RIFT 2.3 Hot Fix #5 - 06/18/13

GENERAL
* Fixed a bug with stacks of NPC loot not always being awarded (most often seen with high level cloth).
* Fixed an issue with world bosses not always awarding kill credit when attacked by huge numbers of players at once.


RIFT STORE
* You will no longer have to open up the Rift store and manually claim the Account Functionality Extension; the moment your account acquires enough loyalty to unlock the extension it will be applied to your account!
* Rift Exchange is now "REX: Rift Exchange" to makes searches on the Auction House easier.


ZONES

THE DENDROME
* The Blackthorn Trolls in Shok Forest will no longer float above players when pulled.
* The Jungle Wildlings in Savage Wilds will no longer float above players when pulled.
* Missing Acolytes: The Stone of Cunaan will now be triggered after the player has looted it instead of when it's first used.
* The Council of Batua: Hugo will now part with his namesake spear no matter what order the quest objectives were completed in.
* Zone Event: Swarm of the Century: Sylver and the Ether Cannon now have significantly more health that scales with player population.
* Zone Event: Swarm of the Century: the ability name for exiting the cannon now matches the effect reported for blocking immediate re-entry.
* Zone Event: The Awakening: Optimized so that it should now cause less latency when large numbers of players are actively attempting to complete it.
* Kaaz'Ra's spawn puzzle will now properly reset after 1 hour.
* Kaaz'Icht, Kaaz'Krrch and Kaaz'Eckt will now respawn every 15 minutes instead of every 1 hour.

SERATOS
* Fixed Seratos Uncommon Artifact spawns


PVP
* Black Garden Domination now has a point cap of 500


ITEMS
* Architect Carapace and Architect Grub are now Common quality items and stack to 20.


DUNGEONS/INSTANCES

GRIM AWAKENING
* Reawakened Defilers are now properly interruptible.
* Kyzan will always cast Necrotic Torrent no matter which way he is facing.
* Salvarola's abilities in Phase 2 will now work regardless of his ability to see the target.
* Salvarola: Fix to prevent Salvarola from moving in Phase 1.
* Fixed Salvarola's adds in Phase 2 so that most AOEs will trigger the boss to heal.

ENDLESS ECLIPSE
* Regulos: Sicaron will no longer freak out when player-controlled pets are near him.

STORM BREAKER PROTOCOL
* Telephalon: Reset range is slightly shorter – can no longer be pulled around the corner of the bridge.

EMPYREAN CORE
* Slightly reduced the damage of the population at the entrance of the zone.

EXODUS OF THE STORM QUEEN
* General Grim: Players challenged by Grim can no longer use teleportation abilities.

UNHALLOWED BONE FORGE
* Necrotic Throne: Blood Torrent fires at more locations.

TRIUMPH OF THE DRAGON QUEEN
* General Typheria: Due to changes to this boss' enrage state the kill count for the achievement "Typheria's Angels" has been lowered to 10 from 15 in order to make it possible to achieve again.

RIFT 2.3 Hot Fix #4 - 6/17 NA @ 3.30PM PT || 6/18 EU @ 1AM GMT

== FEATURES ==

* 2 new Warfront modes have been added!

DOMINATION: THE BLACK GARDEN
* Available to players between level 10 and level 60.
* Fight for the control of The Black Garden by dominating the 2 control points.

DOMINATION: KARTHAN RIDGE
* Available to players between level 50 and level 60.
* Take Karthan Ridge by storm with this 5 control point variant.
* Capture Points on your side of the map give 3 points.
* Capture Points on the enemy’s side of the map give 5 – high risk, high reward!


GENERAL
* Character Transfers: We now use the correct maximum number of characters per shard, including any extra character slots you may have purchased.
* PVP: The wine in Hailol’s fountains has been replaced on PVP shards with the blood of your enemies. The hubs have had the grace of the gods and our coding lifted from them: they are no longer safe zones.
* Your hidden dimension slots are back!


