Rift North American servers will be down for half an hour on November 2.

The Rift NA shards will be coming down for 1.5 Hotfix #12 - which includes a new Deflect rating for Riftstalkers' Guardian Phase - at 8:00am PDT tomorrow, 11/2/11. The estimated downtime is 30 minutes.

RIFT 1.5 Hotfix #12 - 8:00am PDT 11/2/11 [NA] - TBA [EU]

RIFTSTALKER

• Guardian Phase: Now gives the Riftstalker a chance to Deflect attacks, reducing their damage taken by the Riftstalker's Deflect rating. Deflect rating is increased by Dexterity.

GENERAL

• Players with old Sourcestone vouchers in their inventory can once again use them to create Sourcestone tokens.
• Iron Pine Peaks: If you completed the quest 'The Missing Link' in Dayblind Hollows without immediately accepting the followup, 'Collecting Threads', you can now resume that quest chain.
• All pre-existing Harbinger of Regulos items that haven't yet been added to your Companion list are no longer Soulbound (much like newly acquired Harbingers of Regulos).
• Achievements: King's Breach [Expert]: Dogs of War should properly trigger once again. Hunter Suleng's Ethereal Warhounds are back to spawning at the correct level.

RIFTS AND INVASIONS

• Hammer and Flame (level 45+) is now considered a Major zone event and has increased Inscribed Sourcestone and Crystallized Insight payouts.
• Corrected an issue with certain Earth and Fire Rift creatures that weren't awarding experience though they were at least green to your character.
• Resolved some lingering issues with Wardstones not appearing in some spots.

Hotfix #12 - PART TWO

• Fixed an issue that surfaced with this morning's hotfix and caused back-end slowdown that resulted in disappearing and respawning NPCs.

• Enemy faction Wardstones should no longer have friendly Invaders camped out at their location.
• Fixed a rare bug that could cause your Action Bars to stop saving properly, resulting in disappearing icons.