, it awakened an ancient and insidious evil. Ally with Shyla Starhearth and her ward, Tasuil the dragon, to defend the innocent from the return of the Tuath’de.
GEDLO BADLANDS - LEVELS 66-67:
Every year the kobold followers of Saint Taranis journey into the Gedlo Badlands to test their spirits against the goblin hordes. This year, however, the Comet of Ahnket tore their battlefield from the Plane of Fire, trapping them in an unwinnable and inescapable battle. Join Cyril the Champion in uniting the scattered kobolds and helping them ascend to a higher plane.
XARTH MIRE - LEVELS 68-69:
The stagnant, murky waters of the Xarth Mire conceal terrifying secrets and terrible dangers. Whether it is falling prey to Greenscale’s mate and her ravenous brood or becoming another sacrifice for the Tuath’de, certain death awaits anyone fool enough to enter the marsh unprepared. Fight alongside Tasuil the dragon and Anthousa of the Kelari and put an end to Queen Una’s dark rituals.
ASHENFALL - LEVELS 69-70:
Between the boiling rivers of molten lava and burning, smoke-filled air, Ashenfell is a land barely fit for devils and dragons, let alone the Ascended. The lines between good and evil blur as you join forces with the scholarly succubus Carli and the mysterious Messenger Ambriel to stop Duke Arcarax and the Adversary’s fiery legions from taking control of the Comet.
TENEBREAN SCHISM - LEVEL 70:
The narrow bridge that spans this gaping abyss is the one and only path to the heart of the Comet: The Tower of Ahnket. Don’t lose your footing, as not even an Ascended’s inhuman strength will save you from the great tail of the comet, let alone the intense, churning magic released by the unknowable intelligence locked within the Tower.
FEATURES:
64-BIT CLIENT RELEASED:
64 bit-With the arrival of the Comet of Ahnket we also welcome the arrival of the 64-bit Rift client. For those of you with 64-bit operating systems it will start up automatically just by hitting ‘play’
LEVEL CAP INCREASE:
As the Comet of Ahnket draws closer to Telera, Ascended able to travel to the Celestial Lands can now obtain level 70!
HOW TO GET TO STARFALL PROPHECY’S CELESTIAL LANDS:
A new porticulum has been added to Tempest Bay in the Canals, where the entrance to Stormbreaker Protocol once stood. In the room beyond, players can receive a quest from General Batua sending them to the Celestial Lands.
INDIVIDUAL REWARDS:
In Starfall Prophecy, gone are the days arguing over dungeon and raid loot and dreaded DKP calculations. The Individual Rewards system determines the spoils of battle on a character by character basis, regardless of what other party members receive. Spend more time adventuring and less time divvying up the plunder!
NEW ITEM: PLANAR FRAGMENTS:
Planar Fragments are a new type of item that allows players to customize their characters the way they want. Players can seek out the Planar Fragments with the stats they need and upgrade them through the Infusion system. How can a player get their hands on some? Rift Assault, world monsters, dungeon bosses, and gaining Notoriety are a selection of ways. Seek out Anton Corvo in Alittu for an in-game tutorial on this new feature.
LEGENDARY POWERS:
A new way to defend Telara has launched! Players may enhance some of their existing powers, which are identified by their impressive new borders, to further augment their strength. Legendary Powers must be chosen wisely as you may not invest more than 3 points into a single soul, and their power makes them important in the fight against Ahnket and her minions.
Upon reaching level 66, and every level thereafter, players are rewarded with a Legendary Power Point that they may spend in any power with a legendary version that they own, further enhancing the effects of that power. The more points you spend in a soul, the more powers you can make Legendary! Every soul can have at least one power enhanced by default, with additional points able to be spent at 15 and 44 talent points spent (Primalists must spend 7 and 23 talent points respectively).
Every soul has 5 powers that are Legendary, so mix and match to create the perfect build for you! Your Legendary powers are saved to your Role, so you can have many different unique configurations for each soul as long as you have more roles!
PLANAR ASSAULT ADVENTURES:
After the successful expedition to the Plane of Water, the Empyrean Alliance have opened a new series of planar gateways to bring the fight to new and distant planes, but the path is not a friendly one. New Assault Instant Adventures allow the Ascended to join together and defeat Rifts in all new planar arenas. Battle together with powerful enemies of the past and present as the Rifts now tear through the spaces between planes. A new faction and special rewards await those who can master these fiends and clear a path to new realms!
NEW DUNGEON: TUATH'DE COVEN:
The Circle of Thirteen seeks forbidden power to further the plots hatched by Witch Queen Una of the Tuath'de. Enter the dread swamp, and stop the corruption of ancient paragons of the Plane of Life, as the Queen is attempting to bind Ankhet to her will and thus gain access to its power to create Simulacrum. Players must find a way to access the inner sanctum of the magical fae path to the ritual’s location and put a stop to it. Along the way they must also attempt to rescue the Unicorn queen Lanaria from the forces of the Tuath’de before she suffers a fate worse than death.
NEW DUNGEON: TEMPLE OF ANANKE:
Ananke, feared pit fiend of Ashenfell, Oracle of the Alaviaxian Devils, holder of the lost prophecies of the Goddess Aia, has foreseen the return of the red dragon's power. The Ascended must make their way to the temple, confront Ananke, and if possible stop the prophecy from being fulfilled. Will you prevent the crowning of a new ruler of flame, or help bring the prophecy to fruition?
NEW DUNGEON: INTREPID DARKENING DEEPS:
We've given a face-lift to another Classic dungeon! Try out the Intrepid Darkening Deeps to face down Scarn once more. It becomes available as an Expert dungeon once an Ascended reaches level 70.
ACTIVE UPGRADES:
We've taken the concept of upgraded items and supercharged them! Instead of only requiring other items to upgrade gear, Active Upgrades open up all new possibilities for advancement. Maybe an Active Upgrade item will require you to kill 100 creatures from the Plane of Fire, or to acquire 4 other items of a relic set of armor, or even to every zone on continent. There are currently Active Upgrades on Starfall Prophecy Expert gear and PVP gear, for the Chest, Leg, and Shoulder slots.
PVP BRACKET CHANGES:
With the level cap increase, we will be changing the bracket system for PVP for the short term along with a few other changes.
All ELO scores have been reset,
The level 65 bracket will be expanded to include levels 65 to 70. Players will be bolstered to 70 and everyone will use the same bolstered gear. We consider this bracket as a transitional state while players level to 70.
Dedicated PVP players can earn Warmonger’s gear that goes above the bolster gear ceiling.
GAME UPDATES:
GENERAL:
A new season for leaderboards has started! As such, all leaderboards have been reset.
The level 65 and level 60-64 chat channels have been removed, and have been replaced with level 60-69 chat. A new level 70 chat channel has been added!
Characters who change their factions are added to the appropriate starter guild of their new faction, whether or not they are on their home shard.
Fixed an issue with the Auction House's suggested price option that was causing incorrect prices for stacks of items larger than 1 when relisting auctions.
Fixed an issue where LFG was not properly computing your stats when changing specs.
A number of typoseses have been addresseded.
INSTANT ADVENTURE:
The Instant adventure Ascended Disgrace debuff is no longer removed when a character enters and leaves a warfront.
Close Rift quests are now re-enabled in Instant Adventures.
UI AND SETTINGS:
Adjust Pixel Granularity under Settings>Video>Advanced now notifies players that it requires a client restart to update.
You can no longer purchase multiple soul packs on the character creation screen.
RIFT Store: The services tab now shows Void Stone as a currency in the lower left hand corner.
Guild Perk: Updated tooltip for Cache Finder.
Added more icon options to the macro UI.
SOULS:
Raid Cooldowns - Enrage, Lava Field, Defend the Fallen, and Orchestra of the Planes now apply their damage bonuses to your raid for 40 seconds on cast. They now share a single 5 minute lockout called Planar exhaustion which prevents players from benefiting from their damage bonuses.
Fixed an issue that incorrectly removed stacks of abilities with multiple casters applying the same ability.
Pets when spawned will no longer be afflicted by their previous incarnations debuffs.
CLERIC:
DEFILER:
Unholy Nexus now can correctly be used when any Rage or Greed damage over time effect is on the target.
Furious Might will no longer inform the player they have learned it every time they log in.
ORACLE:
Resusitating Chant now restores 5% of mana per tick to be consistent with other resources.
Benevolent Inspiration now grants a 12% incoming healing bonus, up from 5%.
Deadly Insignia now increases damage by 2% per rank and absorbtion by 15% per rank.
MAGE:
FROSTKEEPER:
Earthen Rapport will no longer trigger on certain abilities such as Suspended Reanimation.
PRIMALIST:
PRESERVER:
Serenity now heals for 100% more for each additional player it heals.
TYPHOON:
Corrected a bug in Tsunami causing it to deal roughly 1/3rd of expected damage.
ROGUE:
BARD:
Triumphant Spirit now grants a healing bonus of 6% per point, up from 4%.
CHLOROMANCER:
Wild Growth no longer causes affected foes to take increased damage.
SABOTEUR:
Sticky Bombs now deal the correct amount of initial damage.
Gaining charges out of combat will no longer be reported in the combat log.
TACTICIAN:
Power Core has been removed from the game.
WARRIOR:
BEASTMASTER:
Enrage now increases raid member damage by 15%, rather than increasing damage, crit chance and crit power.
Command to Stand Ground has had its health increase reduced to 5%, and its resistance increase reduced to 3%.
Command to Recover ghas had its healing increase reduced to 5%.
RAIDS AND DUNGEONS:
Legacy raid bosses now give each player the same amount of platinum no matter how many characters are in the party.
CRAFTING:
The following crafting abilities have been removed from the game - Salvage Armor, Salvage Accessories, Salvage Planar Essences, Salvage Weapons. Salvaged crafting materials are now of grey quality and no longer used in recipes.
A note: many older crafting-related runes, enhacements (such as soles, stones, etc) are not compatible with Starfall Prophecy gear.
Attainium Crystals are now of grey quality and no longer used in recipes. They will no longer be rewarded from Minion adventures.
FISHING:
Any Planar fishing lure can be used with any type of Planar fishing pole.
The rewards for Stan’s Super Secret Lure have been heavily revised, and are now more heavily weighted towards dimension items.
MINIONS:
Aventurine is now capped at 5000.
The quantity of crafting materials rewarded by Minions has been reduced.
ITEMS:
Starfall Prophecy Preorders: Tenebrean Mystery Key are now available from the Maguk Representative!
Ethereal Drakes from the Deluxe Edition of Starfall Prophecy now grant 160% mounted speed.
Qil’s Defiler Synergy Crystals now modify Miserly Affliction.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.7 Hotfix #22 (Nov 10, 2016)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.7 Hotfix #21 (Nov 4, 2016)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.7 Hotfix #20 (Nov 2, 2016)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.7 Hotfix #19 (Nov 1, 2016)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.7 Hotfix #16 (Oct 13, 2016)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.7 Hotfix #15 (Oct 6, 2016)

MECHANICS:
We've updated how shield calcuations work.
100% shields are calculated first, then all non 100% shields.
All shields now have a 'bleed through' amount based on their percentage.
Ex: An 85% shield will always bleed 15 damage of a 100 damage attack, no matter how many 85% shields you have. Previously, each shield would reduce the damage further.
To read more, check out out the thread about it!
ITEMS:
The cost of Tier 1 & 2 weapons and armor has been reduced by 25% for both credits and tokens.
Tier 1 & 2 weapon and armor bundles now have a token price. The bundles are also bound to account.
Note: Drowned Prophet’s War Axe has the incorrect price this week. It'll be fixed in next week's hotfix!
Items with effects that increase token gain now affect Fragments of Darkness. Also, the passive patron buff will affect Fragment of Darkness gain as well.
Illusory Motes are available on the store now under Equipment -> Upgrade Components.
INSTANT ADVENTURE:
MIND OF MADNESS INTREPID IA:
Corrected an issue with invasion mobs granting far more experience than intended.
RAIDS AND DUNGEONS:
Increased the number of items that drop from each boss of Rhen of Fate, Intrepid Gilded Prophecy, Intrepid Hammerknell, Tyrant’s Forge, Mount Sharax, and Mind of Madness.
COMET OF AHNKET:
All enemy npcs in this raid have had their health and damage reduced by roughly 30%
Doubled the amount of Tower Sigils that drop from Hard Mode bosses. Additionally, mini-bosses now drop one Sigil. Regular-mode bosses now drop Tower Sigils.
MIND OF MADNESS:
All enemy npcs in this raid have had their health and damage slightly reduced by roughly 10%.
ART:
Fixed appearance of undersides of Fine Wood Table dimension item.
Adjusted several older dimension items. Proper centering, fix holes, missing textures, etc.
Fixed the glow strength of the pink dimension plank when placed in brightly lit area.
Fixed a texture on underside of Old Fine Wood Table dimension object
Fixed the appearance and collision of Small Fine Wood Table and Small Old Fine Wood Table.
Fixed the appearance of undersides of cartel bench dimension items.
CRAFTING:
The recipe for Matte Black Triangles creates 12 per crafting now.
DIMENSIONS:
Brevanic Wall Segments can now be scaled appropriately.
Glowing Building Blocks now show up in the Store.
CLERIC:
DRUID:
Resounding Blow will now only affect melee damaging abilities.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.7 Hotfix #14 (Sep 28, 2016)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.7 Hotfix #13 (Sep 22, 2016)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.7 Hotfix #12 (Sep 15, 2016)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.7 Hotfix #11 (Sep 8, 2016)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.7 Hotfix #10 (Sep 1, 2016)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.7 Hotfix #9 (Aug 25, 2016)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.7 Hotfix #8 (Aug 18, 2016)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.7 Hotfix #7 (Aug 11, 2016)

STARFALL PROPHECY PREORDERS:
Due to the issues with Starfall Prophecy tokens last week, we’ve added a one time claimable reward in the RIFT Store, Package of Prophecies, that contains 5 bonus tokens. Sorry for the inconvenience!
GENERAL:
Fixed a memory leak that caused server instability.
Fixed art issues with some armor for all dwarves and female bahmis.
Players in starter guilds remain in the same guild when they hop shards.
RIFT STORE AND SERVICES:
Rogue Synergy Crystals no longer appear when filtering by Warrior or Primalist.
The option to purchased Earring Slots and Planewalker: Water for Voidstones has returned! Both can be purchased for 50,000 Voidstones each.
The time limit to purchase the RIFT: Essentials Edition has been removed. It can be found in the RIFT Store under the DLC category.
SOULS:
CLERIC:
DRUID:
Fae Mimicry now affects 5 abilities for 100% of their damage dealt (up from 4 and 70% respectively),
SHAMAN:
Massive Blow now receives roughly 33% less benefit from Spell Crit when calculating bonus damage.
MAGE:
HARBINGER:
Rending Slash now causes the target to take 13% more damage from the Mage (up from 10%).
PRIMALIST:
DERVISH:
Primal Avatar: Wind Serpent now increases damage dealt by 25% and lasts 20s.
Wind at your Back now increases Air damage by 15%.
Might of the Earth now grants 2% WD and AP per point (down from 4%).
Shearing Winds now deals 105% of your Weapon Damage per point (up from 80%).
Seismic Smash now increases the damage of Air Cutter casts by 35% (up from 20%).
Subduction cooldown is reduced to 4 seconds (down from 6) on a target below 35% HP.
MAELSTROM:
Font of Sublimination will no longer be consumed by Scald if it is already instant when you gain the Font effect.
TYPHOON:
Storm Strength now grants 2% WD and AP per point (down from 4%).
VULCANIST:
Primal Avater: Drake now affects 7 abilities.
Heart of the Volcano now increases Earth and Fire damage by 30%.
Furious Power now grants 2% WD and AP per point (down from 4%).
Greater Salvo now increases the damage of your Vorpal Salvo by 15% per point (up from 10%).
Moment of Brilliance now increases the damage of Stroke of Brilliance when Fury and Cunning are equal by 40% per point (up from 25%).
Infusion now causes an additional 12% damage as Ethereal (up from 10%).
ROGUE:
SHADEBORN:
Shadow Twin now causes 30% of the damage dealt as Ethereal (Down from 40%).
WARRIOR:
PALADIN:
Light’s Shield now has a 60% chance to proc and a 2s cooldown.
Light's Decree - Projectile now moves roughly 50% faster.
Life's Rapture has been removed.
NEW: Sanctuary - Replaces Life's Rapture. Ground Placed zone where all incoming damage is greatly reduced. Zone lasts up to 4 seconds or until the Paladin ceases channeling. Cannot move while channeling.
NEW: Wall of Light - Moving Channel. Allies who stand in a cone behind you take substantially less damage. Requires a stack of Light's Shield.
NEW: Purify Land - Place a powerful zone that erupts after 1 second, dealing heavy damage and incredible threat to all targets in the area.
NEW: Call of the Divine - Enemies in the target area are teleported to you. Requires one stack of Light's Shield.
PARAGON:
Strike Like Iron now increases damage by 30% (up from 25%).
Shifting Blades now affects 4 attacks (up from 3).
WARLORD:
Shatter now grants 2% damage per point (up from 1%).
Deadly Posture now increases Crit Chance by 12% (up from 10%).
Surges can no longer be improperly purged.
PLANAR ATTUNEMENT:
Fading Light is no longer incorrectly locked out by certain control effects.
Fading Light and Resilient Hide (Primalist) no longer incorrectly appear in the general tab of your spellbook. They are now correctly listed with other Ascended Powers.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
TEMPEST BAY:
Have you heard the revelations of Ananke? The Tempest Bay Chamber of Commerce has passed regulations limiting proselytizing imps to only speak once every 25 minutes rather than once every 25 seconds.
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS:
COMET OF AHNKET:
Hericius: The invisible waves cease to exist once Hericius enters the Shroomageddon.
HAMMERKNELL FORTRESS:
Sicaron: The achievement ‘Contractual Obligation’ now requires you to defeat Sicaron in 25 contracts or fewer up from 20 contracts or fewer. This change will not grant the achievement retroactively, so if you have defeated Sicaron with fewer than 25 contracts in the past, you will have to do so again to earn the achievement!
MIND OF MADNESS:
Arisen Arak – The Shadow of C’zyth’s abilities have been fixed to properly damage players and display warning telegraphs. The below changes were implemented to accommodate this:
The Shadow of C’zyth will no longer rotate and follow its current target during Wrath of C’zyth.
The duration of Wrath of C’zyth and Weight of Worlds has been increased by one second.
The cooldown period for Wrath of C’zyth and Weight of Worlds has been increased by two seconds.
Inversion should now properly display and affect players as before.
ITEMS:
Frozen Horror Tights are now spelled correctly.
Fixed a typo in the description of the Snaggletooth companion pet.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.7 Hotfix #6 (Aug 5, 2016)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.7 Hotfix #5 (Aug 4, 2016)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.7 Hotfix #4 (Jul 27, 2016)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.7 Hotfix #3 (Jul 21, 2016)

SUMMERFEST:
Claim your Summerfest Friendship Gift in the RIFT Store, available now through August 5th! Each gift contains 40 Affinity, 125 Summerfest Merit Badges, 1 Summerfest Friendship Bracelet and a 3 Day Patron Pass, claimable once per account. Thanks for your patience during the downtime last week!
Artifact Piñatas will no longer allow you to pick up the Artifacts unless you were an appropriate level (or mentored level) when the Piñata died. It must be green or higher to you, or else you will not be able to pick up Artifacts or get loot in your Rift bag.
Artifacts from piñatas will no longer prompt a need/greed roll regardless of loot settings.
In an effort to curb the extinction of the local swarmlord population, the achievement “Bug Juice” no longer requires 300 kills of Swarmlord Khargroth. 1 seems sufficient.
Little Shiny no longer makes any noise. Hopefully his remaining forms of communication are still intact.
Thundersmack is now available to all callings. Get this player-named weapon while you can!
GENERAL:
Fixed an issue when purchasing tokens and vouchers.
Fixed a crash that could occur relating to the Captain Dagon minion.
Fixed an issue with the intro movie causing a client crash on startup.
Pressing enter while attempting to buy partial stacks or split stacks in the inventory will now function correctly.
Fixed a crash when trail-type particle effects are triggered.
SOULS:
CLERIC:
MASTERIES:
Fixed an issue that could result in Faith's Reward being removed when another Cleric casts Overflowing Renewal on you.
RUNESHAPER:
The Precision Inscribing talent now affects Rune of Soul Binding and no longer affects Rune of Smiting. Runestrike and Inscribe Fate are still affected by the talent.
SHAMAN:
PVP: Massive Blow damage reduced by 20% in pvp environments.
MAGE:
FROSTKEEPER:
PVP: Break Free now works as expected again.
Frozen Ground now properly applies immunity after stunning a player.
Infuse Magic now heals for 67% less in PVP.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
Weekly Quest: Aquias Avenger: This quest is now correctly listed in the Weekly section of the quest log.
TEMPEST BAY:
Have the Prophecies of Ananke come to pass? Will they be fulfilled? Why are there imps all over Tempest Bay? Do you have a few moments to talk about Aia, the goddess of fate?
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS:
COMET OF AHNKET:
Lord Fionn now has a chance of dropping a warrior one-hand weapon with the Ethereal Ascension activated ability.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.7 Hotfix #2 (Jul 18, 2016)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.7 Hotfix #1 (Jul 14, 2016)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.7 Summer Solstice (Jul 13, 2016)

FEATURES:
SOUL REVAMPS:
Four souls are getting a face lift in 3.7: Warlord, Berserker, Druid and Elementalist! below are some brief blurbs, but be sure to check out the details in the SOULS section of the patch notes below!
Warrior - Warlord:
We wanted to make it into a brutal damage dealer that was every bit as good as its sibling, as well as providing a completely alternative playstyle. To accomplish this, we improved the “feel” of the abilities, while also making the choices about what power to use, and when, much clearer. Of course we needed to give it a bit of a boost as well; everyone likes to do more damage! Making the rotation of abilities more rewarding and fun to play was a central theme that traveled throughout or changes to this Soul.
Primalist - Berserker:
Our goal for Berserker was simple: we simply wanted to improve sustained damage over time. Berserker is still a Soul that can throw out a lot of damage in a very short period of time, but when its buffs are down it should now do better overall. Reducing Berserker’s reliance on abilities with a 1 minute cooldown was very important. as well as making the shift from Cunning to Fury feel more impactful and interesting.
Cleric - Druid:
With a very versatile selection of abilities, Druid has always been popular for leveling and Instant Adventure. That same versatility always carried a price tag however, as Druid tended to be less effective in dungeons and raids. The new Druid has a much more active play style than before: several passive buttons or hour-long buffs were replaced with active abilities that reward precise management of several related stacks of debuffs on the target to maximize damage per second. Druids can now use the ability Conduit of Nature to gain one of four very powerful buffs. This allows Druids to get full benefit from their pet’s presence even in raid or PvP situations that might otherwise make the pet ineffective.
Mage - Elementalist:
The Elementalist was a great soul for leveling but fell off in high end play. We love Souls that utilize pets, but making the pets perform appropriately and intelligently in all environments is a major challenge. In difficult situations, the Elementalist will now be able to tap into the raw power of the planes through their pet, rendering it powerless for combat but providing massive benefit to its master. The specific power granted will depend on the elemental nature of the pet, anything from dramatically increasing the caster’s resistance to damage via Earth pets, to making spells from the Elementalist school instantaneous through Fire pets. Picking the right pet and utilizing its elemental nature effectively can turn the tide of previously difficult encounters!
GUILD CHANGES AND IMPROVEMENTS:
Guilds can now be created by a single character. They no longer require multiple signatures to be created!
Guilds can now be created directly from the Guild Finder.
A fanfare now plays upon joining a guild. Congratulations!
NEW PLAYER GUILDS:
New players will now be automatically added to a Starter Guild specific to their faction and server. This is meant to help introduce new players to the benefits of belonging to a guild in Rift while also connecting them with other newcomers.
New Player Guilds remain statically at level 5 and cannot gain Guild XP.
New Player Guilds always appear in the Guild Finder.
DUNGEON VETERAN INCENTIVES:
Players that have completed a particular dungeon five times will now become a Veteran of that dungeon. This status is not applied retroactively.
Veterans running a dungeon while grouped with at least one non-veteran gain a 15% bonus to currency, tokens, reputation, and XP earned from that particular run!
SUMMERFEST RETURNS:
Summer is here and it’s time for fun in the sun! It begins on Thursday July 14th at 3:30 PM server time!
NEW ARTIFACT PIÑATAS:
Artifact Piñatas containing seven new artifact sets can be found all throughout the world on during Summerfest. * These artifact sets are exclusive to Summerfest.
Destroying them causes an explosion of collectible artifacts to appear based on the color of the piñata when it explodes.
Collect all of the sets and you'll receive special dimension items, a title, and a rare pet!
NEW ITEMS & CUSTOMIZATION:
New Sigils
New Burning Husk Mount and Beachtowel Cape.
New Outfits and Vanity Weapons: Alsbeth’s Raiment, Ruffian’s Garb, Short Oar, and Long Oar.
New Portrait Badges: Gold Scarab and Cupcake.
New Minion Card: Mitch and new Minion Adventures.
NEW DIMENSION ITEMS:
Dimension Key: Greenscale's Crater.
Dimension VFX: Bubbles, and Butterflies.
Dimension Items: Pastel Limestone Building Blocks and a new Summerfest Grab Bag!
Dimension NPCs: Waftwing Moth, Birds of Summer, Fish, and Wisps of Summer Flame.
6 new Terrain Paint Recipes!
ARTIFACT UPDATE:
21 new sets of EACH of the Poison, Burning, and Nightmare types of artifacts in both Stonefield and Gloamwood! Get exploring!
The full changelog can be found herE: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-discussions/patch-notes/483979-rift-3-7-summer-solstice.html

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.6 Hotfix #14 (Jun 29, 2016)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.6 Hotfix #13 (Jun 23, 2016)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.6 Hotfix #12 (Jun 17, 2016)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.6 Hotfix #11 (Jun 13, 2016)

GENERAL:
Fixed a bug preventing addons from sending mail.
Fix missing surfaces and holes in Shal Korva dimension.
Quicksand Overlay dimension item may now be rotated.
Players who leave a guild can no longer see the guild chat channel.
SOULS:
All interrupts with attached Crowd Control effects now only apply their Crowd Control if an ability is successfully interrupted.
MAGE:
ARCHON:
Burning Purpose now correctly affects all abilities with cast times.
Pillaging Stone now correctly applies its buff if you have Archon’s Bulwark active
FROSTKEEPER:
Infuse Magic - Now heals for 25% less in PVP (up from 15% less).
Earthen Renewal - Now heals for 12% less in PVP (up from 5% less).
Telluric Burst - Now heals for 12% less in PVP (up from 5% less).
Earthen Barrier - Now heals for 10% less in PVP (up from 0%).
Frost Barrier - Now absorbs 10% less damage in PVP (up from 0%).
Crystal Barrier - Now absorbs 10% less damage in PVP (up from 0%).
Frostkeeper's Armor - Now absorbs 10% less damage in PVP (up from 0%).
PRIMALIST:
MAELSTROM:
Font of Sublimination no longer interacts in unexpected ways with other cast time reductions.
Singed Spirit can now only trigger once every 35 seconds. The tooltip has been updated to reflect this.
PRESERVER:
Resilent Growth now can correctly crit.
VULCANIST:
Added a name to the buff that makes Skill Shot instant so it can be tracked by addons.
WARRIOR:
BEASTMASTER:
Call of the Forest now correctly affects all abilities with cast times.
RIFTBLADE:
Damage of Icy Burst reduced by roughly 10%.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
Quest: The Enemy of My Enemy: It is now possible to turn this quest in near the original location specified in Tempest Bay without entering the Comet of Ahnket.
PLANETOUCHED WILDS:
Khadluu Ukher World Boss: The initial damage of Fiery Discharge done after being hit by the projectile has been lowered
Khadluu Ukher World Boss: Tyrant’s Roar damage has been lowered (previous was flat damage, now does percentage based damage of a player’s max health).
Refactored the abilities that the 5 Khan's use. The fights will be very different now, but should kill you less. This makes me sad.
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS:
COMET OF AHNKET:
Introduction Mode items that incorrectly required Abyssal Crusader's Accelerators to upgrade now require Broken Cosmoses.
Duke Eblius: Fixed an issue with Fiery Strike not being able to be blocked or dodged
Duke Eblius: Fixed an issue where Duke Eblius could immediately use Infernal Sunder after casting Sulphurous Blight
Fyrangos: Fixed an issue with Fyragnos’ auto attack not being able to be blocked or dodged.
INSTANT ADVENTURE:
MIND OF MADNESS INTREPID ADVENTURE:
Fixed an issue causing Lord Arak to tell players they failed, even when they hadn’t…. yet.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.6 Hotfix #10 (Jun 2, 2016)

GENERAL:
Changed multicore to default settings.
RIFT STORE AND SERVICES:
Fixed the Store filters when linking to an item from the crafting window.
Planks and Spheres for the Greywood and Wood Beam building block sets are now in the Store.
Dimensional Artifact Bundles can now be purchased in the Rift store (Dimensions > Interactive).
Jump Pad Bundles can now be purchase in the Rift Store (Dimensions > Interactive). These allow you to place Jump Pads and Jump Targets such as seen in Intrepid Adventures.
The Shadow Assassin’s Hood and Storm Assassin’s Hood are now available for purchase in the Rift store! Cosmetics > Costume Armor.
SOULS:
MAGE:
FROSTKEEPER:
Earthwalk + Unfettered: Should now properly remove all CC effects.
Transcendant Abjuration: Now functions properly when only Frost Barrier is active and that barrier is not on the caster.
Infuse Magic: Expanded the tooltip to describe the expected durations and to clarify that the ability is not cancellable once cast.
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS:
COMET OF AHNKET:
Added support to the difficulty toggle system to return to a higher difficulty if a player lowers a difficulty but does not kill a boss. Due to a technical limitation, this option is not available if the instance is soft reset after difficulty has been changed.
Fixed Lord Fionn’s enrage timer on hard mode. It is now 11 minutes.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
Quest: Five If By Sea: This quest now correctly appears in the Weekly category in the quest log.
MERIDIAN:
Quest: The WAD: This quest no longer requires participation in The Codex Warfront.
MORBAN:
When fighting Crystallized Death, Trapped Souls will no longer follow players who teleport to safety.
IA: Crystallized Death: Trapped Souls will no longer spawn during the fight.
DIMENSIONS:
Added a recipe for Red Curtains to the Store and Bob in Choreburg.
Water Building Blocks can now be right-clicked to swap between solid and non-collision versions of the blocks.
Fix missing surfaces and holes in Shal Korva dimension.
The Quicksand Overlay dimension item can now be rotated.
MINIONS:
Reduced the rate at which Attainium is rewarded from Minions.
Planks and Spheres for the Greywood and Wood Beam building block sets can now be collected from Minions.
Adjusted Trenton’s stats to keep him in live with other minions.
ITEMS:
The Illustrious Dexterity Serum now provides the intended 200 Dexterity increase, previously 181.
Gloves of the Feral from Mind of Madness Instant Adventures can now be correctly upgraded.
Added cooldown periods to activated weapon abilities that were missing them for Comet of Ahnket items.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.6 Hotfix #9 (May 26, 2016)

GENERAL:
Minion: Kaerth’s starting stamina is now 10.
ARTIFACTS:
A new Rival Bounty Hunter is loose in Planetouched Wilds.
Dramatically increased the drop rate of Primalist Bounties in PVP!
Added Warchanter, Shadeborn, Maelstrom, Runeshaper, and Frostkeeper Bounty Sets.
RIFT STORE AND SERVICES:
* Head to the Boosts section: Select boosts are 20% off through June 1st!
SOULS:
MAGE:
FROSTKEEPER:
Infuse Magic healing reduced by 15% in PVP.
Earthen Renewal healing reduced by 5% in PVP.
Telluric Burst healing reduced by 5% in PVP.
Earthmending healing reduced by 10% in PVP.
WARRIOR:
RIFTBLADE:
Riftblade Bursts are no longer incorrectly affected by the Planar Attunement PVP crit debuff during PVE.
INSTANT ADVENTURE:
Warrior and Cleric Shields gained as rewards for Intrepid Instant Adventures no longer have a chance of granting DPS stats.
INTREPID MIND OF MADNESS:
Pagura’s lieutenants, Crustok and Brachy, will no longer move from their spawn position.
Players now gain an ability called Shield Breaker that removes Brachy and Crustok’s Fortified Shell.
While fighting Lord Arak, players now gain Shield Breaker, allowing them to remove Shield of Darkness.
A new callout warns players once Lord Arak casts Shield of Darkness.
Lord Arak’s health has been reduced by 10%.
The number of AoE crystals that spawn during the Lord Arak encounter is now capped at 10.
Crystals spawn at a slightly reduced rate.
Judge, Jury, and Executioner: Once players have killed the Executioner, the Jury will despawn.
The Grotesque Trophy Collector’s effigies should no longer follow players if they leave the Mind of Madness Instant Adventure.
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS:
BRONZE TOMB:
The Assault on Bronze Tomb Achievement “Murder and Mayhem, For Prophet” should be working correctly now.
COMET OF AHNKET:
Fixed a bug where the dominance leaderboards for Caelon and Hericius were not working as intended.
Fyragnos: Fixed an issue on Hard Mode where Fyragnos was casting “Bane of Fyragnos” before transitioning to his final air phase and with an increased damage multipler.
Fyragnos: Fixed and issue with the expanding VFX of Lava Fields spawned from “Bane of Fyragnos” not rendering 100% of the time.
Fixed an issue where some players were not getting Normal Mode loot on Duke Eblius and Fyragnos if they switched difficulty modes.
Caelon’s Embrace and Remnants of Caelon now cleans up after player deaths.
The trees around Hericius are now covered with player repelling spray, you’re no longer able to climb up them!
Fixed and issue with Duke Eblius and Fyragnos where sometimes they would cast Hard Mode only abilities on lower difficulty levels if originally set to Hard Mode and the difficulty mode was lowered.
Fixed a bug that was preventing players who left their raid from being removed from the zone.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
Footholds in the Plane of Water no longer receive the Mending Presence buff when being defended by planar invaders.
SCARLET GORGE:
Quest: A Day Off: Quest objectives should now appear in the right order.
ITEMS:
Comet of Ahnket Cleric one-handed maces now display the correct icon.
Introduction Mode items that required Tower Sigils to upgrade now require Broken Cosmoses.
Chain and plate items dropped from Easy Mode Comet of Ankhet bosses not correctly require metal amenders instead of textile amenders.
Comet of Ahnket: Added cooldown periods to activated weapon abilities that were missing them.
AUCTION HOUSE:
The following items should now appear in the proper Auction House sub-categories
Pansy, Impatient and Rose
Pansy and Violet
Code Breaker’s Puzzle Box
Strands of Draum
Strands of Arak

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.6 Hotfix #8 (May 20, 2016)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.6 Hotfix #7 (May 19, 2016)