ZONES
* Adjusted damage on a number of Hunt Rift, Stronghold, and Dendrome Zone Event bosses, including Commander Jorina, Orgathor, Ikaras, and Tuveran.
* Great Hunt rifts from ranks IV and V will now have more interesting invasions.
* Fixed an issue that caused player corpse markers to be misplaced after a stronghold.
* The invasion commander Architect Diviner now snares instead of stuns.

RIFT 2.3 Hot Fix #3 - 06/14/13, 06/15/13 for EU

NOTE: EU is getting Hot Fix #2 with this deploy as well. :)

GENERAL
* Queues: Fixed a display bug for players waiting in the queue. Previously, after 15 minutes of waiting, a player's position in queue could appear to get stuck. It will now more reliably read the correct position.
* Offhand items that have been Transfigured, and are equipped and steathed, should no longer have animation problems.
* The Random Storm Legion Expert now shows the correct rewards. This was purely a display issue.


ITEMS
* A number of costume pieces have been flagged as Bind on Account: Harbinger's, Reaper's, Savant's and Vanquisher's
* Fixed the names of the Majestic Half Cape and the Majestic Cape.
* The Mercenary's, Legionnaire's, Protector's, and Tactician's Longsword now cost the same as other 1 handed weapons in the same tier.


ZONES

THE DENDROME
* Zone Event: Swarm of the Century: 'You cannot do that while Shell Shocked' will no longer mistakenly appear in Tempest Bay. It will now properly display for players attempting to use a cannon while, well. Shell Shocked!
* Zone Event: The Awakening: Will now more reliably give credit to players that have completed it.
* Zone Event: The Awakening: Infuse Spirit ability now restores 2% of the target's health per tick.

RIFT 2.3 Hot Fix #2 - 06/14/13

GENERAL
* Friend-to-All should now work properly. Now even friendlier!
* Warfront Equipment Cache should no longer be empty for players under level 50.
* The extremely low caps on Planarite and Favor have been removed for any player with a registered email address. Guest players will need to register their account to remove these limits.

THE DENDROME
* Moltiest Motes Quest: The Green Faerie has been moved away from a stronghold that was preventing players from completing their quest.
* Some mobs were not properly sharing credit, this has been fixed.

GRIM AWAKENING
* Salvarola: Fixed the damage of his Curse of Magma ability.
* Salvarola: Foul Blessing can now be interrupted.
* Salvarola: Blood Siphon heals will no longer be triggered by items or pets that use an Area of Effect ability.

RIFT 2.3 Hot Fix #1 - 6/13/13

GENERAL

UPDATED for Clarity:
* All players with registered email addresses can now purchase items from the Auction House. Guest accounts are still restricted from purchasing items.
* Until players claim their Account Functionality Extension scroll, which is granted at 1500 Loyalty, they will not be able to post items on the Auction House. Claiming the Account Functionality Extension also results in a raised coin cap.

* All player accounts with registered email addresses no longer have their chat restricted. Guest players still have some restrictions to help combat farmers and spammers.
* The Barbershop has been re-enabled, bringing with them the ability to change your Race and/or Faction.

RIFT 2.3: EMPYREAL ASSAULT - 13/6/13

== FEATURES ==

FREE TO PLAY
No trials. No tricks. No traps. We've made all of Telara free while adding exciting new Loyalty rewards and benefits for the most dedicated Ascended. Learn more on our Free to Play page where we cover new free-player and Patron options plus the RIFT Store, Gifting, and REX.

DENDROME
Home to lush jungles and windswept dunes, Dendrome is the heart of Update 2.3. Explore its vast reaches and battle the Architects and Awakened where new threats rise and burrow. Along the way you뭠l find unrivaled artifacts, events, and challenges, meet and drink with old friends in the riotous town of Hailol, and seek the egg of an unhatched dragon god ... one whose fate is yours to decide!

OPEN-WORLD RAID BOSSES
Energy from the shattered Blood Storm has given rise to terrifying creatures across Dendrome. The greatest of these menaces ?Kaaz'Ra, Senbora the Devourer, and Ahkane the Eternal ?stalk the open world, battling Ascended in dynamically-scaling raid encounters. Defeat each boss in new weekly quests that offer a chance at raid gear plus guaranteed tokens, infinity stones, and more.

