Downtime Thursday morning brings in Rift's half-birthday event.

HAPPY HALF-BIRTHDAY, RIFT!

• Join us in celebrating 6 months of the Ascended in Telara! Everyone is welcome - bring your friends, bring your family, RIFT is open to all with a special trial for non-subscribers!
• SUBSCRIBER BONUSES: The following bonuses are in effect: Bonus XP, Favor, Prestige, Guild Experience, Marks of Ascension, Plaques of Achievement, and Planarite!
• Check out Meridian and Sanctum where rumors of delicious cake abound.
• All subscribers receive additional presents at the close of the event!
• See this website for more specifics on the Half-Birthday Celebration.

GENERAL

• The crafted chest piece, Hauberk of the Keeper, now includes way more tank stats. Finally.
• Luminescent Conch Shell effect now persists through death.
• Water Saga: Meetings of Interest: Quest markers now appear properly for the Defiant version of this quest.
• Scarwood Reach: The Bloodsilk Broodmother ambush in Infested Range now has a cooldown between ambushes.
• Fixed a bug causing some item set bonuses to behave in certain circumstances as if more than one item in the set was equipped.
• Planar Essences purchased from vendors can no longer be Runebroken or Salvaged, in line with the general case of vendor purchased items not being able to be broken down.
• LFG Group leaders using raid frames can no longer move players outside of Group 1.
• Quickening Brews now work on their correct cooldown groups. Quickening Brews now have a duration of 5 seconds.
• Fixed an issue where going linkdead would cause players to have a PvP Invulnerability buff when reconnecting.
• Having recently transferred your character between shards will no longer lock out that character from being copied to the PTS.

SOULS

• Corrected the values on the Rasmolov's Synergy Crystals for Riftblade and Paragon that were providing more damage enhancement than was intended.
• Closing Rifts should no longer de-stealth Rogue participants.

REAVER

• Fixed a bug causing Incite to trigger Subdue.

RIFTBLADE

• Elemental Touch: Fixed a recently introduced bug that caused this ability to be enhanced by other abilities that should not have been increasing its damage.

WARLORD

• Rallying Command: Fixed this being allowed to chain its effect in some circumstances. Characters with the post-Rallying-Command debuff will be blocked from receiving Rallying Command again until the debuff wears off.

HAMMERKNELL

• Slightly reduced the hit points of NPCs in upper Hammerknell.
• Players not on the ramparts when Inwar Darktide's encounter begins will be teleported to the encounter.
• Murdantix: Toned down the frequency of Demonic Tar.
• Rune King Molinar:
  • - Increased casting time of Prince Dollin's Consuming Essence.
  • - Reduced hit points of Rune King Molinar, Prince Dollin, and Incorporeal Revenant.
  • - Reduced the damage dealt by Forgotten Steward's Honor's Sting.
  • - Prince Dollin's Cursed Flames now hits a smaller area.
• Estrode: Fixed an issue where Estrode would not use several abilities while under the effects of Scatter the Shadows.
• Inquisitor Garau: Glacial Shield no longer has a casting time.
• Inquisitor Garau: Arcane Porters are now immune to stun effects.
• Grugonim: Grugonim will no longer reset in the middle of a channeled ability if his target moves too far away.

RIVER OF SOULS

• Reduced the amount of general population pulls in the zone.
• Reduced hit points slightly on general population NPCs.
• Herald Gaurath minions: Voidbound Rage is now purgeable.
• Herald Gaurath minions: Reduced the damage of Impending Doom.

IRON TOMB

• Expert: Bonelord Fetlorn: Will now cast Bone Theft more than once per fight, as he should!

PVP

• Favor, Notoriety, and quest credit for PvP Rifts are only granted to players who are still in the PvP Rift's zone at the time it is closed.
• The number of Charhounds required for Stillmoor PvP dailies has been reduced. Some Charhounds have moved from their previous spawn locations to new ones on the edges of Kingsgate.
• More mushrooms should be available at any given time for Stillmoor PvP dailies.
• Whitefall - Escalation: Fixed a bug where you would occasionally not get points for a stone at your base.

CLIENT

• Increased client stability and optimizations.
• RIFT's taskbar icon will now flash when any message box - such as ready checks or Warfront queues - pops up.