patch1_5_2 - Rift JP

PVP/WARFRONTS

• Killing a mind-controlled player of your own faction will not give you prestige, favor, or experience. It's still pretty funny, though.
• PvP deaths no longer result in soul damage, even if NPCs are attacking you.
• Fixed the calculation of the Monthly Kills stat. NOTE: This will result in a one-time reset of your monthly kills display, and then it will start tracking properly!
• For PvP quests that require defeating other players, NPCs can no longer steal your credit.
• If you are in a raid with less than 6 people, Prestige and Favor awards will be calculated using the party values.
• Whitefall Steppes: Escalation: Now properly tracks and displays Sourcestone captures and returns on the leaderboard.
• Skilled Alchemists can now obtain the recipe for Pure Valorstone from the Favor Quartermasters in Sanctum and Meridian. Pure Valorstone can be used to add Valor to crafted items for those looking to gain a leg up in the battlefields of Telara. The crafted item must be of level 47 or higher to be made with Pure Valorstones.
• Fixed an exploit that allowed Guardians to get up to the back side of the Defiant spawn point in Port Scion.
• Pyromancers: Glyphs of Power: Reduced the bonus to Fire damage from Glyphs of Power in PvP combat to 5%.
• Port Scion: Zerena Karathi and Alys Whiteshield (both in the starting areas) will no longer attack players.
• Characters will no longer be affected by PvP Immunity effect when zoning into or being resurrected inside an instance.

DUNGEONS, SLIVERS, AND RAIDS

• Increased the chance for tier 1 Expert bosses to drop Epic quality loot.
• Added a 50% chance for tier 1 Expert bosses to drop a second Plaque of Achievement.
• Added a 50% chance for tier 2 Expert bosses to drop a third Plaque of Achievement.
• Reduced the prices of Expert dungeon armor. The second tier of Expert dungeon armor now requires turning in the first tier of Expert armor to purchase.

ABYSSAL PRECIPICE

• The 'Abyssal Precipice' achievement can now be updated by defeating Expert versions of the bosses.

DARKENING DEEPS

• Darkswarm mobs no longer award experience.
• Braxtepel: Flame Cleave can no longer be reflected.
• Gedlo Council: Fiery Bonds and Searing Flame can no longer be reflected.

DEEPSTRIKE MINES

• Expert: Fixed some locations where characters would be teleported after being resurrected.
• The ledge of the Titan's bed in Deepstrike Mines is now too slippery to stand on!

DROWNED HALLS

• Players can no longer hide from Isskal's single-target attacks.
• Hydriss: Tsunami visual effect looks and is times better to help represent ability damage increase over distance.
• Hydriss should no longer attack players during or instead of her Waterburst and Hydrostatic Shock phases.

FALL OF LANTERN HOOK

• Expert: Additional tuning for the Helena Brass finale so Oludare should always spawn and not block you from completing the dungeon.

GILDED PROPHECY [Sliver]

• Added a 'Conqueror' type achievement for this zone, along with a new reward!

GREENSCALE'S BLIGHT [Raid]

• Oracle Aleria: If Necrotic Eruption is on a character at the time of Aleria's death, it gets removed rather than bombing the entire raid once the maze walls drop. No more victory-wiping!
• Lord Greenscale: At long last, and hopefully for good - fixed a case where Lord Greenscale would sometimes cancel his Genesis Torrent cast or channel.

HAMMERKNELL [Raid]

• Darktide Mists can now be crowd controlled.
• The later bosses in Hammerknell now drop additional Greater Marks of Ascension.
• Sicaron: Adjusted duration of the Soul Harvest ability.
• Grugonim: Removed reputation gain from the Bloodplague Crawlers and Manifested Death (towers).
• Grugonim: Increased the damage buff granted to players to 4% from 2% per stack.

KING'S BREACH

• Strange Plots of the Aelfwar: Fixed a case where the quest objectives would not reset and refused to allow players on this quest to return to the instance and complete it.

RUNIC DESCENT

• Standard: Slightly reduced base mob density in this dungeon.
• Expert: Neutral mobs no longer award experience.
• Expert: Rotting Flesh is now cleansable.
• Expert: The 'Keep Cleansing' achievement should now properly award as described.

ZONES

• The Saga of the Endless: A Father's Love: Nearby Rifts will no longer cause quest targets to hide from this quest.
• Some NPCs, primarily in Moonshade Highlands, were granting experience outside of the normal range for their level and difficulty. Corrected!
• Manticore type mobs just got more lucrative to hunt - they weren't dropping as much currency loot as they should have.

DROUGHTLANDS

• Zone event: Saving Lantern Hook: This event should no longer be able to get into a non-completable state.

FREEMARCH

• A new porticulum has been added to Ark of the Ascended, allowing new characters to receive their Soul Recall ability earlier.

GLOAMWOOD

• Out of Harm's Way: This quest should be less negatively impacted by footholds at the nearby Guardian Encampment. Also increased the distance the escort can be from the player before the quest will fail.
• Gwyddon is now properly removing the Hag's curse for any afflicted Ascended.