FEATURES:
NEW RAID: COMET OF AHNKET:
Drawn to the power unleashed by the Mind of Madness, a new horror has set our world in its sights. The Comet of Ahnket is but an ember on the horizon, slowly burning its way through the planes... but if left unchecked, it will be our downfall.
You must stop it, Ascended. You must stop the doom that draws nearer each day, for if it is allowed to reach Telara, it will be far too late. We ask, once more, for your heroism. We ask, once more, for you to search for answers that might help us survive.
Our fate rests in your hands.
The all new 10 man raid, Comet of Ahnket, is now available on all servers! It's packed wth 6 unique boss encounters, and offers rewards in tiers 2, 3, and 3.5. which are determined by difficulty mode.
Each boss has three difficulty modes, which includes the all new Universal Introduction Mode! This mode is all new approach to our raiding experience, available for the very first time in the Comet of Ahnket. In this mode, there are no hit requirements for participation. Additionally, the Ascended Odds system rewards you for your tenacity: the longer you fight, the stronger you become!
GENERAL:
Improved performance for those with very large friends lists.
RIFT STORE AND SERVICES"
Tier 3 weapons and armor can now be purchased for credits, along with armor and weapon bundles!
Credit and token prices for Tier 2, Tier 1, and Expert armor and weapons have been reduced.
Credit price for World Tier armor has been reduced.
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS:
MIND OF MADNESS:
Enigma: Enigma’s love of the 80s has been curbed. He should no longer have a rare chance to create a laser light show of death with Beam of Entropy.
INSTANT ADVENTURE:
Adventure Caches from Intrepid Adventure bosses will now reward Abyssal Crusader Marks.
INTREPID MIND OF MADNESS:
Enigma: Enigma’s twin brother also will no longer have a chance to bring back the 80s. Beam of Entropy should now work as intended and not have a rare chance to strike multiple players.
Enigma: Fixed an issue where Beam of Entropy damage could skip an interval and do no damage.
Lady Envy: Fixed the VFX for Resentment to always render. Also changed the duration to last only 13 seconds.
Judicial Support should now heal for less.
Fixed an issue that could result in infinite falling during some boss fights.
Removed XP from the adds during the Lady Justice fight.
Unstable Anomaly Caches will no longer prompt loot roll windows when in a group.
Bolt Infection from the Death Breeder should now heal less.
The Judge, Jury, and Executioner can no longer be dragged to the spawn.
The judgment of Innocence stun should now be only 2 seconds.
UI AND SETTINGS:
Bank Vault expansion purchases have been fixed so that the final two vaults can be expanded. Additionally, we've granted everyone the main bank vault expansion for free, or the next available unexpanded vault.
ZONES AND QUESTS:
Tutorial Quests: Soul Mending: This quest has been removed from the game.
EMBER ISLE:
The nightmare of Demogos is finally at end. The “Delusions of the Abyss” quest rift will now correctly close upon completion.
SCARLET GORGE:
Quests: Carnage: Reporting Losses: This quest is now available to both Guardians and Defiants.
STILLMOOR:
Quest: The Grave of Amunet: Players that unintentionally kill the Stormtouched Lich of Amunet or the Icy Lich of Amunet without using the Grimoire on them first will now cause the grave site to reset and allow them to try again. The Grimoire must be used on both of these undead to spawn the final Corrupted Lich of Amunet to complete the quest.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.6 Hotfix #6 (May 12, 2016)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.6 Hotfix #4 (May 5, 2016)

ADDED NEW NPC TO FAMILY:
Eric "Ocho" Cleaver and his family received their long-waited Legendary loot on May 2, 2016! His name is Nicholas Cleaver, and weighs a healthy 9 pounds and 4 ounces. We all wish him heartfelt congratulations on such a valuable find!
CARNIVAL OF THE ASCENDED:
Minion Card: Zephyr is now giftable.
Jornaru should no longer be able to be dragged out of the arena.
The Carnival of the Ascended 4 hour promotional minion missions are back for a limited time until Tuesday May 10th at midnight.
Carnival quests given by Kwip and Winachuk Maguk that were inadvertently repeatable have been made non repeatable.
The Endless Faces of Teth rift now takes 20 minutes to time out with no interaction.
The Tales of the Ascended events at the arena in Shimmersand will now timeout after 10 minutes if no one attempts to defeat the boss.
If a player has used their lure and were unable to complete the quest they can talk to the Herald of Heroes in the arena to get another lure so long as they have completed the first objective.
UI AND SETTINGS:
Dimension NPCs now hide their nameplates when not selected.
Porticulum Masters have leveled up their cartography skills. Names now appear in all words.
Fixed Daily Rewards so they do not show on login after you've claimed all the rewards.
The Nightmare Bulwark icon now correctly displays as a shield in the wardrobe interface.
RIFT STORE AND SERVICES:
For a limited time only! Grab a copy of the RIFT: Essentials Edition from the in game store!
Unlocks the Primalist Calling, plus all 14 souls from the Nightmare Tide, Storm Legion, and Planetouched Wilds DLC.
You'll also increase your number of character slots per server to 6.
Plus, you'll get 2 earring and bag slots across every character on your account.
Available for $49.99/€49.99/£38.49 until 12am May 11th server time.
SOULS:
CLERIC:
SENTINEL:
Reverent Supplication has been reworked:
For the next 10 seconds, Sentinel healing restores 15% of your mana.
Restores 3% mana per second while active.
Healing and absorbs are reduced by 50% while active.
1s cooldown, and off the global cool down.
WARDEN:
Open Water has been reworked
For the next 10 seconds, Warden healing restores 15% of your mana.
Restores 3% mana per second while active. \= Healing and absorbs are reduced by 50% while active.
1s cooldown, and off the global cool down.
MAGE:
FROSTKEEPER:
Earthen Rapport
Can no longer be triggered by passive effects.
The absorb has been reworked to trigger when Crystal Barrier provides a shield.
The absorb no longer incorrectly benefits from buffs.
Now heals you for 10% of the triggering heal per point.
Now shields you for 15% of your Spellpower per point.
No longer incorrectly triggers from Barrier effects.
Barrier effects now correctly count as Procs and will not incorrectly trigger effects that do not allow procs (including Frostkeeper's Armor, Crystal Barrier, and Earthen Rapport).
Fixed an issue causing Rhythm of the Earth to reduce the GCD by only .25 seconds, instead of .5 seconds as its tooltip states.
Fixed an issue causing Infuse Magic to display as toggled but with no ongoing effects when used on a target other than yourself.
Barriers are no longer removed from the Mage if cast on an ally after placing a barrier on self. For example, an Earthen Barrier on self is no longer removed from the mage when casting Crystal Barrier on a different ally. Stacking rules for barriers still apply.
Ablative Crystals:
Has been reworked to provide the target increased maximum HP based on their maximum HP.
No longer incorrectly stacks with itself.
Effectiveness reduced to 2% per talent point, down from three.
Earthwalk can now correctly be cast while controlled.
Infuse Magic no longer incorrectly leaves 10 charge left after it expires.
PRIMALIST:
MAELSTROM:
Vaporize now deals 20% less damage in PVP. Reduced damage by 8%.
Excoriate is now correctly tagged as a Curse and can be Purged. Reduced damage by 3%.
WARRIOR:
WARCHANTER:
Two mysterious buff icons have returned whence they came.
Catch your Breath is no longer an Encouragement.
Deep Breaths is now a buff that persists through death. This effect lasts 1 hour.
We'll Get Through This now costs 5 Power, down from 20.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
Soul Mending: This quest is no longer shareable.
PLANETOUCHED WILDS:
Increased the spawn rate for the Rival Bounty Hunter in Planetouched Wilds.
Removed the charge from Khadgak Khan.
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS:
INTREPID GILDED PROPHECY:
All boss HP has been reduced by 25%.
Thalguur:
Crystalline Volley now casts at 15 seconds into the Thalguur fight, rather than 35.
Fractured Core increases damage taken by 1.5%, up from 1%.
Uruluuk:
Reduced crystalline desecration by 50%.
INTREPID HAMMERKNELL:
All boss HP has been reduced by 25%.
MIND OF MADNESS:
Arisen Arak
Fixed an issue with Fiery Absolution being interruptible, as this was not intended.
Fixed an issue with Arisen Arak resetting if anyone at all died during the final phase.
Dark Genesis:
Dark Genesis tires of this current wave of ascended seeking to prevent ruin from falling across Telara. He’s decided to be a little less oppressive, as a result he’s pulling his punches and not using Pin Down as frequently or hitting as hard with it.
Purging flames is back on! Yay! Burn!
The Fire Genesis are back from vacation and now doing appropriate amounts of damage and returned to their non-targetable ways.
HP has been reduced by 25%.
Enigma:
Enigma’s “Disintegration Field” damage has been reduced by 50%.
The cooldown on “Chaotic Pull” and “Suspend” has been reduced from 8 seconds to 4 seconds.
Cast time of Full Heal increased by 0.5 seconds.
Damage from Disintegration is now 90% of your maximum health.
HP has been reduced by 30%.
Fauxmire:
As the Ascended grow accustom to the darkness of the Synapse forest Fauxmire finds his home less threatening. The Encroaching Shadows deal significantly less damage.
With nightmare creatures found in this forest creating less terror, ascended are no longer afraid of the dark. As a result callings that are beckoned by the night now only feel 25% of the fear they did before.
HP has been reduced by 30%.
Lady Envy:
The speed of Enthralled Oculons has been reduced from 150% runspeed to 100%.
The debuff of Gaze of Envy has been reduced from 50% to 20%.
Lady Envy will no longer Cleave after her Singularity phase.
Added save zone indicators for the bullet hell.
HP has been reduced by 30%.
Lady Justice:
Resolved an issue with Lady Justice’s tank swap.
Reduced Pain of Judgment to 7.5% per person.
HP has been reduced by 12.5%.
Trial by Fire is no longer a one shot kill.
Lord Arak:
HP has been reduced by 30%.
Pagura:
The curses can be played now by the same people(your carries).
Shattering Roar interrupts itself if Pagura is pushed to 40%.
HP has been reduced by 50%.
Pillars of Justice:
HP has been reduced by 50%.
Health variation tolerance increased to 10%, up from 3.5%.
MOUNT SHARAX:
Boss HP has been reduced by 20%.
RHEN OF FATE:
Over a year has passed since the denizens in The Rhen of Fate first made their stand. Each week they suffer at the cruel hands of the Ascended seeking their gear and glory. It has finally become too much for these brave defenders of Telara, and their spirits have finally broken. Week after week of defeat has crushed their team morale: they've lost faith in their fight.
As a result, all of the mobs (and bosses) in The Rhen of Fate have 50% less HP.
Ungolok:
Reduced ink blast mechanic by 25%.
Reduced building pressure by 25%.
TYRANT'S FORGE:
Boss HP has been reduced by 20%.
ITEMS:
Planar consumables (such as Abyssal Crystals) now stack to 99, up from 50.
Instead of increasing Spell Power, the Granthor, the Redeeming Blade polearm now has a chance to increase Attack Power.
Instead of increasing Spell Power, the Thrandor, the Soul Mender polearm now has a chance to increase Attack Power.
Hotfix Earth gets hotfix rings, which no longer require Shal Korva notoriety to be equipped.
Ascended's Lesser Signets are now filtered in the store as level 15 items.
The Ascended's Exalted Shiv is now valid for level 60 runes.
Random Discarded Puppet Lockboxes now stack to 99.
AUDIO AND VISUAL:
Fixed an issue causing occasional endless looping attack audio on the Rain of Arrows ability.
Fixed visual effects placement on Warblade of the Victor.
Improve reliability of personal dimension ground suppression mushrooms, as well as intermittent lightning.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.6 Hotfix #3 (Apr 28, 2016)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.6 Hotfix #2 (Apr 22, 2016)

CARNIVAL OF THE ASCENDED:
Fixed an issue that sometimes allowed two different Shimmersand arena bosses to be spawned on top of each other.
Quest mobs from My Kingdom for an Epic Mount will no longer grief or troublemance nonparticipating players.
The achievement “Fortune Favors The Gold” now credits for the Carnival games in Tempest Bay.
The Fae Yule artifact “Akylios Plushie” has been renamed “Akylios Plush Doll”.
The Carnival parade worker wage dispute has been resolved, and the Parades are running once more!
Fixed an issue where some Carnival Instant Adventure kill targets would spawn inside the walls of Haunted Terminal.
Tthe Carnival Boss lures no longer have use time.
The Mind Boggles: If you skip the objective to read Maguk’s Instructions, assembling the Gurg Summoning Components will now increment it for you.
The Frogifact Daily Quest reward cache now rewards three artifacts instead of one.
The Frogifact game should spawn a wider diversity of frogs.
Grand Theft Lifter: Lifter Thieves are 33% more clickable.
The shadows of Kain, Zaviel, Mann, and their lackeys should no longer be able to be given a guided tour of Telara. Cosmologist Mann will now give credit to any groups attacking him for the event.
GENERAL:
Changed the Daily Rewards calendar to pop up only after login.
Fixed the display of some achievements which were no longer showing rewards.
Minions: Greatfather Frost and Caeweth had a brief identity crisis, which has been sorted out.
Bags no longer close when changing maps.
Fixed the Store from sometimes displaying landing pages when clicking into categories.
Fixed an uncommon instability issue.
ZONES AND QUESTS:
Nightmare Saga: Thanks to nstgc, Researcher Jessa is no longer scared off by Defilers’ Beacons of Despair during the quest Finding the Finder.
Tales of the Ascended V has been added to the Raid Rift daily rotation.
SOULS:
MAGE:
FROSTKEEPER:
Fixed a bug which prevented Crystalline Resonance’s healing bonus from being applied to the proper target.
PRIMALIST:
MAELSTROM:
Hot to the Touch now functions as described in the tooltip.
Pressurize can no longer trigger Explosive Potential after the target of the Pressurize has died.
Primal Avatar: Thresher no longer incorrectly benefits from damage bonuses.
Effervescent Blast damage reduced by roughly 6%.
Vaporize Damage reduced by roughly 6%.
ROGUE:
RANGER:
Shadow Fire now increases Ranged Damage by 5%, down from 10%.
Raptor's Ferocity now increases damage by 5%, down from 10%.
Aggressive Defense now increases the damage bonus of Shadow Fire to 10% and the bonus from the Shadow Fire proc to 35%, down from 15 and 40 respectively.
WARRIOR:
LIBERATOR:
Soul Redemption now correctly shares a cooldown with the Warchanter Battle Res, Stand and Fight.
WARCHANTER:
Stand and Fight now properly restores mana to targets who are revived by it.
Stand and Fight now correctly shares a cooldown with the Liberater Battle Res, Soul Redemption.
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS:
MIND OF MADNESS:
Lady Justice - Resolved an issue with Lady Justice not correctly resetting her counter for Weight of Guilt after players wiped to Judgment (causing them to potentially get judgment on the next pull).
ITEMS:
Tonic of Gust Resistance can now be used by characters of any level and no longer puts any other potions on cooldown.
Dantwor Honey-Tongue now sells the Fall of Aedraxis raid rift lure.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.6 Hotfix #1 (Apr 15, 2016)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.6 (Apr 14, 2016)

FIVE NEW SOULS NOW AVAILABLE IN THE ASCENDED SOUL PACK:
Turn the tides of the planar war with the Ascended Soul DLC! Unlock abilities for each calling, from powerful single-target heals and buffs that reinforce your allies to melee and ranged DPS enhancements that lay low even the hardiest planar invader. Heed your Calling and unlock powerful synergies between your existing souls!
The Frostkeeper - Mage - Single-Target Healer:
A master of Ice and Earth magic, the Frostkeeper preserves their allies by shielding them from incoming damage with ablative magics. Frostkeepers also use their highly potent Barrier magic to provide extra protection to up to three specific friends.
The Maelstrom - Primalist - Ranged Single-Target DPS:
The Maelstrom focuses on burst damage and reactive gameplay. Using the elements of Fire and Water, the Maelstrom brings together opposing forces to vaporize and consume foes.
The Runeshaper - Cleric - Ranged Single-Target DPS:
A ranged spellcaster that uses the power of faith and ancient lore. Runeshapers imbue powerful symbols with the might of the gods to defeat their enemies.
The Shadeborn - Rogue - Dual-Target Melee DPS:
The darkness holds many dangers, and the Shadeborn is one of them. The Shadeborn excels in taking out one or two targets, dealing impressive damage to their primary target, and by using the power of their living shadows, may hit a marked secondary target as well.
The Warchanter - Warrior - Single-Target Healer:
A combat veteran with a booming voice, the Warchanter can heal his allies’ wounds with life magic and a shout. They specialize in the use of shouts and chants, balancing cooldowns to protect and preserve.
THE TRUE MULTICORE BETA CONTINUES:
The True Multicore beta continues with increased stability and some new performance increases! We encourage you to try it out, especially if you're using the Low Quality Renderer on a machine that has multiple cores. Previous reports have indicated up to a 50% framerate increase.
Turning on the beta is easy! In the Start Menu, go to Settings > Video > Advanced and check ON Experimental Multicore.
THE CARNIVAL OF THE ASCENDED RETURNS:
The Carnival of the Ascended has returned! It’s been five years since Telara was saved from the threat of the Blood Storm and their dragon cults and this year, the Tempest Bay docks have been transformed into a centralized locale for all things carnival. Come and check out the new features and content!
New level 65 story quest line, The Barker and the Boglings, is now available! Speak to Kwip the bogling near the Tempest Bay porticulum to begin.
New Shimmersand Arena Rift daily quests, featuring some of the greatest threats from the past five years.
New limited time Instant Adventure: Carnival of the Ascended.
New Frogifact carnival game.
New vanity items, including capes, masks, wings, and portrait badges.
New minions and new minion adventures – the new minion, Zephyr, is available from the Rift Store and unlocks a series of minion adventures that lead to 5 more new minions!
The Carnival of the Ascended 10 hour promotional minion missions are back for the duration of Carnival!
DAILY REWARDS CALENDAR:
You can now earn rewards just for logging into RIFT! Every month has 21 rewards to claim on a calendar that will pop-up every time you log in with an unclaimed reward. These rewards do not stack, so be sure to get them every day they appear!
The calendar resets on the 1st of every month.
The days logged in do not need to be consecutive, in case you miss a few days.
Reward claims are region specific.
The window only pops up when you have a reward to claim.
If you forget to snag it, you can find a shortcut in the Start Menu > Activities. If you've got one to get, it'll glow! A notification shortcut has also been added to the Alert Tray.
When logging out of the game, you'll get a reminder of your next day's rewards as the log out timer counts down.
BANK VAULT EXTENSIONS:
You can now buy extensions to each of your bank vaults (shard vault excluded) to double the slots available. Each bank vault extension is a separate purchase and is character specific. The “Special” bank vault that comes with the Ultimate RIFT Edition gets expanded for free for your account!
PLANAR ATTUNEMENT TIER TWO ARRIVES:
The dual attunement planes of Nature, Cinder, Storm, Steam, Dusk, and Dust have been expanded to hold a second tier of attunement points. Each tier adds new activated abilities including Confluences. When used together, the Confluences can unlock a powerful effect named Confluence of the Planes which will allow an Ascended to even cheat death!
GAME UPDATE:
GENERAL:
Fixed a long-standing issue where character costume tint and makeup colors would become broken. (We think. Please report if you still see this!)
The following achievements are now Legacy: Quantity Over Quality, Try Not To Look Too Desperate.
The dead will no longer temporarily, angrily yet ineffectually demi-ressurect. (Dead creatures armed with weapons won't appear to sit up and swing at players anymore).
/Camp in some cases will no longer take you to the wrong shard.
Fixed an issue causing some load screens to take longer than necessary.
Fixed an issue with mentoring returning after leveling, when mentoring had been cleared.
When a character’s level is changed via mentoring, an appropriate message is displayed in the General console window informing the player of the level change.
Fixed a bug where the Shard Select list would display an incorrect number of characters.
Fixed an issue where clicking the wrong location could prevent collecting an artifact.
The friends list has been limited to 200 people, in order to add past that you must remove friends from your list.
There is no longer a limit of how many mails you can send to alts.
Fixed an issue where the quest complete icon for completed artifact sets would not show after changing maps.
You can now share quests to your raid.
When graphical effects for mounts disappear in a congested or high-effects area now restart after reaching a clearer area.
RIFT STORE AND SERVICES:
RIFT Store: The credit prices for the following packs have been reduced
Storm Soul Pack: 3,000 Credits
Dream Soul Pack: 3,750 Credits
Primalist Calling Pack: 4,500 Credits
A new grab bag has been added to the Store containing brand new ice building blocks!
As you are out defeating foes, participating in activities such as PvP, Raids, Instant Adventure and Zone Events you will obtain Unstable Cache Anomalies. In addition to powerful equipment, these new caches have a chance to give Cosmic Fragments and Warmonger’s Marks! Look for Planar Stabilizers on the Rift Store to unlock these Unstable Cache Anomalies and collect your prize!
You no longer have to re-enter login information when adding payment methods.
The Store now shows the Patron price of items on sale for credits if you are not a Patron.
Some RIFT Store categories will now display a landing page.
Searching Buy Orders from the auction house will now work properly with ‘+’ in searches
Better handling when attempting to purchase more than 60 buy order slots in the auction house.
PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS:
Fixed a memory leak that may have caused some instability.
Fixed single-frame black flicker issue with multicore renderer.
Further performance improvements for multicore rendering.
Fixed instability issues when changing graphics settings with parallel rendering enabled.
Fixed flickering characters with multicore rendering enabled.
SOCIAL:
Account wide ignore has been implemented! All characters on an account now share a universal ignore list. When a character is added to that list, that user's entire account is ignored. That means all characters-- past, present, or future-- will be considered ignored on that region.
UI AND SETTINGS:
Added a new hotkey: Control + E now interacts with the nearest object to you.
Fixed the achievements window and quest sticky to update when completing artifact sets.
The character creation screen now properly displays Patron discounts.
Improved the look of particle-based equipment in target frames, character window, and other UI elements.
Fixed buttons in the bank and guild bank to work after changing global UI scale.
Added tooltips to tutorial quests and achievements in the Quest sticky.
Fixed a bug for being able to show tutorial quests on minimap.
Fixed several windows to adjust size if open while changing the Global UI Scale.
Changed the mail window send to name field to use the Tab button to cycle through suggestions. It will no longer suggest a different name every time you send a mail and instead start at the top of the list of name suggestions.
Send mail auto complete will no longer suggest cross-shard names, unless you are sending a gift. After you send mail, the next auto-complete suggestion will start with the last character you sent mail to instead of at the beginning of the suggestion list.
Character sheet stats will now tell you how much your dodge rating is increasing your maximum absorb.
NEW PLAYER EXPERIENCE:
A new player, who’s been playing Rift for less than 3 days (real time) will get to sample 3 days of Patron time, claimable via the Rift Store.
When a character which does not have the Soul Recall ability reaches level 10, the game will grant the character the aforementioned ability.
Main map auto-center toggle now defaults to on for new characters.
SOULS:
To help combat ability lag, all auras that previously ticked every half second now tick every second instead.
You can now unlock up to 40 role slots.
CLERIC:
MASTERIES:
Faith's Reward - Now also causes Overflowing Renewal to heal its primary target for an additional 100% of its healing over 10 seconds.
DEFILER:
The mana cost of many Defiler abilities has been reduced.
INQUISITOR:
Fixed an issue preventing Approbation from reducing Soul Stream’s cooldown.
JUSTICAR:
Miens now properly have 10 second cooldowns that match their shared cooldown.
WARDEN:
Cascade is now off the Global Cooldown.
Cascade now restores mana equal to 30% of the caster’s maximum Mana, up from 15% of the caster’s maximum Mana.
Orbs of the Tide - Now triggers on any incoming damage, removing several restrictions of ability types that would not trigger these.
Orbs of the Stream - Now triggers on any incoming damage, removing several restrictions of ability types that would not trigger these.
Bosun's Blessing - Now increases damage dealt by 30%, up from 10%.
Cascade – Now generates mana equal to 30% of the caster's mana, up from 15%. No longer triggers a global cooldown.
Boundless - Now reduces mana cost by 2% per point, instead of increasing damage by 1% per point.
Hidden Reserves - Now increases damage done and healing done with Water abilities by 5% per point, up from 3% per point.
MAGE:
MASTERIES:
Replaced Ethereal Flux with Ethereal Blast. This ability can now be used immediately on any given target. After casting it, subsequent spellcasts reduce the remaining time on Ethereal Blast’s cooldown.
Fixed an issue which could cause Sparking Destruction to ignore buffs and debuffs in specific raid encounters.
ARCHON:
Archon's Bulwark - When casting a Primary Bolt, the damage of the matching element is improved by 50% for the next 3 abilities within 15 seconds. Additionally, you have a 30% on any damaging ability cast to make your next Raid Support ability deal 100% more damage and be instant cast.
CHLOROMANCER:
Synethesis, Lifebound Veil, and Lifegiving Veil are now off the Global Cooldown. These abilities now share a 5-second cooldown.
Living Aegis has been modified. In addition to its existing effects, it now has a chance when you heal an ally to cause your next three casts of Vile Spores or Natural Healing to be instant. It now increases damage done by 10%, down from 15%.
Natural Healing now generates a Boon of Life Stack.
Essence Conversion now costs 5% of the Mage's current health, down from 7% of the Mage's maximum health.
Essence Conversion now returns 15% of mana, up from 7% of mana.
Healing Torrent now heals the caster for the same amount as it heals the target.
Natural Conversion now affects all abilities, not just spells.
Symbiosis no longer applies a debuff preventing other Chloromancers from using Symbiosis on the same target for a duration.
Living Shell is now on the Global Cooldown. Its absorb amount has been increased accordingly.
PYROMANCER:
Flicker: Cooldown increased to 30 seconds.
WARLOCK:
Void Decimation now increases Void Bolt, Neddra’s Torture, and Void Barrage damage by 3% per point, up from 2% per point.
Opportunity and Warlock Armor’s haste effect can now buff the Warlock simultaneously.
If any cast-time spell other than Consuming Agony is cast, only Opportunity will be consumed.
If Consuming Agony is cast, both buff effects will be consumed and both benefits will be applied.
Sacrifice Life: Mana – This ability now restores 20% mana, up from 7%. Now consumes % Current Health, not % Max Health..
Sacrifice Life: Damage - This ability now consumes % Current Health, not % Max Health.
Warlock Armor
The buff from Warlock Armor now makes Consuming Agony Free, instead of 50% cheaper.
When Warlock Armor triggers, the remaining cooldown on Consuming Agony is reset.
Empowered Darkness - Now Grants 100 Charge on use, and no longer requires 75 Charge to cast. The amount of Damage amplification is up from 40% to 50%
Death's Door – This ability’s damage increases as the target's health gets closer to 0, approaching double damage as the target’s health approaches 0%.
Atrophy – The damage amplification per tick of this ability has been increased from 15% extra damage per tick up to 20% extra damage per tick.
Improved Draining Bolt –
Draining Bolt’s damage now increases by 10% per talent point per Death DoT on the Warlock’s target.
Draining Bolt’s healing is now increased by 2.5% per talent point per Death DoT on the Warlock’s target.
PRIMALIST:
Primalist Planar Attunement Dusk Weapon Enhancement (Primal Blade) has been replaced with an equivalent Enchantment to Warriors (Primal Edge).
PRESERVER:
* Bound: Cooldown increased to 30 seconds.
ROGUE:
ASSASSIN:
Hidden Veil no longer incorrectly triggers while not stealthed in certain circumstances.
BLADENDANCER:
Blade Hustle now correctly states that it increases the duration of Rhythmic Actions by 2 seconds per point. This is only a tooltip change.
MARKSMAN:
On the Double: Cooldown increased to 40 seconds.
Retreat: Cooldown increased to 40 seconds.
RANGER:
Greater Griffon reduced to 50% size (down from 75%).
Aggressive Defense mastery now improves the damage bonus provided by Shadow Fire from 10% to 15% and increases the damage bonus provided by the Shadow Fire proc from 30% to 40%.
Shadow Fire now increases Ranged Damage by 10% (up from 5%).
Shadow Fire now deals 30% more damage on a proc (up from20%).
Shadow Fire now deals 90% of its damage in PVP (down from 100%).
RIFTSTALKER:
* Guardian Phase no longer incorrectly reduces the healing of the Planar Variation mastery.
WARRIOR:
BEASTMASTER:
Messy Wounds no longer costs Power.
Twin Cuts now applies a 5% Physical damage taken increase and 7% Non-Physical damage taken debuff to the target for 30 seconds on application. (This debuff is shared with Archon).
LIBERATOR:
The Liberator Talent tree has been slightly reorganized.
Redress and Aegis of Advocacy have changed places in the tree. Redress now requires 21 Points to purchase, while Aegis of Advocacy can be purchased at 16.
This should have no noticeable impact on the vast majority of Liberators.
Positive Reaction: No longer incorrectly heals pets.
PARAGON:
The stat reduction provided by Death Touch now qualifies as a Disease and can be cleansed.
Death Touch now reduces Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, and Wisdom by 10% (instead of Strength and Dexterity by 80%).
ZONES AND EVENTS:
The Chronicler Gold Tongue is now in Epoch Plaza in Meridian, Tavril's Plaza in Sanctum, and Plaza Aurentine in Tempest Bay. She has been recording your major exploits throughout Telara-- Especially your thwarting of the dragons and wishes to help you complete the ones you may have forgotten about. If you've forgotten how to proceed to the next quest in the Life, Death, Air, Water or Nightmare sagas, then she can tell you where to go.
Invasions for The Onslaught and Forlorn Fen should no longer be going under terrain.
EMBER ISLE:
Helera Ruesen in Ember Watch now shows your currency when browsing her wares.
SHIMMERSAND:
Fixed an issue with The Infinity Gate above The Flatyard (visible after completing the Nightmare Coast dungeon) causing it to be incredibly difficult to see while in the area.
QUESTS:
Ascension Gone Wild should now be complete able. New quests to lead the players to the Nightmare Coast, Gyel Fortress, Citadel of Insanity, Glacial Maw, and Rhaza’de Canyons should now have markers guiding you to the entrance.
Players who have the temp ability from Three Heads are better than one should no longer be able to banish NPCs into the ether.
The Extinction of Sanity now less insane to complete.
Exceptional Sparkle quests arrive in Telara.
Nightmare Saga: Harder thank Arak: The platform in Glacier’s End is no longer invisible.
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS:
MIND OF MADNESS:
Fixed an issue in the Enigma fight with the Range Buff not re-applying correctly.
Fixed an issue where Fauxmire would sleep in or stay up late and not transition to night and day properly.
Fixed an issue allowing Pagura's lieutenants, Crustok and Brachy, to be aggroed separately. They now aggro in tandem.
INSTANT ADVENTURE:
Intrepid Instant Adventures now award more powerful equipment to level 65 characters.
A player who enters a private dungeon instance will be kicked from the adventure group of which he/she is a member.
PVP AND WARFRONTS:
For level 65 PVP, the following global adjustments have been made
AoE Absorbs and AoE Healing have been reduced by 15%.
Global Healing has been reduced by 25%.
Ranged Damage has been reduced by 10%.
You can no longer join a warfront while flagged as AFK.
MINIONS:
Minions: Halgian the Pyretouched’s death stat was slightly too high and will now max out at 10.
Minion assassination missions for characters higher than level 61 now have a chance to pay out Pelagic Fragments.
Eelo the minion had the wrong flavor text, stolen from Ich’kir’s. Which was a shame because his is much more entertaining, so his original flavor text has been restored.
ITEMS:
Tier 2 warrior 2 hand weapons now have relic quality healing upgrades. These healing upgrades and existing dps upgrades side grade to one another.
Fixed a bug that caused cloth to have higher than intended armor values on Primalists.
Infinity Stone Vouchers and Sourcestone Vouchers no longer play deprecated currencies. They now pay void stone. These items are not available in-game; this change only affects the small number of these items still held by players.
Warmonger’s Blade and upgraded Warmonger’s Blade now correctly unlock the Shardstrike weapon appearance in the wardrobe. Scalldorn, the Enigma Bane, now deals Ethereal damage (changed from Physical).
Warmonger’s weapons have had the number of Warmonger’s Marks required to purchase them reduced by 33%.
Zareph's Return, Wyrmbane Spire, and Chancel of Labors Teleport Devices’ cooldown periods now time out when logged out.
DIMENSIONS:
Both the Risarian Treasure Chest and Korvan Treasure Chest now give dimension items!
Sky projectors and Time of Day related dimension items have been removed from the Affinity and Dimension Lockboxes/Grab Bags.
CRAFTING:
Amender recipes and associated components no longer have a 20 hour cooldown between crafts.
Amenders, Strands of Arak/Draum, Dream Weaver components (Faint Dreams, etc.), and Apothecary Nightmare components (Nightmare Ichor, etc.) have had their costs to craft reduced.
The Master skill 300 weekly quests now offer the quest recipe and is no longer available from the trainer.
The Crafting Skill Boost now properly boosts Survivalist to 375 when chosen.
ACHIEVEMENTS:
Corrected the requirements for “Look at All These Parts“ Achievement.
Thanks, Seshatar, for calling out the following achievement fixes!
Moved the achievements for killing players in Iron Pine Peaks, Shimmersand, and Stillmoor to Legacy.
Increased point values for the killing players and PVP rank achievements.
Added 'Consumed by Nightmares VI' to 'Nightmare VI: Master' Meta.
Moved ‘Black Garden Domination” to the Black Garden sub-category.
Moved ‘The Battle for Port Scion Domination” to the Port Scion sub-category.
Moved ‘The Codex Domination” to the Codex sub-category.
Moved ‘Assault on Bronze Tomb Domination” to the Bronze Tomb sub-category.
Moved ‘Hero of The Moribund” to the Black Garden sub-category.
Moved ‘Hero of the Caretakers” to the Black Garden sub-category.
Moved ‘Hero of the Ridgerunner Mercenaries” to the Karthan Ridge sub-category.
Moved ‘Hero of the Eldritch Vanguard” to the Port Scion sub-category.
Moved ‘Hero of the Noble Guard” to the Port Scion sub-category.
Moved ‘Hero of The Seekers” to the Library of the Runemasters sub-category.
Moved ‘Hero of the Runic Sages” to the Library of the Runemasters sub-category.
Moved ‘Hero of the Eldritch Seekers” to the Codex sub-category.
Moved ‘Hero of The Unspoken” to the Codex sub-category.
Moved ‘Hero of The Storm Guard” to the Whitefall Steppes sub-category.
Moved ‘Hero of the Whitefall Brigade” to the Whitefall Steppes sub-category.
Moved the Promotions category to be a sub-category of World Events.
Moved the Wardrobe category to be a sub-category of Character.
Reordered the main categories of achievements.
Moved the Loyalty achievements to the Character category.
Set the Loyalty achievements to display as a chain.
Increased the score of ‘Karthan Ridge Domination’ to 50 (was 10).

