Announcing: Chaos Rifts

NIFTY RIFTIES!

Not seen since the instability of the early tremors preceding the Elder’s War, Rifts have returned as a result of the chaos created with the scattering of the Infinity Stones! Laden with valuable prizes, Chaos Rifts require Chaos Crystal Shards to keep their entrance stable, and only remain open for 1 hour! Chaos Crystal Shards are strewn all over the Battlerealm, and it’s up to YOU to find and use as many as they can before they disappear once more!

Chaos rifts will be available from March 26th at 10:00 AM PDT until May 2nd at 10:00 AM PDT (end date updated by moderator on April 16). You will need to be on our forthcoming build to see and participate in them.

For those of you who have no idea what a Rift is, or even if you do, below is a run-down of how they work.

WHAT ARE CHAOS RIFTS?

Chaos Rifts are quests that have ENTRY COSTS. That means you won’t be able to enter them until you collect 10,000 CHAOS CRYSTAL SHARDS and spend them to enter. Like previous Dimensional Rifts, there are 4 tiers of Rifts, and 4 corresponding tiers of Chaos Crystal Shards. This means you’ll need to collect 10,000 Tier 1 Chaos Crystal Shards to open a Beginner Rift, 10,000 Tier 2 Chaos Crystal Shards to open a Normal Rift, and so on.

Once you spend your Chaos Crystal Shards to enter the Rift, you’ll have 1 hour to collect your prize and defeat the final boss, but it’s not so simple! The path you’ll be sent to is determined by a RANDOM PORTAL, so you won’t know what prize you’ll receive until you enter! Rifts of different tiers contain different rarities of prizes, with the highest tier containing a FULL TIER 2 ALPHA CATALYST and a 5-STAR CLASS AWAKENING GEM.

So, that’s the gist of it. Collect Chaos Crystal Shards of Different Tiers, and use them to open Chaos Rifts of the corresponding tier, then claim cool prizes. Here’s a handy breakdown of some key info:

BEGINNER: 10,000 TIER 1 Chaos Crystal Shards - 2 Energy per step - (24 energy per play)
NORMAL: 10,000 TIER 2 Chaos Crystal Shards - 3 Energy per step - (36 energy per play)
HEROIC: 10,000 TIER 3 Chaos Crystal Shards - 4 Energy per step - (48 energy per play)
MASTER: 10,000 TIER 4 Chaos Crystal Shards - 5 Energy per step - (60 energy per play)

HOW DO I GET CHAOS CRYSTAL SHARDS?

There’s 3 places you can collect Chaos Crystal Shards: Solo and Alliance Events, as well as the monthly Event Quest. Additionally, Lower Tiers of Chaos Rift provide 5,000 Chaos Crystal Shards for the next tier up, which means every time you complete 2 of a certain tier of Chaos Rift, you’ll get 1 entry into the next tier up! In the case of the Tier 4 (Master Difficulty) Chaos Rift, it will instead award 500 5-Star Crystal Shards.

You’ll be able to earn 2,000 Chaos Crystal Shards from completing an Event Quest difficulty, and another 8,000 from full Exploring the same Event Quest Difficulty.

UPDATE: 3/22/2018 @ 12:30PM PDT

Some more context on where to get Chaos Crystal Shards:

- Chaos Crystal Shards will be available from NEXT month's Event Quest, not this month's. The Event Quest is launching shortly after Chaos Rifts, however.
- The Event Quest's Uncollected Difficulty will award the same amount of Tier 4 Chaos Crystal Shards as Master Difficulty.

- Solo Events awarding Chaos Crystal Shards begin on MONDAY MARCH 26th (PDT) alongside the Rifts.

- Alliance Events that contain Chaos Crystal Shards are the 3-Day Events, the first of which will arrive on WEDNESDAY MARCH 28th (PDT)

- A welcome message will arrive in your inbox on MONDAY MARCH 26th (PDT) containing 10,000 Tier 1 Chaos Crystal Shards.

- There will ALSO be a login calendar running that awards Chaos Crystal Shards that begins on MONDAY MARCH 26th.

HOW MUCH ENERGY DOES THIS COST?

Chaos Rifts, like their predecessors Dimensional Rifts, cost 2-5 Energy per step, depending on difficulty:

BEGINNER: - 2 Energy per step - (24 energy per play)
NORMAL: - 3 Energy per step - (36 energy per play)
HEROIC: - 4 Energy per step - (48 energy per play)
MASTER: - 5 Energy per step - (60 energy per play)

HOW HARD ARE THE QUESTS?

You’ll face off against 5 Enemies in Chaos Rifts, all of whom are randomized from a select pool. Their difficulty is roughly equivalent to the corresponding Event Quest Difficulty. As a rule, if you can beat a certain difficulty of the Event Quest, you should have no issues completing a Chaos Rift of the same difficulty. Here’s a quick breakdown of what Buffs are present in each difficulty of Rift (note that unless a Buff is marked as Global, it only applies to the final Boss):

WHAT IF I FAIL THE QUEST?

Just to be SUPER clear: QUITTING OR NOT COMPLETING THE QUEST WITHIN THE 1 HOUR TIME LIMIT WILL RESULT IN THE LOSS OF BOTH THE CRYSTAL SHARDS USED TO ENTER THE QUEST AS WELL AS ANY REWARDS EARNED INSIDE THE QUEST.

WHAT IF I DON’T WANT TO DO THE QUEST?

Great Question! We know that even if you’re unable to beat a certain Event Quest Difficulty, you may end up with enough Chaos Crystal Shards to open a Chaos Rift. If you’re not so keen on doing that, though, you can always use those Shards to Open a CHAOS CRYSTAL.

