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The next exciting chapter of RIFT’s Prophecy of Ankhet is here! A war arises between Crucia and Ankhet in 4.2: Celestial Storm. These powerful femme fatales are hell-bent on domination and destruction of the Celestial Lands and you, Ascended, must stop them!

4.2 Celestial Storm Features:

• New Overland Zone, Vostigar Peaks
• New Version of Tartaric Depths Raid (Normal Mode)
• Over 80 New Quests
• New Raid Rifts
• New Instant Adventure
• Four New Primalist Souls:
  • Farseer
  • Mystic
  • Predator
  • Primal Lord
• New Achievements
• New Creatures
• New Loot
• New Dimension
• Over 20 New Artifact Sets
• Updated Supply Crate Rewards and UI
• And More!

Wilds Pack is Back!

In honor of our new game update and the four new Primalist Souls, we are offering the Planetouched Wilds Pack on sale for a limited time. It’s now on the RIFT store for $19.99 until August 15, 2017.

Take a walk on the wild side! Unleash your inner beast with the Primalist Calling, 10 Souls, a War Beast Mount, and more. Includes the following:

• Primalist Calling (includes 10 Souls)
• Primal War Beast Mount
• Primalist’s Ovog Ceremonial Garb
• Khar Warfront Announcer
• Zendi Pet & Minion Card
• Cloak of the Great Wheel
• Primalist Portrait Frame
• Ascended Primal Trinket
• +1 Character Slot (Max 13)

Limited Time Login Bonus

Haven’t played in a bit and want to come back? Now is the perfect time! From now until August 15, 2017 at 11:59 PM PDT, log into RIFT and receive the following rewards:

• Celestial Rewards Cache
  • 2 Tenebrean Engines (used to upgrade powerful raid items).
• Box of Individual Reward Charges
  • Contains 10 Individual Rewards Charges. Does not extend the cap of 100 charges and charges in excess of 100 will be lost.
• Glimmering Bag of Sparkles
  • Contains 100 Phenomenal Sparkle required for the monthly Patron quest. Sparkles that exceed the 500 cap will be lost.
• Sagum of Lightning Costume Cape

Rewards will be available in the top right “claim” area of the RIFT UI.

For more information on what’s in the update, as well as more lore, check out our Celestial Storm announcement blog here. For a visual guide on today’s 4.2 Celestial Storm update, check out our livestream recap blog here, which shows off the new zones, creatures, the new Supply Crate, and more. So steel yourself for battle between two of the most powerful forces you’ve ever come across.

Chat with us about the 4.2 Celestial Storm game update on the forums here!

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On Friday, July 14, the RIFT dev team took players to the future to visit 4.2: Celestial Storm. They then later brought in the art team to show off an in-depth look at the new zone, Vostigar and go through the creative process in bringing this area to life. Re-watch them and learn the secrets of the devs so that you can be prepared for the launch of RIFT’s next game update, 4.2: Celestial Storm!

4.2: Celestial Storm Dev Q&A

Our host, Linda “Brasse” Carlson (Director of Community Relations) was joined by Chris “Keyens” Meyer (Systems Designer), Christopher “Archonix” Junior (Game Director, RIFT), and Simon “DeadSimon” Ffinch (Sr. Design Director) to go over the new features of Celestial Storm, including two new mounts, new lockbox mechanics and rewards, new creatures, new story, and more. Also meet the brand-new Communtiy Manager, Jennifer “Yaviey” Bridges with special guest Nicholas “Captain Cursor” McDowell.

Vostigar ArtStream!

Brasse returned to interview Justin Stearns (Environment Artist) and Mike Chang (Senior Environment Artist) from the RIFT art team to explain the creative process and design elements behind the new zone in Celestial Storm, Vostigar Peaks. They completed the stream with an in-game run-through of the new overland zone in all its colorful glory. Once again, special guest Captain Cursor joined them to help explain some of the lore in the zone as it related to the new artwork.

We’ll be back for more fun on Friday, July 21, 2017. Stay tuned to learn who our guests will be and what we’re going to show off. Until next time, Ascended!

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It’s the perfect time to create two new packs to coincide with changing RIFT 4.0’s name to Prophecy of Ahnket! Don’t forget our special Free Expansion Weekend from May 10 to May 14 too!

RIFT PACKS TO ENHANCE YOUR GAMEPLAY!

Prophecy of Ahnket Access Pack – $19.99
Explore the Comet of Ahnket:

• Five massive new overland zones
• A new Raid: Tartaric Depths
• Gain access to earn levels 66-70, together with their Legendary abilities!
• Lots more content and features already in and coming later this year!
  All the glorious details are here: Prophecy of Ahnket

Celestial Adventurers Pack – $29.99
The coolest add-ons ever:

• A ferocious Ethereal Drake Mount
• The legendary style of Asha Catari’s Raiment (there are both male and female versions!)
• Gorgeous Ring of Ahnket Portrait Frame

(note: this does NOT include the expansion itself!)

These packs go live on May 10, 2017 on our store.
Available on Steam on May 15th!

Did I miss something? What’s the PROPHECY OF AHNKET?

Going forward, RIFT 4.0 will be known as Prophecy of Ahnket. This name change will be reflected in game, on our website, in future emails, on ads, etc. And… that’s it, really. The only thing changing is the name.  It is more evocative of the lore – we hope you like the new name as much as we do! Read the RIFT Producer’s Letter for more information!

Wait – did you say something about free copies of the Prophcey of Ahnket expansion?

From the RIFT Producer’s Letter.:
“That’s right! To celebrate the new name, we’re giving EVERYBODY who logs in from May 10 – May 14 a copy of Prophecy of Ahnket if they do not already own it. You read that right: if you log in and haven’t obtained the expansion yet, you get a free copy to keep forever. EASY, right? Right!”