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Happy Half-Birthday to Rift!

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It’s time to party! From August 25 to August 31, subscribers receive amazing in-game bonuses—for both PvP and PvE—and a special gift, while new and returning Ascended can play for free with access to all levels and zones. Contests and prizes await as we commemorate six months in Telara.

Big bonuses for RIFT subscribers
You'll barely notice ranks and levels flying by as we apply huge bonuses of 50% or more to:

Everyone
XP from kills: Level faster!
Planarite: Planar squirrels anyone?

PvPers
Favor from kills: Massacre your way to some new equipment!
Prestige from kills: Earn new ranks faster!

Groups
Plaques of Achievement: It's time for that new dungeon gear set!
Marks of Ascension: Pick up some new raid loot!

Guilds
Guild XP: Level your guild faster!

All these bonuses stack with guild perks and weekly warfronts.

Fabulous prizes
During the RIFT half-birthday celebration, we’re hosting exciting contests. Everyone can participate for a chance to win RIFT game time, a video card, or even a new HP PC! The prize contests are:
• Over-Achiever*: The character awarded the most achievements between August 25-31 will win.
• #Celebration Screenshot#*: Submit a screenshot of your character celebrating RIFT’s half-birthday in the least appropriate spot (or fashion) for a party in Telara. He or she who parties the heartiest wins the prize!
• #RIFT Half-Birthday Cake#*: Bake RIFT a half-birthday cake and submit a photo. May the best cake (or half-cake) win.

The grand prize winner of each contest will receive a screaming new HP PC (i7 3.2 GHz Quad-Core, Nvidia GTX580, 9GB RAM, 160GB SSD,& 1TB HDD!*) and two runners-up for each contest will receive Nvidia® GTX460 graphics cards. All winners and runners-up will also be awarded six months of RIFT game time!

Everyone is invited
Not a subscriber? Don't let that stop you! We’re opening our servers so everyone can play RIFT! You can experience all the levels and zones Telara has to offer, even if you’ve previously played the RIFT free trial.


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I am pretty sure it starts today, 10am Pacific
 
Good evening!

The NA region shards will be coming down to pick up 1.4.1 and the Half-Birthday event at 8:00am PDT tomorrow, 8/25/11. The estimated downtime is ** 60 minutes **

Patch notes will be updated and are currently available in the Patch Notes subforum.

We’ll have a special guest doing status updates in the morning, as I’ll be on a plane headed to PAX!
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1.4.1 – Half-Birthday Celebration: 8:00 AM PDT: NA region shards are coming down for this update now.
 
Join us for the Rift half-birthday event starting on 8/25 and running until 8/31! Details here: http://community.riftgame.com/en/2011/08/17/rift-half-birthday-celebration-kicks-off-august-25th
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RIFT 1.4.1 - Half-Birthday Event! - 25/8/11

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 the website linked above 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.
 
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