Bladedancer and Ranger changes up on the PTS

Posted by in Blog, PTS, Rift, Rogue on Apr 2nd, 2013 | 0 comments

Ailion posted the following changes that are up on the PTS right now for Bladedancer and Ranger.

  • Bladedancer: Dauntless Strike: No longer increases the Critical Hit chance of group members. It now applies a debuff to the target, increasing the target’s chance to be critically hit by 5%.
  • Bladedancer: Blade Hustle: An additional effect has been added. You now gain Blade Hustle every 3s, increasing the damage of your next Quick Strike or Precision Strike 3-9%. Stacks up to 10 times.
  • Bladedancer: Disengage: Can now be used anytime. Now on GCD.
  • Bladedancer: Dancing Steel, Hundred Blades: Now on a 30s cooldown, down from 60s.
  • Ranger: New ability added to the Blood Raptor. The Blood Raptor can now charge at the enemy, dealing physical damage.
  • Ranger: Escape Artist: Cooldown has been reduced to 1 min, down from 2 min.
  • Ranger: Fleeting Instinct: Effect can now be applied both in and out of combat.

Ailion also stated

RIFT 2.1 Hotfix #7 Rogue Fixes – 2/6/13

Posted by in Patch Notes, PVE, PVP, Rift, Rogue on Feb 6th, 2013 | 0 comments

ASSASSIN

  • Poison Mastery: Now increases weapon damage and attack power of the Rogue’s poison-coated weapons, and increases the chance to apply poison by 6-30% (up from 5-25%).
  • Expose Weakness: Now increases Physical damage taken from the Rogue by up to the specified damage. No longer has a limit on the number of times this can occur. The increased Physical damage taken from the Rogue now scales even more with Attack Power.
  • Serrated Blades and all weapon poisons can now critically hit.
  • Physical Trauma: Increases the damage of your damage over time attacks by 10-20%, up from 5-10%.
  • Puncture: The damage bonus from Physical Trauma now applies to the damage over time effect of Puncture.

BLADEDANCER

  • Contra Tempo: Increases the weapon damage and attack power contribution to the Rogue’s offhand attacks by 7-35%, up from 5-25%.
  • Twin Strike, Compound Attack: AoE radius increased to 7 meters, up from 5.

MARKSMAN

  • Static Shock Munitions: Now increases damage dealt by 15%, up from 6%.
  • Silver Tip Munitions: Increases damage taken from the Rogue by 5% per stack, up from 3%.
  • Electrified Munitions, Static Shock Munitions: Can now critically hit.

NIGHTBLADE

  • Ignited Weapons and all weapon enchantments can now critically hit.
  • Ignited Weapons: Now causes the target to burn for 100-200% of your weapon damage over 4 seconds, up from 50-100%. Fixed a bug where damage was not being properly computed.
  • Ebon Blades: Increases damage taken from the Rogue by 5% per stack, up from 3%.
  • Weapon Flare, Fiery Chains: AoE radius increased to 7 meters, up from 5.
  • Enkindle: Now increases the damage of Fiery Spike by 15-30%, up from 10-20%.
  • Smoldering Blades: Fixed a bug where consuming 5 stacks of the Smoldering Blades effect was triggering the damage effect from the Warlock’s Neddra’s Torture.

RANGER

  • Twin Shot: Damage increased.
  • Concussive Blast: Now affects up to 5 targets, up from 3.
  • Ace Shot: The debuff now causes the player’s pet to deal 40% more damage to the target, up from 25%.

1.10 Ranger Pet DPS Bug Found and Fixed

Posted by in Patch Notes, Rift, Rogue on Sep 14th, 2012 | 0 comments

1.10 launched with a Rogue Ranger Pet DPS Bug that caused them to do less DPS. Finally Hotfix #2 #3 will have this bug fixed and we can go back to our normal DPS as Ailion posted today. 🙂

We have identified the bug that have caused Ranger pets to do less DPS.
This will be fixed and deployed in the next build.

Rift Update Fixes Ranger Pets and Saboteur Bugs

Posted by in Patch Notes, Rift, Rogue on Apr 25th, 2012 | 0 comments

Today’s update fixes the Ranger Pets and Saboteur Bugs I had previously mentioned.

RANGER
* Blood Raptor: Rend can now be stacked up to 3 times per Blood Raptor attacking the target.

SABOTEUR
* Time Bomb: Fixed a bug so that only 1 Time Bomb per player can be attached to a target.
* Improved Entangling Trap: Now only requires 15 points spent in Saboteur to acquire instead of 20.

Rift Rogue Confirmed Upcoming Fix for Ranger Pets

Posted by in Rift, Rogue on Apr 23rd, 2012 | 0 comments

Ailion, the Rogue developer, has confirmed there is an upcoming fix to the Ranger Pets Rend attack since it does not stack with other Ranger pets. This causes probably around a 200-300 DPS loss. I would assume this means it will get a fix for sometimes not being used as well? Time will only tell. Too bad this hotfix has yet to be released.

Thanks for the heads up. This will be hot fixed soon.