Ahkane the Eternal must die in the Venific Locus, Kaaz'Ra must die in Hive Kaaz'Gfuu and Senbora the Devourer must die in Greenscale's Crater, or players will not receive credit for their deaths!

CHRONICLE: QUEEN'S GAMBIT
Mistress Inyra and her Awakened cult are harvesting the Architects?ancient knowledge in a misguided bid for Ascension. Brave a merciless new Chronicle to stop their schemes before the Architects turn the tables on the Awakened and summon a far greater danger to Telara.

SLIVER: GRIM AWAKENING
What would have happened to Kingsward had Salvarola prevailed? Find out as you lead the charge into a timeline where the Awakened have formed a demonic pact in return for the secret to Ascension. Battle past the infernal strength of a fallen Prince Kaliban and Salvarola himself before facing Ultane, demon lord patron of the Awakened.

STRONGHOLDS
The war against planar invasions takes to the skies in new player-summoned Strongholds, multi-tiered fortifications manned by a variety of friendly forces. Fight off new threats to Telara while flying between jump pads and platforms. Just remember to bring friends, as the most daunting invasions will lay siege to Strongholds tuned for 10-70+ players!

RIFT STORE SERVICES
* There are a large number of new Services available for purchase in the RIFT Store!
- 3/15/30 Day Patron Pass: Get all the benefits of being a Patron (Subscriber) from the convenience of using the in-game store. Learn more about the benefits of being a Patron in RIFT!
- Rune Unsocketing Apparatus: Runes can now be unsocketed from your equipment! Right-clicking this new item from your inventory makes the magic happen.
- Planar Essence Removal Device: Like Runes, you can also safely unsocket Planar Essences from your focus.
- Transfiguration Bauble: Customize your weapon with the appearance of any other as long as it's the same weapon-type! Be sure to read the instructions carefully when using.
- Brevanic Portal Generator: Allows remote access to a Porticulum for one character. can be bought for your account via the Collectors Upgrade available in the Services category.
- Brevanic Portal Battery: this item Allows you to reset the cooldown on your Brevanic Portal Generator.
- Trade Skill Extension: Use this item to unlock an additional trade skill slot, up to a maximum of 9.
- Character Slot Extension: Allows you to make an additional character per shard on all shards, up to a maximum of 12.
- Faction Change Scroll: What it says on the tin!Does not Change your race.
- Mass Soul Mend: Restore Soul Vitality to all raid members with this one consumable.
* There are other services available for purchase throughout the rest of the game as well!
- Role Slots: There are now a maximum of 20, and can be purchased with Credits from your Class Trainer.
- Wardrobe Slots: There are now a maximum of 19, and they can be purchased with Credits or Coin from your Character window.
- Race/Gender Change: Explore the new you for a handful of Credits at the Barbershop.
- Bank Vaults: Additional Vaults can now be purchased at the Banker.
- Bag Slots: The bag slot bar now supports up to a maximum of 7 bags. Additional bag bar slots are available for purchase by right-clicking on them.


LOYALTY
* Loyalty Points are gained by consuming REX, buying and spending Credits, and special promotions. There are 5 tiers of Loyalty Rewards to unlock, with a few extra rewards in-between tiers. Claim your Loyalty Rewards on the Home page of the Rift Store!
* Players who were previously or are currently subscribed to RIFT will get a one-time allotment of 7,000 Loyalty Points multiplied by the number of months they have paid for.
* The old Veteran Rewards have been rolled into the Loyalty system.
* The old Guardian and Defiant specific achievements for Veterans Rewards have been replaced by Loyalty versions.
* Jarvis and Cadbury are now summoned by a new ability, Summon: Veteran Vendor. When used, Jarvis will spawn for Defiants, and Cadbury will spawn for Guardians. This new ability is acquired at 7,000 Loyalty, which is equivalent to one month's subscription.
* Patron abilities start with 1 Charge. Charges are gained at a rate of 1 per day, with a maximum of 7. Note: if you let your Patron status lapse, all accumulated charges will be lost.