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.5 Hotfix 19 (Apr 12, 2016)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.5 Hotfix 18 (Mar 31, 2016)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.5 Hotfix 17 (Mar 24, 2016)

MULTICORE RENDERER BETA:
Fixed an issue causing the Multicure Renderer to be slower than intended.
We've disabled the experimental multicore renderer when using the low-quality renderer.
GENERAL:
5th Anniversary Celebration: Fixed a display issue with the World Event quest that would cause it to display incorrect text.
The achievement “Empyreal Assault Adventures!” has been moved to Legacy.
Turning in a Bounty set should no longer dismount you.
QUESTS:
The following weekly quests are now banded by level, no longer require the completion of specific zone events
Shield of the Land and Frontlines of the Planes (level 45 to 50)
Shards of Infinity (Level 51-60)
War Across the Seas (Level 61-65)
The quests to complete 7 zone-specific Instant Adventures has been removed from the following zones
Cape Jule
City Core
Pelladane
Seratos
Morban
Steppes of Infinity
The daily quests given in Sanctum and Meridian have been replaced with weekly quests. Their rewards have been substantially improved. These quests are available from level 10-49.
A weekly quest to complete Instant Adventures has been added to Tempest Bay. The quest is given by Tacitus the Elder and is available levels 50-59.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
Fixed an edge case that could occasionally result in an IA raid not getting any quest objectives. (Thanks, Soulshield!)
PLANETOUCHEDWILDS:
Increased the drop rate of Golden Maw artifacts from the Rival Bounty Hunter in Planetouched Wilds.
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS:
MIND OF MADNESS:
Fixed Dominance leaderboards for Lady Justice, Dark Genesis and Arisen Arak.
Arisen Arak: Shadow of C’zyth now prioritizes Implosion in his rotation and no longer requires a target in clear line of sight to activate.
Pillars of Justice: Reduced the health of this encounter by 10%, reduced the outgoing damage on spike hitting attacks by 10-15%, reduced the damage gain from Injustice by 3% per stack, increased the cast time of interrupt mechanics and Stay/Order of Execution (42 seconds to 48).
Fauxmire: Decreased boss health by 10%.
Lady Envy: Decreased boss health by 10%.
PVP AND WARFRONT:
CONQUEST:
The reward chest in Conquest will no longer give Void Stones or Hearts of the Frozen.
Instead, they now grant Abyssal Crusader Marks by default, with a small chance to instead get a Warmonger’s Mark.
PVP weekly quests have had their reward package increased to include 5000 Favor in addition to everything else they currently reward.
ITEMS:
Battlemaster’s Brew now stacks to 99.
Fixed an issue that would cause tanks with Tier 3 relic weapons to damage enemies around their corpse when they were resurrected.
Explosion of Vigor now heals the caster for 30% of their maximum health, up from 15%.
Explosion of Vigor now damages nearby enemies for 30% of the caster’s maximum health, up from 15%.
The Nexian Spellbinder, the mage off-hand from Mind of Madness, now correctly has a sidegrade to the tanking version, Fortified Nexian Spellbinder.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.5 Hotfix 16 (Mar 17, 2016)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.5 Hotfix 15 (Mar 10, 2016)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.5 Hotfix 14 (Mar 4, 2016)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.5 Hotfix 13 (Mar 3, 2016)

GENERAL:
Reworked Quest UI to display patron bonuses for Prestige, Favor, Notoriety, etc.
Trade chat is no longer a global chat channel.
To cut back on griefing, ready checks can no longer be initiated in Warfronts, Conquests or IAs.
GRAPHICS/PERFORMANCE:
Improved performance in areas with lots of players.
Fixed cloak flickering issues with multicore rendering.
Fixed render issues with portraits, characters, and other embedded 3D targets while using multicore renderer.
Fix incorrect transparent UI elements with parallel renderer.
SOULS:
CLERIC:
PURIFIER:
Fixed an issue which caused Ward of Flame to absorb 100% of incoming damage, instead of 85% of incoming damage.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
Tutorial Quest: Advanced Lessons: Soul Tree: Fixed an issue that prevented Defiant Primalists from progressing this quest.
EMBER ISLE:
Quest: Rage in the Machine: Fixed the kill objective from incorrectly incrementing twice per objective.
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS:
MIND OF MADNESS:
Dark Genesis: Healing trinkets will now work on the Preservation Core for 200,000 health worth of healing.
Arisen Arak: Fixed a gap in collision that caused players to projectile into the air during the Arisen Arak fight.
Lord Arak:
Terminal Sedation now does smaller amounts of damage throughout its duration.
Greater Weakness now reduces players’ outgoing damage by less.
Reduced Theta Waves healing by a third.
Reduced Night Stalker health to 7 M from 10 M.
Reduced the damage of Divide and Conquer.
Despair crystals now hit for 90% of health.
Fixed an issue that could allow all stacks of Phantasmic Defense to fall off without killing all Nightmare Guardians.
Pagura:
Pagura no longer casts Curse of Six.
Pagura now casts Curse of Four until 40% health.
At 40% health, Pagura now casts Curse of Five.
Reduced the damage increase caused by Hex Frailty.
Increased the amount Hex Frailty can stack.
Increased the cast time of Shattering Roar.
Scourbites’ Torn Flesh causes the target to receive less damage than previously.
ITEMS:
Fixed a visual issue with Elf Female Ornate Aelfwar Tunic.
Fixed many items which granted Absorb shields to all have 15% bleedthrough.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.5 Hotfix 12 (Feb 25, 2016)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.5 Hotfix 10 (Feb 11, 2016)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.5 Hotfix 8 (Feb 4, 2016)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.5 Hotfix 7 (Jan 28, 2016)

GENERAL:
You can now use Rune particle effects items on your Off-hand wardrobe weapon slot, as long as the wardrobe weapon type you have selected is listed in the list of usable weapon items on the Rune tooltip.
Achievement: Instant Adventurer: The menu text for the title rewarded by this achievement now correctly displays as The Manugoist.
The auction house will no longer reset the browse item list to the top when purchasing something.
MINIONS:
For a short time only all ten hour adventures are now four hours!
As an added bonus, your minions will still earn the same amount of experience as they did before!
RIFT STORE AND SERVICES:
A new tier of upgrades have been added to level 65 lock box gear.
Crafter’s Energy Infusion, Earring Slots, Planewalker: Water and Bag of innumerable Pockets are now credit only to purchase.
The RIFT: Typhoon Edition can now only be purchased with USD, GBP or Euros.
REX is no longer available for Referral Coins.
SOULS:
MAGE:
MASTERIES:
Fixed an issue where Sparking Destruction could fail to trigger on distant targets when the player’s range had been enhanced by another ability.
CHLOROMANCER:
Fixed a bug allowing Living Aegis to be purged.
DOMINATOR:
Fixed a bug allowing Pain Armor to be purged.
ELEMENTALIST:
Fixed a bug allowing Elemental Armor, Prismatic Armor, and Stone Armor to be purged.
HARBINGER:
Fixed a bug allowing Eldritch Armor to be purged.
Reworded the tooltip for Eldritch Power to be clearer.
Added a new effect to Eldritch Power: While Eldritch Armor is active, each slashing attack which does not trigger Eldritch Gift causes your next attack to have a 5/10% increased chance to trigger Eldritch Gift.
NECROMANCER:
Fixed a bug allowing Bone Armor to be purged.
PYROMANCER:
Fixed a bug allowing Pyromancer’s Armor to be purged.
STORMCALLER:
Fixed a bug allowing Storm Armor and Tempest Armor to be purged.
WARLOCK:
Fixed a bug allowing Dark Armor and Warlock to be purged.
PRIMALIST:
TITAN:
Fixed an issue causing Vitrify to cancel effects from Paladin/Life’s Rapture or Purifier/Flame of Life.
Living Wall is now replaced by Life’s Rapture or Flame of Life, allowing their HoT effects to have full uptime.
INSTANT ADVENTURE:
Gear obtained from Intrepid Instant Adventure caches can now be upgraded an additional time to be equal to Tier 1 gear.
Instant Adventure: Hammerknell: Potential fix for the inconsistent behavior of the Akylios platforms.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
Quest: Ascension Gone Wild: Can now be completed.
New quests to lead the players to the Nightmare Coast, Gyel Fortress, Citadel of Insanity, and Rhaza’de Canyons should now have markers guiding you to the entrance.
Fae Yule: Guardian characters that have completed the Fae Yule quest, ‘Gift for a Bogling’ and were not given a Fae Yule Grab Bag reward can speak with Merga in Tavril Plaza to claim their grab bag.
COSMIC STEPS:
Baac mobs in Cosmic Steps now grant experience.
PLANETOUCHED WILDS:
New Achievement and Title: Royal Advisor: Become Revered with Shal Korva.
Quest: Pain in the Ancestors, A Tigress’s Funeral, and Deadly Proposal have had their onslaught objectives adjusted and fixed. They should all spawn less invasions at a slower interval. There will also be no elite invasions that spawns.
SILVERWOOD:
Zone Event: Forest Fire: This event now correctly awards Void Stones when completed.
IA: Sobering Realization: Fixed an issue with objectives spawning.
IA: Fire and Venom: Fixed some objectives not crediting properly.
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS:
MIND OF MADNESS:
Dark Genesis: Fixed a bug where Holy Genesis would sit without acting.
Fixed an issue where players could get stuck in combat during the trash event before the Enigma.
Arisen Arak: Killing the Terror of Arak will now grant you a buff which allows you to drop an Ethereal Pocket at your location when you desire to do so.
Arisen Arak: Fixed a bug that was interfering with the fight reset in some instances.
DIMENSIONS:
The issue with the, ‘Blue Stage Curtain’ dimension item not appearing when placed in a dimension has been fixed.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.5 Hotfix 6 (Jan 20, 2016)

GENERAL:
Minions: Halgian the Pyretouched’s death stat was slightly too high and will now max out at 10.
UI AND SETTINGS:
You can now see upgrade paths on items in the RIFT Store.
Fixed the equipment picker to not display items in the bank when not using the bank.
The equipment picker will no longer show items out of level or for other classes.
Adjusted the placement of weapons in the equipment picker.
Added option to disable the equipment picker in Settings > Interface > Misc.
SOULS:
Pets: Fixed an issue where pets could become unresponsive after being used in PVP. Should your pet become unresponsive after being in a Warfront, keep them summoned for at least 2 minutes and they will return to their normal selves.
CLERIC:
SHAMAN:
Massive Blow can no longer consume a stack of Rage of the North.
Massive Blow now always critically hits.
Courage of the Panther now increases damage done by 10%, down from 14%.
Furious Blows now provides 10% increased spellpower contribution per point, up from 5% increased spellpower contribution per point.
PRIMALIST:
TITAN:
Fixed an issue preventing Overwhelm from interrupting non-spell abilities.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
New quests added to lead the players to the Nightmare Coast, Gyel Fortress, Citadel of Insanity, Glacial Maw, and Rhaza’de Canyons. These quests are tied to completion of key points of the storyline quests.
Note: Ascension Gone Wild currently does not complete when Rhaza’de Canyon is complete. This will be addressed in a future hotfix.
INSTANT ADVENTURE:
Fixed an issue with stalling instant adventures.
DRAUMHEIM:
Quest: War Across the Seas: The objective now correctly directs players to complete zone events in Planetouched Wilds in addition to the Plane of Water.
Zone Event: The Ravenous Devourer: Added an additional measure to force Ojingeodon to transition from Phase 1 to Phase 2 successfully.
Zone Event: The Ravenous Devourer and Aphogglach should trigger less frequently.
DROUGHTLANDS:
Tigram Stillstep will no longer offer endless headbands when spoken to.
GOBORO REEF:
Quest: Crab Corralling: Added a more accurate failure message to the Lasso.
Zone Event: Leviathan: Scaled down Aberrations and Reflections of Insanity.
Zone Event: Leviathan: Also reduced the amount of Aberrations that can be spawn to two, down from six.
HAMMERKNELL:
Intrepid Instant Adventure: The madness of Akylios has been somewhat quelled, and the platforms should no longer shift through various planes of existence.
MORBAN:
Instant Adventure: Well Done: The first objective now correctly directs players to speak with Caretaker Scouts.
SCARLET GORGE:
Zone Event: A Royal Raid: Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause the event to fail immediately after Kayahn spawns.
Zone Event: Shambling Hordes: The Murder of Zombies boss now has a clear leader which can be defeated to complete the event.
TEMPEST BAY:
A rascally model had escaped from the art factory and was seen masquerading as a Mercenary in Tempest Bay named Selina. She has now been returned to her rightful form.
TYRANT'S THRONE:
Zone Event: Leviathan: Added a failsafe to transition the Yrlwalach to a vulnerable state after “Reflections of Insanity” are killed.
Zone Event: Leviathan: Lowered the frequency on how often the zone event triggers.
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS:
MIND OF MADNESS:
Arisen Arak: Fixed several bugs causing player ability range not increasing for zone of effect type abilities.
Note: Power Core and Riftstalker Burst attacks will still fail. This will be addressed in a future hotfix.
Arisen Arak: Removed the aggro drop on players switching between Light of Draum and Shadow of the Nexus so that tanks aren't miserable.
Arisen Arak: Addressed the Ethereal Pocket safety window gap by adding an AOE to the Terror of Arak which grants protection for 5 seconds to players within 12m of the Terror of Arak when it's killed.
Arisen Arak: Added a say action to the Terror of Arak when it's hit by Light of Ruin so that players understand this despawns the Terror of Arak. Made it so that the increased damage dealt to Dream of Arak does not impact AOE abilities.
Arisen Arak: Updated the tagging of Light of Draum and Shadow of the Nexus so it does not consume Eldritch Armor procs.
Arisen Arak: Corrected a typo in the ability name Genesis of Ruin.
Arisen Arak: Added an entity tag to Ethereal Pocket and setup a cleanup for Ethereal Pocket entities on reset of the fight.
Arisen Arak: Added a kill action to all living players when reset is triggered to ensure aggro cleanup.
Arisen Arak: Removed the drunken VFX from Enter Light of Draum and Enter Shadow of the Nexus.
Arisen Arak: Removed the green leaf AOE VFX from the Ethereal Pocket.
Arisen Arak: Fixed a pathing bug at the edge of the platform that interfered with fight mechanics.
Dark Genesis: Fixed a bug where Duo Diligence was able to be reflected.
Dark Genesis: Addressed an issue with Shadow Genesis running down to the bottom ring.
Lady Justice: Hardmode now correctly modifies the damage and health of Lady Justice.
Lord Arak: Repulsion, Fright, and Anguish crystals can all be targeted while Lord Arak regains his strength.
Lord Arak: Phantom Wounds and Phantasmic Defense damage no longer overlap with Divide and Conquer.
Lord Arak: Fixed an issue causing Phantasmic Defense damage to stop being cast when Nightmare Guardians respawn.
PVP AND WARFRONTS:
If a player has reached his/her weekly limit for acquiring Warmonger’s marks and attempts to purchase more Marks, then the purchase attempt will fail and an error message will be show to the player.
DIMENSIONS:
The Peaceful Hills dimension now applies Rest State when inside the dimension.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.5 Hotfix 5 (Jan 18, 2016)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.5 Hotfix 4 (Jan 13, 2016)

PROMOTIONS:
Scout Captain Feldain is back on duty for the remainder of Arclight Infiltration.
Scout Captain Feldain can now also be found in the Trollblight Caverns.
The Arclight Infiltration event will now run until Monday, Jan. 18th to allow for players to complete their achievements.
Note: The old countdown timer will still tick down, and a new one will start immediately afterwards. Do not be alarmed!
Removed the Attractor Minion Mission requirement from the Lifter Larceny achievement.
GENERAL:
After a server restart, items in personal and guild dimensions will still be visible.
The client will no longer crash when you try to buy an extra character slot if you have the maximum number of character slots.
Fixed a bug where recipes and other non-harvest nodes say ‘recommended ’ instead of ‘requires’
Minion: Fixed the stats of Haligan the Firetouched.
The minion reset time should now properly occur at 4 AM server time.
Targeting mobs should no longer cause dramatic FPS drops.
When a character’s level is changed via mentoring, an appropriate message is displayed in the General console window informing the player of the level change.
UI AND SETTINGS:
Added a possible fix to issues with the Warfront scoreboard rapidly rearranging the UI.
When dragging equipment from bags or the bank, if the character sheet is open, the corresponding slots will now be highlighted where the equipment can be placed.
Linking an itemfrom the RIFT Store or Auction House will no longer sometimes link it twice.
SOULS:
MASTERIES:
All of the level 65 contextual abilities that had a cooldown timer but did not display one now do.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
DROUGHTLANDS:
Text edit to the quest Into the Wilds.
TARKEN GLACIAR:
Finding the Finder: Reduced the outgoing damage of Researcher Jessa and Corrupted Hatchlings.
PLANETOUCHED WILDS:
The Khadluu Kahn Yearling’s Pound will do less damage.
Corpse Maggots in Planetouched Wilds will no longer drop loot.
Quest: Khadluu Ukher: Increased the cast time and cooldown of “Roar of Terror”.
RAID RIFT: PLANE CRAWLER PROJECT:
Removed the initial rift stage, reducing the number of combat stages from six to five.
Increased the amount of time players have to reflect Pulse Turret.
The Plane Crawler no longer casts Doom Cannon back-to-back and the cast time of this ability has been increased.
Reduced the health of Unstable Tethers by 60%.
V’Goth no longer casts Energy Shield.
V’Goth now summons Earthen Launchers less frequently.
RAID RIFT: THE DARKEST MAGIC:
Stage One now has only one Rabbit boss.
Maximum HP of the Rabbit boss has been increased.
Lograr no longer casts Lesser Evil or Greater Evil.
Reduced the HP of Lograr’s Unlit Braziers by a third.
Reduced the number of Shadows summoned by Silenek.
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS:
BINDINGS OF BLOOD:
Maelforge: The ability ‘Dark Cabal’ has been changed so the buff is dispelled upon leaving the instance.
NIGHTMARE COAST: EXPERT:
Fixed an issue that could cause Nightmare Eruption warning VFX to not show up during the Hydal Ithral encounter.
THE MINDS OF MADNESS:
Dark Genesis: Fixed the reliability of and achievement firing off correctly.
Lord Arak: Despair crystals will refrain from crossing the room while Divide and Conquer is in progress.
Lord Arak: Added safeguards to stop some instances of Despair crystals from moving diagonally across the room.
PVP AND WARFRONTS:
* The Warmonger’s PVP trinkets are now properly part of the Warmonger’s Vengeance set.
* The upgraded Reinforced Warmonger’s Axe now has the correct weapon proc.
ITEMS:
Fixed an issue where the mount, The Nightmare, could not be targeted with Underwater Mount Training.
The upgraded versions of Empyreal Conqueror’s Slippers now properly award the Worldly Cloth Boots item appearance.
Recovered Greatspear from IGP renamed to Ancient Recovered Greatspear. Ancient Recovered Greatspear now correctly upgrades into two different relic weapons: Nalsoth, the Agony Shard and Nalsoth, the Hope Shard.
ART:
Fixed a skinning issue with the Bahmi female animations on raptor mounts.
Death foothold now has VFX in personal dimension.
The Nightmare Coast final boss "Destroy Reality" ability now has correct warning and AoE VFX.
Violet Twistflower now has VFX again.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.5 Hotfix 3 (Jan 7, 2016)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.5 Hotfix 2.5 (Dec 23, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.5 Hotfix 2 (Dec 16, 2015)

FAE YULE:
The Minion Cards associated with Fae Yule have been changed to Bind to Account.
The daily raid rift quest “The Darkest Magic” now gives Faelight Sparkles for those on the “Faelight Sparkle Returns” quest.
Fae Yule Minions gotten via Grish have been rebalanced to be more in line with the rest of the minions.
GENERAL:
The portrait badges awarded for Artifact Collecting in Planetouched Wilds are now account wide.
Your eyebrows have returned from an epic adventure. They would tell you all about it, but eyebrows can’t talk.
Fixed several crashes relating to graphics.
You can now apply ascended power abilities to wardrobe weapon slots to get the visual vfx applied to your weapon look. You will not get any of the bonuses unless you apply the ability to your equipped weapon.
Fixed a bug that would prevent selling items in the store after using the + button from the Crafting Window.
RIFT STORE AND SERVICES:
The Imbued Satchel gained from Ascended Troves is now correctly labled as a 20 slot bag.
INSTANT ADVENTURE:
Hammerknell: Fixed a collision issue with the platforms at Akylios.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
NIGHTMARE SAGA QUESTS:
Give Me A Break: Indigestus’ ability “Stomach Acid” has had its AoE radius decreased and is now much easier to see.
March of the Guffins: Damage and health have been lowered for “Bloodthirsty Guffins” and “Enraged Guffins”.
DRAUMHEIM:
Daily Quest Givers: The Bucket List in Margle Palace will now offer its Daily quests as expected again.
GOBORO REEF:
Quest: Braving the Dream: Players in need of the Big Boot to wake the sleepers can return to Kamran Urad in Ghar Station Mem to receive another.
PLANETOUCHED WILDS:
Quest: Siege of Shal Korva: Fixed an issue where chat text did not match VO.
TARKEN GLACIER:
Quest: Remnants of Martrodraum: The crystals will no longer continue to block movement when inactive.
SOULS:
CABALIST:
Fixed an issue where Well of Souls would sometimes deal damage to NPCs after the Cabalist had died and been resurrected, causing combat to restart. Well of Souls now cancels when the Cabalist dies.
DEFILER:
Siphon Vitality: Increased damage by 10%.
Marrow Harvest: Increased damage by 20%.
Pain Transmission: Increased damage by 20%.
INQUISITOR:
Vex: Increased damage by 18%
Mental Resilience: Increased from 15% spellpower scaling on Vex, Scourge, and Sanction Heretic up to 20% spellpower scaling.
Righteous Indignation: Increased from 4% spellpower scaling per point up to 5% per point.
JUSTICAR:
Total Assurance now increases all damage dealt for 30 seconds, in addition to its previous effects.
Mien of Honor and Mien of Leadership are no longer on the global cooldown. Their shared cooldown has been lowered to 10 seconds.
The damage buff effect from Mien of Honor now lasts 30 seconds, up from 15 seconds.
MAGE:
ARBITER:
Arcane Ward’s Outgoing Damage and Healing penalty has been Reduced from 30% down to 20%.
HARBINGER:
Fixed an issue where non-player abilities like temporary abilities could sometimes consume Eldritch Gift.
PRIMALIST:
DERVISH:
Shearing Winds now deals 80% weapon damage per talent point spent, down from 100% weapon damage per talent point spent.
Dervish – Lowered damage of the following abilities by ~5%: Tectonic Spike, Air Cutter, Subduction, Whirling Dervish, Earthfall, Aftershock, Savage Twister
TITAN:
Titan Fury's damage buff effect has been increased from 20% up to 30%. Its duration has been increased from 5 seconds up to 6 seconds.
ROGUE:
RIFTSTALKER:
Soul Coalescence now only consumes 5 stacks of Soul Synthesis instead of 20.
Soul Synthesis now increases damage dealt by 5% per stack, up from 1% per stack.
WARRIOR:
VOID KNIGHT:
Threat generated by damage from Destructive Forces has been increased by 700%
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS:
INTREPID GILDED PROPHECY:
Fixed a bug where players could occasionally get stuck inside the normal mode statue.
RHAZADE CANYONS:
Fixed a bug where Rhazade Canyons was not rewarding LFG rewards.
THE MIND OF MADNESS:
Fixed an issue that could cause the portal to The Nexus from Glacier’s End to not appear.
Enigma:
Fixed an issue where Fragments of Chaos would not do damage.
Fixed an issue with the Range Buff not re-applying correctly.
Added an additional failsafe to stop Enigma from casting “Pandemonium” after “Sunder”.
Dark Genesis:
Has been re-enabled.
Reduced the life of preservation core by ~30%.
Addressed a reset issue with the boss.
Lady Envy:
Fixed an issue where players could line of sight “Singularity".
Lady Justice:
Added a crystal that allows players to return Lady Justice to normal difficulty if her difficulty mode is Justice is Blind or Judge & Executioner.
Radiant Spores is now excluded from healing that is transferred to Lady Justice by her Libra ability.
PVP AND WARFRONTS:
ASSAULT ON BRONZE TOMB:
Standing on the upper platform on the Defenders side in the final room in Bronze Tomb will cause you to be snared, reduce your range by 20 meters, and mark you brightly for murder.
CONQUEST:
Fixed an issue where the timers during the extractor phase and after that were not aligning with the display.
CRAFTING:
The cost on Recipe: Cosmic Bag has been reduced to 150 Grandmaster Marks and 900 Master Marks.
Fixed a case where clicking to purchase crafting ingredients from the crafting window would take you to the wrong location in the rift store.
ITEMS:
The Savior’s Touch proc found on Tier 3 trinkets now has a maximum healing value of 200,000.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.5 Hotfix 1 (Dec 11, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.5 (Dec 10, 2015)

FEATURES:
AFFINITY SYSTEM:
We've introduced a new rewards system for Patrons: Affinity! All Patrons will gain five Affinity Tokens for every day they log in to each region.
These tokens are also rewarded for every hour spent in game, awarded up to three times a day.
Affinity is an account shared currency, and can be accessed by all characters on the same region.
This currency can be spent on mounts or other items in the RIFT Store under the gold colored Affinity category!
ASCENDED TROVES:
Get free goodies just for leveling up! Open this special trove every 10 levels for potions, mounts and more.
Don't miss out: find your Ascended Trove in the RIFT store starting at level 10!
MIND OF MADNESS:
You’ve battled your way beyond space and time, through the synapse fortress and the place known as An End To Reason. It’s not over yet - the greatest challenges of The Mind of Madness have only now arrived!
LADY JUSTICE:
The Goddess of Reason and judgement. All she can see is evil and disorder which must be eliminated, and in her warped state of mind, that includes you!
ENIGMA:
He is the delver of secrets, and while he may not be inherently destructive, his lack of regard for those he considers lesser beings often leads to their demise.
DARK GENESIS:
At the Monolith of Ruin, the Dark Genesis conspires against order, plotting to bring destruction to Telara. Destroy the Dark Genesis before all of Telara falls before him!
ARISEN ARAK:
Lord Arak was able to harness the power of The Enigma, Lady Justice, Lady Envy and even the Dark Genesis to transform himself into a being without equal!
The Arisen Lord Arak’s mere presence shatters reality, and the quickest of Ascended may escape destruction by quickly aligning themselves to one or the other before Arak is able to incinerate them!
PVP UPDATES:
As the first step in our ongoing PvP efforts, we've updated some of the PvP game modes and rewards!
Marauder Supply Caches:
Now drop Dreambreaker gear as the default.
No longer drop weapons.
Gear can be upgraded an additional tier to be equal to Tier 2 items. (Weapons and Essences do not get this upgrade path.)
New PVP weapons have been added to the RIFT Store. To purchase these weapons, use Favor to buy Warmonger’s Marks. Warmonger’s Marks can be found in the Upgrade Parts tab of the RIFT Store. You can buy a limited number of Warmonger’s Marks each week.
The PVP weekly ‘Hired Guns’ quests have been shortened. PVP weekly quests now require 7 wins in various warfronts and no longer include Port Scion as a required warfront.
The kill count required to complete the weekly quest Conquest Carnage has been reduced to 1800, down from 2000.
Phase 1 of Conquest is now significantly shorter, requiring only 750 kills to advance to phase 2, down from 1200. Phase 2 has been lengthened to 10 minutes, up from 5 minutes.
Players will be prevented from joining a conquest match if there are less than 200 remaining kills.
FAE YULE RETURNS:
INSTANT ADVENTURE:
New Instant Adventures are now available in Iron Pine Peaks – Restore the holiday cheer with Atrophinious and Greatfather Frost!
MINIONS:
There are brand new Holiday Minion missions abound – just pick up the new Minion Card: Grish from the Store!
Did you miss out last year? Minion Card: Rudy is available again, and last year’s minion missions can be completed too!
SPARKLE QUESTS:
The Sparkle Quest has made a joyous comeback for level 65 players! Seek out Stuttik Fyrirthig in Draumheim and grab the quest Faelight Sparkle Returns to start your adventure.
The Sparkle Quest can earn a piece of the most powerful gear in Telara (from the brand new Mind of Madness Raid) by collecting enough Faelight Sparkles.
You can earn them completing Expert Dungeons, winning Random Warfronts, looting the chest in Conquest, participating in experience giving Zone Events, or an assortment of daily and weekly quests.
Once you earn enough currency from these activities, you’ll be able to purchase either a Sparkling Shard of Wonder (a random piece of gear for Healers or DPS) or Reinforced Sparkling Shard of Wonder (a random piece of gear for Tanks).
A note to hoarders: last year’s Faelight Sparkles will dissolve and all NEW ones will be earned for this year’s quest.
Choose wisely, this quest is only available once this Fae Yule!
FAE YULE QUESTS & ZONE EVENTS:
Whether you’re sledding down the slopes (and killing a few Snowmen on the way), dreaming up gifts in the Plane of Water, or battling Yulelogon and his invaders, all the traditional quests for Fae Yule have returned this year.
Earn currency, dimension items, companion pets, and more for completing these to afford all the Fae Yule presents your heart desires!
DORMANT FAE YULE GIFTS:
For the duration of Fae Yule the final boss in level 65 Expert Dungeons will drop a Dormant Fae Yule Gift!
These gifts contain a dormant piece of gear from Mount Sharax, Tyrant's Forge or Rhen of Fate. Upgrade them to full T1 power with Abyssal Crusader's Accelerators.
Gifts are unique and take 12 days to open naturally. Use Temporal Aligners from the RIFT Store or daily Patron login bonuses to speed up the process.
ACHIEVEMENTS & REWARDS:
Of course it wouldn’t be Fae Yule without a bevy of achievements to attain or all sorts of fun rewards to earn. Between the Snow Ki Rin and Nightbringer Mounts, fun interactive items that will liven any party, and adorable companion pets to join you on your journeys, there's something for everyone in Fae Yule.
The star on top of this year’s Fae Yule tree is a set of Everfrost Gorget necklaces that start off as equivalent to gear from the first set of Nightmare Tide raids, but are quickly upgradable to those found in Tier 2.
These mighty necklaces are available throughout the event in exchange for 2,300 Unique Snowflakes and 30 Dark Icicles or 2,100 Credits. Make sure to get yours before they are gone!
ON THE STORE:
There’s always a ton of great stuff on the RIFT store during Fae Yule, and this year has some amazing new items, including animated backpacks, the majestic
GENERAL:
Fixed an issue where clicking abilities with ground targets while moving the mouse would cause abilities to not be cast.
Dying during click to move will no longer cause you to continue to move to the same location once alive.
Fix a crash that could happen when the computer is locked while loading the game.
Damage will no longer tick while dead.
GRAPHICS:
We're taking another stab at the tint corruption issues that occasionally happen. Yes, that's the bug that caused your armor to change to wacky colors! Please let us know if they're still occurring and if they fix themselves after about a minute. (Which they might, now!)
The "Enable Detail Objects" advanced video setting will now adjust your visual quality immediately when applied, instead of waiting for a load screen.
Animated objects now respect level of detail settings so that they decrease in quality as you get further away from them.
RIFT STORE AND SERVICES:
Users no longer need to relog from Glyph after purchasing Primalist for it to be available.
A user with the maximum number of character slots cannot purchase the Character Slot Extension item from the Store.
Key to Dimension: Tulan is now available on the Rift Store under Dimensions -> Keys!
ADDON API:
Added addon support for using mounts. This now allows for the requested feature of random mount selection!
UI AND SETTINGS:
The Dimension help tips have been updated!
Fixed the wardrobe preview to properly show dyes when adding/removing appearances.
Added a shortcut button to the Crafting Window to help buy reagents quicker.
Added two color settings for tooltip descriptions of collected and uncollected items.
Titles now have consistent capitalization in the selection menu.
Item tooltips will now contain crafting profession information when you mouse over an item that is used as a crafting material. The tooltip will now tell you all professions that use that item in recipes and what the minimum crafting level needed.
Fixed a bug preventing the Tier 3 Guard tooltip from appearing in the client.
Fixed an issue with text alignment on the welcome dialog.
WARDROBE:
You can now apply temporary vfx runes to your wardrobe weapon slots!
Right click on the rune then apply it to a wardrobe weapon slot.
Clearing the wardrobe weapon slot will also clear the rune.
Applying any runes to your wardrobe weapons will not apply any stat changes from the rune.
This is only for wardrobe weapon appearance. You can still get the stat effects by applying the rune to your regular equipped weapon.
STATS & MECHANICS:
Dodge Rating now increases your Maximum Absorb amount by 5 points per point of Dodge Rating on your character.
Effects which deal damage based on the amount of damage a triggering attack dealt now calculate their damage off of Absorbed damage as well as standard damage.
For example: If a Tempest Warrior activates Arc and then attacks a target who has an Absorb effect, Arc will deal damage based on the total damage dealt to the target's shield+hitpoints.
Previously, it would only deal damage based on damage dealt to the target's hitpoints.
SOULS:
MAGE:
Almost every Mage ability has had a damage calculation formula adjust for its Base Damage. Please see this post for a comprehensive breakdown.
CLERIC:
Almost every Cleric ability has had a damage calculation formula adjust for its Base Damage. Please see this post for a comprehensive breakdown.
MASTERIES:
Increased Diversify from 2.5% damage per stack up to 3% damage per stack.
JUSTICAR:
Resplendent Embrace: Fixed a bug which caused this ability to calculate its max health boost without including health from stats on items. This ability's effectiveness now properly scales with equipment.
DEFILER:
Pain Transmission has been redesigned. This ability is now a foe-targeted spell which deals damage to the target and up to 4 nearby enemies. Its damage has been substantially increased, but is now divided between the number of targets struck.
PRIMALIST:
Fixed an issue preventing the Vampiric Essence Planar Attunement ability from triggering for Primalists.
MASTERIES:
Savage Blow now deals Ethereal damage over 12 seconds, rather than instant Physical Damage.
Savage Blow's damage is now increased by 20% for each of your DoT effects on the target, up to a maximum of 100% increase.
Savage Blow’s initial damage has been reduced by 50%.
Fixed a bug causing Spiritualism's buff tooltip to misreport its outgoing damage.
PRESERVER:
Fixed a bug causing Estuary to consume Hasty Blossom buffs.
WARRIOR:
REAVER:
Fixed an issue where Necrotic Wounds, Soul Sickness, and Flesh Rot displayed 40m range but was actually 30m.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
EPIC QUESTS:
Nightmare Saga: Return to Empyrean Core now counts towards the quest In Fellowship.
EMBER ISLE:
Quest: A Valuable Offering: This quest is now completable by Primalists.
GOBORO REEF:
Quest: Braving the Dream: This quest has been changed to require use of an item as opposed to temporary abilities.
KINGSWARD:
Quest: Battle Preparations: The Dawnkeeker Construct will now perform as expected when summoned against the group of soldiers.
MOONSHADE HIGHLANDS:
Merchants: Scheym Anhew, the Planar Merchant in Three Springs, no longer requires a minimum level for displaying his wares.
Quest: Runic Recall: Fixed an issue that would cause the Runemasters and Assasins that attack on the final step to spawn to soon.
Quest: The Churning Fates: Fixed an issue that would sometimes prevent the Shadebound Monstrosity from appearing.
PLANETOUCHED WILDS:
Fixed the placement of some unreachable artifacts.
Quest: General: Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause Daily questgivers in Shal Korva, Woe, Khort, and Jad to not respawn after being killed.
SCARLET GORGE
Quest: Stone Cold Survivors: Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause the survivors to not leave the cave.
STILLMOOR:
Quest: The Spirit Walk: This quest can now be completed by Primalists.
Quest: Spirit Animus: This quest can now be completed by Primalists.
TARKEN GLACIER:
Dalendel the Reanimated: This creature will no longer fly beneath the ground.
Quest: Profane Expanse: The Rhenke Raiders will no longer attack Ikbarru if he gets too close to them.
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS:
CHRONICLES:
When a player enters the Random Chronicle queue, the player can repeat a particular chronicle as many times as the player wants, as long as the player has sufficient charges to do random chronicles.
If a chronicle is completed as a non-random chronicle, the player will remain locked out of the non-random version of the chronicle as long as the timer hasn't expired, but can still complete a random version of the chronicle
ITEMS:
All mounts can be taught to swim underwater with the Underwater Mount Training item
Proc Effects on Relic Ranged weapons from Rhen of Fate no longer enhance the damage or healing of other Nightmare Tide procs.
Token Boost effect buffs now correctly state that they boost the income of Fragments of Madness but not Fragments of Darkness.
Drowned Prophet's Coif now has a credit price on the store.
CRAFTING:
The drop rate and amount of Imperishable Motes have been greatly increased from Crafting Rifts.
DIMENSIONS:
Planetouched Wilds dimension items have been added to the Dimension Item Grab Bags and Uncle Stan's Super Secret Lure.
AUDIO:
Fixed missing sounds for Preserver abilities Serenity, Essence Flow, and Bound.
Fixed a case where the Fae Yule sledding whoosh sound could get stuck on. Midnight Mink mount, Faeblight Sparkle weapon skins, and a couple of cute portrait badges to complete your holiday look!