IRON PINE PEAKS

• The Redsnow Bandit population around Frost Falls has been retuned to be more in keeping with the quest levels of that area.

SCARLET GORGE

• Daily quests in Scarlet Gorge should all properly grant notoriety for repeat completions.

SCARWOOD REACH

• Zone Event: The Witching Hour: Fixed a case where the event could fail before all targeted locations had fallen.
• Realigned Priorities: The Guardian Raiders that spawn should no longer flag you for PvP and as an added bonus, also no longer hit like trucks.
• Chronic Cultist Culling: Removed the second objective from this daily quest.
• Local Cures: Umbral Sedge plants will no longer spawn inside of rocks.
• Insuring Their Safety: More Gorefang Wranglers should now be available.
• A Temporary Solution: Reworked this quest so you are asked to speak with Sasha Nikadon in The Sagespire to receive the quest objective item, 'A Pinch of Sourcestone Powder'.

SHIMMERSAND

• Zone event: Scourge of the Sands has been tuned down in difficulty.
• The Order's Charge: Quest will now always update on killing a Maelforge Emberdrake if the Flamerod is active.
• The Unlucky Few: NPCs will respawn more reliably during this quest.
• Fight Fire with Fire: During this quest you will no longer be able to pick up more than 9 Core of Flames.
• Ritual Firebrands: This quest no longer grants experience when completed.
• Level 50 Rifts now have a chance to appear in Firesand Desert!

SILVERWOOD

• A new porticulum has been added to Divine Landing, allowing new characters to receive their Soul Recall ability earlier.
• The rare spawn NPC, Pandora, will no longer be a potential target of Defiant Footholds.

STONEFIELD

• Tracking a Traitor: Ascended will now have an easier time using Kira's Signal during this quest.
• Daily quests in Stonefield should all properly grant notoriety for repeat completions.

CRAFTING

• Skill-specific Plaques have been converted into Master Crafter's Marks.
• Master Crafter's Marks will now drop and reward wherever the previously skill-specific Plaques would (Apothecary Plaque, Outfitter Plaque, etc.).
• All Epic crafting recipes are now purchased with Master Crafter's Marks.
• Reduced the amount of Eternal Planar Dust required to make the components for the weekly Crafting Rift lure quests. Slightly increased the amount of store-bought materials needed to offset the cost reduction.
• You can now receive Inert Shards, Stones, Gems, Crystals, and Prisms from Apothecary daily quest reward bags and chests, as well as Apothecary Crafting Rifts.
• Crafting Rift: Weaponsmith: Will no longer auto-complete the third bonus stage due to multiple characters completing the second.
• Brilliant Enduring Rune now grants +9 Endurance, up from +8. Every point counts!
• Tempered Orichalcum Bar, Enchanted Shadethorn Lumber, Steel-Stitched Leather, and Infinite Essence now sort properly on the auction house.
• Epic Essences and Rare Essences above level 50 now Salvage for more level-appropriate materials.
• Dark Seafoam Green Dye has been fixed to require 110 Apothecary skill to create. It previously was set to 130.
• Ruby Gorget was incorrectly requiring 201 skill to create instead of 210. Fixed!
• Skilled Armorsmith Supply Chests will properly award Armorsmith materials rather than Weaponsmith.
• Ornate Platinum Choker now displays the correct name in the recipe list.
• Corrected the name of the Apothecary Workorder that requires Lesser Healing Potions.
• Runecrafters will no longer receive Workorder: Radiant Steadfast Runes. Characters currently on this quest will still be able to complete it - a new Runecrafter Workorder has been added to replace it, requiring Radiant Insightful Runes.
• Fixed an issue where neutral Crafting Trainer NPCs in Fortune's Shore were offering faction-specific recipes.
• Corrected the Bind on Pickup flag on some Rune and Runeshard recipes that were not previously set.
• Skilled Alchemists can now obtain the recipe for Pure Valorstone from the Favor Quartermasters in Sanctum and Meridian. Pure Valorstone can be used to add Valor to crafted items for those looking to gain a leg up in the battlefields of Telara. The crafted item must be of level 47 or higher to be made with Pure Valorstones.
• Endurance bonuses from crafted item sets can now stack with each other.
• Shard firsts for crafted items are now granted at the time the item is successfully crafted.
• Fixed the skill level requirement to craft Carmintium Lariat.