GUIDE SYSTEM
Guards in Meridian, Sanctum, and Tempest Bay can now help lost visitors find their way. Simply speak to one and select a point of interest to put a waypoint on your main map.

* Fire up your Omen/Quantum Sight: Twisted artifacts are now available in all Storm Legion zones with a new title for collecting the full rare set in each one!

* Play as Guest: New users wanting to try out RIFT can download the patcher and start playing with very little hassle up to 1 experience away from level 10. Chat restrictions do apply to keep spam and abuse at bay.


GENERAL
* Daily Quest turn-in limit is now 30, increased from 25.
* Storm Legion zones, except for Tempest Bay now require a minimum level of 45 to enter.
* Ember Isle now requires a minimum level of 45 to enter, down from 48.
* Factional Quartermasters for the crafting dailies have been moved to Tempest Bay.
* New characters on non-Owner accounts will now only have 3 open bag slots on their bag bar. Additional bag bar slots are available for purchase by right-clicking on them.
* Most Carnage quests now require fewer kills by 20-25%. If your current progress exceeds the new totals the quest will be autocompleted for you.
* Mounts, companion pets, and recipes can now be previewed.
* Guild Perk: Cache Finder is now percentage based!
* Level ranges for each zone are now visible on the main map so that you can easily decide which zone is best for you.
* Porticulum masters in all zones except Meridian & Sanctum can now be used by both factions. The guards in the towns might still hate you though, watch out!
* The World Event Merchant will no longer be caught day dreaming when initially clicked on.
* Longer broadcast messages from the server are no longer cut off.
* Companion pets can no longer be attacked by other players during a duel.
* Auto-Follow no longer cancels when alt+tabbing out while in full screen mode.
* Players who have an Adventurer's Backpack in their bank and upgrade to the Collector's Edition will now automatically upgrade into the Collector's Satchel. At the First Bank of Telara, it's all about what we can do for you.
* All mobs from levels 1 to 15 no longer have Resist and can no longer Parry or Dodge.
* Players who have reached a platinum cap are restricted from selling items back to merchants
* Players from PvP shards wishing to join cross-faction groups on PvE shards can now do so without being kicked out of the group upon their arrival.
* Players visiting PvE shards from PvP shards can now properly send party invitations, and are no longer missing any portrait menu options.
* Made improvements to the chat system's spam filter. Sometimes silence is golden!
* Experience potions now also benefit experience gains from quests.
* Changed text of the Close Ticket button in our customer service window and added a confirmation message box when clicking on it.
* Improved performance for players experiencing lag when they have many friends and one goes online or offline.
* Fixed a crash that occurred when players had a very large number of active quests.
* Fixed a crash that occurred when players were loading.


CURRENCIES
* There is now a cap on how many of a certain currency can be earned in a week: Frozen Eclipse Stone: 4,600, Warlord's Mark: 8,700.
* All Storm Legion Currencies: Item costs and currency gains have both been increased.
* As a result, all players have had their currency totals multiplied by a set amount.
* The following currencies have been multiplied by 100:
- Plaques of Achievement
- Mark of Ascension
- Greater Mark of Ascension
- Freelancer's Marks
- Warlord's Marks
- Empyreal Sourcestone
* The following currencies have been multiplied by 60:
- Infernal Mark of Ascension
* The following currencies have been multiplied by 50:
- Frozen Eclipse Stone
- Inscribed Sourcestone
- Empyreal Slayer's Mark
* The following currencies have been multiplied by 30:
- Infinity Stones
* Random Expert Dungeons now give both Frozen Eclipse Stone and Empyreal Slayer뭩 Marks.
* Reduced Planarite costs for Hunt Rifts and Greater Hunt Rifts.
* The Planarite cap has been increased to 200,000.
* Increased the number of Infinity Stones given for all Daily Torvan quests.
* Added Infinity Stones as an option to the "Hunting Heralds" daily quest.
* Increased the cap for Freelancer's Marks and Warlord's Marks to 10,000.
* Increased the number of Freelancer's Marks awarded in the Ascended Storm Legion Treasure to 300.
* Increased the number of Freelancer's Marks and Warlord's Marks granted from daily and weekly quests.