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.4 Hotfix 11 (Dec 2, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.4 Hotfix 8 (Nov 12, 2015)

GENERAL:
Fixed a bug causing 7 Random Chronicle Rewards to be granted per day, instead of 1 per day.
Guild members who are not in-game but are connected via the mobile app will appear as offline in the Roster tab.
Fixed a bug that would prevent Primalists from undoing points spend in talent trees.
SOULS:
PRIMALIST:
MASTERIES:
Ursine Tenacity’s movespeed reduction while channeling Nurture or Naturalize has been reduced from 50% down to 25%.
DERVISH:
Fixed a bug causing Seismic Smash and Lashing Wind not to trigger several items’ triggered abilities.
PRESERVER:
Invigorate now requires the target be a member of your Party or Raid.
TITAN:
Removed a redundant “How to Play” section from the Talent Preset overview for Titan.
INSTANT ADVENTURE:
The following change now does not apply to instant adventures in the Intrepid queue:
When a group finishes an instant adventure quest in a zone that has an active zone event, they will be sent to the same zone on another shard that has no zone events active.
If that is not possible, the instant adventure system will send the group to a new instant adventure.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
PLANETOUCHED WILDS:
Quest: The Siege of Shal Korva:
Fixed an issue where certain voice over audio and text would play twice.
Fixed an issue where players could skip certain quest objectives.
Fixed an issue with Teth Torok’s “Karmic Drain” ability not displaying the telegraph VFX
Decreased the damage of Teth Torok and slightly increased the damage mitigation of Sun’s Gift. Thank you to Mashata for the report!
Quest: A Tempting Offer: The step "Kill the Secret Wish" now has the correct map indicator. Additionally, the Secret Wish can be re-summoned at that location using the Contemplation Stone.
Quest: Woe is Me: Teth Varadeshi no longer grants experience when killed.
Quest: Reluctant Rescuee: Uureg will now correctly speak players when they come to plead for his help.
TARKEN GLACIER:
Quest: The Goddess: Players who abandon this quest part way through and then return to Cyberneticist Frekker to begin it again will now be able to experience Aia taunting them a second time.
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS:
HAMMERKNELL:
Killing Murdantix will now allow access to Garau and Darktide even if the instance is soft reset.
MIND OF MADNESS:
Fixed a bug where an invisible Misericordia was showing up between the Pillars of Justice.
Hand of Judgment no longer persists after Vis and Misericordia have been killed.
Fixed an issue where Lady Envy could cast Enticement right before Singularity
Fixed an issue with Lady Envy where on fight reset, corpses did not gather in a safe location
Fixed a fallen shadow location.
Lady Envy: Fixed an issue where “Singularity” would trigger the raid wipe mechanic a little too early.
Lady Envy: Fixed an issue where “Bullet Hell” would sometimes not trigger in Phase 3.
Pagura and Lord Arak now respawn a few seconds later after a reset, lessening the chance they’ll reaggro on players.
CRAFTING:
The player crafted companion pet Jeeves has been fixed
The Dimension item loot table associated with Stan’s Lure and the dimension related grab bags have been doubled in size with twice the items.
ITEMS:
All Tier 2 store weapons now have the correct hit values.
Updated the Fragment of Darkness cost on Tier 3 raid items.
The Enslaved God's Breastplate should now upgrade correctly.
Shal Korva heirloom rings are now bind to account. Shal Korva notoriety runes are now bind on pickup.
The incorrect naming on the Magnificent Twin-rune of Dexterity has been fixed.
The “Explosive Intent” ability on Enigma Seal trinkets has been improved.
Its damage has been increased by 140%
It now deals Ethereal damage
All damage dealt by this trinket is now guaranteed to critically hit.
The maximum number of targets struck by the explosion at the end of the ability has been reduced from 10 to 5.
Fixed a bug causing several items from the Mind of Madness to display redundant “Use:” information in their tooltips.
Fixed a bug giving upgraded PVP shields large amounts of extra block.
Nightmare Edge of Reason now grants the correct appearance unlock.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.4 Hotfix 7 (Nov 5, 2015)

FEATURES:
ACT 3 ARRIVES:
The epic conclusion of the Planetouched Wilds story arrives. Learn the disturbing secret of the Wilds and how the bahmi of Shal Korva have saved their karma from the Tenebrean Teth and face down this cosmic demon in an attempt to break the Great Wheel.
MINDS OF MADNESS:
Today, the all-new 20 man raid Mind of Madness has been added, the third tier of raiding in Nightmare Tide! This massive raid contains a total of 9 unique bosses in a struggle against the pantheon of another cosmos and the culmination of Lord Arak’s wicked machinations.
Explore the broken worlds forged by the dreams of these alien deities as you face challenges unlike any ever before.
This massive trial of ordeals will be released over the coming months. Your first trial is to conquer Pagura, Lord Arak, The Pillars of Justice, Fauxmire, and Lady Envy. Are you ready?
GAME UPDATE:
GENERAL:
Autumn Harvest: Added new one-time quest “Fright Night” to Rollo in the Realm of the AUtumn Harvest that rewards 7 Signets.
Fixed a VFX display problem that caused particle effects to appear near the player’s head while mounted.
The welcome window will now only display once every 20 hours per account. This time, for really real.
You can no longer duel inside of a raid instance.
RIFT STORE AND SERVICES:
Tier 2 gear is now available for purchase on the Store! Armor and weapons can be purchased individually, or as part of bundles.
UI AND SETTINGS:
Fixed an issue with the UI Layout that caused items docked to the chat window to move after changing maps.
Fixed some issues with the maps rendering if the map was open when resizing the game.
Added the roll option windows to the UI layout.
Fixed minion stamina sometimes displaying incorrectly.
SOULS:
CLERIC:
JUSTICAR:
Fixed a bug which caused Just Defense not to be considered an Absorb effect for the purpose of Buffs and Debuffs.
PRIMALIST:
MASTERIES:
Ursine Tenacity now causes Nurture and Naturalize to slow the caster by 50% while channeling them.
DERVISH:
Fixed an issue where using Rockslide in PvP improperly reported its name as “Clear the Breach” in combat log text.
Rockslide no longer moves Focus 10 points.
Increased damage by 1.7% on the following abilities:
Tectonic Spike
Air Cutter
Savage Twister
Aftershock
Subduction
Increased damage by 8.5% on the following abilities:
Earthfall
Whirling Dervish
Fixed a bug where Shearing Winds was dealing Ethereal damage instead of Air damage.
Increased duration of Primal Avatar: Wind Serpent from 10s up to 15s.
Fixed a bug where Scirocco and Lava Lance didn't share a cooldown.
VULCANIST:
Decreased the cooldown of Lava Lance from 10s down to 8s.
PRESERVER:
Conservation’s effectiveness has been reduced from 10% per point down to 7.5% per point.
TITAN:
Fixed a bug causing scaling calculations for absorbs provided by Crystalline Smash and Lifewarding beacon to work incorrectly.
VULCANIST:
Precise Aim: Now only affects Earth and Fire damage.
INSTANT ADVENTURE:
When a group finishes an instant adventure quest in a zone that has an active zone event, they will be sent to the same zone on another shard that has no zone events active.
If that is not possible, the instant adventure system will send the group to a new instant adventure.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
PLANETOUCHED WILDS:
Uureg can be a bit of a tool, but he’s a far better administrator than Khar.
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS:
Rhen of Fate, Tyrant’s Forge, and Mount Shatrax raid bosses will no longer drop Fragments of Horror. They now drop Abyssal Crusader Marks instead.
HAMMERKNELL FORTRESS:
Killing Murdantix will now grant access to the upper floors.
ITEMS:
Consumables that grant bonus currency gains can now grant bonus Fragments of Madness.
All Fragments of Horror will turn into Abyssal Crusader’s Marks at a 2 to 1 rate.
The Keen Titanium Glaive now requires a minimum level of 46 to equip.
Fixed several issues which could prevent Greater Essence effects from triggering for Primalist characters.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.4 Hotfix 6 (Oct 29, 2015)

AUTUMN HARVEST:
Stats on the new Autumn Harvest minions have been updated to have the correct stats.
Quest: Autumncap Haul: Autumncap Fungus spawns in the following zones have been adjusted to no longer be out of reach – Silverwood, Freemarch, Gloamwood, Stonefield, and Droughtlands.
Autumn Eyes potions should be working once again.
Added Autumn Sap rewards to zone events.
Added Autumn Sap rewards to Autumn Harvest Instant Adventure bosses.
Added additional seasonal Instant Adventures to Gloamwood.
GENERAL:
Fixed a possible client crash when purchasing items off a wish list.
Fixed issue with the sound and frequency of Baac skin for Necromancer’s Shadow Revenant pet, so it is not too noisy and annoying.
Fix a bug causing ground clutter to flash on some systems.
SOULS:
MAGE:
DOMINATOR:
Transmogrify: No longer affected by Durable Control.
Transmogrify is no longer broken by AoE damage.
Pain Armor:
Now reflects 10% of single-target ability damage dealt to the Dominator back to the attacker.
No longer drains the resource of attacking foes.
Fix previewing combat pet skins not animating.
Note: Cleric Fairy pets do not animate until a skin is selected. This will be fixed in a future hotfix.
PRIMALIST:
Fixed a bug that would prevent Skill Shot, Cyclicism and a few other abilities from proc’ing when at full fury.
BERSERKER:
Planar Spout: Fixed an issue where Planar Spout was doing more damage than intended.
Spirit’s Wrath: Now deals 50% less damage in PVP.
PRESERVER:
Fixed an issue causing Inundate’s Absorb functionality to work irregularly.
VULCANIST:
Molten Wave
Now moves your focus by 100 towards Cunning. Up from 80.
The additional damage debuff duration has been reduced from 3s to 1.5s.
Skill Shot: Now deals 50% less damage in PVP.
Beacon of the Drake: Fixed an issue that was causing Beacon of the Drake to despawn when another one was cast nearby.
TITAN:
Buffs from Crystalline Lance, Essence Strike, and Earthquake now last 20 seconds, up from 16s.
Unyielding - talent: Lowered from 3% damage reduction per point down to 2% per point.
Essence Strike: No longer gives Dodge when used, and instead gives a 3% reduction to damage taken.
Crystalline Lance: Range increased from 20m up to 30m.
Earthquake: Lowered cooldown from 15 seconds down to 10 seconds.
Primalist Mastery Indomitable Indomitable (level 61) now also allows Crystalline Smash to be used on targets up to 20m away.
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS:
INTREPID GILDED PROPHECY:
Removed the smiling wall.
NIGHTMARE COAST: EXPERT:
The VFX illuminating the hands around Hydal Ithral has returned.
UI AND SETTINGS:
The main map can no longer be shrunk down to a size that prevents it from displaying correctly.
Fixed an issue that prevented the map from being made larger after a window resize.
Quest: Primal Meditations: The crystals will now properly sparkle when on the quest.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
PLANETOUCHED WILDS:
Water Twisted Moths should spawn with the same regularity or the other Twisted NPCs from Corpse Maggots in Planetouched Wilds now.
ITEMS:
DPS upgrades for Primalist 2H raid weapon drops now have the correct item procs.
Fixed sound for some healing trinkets that could get stuck looping under certain circumstances.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.4 Hotfix 5 (Oct 23, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.4 Hotfix 4 (Oct 21, 2015)

FEATURES:
AUTUMN HARVEST WORLD EVENT RETURNS:
Telara’s season of ghoulish tricks and treats returns on October 22 through November 11. Your favorite events from previous years are back – but this season has a few new frights of its own!
'Tis the Season For All That Scares:
The portals to the Realm of Autumn Harvest are open! Plunder loot that the Fae have stolen throughout the year – but beware: Seasonal Rifts bring the fight to Telara, and Monster Mash returns to Black Garden, turning combatants into shambling horrors, werewolves, and worse.
Frightful Weapons:
An assortment of awe inspiring armament appearances are available in Autumn Harvest! Collect all the variants of this wonderful weaponry before they take flight!
Don a Costume:
Scare your friends in style with new signature masks. This year’s collection contains some classic looks, including a Skull that will haunt your dreams! In addition pick up new backpacks that will have you very animated, and a set of bat wings that will be all the rage at Autumn Harvest parties.
Instant Terror:
Gloamwood gets a bit spookier when you visit it inside our featured Instant Adventure! For the length of Autumn Harvest encounter all new spooky bosses while roaming through Gloamwood; will you be able to defeat them all?
Spun From Steel and Fear:
A carriage fit for a demon queen, Spinderella is terrifyingly eye catching! A delicate web of steel forms the structure, which sits atop eight terrifying mechanical legs. Get one before the Lock Box disappears after Harvest’s end! If you didn’t manage to pick up an Armored Nightmare last year then you’re in luck! The Ironclad Nightmare shares the same appearance and is available for Autumn Harvest Signets or Credits. Unlocking for a single character, this foreboding steed scales to the speed of your fastest mount.
New Minions & Adventures:
Who loves Autumn Harvest most of all? Taskmaster Atrophinious! He’s got a mission for you, and along the way you might run into the season’s other new Minions: Qu'ella the Wretched, The Nightstalker, The Hag of Gloamwood, and more!
New Dimension Items:
Super cute plushies, Jack-o’-lantern sconces, pies, and more! Find these in the Autumn Harvest Dimension Grab Bag.
Animated Portrait Badge:
Get your Creepy Crawler animated spider portrait badge by completing the new achievement, Mask-A-Raid: 2015!
To get this party started, we’ve got a fearsomely fun special: With your first purchase of a $49.99 credit pack in game (or the local equivalent), you’ll receive 5 Limited Edition: Spinderella Troves! Don’t wait long though, this deal only lasts through Tuesday, October 27!
GAME UPDATE:
RIFT STORE AND SERVICES:
Fixed the preview image for the Limited Edition: Primal Razorback Trove.
UI AND SETTINGS:
UI elements will no longer drift or move unexpectedly when Global UI Scale is turned on.
Bags and chat windows will retain their position when opening/closing and when changing maps
The main map has been fixed to no longer snap while dragging, and will save its position.
Note: Some windows may return to their last location when transitioning maps. A Save Layout, or Window Resize, will store the new position. This will be resolved in a future hotfix.
Fixed an issue with the quest sticky where an ability, like in “Truffle Hunting”, was removed from the sticky.
SOULS:
MAGE:
ARBITER
Re-designed Mana Aegis. This ability now costs 30% of mana, and provides 30% damage reduction for 8 seconds.
Crystalline Shield now also heals the target for 20% of maximum HP, in addition to its previous effects
PRIMALIST:
BERSERKER
Heart Freeze now interrupts as intended on boss mobs.
Creeping Doom’s description no longer has a 0 for max targets.
DERVISH:
Scirocco now interrupts as intended on boss mobs.
TITAN:
Fixed a tooltip error in the buff effect for Ancient Rage.
Titanic Spirit:
Fixed an issue where the ability reduced the damage and healing of Masteries.
Lowered damage reduction for non-Titan abilities from 50% down to 30%.
Now on the global cooldown.
Fixed a bug in the tooltip causing it to state outgoing healing is reduced by 50%. It now correctly reads 80%. This is a tooltip change only.
PRESERVER:
Lowered the duration of Invigorate from 10s down to 8s.
Changed Invigorate's healing to count towards the Caster’s healing rather than towards the Target’s healing.
VULCANIST:
Beacon of the Drake no longer deals damage to those who died during the effect upon resurrection.
Lava Lance now interrupts as intended on boss mobs.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
PLANETOUCHED WILDS:
Quest: The Epic Story of the Wilds: Act 2: The Titan and the Tigress is now available to players who have completed Act 1 and obtained the quest Hail to the King from Rahn in Shal Korva.
Mailboxes in Planetouched Wilds should be working again. Please tip your mailperson so this strike doesn’t repeat.
PVP AND WARFRONTS:
The PvP Mercenary Boxes gained from level 60+ warfronts should now appropriately award loot to Primalist characters.
ITEMS:
The issue with unsocketing Improved Planar Crafted runes has been fixed.
The level 50 Icewatch notoriety runes have been fixed.
Dance partners awarded from artifact sets and login bonuses should no longer put opposing faction players into combat.
The hit on the following weapons has been correctly set to 200: Flawless Primalist Glaive and Flawless Primalist Greatmaul.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.4 Hotfix 3 (Oct 15, 2015)

GENERAL"
Fixed the Guild Log to correctly display achievements and completed quests prior to 3.4.
Fixed an issue with suggested prices on the Auction House.
Changing shards will no longer remove and not re-apply the scene based abilities you are granted in Plane Touched Wilds.
RIFT STORE AND SERVICES:
An additional login bonus has been scheduled for Friday, October 16th to make up for the incorrect loot in the Pinatas available on Tuesday. A Primal Celebration Gift – Redux will be available to claim in the RIFT Store, once per account.
If you accidentally claim it on the wrong character: don't panic! The pack itself is BoA as long as you don't open it.
The Rift Store now includes level 10-50 pvp weapons for Primalists.
Updated the tooltip for the Red Crabnarok. It now correctly states that it’s a 155% speed mount.
Fixed bad previews for Pet Skin: Shalistiri Spirit and Pet Skin: Skyhunter.
Fixed nameplate UI settings not persisting.
UI AND SETTINGS:
Fixed player colors in the Warfront scoreboard to display red and blue for the correct sides.
Fixed an bug with the Store resetting the filters and scrollbar.
Fixed an issue with the Store reopening after closing.
The UI Layout system has been overhauled to fix various HUD elements from gradually creeping across the screen, and improved placement through window resizing and resolution changes.
Note: If player has Global UI scale enabled and resizes the window, UI elements jump to unexpected positions. This is a bug and will be fixed in a future hotfix.
Fixed a bug that could cause /reloadui to clear all your bag positions.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
Nightmare Saga: Nightmare Scenario is now listed as a group quest.
Some older zone events have had their Void Stone payouts normalized.
BREVANE:
It seems that the upheavals caused by the return of Planetouched Wilds were not confined to Mathosia. Over in Brevane, the boundaries of Arakhosian Hinterlands have shifted, and now include a small area that used to be in the Biofoundary.
PLANETOUCHED WILDS:
Quest: Usuk Hel: Players will no longer have their pets parrot Tam’s lines. Thanks to Darosarabean for bringing it to our attention.
Ancestor Spirits have been spotted roaming the ruins in Cosmic Steppes.
Quest: The King and You: Queen Bloodhorn is no longer masquerading as a rhino.
Quest: Primal Meditations: The crystals will now properly sparkle when on the quest.
Players will now earn rested XP in Shal Korva.
Finding the Finder: Researcher Jessa is now a little easier.
Quest: Spirit Buster: Fixed an issue was preventing Malicious Spirits from respawning appropriately
SOULS:
PRIMALIST
Fixed a bug where a Primalist at level 50 could put too many points in a talent tree.
MASTERIES
Pass Fixed a bug causing Ancestral Force to be capable of critically healing.
PRESERVER:
Fixed an issue causing Conservation to calculate as a spell instead of a melee attack.
Fixed a bug where Nature's Blessing (lvl 65 Mastery) stacked with Divine Favor (lvl 65 Cleric Mastery).
Fixed a bug causing Invigorate's healing to only work on the casting Preserver, not work if cast on an ally.
Fixed a bug which caused Overgrowth not to function.
TITAN:
Titanic Spirit: Increased threat modifier from 200% to 300%.
Increased threat of Essence Strike, Crystalline Lance, and Earthquake.
Primal Avatar - Ram: Fixed an issue preventing this from increasing the caster’s maximum Absorb.
Fixed a bug where Earthquake dealt Death damage instead of Earth damage.
Increased Earthquake's damage multiplier by 50%.
TYPHOON:
Fixed an issue causing Divergence and Wind Shear to be counted as Instant abilities instead of Cast Time abilities.
Updated tagging on Typhoon abilities to respect line of sight.
VULCANIST:
Precise Aim: Increased buff duration to 15 seconds, up from 10 seconds.
Beacon of the Drake: Fixed an issue preventing this from scaling properly with attack power, weapon damage, or physical critical hit chance.
Lava Lance: Now works correctly.
Primal Warp: Now works correctly.
Stroke of Brilliance: Fixed an issue where this was doing too much damage while not at true harmony.
WARRIOR:
REAVER
Increased the damage of the initial tick of Soul Sickness, Necrotic Wounds, and Flesh Rot.
Shadow Warp will now drop flags when used in Warfronts.
RIFTBLADE
Stonespear is now properly tagged as a damage ability
BLADEDANCER
Fixed the description text on Contra Tempo to display the correct amount it increases per talent level.
Removed the debilitate text from Weapon Barrage.
ITEMS AND CURRENCY:
Voidstone costs for many Storm Legion essences have been drastically reduced.
Ghar Badge of Honor now appears on Ghar notoriety vendors when only the Primalist calling is selected.
Epic upgrades on ranged weapons that drop from the Rhazade Canyon boss now have ability procs.
Nomi found a new supplier for Rainbow Glue and will be selling it for a much reduced price from now on, although it’s still not cheap. It is Rainbow Glue after all.
Calzrix, the Primal Edge, the upgraded Primalist tanking axe from the Intrepid Guild of Prophecy raid is now correctly set to Relic rarity.
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS:
Fixed an exploit which allowed companion pets to be targeted by Earthen Punishment.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.4 Hotfix 2 (Oct 9, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.4 Hotfix 1 (Oct 8, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.4 (Oct 7, 2015)