ITEMS

• The prices of Essences on the Planar merchants has been adjusted due to the merging of Inscribed and Crystal Sourcestone.
• New Synergy Crystals are now available from the Planar Goods merchants for Greenscale and tier 2 Expert item sets.
• A number of vanity items and gloves that were previously non-tintable can now be dyed!
• Gravemaker Steaks, Drake Filets, and Icewatch Cupcakes no longer have an item use time. The effect is now applied immediately.
• Items that grant temporary enhancements (ex: Padding, Armor Plating, Spellstones, Riding Chaps, etc.) have updated icons.
• Collectible books no longer count as quest items and will go into your primary inventory. If you have any in your quest bag that you hadn't added to your collections, you'll need to move them into your general inventory to use them.
• Fixed a bug that could cause Synergy Crystals to display incorrect tooltips in merchant windows.
• Transplanar Synergy Crystals no longer have a faction requirement to use.
• Fixed an issue where clicking off the buff from Necrotic Rage would prevent it from proccing again unless the focus was re-equipped.
• Binding Silk: Now with Physical Crit rather than Spell Crit.
• Bulwark of Banishment: Reduced the Block bonus from 40 to 20 to bring it in line with other items of similar level.
• Deathsteel Pauldrons: Now with Attack Power rather than Spell Power.
• Double Barrel Problem Solver: Changed graphic so this is actually double-barreled.
• Energetic Sourcestone Mirror is no longer able to proc from every tick of a damage over time ability, only on the first.
• Fang of the Life Lord: Can now correctly proc from Warrior abilities.
• Gossamer Motions: Now has Attack Power instead of Spell Power.
• Gravetouched Soulstone: Fixed so it actually does proc the buff on your pet, as the description indicates.
• Metamorphic Stonesource: Will now apply the correct effect.
• Murk Shrouded Trinket: Effect tooltip now displays the correct name.
• Nyx's Chloromancer Crystal: 2-piece bonus now increases the chance for Radiant Spores to proc by 10%, up from 5%.
• Nyx's Chloromancer Crystal: 4-piece bonus now causes damage ticks from Void Life to place a stacking buff on the Chloromancer. Each stack reduces the casting time of the next Nature's Touch spell by 0.5 seconds.
• Privateer's Axe of the [...]: Can once again be sold to merchants.
• Sandcovered Shroud: Now accepts both Primary and Secondary areas for dyes.
• Stinging Faesource: Now procs the correct buff.
• Tuthmet Wine: Fixed the spell power buff so it will no longer be overwritten by a weaker version.
• Fixed a bug where Simple Synergy Crystals could be equipped by Clerics.

GRAPHICS AND AUDIO

• Now with better Anti-Aliasing! Set your Anti-Aliasing option to 'Edge Smoothing' to see the new improvements.
• Fixed an issue with falling through the world when changing your graphics texture quality.
• It's a lot more difficult to get your character to stand at impossible angles while mounted.
• Fixed an issue with sound reverberation in some areas (such as Chancel of Labors in Iron Pine Peaks) where the effect was way too strong on footsteps, character speech, and some other sounds.
• Fixed footstep sounds for some polymorph effects that had none.
• Fixed objects not drawing to the correct distance at initial login.
• Look for new finely-feathered-friends livening up Meridian and Sanctum!
• Improved the variation in crowd cheer audio.
• Fixed some issues that could cause framerate stuttering when running through the world.
• Added voiceover to several existing major zone events.
• Added a sound to Prince Hylas' opening of Greenscale's Door inside Greenscale's Blight.
• Fixed a bug where casting animations were sometimes interrupted by other animations.

COMMANDS AND MACROS

• Added a keybind-able command that will hide other players on your screen when the key is pressed. There is no default bound key, but you can set one in the Key Bindings menu as 'Hide Other Players' under UI Toggles.
• You can now add [notactive] to a /cast macro to prevent it from turning off a toggled ability.
• Fixed a bug where players could incorrectly end up targeting themselves when using abilities from macros.
• The Marksman 'Bull's Eye' and other similar abilities will now work properly in macros.

UI/SETTINGS

• Parties can now be displayed by default using the Raid Frame UI. Check the Display tab under Options to enable this setting.
• The Auction House no longer truncates long item names with '...' when using right click on an item in your inventory to search auctions.
• The quest log now displays how many daily and weekly quests you've turned in as well as the limit per day/week. It also shows the current total number of quests in your quest log alongside the quest log cap amount.
• The visuals on the character sheet now update as soon as an armor item is dyed.
• Added an option to always display status text for your Focus target, similar to the existing options for Player, Target, Party, etc.
• If your character has had more than one role that has had a free Soul Point respec applied to it due to a patch, you now see a message box listing all of your respecced roles on first login.
• The Auction House now has a new 'Vanity' subsection to look for wardrobe items!
• Clicking the Bid or Buyout buttons on the Auction House no longer changes the position of your scroll bar in search results.
• Fixed an Auction House purchasing bug that would prevent you from buying an item from search results immediately after placing an item up for auction.
• Soul Exhaustion tooltip now correctly explains whether it has been applied by resurrecting at a graveyard or by reaching 0% Soul Vitality.
• Title rewards are now displayed in the Achievements window.
• The on-screen popup message for Quest Accepted now appears for all quests, including Rift dailies.
• Removed an erroneous error message when adding the first quest to your quest stickies when the stickies are currently empty.
• Item tooltips no longer display red text while dead if you can use the item while alive.
• Tooltips for kill quests that require specific level mobs or higher will no longer show too-low targets as valid.
• Moved the Settings option for Ability Queue into the Action Bar settings category.
• Fixed a bug where you couldn't delete quests from your quest log if the only quests you had in there were daily/weekly types.
• Fixed the chat window occasionally truncating lines when using larger text sizes.
• Ascended Powers and Guild Perks are now organized by category in your Abilities window.

CLIENT

• Client stability improvements, yay!
• Fixed an incompatibility with Windows 8 32-bit.