SOULS
* Removed confusing reference to Class Trainers in the tooltip for low level pets.
* Toggled abilities are now properly marked in the UI as deactivated when their effects end.

CLERICS

DEFILER
* Fixed an issue where the caster's link to their Beacon would stop functioning if they got more than 35 meters away from their beacon.
* Fixed an issue where resummoning a Beacon of Despair could cause the existing Beacon to despawn without spawning a new Beacon.

SHAMAN
* Ageless Ice: Updated the ability description to clarify that the snare effect applies to the caster.

MAGE

ARCHON
* Updated the ability description of all Archon Auras to include the radius of the aura.

DOMINATOR
* Void Wall: The DoT now falls off when the target dies.

ELEMENTALIST
* Pets can no longer have both Elemental Armor and Stone Armor at the same time.

NECROMANCER
* Deathly Calling: Fixed an issue with stacks applied by Putrify. Previously these stacks did not include the damage buff granted by the Deathly Collusion talent until the pet applied another stack of Deathly Calling.

PYROMANCER
* Extinguish: Now works when casting on target's target.

WARLOCK
* Warlock Armor: The heal portion of this buff no longer triggers when the caster damages themselves.

ROGUE

ASSASSIN
* Serrated Blades: The chance to trigger Serrated Blades has been increased to 50%, up from 40%.
* Malicious Poison: Proc chance has been increased to 30%, up from 20%. Damage has been slightly reduced.

BLADEDANCER
* Blade Hustle: The buff no longer persists if you switch out of the Bladedancer soul.
* Combat Culmination: Your Finishers now cause Physical attacks to ignore 2-6% of your target's armor per Combo Point, up from 1-3%.

MARKSMAN
* Decoy: Cooldown is now 60 seconds, down from 120 seconds.
* Decoy: Ranger abilities that affect pets, like Rejuvenate and Divert Rage, will no longer be activated when Decoy is summoned.
* Rending Munitions: Updated the tooltip to indicate that ranged weapon attacks also ignore 25% of the target's Resist.
* Master Archer: Now increases the damage of Marksman attacks by 4-12%, up from 3-9%.

NIGHTBLADE
* Ignited Weapons: The damage effect is no longer overwritten by other players.
* Dark Descent: Now causes the next 3 Finishers to not consume Combo Points, up from 2.
* Flame Blitz: Now tagged correctly as an AE attack. As such, its damage will be changed by any AE damage modifiers.

RANGER
* Animalism, Feral Aggression: Cooldown is now 30 seconds, down from 45 seconds.
* Shadow Fire: Damage bonus from Shadow Fire has been increased from 3% to 5%.

SABOTEUR
* Rapid Setup: Is no longer affected by the Global Cooldown.
* Spike Bomb: Now deals damage per second to enemies in the target area. Requires an enemy target and the effect persists at the initial position of the targeted enemy.
* Spike Bomb: Now also applies Thistle Spike to affected enemies, increasing damage taken from the Rogue by 1% per stack. Thistle Spike stacks up to 15 times.
* Cloud Maker: Damage has been increased.


WARRIOR
* Dark Thane Preset: Updated the preset description to indicate that Plague Bringer causes the Reaver's DOT abilities to affect 7 other enemies and not 9 other enemies.


BEASTMASTER
* Flesh Rip: The bleed effect now ignores the target's armor and its damage no longer varies.
* Twin Cuts: The bleed effect now ignores the target's armor. Cooldown reduced from 20s to 15s.
* Cutting Slash: The bleed effect now ignores the target's armor.
* Cunning Ruse: Now lasts 20s, up from 15s.
* Enrage: Updated the tooltip to indicate that its damage is a bleed effect.
* Primal Lucidity: Damage has been increased.
* Fury Unleashed: Its bonus effect now be multiplies up to a max of 5 times instead of 6 times.