FEATURES:
NEW CALLING: THE PRIMALIST!
The Primalist Calling is now available on the RIFT store, and introduces an entirely new playstyle! Wielding leather armor and two-handed weapons, Primalists balance the forces of Fury and Cunning to unleash powers honed in the savage lands of the Planetouched Wilds!
Berserker Soul: DPS
Leaving a wake of dead in their path, Berserkers slake their thirst for battle by drawing enemies into a whirlpool of blood and rending foes in two with cleaving strikes.
Titan Soul: Tank
Much like the giants of myth, Titans use their raw Fury to withstand immense damage. Cunning Titans, on the other hand, can react quickly enough to preempt incoming attacks.
Dervish Soul: DPS
Swift as the wind, Dervishes excel in face-to-face combat. Whirling into action, they make full use of both Fury and Cunning, swinging effortlessly between powers unlocked at each extreme.
Preserver Soul: Healer
Preservers channel Fae healing magic to nourish allies in need. They invoke both Cunning and Fury, amassing and expending stored energy to unleash empowered spells one after the next.
Typhoon Soul: DPS
The Typhoon uses sweeping attacks to assail entire groups of foes, rotating between Water and Air to build and unleash a wave of devastating attacks.
Vulcanist Soul: DPS
Vulcanists tap the forces of an erupting Volcano to rain fire upon their foes. Fury is to thank for much of their damage, though preserving a state of Harmony yields advantages, too.
DID YOU BUY THE WILDS PACK?
For players that have purchased The Wilds Pack, you will now automatically have access to The Primalist Calling with 6 souls! You also get an additional character slot, Minion: Zendi, and the Khar Warfront Announcer. Don't forget to check your mailbox for Pet: Zendi and the Primal Spirit, a level scaling trinket!
NEW ZONE: PLANETOUCHED WILDS:
The Wilds have returned to Telara! Explore the savage homeland of the Bahmi and discover the secrets of this land thought forever lost to the planes. Only the most powerful Ascended will be able to search these savage lands on the trail of Rahn Chuluun and Tam Daggerborne. Meet the King of the Wilds at his court in Shal Korva and visit Ovog Shrine, the spiritual heart of the his people. Along the way you’ll find quests, artifacts, events, and unique enemies await, as well as the new Rhaza'de Canyons 5-man dungeon as you strive to uncover the last of the hidden landscapes of the Mathosian continent. The karma of this ancient land is being consumed, and only the Ascended can save it.
The Epic Story of the Wilds:
Act 1: Into the Wilds – Available now! Seek out Uriel Chuluun at the Alliance Camp in Cosmic Steppes.
Act 2: The Titan and the Tigress – Available October 21st.
Act 3: Keeper of the Karma – Available November 4th.
NEW WARFRONT: THE ASSAULT ON BRONZE TOMB:
The Assault on Bronze Tomb introduces a new gameplay mode to RIFT's PVP! Each side takes a turn attacking and defending the three rooms of the Tomb, each with two control points. When a room is captured, the action moves deeper and deeper into the ancient structure. Each room has its own challenges, whether it's fiery traps, spiked floors, or Ancient Defense Cannons that rain fire and destruction on your enemies... as long as they have power, that is!
Can you capture the ancient powers of the bronze tomb? But more importantly: can you hold onto your hard earned gains before they're stolen back from you?
NEW EXPERT DUNGEON: RHAZA'DE CANYONS:
In the heart of the Planetouched Wilds lies the Amachidan Olidos, the dread Ascension Machine controlled by Teth Mortna. With this diabolical device he seeks to raise an army of Baac Abominations from the twisted remnants of the once mighty Red Sun Tribe. The remaining Bahmi tribes have already been overwhelmed, the tamed passages through the treacherous chasms barred by uncountable hordes. Now Telara’s only hope lies in those few who are able to brave the forgotten path to the machine known as Rhaza’de Canyons.
This all new five man Expert tier dungeon offers superior rewards and challenges to be conquered! Join up with four of your friends and put your might to the Teth!
NIGHTMARE ARTIFACTS:
"Do you dream about artifacts? Are they nice, happy dreams of you finding that one Epic Artifact you've been hunting for weeks? ... Or are they terrible nightmares about getting stuck in some dreadful crevice, only to harvest the same shiny you got the last six times? I know I dream about them, especially after placing them for days on end. And let me tell you: they are not always good dreams. So now?
"Now? I'm getting my revenge. Get ready for NIGHTMARE ARTIFACTS." - Dead Simon
As Telarans frolic through the planes happily looking for shinies, there is a chance to be struck by a poison. This poison will do a small amount of damage over time, but will have the added effect of allowing you to see Poison Artifacts that have an eerie green hue.
As you harvest, Poison Artifacts, know that each one has a chance to place an additional damage over time effect on you that will pile on more damage. But with more risk comes more reward: this additional debuff will allow you to see the orange glow of Burning Artifacts.
Burning artifacts are not only hot, they are the stuff of nightmares. Harvesting these can apply a final damage over time that will allow you to see the elusive and ephemeral Nightmare Artifacts. Take care, dear Shiny Hunter, the damage you are taking now is not insignificant. Keep an eye on your health as you search for these, and be aware that hunting Nightmare Artifacts can Poison, Burn and give you nightmares, while refreshing all three damage over time effects.
Any of these effects can be removed with a simple click-- but then, you will no longer be able to see their associated Artifacts.
Additional details:
Poison, Burning and Nightmare Artifacts are found in the Planetouched Wilds.
Normal Artifacts can give you Poison Artifact Sight.
Poison Artifacts can give you Burning Artifact Sight.
Burning Artifacts can give you Nightmare Artifact Sight.
Nightmare Artifacts can give you all of the above!
The higher the rarity of the collected artifact, the higher the chance of getting the DOT!
All 4 artifact types have their own individual collections to finish, with over 80 collections and over 600 artifacts in all!
GAME UPDATE:
GENERAL:
Fixed a crash when editing dimensions.
Loot windows no longer close way, way too easily.
Fixed a bug where dying during click to move would cause you to continue to move to the same location once alive.
Fixed flickering ground clutter.
Importing macros from another character will also now copy over the Category Names.
Quest, achievement, and item links have been added to the Guild Log.
Tooltips are now available in the guild bank log for items that are withdrawn or deposited.
Fixed an issue with bank vault data not being available to addons, and corrected item tooltip display from addons.
Optimized the Rift Store for faster category item display.
It is no longer necessary to relog to purchase trophies after unlocking achievements.
To prevent characters from entering a bad state you must now be out of combat to use a level 60 boost item.
When a character dies within a dungeon instance or a chronicle instance and the player chooses to respawn within the instance, the character will respawn at the initial teleport entry map of the instance.
Additionally, when a character dies during a duel while in a dungeon or in a chronicle instance, the character will respawn automatically at his death location.
RIFT STORE AND SERVICES:
3 Additional bank vaults are now available for purchase!
The level 60 boost equipment for Primalist now features a special appearance! Check out the Ancestor’s Exalted Hide Armor appearance set, along with a new 2-handed sword appearance!
Three new 155% mounts are now available in the RIFT Store for 15,000 Platinum: The Dark, Red, and Seafoam Crabnaroks.
Underwater Mount Training can now be purchased for 3,500 Platinum.
Warfront Callouts: Added less randomization to Cosmologist Mann callouts so the alternate lines will play more.
Fixed a problem with featured mounts on sale not showing on the Rift Store after you purchase them so you were then unable to gift them.
The Empyreal Slayer's and Empyreal Conqueror's armor sets from the Storm Legion expansion are no longer available on the store.
They have been replaced with a more powerful set of armor named the Empyreal Champion's set.
The Empyreal Champions set shares appearance and wardrobe unlocks with the Empyreal Slayer's armor set.
Players wishing to collect the Empyreal Conqueror's appearances can find them on a new set of armor that drops exclusively from rare mobs in the Planetouched Wilds, or can find bundles containing wardrobe versions of the items in the store under the Wardrobe tab.
You can now purchase a sunny day sky projector that does not cycle day/night. Look for it on the Rift store under Dimensions -> Interactive.
Feeling lucky? Feeling generous? Gift your friends with a Lucky Fortune Biscuit containing one fortune! Look for the Lucky Fortune Bundle on the Rift Store! These new fortune biscuits also include new titles, achievements and a reward for completing the final achievement!
There are now disc building blocks available for Dimensioneers! Look for them on the Rift Store under Dimensions -> Building Blocks!
CURRENCY UPDATES:
We’ve cleaned out the store! Well, what we’ve really done is condense many outdated currencies into the more common and now nearly ubiquitous Void Stone.
The following outdated currencies have been removed: Sourcestone, Infinity Stone, Plaque of Achievement, Warlord's Mark of Conquest, Plaque of the Mountaineer, and Empyreal Slayer's Mark.
Prices that were in those currencies have been converted to Void Stone.
In some cases, these prices have also been reduced to reflect the reduced value of items that are no longer part of the current endgame.
This change does not affect the prices of any Nightmare Tide gear.
Planarite remains an active currency and no Planarite prices have been changed.
Nightmare Tide prices have not been changed.
Sourcestone, Warlord's Mark of Conquest, Plaque of the Mountineer, Infinity Stone, Empyreal Slayer's Mark, Frozen Eclipse Stone, Fragments of the Ward, and Plaques of Achievement have been converted to coin at varying rates.
UI AND SETTINGS:
Hidden tabs within the chat window will now glow when receiving a new tell.
Selecting an artifact set from the Achievements window will now open up the artifacts page showing your progress toward that set.
Achievements that reward Portrait Icons now display a badge in the achievement window.
Made it easier to sticky and unsticky Quests and Achievements.
New color options have been added into the Settings to override the red used for the Warning color in the crafting window, and the Alert Message color.
The quest log now includes buttons to expand and collapse all quests.
Fixed being unable to click on minion or adventure cards in the minion window if you clicked on a small icon in the card that had a tooltip.
Viewing the list of presets in the soul tree will now display role icons for faster viewing.
Fixed an issue in the Guild Roster causing notes to refresh while being edited.
Fixed issues with scrollbars and lists resetting in the Social window, Notoriety and Currencies tabs.
fixed the overhead cast bar disappearing after doing a reloadui.
Fixed a bug with adding a Friend from Raid frames when not in the same world/shard.
Using /target on a stealthed player will now display the same error message as with an invalid target.
The health bars in our Portrait UI and Raid frame UI can now display an indicator of what your Max Absorb is. Adding shields to a player that is already at Max Absorb will not help.
Applied dyes in the Wardrobe window will now show the dye name in a tooltip when you mouse over it.
Fixed case where the warfront stat leaderboard would constantly jump player names around.
AUCTION HOUSE:
Auction house searching is now a lot faster.
A new checkbox has been added to the Auction House to filter items by uncollected wardrobe appearances.
Improved the responsiveness of auction house searches with the usable and collectible options
Filtering by stat no longer requires min/max values.
WARDROBE:
Bundled items can now be previewed like other wardrobe previews!
The wardrobe window now has a Random button. This picks random selections from wardrobe items that you have unlocked. You still need to hit the Save button once you have something you like.
Added the ability to ctrl + click on items in the Appearance Sets tab of the character sheet, and preview full sets.
The Chain of the Frozen Eclipse wardrobe set no longer exists. Items from that set now correctly appear in Desolate Cloth, Desolate Chain, or Desolate Plate sets as appropriate.
Removed three unattainable mace appearances, Heavy Mace, Carmintium Cudgel, and Bronze Mace from the wardrobe system.
Unattainable items have been removed from the Assassin wardrobe sets. Players can now complete these sets. The unattainable Caduceus Gear set has been removed.
SHARD VAULT IMPROVEMENTS:
The Shard Vault now supports moving items to/from the quest log item container. Item restrictions still apply for the Shard vault and the quest log container.
Using the bag search will now filter items within the Shard Vault.
SOULS:
Primalist Trainers have now joined their fellow Class Trainers throughout the world.
Character creation presets will now display recommended presets.
COMBAT MECHANICS:
All characters now have a cap on the amount of Absorb that can affect them.
This cap defaults to 50% of a character’s Maximum Health, and is indicated on each character’s health bar.
Dodge Rating increases the amount of Maximum Absorb a character can gain. This increase is reflected in the UI element for Maximum Absorb.
Absorbs applied in excess of the cap will fill the Absorb up to the cap, with excess effect being lost.
The Absorb cap changes dynamically with a character’s Maximum Health, causing abilities which change your Maximum Health to also change your Maximum Absorb.
All Tank Soul Absorb abilities with 30 second or greater cooldowns will increase your Maximum Absorb by an amount equal to the amount of Absorb they provide. Essentially, these abilities function outside of the Maximum Absorb limit.
Standardized absorb effects across the board to be 85% damage blocked and 15% bleed through.
Fixed a bug with proc calculation and global cooldown buffs.
Fixed a bug where characters would keep guard even after the character providing guard has left the map.
CLERIC:
Renamed the cleric preset "Druidicar" to "Nature’s Vengeance". Renamed the cleric preset "Nature’s Vengeance" to "Advanced Nature’s Vengeance". The content of these presets are unchanged.
MASTERIES:
Soul Stream: Healing effect now scales with Spellpower.
DRUID:
Combined Effort: Fixed a bug where one Druid's Combined Effort debuff would overwrite another Druid's Combined Effort.
All Clerics attacking an entity can now place their own copy of Combined Effort on the target.
JUSTICAR:
Censure: This spell now requires line of sight.
Hammer of Duty: Bonus threat generation has been reduced by 33%.
PURIFIER:
Latent Blaze: Now cancels when the recipient changes maps.
Sign of Faith: The damage reduction has been reduced from 7% down to 6%.
SHAMAN:
The Mana cost of all Shaman spells has been reduced by 20%.
Icy Blow: Base damage has been increased by 7.5%.
Crushing Blow: Base damage has been increased by 7.5%.
Massive Blow: Base damage has been increased by 7.5%.
Glacial Strike: Base damage has been increased by 7.5%.
Lightning Hammer: Base damage has been increased by 7.5%.
Frozen Wrath: Base damage has been increased by 7.5%.
Jolt: Base damage has been increased by 7.5%.
Avalanche Strike: Base damage has been increased by 7.5%.
Strike of the Maelstrom: Base damage has been increased by 7.5%.
Glacial Shield: Absorb amount has been decreased by 14% at levels below 62.
MAGE:
Modified the displayed list of talent presets for Mages during character creation.
MASTERIES:
Phantom Stream: Healing effect now scales with Spellpower.
CHLOROMANCER:
Natural Splendor: Removed spell pushback.
Wild Growth: Removed spell pushback.
HARBINGER:
Storm Shroud:
No longer forces an Eldritch Gift proc.
Instead, it now forces your next three attacks to be critical hits.
Cooldown has been reduced down to 30 seconds.
Stealth duration reduced down to 4 seconds.
No longer breaks on damage taken.
Empyrean Ascension: Now increases damage dealt by 40%, up from 25%.
Rending Slash:
Now applies 1 stack of 8% increased damage taken debuff, changed from 3 stacks of 3% increased damage taken.
Damage has been reduced by 4%.
Combat Mastery: Now also reduces damage taken by 5%.
Fixed a bug causing a number of blade effects to disappear after dying, including Reaper's Blade, Lightning Blade, and Magnetic Blade's effect on Charged Blade.
Reaper's Blade: Fixed a bug which caused Reaper's Blade healing effects to disappear after dying.
Vorpal Edge: Has been changed to provide 3% critical hit chance with Slashing attacks per point, down from 4% per point.
Living Charge: Has been changed to provide 4% increased damage on all abilities while Charged Blade is active per point, down from 5% per point.
Fixed an issue allowing Essence of Wind and Phase Step to be used while carrying a flag in PvP.
NECROMANCER:
Lich Form: Fixed an issue where Lich Form did not count as a charge consuming ability for the purpose of triggering effects.
Putrify: now only affects single-target pet attacks. This eliminates a situation where a pet using an AoE would cause Deathly Calling stacks to be placed on an unintended target.
Putrify: Fixed a bug that caused Putrify to apply Deathly Calling stacks on autoattack.
WARLOCK:
Warlock Armor: Fixed a bug where the healing effect would not persist through death.
ROGUE:
MASTERIES
Timed Focus no longer increases the duration of Rhythmic Actions. Instead it increases the range of Flash of Steel by 10m.
Planar Variation: Can no longer critically hit when used to heal an ally.
BLADEDANCER:
Quick Reflexes: Now grants 1% Critical Hit Chance per point invested.
Blade Finesse: Now grants 2% AP and Weapon Damage per point invested.
Combat Expertise: Now increases the damage of all abilities by 2% per point invested instead of just Combo Point generators.
Contra Tempo: Now provides 10/20/30/40/50% Attack Power to Quick Strike and Precision Strike.
Hack and Slash: Now grants 2% bonus damage per point invested after a critical hit.
All Rhythmic Actions now have a 90s cooldown.
Twin Strike: Now Twin Cleave. AoE targeting up to 5 enemies that requires MH only. OH component has been removed.
Quick Strike: Now a MH attack. Still a follow-up. Does not require OH weapon equipped.
Weapon Barrage: No longer Debilitates.
Precision Strike: Now a MH attack. Still a follow-up. Does not require OH weapon equipped.
Improved Deadly Dance: Reduced the damage bonus from 5% per talent point to 4%.
RIFTSTALKER:
Rift Guard: Changed to a flat damage reduction of 5% instead of an absorb.
Improved Rift Guard: Increases the damage reduction of Rift Guard to 7% as before.
Rift Barrier: Now reflects the amount of damage prevented by Rift Guard instead of absorbed.
WARRIOR:
MASTERIES
Power Variation: Can no longer critically hit when used to heal an ally.
BEASTMASTER:
Abolition: Can now only happen once per 10 seconds.
Pet Ability: Bite: Now has a 3 second cooldown to prevent it from stomping autoattacks.
REAVER:
Soul Sickness: No longer benefits from the AOE portion of Slayer's Crystal.
Dire Step: No longer removes DoTs from the Warrior when Shadow Warp is used.
Viral Stream:
Now a standard channel and requires the Warrior to stand still while channeling.
Reduced the damage bonus provided by Reaver DoTs on the target for Viral Stream from 30% to 25%.
Infestation: Reduced the damage bonus provided by Reaver DoTs on the target for Infestation from 45% to 40%.
Plague Bringer:
Soul Sickness, Necrotic Wounds, and Flesh Rot are now contextual based on if Plague Bringer is active.
Plague Bringer now reduces damage done to the primary target when active.
Bonus talent debuffs applied by Soul Sickness, Necrotic Wounds, and Flesh Rot are now part of the DoT to reduce the amount of debuffs applied.
Shadow Strike: Now increases damage done by 20% instead of 25%.
RIFTBLADE:
Rift Implosion: Has been replaced by Rift Burst. Water based finisher that deals massive damage to a single foe. 15s cooldown.
Scald: Can be triggered by Rift Burst
Stonespear: Now a damaging ability (again).
Windspear: Now an interrupt.
Downpour: Increases the damage of Rift Storm by 3% per talent point spent.
TEMPEST:
Focus Fire: No longer a raid buff, but instead a 1h buff for the Tempest that increases crit chance by 5%.
Resonating Strikes (Mastery) now decreases ability cost by 25% during Wavelength instead of 10%.
Oscillation (Talent) increased to 5% per talent point from 4%.
Stormbringer (Talent) increased to 6% per talent point from 5%.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
ZONE EVENTS
All Zone Events will now reward player with level appropriate rewards if the player mentors down appropriately. Yes, this means you can now earn Void Stones from Volan!
Clarified the descriptions of all zone event achievements to include the name of the event and the zone.
Merged Plane -> Fire achievements of Your Fate is Sealed with Terror Above because the triggering events for both were identical. This should not be confused with the Rhen of Fate achievement also named Your Fate of Sealed (which was not changed).
Carnival of the Ascended: The Zone Events Jewel of Brevane and Take It All Back! have been re-enabled for next year's Carnival.
Carnival of the Ascended: The achievements Go Home, You're Drunk, What? I'm Taking It Back!, and Fear and Loathing in Tulan have been moved from the Planes - Life category to World Events - Carnival of the Ascended.
The requirements of the achievement Bug Juice have been changed to killing Swarmlord Khargroth.
DRAUMHEIM:
Quest: The Unproductive Mushroom has finally reached the surface of the street.
TARKEN GLACIER:
Quest: Soul Atrophy: The Pelagic Monks are growing concerned that too many Ascended have been slipping off the icy cliff while trying to help them. The Soul Repair ability has had a range increase from 10 meters to 15 meters and is no longer blocked by line of sight.
Completely finishing a Crafting Rift in Tarken Glacier now spawns usable crafting workstations and a crafting skill increase buff for two minutes! Enjoy!
RANDOM CHRONICLES:
When a player enters a random chronicle, they are mentored to a level appropriate to the difficulty for it.
Players will not be able to mentor while they are in it.
As soon as they exit the chronicle, their level will be restored to the value it was before they entered the chronicle.
When a player queues for a random chronicle, the player's unmentored level is used to determine what level-appropriate chronicles are available to them.
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS:
All tier 1 and tier 2 raids have had their difficulty reduced! All bosses now have 10% less health and deal 10% less damage.
LOOT ADJUSTMENTS:
In Hammerknell, Estrode and Moliar drop a DPS polearm, Zamira drops a tanking polearm, and Akylios drops both a tanking axe and a dps sword.
In Intrepid Guild of Prophecy, Uruluuk and Guurloth each drop a tanking and a dps weapon.
The loot tables for Nightmare Tide raids have been adjusted as follows:
Tank items are now 1 in every 5 drops, down from 1 in every 3 drops.
Leather items and jewelry with dexterity as the primary stat are twice as common as other items to account for Primalists occupying raid spots and competing for dexterity loot.
Raid bosses from the Rhen of Fate, Mount Sharax, Tyrant’s Forge, Hammerknell, and Intrepid Guild of Prophecy raids now drop an additional item.
As part of this change bosses that previously dropped 1 each of two types of items now have a very small chance to drop 3 of the same type of item (e.g. Grugonim has a small chance to drop 3 chest armors).
However, in the rare case of 3 items of the same type dropping, no individual item will be repeated.
Rogue weapons now drop from Sicaron and Zamira in Hammerknell.
HAMMERKNELL INSTANT ADVENTURE:
Fixed Lashers of Akylios to attack players in a 360 degree radius.
MOUNT SHARAX:
Mount Sharax bosses now also drop tier 1 raid weapons. Izkinra drops a primalist tank weapon, the Yrlwalach drops a primalist dps weapon, and Threngar drops both a relic tanking weapon and a relic dps weapon.
TYRANT'S FORGE:
Crucia now triggers reactive abilities conditioned on block with her auto attack.
PVP AND WARFRONTS:
Players are now significantly less likely to be assigned to a Warfront that is close to ending.
Although the exact cutoffs vary for each warfront, matches that have lopsided scores and are near the last 20% of their time limits will no longer be assigned new players.
This should dramatically lessen the number of warfronts that players enter that are “already lost.”
These cutoffs are deliberately loose to preserve as much potential for comeback wins as possible while still addressing the pain of queuing into what feels like an unrecoverable match score.
Fixed a bug where some abilities healed more than intended during PVP.
CRAFTING:
Upgradable items will now display the upgrade icon in the crafting window.
The effects from the new flavor items created by Apothecaries and Runecrafters will now be removed whenever a PvP action is taken.
The Planar Crafting fishing lure now occasionally lets you fish-up trash to let you know that the lure is working.
Added the missing rune upgrade recipe, 'Illustrious Weapon-rune of Endurance' to Smokey in Choreburg.
The crafting window will now remember which crafting skill categories you had expanded when you log out and restore that the next time you log in.
The crafting window will now remember if you had the Hide Trivial Recipes checkbox checked.
Crafting rifts have been spotted in Planetouched Wilds!
We’ve added crafting workstations that appear once a Crafting Rift is fully sealed in Tarken Glacier or Planetouched Wilds. You will also receive a buff that increases your crafting skill-ups while using the crafting workstations.
Apothecaries and Runecrafters rejoice! There is now support for you in Planar Crafting! Seek out Tephael in Choreburg to obtain the new weekly quest and the Rift Store or Bob to obtain the new recipes!
New Dream Orb recipes have been added for Dream Weaving! We have also added new Dream Orb recipes for Planar Crafting! The planar crafted Dream Orbs can also be used on earrings, belts and gloves!
With the power increase for 3.4, we are able to add in new crafting recipes for Apothecaries, Runecrafters and Survivalists!
A whole new tier of power for crafted items upgrades have been added to Rift!
The number of available tiers of crafted items have been reduced and combined to ease the path to power.
The cost to upgrade all crafted gear have been reduced to make upgrades more compelling for players.
Stan’s Tacklebox and Lure has been found in Planetouched Wilds as well as Tarken Glacier! Feel free to continue your search there as well!
Please take note that we have lowered the merchant buy price of all Nightmare Tide fish to 1 silver.
The Planar Crafted fishing poles no longer fish up Motes or the relic Imperishable without the use of a Planar Crafted fishing lure.
With this change, the cooldown on the Planar Crafted fishing lures has been reduced from 24 hours to 8 hours.
Set a minimum level of 62 to the Planar Crafting and Congealed Dreams weekly quests in Choreburg.
ITEMS:
Fixed a bug that caused equipping the Icy Heart of the Marauder to trigger some Synergy Crystal effects.
Column of Housed Souls now has an DPS upgrade path for a relic item.
Added messaging to clarify when socketed essences can be upgraded.
Fae Yule Revelers and Summer Shimmy appearance sets now contain the correct items.
Weapon damage is now bolstered correctly when entering warfront map.
The "Ice-Zerker" effect present on weapons from Threngar has been redesigned.
While Ice-Zerker is active, it now deals 4,201 Water Damage to your target when you attack them with a single-target ability.
Ice-Zerker affects your next 5 attacks when it activates.
AUDIO:
Fixed some incomplete footstep sound tags on the Greathound mount. Thanks Nithydux!
DIMENSIONS:
The random dimension button will now try to choose dimensions with players in them.
The dimension items incorrectly appearing as a metallic sphere have been replaced with more appropriate appearances.
Looking for that Laboratory workstation to put in your Dimension and add to your collection?! Look no further, they are now available from Crafting Rifts in Tarken Glacier and Planetouched Wilds!

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.3 Hotfix 15 (Oct 2, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.3 Hotfix 14 (Oct 1, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.3 Hotfix 13 (Sep 23, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.3 Hotfix 12 (Sep 17, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.3 Hotfix 11 (Sep 9, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.3 Hotfix 10 (Sep 3, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.3 Hotfix 9 (Aug 26, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.3 Hotfix 8 (Aug 20, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.3 Hotfix 7 (Aug 13, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.3 Hotfix 6.5 (Aug 7, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.3 Hotfix 6 (Aug 5, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.3 Hotfix 5 (Jul 30, 2015)

FEATURES:
The Nightmare Saga: Act II is now live!
Players who have completed Act 1 can return to the Throne Room in Tempest Bay to continue the story.
GENERAL:
Fixed some visual artifacts caused by models loading.
The number of appearances required to complete the top Cape and Chest wardrobe achievements have been lowered.
RIFT STORE AND SERVICES:
Level 65 equipment dropped from Supply Crates and Troves now have a new upgrade tier.
All service items that drop from Supply Crates or Troves after today's hotfix can no longer be traded.
Any existing service items that have already been obtained will remain tradeable, and there are no plans to force them to be bound.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
The Water Saga quests Atonement and The Solace Cabal should function much more reliably now.
SILVERWOOD:
IA: Clearing the Forest: Fixed an issue that could block larger adventure groups from progressing on this quest.
IA: Goblin War Council: Reduced health and damage of bosses. Also removed the ability "Elemental Swarm" from the bosses. (Thank you to Shedelin!)
IA: Fire Brigade: Fixed an issue where quest objective fires were not visible to some players
STONEFIELD:
Quest: What's Yours Is Mine: The cooldown on the quest objective has been removed. (Thank you to Velorek@Gelidra!)
TARKEN GLACIER:
Daily Quest: Kill It With Fire: This quest should work properly once again. (Thank you to Lufia5!)
THE DENDROME:
Fixed a rare mob issue where Drone Bennkaa would spawn instead of Overseer Primarch.
SOULS:
CHLOROMANCER:
Fixed a bug that caused Savant’s Crystal’s interaction with Synthesis on one target to persist after re-applying Synthesis to a different target.
Known Issue: Chloromancers with Savant's Crystals who re-apply Synthesis to a target they already have Synthesis active on will lose the benefit of their 2 and 4 piece bonus.
This can be worked around by casting Synthesis on a second target, or by having the initial target cancel their buff before you re-cast it.
This will be fixed in an upcoming hotfix.
ITEMS:
Smooth Guffin Pebble: This item can now only be used in the open world.
Column of Housed Souls now has an DPS upgrade path for a relic item.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.3 Hotfix 4 (Jul 23, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.3 Hotfix 3 (Jul 23, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.3 Hotfix 1.5 (Jul 17, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.3 Hotfix 1 (Jul 16, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.3 (Jul 16, 2015)

FEATURES:
ALL NEW NIGHTMARE SAGA QUEST LINE:
A brand new saga questline which tells the story of Lord Arak and how he became the Lord of Nightmares has begun! All level 65 players have been sent a letter from Purgav, a concerned Ghar Researcher in Goboro Reef, to begin their journey into the realm of dreams and beyond.
PLANAR CRAFTING:
Planar Crafting, a new sub-system has been added to Rift, allowing chosen professions to make new fishing poles, dimension items and powerful upgradeable weapons, armor & accessories!
Seek out Tephael in Choreburg to get started!
Using the weekly quest rewarded rift lures, players can open a rift, complete it and can possibly obtain the highly coveted and rare material used in the Planar Crafting recipes. This rare resource can also be obtained by fishing with the thematically appropriate fishing pole.
The rift lures only work in Tarken Glacier, but the items can be crafted anywhere.
All of the weapons, armor and accessories crafted can be upgraded at least once.
Crafting rifts are back! New upgradeable weapons, armor and accessories. Two piece set bonuses on the armor. New dimension items. New planar themed fishing poles and lures.
Besides the amazingly awesome amount of common crafting materials that are handed out via the crafting rifts, players also have a chance to obtain rare dimension items, rare tokens and rare crafting materials.
NEW INSTANT ADVENTURES IN TARKEN GLACIER:
Once, Cosmologist Mann was the brightest scholar of planar phenomena in the universe – a leader among his peers. Nary a beam of light nor celestial body existed that he could not name. His curiosity knew no bounds, and yet, his gaze reached too far.
After discovering the Temple of Aia, he inspired the ire of the Goddess herself, and she filled his mind with visions of a life destroyed by mortals. Now, Mann schemes in the frigid depths of Tarken Glacier, driven by a mad desire to rewrite Telara’s cosmic history.
Relive the fight for the Glacier – and stop Mann from releasing Shigoroth upon the Dreaming Seas. Tarken Glacier is the new Featured Adventure!
SHARED SHARD VAULT:
We have added a shared Shard Bank Vault! It can be accessed from the regular bank merchant, and will appear as a new tab on the bank window. All of your characters on the shard that you play on can share items in this vault.
WARDROBE UPDATE: COLLECT APPEARANCE SETS:
We're expanding the upgraded Wardrobe systems even more. You can now collect more than 300 appearance sets and explore the fashions of Telara. Go to the new Appearance Sets tab of the character screen to track your progress. Existing appearance unlocks will automatically be unlocked in the new appearance sets, and you'll be well on your way to fashion greatness!
CELEBRATE YOUR FASHIONABLE ACHIEVEMENTS:
You're going to be rewarded for collecting all these appearance sets with a new string of achievements. Only full sets count towards the achievements, but appearance sets can come from everything from vanity costumes to raid-level gear. Collect enough full sets and you can earn the brand new title "the Dapper" for male characters and "the Chic" for female characters.
INTRODUCING TIERED RAID DIFFICULTY:
Tiered raid difficulty is now available in the Intrepid Gilded Prophecy and The Rhen of Fate instances! Players can now toggle between three different settings of difficulty settings: Introduction, Normal and Hard Mode (dungeons default to Normal). This is an experimental implementation of the system which we plan to iterate upon. More info can be found in the Dungeons and Raids section below!
INTREPID GILDED PROPHECY:
The Intrepid Gilded Prophecy is a tier 2 sliver that introduces our new tiered difficulty system for rewards and progression. A revision of the classic Gilded Prophecy, players are reintroduced to original fights with the ability to select from Introduction, Normal and Hard mode difficulty which will change the mechanics, boss health and damage for fights! The entrance can be found in Shimmersand using Sliver Sight.
NEW LOYALTY TIER: SILVER:
A new tier of loyalty is now available! A variety of new rewards await those who achieve Silver loyalty, including the Distinguished Levitation mount, Miss Money Piggy companion pet, a dimension called Everywhere, and much more!
RANDOM CHRONICLES:
You can now do a random chronicle for extra rewards, either solo or with a friend! Available to players level 60 and up, this feature works similar to the Random Warfront and Random Expert features in that you can store up to 7 charges and gain a new charge daily or through consumables that award charges. Upon completion, you are awarded a trove of Abyssal Crusader Marks, Fragments of Horror, and Fragments of Madness… even at level 60!
QUALITY OF LIFE UI IMPROVEMENTS:
We have added many convenience options within the RIFT user interface!
Souls can now be reset from within the Soul Tree window; you no longer have to travel to your trainer.
Soul slots and resets can now be purchased from within the Soul Tree window.
In the Soul Tree window, click on Presets, and if you do not have access to a soul in a preset, you can now purchase that soul pack directly from there.
Ran out of Dungeon or Warfront charges? Once you hit 0 charges, you can now purchase more of them directly through those windows.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.2 Hotfix 16 (Jul 10, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.2 Hotfix 15 (Jul 10, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.2 Hotfix 14 (Jul 10, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.2 Hotfix 13 (Jul 10, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.2 Hotfix 12 (Jul 10, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.2 Hotfix 11 (Jun 11, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.2 Hotfix 10 (Jun 7, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.2 Hotfix 9 (Jun 4, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.2 Hotfix 8 (May 28, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.2 Hotfix 7 (May 21, 2015)

FEATURES:
UPGRADE YOUR HAMMERKNELL INSTANT ADVENTURE GEAR!
Many Hammerknell instant adventure items can now be upgraded to be more powerful!
These items are the equivalent of the expert and crafted upgrades from 3.1: Storm at Sea.
INSTANT ADVENTURE:
HAMERKNELL FORTRESS:
Estrode:
Now changes souls every 60 seconds, up from every 20 seconds.
There is now a broadcast indicating what soul Estrode has when she switches.
The Soul Oblivion area of effect now spawns 30 seconds after the encounter starts, up from 10 seconds.
Soul Oblivion has had its damage reduced.
Healing Rain now has a 3 second cast time and can be interrupted.
Neddra's Grasp has had its damage greatly reduced.
Zilas:
Upon first entering the room, there is now a broadcast indicating that if no one is close to Zilas, he will cast Soulrender's Rage and kill everyone
Soulrender's Grasp no longer pulses in a 5 meter point blank area of effect.
Vladmal Prime.
When casting Positive or Negative Energy Overload, the broadcast now indicates what shield to run into.
Akylios
Waves during the fight with Akylios will now always travel in one direction. No longer will you get assaulted by waves from both sides on occasion.
HAMMERKNELL INSTANT ADVENTURE CACHES:
These caches can now rarely drop cosmetic items from the now defunct "Waves of Madness" world event!
DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES:
CHRONICLE: CEREMONY OF ATTUNEMENT:
*Defiants are once again able to complete the Ceremony of Attunement quests.
CHRONICLE: HAMMERKNELL: RUNES OF CORRUPTION:
The achievements for this Chronicle have returned. Progress on these achievements have been reset.
CHRONICLE: SHADOW FROM THE BEYOND:
The player corpse marker when you die is now where the revive/start teleport is located.
HAMMERKNELL FORTRESS:
Mana Drain abilities used by non-boss-related NPCs in Hammerknell have been reduced in magnitude by 90%.
Fixed a typo in the Ultra Kill achievement.
Removed points awarded by a legacy achievement.
CRAFTING:
Savant crafters rejoice! The costs to craft Amenders have been greatly reduced!
The Strands of Draum and Strands of Arak are now Bind on Pickup.
If you have an old version of one of the strands, you can right click it to turn it into a new version that can be used in the crafting recipes.
UI AND SETTINGS:
Fixed a bug with the "play audio in background" option not disabling correctly.
ITEMS:
HAMMERKNELL INSTANT ADVENTURE:
Several trinkets have been fixed with the removal of the erroneous proc.
Fixed the Hit values that were missing from some items.
Fixed the incorrect Hit values on some Warrior boots.
Fixed the display name on the level 64 chain chest item.
Fixed the incorrect Hit value on the level 50 Mage helm.
Fixed the salvage skill level on some items that drop from Hammerknell caches.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.2 Hotfix 6 (May 14, 2015)

GENERAL:
Resolved another sound related crash.
Fix map rendering issues on low-quality renderer.
RIFT STORE AND SERVICES:
Razorback Roundup has been extended! It now lasts until Monday May 18th, 3:30 PM server time!
INSTANT ADVENTURE:
ARDENT DOMAIN
There should now always be targets available for kill adventures.
The number of objectives needed now scales more smoothly based on group size.
HAMERKNELL FORTRESS:
Increased the spawn rate of many non-kill objectives.
Added a second teleport portal immediately in front of the player respawn position to help players catch up to the action.
In the Stoneborn Harbor, moved all non-kill objectives out of the entry hall and into the main play space.
Fixed an issue with all poison clouds spawning immediately in the Barrel Bashers adventure.
Akylios:
Waves in the encounter now will be cast every 20 seconds, up from every 10 seconds.
The Devour broadcast now indicates players should interrupt this ability.
The Devour cast time has been increased to 5 seconds, up from 3 seconds.
Inquisitor Garau: This encounter is now broken up into 3 distinct objectives to match the stages of the encounter.
Sicaron: Lowered the damage of Putrefying Burst.
Vladmal Prime: Fixed the radius of 's Negative and Positive Energy Overload to no longer one shot players teleporting into this IA encounter.
HAMMERKNELL ADVENTURE CACHES:
All major boss adventures (Murdantix, Zilas, Estrode, Akylios, etc) are now guaranteed to drop an Adventure Cache!
These Adventure Caches have a higher payout in currencies, and have a chance to drop level appropriate Rare or Epic equipment specific to Hammerknell Instant Adventures!
All item drops for pre-level 60 have seen a power increase, and are broken up into tiers, one for every ten levels.
Level requirements will always start at the bottom of the tier, and power levels will be balanced towards the top of the tier.
Want these items to get even better? Hang tight! Upgrade paths for level 65 weapons and armor are coming in a future update!
If you're lucky enough, you might catch a glimpse of the elusive Armored Murdantix mount inside one of these caches.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
Invasion Commanders are more clearly marked and should scale with population better now.
DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES:
HAMMERKNELL FORTRESS:
Apostles of Jornaru now have a larger global cooldown after using Aqueous Bolt.
Long ago, when the Soulrender Zilas was known only as Zilas, he was traveling the long roads. Weary from his travel, he stopped at the edge of the Plane Touched Wilds to rest, and it was there that his life changed. For there was a scoundrel lurking in the shadows, watching Zilas as he unpacked his goods and set up camp.
It was well known to all that traveling tinkers such as Zilas often carried trinkets of great worth, and the clever rogue planned on taking some of the goods for himself. As darkness fell, he leapt from his hiding place, casting incapacitate. In the end, the scouldrel stole three things from Zilas: Bowlf the talking potato, Kytus the houndpup, and a pair of blue suede socks.
When Zilas came to his senses, he was enraged. He vowed never to let himself be attacked by a stealthy rogue again, and spent long hours teaching himself how to see stealth from a distance. This ability was not perfect, as once a rogue got next to Zilas, the ability to dispel stealth failed. Until recently, this spell was denoted by headlight beams coming out of Zilas' eyes. This warning let rogues know when not to approach and, well… blinded Zilas quite badly. After practicing this spell, Zilas has finally learned how to suppress his headlight beams while still being able to prevent rogues from stealthing when around him.
Too long didn't read? Zilas no longer has headlight beams.
CRAFTING:
APOTHECARY:
The Phenomenal Apothecary recipes now output three times the amount of Wellsprings, Vials, Potions, Bottles, Philters, Serums and Tonics, but require twice the amount of components.
ITEMS:
Two-handed Relic weapons from Hammerknell have been improved. These items now have effects on them equivalent to using a mainhand and an off-hand together. This affects the following items:
Takrona, the Twisted Divine
Aglinar, Beacon of Hope
Davvro, the World's Spine
Mordrig, the Dreadnaut's Call
Granthor, the Forsaken Blade
Egrandor, Devourer of Souls
Thrandor, the Soul Splitter

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.2 Hotfix 5 (May 8, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.2 Hotfix 4 (May 7, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.2 Hotfix 3 (Apr 30, 2015)

GENERAL:
The coalition of Nightmare Rift VI bosses have become smarter and learned new abilities. No longer will they follow one mind and one will.
Addressed an issue causing 64-bit versions of Vista to crash.
WARDROBE:
There is now an option to display wardrobe appearance collection info on item tooltips for items you have already collected.
Find it in settings under Interface > Misc > Show collected wardrobe status.
You can now flag your favorite wardrobe appearances and dye buckets by right-clicking on them in the wardrobe UI.
These favorites will be remembered per character.
UI AND SETTINGS:
Audio will now be disabled when you minimize your window and you do not have the "Play Audio In Background" option turned on.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
GOBORO REEF:
The Sea of Ladon:
Flokum are no longer affected by taunt effects.
Flokum's Terror Burst now only affects players, as well as the Rift's shields and turrets.
MERIDIAN AND SANCTUM:
The removal of the dye merchants has caused a lack of consumer confidence in Meridian and Sanctum. Many other vendors that traded in out of date merchandise have had to close to stores as a result. Notably, there has a been a complete collapse in the Plaques of Achievement and Mark of Ascension industry, which is okay since players haven't earned those for years.
MOONSHADE HIGHLANDS:
Quest: Garden of Death: Players will now receive credit for the first step of this quest for completing either Cracking the Secret or Sins of Stone in Runic Descent.
TARKEN GLACIER:
Quest: Elbow Grease: The map indicator for the Mecha Arm Actuator is now accurate.
DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES:
HAMMERKNELL FORTRESS:
Quality of Life fix where Purifier's Eruption will no longer trigger the Stasis Crystal.
The Dissident Warden, Champion of Contamination and Avatar of Extinction have had their run speed increased.
The health of Murdantix has been slightly reduced to bring him in line with expected progression.
Corrected a bug which allowed Curse of the Soul Reaper to be cleansed.
King Molinar: Fix a bug where Forgotten Stewards were not working as intended.
Matro Zamira: The Matron Zamira now instantly kills Defiler beacons.
MOUNT SHARAX:
Communal Suffering will no longer persist through logout.
Boundless Consciousness will no longer force first person camera on the player.
The Fragment of Threngar now displays the correct health value mirroring Threngar's.
NIGHTMARE COAST:
Akylios: Fixed a bug where players were able to fight the second boss before all the Dreamscrapers were defeated.
RHEN OF FATE:
Bosses in Rhen of Fate are now guaranteed to drop their original loot table in addition to a guaranteed drop from a second loot table.
DIMENSIONS:
Fixed an issue where some object effects were being suppressed in dimensions.
Fixed search for dimensions in the dimension window not working.
ITEMS:
Fixed an issue where Relic-quality Ranged Weapons from Nightmare Tide were underreporting the amount of Block Value that their procs gave players. This is a tooltip fix only.
Items: The following items have had the strength of their procs increased by approximately 10%:
Rilurh, the Vise of Nightfall
Hrulir, the Eternal Light
Lyriet, the Soul Mender
Urgred, the Shaper's Curse
Minion Card: Tasuil is now bind on pickup.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.2 Hotfix 2 (Apr 22, 2015)

WARDROBE:
Dark Pink Dye is no longer identical to Dark Peach Dye.
When a wardrobe appearance is unlocked, a console message is now displayed telling you which appearance you unlocked.
UI AND SETTINGS:
Fixed mouse pointer offset in fullscreen mode when the "lock window size" option is enabled or disabled while in fullscreen mode.
MINIONS:
All long attracted artifact adventures are now properly free.
Corrected the activation costs on the long adventures that Herim attracts.
Face Pull (at level 10) now properly attracts his 5 minute Earth Diplomacy adventure instead of Cerulean Steel.
The Adventure: Collect Archlight Rider Power Couplings is now available all of the time.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
ZE: Aphogglach: Aphogglach should now have less health, and be a bit easier to defeat.
Active Onslaughts are now marked if you are in the zone the Onslaught is in.
Quest: Garden of Death: Players will now receive credit for the second step of this quest for completing either Pollinating Power or Sprouting Hope in Runic Descent.
Onslaughts in the Plane of Water now spawn more frequently, the initial turrets and guards have fewer HP and the invaders and commanders have more HP.
DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES:
The tooltip for Hit should now show the required amount for Tier 2 raids.
HAMMERKNELL FORTRESS:
Sicaron will now properly credit players with an achievement when killed.
Tank pets can no longer be used to absorb Gruesome Slash from Soulrender Zilas.
Hammerknell Fortress - Increased the initial threat generation for Prince Dolin on his primary target.
RHEN OF FATE:
Each boss in this instance will now drop two items when killed, up from one.
The loot table from Finric has been split: Defensive drops for trinkets on this table will now drop as an extra item from the Drekanoth of Fate.
RHEN OF FATE: SLIVER:
Mindless Spawnling's on-death cleanse now extends 50 meters.
INSTANT ADVENTURE:
Increased the max stack size of Commendations of Renown to 250.
Added Keeper Notoriety as a reward option for the quest "A Taste For Adventure".
CRAFTING:
The Nightmare Realignment Tool quest should now show-up on the Nightmare Scholar NPCs correctly.
The new crafting weekly quests should no longer consume all Congealed Dreams when the quest is handed in.
The new crafting weekly quests have been reduced from 3 to 2 Congealed Dreams.
The Nightmare and Dream Alloy recipes should once again be on the appropriate trainers.
APOTHECARY:
The Congealed Dreams recipe for Apothecary has been reduced to 35 from 65 Sarleaf Extract.
ARTIFICER:
The earring recipes will no longer appear in the 'potions' category of the Artificer crafting recipe book.
FISHING:
The recipe for Kondraum's Fishing Pole and the Seer Lure now only require one store purchased reagent.
The two new fishing dailies in Nightmare Tide that require store bought components now pay out higher marks.
The new Nightmare Tide fishing daily quests to craft a lure and a fishing pole should no longer consume more than the appropriate number of quest items when handed in.
The new fishing derbies added to Uncle Stan in Choreburg should now correctly pay out experience (or Planar Attunement experience) and silver when handed in.
The new fishing derbies now payout marks 100% of the time in addition to the choice of faction or fishing chest.
The new fishing dailies should no longer require Fused Sarfiber.
Enduring and Timed Magnetic lures are once again ten minutes.
The quest Atragarian Fishing no longer consumes the Atragarian Fishing Pole, thus removing the need to craft it twice.
OUTFITTER:
The requirements for the Nightmare Touched Bag recipe have been reduced.
ITEMS:
"Runebinding" DPS trinkets from Hammerknell have had their proc improved to a 30% proc chance, up from 15%.
Lyriet, the Soulmender and Urgred, the Shaper's Curse now have the correct stat allocation when upgraded from their epic base item.
The stats on the Thalcrystal Hoop earrings should now be back to what they were originally prior to the 3.2 patch.
Fixed a tooltip issue on the following weapons:
Takrona, The Twisted Divine
Vramen, The Earthshaker
Thrandor, the Soul Splitter
Mordrig, the Dreadnaut's Call
Granthor, the Forsaken Blade
Egrandor, Devourer of Souls
Grundor, the Essence Cleaver
Andurig, Breaker of Will
Tyrfang, the Betrayer
Akfon, the Shard of Forbidden Rites
Fakongric, the Soul Drinker
Increased the crit power budget for Aglinar, Beacon of Hope.
Updated the procs on the following items with values improved by approximately 10%:
Memory of Sorrow
Runemaster's Shaping Wand
Gift of the Marksman
Shelter of the Shapers
Wand of Twisted Shadows
Conflict's End
Pride of the Runeguard
First Legion's Sidearm
Dimensions: Fixed an issue causing Siamese Cats to appear instead of Calico Cats.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.2 Hotfix 1 (Apr 16, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.2 (Apr 15, 2015)