Chaos Crystals award SOME of the prizes a Chaos Rift of the same tier does, but not all, and they ALSO only award 2,500 Chaos Crystal Shards for the next Tier up as opposed to the 5,000 up for grabs in a Chaos Rift Quest.

If you are able to complete a Chaos Rift, it is ALWAYS better to play a Chaos Rift instead of opening a Chaos Crystal.

Chaos Crystals will not be available until April 9th.

WHAT ARE THE REWARDS?

Glad you asked! Below is a breakdown of what the potential rewards are for both Rifts AND Crystals, as well as the drop rates for both. Since Chaos Rifts are essentially crystals you play, it was important for us to let you know what your odds of receiving a certain prize would be.

RIFTS

CRYSTALS

Comments

Stara99

Awesome they are back

NinjaWarrior99

Stara99 wrote: »

Awesome they are back

not until March 26

General__Ross

Will the Uncollected Event Quest offer any sort of rift shards? Or do I have to explore heroic and master (something I haven’t done in a loooong time)?

Kabam DK

SignalPack8651 wrote: »

Will the Uncollected Event Quest offer any sort of rift shards? Or do I have to explore heroic and master (something I haven’t done in a loooong time)?

Yes. Uncollected Difficulty will award Tier 4 Chaos Crystal Shards (the same as Master Difficulty)

General__Ross

Thanks

superunknown012

Rifts gave the best rewards of any of the special monthly quests. Stoked to see them coming back.

VIKING987

What about those who have already done heroic and master 100% of the event quest? Please help.

superunknown012

VIKING987 wrote: »

What about those who have already done heroic and master 100% of the event quest? Please help.

Think it's a pretty safe bet to say we're talking about next months quest. Not the one that will only have a week left by the time this kicks off.

Eb0ny-O-M4w

So the update comes out on Monday? As well as the patch notes?

Thecrusher_9756

If we have already completed heroic and master this month do we have to do it again for the shards?

SpiritOfVengeance

Wait if the new uncollected has the shards when will it come out? Because we will need all the ways of getting shards straight away when these rifts release.

Codornas

Now thats good news kabam. Gotta give credit where its due too

Eb0ny-O-M4w

Thecrusher_9756 wrote: »

If we have already completed heroic and master this month do we have to do it again for the shards?

The x-men quests don't give shards. The next monthly event quest will

Thecrusher_9756

will-o-wisp wrote: »

Thecrusher_9756 wrote: »

If we have already completed heroic and master this month do we have to do it again for the shards?

The x-men quests don't give shards. The next monthly event quest will

Oh right thanks

whaler213

why is this starting in 4 days when the current quest still has nearly 2 weeks left on it? also whats happening with modoks labs?

Anurag1606

Please clear it. We need to do March months uncollected, master, heroic to get the shards or the next month? Cos it is available from 26th March and I believe next quest starts from 4th April. Now I have already explored this month's event. So please clear it.

Deadbyrd9

This monthly did last much longer than the others. I had master, heroic, an uncollected completed a couple weeks ago. Been waiting for the next event quest. I’m sure they release ways to get shards on the 26th but it wouldn’t surprise if the new quest didn’t start until the first of April

Epistriatus

The x-men runs for another 12 days. Rifts will start in 4 days, with the new update. Does this mean we’ll have 2 separate monthly event quests running at the same time for approximately a week? Or is it a visual bug that the x-men quest still runs for 12 days?
Oh & absolutely superawesome that rifts will return 😎

Sportsfan365

I’m sure you can earn the shards in the solo and alliance events starting on the 26th but the bulk of the shards will come from April’s event quest

RehctansBew

So will the shards be added to this months current quest? IF so what about those that have already completed all of these events

BitterSteel

SpiritOfVengeance wrote: »

Wait if the new uncollected has the shards when will it come out? Because we will need all the ways of getting shards straight away when these rifts release.

It’ll come out the same day as it always does. Why do you need all the ways of getting shards straight away?

Usama_Siddiq

Ready

Raganator

Sweeeeet.

TheBaldAvenger

My bet is they are launching it early to finish in time for infinity war release. That way they can go big for the release rather than a week after

Patchie93

Deadbyrd9 wrote: »

This monthly did last much longer than the others. I had master, heroic, an uncollected completed a couple weeks ago. Been waiting for the next event quest. I’m sure they release ways to get shards on the 26th but it wouldn’t surprise if the new quest didn’t start until the first of April

They will prolly start the solo and alliance quests then similar to vanquishing blows is my guess

unknown

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Primmer79

Patchie93 wrote: »

Deadbyrd9 wrote: »

This monthly did last much longer than the others. I had master, heroic, an uncollected completed a couple weeks ago. Been waiting for the next event quest. I’m sure they release ways to get shards on the 26th but it wouldn’t surprise if the new quest didn’t start until the first of April

They will prolly start the solo and alliance quests then similar to vanquishing blows is my guess

If i remember right, they just tagged on the shards as rewards to already existing solo/alliance quests as opposed to making new quests like vanquishing blows.

FineDog

How often can we enter the rifts? Like are they one and done, on some sort of refresh timer, or can we just re-enter as often and whenever we want as long as we have enough shards?

LordBaldyBald

Kabam DK wrote: »

SignalPack8651 wrote: »

Will the Uncollected Event Quest offer any sort of rift shards? Or do I have to explore heroic and master (something I haven’t done in a loooong time)?

Yes. Uncollected Difficulty will award Tier 4 Chaos Crystal Shards (the same as Master Difficulty)

Is it too late to request for Uncollected difficulty to reward 1.5 or double the amount of chaos rift crystal shards as Master difficulty?

DeadPool79

cant wait