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

Kabam DK

Hey everyone, just to clarify some confusion (I will also add this to the original post):

- 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.

- 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.

Hopefully that clears some things up!

Karinshi

Can we please increase that (1) to (2 or 3) for t4cc and t4bc??? it's very underwhelming in the current state of the game!

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Eb0ny-O-M4w

573739 wrote: »

Once again: will previous traveled paths be removed from the “random” portal move?

No. Is a one path quest that resets every time you enter.

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NinjAlan

Codornas wrote: »

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

I love the rifts, but as the game has progressed these rewards have gotten worse from the last one, imo t4b and t4cc shouldn't be in the expert one, nor the t2a frags

LordBaldyBald

They reset after each runthrough so that way if you randomly get the same path, it’s not just empty though it may be placed in the same spot

MarzGroove

Rock-n-roll.

Øbi

Great work! Keep those 5* shards overflow upon the battlerealm 😁

BrianGrant

NIFTY RIFTIES!

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Horror_punk

1% chance for t2ais pretty dope

DarkestDestroyer

Great news!

SpiritOfVengeance

I agree with the above comment uncollected is wayy harder and we get the same rewards as the others that should be increased a bit don't you think?

Mrbeast6000

@kabamdv what kind of shards will be for uncollected eq?

DNA

I'm ready for the poop rewards!!!!!

Kabam DK

573739 wrote: »

Once again: will previous traveled paths be removed from the “random” portal move?

Nope. You CAN get the same path as before, but you'll still receive the reward a second time.

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IanMoone89

since the event is energy cost watch them release a energy bundle again....god forbid they do this event without energy would end the world for them....why do energy especially when next month event is coming out...this is getting annoying...i refuse to spend units on refills as i have better use for them

Kabam DK

BitterSteel wrote: »

If I get the featured 5* crystal and I save it until the next set of champions is added, will I be able to open it and have a chance of Killmonger, Bishop, Sentinel, Sabretooth, Glad Hulk etc.?

Is the featured 5* like the basic crystal where you’ll add new champions and take the others out, or will it just be replaced by a new crystal?

No, this is the same one that's currently available in the Crystal Vault. Saving it for several months won't mean you get the new pool of Champions when they change

Kabam DK

Mrbeast6000 wrote: »

@kabamdv what kind of shards will be for uncollected eq?

Previously mentioned, but Tier 4 Chaos Crystal Shards

Kabam DK

BitterSteel wrote: »

Why does uncollected difficulty give the same amount of shards as master? Uncollected is many many times more difficult and the rewards should reflect this.

It's a whole additional run of the Master level rift which could potentially mean a free Tier 2 Alpha or 5-Star Awakening Gem, and at the very least means a Tier 4 Basic Catalyst or additional 5-Star Shards. We tried to strike a balance of giving out more to those who CAN do Uncollected, while also not making those who CAN'T do it don't feel like they're not getting value from the content they CAN do.

moreap1

what is those solo event and alliance event any idea ?

Blaargo

How hard is the final event quest is it doable with 4/40s

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Blaargo

I have a decent skill level being uncollected with them and I have 2 3/45s.No clue on how this event works.

NOOOOOOOOPEEEEE

This may have been addressed in the page but I skimmed over a lot of it, but when you beat the rift how many of the rewards will you get. Will it only be 1 or will it be like 5 of the possible rewards.

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NOOOOOOOOPEEEEE

BitterSteel wrote: »

NOOOOOOOOPEEEEE wrote: »

This may have been addressed in the page but I skimmed over a lot of it, but when you beat the rift how many of the rewards will you get. Will it only be 1 or will it be like 5 of the possible rewards.

It takes you to a random path with one of the rewards. That’s literally the premise of the rift. Just read the post.

Oh whoops sorry, I did skim over that part and hearing the discussion of people in the comments made the layout sound like Modoks Lab.

Marzipan87

Kabam DK wrote: »

Hey everyone, just to clarify some confusion (I will also add this to the original post):

- 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.

will this maybe mean that the monthly event quest starts a week earlier ?