FEATURES:
RETURN TO HAMMERKNELL:
While the Ascended scored tactical victories against his forces in the Plane of Water, Lord Arak searched for nightmares they truly feared – and found them in the haunted halls of the Dwarves. Now, he's used the plane's power to bring Akylios and his army back to life: an army that's ready to devour minds across Telara. Gather your allies and dive back into the Dwarven fortress of Hammerknell. The spirit, scale, and atmosphere remain, but the difficulty has soared to level 65!
INSTANT ADVENTURE IMPROVEMENTS:
The Instant Adventure experience is even better than before! Adventures will now randomly send groups of Ascended heroes anywhere, and these groups will be large raids of 15-20 players. Roughly every half hour, the adventuring location will change automatically to keep things exciting!
By popular demand, player participation will be more carefully tracked, resulting in loss of rewards for non-participation or even removal from the raid for being AFK. Also, AFK-kicked players will now be blocked from rejoining Instant Adventure for 15 minutes.
Players now earn Commendations of Renown instead just earning Notoriety for the zone they're in. These Commendations can be turned into Commendation Officers in any capital city for Notoriety with any zone faction of the player’s choice!
Instant Adventure groups will no longer start in zones with active Zone Events. If a Zone Event starts while you are there, you'll be transported to a more suitable location once the current adventure is concluded!
For more details-- and what's coming up next in the 3.2 patch for Instant Adventures, see the Instant Adventure section below
WARDROBE UPDATE:
A massive upgrade to our Wardrobe System will save the appearance of all of the items you acquire, and let you use them whenever you like! They are saved in a range of personal styles and looks, including items you earned for Achievements but have since discarded! We have also included weapon wardrobes that will allow you to tie your weapon appearances to each wardrobe set. You will be able to unlock reusable dye buckets, rename wardrobe sets, and collect wardrobe items for all new achievements. Additional updates are planned for the future, adding Wardrobe Favorites, Sets, Linking, Previewing, and more!
All your current wardrobe items will be mailed back to you while the appearance will be unlocked and remain in the wardrobe UI.
Wardrobe appearances are region-wide unlocks.
The new Dye Buckets are unlimited use dyes, some will be free while premium colors will cost Credits. Want to buy the Fabulous Bundle of Dye Buckets which unlocks 74 premium dye buckets? it will be available in the RIFT Store > Services > Cosmetic.
Dye Buckets are account-wide unlocks.
Wardrobe dyes will dye the slot instead of the item. If you change the slot’s appearance, the dye color will remain.
A new Wardrobe category has been added to Achievements.
The old weapon transfigure system will not be changed and will still function. Players will be able to use their baubles to transfigure the look of their worn weapon. However we will stop selling the baubles.
Want to know more about Wardrobes and Dyes? Check out our article here.
EXPANDED FISHING DERBIES:
Anglers, rejoice! Uncle Stan has finally made his way to the Plane of Water!
NEW TWISTED ARTIFACTS:
It's hard to imagine the zones of Nightmare Tide becoming even more twisted, but they have! Twisted Artifacts can now be found by anyone with Omen Sight or Quantum Sight.
NEW TIER OF NIGHTMARE RIFTS:
Nightmare Tier VI Rift content is here! New Daily quests are now available from Ghar Station Mem and new Nightmare VI lures can be purchased from the store.
NIGHTMARE TIDE ONSLAUGHTS:
Onslaughts have come to the Plane of Water! Grulish and Shissa'Ar in Flargle Plaza now offer a Daily and Weekly quest respectively to complete Onslaughts in Goboro Reef, Tarken Glacier, and Draumheim.
GAME UPDATE:
GENERAL:
Chat: Zone events from all shards will now be broadcast to your home Events channel. DO ALL THE EVENTS!
Chat: New emote tokens have been added for use with existing ones. Get ready for a grammar lesson!
%t: Your target's name
%o: Your target's objective noun
%s: Your target's subjective noun
%p: Your target's possessive noun
%po: Your character's objective noun
%ps: Your character's subjective noun
%pp: Your character's possessive noun
Our published item database now includes Russian item names.
New characters will now have a default bind point to their home-city once Soul Recall is learned.
We've introduced compatibility with the Windows 10 Technical Preview! Note that this code is experimental – please try it and let us know what happens! If the game crashes on start-up, please report it!
Optimized guild management, resulting in less memory usages and faster boot times for servers.
you can now rename your wardrobe sets from the character sheet, wardrobe tab.
The dye merchants have left to seek other opportunities in Telara. We wish them well in their future endeavors.
RIFT STORE AND SERVICES:
Patron's Focus now applies its cooldown reduction to the Rift Consumable abilities from the new Dust, Dusk and Steam PA planes.
Planar Attunement: Fixed an issue where the new Weapon Aegis PA ability was not awarding the correct amount of Endurance.
There is now a new 30 slot bag available for purchase with crafting Amenders from the Store!
Three new portraits have been added the Rift Store under Services: Akylios's Grasp, Purple Flower Portrait, and Red Intricate Portrait.
Added in two new sky projectors for Dimensions: River of Souls and Steppes of Infinity!
Interactive dimension books are now available in the Store!
Defiant and Guardian Guard Dimension NPCs are now available on the Store. These can also act as Expert and Raid Boss Practice Dummies!
Added in 6 new major attractor minions for Armorsmith, Artificer, Outfitter, Runecrafter and Weaponsmith! These are store purchased and attract up to four new adventures for their respective reward types.
MINIONS:
Adventure chains now only update after claiming an adventure in that chain.
Added in 5 new minor attractor minions! These minions join Archaelogist Herim in attracting up to two new adventures for their respective rewards.
Kepple and Sienna minions now have flavor text.
INSTANT ADVENTURE:
Additional layers of afk and non-participation detection have been added.
A "Vote AFK" feature has also been added (this is NOT a Vote-Kick feature).
Players that get removed from an Adventure group for being AFK will not be able to rejoin Instant Adventure for 15 minutes.
The old zone-based queues have been replaced by a new, completely redesigned Random queue.
The Random Queue attempts to maintain large group sizes.
Players will be added to adventures in any zone as opposed to only zones on the same map from which they queued.
Adventure groups will be rotated to a new zone roughly every 30 minutes.
Adventure groups will not be placed in zones with an active Zone Event.
If a Zone Event begins in a zone with an Adventure group, then that group will be moved to a new zone at the conclusion of the current Adventure.
Instant Adventure Achievements have been revised.
Most of the old zone-based achievements have been moved to the Legacy category.
New and remaining achievements have been moved a new Instant Adventure category in the Character section.
Void Stone rewards have been increased from 5 to 15-25.
Adventure Caches now contain 3-7 Commendations of Renown.
Commendations can be turned in to Commendation Officers for Notoriety with zone-based factions.
Adventure Caches also have a chance of containing a Mark of Notoriety.
Scaling of all IA bosses in Mathosia have been rescaled for more Health.
UI AND SETTINGS:
The list of mounts in the character sheet are now sorted by mount speed.
Clicking crafting skill buttons in the ability binder now brings up the crafting window.
The Settings option to reset your bag positions will now reset your regular bags and bank bags regardless of if you have them open or not.
The non-functional right-click menu option, "Reset Chat Windows", has been removed.
There is a new toggle in the basic video settings window that allows you to lock your client window frame, so you don't accidentally resize your window while playing.
Fixed a bug that caused the dimension item drop down list to be unclickable when it extended beyond the edge of the UI.
SOULS:
Soul Tree Presets now have a preview glow around the Masteries.
CLERIC:
SHAMAN:
Courage of the Panther: Damage increase effect has been increased up to 14%.
MAGE:
HARBINGER:
Desperate Response: This ability has been redesigned.
When the player is damaged while below 50% health, the cooldown on Conditioned Response, Essence of Wind, and your Planar Retreat are reduced by .5/1/1.5 seconds.
Cannot occur more often than once per second.
Eldritch Power:
Now increases Eldritch Armor's proc chance by 10% per point, up from 5% per point.
Updated tooltip to indicate that it increases Eldritch Armor's proc chance.
Essence of Wind: Now increases Move Speed for its duration in addition to its previous effect. Duration is now 15 seconds, up from 10 seconds.
Introspection: Removed the damage penalty.
Phase Step:
This ability now hits 5 times, regardless of the number of targets in the area of effect.
Against one target, it will hit 5 times.
Against more than one target, it will randomly select a target from the area of effect on each attack.
Each attack of this ability now counts as a Slashing attack. This causes each attack to have a chance of activating Eldritch Armor.
The range of this ability has been increased to 20 meters.
Storm Shroud:
Now automatically triggers Eldritch Armor's proc when activated.
No longer on the global cooldown.
Phase Step now has a chance to trigger Eldritch Armor's proc on each attack
Tempest Winds: Base range has been increased up to 10 meters.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
ZE: The Ravenous Devourerer:
Finric has heard your pleas and will now only broadcast once when Ojingeodon is under the effect of "Abate Hunger".
"Abate Hunger" now lasts 2 minutes, up from 30 seconds.
GOBORO REEF:
Quest: Productive Dreaming: Increased the time to collect items to better help players stuck in orbit.
TARKEN GLACIER:
Quests: Reactive Results:
Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause the quest to not increment properly.
Fixed a bug that could sometimes cause the Enraged Abomination to spawn more than once.
TEMPEST BAY:
Quest: To The Strongest: The Temporal Flux promotional quest has been updated to require completion of level 65 expert dungeons, as opposed to the previous level 60 experts.
Quest: The Notorious Few: The number of Marks of Notoriety needed have been reduced from 10 to 5.
TYRANT'S THRONE:
The Storm Legion on the island will no longer seek and destroy any frogs or crabs they find on their beaches.
DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES:
RHEN OF FATE: SLIVER:
Reduced the damage of most bosses.
Ungolok's Fatal Current now has a 4-second cast-time. Damage has been reduced.
The Captive Terror's Puncture Heart now has a 4-second cast-time. Damage has been reduced.
MOUNT SHARAX:
Bulf: Damage from Bulf's direct abilities and his summoned storms has been reduced by 15%.
Jinoscoth: Total health for Jinoscoth has been reduced by 15%, total damage dealt by Jinoscoth has been reduced by 10%.
Izkinra: The Warmasters have had their health reduced by 15% and their damage deal reduced by 10%.
Yrlwalach: Health reduced by 15%.
Threngar: Health reduced by 10%, damage dealt reduced by 10%.
TYRANT'S FORGE:
Johan: Health reduced by 15%, damage reduced by 10%.
PUMPKIN: Health reduced by 15% damage reduced by 10%.
Crucia: Health reduced by 10%, for both normal and hard mode.
STORM BREAKER PROTOCAL:
Fixed a bug where South Flank Static Field would not fire off as intended.
PVP AND WARFRONTS:
The PVP window has received a facelift.
The PvP window now shows your ELO ranking, as well as your win/loss percentage.
Patched up a few ways players could get out of having the Warfront Deserter timeout applied to them when they abandoned their teammates.
KARTHAN RIDGE:
Player summoning abilities can no longer be used at the edges of the starting area in Karthan Ridge.
CRAFTING:
Elena Lyra can now also be found in Tempest Bay, allowing for Savant crafters to complete daily quests there as well.
Weekly crafting quests have been added to Nightmare Tide! You can find them on Howard in Choreburg next to Elena Lyra. These weekly quests pay out notoriety and Fragments of Horror tokens. Enjoy!
Some end game crafting recipes have been adjusted to reflect server supply, please do take note!
New Savant crafting dailies have been added to Elena Lyra to create diversity!
:FISHING
Fishing lures now last for five minutes and artifact lures last for two minutes and four minutes for the extended duration artifact lures.
Artifact lures have been improved to also catch fish!
Fishing in lower level "grey con" areas will now grant skill-ups, but at a much slower rate than fishing in an appropriate or higher zone.
OUTFITTER:
You can now craft a new 28 slot bag that uses materials from Nightmare Tide!
DIMENSIONS:
You can now add snow flurries and a blizzard to your Dimensions, just like the Indoor/Outdoor Precipitator! Look for it on the Rift store, Artifact Collector merchant, and inside minion mission rewards!
When placing a dimension item, the name of it will now show in your chat window.
Ever wanted to listen to Finric, Lord Arak or Bufo dialog again? Peruse Cosmologist Mann’s Journal? Hear the grumblings of the Sharax as told by Aegnir? Well now you can! Be on the lookout for these new Dimension items!
Fixed the dimension free camera not using inverted camera settings.
ITEMS AND VENDORS:
Collected Molten Threshers are now Relic rarity.
Nightmare Seals can now be upgraded two additional tiers!
Components for them can be obtained from new daily quests offered by any of the Nightmare Scholars found throughout the game.
Nightmare Seals now upgrade to each tier instead of one at a time, but the costs are the same.
Nightmare Seals not currently at one of the tiers will continue to upgrade by one until a tier is reached.
Fixed a bug causing some chance-on-hit effects on weapons and trinkets to be affected by damage-- or healing-- modifying talents.
The Runecrafter rune, 'Chilling Rune' now only apply a 5% snare to targets level 50 or greater. Targets below level 50 will still be affected by the original 15% snare.
There is now a third trinket upgrade path that offers an area of effect healing proc for Mage, Cleric and Rogue healing souls.
Patina Corroded Claw is now weapon type: Sword to be consistent with the weapon model.
Ascended's Large Sword now has a proper sword model instead of a dagger model.
Shortblade of the Flame is now weapon type: Sword to be consistent with the weapon model.
Blade of the Flameseeker is now weapon type: Dagger to be consistent with the weapon model.
Gale Cleaver now has a proper sword model instead of a dagger model.
Ritual of Calamity is now weapon type: Sword to be consistent with the weapon model.
Mace of the Unbroken Oath now has a proper mace model instead of a wand model.
Empyreal Hero's Fortified Dagger now has a proper dagger model instead of a sword model.
Ascended's Exalted Shank now has a proper dagger model instead of a sword model
Ascended's Greater Shank now has a proper dagger model instead of a sword model
Reinforced Ascended's Large Shank now has a proper dagger model instead of a sword model
Umbral Mace now has a proper mace model instead of a wand model.
Meridian's Promise (reward from Chronicle of Ascension) is now a one handed sword instead of two handed.
Architect Glyphed Warglaive has been changed to a 2h-axe to match the icon and appearance.
AUDIO:
Reduced the radius of the Infinity Gate sound so it should only be audible nearby, instead of anywhere in Shimmersand or Freemarch. (Mainly noticeable to people who have completed Nightmare Coast instance and thus have Infinity Gate spawned in Shimmersand.)
Adjusted sounds on Yrlawach's gaze of the void to be more noticeable even if there are a lot of other spells flying around
VISUALS:
Implemented a possible fix for missing VFX in boss fights and dimensions.
Fixed issues with character special effects and character visibility.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.1 Hotfix 14 (Apr 9, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.1 Hotfix 10 (Apr 1, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.1 Hotfix 9 (Mar 25, 2015)

GENERAL:
The Carnival of the Ascended quest "Adventures of the Rich and Famous!" has been removed, now that the event is over.
Guild perk passives now properly activate upon putting points into them.
We've begun a lengthy process of optimizing game data, which will result in improved load times. Due to the scope of this change, we'll be spreading out this change over the next few months, which will lead to patches being larger than usual.
RIFT STORE AND SERVICES:
Significant improvements have been made to lock boxes, starting with the all new Levitate Supply Crate!
These lock boxes are now more likely to drop premium items, with a higher variety to boot! The possible drops include Character Portraits, Character Slot Extensions, Extended Hair Style Sets, Trade Skill Extensions, Underwater Mount Training, Planewalker: Water Attunement, Earring Slots, Skin Color Set Bundles and Hair Color Set Bundles!
Almost all premium items are now tradable!
The amount of Void Stones and Abyssal Crusader's Marks that are rewarded have been increased.
There is now a 100% drop chance for equipment.
Rare runes no longer drop when opened at level 65.
A new upgrade tier has been added to equipment that brings it in line with Marauder and Expert gear.
Costume Bundles, Warfront Announcers and Combat Pet skins now have a chance to drop.
Many of the less desirable potions and temporary enchants no longer drop.
SOULS:
ROGUE:
MARKSMAN:
Strafe: Changed tagging on this ability to get full damage bonuses from Marksman talents.
WARRIOR:
REAVER:
Procced effects from abilities-- such as Vile Affinity, Septic Wounds, and Decaying Defenses-- are now removed from the target when they die.
Dire Step: No longer removes abilities that are considered bleeds.
DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES:
TYRANT'S FORGE:
Fixed players getting stuck in the overhang during the fight with Johan. They will now be teleported out with a secondary override if the first override fails
ITEMS:
Updated the tooltip on Faesource type Greater Essences to increase clarity. This is a tooltip change only.
Fixed an issue causing upgraded versions of the Marauder’s set of PVP Greater Essences to have weaker procced effects than their base versions.
Fixed a bug causing the self-buff from the Shadesource healing Greater Essence not to appear in your buff bar.
Fixed a bug causing the self-buff from the Shadesource healing Greater Essence to apply even if it was your only equipped Greater Essence. This effect now requires two Nightmare Tide Greater Essences to be equipped, as stated in the tooltip.
Fixed a bug that would allow the user of the Shadesource healing Greater Essence to cancel buffs that it applied to other players.
The tooltips for PvP Weapon Procs now indicate their maximum potential damage as well as their minimum damage.
Hardmode Crucia cloaks: Fixed a bug that could cause the Nano-Vortex not to spawn when the Nano-Charged debuff expired.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.1 Hotfix 8 (Mar 18, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.1 Hotfix 7 (Mar 11, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.1 Hotfix 6 (Mar 5, 2015)

CARNIVAL OF THE ASCENDED:
Boosted the power of level 65 essences available on the World Event category of the RIFT Store!
Minions: 6 star Carnival of the Ascended minion adventure rewards will now award a Limited Edition: Twisted Carousel Ram Trove.
Harvestables should now drop for players with skills levels over 375.
Auroral Doubloons can now be redeemed for Prize Tickets.
GENERAL:
The tooltip for Guard Rating has been updated to reflect the values required for the next tier of Raiding. Please note that this value is not set in stone, and may be adjusted later.
GUILDS:
Guild Quest: Playing the Numbers: The count has been reduced from 10,000 to 600.
Guild Quests that require Conquest kills have had their counts reduced across the board.
SOULS:
CLERIC:
INQUISITOR:
Bolt of Depravity: Fixed a bug causing the GCD to be reduced down to .5 seconds when under the effects of a full Life and Death Concord Stack and Spiritual Scrutiny.
This spell now has a 1 second GCD while under either or both of these effects.
MAGE:
ARCHON:
Flaring Power: Fixed an issue where rapidly repeatedly activating this ability would trigger its cooldown without activating its effect.
DOMINATOR:
Voltaic Feedback: Now has a 4 second cooldown.
PYROMANCER:
Pyromania: Has been increased from 2% per talent point up to 3% per talent point.
ROGUE:
MARKSMAN:
Calculated Shot: Now observes Line of Sight.
Static Shock Munitions: Effects now persist through death.
Strafe: Reworked so that clipping the channel no longer voids the damage while the projectile is in flight.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
ZE: The Ravenous Devourerer: Fixed an issue with broadcasts spamming from this event.
Jineth’s Arclight Lifter Adventures will now always be available so that you may earn Herim.
DRAUMHEIM:
Cerulean Steel has been given some asthma medication. Choreburg is now 100% less annoying.
GOBORO REEF:
IA: Boss health has been reduced by 60% across all instant adventures in this zone.
IA: Scaling of "Kill" adventures has been reworked for smoother scaling of difficulty.
DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES:
CHRONICLE: RHEN OF FATE:
Captive Researchers will now respawn after the instance resets.
INTREPID CHRONICLE: RIVER OF SOULS:
Fixed the rare chest so that it no longer drops a Warm Nexus Warped Power Core.
CRAFTING:
Removed the Storm Legion materials from the Unholy Talon of Izbithu and Accursed version recipes, and replaced them with Nightmare Tide specific materials to alleviate some player frustration.
DIMENSIONS:
Dimension Keys no longer stack until further notice.
Stacked keys will be separated and placed into vacant inventory slots.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.1 Hotfix 5 (Feb 26, 2015)

FEATURES:
CARNIVAL OF THE ASCENDED RETURNS:
The festivities begin at 3 PM server time on Thursday, February 26th!
John Tintan has joined the Carnival and is looking to procure exotic materials from the Plane of Water.
Instant Adventure in Goboro Reef will sometimes feature Adventure Pinatas. These have all the loot of a normal boss encounter plus Pinata Prize Bags!
Publicist Sijay Creg can be found in Sanctum and Meridian, encouraging Ascended Adventurers to impress the crowds with tales of their heroic deeds.
GENERAL:
Fixed the drop rate of the minion Lil'Reggie to be much less frequent than before.
Fixed a bug with time to next stamina point calculation.
GUILDS:
Emby the Cat Herder in Margle Palace now offers new guild quests for the Plane of Water.
The following guild quests are now limited to guilds level 21 through 24: A Growing Storm, Shock and Awe, Unholy Ground, Recycled Scrap, Halls of Horror, Core Crisis, and Shattering Hearts and Minds.
SOULS:
CLERIC:
INQUISITOR:
Unified Theory: No longer a separate buff. It now applies its bonuses and effects to the fourth stack of Life and Death Concord.
Radical Coalescence: Now applies 4 stacks of Life and Death Concord instead of applying the Unified Theory buff.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
Rewards for zone event completion should be more consistent in being awarded upon completion of all rare Nightmare Tide zone events.
DRAUMHEIM:
Raid Rift: The Darkest Magic: Slightly decreased the frequency of Lograr's Light's Out ability.
Raid Rift: The Darkest Magic: Decreased the health of Lograr and Silenek.
GOBORO REEF:
Quest: Reef Rebuilder: ixed an issue that could cause the Dormant Coral to not respawn properly.
TARKEN GLACIAR:
Zone Event: Darkness From the Depths: The Abhorrence will now have the correct amount of hitpoints.
DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES:
TYRANT'S FORGE:
Players who trigger Johan's anti-cheating enrage will now be notified of who and what triggered it.
Crucia:
It is no longer possible to defer Crucia's "Phasing" casts.
Fixed a bug that could cause Crucia's "Displace" ability to hit targets on whom "Locking On" is transitioning to "Target Locked."
CRAFTING:
Thalasite Nightmare Alloy and Thalasite Dream Alloy no longer share a cooldown.
The new Nightmare Alloy cooldown can also be cleared using the Rift store Energy Infusion crafting consumable.
The Thalasite Alloy recipes no long call for materials from the Storm Legion expansion.
Crafting professions attempting to craft trinket items at non-traditional workstations should now be able to open them via the mouse.
Fixed the sorting issue with the new Amender recipes and components.
Mounts can no longer be Runebroken.
ITEMS:
Fixed an issue causing Threngar weapon procs to boost the damage of several abilities without deducting a stack from the number of attacks to affect.
Fixed an issue that was erroneously causing Akylios's Manuscript of Psychosis to affect some weapon procs from current content.
Lowered the price of Nightmare Ichor and Faint Dreams to the appropriate price.
Was 75/250/1000, and is now 10/35/90 marks.
Changed up the stat distribution on Peerless Thalcrystal Choker to give less Endurance for more Spell Power.
Peerless Sarfiber Shortbow now has the same proc as the Peerless Sarfiber Longbow.
Fixed an issue causing Shadesource Greater Essences not to benefit from having a second Nightmare Tide Greater Essence Equipped.
These items now properly have their Healing and Damage boosted by 50% when a second Nightmare Tide Greater Essence is equipped.
Dimension keys now stack up to 99!
Fixed the issue with the Exalted Diaphanous Handwraps.
Marauder's Buckler now salvages into Nightmare Tide crafting components.
The Tall Weeping Willow Dimension item can now be sold.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.1 Hotfix 4 (Feb 18, 2015)

GENERAL:
Golden Maw Bounties can now be collected.
Fixed achievements spamming after completion of a Nightmare Master achievement. Thanks Deew!
Fixed a possible crash when previewing a minion linked to you from chat that you don't have.
RIFT STORE AND SERVICES:
You can now properly preview combat pet skins on the Store.
DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES:
BLOODFIRE STRONGHOLD:
Bloodfire Stronghold no longer pulls players in from LFG.
TYRANT'S THRONE:
Johan no longer reports his health upon death.
THE RHEN OF FATE: CHRONICLE:
Increased the radius of Scorching Light, Zone of Life, and Zone of Death.
THE RHEN OF FATE: SLIVER:
Increased the radius of Scorching Light, Zone of Life, and Zone of Death.
CRAFTING:
We have created new recipes for the pre-Expert upgrades of the crafted equipment in Nightmare Tide!
These recipes will still take an Amender and the base components from the previous tier of equipment, but will save you the trouble of having to craft the base item and then upgrade it via the UI.
Trinkets can now be crafted by the following professions: Weaponsmith, Armorsmith, Apothecary, Runecrafter, Outfitter & Artificer!
Crafted armor, weapons and jewelry can now be upgraded to Expert Epic and Expert Epic 1.5 equivalent power levels.
Fixed a bug when linking a crafting recipe rafting that sometimes displayed the wrong recipe.
ITEMS:
The Ancient Glacial Shards proc found on offhands in Mt. Sharax now affects a spherical area around the target instead of a line from the caster to the target.
The Icezerker proc has been re-designed. It now works as follows:
When you critically hit, you transform into an Icezerker! While transformed, your next 5 attacks within 12 seconds will deal 4,200 additional damage.
This affects one additional attack for each Nightmare Tide raid weapon you have equipped.
This effect cannot occur more often than once every 30 seconds.
Now only affects Single-Target damaging abilities.
This change affects Shij Ir, the Gatherer of Shadows, Fist of Threngar, Ekor Ira, Hand of Threngar and Draum Ra, the Rising Shadow.
Fixed a bug that caused the following procs on Nightmare Tide raid trinkets to be incorrectly affected by talents, buffs, and debuffs:
Rending Shield
Symphonic Hymn
Embrace
Icy Wrath
Curate's, Monk's, Conjurer’s, and Elder's Fathomstones will no longer lose or retain the same crit rating after being upgraded.
Fixed an issue with Healer trinkets from raids that caused their tooltips to report lower absorb values than they actually provided.
Mass Soul Mend now:
More accurately hits all nearby players in your party or raid.
Can no longer hit players with whom the user is not grouped.
Affects dead players as well as living ones.
Has had its tooltip updated to indicate that it also affects party members, even if the user is not in a raid group.
The Dreamsource Greater Essence has been re-designed. It now works as follows:
Your Critical Hits have a chance to transform you into a Nightmarish Fiend.
When you transform, your next 7 damaging Single-Target abilities deal an additional 1701 Ethereal damage.
If an additional Nightmare Tide Greater Essence is equipped, the number of affected abilities is increased by 3.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.1 Hotfix 3 (Feb 12, 2015)

GENERAL:
An "I'm Stuck" button has been added to the in-game help menu from the start button tray. You can still use "/stuck".
Fixed the problem that made the mouse not work at all in experimental Oculus mode.
GUILDS:
Increased the max guild level to 30.
Added new Sigil versions of each of the guild banners, except Banner of Clairvoyance.
These Sigil buffs require all 3 ranks of their respective banners in order to unlock for purchase.
The buffs are upgraded versions of the banners which increase their respective stats by a percentage instead of the current flat amounts.
They also differ by applying the buff directly to raid members instead of requiring the raid to remain within range of the banners, and do not drop an object on the ground.
These buffs have the same duration as the banners, will last through death and follow the same stacking rules as the banners.
They require the new Combat Sigil reagent to cast.
New perk: Renown: Increases notoriety gains by 3/6/9%. Please verify this works as expected.
Increased the max rank of Regroup to 3.
Increased the max rank of Rift Extraction to 4.
SOULS:
MAGE:
CHLOROMANCER:
Living Shell: Fixed an issue that was preventing this ability from generating Charge. It should now generate 9 Charge when used.
STORMCALLER:
Storm Armor: No longer benefits twice from the Warlock's Improved Mage Armor talent.
ROGUE:
MARKSMAN:
Static Shot: Cooldown has been increased to 30s.
Removed PVP reductions/restrictions on Strafe, Sniper Training, Deadeye Shot, and Empowered Shot.
WARRIOR:
REAVER:
Fixed an issue where debuffs Decaying Defenses, Septic Wounds, and Vile Affinity could stack multiple times. This debuffs are now limited to one stack on the player/enemy no matter how many Reavers are casting on it.
Rancid Cleave: Now respects line of sight.
Plague Bringer: Fixed tooltip to properly reflect the number of additional enemies that can be effected.
Decaying Defenses: Fixed an issue where fire resists were not being reduced.
Dire Corruption and Precision Strikes: Fixed an issue where these were not working together. Both should be working as intended now.
Stumbling Morass snare should no longer stack with other player cast snares.
ZONES:
DRAUMHEIM:
Weekly Quest: Spirit of Adventure: Now requires level 60 to accept.
Misty Rayne in Flargle Plaza in Draumheim now offers a Daily to complete a random level 65 Chronicle.
Raid Rift: The Darkest Magic: Decreased the health of the second wave of Rabbits.
Raid Rift: The Darkest Magic: Increased the cooldown of Lograr’s Lights Out ability to 12 seconds.
DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES:
BLOODFIRE STRONGHOLD:
Corrected an issue that was preventing players from zoning in.
MOUNT SHARAX:
Increased the range at which Martrodraum will engage players with his abilities.
TYRANT'S FORGE:
Darth Elevator has been replaced with a teleportation device in Crucia's fight.
Crucia is no longer immune for 8 seconds after players destroy Storm Capacitors.
The Tyrant's Bay Tendril will no longer return after Johan has been defeated.
The cast bar for Johan's ability Overload now correctly displays 15 seconds.
Fixed a bug where players were able to drop combat during the PUMPKIN encounter.
THE RHEN OF FATE: CHRONICLE:
The protective bubbles that appear during Rage of Storms now despawn two seconds after Rage of Storms end.
Reduced the damage of the Scoundrel Shootists by 20%.
More trash mobs now move away.
Increased the number of Bloat Gumps to eight per cage.
Chronogos now allow players to skip past boss vignettes.
THE RHEN OF FATE: SLIVER:
The protective bubbles that appear during Rage of Storms now despawn two seconds after Rage of Storms end.
PVP AND WARFRONTS:
BLIGHTED ANTECHAMBER:
Added line of sight blockers to the starting platforms. Players will no longer be able to attack from on top of your starting platform.
GHAR STATION EYN:
Corrected an issue in Ghar Station Eyn where enemies could enter your base.
PORT SCION:
Reduced the point value granted for killing the idols in Port Scion to 100 due to player feedback.
WHITEFALL STEPPES:
Attempting to enter any bases while carrying a Stormstone will reset the Stormstone.
CRAFTING:
Earrings can now be crafted by the Artificer profession!
Basic Amender recipes have had their cost to acquire from the trainer greatly reduced.
Uncle Stan's Fishing Derbies in Tempest Bay can now be done by players of Fishing skill greater than 375. This is a temporary measure until new Fishing Derbies are released for high level players.
UI AND SETTINGS:
Fixed a case where target player names would not use the guild color, even though they are in your guild.
Fixed a display issue for recipes in the favorites tab of the crafting window.
ITEMS:
Fixed an issue with the Icezerker! proc that prevented it from gaining duration for additional Nightmare Tide weapons equipped. It now:
Has a 100% chance to build a stack on critical hit, up from 50%.
Has a 5 second internal cooldown between triggering stacks.
Has build-up stacks that last for 15 seconds, up from 10 seconds.
Has a lockout duration of 15 seconds, down from 20 seconds.
Has a reduced size of the Icezerker! proc's transformation by 33%.
The Ancient Glacial Shards proc now more reliably hits up to 5 targets in a line between the caster and their target, when triggered.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.1 Hotfix 2.5 (Feb 5, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.1 Hotfix 2 (Feb 5, 2015)

FEATURES:
NEW RAID: THE TYRANT'S FORGE!
The Tyrant's Forge has accelerated production of all top secret weapons projects. Now players face a race against time to infiltrate and Crucia's new monstrosities before they can be unleashed upon the world. Join together with your friends in this new 20 man raid instance to defeat the Storm Legion super soldier Johan, the deep sea war machine codenamed P.U.M.P.K.I.N, and the murderous masterpiece forged in the image of the Tyrant herself!
GENERAL:
Added text to the looking for group window stating that xp and coin will be rewarded based on dungeon difficulty.
The Psquid Psychiatry achievement will now trigger if you are in a group.
Guild Quest: Digging Deeper: This quest will once again give credit for collecting Twisted Artifacts.
Fixed a bug where guild chat would occasionally vanish for an entire shard.
RIFT STORE AND SERVICES:
* Patron's Focus now applies its cooldown reduction to the Rift Consumable abilities from the new Dust, Dusk and Steam PA planes.
SOULS:
CLERIC:
INQUISITOR:
Unified Theory: Fixed an issue where Unified Theory was awarding stacks of Echoing Concord both when the Unified Theory was applied and when it was consumed.
MAGE:
NECROMANCER:
Possession: Temporary Abilities are now on the Global Cooldown. In addition to its other effects, it now reduces the Necromancer's Global Cooldown to 1 second while active.
ROGUE:
MARKSMAN:
Free Recoil: Removed VFX.
WARRIOR:
LIBERATOR:
Dichotomy of Pain: Now has a 35m range by default.
REAVER:
Fixed an issue where certain abilities had their old tank role aggro multiplier.
Desecrating Blow: Added "enemies" to the description.
Dire Corruption: Has been fixed to no longer prevent flag captures or proc effects other than power leech. Should no longer cause Cloak of Death to break.
Dire Step: Should now function correctly with Shadow Warp.
Fester: The debuff now says damage instead of Death damage.
Mind Break: Now properly says the duration is 45s instead of 30s. No longer be purgable from a target, thus allowing Spasm to hit again.
Renamed the auto attack increase ability for Reaver to Plagued Reach. Description should now state Reaver instead of Tempest.
Plagued Reach and Electrified Strikes (Tempest) should no longer stack to increase auto attack range to 55m.
Pestilence: Clarified tooltip to better denote that it is a 1h long term buff.
Stumbling Morass: Now does not snare those under immunity from movement effects.
WARLORD:
Everything is a Weapon: Tooltip now shows the proper value of 20%.
Warlord's Focus: Now properly consumed by Piercing Thrust and Wave of Steel.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
The following places have once again been grant Rested status (and allow logout without a 20 second wait): Choreburg crafting area, Ghar Station Rosh hub, Ghar Station Tau hub, Gemini Bluffs hub, and the Octus Monestary hub.
DRAUMHEIM: RAID RIFT: THE DARKEST MAGIC:
Now drops the appropriate rift loot.
Shadow Smite can no longer be reflected.
Fixed an issue that could allow some Rabbits to gain too much HP.
Fixed an issue that could potentially trigger Greater Evil when interrupting Phantom Pain.
GOBORO REEF:
Instant Adventure objectives in the Gyel Fortress area have been moved outside of the Fortress walls.
Removed the text reading "Unwalkable" from the ocean floor between Goboro Reef and Tyrant's Throne. Be on the lookout for Skelf hooligans with spray paint and a sense of humor.
TARKEN GLACIER:
Certain Shaghi of Ghadaul Tundra will no longer respawn instantly upon death.
Omi is being a little more generous these days to those trying to get the "Boxed In" and/or "Thinking Out of the Box" achievements in Tarken Glacier. She is now allowing a bit more time to get the required boxes.
DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES:
CHRONICLE: THE RHEN OF FATE:
Reduced the number of times the Drekanoth of Fate summons World Eaters.
Fixed an issue that could cause Ungolok’s lockout barrier to not reset properly.
Dimension items obtained through The Rhen of Fate achievements are now bound to account.
CITADEL OF INSANITY:
Corrected an obscure bug that could cause the tank to die after leaving Citadel of Insanity.
MOUNT SHARAX:
Warmaster Ilrath will now attack every 1.5s instead of every 1s. This should dramatically reduce his damage output.
Fixes numerous bugs with Threngar's encounter reset, added a failsafe to activate phase 4 mechanics at sub-25%.
RETURN TO IRON TOMB:
Realizing his work was done, the Invisible Man packed it up and went home, no longer asking the Ascended to work.
CRAFTING:
FORAGING:
Risarian Minim drop rates from Foraging nodes have been increased.
ITEMS:
Fixed an issue that could cause tooltips for item effects to report being more effective than the actual procs. This is a tooltip change only.
The Frost Reap debuff no longer reduces the enemy's resistances.
UI AND SETTINGS:
Fixed chat linked ability tooltips not having a close button.
Fixed a problem with players being unable to change loot settings for their group from the player portrait menu.
Fix the white flickering that could occur when opening the soul tree.
Fixed problem with trying to craft recipes in the crafting window where you click the recipe link arrow button to go to another recipe.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.1 Hotfix 1 (Jan 30, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.0 Hotfix 14 (Jan 22, 2015)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.0 Hotfix 13 (Jan 15, 2015)

