Throwing up a quick post to get this information out there to those readers that have been relying on this site for their patch notes (I know I have a few). Today the patch we have all be expecting is dropping. Basically for all intents and purposes this shuts off the River of Souls event.
The vendor will still be available for a few days so that folks can make purchases, but the items from the rifts and invasions have stopped dropping. This also brings into play the “consolement” package that Scott Hartsman spoke about last saturday. So when we all get home tonight, and log in we should have waiting in our mailbox the following…
Symbol of Purity – This item starts a quest you can complete to obtain
- 250 Otherworldly Sourcestone
- 1x – Purified Treasure Cache – Contains a random chance of obtaining one of the special world drop event rewards from the day of the event
- Common – Grave Goods Bag -Unique 20 Slot Bag (NEW ITEM)
- Uncommon – Shroud of Anti-Life – Lorn non combat Polymorph
- Rare – Nimble Spectral Horse – 90% Speed Mount
- Ultra Rare – Swift Spectral Warhorse – 110% Speed Mount
- Shadetouched Weapon Cache – The starter item for the Rare Death weapon quests. You can choose whichever level appropriate one you’d like.
- The following two Achievements, since not everyone who was (or wanted to be) present was able to obtain them.
- Grim Hero
- Grim Protector
Now for the actual Hotfix patch notes. The original posting can be found here.
Hotfix #19: 4/20/11
RIVER OF SOULS
* Expect mailbox delivery of your River of Souls Event Reward Pack shortly after this update hits your shards, for each character that existed prior to the River of Souls Phase 2 start point – see the River of Souls World Event Wrapup thread on the General Discussion forum for more details on the reward pack itself.
* River of Souls event merchants will remain available for several more days to give you time for last-minute purchases. These will eventually be removed, so don’t delay too much!
* The River of Souls daily quests have been removed now that the event has concluded.
* Characters are now required to be level 50 to enter the River of Souls raid zone.
* Discordant Pillar can no longer drop loot.
* Plutonus: Adjusted the placement of the ‘lightning fence’ during the latter phase of this encounter.
* Plutonus: Thundering Fists no longer reduces Death damage dealt by Plutonus.
* Alsbeth now spends a bit less time on the ground between air phases.
* Shadetouched Weapon Caches have been renamed so players can tell which cache awards what level of items.
* Swift Spectral Horse from River of Souls Raid has been renamed to Swift Soulbound Charger.
* Swift Spectral Warhorse from River of Souls Raid has been renamed to Swift Soulbound Warhorse.
GENERAL
* Dueling works again.
* Fixed loot windows from accidentally closing, causing you to lose out on items.
* NPCs that can fly in the air no longer get stuck unable to cast abilities.
* Corrected a badd typo in one display of the ‘Riftblade’ soul name.
SOULS
* Resolved an issue where Distorted Shadows [Cabalist] and Shards of Light [Sentinel] could be exploited. These abilities should once again be available for use.
* Champion: Lingering Wounds: Fixed a bug causing this ability to stop applying.
GREENSCALE’S BLIGHT [Raid]
* Prince Hylas: Should now reliably drop a full four pieces of loot.
ITEMS
* River of Souls event currencies and quest item drops will no longer appear.
* Due to outcry from the Telara Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Spectral Horses can no longer be Runebroken.
* Shroud of Anti-Life: Corrected the text in this item’s buff tooltip.
I’m puzzled – why would the consolation package include a quest for 250 otherworldly sourcestone if the vendor is going away? Or does that just mean we only have a couple of days to finish the quest?