Battle Pass Season 6: Typhoon of Doom

Greetings, Ascended!

Prepare your weapons and ready yourselves; season six of Battle Pass is live now!

The sixth season will be live from Thursday, January 21, 2021 at 12:00pm server time, until March 18, 2021 at 4:30pm server time.

What can you look forward to? Here is an overview of the new Battle Pass season – Typhoon of Doom:


Daily Battle Pass Quest Changes:
– Rare Mob hunt requirement reduced from 6 to 2
– Celestial Rare Mob hunt requirement reduced from 5 to 3
– Zone specific Rift quests requirement reduced from 5 to 3
– Artifact harvest (Normal difficulty) reduced from 10 to 5
– Artifact harvest (Hard difficulty) reduced from 50 to 10
– Zone specific Zone Event quest difficulty increased from Normal to Hard (3000 BPXP)
– Kill PVP-flagged players quest requirements reduced from 100 to 15 for Hard difficulty
– Kill PVP-flagged players quest requirements reduced from 50 to 10 for Normal difficulty
– Added more zone variety for Rift closing quests, and Zone Event quests.
– Replaced the Random Expert Dungeon daily with a dual quest. This quest will always appear in the daily pool. The quest requires to either:
– Complete a Random Expert Dungeon
OR
– Win a Random Warfront

Weekly Battle Pass Quest changes:
– Close planar Rift quest requirements reduced from 25 to 15
– Foothold hunt requirements reduced from 25 to 15
– Rare Zone Mob hunt requirements reduced to 2, regardless of the zone
– Burning Artifact harvest requirement reduced from 45 to 20
– Added quests for harvesting different types of artifacts (Any, Unstable, Twisted, Poison, Nightmare). Quantities vary depending on the artifact type
– Instant Adventure quest requirement increased from 25 to 40
– Kill PVP-flagged players quest requirements reduced from 1000 to 100

Battle Pass Merchant:
– Added Artifact Set from the Legion of Corpses Season
– Added the Patron Summon Banker ability from the Legion of Corpses Season
– Added the new Crown of the Typhoon Duchess and the Dimension Kit: Sky City Structures
– Added a new Minion, Ventus the Prophet, to the Battle Pass vendor Huckster Ratioskr in Tempest Bay. Collect and complete the “Typhoon Hunter” Artifact Set from the Battle Pass Season 6 to unlock it for purchase using Expertise Shards.

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:

Ascension of the Typhoon Duchess

Sky Overseer

Free:
• Artifact – Storm Surge
• PD Item – Air Oculon Eye
• Fisher’s Friend
• Artifact – Hurricane Essence
• Rune Unsocketing Apparatus
• Artifact – Arcane Barometer
• PD Item – Air Oculon
• Artifact – Blizzard Spell Scroll
• 1 Dungeon Charge
• A bag of 100 Planar Pellets
• Artifact – Prevailing Storm Winds
• PD Item – Typhoon Fan
• Sack of Dungeon Currency
• Artifact – Squall Reports
• Underwater Mount Training
• Large Sack of Currency
• Artifact – Bottled Supercell
• Bundle of Upgrade Components
• Artifact – Heavy Rain Extract
• Normal Artifact Tracking Vial
• Upgrade Component Bag
• Artifact – Weather Control Spell Scroll

Premium:
• PD Item – Sky City Gargoyle
• Gaze of the Typhoon Duchess
• 7x Credits (2×100, 1×150, 1×200, 1×250, 1×300, 1×400)
• 2x Affinity (2×100)
• A bag of 100 Planar Pellets
• Imperishable Wind
• Nimble Feet
• Celestial Crafting Rift Lure: Air
• PD Item – Electric Grounds Effect
• Transcendent Experience Vial
• Relic Opie’s Artifact Stash
• Orb of Loyalty
• Static Charge
• Bundle of Upgrade Components
• PD Item – Portal Fumes Effect
• Unstable Artifact Tracking Vial
• Fractus Jump
• Poison Artifact Tracking Vial
• Exceptionel Crafting Skill Boost
• PD Item – Floating Powered Fan
• PD Item – Floating Platform Device
• Title – Writ of the Typhoon Duke
• Mount – Sky Overseer

Patron:
• Epic Opie’s Artifact Stash
• Upgrade Component Bag
• 8x Dimension Kit: Sky City Structures
• Relic Opie’s Artifact Stash
• Sack of Dungeon Currency
• 2x Affinity (2×100)
• 2x Large Sack of Currency
• 2x Brevanic Portal Battery Reset
• Large Sack of Starfall Currency
• Patron Skill – Banker Skin (Perm)

The Dimension Kit: Sky City Structures has a chance of containing the following items:

• Sky City Docks
• Sky City Walkway
• Sky City Windmill Station
• Sky City Noble Building
• Sky City Noble Great Building
• Sky City Fishing Device
• Sky City Noble Dock
• Sky City Machine
• Sky City Blimp
• Sky City Blimp Station

Happy gaming!

