Last Friday, Kervik announced a few changes that are currently being made for Mages and Shaman Clerics. Here they are, starting with the Shaman changes:

Originally posted by Kervik (Source)

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Some additional updates on things in the work for Shaman.

• Cold Blooded now affects all damage (not just melee)
• Increase Lightning Hammer’s range to 30m.
• Increase Frozen Wrath’s range to 30m.

This are more changes that will make their way to PTS eventually for people to give feedback on. If they survive all that they will probably be part of the next full update.

And for Mages:

Originally posted by Kervik (Source)

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Another small update on some changes in the works:

• Increase the base chance for Fireball to proc Combust to 40%.
• Improved Combustion now increases the chance for Fireball to proc Combust by 20/40/60%.
• Pyromancer’s Armor can proc an additional Fireball once every 4s instead of once every 5s.
• The debuff from Rending Slash increases damage by 3% per stack. Up from 2%.
• Damaging abilities granted by Possession are getting a buff so its not a DPS loss to use.

Fans of the various Cleric DPS specs have been hoping for improvements for a while now. Many players had hoped that Storm Legion would finally fix all of the scaling issues that tended to affect the pure DPS specs, but certain callings are already falling quite a bit behind the curve. The good news? Kervik, who seems to have taken over the reins of communicating on the forums with the Cleric community, has taken note of the issue and will be looking at Cleric DPS soon. Here is what he had to say:

Originally posted by Kervik (Source)

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Hey all,

There are plans to take a look at cleric dps soon, particularly the Shaman’s. I’ll update you all when I have a better idea on what, if any, changes are in store. More feedback on what you all are seeing on live is always welcome though.

If you’d like to offer feedback in the way of posting raid logs and whatnot, this thread seems to be a decent place for providing Trion with Shaman feedback.

As the holidays come to a close, Trion’s team is getting back in action on the RIFT forums. Yesterday we saw a few updates to some Cleric fixes that are in progress, which were posted by Kervik:

Originally posted by Kervik (Source)

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Couple updates for you on some fixes and such:

• Changing Liberty of Thought to be castable while Silenced. (meaning it will now allow you to break out of silence)
• Fixed an issue with Gesture of Goodwill. It should now correctly affect all instances of Burnout from your absorbs.
• Empowering Light wasn’t being affected by silences, this is being fixed (sorry!).

Kervik also mentioned that an issue regarding the Druid talent, Celerity, is currently a bit bugged and is being investigated further.

After a recent update, Chloromancers received a nice little boost while tank healing that wasn’t entirely intentional. Kervik posted about the change in the Patch 2.1 Mage Bug Discussion forum on Friday. Here’s what he had to say:

Originally posted by Kervik (Source)

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As an update for you all, the jump in healing from the update was unintentional (if you hadn’t guessed already). We’ve found the issue and are working on a fix. I don’t have an estimate at the moment for when it will hit the servers, but it should be some time next week at the latest.

Yesterday, RIFT’s third official live stream aired, which was co-hosted on MMORPG.com’s TwitchTV page. It featured Dahanese, Elrar, Kervik, who is RIFT’s Lead Mage Designer, and Gersh, Producer of Trion. The team jumped right away into the good stuff, and showed us Storm Legion’s new Mage soul– the Harbinger.

The Harbinger soul is a melee single-target DPS soul that synergies well with a number of Mage souls, enabling the soul to teleport right into the enemy’s face, transform their staff or one-hander into a powerful two-handed weapon that smashes and slashes, toss around powerful instant-cast spells, boost their own survivability, and with the right balance of support souls– even serve as an off-healer.

Okay, we have one more teeny bit of Storm Legion speculation for everyone. This time, it’s based on the artwork shown above that Trion used in their Storm Legion Mage Soul Reveal announcement. Look at the Mage figure outline, and that weapon being wielded. Is it a staff, one-handed sword, or… possibly something larger? Is it possible that the new Mage soul will use two-handed swords?

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Originally posted by Kervik (Source)

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Hey all,

Sorry for my absence lately. I’ve been working on some upcoming things and have been neglecting updates to the forums. I’ll work on keeping you all better informed.

Thanks Jack Burton for starting up the thread when I was slow on the draw. Here’s my latest list of issues. As usual, I’m sure I’ve missed things, feel free to bring them back up.