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

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.

BitterSteel

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.

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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 ?

Time4ASpanking

So there are two 17.5% chances at 500 4* shards in the Tier 3 rift? So really a 35% chance?

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BitterSteel

Grippies wrote: »

Time4ASpanking wrote: »

So there are two 17.5% chances at 500 4* shards in the Tier 3 rift? So really a 35% chance?

That's what I was asking about above. In every difficulty, they list the same amount of shards twice. It makes no sense.

What I can think is that there are two different paths with that amount of shards. Doesn’t explain why not just make it one path but it explains both percentages

Kabam DK

BitterSteel wrote: »

Grippies wrote: »

Time4ASpanking wrote: »

So there are two 17.5% chances at 500 4* shards in the Tier 3 rift? So really a 35% chance?

That's what I was asking about above. In every difficulty, they list the same amount of shards twice. It makes no sense.

What I can think is that there are two different paths with that amount of shards. Doesn’t explain why not just make it one path but it explains both percentages

BitterSteel is correct here @Grippies. If an item appears twice, it means there are 2 paths containing that item.

Kabam DK

Marzipan87 wrote: »

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 ?

Nope, not coming a week early - it'll be on the normal schedule (there will be an announcement post detailing it, same as usual).

Marzipan87

Kabam DK wrote: »

Marzipan87 wrote: »

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 ?

Nope, not coming a week early - it'll be on the normal schedule (there will be an announcement post detailing it, same as usual).

you destroy my hopes

but 10 days after rift start is not shortly after

and it would be not the first time 2 quests are running at the same time

but thanks for the rifts, i accept your apologize for longer waiting for a new AQ seasson

GroundedWisdom

All I can say is sweeeeeet.

TheBaldAvenger

Kabam DK wrote: »

Marzipan87 wrote: »

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 ?

Nope, not coming a week early - it'll be on the normal schedule (there will be an announcement post detailing it, same as usual).

So your saying everyone has only 3 weeks to complete all the monthly quests in order to be able to run the rifts. Doesn’t make sense.

phillgreen

Looks good, as usual the people who play the most will have the most chances at the good rewards (as it should be)

Hopefully my luck changes because I don't remember getting anything good last time but as always, free stuff for doing mostly what I would do anyway is welcomed.

Cats73

Interesting, hope my luck is good so I can get that 5* tech awakening!

Worior

Heh

HeroBoltsy

It's about damn time Kabam! Thanks! I'm really hyped for this...I joined after the last known Dimensional Rifts. Query: Will these become more common in the coming months i.e. should we expect to see this run again later this year, or is it like a 1 time Infinity War thing?

Kabam Miike

TheBaldAvenger wrote: »

Kabam DK wrote: »

Marzipan87 wrote: »

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 ?

Nope, not coming a week early - it'll be on the normal schedule (there will be an announcement post detailing it, same as usual).

So your saying everyone has only 3 weeks to complete all the monthly quests in order to be able to run the rifts. Doesn’t make sense.

You'll have the regular amount of time. The only reason these quests are coming out early is because there is a new version coming on Monday (patch notes coming soon) and these quests would be visible right away, while the Event Quest won't start until the usually scheduled time.

GroundedWisdom

TheBaldAvenger wrote: »

Kabam DK wrote: »

Marzipan87 wrote: »

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 ?

Nope, not coming a week early - it'll be on the normal schedule (there will be an announcement post detailing it, same as usual).

So your saying everyone has only 3 weeks to complete all the monthly quests in order to be able to run the rifts. Doesn’t make sense.

To be honest, most people finish within the first couple weeks. In any case, we have the regular amount of time.

TheBaldAvenger

Kabam Miike wrote: »

TheBaldAvenger wrote: »

Kabam DK wrote: »

Marzipan87 wrote: »

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 ?

Nope, not coming a week early - it'll be on the normal schedule (there will be an announcement post detailing it, same as usual).

So your saying everyone has only 3 weeks to complete all the monthly quests in order to be able to run the rifts. Doesn’t make sense.

You'll have the regular amount of time. The only reason these quests are coming out early is because there is a new version coming on Monday (patch notes coming soon) and these quests would be visible right away, while the Event Quest won't start until the usually scheduled time.

That’s not actually correct tho. If the monthly events start on normal schedule, that will be April 4th. The rifts end on 25th of April (as stated in the post) meaning we will have 3 weeks. Then the monthly quests will carry on running for at least a week I presume where rifts won’t be active which is gonna cause you all sorts of complaints. You shouldn’t have different start/finish times for content that is linked,

TheBaldAvenger

GroundedWisdom wrote: »

TheBaldAvenger wrote: »

Kabam DK wrote: »

Marzipan87 wrote: »

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 ?

Nope, not coming a week early - it'll be on the normal schedule (there will be an announcement post detailing it, same as usual).

So your saying everyone has only 3 weeks to complete all the monthly quests in order to be able to run the rifts. Doesn’t make sense.

