Rift 1.01 Update today

[Maeve]

Lots of items listed in the patch notes.

Estimated downtime for the update is 40 minutes. I'm impressed.

And "yay!" : * There is a new porticulum at Knight's Stand to make travel around Freemarch easier. We also added a path from one side of Smith's Haven to the other.

[Takzenen]

Overall good changes.

They nerfed my pally's self healing!

[Arnado]

I love that they don't take themselves too seriously

* After turning in quests at some Ancient Wardstones, a Rare Planar Goods Merchant might appear so you can purchase sweet gear with the currency you just earned.

* Burning Down the Hill: Increased the number of tents that can be set on fire, and decreased the respawn of kerosene urns. Decreased general frustration level by 80%.

* Removed the obsolete reagent vendor. These were not the items you were looking for.

[Slurm]

They fixed my Reaver's shield stacking! (which...I didn't realize was broken...)

[wrewdinge]

Noo! My self heal!

[Maeve]

Mar 10, 2011 11:51:30 GMT -5 Arnado said:

I love that they don't take themselves too seriously

* After turning in quests at some Ancient Wardstones, a Rare Planar Goods Merchant might appear so you can purchase sweet gear with the currency you just earned.

* Burning Down the Hill: Increased the number of tents that can be set on fire, and decreased the respawn of kerosene urns. Decreased general frustration level by 80%.

* Removed the obsolete reagent vendor. These were not the items you were looking for.

I thought the same thing!

* The ‘I’m Stuck’ button will stop getting stuck after 24 hours has passed. The irony of this is not lost on us, either.

[Vejuz]

Verreh nice.

Some highlights to me:

* Experience for appropriately sized groups relative to the difficulty of Rift, Invasion, and Foothold content has been returned to higher amounts as seen previously in Beta.

* You can now set how many quests to track on-screen at once (up to 10) by changing the setting in the Interface -> Display category.

* Class Mechanic UI: Fixed a bug causing the current number of stacks to carry over to new targets that didn’t actually have them.

* The ‘I’m Stuck’ button will stop getting stuck after 24 hours has passed. The irony of this is not lost on us, either.

[Winin]

I like this one:
* The macro system now supports the /suppressmacrofailures command, which will block the "Can only cast one ability per macro" and other messages generated by any commands following the /suppressmacrofailures entry.


I've been messing around with macros lately. Now I see what all the fuss has been about.

[Aberrant]

Entropic Veil: Will no longer be overwritten by less effective buffs.

Nice. In a few rift events, the other Chloro's and I had to find out who had the highest spec of it, and only let them cast it.

[Vejuz]

Mar 10, 2011 12:28:28 GMT -5 Winin said:

I like this one:
* The macro system now supports the /suppressmacrofailures command, which will block the "Can only cast one ability per macro" and other messages generated by any commands following the /suppressmacrofailures entry.


I've been messing around with macros lately. Now I see what all the fuss has been about.

Okay. Color me curious. I haven't played much with macros so I am curious; what does this do, or fix?

[Winin]

For my bladedancer setup, I use this as my combo building attack key:

Cast reprisal
Cast precision strike
Cast quick strike
Cast keen strike

Reprisal is a reaction attack that only works after a dodge
Precision strike and Quick strike only work after a Keen strike, and they have cooldowns.
Keen is the standard attack.

So when I hit that button, it tries to do a reprisal, if it does, then it ends the macro. If not, it tries the next one down. If it can do it, then it does and the macro ends, etc.

This lets me spam my combo building attacks with one button. Then I have my 4 or 5 finishers to choose from depending on the situation. For BladeDancer, there is no time you wouldn't follow that pattern, so there is no reason not to automate it. For my bard or ranger, I don't automate anything, because the attacks all depend on the situation.

But because you can only do one ability per macro, you get a bunch of spam messages cluttering the middle of your screen. This new command should prevent that.

[Rer]

No Saboteur Nerfs means a happy PvPing Rer!

but my pet is still bugged with Rain of Arrows T_T

[Vejuz]

Cool Winin. Thanks for that. I'm definitely gonna hold off playing with the macros until I hit max level, but this is excellent to know.

[Takzenen]

They put in a hot fix today.
Patch notes

* Increased frequency of zone events in zones beyond Scarwood Reach.

!

That was the only thing I sent a ticket in for, that I had wished for the zone wides to trigger more often in the higher levels. Not even a week later it goes in ^_^.

(I realize I couldn't have been the only person who wanted this.)

[Slurm]

I realize I couldn't have been the only person who wanted this.

No, that was ALL YOU buddy