PALADIN
* Reverent Protection: Now applies absorption to group members with the lowest HP by percentage. The amount absorbed has been increased.
* Pacification: Now causes Pacifying Strike to reduce damage taken by 1-3%.
* Protector's Fury: Now also causes Righteous Fury to reduce damage taken by 1% per stack.
* Light's Benediction: Now deals Life damage and reduces damage taken by 7%.
* Unyielding Defense: Now also reduces damage taken from spells by 3-9%.

PARAGON
* Double Jeopardy: No longer has an internal cooldown between triggers.
* Swift Finesse: Now increases the damage of Flurry and Reaping Harvest by 15-30%.
* Strike Like Iron: Now increases all damage by 25%, lasts 1 hour, and is no longer a finisher.
* Flurry: Now deals the right amount of damage over 6s.

REAVER
* Crest of Consumption: No longer increases healing done by Soul Feast by 20%. Now, it increases healing received by 20%.
* Binding of Shadow: Now also reduces damage taken from spells by 3%.
* Power From the Masses: Now reduces damage taken by 1-5%.
* Ethereal Bond: Now also reduces damage taken from spells by 1-3%.
* Crest of the Shadow: Amount absorbed has been increased.
* Walks with Death: Now also reduces damage taken from spells by 2-6%.

RIFTBLADE
* Planar Blade: Increases the damage of Riftblade attacks by 5%. Fixed a typo on the tooltip to no longer reference Rift Summon.
* Rift Implosion: Updated the ability tooltip to clearly indicate what the "Implosion Surge" effect does.
* Flamespear: Updated the tooltip to not include its max damage.
* Scald: Enemies damaged by Icy Burst while under the effects of Fiery Burst now take 10/20/30% of Attack Power as Air Damage, down from 10/30/60% of Attack Power.
* Icy Burst: Damage has been reduced.
* Fiery Burst: Damage has been reduced.

TEMPEST
* Enhanced Conductivity: The debuff from Enhanced Conductivity now increases damage taken from the Warrior by 2%.

VOID KNIGHT
* Accord of Shifting: Now also reduces damage taken from spell by 0.5% per Pact.
* Unstable Void: No longer reduces damage taken from spells by 15%. Instead, it reduces damage taken by 5%.
* Rift Distortion: Now also reduces damage taken from spells by 4%.
* Surging Touch: Now also reduces damage taken from spells by 1-2%.
* Protective Shield: Absorption from Protective Shield has been increased.
* Power Shield: Fixed a tooltip error.
* Surging Touch: Now also reduces damage taken from spells by 2-4%.


ZONES
* Relocated some floating and inaccessible artifacts.
* New players in the starting zone with access to summonable Mailboxes or Personal Bankers can now use those abilities without restriction.
* Players in the Terminus or Old Mathosia tutorial zones will have any outstanding quests autocompleted after leaving them.
* Players can now reset their talent trees and buy new roles by speaking to class trainers in Mathosia and Terminus.

ASHORA
* Volan Fight: Adventurers who don't play with music on will now have a better audio experience than they had before. Additional sound effects have been added.
* Tomb of the Consort: Six of the Tomb Guardians now properly path inside of the tomb.

BREVANE
* Updated images of Porticulum locations.

FREEMARCH
* Anchor Defenders will no longer chase players over great distances.
* Quest: The Means of the Endless: Anchors now reset aggro at a greater distance.

IRON PINE PEAKS
* Players can now use mounts in the Scriptorium.

KINGDOM OF PELLADANE
* Guardians can now find a Grandmaster Butcher trainer at Ferric Harbor alongside the other profession trainers.

MORBAN
* Quest: Escape Artists: Players can no longer get caught in the cages.
* Quest: Eye Spy: Fixed an issue where players who teleported while channeling on the Spy Droids would not be able to complete the quest without first logging out.
* Quest: Great Works: Fixed an issue that could cause line of sight issues when attacking the Eye of the Worm statue.
* Quest: Shuttering Production: Fixed a typo in the quest summary.
* Carnage: Bone Minions: Refuse Feeders spawned by the quest Bone Minions now count towards the quest's completion.
* Shapers End: Fixed an issue allowing NPCs to get caught in the terrain.

SCARWOOD REACH
* The Mushroom Soup achievement messaging should now be more consistent.
* Rabbits in some caves around Keenblade Mill act a little less like... rabbits...