To be honest, most people finish within the first couple weeks. In any case, we have the regular amount of time.

No we dont, well not if you plan on running rifts with the rewards from monthly quests anyway

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GroundedWisdom

TheBaldAvenger wrote: »

GroundedWisdom wrote: »

TheBaldAvenger wrote: »

Kabam DK wrote: »

Marzipan87 wrote: »

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 ?

Nope, not coming a week early - it'll be on the normal schedule (there will be an announcement post detailing it, same as usual).

So your saying everyone has only 3 weeks to complete all the monthly quests in order to be able to run the rifts. Doesn’t make sense.

To be honest, most people finish within the first couple weeks. In any case, we have the regular amount of time.

No we dont

We have the regular amount of time to complete the Monthly Quest. Then a week to collect Shards ahead of time in Solo Events, before the EQ starts. We are 4 days away from the EQ. That's not an unreasonable amount of time. Now that we are aware I'm sure we can get it done. If not, we can use the Shards for the Crystals.

TheBaldAvenger

GroundedWisdom wrote: »

TheBaldAvenger wrote: »

GroundedWisdom wrote: »

TheBaldAvenger wrote: »

Kabam DK wrote: »

Marzipan87 wrote: »

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 ?

Nope, not coming a week early - it'll be on the normal schedule (there will be an announcement post detailing it, same as usual).

So your saying everyone has only 3 weeks to complete all the monthly quests in order to be able to run the rifts. Doesn’t make sense.

To be honest, most people finish within the first couple weeks. In any case, we have the regular amount of time.

No we dont

We have the regular amount of time to complete the Monthly Quest. Then a week to collect Shards ahead of time in Solo Events, before the EQ starts. We are 4 days away from the EQ. That's not an unreasonable amount of time. Now that we are aware I'm sure we can get it done. If not, we can use the Shards for the Crystals.

So we have 3 weeks yeah

GroundedWisdom

TheBaldAvenger wrote: »

GroundedWisdom wrote: »

TheBaldAvenger wrote: »

GroundedWisdom wrote: »

TheBaldAvenger wrote: »

Kabam DK wrote: »

Marzipan87 wrote: »

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 ?

Nope, not coming a week early - it'll be on the normal schedule (there will be an announcement post detailing it, same as usual).

So your saying everyone has only 3 weeks to complete all the monthly quests in order to be able to run the rifts. Doesn’t make sense.

To be honest, most people finish within the first couple weeks. In any case, we have the regular amount of time.

No we dont

We have the regular amount of time to complete the Monthly Quest. Then a week to collect Shards ahead of time in Solo Events, before the EQ starts. We are 4 days away from the EQ. That's not an unreasonable amount of time. Now that we are aware I'm sure we can get it done. If not, we can use the Shards for the Crystals.

So we have 3 weeks yeah

We have 4 weeks of Rifts. 3 weeks to collect the Shards if we want to use them, but the EQ is not the only place to collect the Shards and the Rifts are not the only use for them. This feels like nitpicking. Lol. Just don't wait until the last minute.

TheBaldAvenger

GroundedWisdom wrote: »

TheBaldAvenger wrote: »

GroundedWisdom wrote: »

TheBaldAvenger wrote: »

GroundedWisdom wrote: »

TheBaldAvenger wrote: »

Kabam DK wrote: »

Marzipan87 wrote: »

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 ?

Nope, not coming a week early - it'll be on the normal schedule (there will be an announcement post detailing it, same as usual).

So your saying everyone has only 3 weeks to complete all the monthly quests in order to be able to run the rifts. Doesn’t make sense.

To be honest, most people finish within the first couple weeks. In any case, we have the regular amount of time.

No we dont

We have the regular amount of time to complete the Monthly Quest. Then a week to collect Shards ahead of time in Solo Events, before the EQ starts. We are 4 days away from the EQ. That's not an unreasonable amount of time. Now that we are aware I'm sure we can get it done. If not, we can use the Shards for the Crystals.

So we have 3 weeks yeah

We have 4 weeks of Rifts. 3 weeks to collect the Shards of we want to use them, but the EQ is not the only place to collect the Shards and the Rifts are not the only use for them. This feels like nitpicking. Lol. Just don't wait until the last minute.

I’ll wait for an official response from someone that matters. Thanks tho

SpiritOfVengeance

@TheBaldAvenger
Seriously? Learns some manners you could of said that normally without sounding like a complete...

TheBaldAvenger

SpiritOfVengeance wrote: »

@TheBaldGuy
Seriously? Learns some manners you could of said that normally without sounding like a complete...

Yeah @TheBaldGuy so rude

GroundedWisdom

Okay, this is going south. All I'm saying is if the Rifts close a week before EQ does, we'll have to get the Shards in time if we want to Rift with them. That's the information provided and that is not unreasonable to me. If we know they're closing, we'll just have to get it done. If not, we can use the Shards later for Crystals.