GENERAL:
Fae Yule: The Faelight Sparkle quest is no longer given. It can still be completed over the next week.
MINIONS:
Fixed a bug that could cause players new to the Minion system to lose their minions.
SOULS:
CLERIC:
JUSTICAR:
Gaining Convictions no longer appears in the combat log.
MAGE:
STORMCALLER:
Gaining stacks of Conductive Medium no longer appears in the combat log.
ROGUE:
Fixed an issue where Finishers were not calculating correctly for having a weapon in the off-hand.
WARRIOR:
Fixed an issue where Finishers were not calculating correctly for having a weapon in the off-hand.
BEASTMASTER:
Pack Mentality: Now correctly increases HP and damage when a primal companion is summoned.
CHAMPION:
Shared Suffering: No longer triggers procs such as Building Rage.
PARAGON:
Run Like the Wind: Now correctly reduces the cooldown of Fleet of Foot.
VOID KNIGHT:
Gaining Pacts no longer appears in the combat log.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
STONEFIELD:
IA: Cleansing the Source of Evil: Now functions correctly once more.
TARKEN GLACIER:
Quest: No Escape for the Wicked: The Sharax Ritual Lure now only works in Tarken Glacier.
DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES:
GYEL FORTRESS:
Fixed the loot tables for the Lady Glasya fight.
MOUNT SHARAX:
Achievement: Is Something Burning: Now properly awards players that complete the challenge.
Jinoscoth:
Iced: The cast time has been increased to 1.8 seconds, up from 1.5 seconds.
Frost Bulwark: The cast time has been increased to 1.8 seconds, up from 1.4 seconds.
THE RHEN OF FATE:
Fixed an issue causing Stealth to be removed throughout the fight with the Drekanoth of Fate.
ITEMS:
The damage bonus to Nightmare Tide weapon procs provided by the Chill of the Void debuff now only benefit the person who procced the effect. However, each person can now apply their own copy of the debuff to the enemy.
PVP AND WARFRONTS:
PvP and Conquest Weekly quest rewards have been increased. They now reward 300 Fragments of Horror, up from 100, and 650 Abyssal Crusader's Marks, up from 500.
Reduced the cost from the first upgrade on equipment granted from Marauder Supply Caches.
Blighted Antechamber: Carrying a Flag now reduces the healing you receive.
Fixed an issue with some AoE abilities doing too much damage in PvP.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.0 Hotfix 12 (Jan 7, 2015)

GENERAL:
Fixed the text description of Sourcestone currency.
MINIONS:
Artifact adventures loot tables have been adjusted so that the likelihood of getting duplicate drops has been significantly reduced!
The new adventures completed achievements have been fixed, affecting 10,000 completed adventures and above.
Yulogon has gained expertise in assassination! Yulogon, Ivory and Atrophonius from the Fae Yule minion pack have become hardier and had their Stamina values improved.
SOULS:
CLERIC:
MASTERIES:
Divine Favor: Now recalculates its healing values when it procs additional heals.
ROGUE:
MASTERIES:
Soul Steal: Hemophilia now correctly increases Assassin damage while active.
BARD:
Coda of Jeopardy: Now a static value equal to Corroded Defenses and Illuminate.
BLADEDANCER:
Dancing Steel and Untangle now work effectively against debilitate effects.
WARRIOR:
MASTERIES:
Deliberate Strikes: No longer increase channeled and cast time ability damage. This was a leftover from its original design.
BEASTMASTER:
Spotter's Call: Is now a static value equal to Corroded Defenses and Illuminate.
PARAGON:
Death Touch: No longer deals a variable amount of damage.
REAVER:
Fester: Can now be applied to the same mob by multiple Warriors.
Dire Corruption: Now affected by Precision Strikes
RIFTBLADE:
Blade of the Ascended: No longer purgable.
ZONES AND EVENTS:
Water rifts in the Plane of Water should no longer have a chance to have a rare spawn of a Planarch.
The Golden Devourer: Fixed a typo in the ability description of The Golden Mark.
NIGHTMARE RIFTS:
Epic and higher quality Nightmare Caches now always contain at least 1 Illusory Mote.
The chance to get more motes remains unchanged. However the quantity of motes you get in this situation has been reduced.
Overall, this is a decrease in randomness of Illusory Mote acquisition, and a slight increase in overall Illusory Mote acquisition.
TARKEN GLACIER:
ZE: Horns of Doom: Aroksus and his friends have reluctantly agreed not to vacation in Draumheim during this event.
Raid Rift: The Plane Crawler Project: The Plane Crawler once again heals itself to full health after every stage.
DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES:
MOUNT SHARAX:
Fixed a number of Mount Sharax loot drops that were missing the ability to trade them to other raid members for a limited amount of time.
THE RHEN OF FATE:
Finric's damage absorption shield now persists for the duration of Sacrifice.
CRAFTING:
Weaponsmith: Changed the recipe for Coral Whetstones to be more in line with the materials needed for Coral Oilstones.
Apothecary: Storm Legion and Nightmare Tide critical hit potions should now correctly override the Tempest Soul ability Focus Fire.
ITEMS:
The absorb proc from Wall of Frost now only affects the character with the shield equipped and no longer benefits allies around them.
The Cleric weapon "Ekor Ira, Hand of Threngar" now has Spell Power instead of Attack Power on it.
PVP AND WARFRONTS:
Marauder Supply Caches have had their chance to grant usable equipment considerably increased.
Blighted Antechamber: Capturing a Flag will now award your team 100 points, up from 50.
Crafted buffs in conquest should work again once more.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.0 Hotfix 11 (Dec 18, 2014)

FAE YULE:
PVP: Winning A Very Fae Yule Whitefall should now award a Marauder Supply Cache at level 65.
The Gift of Giving achievement has been moved to the Legacy category.
Merry Mink bells now have more jingle.
The Fae Yule Grand Cape should now have the proper appearance for Mathosian females.
The burning of Lumps of Coal should once again grant small amounts of Snowflakes.
Quest: Lost Traveler: The Candle will no longer be removed from inventory prior to quest completion.
The World Event window now links to the Fae Yule Achievements.
Game maps now include markers for Fae Yule content.
The Fae Yule companion pets (Goose, Mav and Ice Bird) should no longer aggro other NPCs.
Nightmare rifts now count towards the completion of the daily quest "Rift Closed!"
The Merry Mink mount is now properly flagged to zoom at 155%.
FAELIGHT SPARKLES:
Quest: Faelight Sparkle:
The quest now displays the purple World Event quest icon.
The quest now appears in the Fae Yule section of the quest log.
- Players can no longer accumulate more than 500 Faelight Sparkles at once. Any Faelight Sparkles above 500 are removed on turn-in.
Completing Warfronts and Dungeons with no charges now grants 4 Faelight Sparkles, up from 1.
Completing Dungeons and Warfronts with charges now grants 6 Faelight Sparkles.
The Conquest Chest now grants 10 Faelight Sparkles.
Completing a Nightmare Tide zone event now grants 4 Faelight Sparkles, up from 1.
Faelight Sparkle payouts are no longer blocked by the Conquest blocker on accident.
The Faelight Sparkle payout items now apply the ability to users even if they are dead.
Added Small Faelight Sparkle caches to the following level 65 quests:
Daily Raid Rift quests
Weekly Nightmare Rift quest
Weekly Instant Adventure quest
RIFT STORE AND SERVICES:
The Fae Yule Tree Staff and Snow Globe now have credit prices. (They can also be gifted!)
Removed Radiant Infinity Cells as a requirement to upgrade the level 60 Necklaces in the World Event category.
Level 65 Necklaces are now available in the World Event category.
Boosted the power of the level 65 essences in the World Event category.
Updated the text on the Fae Yule Bonus Boxes to more clearly reflect what can be expected when opening them!
Fixed an issue with dropped and purchased Snow Ki Rin being 100% less Bound to Account then they should have been.
MINIONS:
Revamped Fae Yule Promotional Adventure Rewards!
Fixed the Fae Yule minion adventures that were not displaying the correct reward art while the adventure was in-progress.
Yulogon has gained expertise in assassination! Yulogon, Ivory and Atrophonius from the Fae Yule minion pack have become hardier and had their Stamina values improved.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.0 Hotfix 10 (Dec 11, 2014)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.0 Hotfix 9 (Dec 11, 2014)

FEATURES:
Fae Yule is Back in Telara!
Seek out Stuttk Fyrirthig in Flargle Plaza and pick up a new weekly quest Faelight Sparkle for some amazing rewards!
Conquest Returns for Level 65:
Both Conquest: Stillmoor and Conquest: Steppes of Infinity are making their triumphant return! They now award level 65 appropriate currencies, as well as a very rare chance at a Heart of the Frozen. The first match will occur later today-- keep your eyes peeled for the notice!
GENERAL:
Players will now retain the water surface high jump ability granted in the Plane of Water while dead.
Tidal Aura in the Plane of Water now applies to dead players.
Some rewards given out via the Minion system have been brought in line with the intended payouts.
Unsocketing bind-on-equip planar essences now gives back a soulbound planar essence instead of another bind-on-equip one.
Improved how the in-game mail spam filter works.
RIFT STORE AND SERVICES:
Underwater Mount Training is now available for purchase in the RIFT store!
New Patron Perk: Increased Weekly Cap!
Patrons now have a higher weekly cap on currencies. Non-Patron caps remain unchanged.
The Weekly Patron Currency Cap is now:
Raid: 5,400
World: 42,000
Expert: 15,000
The Weekly Non-Patron Currency Cap remains:
Raid: 4,500
World: 35,000
Expert: 12,500
SOULS:
CLERIC:
PURIFIER:
Ward of Flame: Updated the animation.
MAGE:
MASTERIES:
Final Breath: Updated the description to help clarify how the Mastery works.
ARBITER:
Soothing Waters: Now heals for 7.5% of Maximum Health at 100 Charge consumed.
ARCHON:
Updated the stacking priority of Archon Auras. They should no longer be overwritten by weaker or equivalent buffs.
CHLOROMANCER:
Boon of Life: Stacks now also affect Healing Torrent.
Natural Conversion: No longer affected by the global cooldown.
Living Shell: Reduced the cooldown of Living Shell to 30s. It no longer restores mana and is not affected by the global cooldown.
WARLOCK:
Contaminate: Fixed an bug causing this ability to reduce the Charge cost of the Dominator's Lightning Wall to 0.
ROGUE:
MASTERIES:
Energy Manipulation: Can no longer miss.
ASSASSIN:
Debilitating Dart: Can now be applied to the same mob by multiple Assassins.
TACTICIAN:
Necrotic Core: No longer interrupt actions after the first damage tick.
PHYSICIAN:
Life Insurance: Can now only target players.
WARRIOR:
MASTERIES:
Power Manipulation: Can no longer miss.
ZONES:
Lower level zone events should now award Notoriety Tokens to level 61+ players if they mentor down to the appropriate level for the zone event.
Inscribed Sourcestone is now just called Sourcestone.
Anything that previously awarded Corrupted, Cursed, or Vile Sourcestone now awards Sourcestone.
An upcoming update will convert these currently held lower tier currencies to Sourcestone.
Rare Planar Good gear costs have been revised to focus on the unified Sourcestone currency.
Instant Adventures should reward much more consistently appropriate to the players level.
Various rare rewards now sometimes appear in the Instant Adventure caches from every zone.
NIGHTMARE RIFTS:
Nightmare Rift tooltips on the map now list their tier and stage.
Potentially fixed an issue that would occasionally cause Nightmare Rifts to not to hand out caches--an especially notable occurrence on stage 20.
Players should no longer be teleported by Nightmare Rifts that have already closed.
Nightmare rifts now rewards much more Planarite.
Kills within the Nightmare Training Shoal instance no longer update the Nightmare I: Waking Terror daily quest.
Reduced the price for Lure: Nightmare V Instance Duo.
GOBORO REEF:
Sea of Ladon Raid Rift:
Reduced the range of the Shockbite’s Death Stare to 15 meters.
Arcane and Electro Shields no longer block line of sight.
New VFX for The Slibberjacks' Nexus Dart and Quogon’s Nexus Demise.
Removed the Slibberjack from Stage 3.
Increased the Shockbite's HP.
Reduced the HP of the other bosses.
Quest: Captive Breeding: The Coastal Sharks are now actually sharks.
TARKEN GLACIER:
Quest: Secrets of the Leviathan: Fixed an issue that would cause Kivankor to teleport players to nightmare rifts.
DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES:
The Bloodfire Stronghold instance will no longer show up in the Looking for Group dungeon list.
Reduced the difficulty of expert dungeons. Trash now hits for 20% less, and bosses auto attack less frequently, reducing the tank healing requirements.
CITADEL OF INSANITY:
Fixed a bug causing Skylla to let down Lord Arak more than usual, and let the ascended just waltz past him.
GYEL FORTRESS:
Fixed a bug that could let players skip Hound Master Kytus.
MOUNT SHARAX:
Arc is no longer super effective on Manifesting Darkness. It is now just effective.
RETURN TO IRON TOMB:
Fixed a bug causing the Three Kings were giving their death buffs to lowly minions.
THE RHEN OF FATE:
Rage of Storms bubbles will no longer path out towards the docks.
Ungolok: Fixed an issue allowing one Bloat Gump to absorb damage from two Pressure Bursts.
Finric: Rage of Storms bubbles will no longer path into Absorption Vats.
PVP AND WARFRONTS:
Guild Quest: Battles Old and New: These quests have been adjusted to the new level 65 level cap.
The weekend warfront version of level 65 Port Scion now properly points to level 65, rather than level 60.
Adjusted the effectiveness of Dodge in PvP.
Increased the healing penalty for PVP at level 65 to 77.5%, up from 75%.
The following old PVP curenncies have been converted to Platinum, at a rate of 1 Platinum per 100 Marks:
Freelancer's Mark
Warlord's Mark
Mark of Conquest
Myrmidon's Mark
Warlord's Mark of Conquest
Conquest: Every 100 kills made in conquest earns you 1 Void Stone.
Note: Next week, this will be bumped to 10 Void Stones.
ITEMS:
Increased healing for Fish Sausage.
Fixed the upgrade on Monk's Pyrestone essence.
Fixed an issue with the appearance for Dreambreaker and Ephemeral Chestguards.
AUDIO:
Added new sound to Lamb critters.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.0 Hotfix 8 (Nov 25, 2014)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.0 Hotfix 7 (Nov 20, 2014)

PROMOTIONAL EVENT:
Unicornalia returns to Telara this Thursday, November 20th at 3:30 PM server time, running until the following Thursday, November 27th at 3:30 PM server time.
GENERAL:
Fixed an issue with item set bonuses not reactivating after unmentoring.
Fixed an issue with mentoring stat calculation that affected Absorbs and other abilities
Fixed an issue with player mounts getting stuck on the edge of nightmares.
Fixed a server side crash in the minion system.
Players now keep their extra planar charges while mentoring.
Fixed an issue that prevented the Nightmare Tide Faction category from displaying a name in the Notoriety window.
SOULS:
Abilities: Anti-Planar Augmentation, Holy Champion, and Fury of the Ascended now share the same cool down group.
Abilities: Defiant's Flare and Guardians Flare now work in Nightmare Tide zones.
Planar Attunement: Air: Preferred Ally no longer modifies the duration of Holy Champion, Fury of the Ascended and Anti-Planar Augmentation.
CLERIC:
SHAMAN:
Strike of the Maelstrom: Fixed an issue causing this ability not to spread Frozen Wrath when mentored below level 50.
MAGE:
MASTERIES:
Ethereal Flux: Range increasing effects will now also affect the range of this mastery debuff.
STORMCALLER:
Storm Locus: Range increasing effects will now also affect this ability.
WARLOCK:
Radiate Death: Range increasing effects will now also affect this ability.
ROGUE:
MASTERIES:
Timed Focus: Increased the damage done by Unstable Energy after being reduced due to a bug fix last week.
Energy Manipulation: Now has a damage variance.
Watch Over: Should no longer cause issues with the secondary effect if another Rogue with the mastery is present in the Party/Raid.
Ascended Biology: Cadenza should now heal for the full amount of talent points invested in Invigorated Soul.
RANGER:
Rejuvenate: Increased the healing value.
RIFTSTALKER:
Power of the Planes: Now a single target damaging finisher, and counts as Plane Shifting for triggering effects.
SABOTEUR:
Advanced Combat Training: Changed to increases Weapon Damage and Attack Power by 2% per point invested.
TACTICIAN:
Expanded Workload: Now affects base health instead of Endurance.
WARRIOR:
MASTERIES:
Deliberate Strikes: Increased the damage done by Building Rage after being reduced due to a bug fix last week.
Power Manipulation: Now has a damage variance.
PALADIN:
Aegis of Light: Increased the healing done.
Hardened Defenses: Should now function as intended.
REAVER:
Dire Corruption: No longer persists on corpses.
VOID KNIGHT:
Accord of Resilience: Should now function as intended.
Fusion of Flesh: No longer requires a pact on the Warrior to cast.
ZONES:
DRAUMHEIM:
Trade chat is available in Choreburg!
GOBORO REEF:
Quests: Captive Breeding and Emancipation Through Proclamation: Added scene requirements to the quest items.
DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES:
CITADEL OF INSANITY:
Corrected some VO overlap issues.
MOUNT SHARAX:
Achievement: So… Uh… I guess we win?: Now grants correctly.
Izkinra: Fixed a bug where the avalanche would sometimes not spawn boulders.
Yrlwalach:
Fixed a race condition which could cause Yrlwalach not to spawn when the instance first starts up.
Fixed an issue with the enrage timer in this fight.
Bulf: Has taken anger management courses, and no longer takes out his frustration on wiped raids.
Manifest Horror is no longer purgeable.
NIGHTMARE COAST:
Fixed the lag that players would experience when Lord Arak spawned.
Akylios will become very angry if players attempt to swim near him.
RETURN TO IRON TOMB:
Achievement: Side Step: Fixed a bug causing this achievement to not award properly.
SHADOW FROM THE BEYOND:
Added two memory crystals to the chronicle. Players who have previously completed it will now be able to skip the intro vignette with Quintarus, as well as the vignette with Cavalla.
THE RHEN OF FATE:
Achievement: Nah, We're Good: Can now be attained by using three or fewer Syphoning Orbs in the second boss fight.
Achievement: Conqueror: The Rhen of Fate: Now grants the Evil Finric minion.
Achievement: Rapid Assault: The Rhen of Fate: Added this achievement.
Only killing bosses now saves players to the instance.
Drekanoth:
Chains of Fate damage is now capped at 30k per tick.
Slowed the interval Chains of Fate does damage from every two seconds to every three.
Increased the grace period before Chains of Fate does damage by one second.
Fixed the Scorching Light mechanic.
PVP AND WARFRONTS:
Increased the healing penalty for PVP to 75%. Up from 70%.
Fixed an issue with Dodge having little effect in PvP.
Fixed an issue with PvP guild quests not awarding kill credit.
ITEMS:
Nightmare Caches now properly bind to account upon acquisition.
Burnoulli can now swim.
Corrected some Raid dropped items that had lower than expected Hit values.
Fixed the VFX on The Burning Crown of Raziel.
The Mystic's and Savant’s synergy crystals no longer benefit healing from the Justicar's Salvation ability.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.0 Hotfix 6 (Nov 13, 2014)

AUTUMN HARVEST:
Autumn Harvest has been extended by a week! It now runs until 11:59 PM server time on November 19th!
Minions: Autumn Harvest adventures now appear more often. Rejoice!
GENERAL:
Player buffs are now automatically recast when the player's mentor level changes.
Fixed auction house sorting on several dropped items.
Fixed a rare issue with Soulwalk sometimes ending prematurely.
MINIONS:
The minions window has a new checkbox called "Auto-match Attributes". If checked, then whenever you select an Adventure, it will only show minions that have the attributes shown on the Adventure card.
SOULS:
Abilities: Holy Champion, Fury of the Ascended and Anti-Planar Augmentation have been modified to function more like they did prior to the launch of Nightmare Tide.
CLERIC:
MASTERIES:
Fixed an issue where Benevolent Presence would stop functioning.
MAGE:
MASTERIES:
Fixed an issue where Rejuvenating Presence would stop causing Lucent Slash to spread Blazing Light.
ROGUE:
BARD:
Fixed an issue where the Bard passive gift was not awarding the bonus Base Health.
WARRIOR:
MASTERIES:
Fixed an issue with Building Rage that was causing it to trigger Sweeping Blades.
Fixed the passive on Decisive Strikes so that it now affects charges appropriately.
PALADIN:
Blessed Aegis: Now increases HP by 10% instead of 5%.
Hardened Defenses: Now 5% resist per point and swaps places with Aggressive Guardian.
REAVER:
Rancid Cleave: Damage is now augmented by the number of Reaver dots on the target.
VOID KNIGHT:
Accord of Power: Now increases block by 5% in addition to the Weapon Damage and Attack Power bonus.
Destructive Forces: Fixed an issue where the bonus Attack Power percentage was not being calculated correctly. It is now a true 0.05/1.0/1.5% of your Attack Power.
Devourer: Now increases damage reduction by 2% per point invested for all damage types.
Devouring Shield: Cooldown has been reduced to 90s from 2m.
Protective Shield: Now reduces damage taken by 6% per pact consumed. Max 5. Cooldown increased to 2m.
Residual Absorption: Now passive and is 3% spell damage reduction per point invested.
Rift Distortion: Now reduces all damage by 2% instead of just spell damage by 4%.
Rift Shield: Now absorbs damage equal to 5% of your Max HP per pact consumed. Cooldown increased to 45s.
Surging Touch: Now reduces damage when blocking by 1.5% per point invested instead of reducing spell damage.
Unstable Void: Now increases HP by 10% instead of 5%.
Void: Now reduces all damage taken by 3%.
ZONES:
Low level players completing rifts and Instant Adventures in high level zones now gain less experience.
Failing Planar Fortress Events will now offer slightly better rewards.
NIGHTMARE RIFTS:
Fixed an issue with Nightmare Rifts sometimes creating unkillable, zombie players.
Achievements: All "Reach stage X" achievements are now given upon reaching the listed stage, rather than upon its completion.
DRAUMHEIM:
Quest: The Key to the City: The keys should now be delivered to Arlana Eshen at Ghar Station Rosh.
The Nightmare Bandits in Shadow Scion can now be attacked by player pets.
GOBORO REEF:
Quest: Joy to the Fishes: Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause the Young Bluetails to be untargetable.
Quest: Biodegradable: This quest has been completely reworked.
Raid Rift: Sea of Ladon:
Quogon's Arcani and Electro Demise abilities have become Nexus Demise, which can be removed by either Electro or Arcane shields.
Quogon no longer casts Inhale or Spray.
Reduced the damage of various abilities.
Slibberjacks no longer cast Fang Spike.
Nexus Rivos and Flokum no longer give experience.
Reduced the damage of Nexus Cannons.
Increased the cooldown of Turret Shot to 45 seconds.
TARKEN GLACIAR:
Quest: Akvan Underground: Now completes with Frekker, who should never be dead.
Quest: Breaking the Ice: Now works correctly.
Quest: Burnt Threads: Now requires 8 Fate Weavers to be incinerated instead of 7.
Quest: Roll the Bones: The locator for the second step of this quest now points to the correct location.
DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES:
Several Expert Dungeon dropped items can now be traded to group mates within a 30 minute grace period.
Achievement: Nightmare Coast: Conqueror: This achievement now has an item reward.
Note: VFX
GYEL FORTRESS:
Achievement: Multi-Kill: Now requires you hit 7 NPCs instead of 8, making this achievement slightly less annoying.
MOUNT SHARAX:
Bulf:
Bulf's death will no longer enrage Jinoscoth.
Bulf will no longer angrily chase after players who have wiped.
Jinoscoth:
It seems not even Jinoscoth is completely invulnerable to the cold...Frost Bulwark now takes 1.4 seconds to cast, up from 1.3 seconds.
Izkinra:
We have refactored the fight enrage timer slightly. The same enrage time is now divided among the different phases which gives a minimum time to complete each.
Threngar:
Threngar's achievements are now visible in the appropriate section.
RETURN TO IRON TOMB:
Fixed a bug where Nightmare Totek was not awarding achievements like he should.
THE RHEN OF FATE:
Achievement: The Rhen of Fate: Defeating all the bosses now grants this achievement.
Unthralled Brutes are now faster on their feet.
Finric:
Fighting Finric no longer automatically removes stealth.
Finric has gained the ability Far Strike, enabling him to pummel his target at a distance.
Drekanoth of Fate:
Fixed an issue that could cause the The Chains of Fate cast by the Drekanoth of Fate to not resolve properly.
Fixed an issue that kept the Drekanoth of Fate from casting his Doom ability.
Will now wait a few seconds after the last World Collapser is destroyed before casting Scorching Light.
Chains of Fate can now only hit players twice within a three second period.
Weyloz, Hidrac, Oonta:
When one dies, they now stop pulsing the Comrades Near or Comrades Far AoE. However, the last boss standing will continue casting Comrades Near.
When fighting these bosses, the Chosen of Iron and Stone debuffs are now removed when the fight resets, and not when the player exits combat.
PVP AND WARFRONTS:
The level 65 version of Guns for Hire and Carnage: Ascended now grant Void Stones as rewards.
Players level 61 and above now gain more experience from PVP activities.
ITEMS:
Fixed a bug that would allow bows to drop for Clerics from Marauder Supply Crates.
Fixed a typo in the item description of the Pelagic Powerstone. It now correctly lists that it gives 350 Spell Power instead of 325.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.0 Hotfix 5 (Nov 5, 2014)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.0 Hotfix 4 (Oct 30, 2014)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.0 Hotfix 3 (Oct 30, 2014)

The spoils of Autumn Harvest are back! The festivities begin at 3:30 PM server time on 10/30/14, and they run until 3:30 PM on 11/13/14!
Your favourite activities are back: portals to the Realm Of Autumn Harvest, Halloween rifts, and the Black Garden Monster Mash!
On the store you'll find Armored Nightmare Lock Boxes-- containing the mount of its name-- and Autumn Harvest Grab Bags, full of new costume weapons, two new masks, and the masks of years previous!
Plus, new Minions will make an appearance: Scythe, Necrawler, and Azumel! Send them on special Harvest Adventures to reap the most candy of all.
GENERAL:
Nightmare Tide Daily Quests now award 25 Void stones. Enjoy!
RIFT STORE AND SERVICES:
Totems from lock boxes should once again have Hit.
MINIONS:
The Minions window will now remember your sorting selections. Stamina sort sorts by the minions exact stamina from high to low.
You can no longer get Small diplomatic awards from Long adventures (you'll get Medium diplomatic awards instead).
You can no longer get more than two artifacts from Short artifact adventures, but the potential rarity of those artifacts has been increased.
Increased chances of getting Attainium for Long and Promotional artifact adventures.
Fixed the flavor text on some hidden minions.
ZONES:
Zone Events: If Planar Fortress Zone Events fail, players should now receive a small amount of Voidstone rewards based on the number of Forward Bases that were controlled.
Moved multiple resource nodes that were hiding inside rocks.
Lures for the rifts Invasive Species, Sinister Tide, and Hero's Unrest will indicate that they cannot be used in the Plane of Water, and will not consume the item.
Low level players who enter the Nightmare Training Shoal instance will now be able to leave through the portal.
DRAUMHEIM:
Quest: Debt and Taxes: The quest now correctly informs you to kill a single Final Debt rather than multiple, even though only 1 is required.
Quest: The Collective Unconscious: The second lost dream will no longer appear inside of a wall.
Quest: The Center of Oblivion: The End of Oblivion instance should now properly resurrect you after respawning and re-entering the instance.
Quest: The Extinction of Sanity: Should now work better for players suffering from aggressive VFX culling.
The Lurking Fall-dwellers in Rended Falls will no longer drop Foraging materials when Butchered.
Fixed an issue causing players to fall through the floor in Ghar Station Rosh.
GOBORO REEF:
Quest: Numerically Complex: Quest text now directs you to return to Hekhet at Ghar Station Mem rather than Temple of Ranri.
Quest: Parasites Below: The Infected Skelf Eggs will now despawn after being cleansed.
Quest: Eyes on the Oculon: Fixed an issue preventing Tempest from using the cannon abilities during this quest.
Quest: Man-Made Reef: Added more dormant coral and removed restrictions on them which was making the quest frustrating to complete
Fixed a spawn point for the rare spawn Pyrus to not spawn in terrain.
Fixed the achievement for “Scouring the Depths” so that killing Ultana increments the achievement.
IA: Flamescapers: Removed a non-active ability from this adventure.
IA: Dreambound Crawlers: Fixed the incorrect Empowered NPCs that were showing up.
IA: Savior of Lost Knowledge: Moved a book that was not reachable.
IA: Increased the minimum group size for being sent on Major Rift adventures to 7.
TARKEN GLACIER:
Aegmar's Head wasn't located in Aegmar's Pass, now it is. Our argument is once again valid.
Quest: Rounding Error: Populations of the research snorox are now fixed and afflicted snorox guaranteed to be present when using the isotope scanner.
Fixed the rare spawn Numera to no longer spawn in terrain.
STILLMOOR:
IA: Fixed an issue with a couple of Instant Adventures that did not want to work for Sidekicked players.
SHIMMERSAND:
IA: Fixed an issue with a couple of Instant Adventures that did not want to work for Sidekicked players.
DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES:
Increased XP granted from killing mobs and bosses in Nightmare Tide dungeons by 30%.
Fixed a bug where Rapid Assault achievements did not appear to exist for some Nightmare Tide dungeons.
Note: Gyel Fortress and Citadel of Insanity do not have them, but an update for them is coming in a future hotfix.
CITADEL OF INSANITY: EXPERT:
Skylla is now slightly more forgiving.
SOULS:
Planewalker's Call can no longer be used while in combat.
MASTERIES:
Planar Conservation no longer removes other Anthems aside from Anthem of Fervor.
ROGUE:
RIFTSTALKER:
Rift Disturbance: The debuff now scales to the player's level.
Guardian Phase: No longer removed while the player has Safeguard and either zones or logs in.
WARRIOR:
VOID KNIGHT:
Accords are no longer removed when the Warrior dies.
ITEMS:
Many Nightmare Tide items now have hit suitable for entering expert dungeons:
All crafted items
Grim Maw items
Most level 65 quests.
Pressure Proof Treads stats has been adjusted.
Focus of Nightmares is now Bind to Account.
CRAFTING:
Corrected all crafted seal recipes to create the correct seal. Already existing seals, will be upgradable to the next seal tier. No stats are being changed or nerfed in this process.
Changed Fine Sarfiber Shortbow & Longbow to require a Workbench instead of a Forge to craft.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.0 Hotfix 2 (Oct 25, 2014)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 3.0 Hotfix 1 (Oct 24, 2014)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 2.8 Hotfix 14 (Oct 16, 2014)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 2.8 Hotfix 13 (Oct 15, 2014)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 2.8 Hotfix 12 (Oct 10, 2014)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 2.8 Hotfix 5 (Aug 27, 2014)

GENERAL:
Use your Rift on RIFT! Implemented experimental Oculus Rift support.
/oculus 1 to enable.
/oculus 0 to disable.
/oculusrecenter to recenter position tracking.
You must resize your window to be the appropriate size (1920x1080 for the DK2) and use extend desktop mode.
Direct mode is not supported.
This is an experimental, unsupported, side project - use at your own risk – support may be disabled in the future if problems arise.
Fixed an issue causing the "Copy to PTS" to time out!
AUCTION HOUSE:
Right-clicking on item or material icons in your crafting window while the Auction house is open to the browse tab will now auto search for that item on the auction house.
SOULS:
CLERIC
DRUID
The Druid soul no longer counts as a partial support soul for the purposes of determining which role icon to display for a character. It now counts as DPS only.
Subtlety: Now affects secondary damage effects of abilities, such as Sanction Heretic, Dark Water, Lightning Hammer and Eruption of Life.
INQUISITOR:
Nysyr's Rebuke: Removed PVP damage penalty.
ORACLE:
Defend the Fallen: Fixed an issue which could prevent this ability from applying its blocker debuff.
SHAMAN:
Deep Freeze: No longer modifies the damage of Corroded Defense.
MAGE:
Fixed an issue with some Pyromancer effects incorrectly triggering the Fungal Blossom debuff on the Greenscale fight.
HARBINGER:
Empyrean Ascension: Now has a 60s cooldown, but lasts for 15s.
Dancing Limbs: Reduced the cooldown and duration of this ability (which is gained from Empyrean Ascension) to 6s.
PYROMANCER:
Accelerant: Now falls off when the target dies.
STORMCALLER:
Conductive Medium: No longer breaks the disguise from the quest A Bit of Subterfuge.
ROGUE:
PHYSICIAN
Biofeedback: Rank 9 of this ability no longer targets enemies.
DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES:
BINDINGS OF BLOOD: LAETHYS
Fixed an issue with the Not Golden achievement not always being awarded correctly.
NIGHTMARE COAST:
Fixed an issue with Sleeping on the Job having missing quest text.
ZONES AND QUESTS:
THE DENDROME
NPCs: Daya Patth in Achyati Village will no longer move from his position.
PVP AND WARFRONTS:
THE BLIGHTED ANTECHAMBER
Deaths in Blighted Antechamber will no longer cause Soul Damage.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 2.8 Hotfix 4 (Aug 20, 2014)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 2.8 Hotfix 3 (Aug 13, 2014)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 2.8 Hotfix 2 (Aug 11, 2014)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 2.8 Hotfix 1.5 (Aug 8, 2014)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 2.8 Hotfix 1 (Aug 7, 2014)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 2.8 (Aug 6, 2014)

