Dear Community,
In order to implement a new DDOS protection for Rift, there will be a maintenance on all EU shards on Thursday, 2nd of July, starting at 8am CEST / 1am CDT / 11pm PDT. Our expected downtime is 6 hours, during that time, all EU shards will be offline and unavailable.
We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience!
Best wishes,
your Rift team!
Greetings, Ascended!
We hope all of you are good friends with birds! Because the Budgies are back – with the Budgie Madness Call-to-Action Event!
Earn Chaos Motes by finishing special daily quests! The Questgivers can be found in Meridian, Sanctum and Tempest Bay.
Get your riding boots and prepare for the ride of your life! Join the Budgie Races and earn yourself your own feathery friend!
Some seasoned professionals may be out on that race track, so here are some tips to be the just like them:
• Stay within the marked path!
• White checkpoints need to be hit throughout the race.
• Make sure to make it to the Green boosts first to receive Terminal Velocity to make your opponents eat your dust.
• Avoid Orange Traps, they’ll only slow you down!
Stock up as many Chaos Motes as possible and trade them in for mounts and pets!
Budgie Madness will start on Friday, June 26, at 12am Server Time, and end on Sunday, June 28, at 11:59pm Server Time.
What are you waiting for? Tell your friends, join us in Rift and grab those Budgies!
You always wanted to ride through Telara on a magic fabulous ram? Now is your chance, with the new Runic Carousel Ram Supply Crate, for 450 Credits, which has a chance to contain the Runic Carousel Ram!
But that’s not all, with the Mummified Power Pack, for 19.99€, you’ll get Wraps the Mummified Squirrel, who is looking forward to go on adventures with you!
Here is an overview of some more items that are on sale this week:
• Mystery Box: Landquarium Wonders – 400 Credits
• Planar Plucker – 2500 Credits
• A chest of 1000 Planar Pellets – 2400 Credits
• Trade Skill Extensions – 960 Credits
• Exceptional Crafting Skill Boost – 960 Credits
Don’t miss out on this awesome deals! Available until the 2nd of July, at 10:00am CEST.
Greetings, Ascended!
Prepare your weapons and ready yourselves; the fourth season of Battle Pass is now live!
The fourth season will be live from today, June 18, 2020 at 4:30pm server time, until August 13, 2020 at 4:30pm server time.
What can you look forward to? Here is an overview of the new Battle Pass season – Vein of Glory:
NEW
Daily Quests:
• Players will now receive the following quests every 24h:
1x ‘Random Dungeon Victory’: Complete a random Expert Dungeon
1x ‘Random Warfront Victory’: Win a random warfront
2x Random Daily Quests (+2x dailies for Patron subscribers)
• Rerolling daily quests will not grant either the ‘Random Dungeon Victory’ or the ‘Random Warfront Victory’ quests.
Weekly Quests:
• Players will now receive the following quests every 7 days:
1x ‘Anomaly Tamer’: Complete 20 Battle Pass quests
2x Random Weekly Quests
• Rerolling weekly quests will not grant the ‘Anomaly Tamer’ quest.
• All weekly quests grant a base Battle Pass EXP of 10K.
Battle Pass EXP:
• When completing a Battle Pass quest, players receive a Concentrated Expertise Cache on their inventory, that will grant Loyalty points and Battle Pass EXP based on their status.
• Players who own the Battle Pass obtain +25% Battle Pass EXP for the quest completed.
• Active Patron subscribers obtain +25% Battle Pass EXP for the quest completed.
• Players who own the Battle Pass and have an active Patron subscription obtain +50% Battle Pass EXP for the quest completed.
• Purchasing the Battle Pass or activating a Patron subscription will NOT grant extra EXP over already completed quests.
IMPROVEMENTS & FIXES
• Quest EXP gain overhaul. Adjusted EXP gained from several daily quests. All weekly quests grant 10K Battle Pass EXP (Half a level).
• Fixed an issue where quests to hunt rare mobs were only counting the zone achievement rares.
• Rare mobs that count towards a specific zone quest are now displayed on the tooltip upon hover-over.
• Removed several quests that were complicated to trigger when there were not enough players in the required zone.
• Added new quests to close rifts across the continents in Telara! (Mathosia, Dusken & Brevane)
• An additional cosmetic item “Crown of the Earth Baron” will be available in the Rift Store.
• Players are now able to buy Concentrated Expertise shards in the Rift Store to level up immediately. Available in +1 and +5 level format.
• The new Dimension Kit: Imperial Mining Expedition contains unreleased dimensional items, including the new scaffolding building modules.
• Improved Battle Pass localization.
REMINDER
• After the Battle Pass Season is over, players will have 7 days to claim all pending rewards. During this time, players can acquire the Battle Pass and claim all regular tier
rewards.
REWARDS
• Free:
Artifact – Measuring Tools
Red Crystal Structure
Fisher’s Friend
Artifact – Crafted Metamorphic Rock
Rune Unsocketing Apparatus
Artifact – Mineral Core
Strong Red Spire
Artifact – Epoch Study of Telara
1 Dungeon Charge
Artifact – Wanton Igneous Rock
Strong Red Crystal
Artifact – Hardest Mineral
Underwater Mount Training
Red Bulky Crystal Structure
Artifact – Adamantium Melting Technique
Durable Red Spire
Artifact – Volcanic Activity Report of Ember Isle
Normal Artifact Tracking Vial
Durable Red Crystal
Artifact – Magical Mineralization Thesis
• Premium:
7x Credits (2×100, 1×150, 1×200, 1×250,1×300, 1×400)
2 Bundle of Affinity
Ancient Idol
Diamond Sight
Blue Mineral
Imperishable Terrene
Earthquake Steps
Celestial Crafting Rift Lure: Earth
Wheel of Fate
160% Crafting Skill Sphere
Relic Opie’s Artifact Stash
Twisted Artifact Tracking Vial
Rock Guard
160% Favor Vial
Blue Mineral Column
Unstable Artifact Tracking Vial
Sandstorm Impulse
Poison Artifact Tracking Vial
Exceptionel Crafting Skill Boost
Hellscape Hewn Stone
Earthquake Grounds Effect
Title “Earth Baron”
Levitate Mount – Magnanimous Archon
• Patron:
Epic Opie’s Artifact Stash
Relic Opie’s Artifact Stash
2 Bundle of Affinity
7x Dimension Kit: Imperial Mining Expedition
Giant Red Mineral
Earth Sky
Patron Skill – Banker Skin (Perm)
Happy gaming!
Best wishes,
your Rift team!
