Auction Houses now cross alignments.

The North American region shards will be coming down for 1.6.1 hotfix #8 tomorrow, January 18, 2011, at 8:00am PST. The estimated downtime is 30 minutes.

See the complete patfch notes below the jump.

RIFT 1.6.1 Hotfix #8 - 8:00am PST 1/18/12 [NA] - 2:00am GMT 19/1/12 [EU]

GENERAL

• Auction Houses now list and allow you to bid on items from both Guardians and Defiants.
• Instant Adventure: Jaron Ply and his buddies are no longer super powerful on PvP Shards.
• Fixed an issue that could cause some abilities gained while on an Instant Adventure to be removed when your character died.
• Ember Isle: Added a graphical warning circle around Ochrin's spawned gold piles.
• Rift: Endangered Souls: Made the Ravenmournes' ghostly form more resilient to damage.
• Item: Dark Pulsing Crystal is no longer flagged Unique.
• The duel radius (the distance you can move before exiting a duel area) has been tripled!
• All critters in Meridian and Sanctum are now unable to be targeted by hostile player effects - and should no longer cause duels to be cancelled if they get caught in an AoE.

HAMMERKNELL

• Runeburst Umbrals' Torment ability no longer pulls players into the center of the effect. The time between damage ticks has been increased and the total duration of the effect reduced.
• Estrode: Reduced Estrode's health. Increased the number of Binding Will targets from two to three.
• Rune King Molinar: Increased the allowable gap between Molinar and Dollin's health to 7% from 4%.
• Rune King Molinar: Forgotten Stewards have gained a newfound sense of fortitude, and can no longer be killed by Ascended. Luckily, they're still able to sacrifice themselves if so inclined!
• Rune King Molinar: Runic Feedback is slightly more forgiving at the start of the effect.
• Terror Bombardment is now interruptible.

RISE OF THE PHOENIX

• General Silgen's bombs now have 4 seconds in which to be dispelled.
• Beruhast will only summon 2 Flaming Vortices at 20% health, rather than 3.
• The Gate Keeper achievement should be granted more consistently.

UI/SETTINGS

• Sped up the rendering of the main world map UI.