3.0 PRELUDE: MADNESS WAKES STORY QUESTS
Cyril Kalmar and Kira Thanos have been dreaming darkly in the city of Tempest Bay. Help them put these Dark Dreams to rest...
NEW DUNGEON: NIGHTMARE COAST
The Infinity Gate has been set adrift by a sinister force has sailed across the world to Fortune's Shore with an army of fanatic cultists called themselves the Dream Coven in tow. The city defenses have fallen and now the clock is ticking as the cultists begin a ritual to open a portal to another world. Will the ascended be able to thwart this diabolical plot or will a new age of darkness descend upon Telara? Join together with four other brave Telarans and find out!
The Nightmare Coast is a new 5 man dungeon for players at level 60 that offers powerful new items, quests, challenging new encounters and the answers to the mystery of the Sinister Presence. The entrance can be found in Shimmersand near Fortune’s Shore.
PYROMANCER REBORN
The Pyromancer soul has received a large update. More instant Cinder Burst casts, no more Combust stack management and deadlier Fireballs are just a few of the changes waiting for you. Come check out the updated abilities and talents now available.
REVAMPED AUCTION HOUSE!
The auction house has been overhauled and is now vastly improved!
Improved searching
Recommended prices
Buy individual items from a stack
Item previewing
Price history
Buy orders
Relist auctions through your mailbox
Search by stats
Replaced arbitrary durations of short, medium, and long with real times, such as 23h, 51m
Read all about the auction house improvements here!
UPGRADED INSPECT
Inspecting gear on other players just got more detailed! You can now tell if an item comes from a mob or an achievement, and which one it is!
ACTION BARS: SHAREABLE ACROSS ROLES
You can now toggle any of your Secondary Action bars to be shared across all Roles for a character. Open options/interface/action bars and click any of the shared action bar toggles. Action bars that you toggle to shared will keep the same abilities on them when you switch to a different Role.
The first time you turn on a shared action bar, it will make a copy of the buttons from the bar it is replacing.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 2.7 Hotfix 16 (Jul 30, 2014)

RIFT STORE AND SERVICES:
Concept contest cloaks are now flagged Bound to Account!
Patron:
Patron's Radiance: No longer a toggled ability, and will now persist through death.
Patron's Focus: Call of the Ascended now resets the cooldown of all combat resurrections.
SOULS:
MAGE
STORMCALLER
Storm Locus: Fixed an error in the ability description. Previously it indicated it would hit 0 enemies instead of 8.
Living Storm: Increased the duration of ranks 1 through 10 to 16s in order to match the duration of rank 11.
ROGUE:
ASSASSIN
Serpent Strike: Damage increased by 10%.
NIGHTBLADE:
Ebon Fury: Cooldown reduced from 120s to 60s. Duration reduced from 15s to 8s.
RIFTSTALKER:
NEW ABILITY: Mass Instigate: AoE taunt on 20s cooldown. Replaces Planar Reversal at 24 points spent in Riftstalker.
TACTICIAN:
Power Core: Fixed an issue where this debuff allowed for double dipping of additional damage abilities such as Arc and Shifting Blades.
DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES:
BINDINGS OF BLOOD: MAELFORGE
Implosion will cease being cast at 60%, rather than 50%.
Scream of Chaos now has an 11s cooldown, up from 9s.
Karine will no longer dive off Maelforge's platform trying to attack him if her song is used during the start of the first air phase.
PLANEBREAKER BASTION:
Corrected a glitch with Krizzix's death not correctly opening the gates to Inyr.
Fixed a bug where players were credited with Defeating Warden Thrax when they killed Krizzix.
PVP AND WARFRONTS:
Healing and shielding are now reduced by 65% in PVP, up from 62% at level 60.
BLIGHTED ANTECHAMBER:
This warfront is now available to players level 40 and up!
There are now better visual queues on where to return a flag.
The Spire is now worth less points.
You may no longer gain the top of The Spire while carrying a flag.
ITEMS:
Fixed misspelling in the Deity of Summer outfit.
Summerfest World Event merchant has been disabled.
Several items from the Bindings of Blood raids now have their trade window enabled!
Cinderhide gloves are now tintable.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 2.7 Hotfix 15.5 (Jul 24, 2014)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 2.7 Hotfix 15 (Jul 23, 2014)

GENERAL:
Fixed a crash that could occur with warfront announcers.
Players disconnected from zones and shards they don't return to on login will no longer get phantom chat from that zone or shard.
Fixed a bug with the Soul Tree displaying the incorrect rank in some talent tooltips.
RIFT STORE AND SERVICES:
PATRON PASS: SUPERCHARGING CONTINUES!
NEW ABILITIES: Added new activated abilities increase the amount of bonus rewards available from Random Warfronts and Dungeons each week:
Bonus Warfront Charges
Bonus Dungeon Charges
NEW ABILITY: Patron's Radiance: This cosmetic only ability showcases how awesome you are for being a patron.
NEW ABILITY: Experience Bonus Suppression: For those of you that want to take it slow, we've added a new toggled ability that allows the passive 40% experience gains to be suppressed!
NEW PASSIVE: Bonus Daily Quests: Added new passive calling out that Patrons gain 10 additional daily quests!
SOULS:
MAGE
ARBITER
Recharging and Overheated debuffs can no longer be cleansed.
STORMCALLER:
Tempest Armor and Storm Armor: Now last through death.
Storm Armor: The knockback now only occurs against enemies within melee range of the Mage.
Storm Locus: The short duration debuff now appears under the name Storm Fury in the combat log. The minute duration debuff portion of the ability still appears as Storm Locus.
Lightning Arc: Fixed an issue causing this ability to sometimes be considered an instant ability.
ROGUE:
PHYSICIAN
Alternative Treatment: Reduces healing and absorbs while active by 70% in PVP. PVE is unchanged.
Active Treatment: Healing effectiveness is reduced by 10% in PVP.
ZONES:
ZE: Reduced the frequency of the Bloodfire Behemoth, Power of Nightmares, and The Bloodfire Army zone events.
ASHORA:
Zone Event: Increased the frequency of the Volan zone event.
EMBER ISLE:
Reduced the damage and health of the Nightmare Guards and Font in the Rising Depths zone event.
DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES:
BINDINGS OF BLOOD: MAELFORGE
Players will no longer see their purge button light up when Maelforge casts Eruption.
The attack range for the Ra'Aran of Fate has been increased to allow for chloromancer healing during the second air phase.
PLANEBREAKER BASTION:
It is now possible to access the mini-boss and Inyr'Kta without first defeating Warden Thrax and Proteus.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 2.7 Hotfix 14.5 (Jul 18, 2014)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 2.7 Hotfix 14 (Jul 17, 2014)

SUMMERFEST ==
Daryl now offers a new quest for those that have completed the quest Capture: Them All! The new quest, Capture: The Prize includes the rewards players should have received for completing Capture: Them All.
Summer Sunfish are no longer soulbound.
Dark Ice Mage Tank essences and necklaces now drop from the Summerfest Party Basket.
The Dead Dance Revolution achievement now functions appropriately.
GENERAL:
Fixed the chat console sometimes cutting off sentences.
Restored some visual effects used to mark flag/crystal/rune vessel carriers in Warfronts.
RIFT Connect no longer supports Facebook.
RIFT STORE AND SERVICES
PATRON PASS: SUPERCHARGED!
NEW PASSIVE: Bonus Rewards: This replaces the old Patron buffs, and increases Experience, Favor, Notoriety, Prestige and Token values by 40%!
NEW PASSIVE: Mounted Command: This replaces the old Patron Mount Boost, and provides the following bonuses:
Increases mounted speed by 10%.
Reduces the time to mount by 25%.
Reduces the chance to be dismounted by 5%.
NEW PASSIVE:
Marvelous Luck: Increases the chance of receiving Marvelous loot from Supply Crates.
NEW PASSIVE: Patron Focus:
Reduces the cast time of Call of the Ascended by 10 seconds.
Reduces the cooldown of the following planar abilities by 15 minutes:
Archaic Tablet
Charged Mirror
Consuming Flame
Petrified Rune
Renewing Seed
Soul Crystal
NEW ABILITY:
Patron Fast Pass: Allows an Ascended remote access to the Porticulum once ever 30 minutes.
All passive Patron abilities are now visible in the Patron ability tab!
SOULS:
MAGE:
ARBITER:
Deadly Shards: Now in tier 8 of the Arbiter soul tree.
Protection of Wind: Now in tier 6 of the Arbiter soul tree.
STORMCALLER:
This update is large, and nearly a complete rebuild of the soul!
Most talents and abilities have been changed or removed, and new ones have been added. Major differences include:
Hypothermia: Has been removed.
Electrified: Now stacks on the caster and not the enemy.
In general, Air abilities will generate Charge while Water abilities will consume it.
All soul presets that included Stormcaller in their builds have been updated.
Points spent in the soul are not being reset, however, some points may be refunded if they were spent in a talent that had its number of ranks reduced.
For a detailed list of what is part of the soul now and what has been removed please check out this thread by Kervik!
WARRIOR:
VOID KNIGHT:
Furious Rage, Staggering Rage:
Fixed an issue where the interruption effect could stay on the character indefinitely.
ZONES AND QUESTS:
Zone Event: Bloodfire Behemoth: Amon T'Drok is now less talkative during battle.
STONEFIELD:
Quest: Stone Cold Survivors: This quest should now complete MUCH more reliably.
Quest: The Source of the Problem: Wrested a Mine Cart of Infinite Sourcestone from the grasp of the Golden Maw. (Thanks to Jhonkeiver and Lerogue from Seastone!)
DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES:
BINDINGS OF BLOOD: MAELFORGE:
Fixed an issue that could cause Maelforge to become stuck in situations with server latency spikes.
Asias now correctly applies his reset for Life's Rapture.
Corrected the tooltip for Burning Pyronite to correctly display a range of 40m instead of 30m.
Magcilian will no longer cast Dire Flames without a target in range, or immediately after Lava Tether.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 2.7 Hotfix 13 (Jul 9, 2014)

SUMMERFEST:
Ravensong is now set to Bind to Account.
Zone Events and Rifts now drop a boosted amount of Merit Badges!
Summerfest Party Baskets now stack to 99! You can now purchase more than one at a time.
Chasing the Rainbow: Fixed an issue that could cause emptied chests to not despawn. Increased the respawn rate of chests.
A Simple Bean: Added map markers of possible soil locations. Increased respawn rate of soil.
Fire in the Sky: Added locations of the Firework Launchers to the quest text.
Plant Trees in Scarwood Reach: Increased respawn rate of objectives.
Critter Capture: Fixed these Summerfest quests.
Fixed auction categories for Summerfest pets.
Fixed graphic for Xalmathalmanar the IIIIVst.
Fixed the character name for Backmane.
Fixed a typo in the Beach Bum achievement.
GENERAL:
Raised the outgoing (server to client) data "full" threshold. This should improve network performance for players with good connections in extremely crowded and active areas, such as conquest.
Reduced the XP awarded by turning in level 50-60 Storm Legion artifact sets.
No longer fret if something happens to your phone while logged into RIFT Mobile! You can now contact Customer Support to disconnect your account from your phone.
RIFT STORE AND SERVICES:
Rare, Epic and Relic Lock Box Keys, as well as Swirling Infinity Particles purchased from the store, are now Bound to Account.
This only affects new purchases.
They will not stack with existing tradable versions.
ZONES AND QUESTS:
EMBER ISLE:
The NPC Ismeneia no longer gives loot or XP.
STEPPES OF INFINITY:
IA: Breaking the Supply Chain: All supplies will burn as they are supposed to now. (Thanks to Ireka@Typhiria!)
Fixed various quest and achievement typos. (Thanks to editors Sargonnax@Wolfsbane, Dasa@Greybriar, Daerios@Hailol, and Degorian@Deepwood)
DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES:
BINDINGS OF BLOOD: MAELFORGE:
Magcilian: Adjusted the stack limit of Voracity back down to 30.
Players fighting Maelforge will now be summoned to a safe area on the platform on raid wipe.
The shield Talos applies to players' 'Burning Conviction' absorbs 40,000 damage, but says it only absorbs 20,000 damage. This typo will be fixed in an upcoming Hotfix.
Magma spires will now deactivate during transition into the second air phase.
Implosion no longer appears to prematurely detonate.
Corrected an issue that caused Extreme Radiation to deal far more damage than intended.
GRIM AWAKENING:
Ultane now drops a trinket and an armor piece.
HAMMERKNELL: RUNES OF CORRUPTION, INTREPID: HAMMERKNELL
Fixed an issue that sometimes awarded players dungeon or rift currency when saving them to the instance.
TRIUMPH OF THE DRAGON QUEEN:
Guardians and Defiants can now heal each other once more while in this dungeon.
ITEMS:
Soothing Hand of Enrichment can now be upgraded and sidegraded to a Strength/Dexterity variant.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 2.7 Hotfix 12 (Jul 2, 2014)

FEATURES:
SUMMERFEST IS BACK!
To start your summer adventure, head to any one of the capital cities!
Collect Ravensong, the new mount, by gaining Summer Loyalty!
Tons of pets are available from the Summerfest Party Basket!
Scavenger Hunt quests are in every zone of Mathosia, Brevane, and Dusken.
Get dressed for the weather-- swimwear is back in the RIFT Store, with a few new pieces to boot.
GENERAL:
Fixed a rare server crash.
ZONES AND QUESTS:
Water Saga: Insanity Intelligence: Thoonaq, Demigod of Taboo Thoughts, will now despawn if not in combat. (Thanks to forum member Walrin!)
Zone Event: Aggressive Colonization: The Broodqueen should no longer spawn level 50 children.
CAPE JULE:
Pyronite Monstrosity should respawn more consistently.
DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES:
BINDINGS OF BLOOD: GREENSCALE:
Corrected an issue with the Bindings of Blood: Greenscale leaderboards that was causing invalid scores of 0 to display in the top 50 spots.
BINDINGS OF BLOOD: LAETHYS:
Fixed an issue that could cause players who are soul walking to not receive achievements.
Achievements for the Ceremony are now given upon completion of the Ceremony.
BINDINGS OF BLOOD: MAELFORGE:
Corrected a bug that was preventing Asias's Dark Cabal from impacting the Oracle ability Defender of the Fallen.
Updated the AI driving Tyrant's Fire to correct a duplicate target scenario.
Players in melee range will now have slightly longer to react to being targeted by Tyrant's Fire.
Fixed an issue that was causing Chlorine Tripyruoride to hit for 10x more than intended.
Adjusted the implementation of Extreme Radiation so that it doess more consistent damage.
Corrected a bug where NPC heroes would follow players over the edge and become lost until Maelforge's aggro reset.
Fixed the silence caused by Implosion to be Physical instead of Disease (which was eating cleanse).
Halved the tick rate of Cinder Storm (it was applying much too frequently).
Increased the range that Lava Tether would resolve at, making the removal process more reliable.
RETURN TO DEEPSTRIKE:
The invasive denizens of Deepstrike have revised their defensive strategy and adjusted the teleporters accordingly. Players will no longer be able to instantly teleport to the final boss of the dungeon from the entrance.
PVP AND WARFRONTS:
Summon Friend can no longer be used in Warfronts.
ITEMS:
Removed the range requirement for Verdant Archbow proc.
Looting money off of corpses in warfronts will no longer be operating in the bizarre new round-robin behavior.
The attack and spell power buffs that proc from weapons in the Bindings of Blood will not be able to stack.
The following achievement trickets now must be equipped to use.
Empowered Hand Cannon
Hand Cannon
Fixed a typo in Fragments of The Ward endurance.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 2.7 Hotfix 11 (Jun 27, 2014)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 2.7 Hotfix 10 (Jun 19, 2014)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 2.7 Hotfix 9.0 (Jun 18, 2014)

GENERAL:
When a player goes link dead, all group or raid members will now receive a chat message that they have gone link dead, along with the currently residing effect of their name turning gray.
Guilds that have changed their name can now be searched for in the Guild Finder window by their new name, so players no longer have to search for the guild by their old name only to see the new name in the window.
Fixed a server disconnect that happened when playing the intro movie from character selection.
RIFT STORE AND SERVICES:
Battle Dyes are now available in the Store under the PVP Category! They can be applied in Conquest and Warfront matches to temporarily dye all of your armor.
UI AND SETTINGS:
Debuffs that are not cleansable should always have a red border now. In addition, the priority given to cleansable vs non-cleansable debuffs on raid frames now works better.
CLASSES:
CLERIC:
CABALIST:
Howling Death: Now grants immunity to Debilitate instead of Silence.
MAGE:
ARBITER:
Icy Blast: Fixed an issue where the non-max rank Icy Blast was centering the AOE around the caster instead of the target.
ELEMENTALIST:
Greater Air Elemental: Electric Field: Now stacks separately for each pet.
Water Elemental: Mind Freeze: Now Debilitates the target.
ROGUE:
PHYSICIAN:
Viral Infection: No longer procs off of Preventive Medication.
RANGER:
Concussive Blast: Should interrupt a wider range of abilities now.
RIFTSTALKER:
Planebound Aegis: No longer has a minor delay before becoming active.
WARRIOR:
TEMPEST:
Focused Fire: This self buff is no longer overwritten by other Tempest's Focused Fire.
VOID KNIGHT:
Shock: Range now properly increased by Rift Distortion.
DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES:
Completing a Random Storm Legion Expert now also awards 25 Fragments of The Ward!
BINDINGS OF BLOOD: LAETHYS:
The High Ground protection buff now applied more quickly upon climbing a gold pile.
Additional vfx has been added to indicate Metallic Orb targets.
The Bad Reaction debuff is no longer cleansable.
THE INFINITY GATE:
After dying in The Infinity Gate, your corpse marker will now appear at the correct entrance portal instead of at Planebreak Bastion's entrance portal.
PVP AND WARFRONTS:
CONQUEST:
Turning in a stone or upgrading a Dream Generator now adds 500 conquest power to you and up to 30 allies around you!
Adjusted points requirement to 5,000, down from 10,000.
Reducing a team's score now only works on the team that is in the lead or is tied for a lead!

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 2.7 Hotfix 8.0 (Jun 17, 2014)

MECH WEEK IS BACK:
Temporal Flux returns! The planar Research Institute has reopened the Temporal Rifts. Players of level 30 and above can visit the PRI Representatives in Sanctum, Meridian, and Tempest Bay for daily quests and players of all levels can hunt for the Temporal Flux rifts throughout the world.
There's even a new Temporal Flux Daily! Battling the Battlers: Defeat the final boss of a Temporal Flux rift.
Note: Mech Week begins at 3:30 PM server time on Thursday, June 12th, and ends the following Thursday, June 19th, at 3:30 PM server time.
GENERAL:
Last names no longer accept words that are considered profanity.
Fixed a crash that could occur when entering warfronts.
UI AND SETTINGS:
You can now use the new command "/maxfps" to limit your maximum frames per second.
Fixed a problem with changing text colors in options causing it to sometimes change the wrong color options.
Players can now see the locations of quest givers for Promotional events, such as Temporal Flux, on the world map.
ZONES:
Zone Event: Unnatural Speciation: Reduced the Hellbug Fissure healing, health, and the respawn rate of adds.
CLERIC:
SENTINEL:
Fullness of Life: Can no longer crit.
ROGUE:
PHYSICIAN:
Viral Infection: Now triggers 100% of the time off of any Physician heal or absorb ability. Will not trigger off of Biofeedback.
Emergency Response: Can no longer crit. It also cannot be affected by any +healing abilities, such as the Tactician gift or Palliative Care.
Alternative Treatment: Now off Global Cooldown. Costs 10 energy. 8 second cooldown. It will still remove itself if the Rogue goes to 0 energy.
WARRIOR:
DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES:
Tier 1 Raid Encounters: All enrage timers have been increased by 2 minutes, reducing the DPS required for a kill.
Tier 2 Raid Encounters: All enrage timers have been increased by 1 minute, reducing the DPS required for a kill.
BINDINGS OF BLOOD: AKYLIOS:
The Portal for Akylios is now visible.
BINDINGS OF BLOOD: GREENSCALE:
The Portal for Greenscale is now visible.
Greenscale will no longer target pets or random players in melee range during the final 25% of the fight.
Noxious Bracken and Strangle Plant have had their aggro radius reduced to 1 meter and will immediately give up their pursuit of players.
BINDINGS OF BLOOD: LAETHYS:
Annihilating Flar: No longer affected by Laethys's enrage.
Addressed an issue causing high latency players to be teleported out of Gold Piles.
ITEMS:
Several Tier 3 Raid DPS relic items have received a stat enhancement to aid you in your quest to defeat Maelforge and Laethys.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 2.7 Hotfix 6.0 (May 29, 2014)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 2.7 Hotfix 4.0 (May 21, 2014)

NEW RAID - BINDINGS OF BLOOD: MAELFORGE:
A mysterious force working to rewrite history has turned to the most pivotal moment in all the Blood Storm war: the imprisonment of Maelforge. The victory that once united the broken armies of Telara is now in jeopardy and the fate of all Telara with it. Join the heroes of the Blood Storm war in a battle against extinction and fight for your very existence!
UNICORNALIA ARRIVES!
Unicornalia descends upon Telara on Thursday, 5/22 at 3:30 PM server time. It will remain until 3:30 PM server time on the following Thursday, 5/29!
If you are level 30 or higher you can find new daily quests in your home city that award a new currency, Sparkle Essences! These currencies can be used to purchase an Opal Unicorn mount from Mari, the PRI Quartermaster.
Limited Edition: Sparkle Troves, available on the Rift Store and from completing the achievement A Rainbow in the Dark, have a chance to contain an Onyx Unicorn mount. Participate in the new zone event Hooves and Horns in Moonshade Highlands for a chance at additonal Limited Edition: Sparkle Troves!
GENERAL:
You can now teleport to a different Shard by yourself without having to group with somebody on that Shard!
Right-click on your player portrait while you are logged in game and look for a new option "Teleport to Shard" to see a list of available shards that you can teleport to.
Note that you cannot teleport to another shard while you are in combat, in a Warfront, in a Conquest, or in a private map instance such as a Dimension.
Bounty Hunters; Keep your eyes open for Telara's !
Fixed an issue causing Mage Tanks to have much lower armor values when mentored then intended.
RIFT STORE AND SERVICES:
Level 60 players no longer need to change their level filters to see Empyreal Vanquisher's Cells.
ZONES:
The Unnatural Speciation zone event should now launch more frequently. Thanks to FyrrePower for the feedback!
STONEFIELD:
Fixed various text issues in Stonefield quests. (Thanks to our player-editors -- Relaria@Faeblight, Meduza@Deepwood, Hasadas@Hailol, Lanat@Greybriar, and Qukigger@Faeblight!)
Quest: Bound AncientsL This Death Saga can now be completed in non-raid versions of the encounter.
Quest: Stone Cold Survivors: Now works properly now.
The Quartermaster merchant at Crimson Wash should once again offer to sell Quarry Rat rewards to Guardian players.
Quest: Carnage: Soul Hunter: Removed some text fragments. Thanks, Treiale@Laethys!
CLASSES:
Break Free and other similar CC breaking abilities will now correctly enable when you are Debilitated.
CLERIC:
Fixed casting on target-of-target for the new Cleric abilities.
ORACLE:
Fixed an issue where Oracle Curses, with points in Devouring Emblems, were consuming Emblem of Pain buffs.
Defend the Fallen: Upon expiration, this ability now applies a blocker buff to allies affected by it.
ROGUE:
PHYSICIAN:
Viral Infection: Now has a 10 minute duration.
Supportive Care: Now procs off of absorb abilities as well.
All AoE healing and absorb shield effects that could target friendly pets will no longer do so.
WARRIOR:
LIBERATOR:
Healing and absorb abilities are no longer affected by Tempest's Long Range Training talent.
Dichotomy of Pain, Mass Oppression and Castigate: Damage increased. Secondary effects remain unchanged.
Ameliorate: Increased healing done by 100%.
AoE healing effects will no longer target pets.
DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES:
BINDINGS OF BLOOD: AKYLIOS:
Corrected the leaderboard and added the zone quest.
BINDINGS OF BLOOD: GREENSCALE:
Corrected the tooltip display for Call of Dhel to correctly note the 40% increase in damage it provides.
Toxilua will now punish your vine related shenanigans.
Leaderboards will now actually list a time.
BINDINGS OF BLOOD: LAETHYS:
Fixed an issue that could cause Laethys to not spawn Gold Piles during Laethic Gold.
Increased the cooldown of Auric Evocation.
BINDINGS OF BLOOD: MAELFORGE:
Unlocked the true AI, strength, health values and enabled full mechanics. You didn't actually think we'd let you practice on the real thing, did you?
ITEMS:
Additional drops for Mage Tanks are available from Raid Rifts and in Raiding Instances.
Fixed an issue where the heal over time effect from the Ethereal Touch wand was not increasing healing from other items.
Rend the Heavens has been changed to Spell Power instead of Spell Critical Hit.
Tenacious Trident staff has been corrected to have tankier stats
Several Rogue and Mage items were filtering incorrectly
Hunter Exemplar's Fortifying Cloak stats upgraded

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 2.7 Hotfix 3.0 (May 16, 2014)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 2.7 Hotfix 2.0 (May 14, 2014)

FEATURES:
ASCEND A FRIEND:
Have a friend you'd love to play RIFT with? Then we've got a program for you! The RIFT Ascend-a-Friend program has been improved and makes inviting your friends to join you in RIFT better than ever. In addition to the handy ability to summon your friend to your side, when your newly Ascended allies purchase something with game cards or money in RIFT, you'll earn Referral Coins that are redeemable at the in-game store for special items like mounts, pets, costumes, and even REX. At this moment, it is not available in-game, but will be later today! Watch this post for updates.
NEW RAID - BINDINGS OF BLOOD: LAETHYS:
Mysterious forces seek to rewrite history by thwarting the imprisonment of the Blood Storm. Join those who originally bound Laethys to protect Telara from the Dragon of Greed.
GENERAL:
The pet bar will no longer sometimes clear out if you have a summoned pet and are changing your macros.
Mentoring should be slightly more forgiving to Mage tanks!
RIFT STORE AND SERVICES:
Greenscale, Budgie and the all new Spectral Supply Crates now contain gear appropriate for Mage tanks!
A third upgrade tier has been added to level 60 lockbox equipment.
ZONES
Fixed a bug in wh:ich Hellbug Fissures could appear in bad locations during and after the Unnatural Speciation zone event. Thanks to Niagara for the report!
A few of the more stable zones should now be a little more unstable. The weightings of the unstable zone events in some zones has been increased!
SCARLET GORGE:
Quest: Army of the Dead, Go Back Home: Can now be completed once more.
STEPPES OF INFINITY:
Quest: Stairway to Oblivion: The Syntyche should no longer be getting stuck during the final confrontation.
THE DENDROME:
Atrophinius will no longer get drunk and wander off, preventing certain quests from being turned in.
CLASSES:
Break Free: The immunity effect now blocks Debilitate effects.
MAGE:
ARBITER:
Icy Blast: Now requires line of sight to the target in order to cast.
Crystallize: Harbinger weapon buffs will no longer generate mana from this ability.
ROGUE:
PHYSICIAN:
Emergency Response: Can now proc Simultaneous Treatment.
WARRIOR:
LIBERATOR:
Medical Facility: Now a 1 minute cooldown.
Neutralize: Can now be cast on other players.
DUNGEONS AND INSTANCES:
BINDINGS OF BLOOD: GREENSCALE:
Reduced the total number of Shamblers to 21, down from 24.
Dhel's damage bonus is now 40% for 20s up from 20% for 15s.
Diona's cooldown has been reduced to 120s from 180s.
Murderous Overgrowth health has been reduced (approximately -4,500,000).
Petrified Genesis Oak has had its health slightly reduced (approximately -1,500,000).
Greenscale's health has been slightly reduced (approximately -8,100,000).
Noxious Spores and Venom Cloud are now mutually exclusive; they cannot overlap for a double tick.
ITEMS:
Some Torvan essences for Mage tanks were inheriting stat upgrades when converted into greater essences. They have had the additional stats removed to be in line with other callings.
Hunt Legend Mage tanking essences have been moved to the Raid 2 store.
Some upgrade paths on store-bought Mage gear have been fixed.
Relic cloak recipe for Mage tanks are now on the same loot tables as all other relic quality capes.
Hunter Legend's Fortifying Cloak is now available on the store, requiring Torvan faction.
Despoiler's Force Staff now shows properly on the store without changing the level flag for level 60 players.
Hunt Legend Arcane Knight's Sandstone and Hunt Legend Arcane Knight's Stratified Lifewood no longer give stat upgrades when converting to greater.
Fixed some Mage tank gear to have the Deflect stat instead of Block.
CRAFTING:
ARTIFICER & OUTFITTER:
Added recipes for epic Mage tank ring, helmet, cape, and belt.
UI AND SETTINGS:
Clearing the crafting skill level filter in the store will no longer sometimes cause crafting recipes that are for sale not to show.
Fixed Crafting buttons and right-clicking crafting stations so that they always open the Crafting Window to the correct profession.
Fixed an issue where clicking on quest sticky icons would sometimes bring up the achievements window.

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 2.7 Hotfix 1.0 (May 10, 2014)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 2.7 Hotfix 0.5 (May 9, 2014)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 2.7 (May 8, 2014)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 2.6 Hotfix 18 (May 1, 2014)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 2.6 Hotfix 17 (Apr 23, 2014)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 2.6 Hotfix 16 (Apr 18, 2014)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 2.6 Hotfix 15 (Apr 17, 2014)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 2.6 Hotfix 14 (Apr 16, 2014)

FEATURES:
NEW TIER OF RAIDS: BINDINGS OF BLOOD
Travel back in time to aid legendary heroes in their quest to imprison The Blood Storm. Delve once more into Greenscale's Lair and the depths of Hammerknell-- but first, be sure to gather your fellow Ascended, as mysterious and powerful forces seek to ensure that Telara's fate is rewritten.
GENERAL:
The following older, outdated dungeon-related currencies can no longer be earned in-game:
Plaque of Achievement
Mark of Ascension
Greater Mark of Ascension
Infernal Mark of Ascension
In the future, a currency conversion will be applied to remove the above currencies from your inventories.
Any gear that could be purchased with any of the above currencies is no longer available on the Store.
The amount of bonus power granted to players with high tier equipment while mentoring has been reduced.
RIFT STORE AND SERVICES:
Depleted Supply Crates are now available on the Store! These are new, PVP centric lockboxes that can be purchased with either Warlord's Marks or Credits.
As a new tier of raid gear has been released, raid 2 armor and weapons are now available for credits on the Store under Equipment>Bundles!
As tier 2 raid gear is now on the Store, the credit price of raid 1 armor and weapons has been reduced.
SOULS:
ROGUE:
BARD:
Cadence: Increased damage by 10%.
Verse of Agony: Increased damage by 20%.
Cadenza: Increased damage by 20%.
Riff: Increased damage by 20%.
Power Chord: Increased damage by 40%.
Coda of Wrath: Increased damage by 50%.
Coda of Fury: Increased damage by 50%.
Virtuoso: Now has a 2 minute cooldown.
Virtuoso: Removed a slight delay before the effect goes off due to the issues it was causing with Rogues spending their combo points.
RANGER:
Twin Shot: Fixed an issue that caused it to stack oddly when used by multiple Rangers.
Twin Shot: Increased damage by 26%
Ace Shot: Increased damage by 15%
ZONES:
Keep an eye out for Unstable Artifact Thieves during the Unstable zone events! If you can figure out a way to catch them you might get some of their ill-gotten gains.
You now have an additional 60 seconds during Stage 4 of the Apothecary Rifts to complete the objectives.
BLOODFIRE CONTENT:
Bloodfire Stronghold: Fixed a bug with Charr'Denor that caused the NPC not to reset correctly when fighting the LV30 version.
Bloodfire Stronghold: Fixed a bug with Renak Ladne that was preventing Roaring Flame from resetting if players wiped to the encounter.
The issue with NPCs spawning at the incorrect level during the Bloodfire Army zone event in Silverwood has been fixed.
DIMENSIONS:
When entering edit mode in a dimension, if you have a PVP scoreboard in your quest tracker, the quest tracker will no longer be automatically hidden.
Fixed the minimap for the Castle Fortune dimension.
ITEMS:
Token Tablets and Patron Token Bonuses now affect the gain of Frozen Eclipse Stones, as the new top level currency, Fragments of the Ward, has been introduced.
Upgrade paths have been added to the following items, which will allow them to become Raid 2 equivalents:
Defense of the Dusk
Band of Darkest Dawn
Signet of Rolling Thunder
Ring of the West Wind
Band of Deft Deflection
Ring of the Raging Storm
Spiked Bone Loop

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 2.6 Hotfix 13 (Apr 9, 2014)

New in Rift: Crucia's Claw 2.6 Hotfix 12 (Apr 2, 2014)

FEATURES:
NEW PRELUDE ZONE EVENTS:
The Bloodfire Army and The Power of Nightmares are now active! If you've been wondering what Crucia has been up to, now's your chance to find out...
GENERAL:
Substantially increased drop rates on Bounty Artifacts. More Bounty additions incoming soon!
Fixed the rare bug where some players might still hear phantom chat from a previous map they were on.
Private chat channels now automatically turn off announcements the first time they reach 20 members.
The Adventure Dealer now displays Infinity Stones as his preferred currency. Infinity Stone Vouchers now display properly for each Calling without selecting all of the options.
Relaxed chat throttling in some more private conversations; players should not experience the "You have sent too many chat messages" error as often.
The achievements for mounting a Planar Squirrel should now work correctly.
BLOODFIRE STRONGHOLDS:
Bosses will now drop Burning Cores 100% of the time. Burning Core Cinders will no longer drop.
Addressed an issue where cross-faction groups would sometimes send players to the wrong location when exiting the instance.
Level 15 and 30 bosses will now drop level-appropriate currencies, as well as reduced Infinity Stones. Level 60 bosses drop the same currency as before.
ZONES:
STONEFIELD:
Fixed a rare whoa, double rift in Stonefield. Thanks to shockwavelol for the report!
PVP AND WARFRONTS:
Added an alternative upgrade path to Myrmidon gear, which uses a Depleted Infinity Cell rather than a Radiant Infinity Cell.
Depleted Infinity Cells can be made with 550 Depleted Infinity Shards. These items are Bind-on-Pickup and not Bind-on-Account.
Rank 80 and above players will now receive Depleted Infinity Shards for completing the following weekly quests: Guns for Hire, Victory in Conquest, and Conquest Carnage.
Rank 80 and above players will now receive a Depleted Infinity Shard for completing their random warfronts with charges.
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS:
Fixed an issue with players sometimes entering forced-mentor instances at the default level.
INFINITY GATE:
Volan: Sterilize will now properly trigger Volan's Outbreak ability.
PLANEBREAKER BASTION:
Inyr'kta: Now drops a Heart of the Planebreaker.