Alpha patch note 1/2/2011

Alpha 25-12-B
2/1/2011

Welcome to Rift!
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=== KNOWN ISSUES ===
* Granting of the Collector's Edition Satchel has been temporarily disabled.


=== FEATURED ===


GENERAL GAMEPLAY
* Soul quests can once again be completed! The final objective has also changed to no longer require using an item on the corpse.
* Quest hub Wardstones are now immune to players of the opposite faction.
* Peace of the Grave now lasts 30 seconds and also flags the player as immune to PvP.
* Fixed a bug that could cause interactable objects to become unclickable when they shouldn't be.


ASCENDED POWERS
* The Planar Charges meter (small crystals next to your portrait) now has a tooltip, and is only displayed when you have at least one charge.
* Planar Charges are used to activate Ascended Powers. Gain charges by closing Rifts.
* Visit Planar Foci merchants to purchase Ascended Powers.
* Flares for player-summoned invasions are now Ascended Powers instead of consumables.
* There is now a new Ascended power that can be used against Invasions; see Holy Champion for Guardians and Anti-Planar Augmentation for Defiants.


RIFTS AND INVASIONS
* Fixed the buff placed on targeted Wardstones during Colossus-spawning zone events. Previously, the Guardian version was being applied to both factions' Wardstones.
* Gathering of Souls: Fixed Grimnir sometimes not spawning at the end of the event.
* The Witching Hour: The boss should now correctly spawn for this zone event.
* The contribution bar now properly tracks when attacking Footholds.

COMBAT
* When NPCs cast spells, they change their target to the target of the ability for the duration of the cast.

SOULS
* Renamed all Track (Element) Rift abilities to Track (Element) Creatures.

PALADIN
* Unyielding Defense: Changed to now mitigate the damage of attacks that are blocked.

REAVER
* Track Death Creatures: Removed attack point requirement from this ability.

RIFTBLADE
* Track Earth Creatures: Removed attack point requirement from this ability.


DUNGEONS AND RAIDS
* Chat messages now show when someone joins or leaves a raid.
* Fixed the teleport to instance option not showing up a second time if it was not deliberately dismissed and a group member re-entered the instance.


ZONES
* No level 50 Death Epic storyline quests should be available yet - they're unhooked for internal testing for now.

GLOAMWOOD
* Removing the Head: Cleaned up kill target respawn scripting on this quest.
* Blacksap Ancients no longer go into hiding from nearby Footholds.

PVP/WARFRONTS
* Power-up buffs found in Warfronts now increase Attack Power and Spell Power instead of Damage.
* PvP Servers: Shared quest hubs in Iron Pine, Stillmoor, and Shimmersand are no longer flagged as safe zones.


ITEMS
* Updated costs on mid-range Planar Foci. Updated Foci icons.
* Greater Essence rebalancing: Completed a major balance pass on all Greater Essences. The majority of existing Greater Essence items have been removed. Any that were slotted in a Focus are still lingering but will be removed soon.
* All new shiny Greater Essences have been added to the game. Keep an eye out for them!
* Quest: Companion Gift [preorder companion pet selection] can no longer be shared with party members.
* Updated a handful of quests that hadn't had their Planarite rewards scaled up to match the new single-currency progression.


CRAFTING
* The Craft All button is now disabled when using a Planar Augmentation while crafting an item. It re-enables if the Planar Augmentation is removed.


GRAPHICS AND AUDIO
* The camera now follows the arc of knockbacks so there's less flying off-screen involved.
* Re-fixed face shape customizations not always being applied to your character.
* Rift pieces should despawn properly when closing a Rift while using the low quality renderer.
* General fixes to some visual effects not playing correctly.


COMMANDS AND MACROS
* You can now preview items on your character after inspecting another player.
* You can now also link items from the inspection window.


UI/SETTINGS
* Cleaned up the bottom of the Collections UI so that books and companion pet listings don't overflow off the bottom of the window.
* Fixed an issue which would cause invalid resolutions set in the config file to crash the client on startup.
* Selecting resolution changes from the settings dropdown should now apply correctly, and not cause the game to claim a 'Custom' resolution.
* Corrected the minimap not revealing explored areas for some video cards.
* Also fixed edges of the main map showing as revealed when they shouldn't have been.


CLIENT/SERVER
* Fixed the file shortcut to rift.cfg to point to the correct location.

Donc maintenant si tu veux te faire invoquer par une banière, au lieu d'être un item à usage unique, c'est une habilité que tu débloque au marchant. Excellent. :)

C'est une bonne nouvelle, ca va aider pour full cascade :)