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

superunknown012

When do the 3 day and solo events stop giving out shards?

Zuko_ILC

I really like the inclusion of these events but the one thing I'm always worried about is being so burnt out after. The Thor Ragnarok event was extremely time consuming and left me needing a vacation. I hope these are more spread out and they don't require energy or else this is going to be a very labor intensive month for this game.

I'm excited but still think players need more balance with events at times.

Strife

How does one go about getting green shards... I got the ones done on the event quest... but yesterday’s free gift that gave out 1k of them I didn’t get... I’m 1k away and I need to get them bc I have 5k in every other one

Col66

So what happens to the shards we cannot use? The crystal and the rift cost the same amount... So if we dont have 10k of any type of shard do they just disappear?

General_Vis

Completed my fourth rift yesterday. I’ve been lucky enough to pull 2 5* crystals but from both of them I pulled Kamala Khan.

I’ve tried to remain positive and told myself that at least I’m getting the dupe rewards but it’s still bittersweet.

Errornull

Is anyone else stuck on 9k Tier 1 shards with no way to get the last 1000?

IanMoone89

Zuko_ILC wrote: »

I really like the inclusion of these events but the one thing I'm always worried about is being so burnt out after. The Thor Ragnarok event was extremely time consuming and left me needing a vacation. I hope these are more spread out and they don't require energy or else this is going to be a very labor intensive month for this game.

I'm excited but still think players need more balance with events at times.

Fat chance, only thing energy free is the dungeon rest is energy usage, they are obsessed with releasing side contents with energy especially seeing trials are limit by 24 hrs for each day of trial so why the energy usage then

Ghostspider231

What happens to the left over shards at the end of the event? Tier 1-4 etc...

Stains

I, like many others above who have posted, are stuck on 9000 / 10,000 k shards for beginner with no foreseeable way of getting the last 1000. Is this an error Kabam? An extra 1000k shards on the calendar would fix the problem! Help please!

Bosley

This round of rifts are the worst I've seen. Both for collecting shards and the rewards from completion.

mkdevil131

gift me unit's ;(

djr17

Bosley wrote: »

This round of rifts are the worst I've seen. Both for collecting shards and the rewards from completion.

Everything about these rifts is the same as the two previous incarnations, save for the energy it takes to complete the EQ for the rift shards, and the added difficulty of EQ allowing for an extra run through the Master level. The main difference this time around is that your account is 1 year older and stronger, so the rewards seem less impressive than last time around.

Minkl3

Hi, when do solo events stop giving out shards? No date has been mentioned in your original post.

KaanG95

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.

- 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!

Look at the sentence that in bold and italic

Stains

Yay, 1000 shards inbox today. Problem solved! Thanks!

DrZola

@Kabam Miike do we have an end date for Chaos Shards available in alliance and solo events? Will Completion today have Chaos Shards? Or will they only be available in Solo Events?

Alternatively, will there be an opportunity to "top off" Chaos Rift Shards in the next day or so? Many of us are sitting a few hundred shards away from another pass through all or most of the rifts and, while dungeons are all the rage these days, it would be nice to keep being able to finish the last event completely before we put Chaos Rifts to bed for good.

Thanks!

Dr. Zola

DrZola

superunknown012 wrote: »

When do the 3 day and solo events stop giving out shards?

Not trying to bump this thread, but it looks like @superunknown012 asked the same question I am asking 6 days ago. Are the mods done with answering questions about Rifts? You know, the crystals do still have 7 days left on them and the rifts themselves have 2 remaining.

A little help please...if this has been answered, you can just point me to the post.

Thank you.

Dr. Zola

DrZola

And I have part of my answer...rift shards removed from Completion rewards. We get a single L2 dungeon revive in the Completion prizes.

It was too much to keep the smattering of rift shards in for anyone who needs them over the last two days of the rift event? If you’re going to flood the game with content, at least ride it out until it’s all done.