SCARLET GORGE
* Kira and Uriel will no longer chase Guardian players across the entire zone.
* The quest reward "Adriana's Tumbling Deflector" is now "Adriana's Enduring Clasp" and will occasionally proc a Heal Over Time effect on hit instead of reducing fall damage.

SERATOS
* IA: Reduced Norelth's damage across most of his abilities.
* Zone Event: Secrets of the Deep: Should now be more forgiving about passing out rewards.
* Valley of Bones: Added a short quest line to this area.

SILVERWOOD
* Quest: Lord of the Fae: Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause Makirn to not respawn properly.
* Added a Carnage quest to Silverpaw at Point Solitude.
* Vespid Hives no longer instantly heal when attacked by players more than 30m away.
* Quest: Digging Up Weeds: The quest giving object no longer sparkles deceptively for players that have completed or are currently completing this quest.
* Erford Deeprock in Quicksilver College is now much less likely to abandon his post and go missing.
* Removed a Mirror Conspirator out of a rock at Mirror of Ages.
* Dolan Ashwalker at Argent Glade will no longer instantly respawn.

SHIMMERSAND
* Zone Event: Infernal Awakening: Now displays friendly beacons on the map again.

STEPPES OF INFINITY
* Zone Event: Champions of the Firestorm: There is now a 25 second charging period when players acquire Planar Rifles.
* Zone Event: Fortress Defense: General Blythe will no longer become unattackable.

STILLMOOR
* The "Night Terrors" will now always contribute to the achievement Stillmoor Defender.


DUNGEONS AND RAIDS
* The Expert Dungeon Daily now gives 783,000 Alternate Advancement XP.
* Endless Eclipse: Audio updates to Regulos & Zareph's encounter, including ability and ambiance.
* Frozen Tempest: Gelidra can no longer be slain while Amrian is alive.
* Tower of the Shattered: Expert: Fixed an issue that prevented General Thunderscar's lightning beams from appearing after he cast Fury of the Thunder.


PVP/WARFRONTS
* Library of the Runemaster: Defiants should no longer be facing the wall when taking the teleport down.
* Conquest: Increased the distance at which Extractors may be engaged in melee combat.


CRAFTING
* You can now preview the item that will be crafted from recipes!
* All dungeon-dropped recipes can now be sold to a vendor.
* All high-skill level runes now highlight the equipment that they can enchant.
* Armorsmith: Comfortable, Thick, Heavy, Medium and Thin Padding now reduces the time to mount by 10, 8, 6, 4, and 2% respectively.
* Fishing: The Twisted Lure now fishes up twisted artifacts in Brevane and Dusken. Like the Rare Fish Lure, it will not work in Tempest Bay, which has neither rare fish nor twisted artifacts to be lured.
* Most profession-related quests will now appear under the Profession header in your Quest Log.
* Lustrous runes can now be applied to items that are equip-level 60.

DIMENSIONS
* You can now have more than one active dimension per character. Everyone now starts with two, and you can purchase additional dimension slots.
* New dimensions are available: Hailol, Temple of the Abandoned, Edge of Infinity, and Endless Eclipse!
* Dimensions can now be upgraded with credits.
* All dimensions now have a new tier of limits which doubles its previous maximum capacity. The cost for this new tier varies by dimension.
* If you've ever wanted to live in a bogling hut or Shimmersand dome, now you can! Dimension objects with interiors can now be found at the new building vendor in Tempest Bay, or look in the Rift Store under Dimensions > Buildings.
* There are now pre-made walls, stairs, doors, floors, roofs, and windows that you can use to build your dream mansion. You can find them under Dimensions > Building Blocks in the Rift Store, or at the vendor in Tempest Bay.
* Added hundreds of new dimension items including fences, garden walls, magitech items, mushrooms that create clearings, Hailol floral trees, household items, and decorations. Browse the store to your heart's content!
* New achievements can be earned by owning dimensions and by placing a certain number of dimension items in your, your guild's, and your friends' dimensions.
* Lock boxes: Dimension item lock boxes grant six or more dimension items including at least two items of uncommon rarity or better.
* Dimension sky projectors now cover the entire dimension.