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Call to Action: Mechs on Parade!

Call to Action: Mech is back! The excitement and electricity is in the air until January 24! Test your strength against the mechs and earn amazing items!

The following two mounts will be available in the Store:

• Faewood Infinity Walker
• Red & Silver Empyreal Walker

Collect enough Chaos Motes for special Walkers – this event runs from January 22 (starting at 12am server time) to January 24 (ending at 11:59pm server time), 2021. As with other World Events, there will be a quest starter in each home city. You’ll be asked to run an Expert Dungeon with LFG, participate in Warfronts, complete the Mech Zone Event, and collect drops from special Mech Invasions and Footholds!






In addition to the clanking wonders, you can earn:

• Mech Companion Pets
• Minion cards
• Dimension items

Please hurry and stay safe, Ascended! Telara needs your help to fight back against the mechs!

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Giving the World 100,000 Reasons to Smile – with Eden Reforestation Projects and #gamigotrees

With the incredible support from all of you, #gamigotrees has already succeeded in helping to plant many trees trough Eden Reforestation Projects.

Together, we can go even further and reach the goal of 100,000 trees pledged – and receive gifts while doing so!


From January 15 to 31, 2021

• You will receive a 7 Day Patron Pass for the purchase of a Garden Bundle.
• You will receive a 15 Day Patron Pass for the purchase of a Grove Bundle.
• You will receive a 30 Day Patron Pass for the purchase of a Forest Bundle.
• You will receive an Accountwide Mechanical Cappie Mount for the purchase of all three packs.

>>> You can find the packages HERE <<<


Important!
Conditions for claiming the gifts mentioned above:

• The purchase of packs must have taken place from January 15, 2021 onwards. Packs purchased before this date are not taken into account.
• The gifts will only be awarded if the 100,000 tree planted mark is reached until January 31, 2021.
• Once the 100,000 tree planted mark is reached, the prizes will no longer be awarded, even if it was reached before January 31, 2021

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Looking for the Three Kings in Rift!

We are looking for the Three Kings in Rift. Who could have disguised themselves for January 6 as one of them? Do you have any idea ?

Take a look at the image below. The only thing we managed to find out is that these are monsters located in Moonshade Highlands.

Take a good look at the image above and find the correct monsters. You will then need to take a picture of them with your character and name visible.

Each screenshot must include the correct monster, your character and name! Please note, you will need to attach 3 screenshots to your entry post, one for each King.

Post your screenshots in this thread until Sunday, January 17th 2021, at 11:59 pm CET (10:59 pm UTC). Every valid participation receives 1x Dark Levitation Supply Crate.

Conditions of participation:

• The general rules apply to this event.
• You can only participate once per forum account and player.
• You have to enter your character’s name, your server/shard, including the 3 screenshots with your character, it’s name and the correct monster, in the entry post.
• Your screenshots must not be edited / revised.
• The deadline for participation in the event ends at January 17th at 11:59 p.m. CET (10:59 pm UTC).
• The team members’ decisions are final.

Good luck to everyone!

Best regards,
The Rift team!

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Let’s celebrate World Braille Day!

We are all going to celebrate World Braille Day in Rift for a whole week by learning about this very special written language that is so essential to some of us!

You will find a Braille puzzle in this thread every day. Solve the daily riddles to uncover the wanted monster.
Then take a screenshot with your character and name visible as well as the monster.
The screenshot must include the correct monster, your character and it’s name!

Post your screenshot in this thread, every day until 11:59 pm CET (10:59 pm UTC). Every valid participation receives 1x Dark Levitation Supply Crate per day. To make the whole thing more fun, we’re giving away 1x 5 Day Patron Pass to every player who successfully participated on all 7 days.

Conditions of participation:

• The general rules apply to this event.
• You can only participate once per forum account and player.
• Your post of participation must include your character’s name + server and the screenshot with your character, it’s name and the correct monster.
• Your screenshot may not be edited / revised.
• The deadline for participation in the event ends at 11:59 p.m. CET (10:59 pm UTC) each day.
• The decisions of the team members are final.

Good luck to everyone !

Best regards,
The Rift team!

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