Dr. Zola

tjgiggles

Really hoping they give us an offer for a few last minute shards for units. I had everything budgeted to get one last master rift in, but was expecting Kabam to give shards through the Arena 3 day event. I heard they did last time rifts were a thing, Kabam any word on this?

Amonthir

Definitely interested in an answer about shard offers, as I will be a few short of another run from Normal through Master, coming up a bit sort from fewer shards in events.

DrZola

Amonthir wrote: »

Definitely interested in an answer about shard offers, as I will be a few short of another run from Normal through Master, coming up a bit sort from fewer shards in events.

@Amonthir I'm currently 25 T2 shards short of a full run, only because of painful grinding low yield events like Science Combat and Event Quest Completion. But at this point I'm questioning my sanity: my rift runs have been famously bad. Why do I want to put myself through them one more time?

Dr. Zola

superunknown012

It's been more than 10 days since anyone from Kabam has acknowledged this thread and several important questions have been raised. A simple yes or no on these would be great, especially considering the rifts expire tomorrow?

What will likely happen though is the radio-silence will continue, Kabam will answer things on other topics, and they'll hope we all just deal with it and shut up after the next 26-ish hours.

This kind of behavior is both infuriating and insulting, and it's really starting to wear thin on me.

Amonthir

DrZola wrote: »

Amonthir wrote: »

Definitely interested in an answer about shard offers, as I will be a few short of another run from Normal through Master, coming up a bit sort from fewer shards in events.

@Amonthir I'm currently 25 T2 shards short of a full run, only because of painful grinding low yield events like Science Combat and Event Quest Completion. But at this point I'm questioning my sanity: my rift runs have been famously bad. Why do I want to put myself through them one more time?

Dr. Zola

But, but, but, 3rd/4th/5th time's the charm!

DrZola

Amonthir wrote: »

DrZola wrote: »

Amonthir wrote: »

Definitely interested in an answer about shard offers, as I will be a few short of another run from Normal through Master, coming up a bit sort from fewer shards in events.

@Amonthir I'm currently 25 T2 shards short of a full run, only because of painful grinding low yield events like Science Combat and Event Quest Completion. But at this point I'm questioning my sanity: my rift runs have been famously bad. Why do I want to put myself through them one more time?

Dr. Zola

But, but, but, 3rd/4th/5th time's the charm!

Aaaand...it wasn’t.

All difficulties done, refills burned along with countless hours. Result this run? A T4b—something I get from arena every 9 days, from AQ and glory, from EQ.

I’m Charlie Brown. Rift prizes are the football. Kabam
is Lucy—twice now.

Sad thing is with a T4b, less than half a T2a, and less than half a 5* from these rifts, I actually qualify as a “winner.”

End result: just said $&*% it to dumping time into dungeons, arena, everything else in this thankless game for the time being and hello to 80 degree days and playing Fortnite with my kids. Any shard offers can be placed where the sun doesn’t shine. That’s not an “I’m quitting the game” post—just a time reallocation decision.

Dr. Zola

Amonthir

...6th? 7th? They'll be back! Hopefully with adjustments to match state of the game, but damn straight get out there with the kiddos! As my own kid grows older, I will do the same. I have already cut arena mostly out so my home time is with family (and AQ/AW, because, well, yeah).

DrZola

Amonthir wrote: »

...6th? 7th? They'll be back! Hopefully with adjustments to match state of the game, but damn straight get out there with the kiddos! As my own kid grows older, I will do the same. I have already cut arena mostly out so my home time is with family (and AQ/AW, because, well, yeah).

Of course!

Dr. Zola

Nmbghjju

There's no shards offer this time?

unknown

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Deacon03

@Kabam Miike what is going to happen to the extra rift shards we dont use?

JimmyJohnJones

My guess is they'll offer shard deals once rift expires since the crystals will still be active. Makes sense from a simplified business fiscal point as you won't be able to get a "free" master run that way and will have to pay for it (though they'll probably sell less as folks won't want rewards from crystals as much as from rifts.) Crappy for us though as it would be paying more for less. No thank you.