ITEMS
* All notoriety rewards in Storm Legion have been made Bind on Account!
* Many trinkets now have upgrade paths.
* The stats on Pus-Proof Greaves have been corrected.
* Artifact Set: Telaran Wedding Mementos ?Now properly categorized as Collectibles in the Auction
* Members of the same party that are from different factions can now share feasts.
* The original pre-order runes can now be applied to offhand and costume held items.
* The collectible books from the starting area can now also be found in various locations in Sanctum.
* Level 60 Epic Greater Essences are now more useful to a greater variety of souls.
* Valmeras and Eldritch Steeds no longer have a faction requirement.
* 2-Handed weapons in Storm Legion have been upgraded to inherit additional stats.


AUDIO
* Added death sounds to a faerie model that previously had none.
* The sound of snares have been improved in Morban's Pus Swamp.
* Added sounds when opening a lootable chest or bag.


UI/SETTINGS
* Fixed an issue that prevented the intro movies from playing properly.
* The exit button is now disabled in Dimensions for those who are in combat.
* Dwarves should be able to preview mounts with better results now.
* Overhead text will no longer become invisible when Supersampling is enabled and Fullscreen FX is disabled.
* Fixed a bug that caused item names to not display correctly in the Upgrade Item UI.
* Added target-centered decorator for AOE macros: /cast @gtae AOEABILITY , /use @gtae ITEMNAME.
* Increased the maximum number of Macro Slots a character can have to 100.

RIFT 2.2 Hot Fix #17 - 06/05/13

ZONES
FREEMARCH
* Quest: Aiding the Injured: Fixed an issue that could cause the Defiant Medics at King's Retreat to become non-responsive, and therefore unable to start the quest.

RIFT 2.2 Hot Fix #16 - 6/3/13

GENERAL
* Guild Banks have been re-enabled

ZONES
Iron Pine Peaks
*Quest: Emmisary to the Icewatch - Should now work much more reliably!
Steppes of Infinity
* Quest: Releasing the Flames - Infused Storm Crystals will now respawn separately from the Cloudburst Mystics. In addition the Embodied Living Flames will now kill the Cloudburst Mystics at a faster rate.
Seratos
* Instant Adventure: Logical Conclusion - Dead Researchers & Research Papers can now be found in greater abundance.

RIFT 2.2 Hot Fix #15 - 5/29/13

ZONES
* Steppes of Infinity: Moved a rare spawn, The Watcher, further away from the Drakes in Vengeful Sky.

QUESTS
* Freemarch: Worth a Thousand Words: Fixed an issue where logging out between quest objectives would remove the Chronolink from the quest tracker.
* Droughtlands: The Saga of the Wanton Maw: The Crystalline Thrall spawned by Bouldergut no longer grants experience or items when killed.

RIFT 2.2 Hot Fix #14 - 5/22/13

QUESTS
* Morban: Added additional map markers for the quest Blast Away to help pinpoint the location of the cannons.

ZONES
* Morban: Reduced Draelock’s damage across most of his abilities.
* Steppes of Infinity: For the instant adventure Capture Commanders, Antapo Commanders will now despawn two minutes after being captured. Additionally, if a Commander gets stuck in the terrain, it will despawn if the player moves far enough away.
* Steppes of Infinity: Fixed an issue during The Craft of Conflict zone event that could result in players not receiving credit if their characters die fighting the Nug Battler Nug .

CALLINGS
* Shaman: Vicious Streak now increases the critical chance of all abilities.
* Inquisitor: Radical Coalescence is now removed if the Inquisitor dies.
* Sentinel: Damage from Wrathful Exuberance is now reduced in PVP.
* Sentinel: Damage procs from Wrathful Exuberance now have a 35 meter range.
* Harbinger: Lucent Slash no longer requires a target in order to use.
* Harbinger: Phantom Blades no longer requires you to be facing your target in order to cast.

ADDONS
* Fixed a problem with Dimension "add" and "remove" events for addons not always working properly.