The Steam Winter sale is here! Grab the DLC’s or packs that you need at some amazing discounts for the holidays!

The Rising Storm Power Pack, Laethy’s Indulgence Power Pack, Ascended Essentials Pack and the Classic Collector’s Pack are 30% off.

Upgrade Bundle and Glory of the Ascended Pack are a whooping 50% off, and full of great items!

At a gargantuan 75% off we have the Laethy’s Fortune Pack, with tons of awesome items.

You do not want to miss out on this sale. It’s happening right now and ends on January 1, 2022 at 10am PST / 12pm CST / 7pm CET!

Happy holidays!

When?
Fae Yule Phase 1: December 9, 2021 at 8:00 AM until December 16, 2021 at 3:30 PM local server time
Fae Yule Phase 2: December 16, 2021 at 3:30 PM until December 23, 2021 at 3:30 PM local server time
Fae Yule Phase 3: December 23, 2021 at 3:30 PM until December 30, 2021 2021 at 3:30 PM local server time
Fae Yule grace period: December 30, 2021 at 3:30 PM until January 6, 2021 at 3:30 PM local server time
Fae Yule store only: January 6, 2021 at 3:30 PM until January 13, 2021 at 3:30 PM local server time

Where?
To take part in the event visit one of the main cities, Sanctum or Meridian, and talk to the questgivers to receive the weekly quest which can be completed once per character and some daily quests.

Sanctum: /setwaypoint 7374 3073
Meridian: /setwaypoint 6197 5185

See you in game, Happy Holidays!

Prepare to be swept away with this magical RIFT giveaway!

Dust off your camera and you could win a Magic Broom mount!

Comment below with a screenshot of your favorite in-game costume and get entered into our Magic Broom mount raffle!

Greetings, Ascended!

Celebrate with us the Carnival of the Ascended 2021, marking the 10th anniversary of the release of Rift. The World Event will start on March 25th and will last 4 weeks, until April 22nd, 2021 at 15.30.00 local server time.

The event will have three distinct phases that start on the following dates:
- Phase 1: Thursday 25th of March
- Phase 2: Thursday 15th of April at 15.30.00 local server time
- Phase 3: Thursday 22nd of April at 15.30.00 local server time
- End of the event: Thursday 29th of April at 15.30.00 local server time


What can you look forward to?


New Artifact Sets

• Added three new Artifact sets. Collecting each one will be rewarded a Celebration Chest containing, among other items, 4 Auroral Doubloons!

Our Overlord
- Completing a 4-hour Carnival Minion Mission has a 50% chance to drop a Celebration Bag for Overlords that will grant a random artifact of this set.

Hero Generation
- Among the rewards for killing one of the Carnival IA bosses, players will receive a Celebration Bag for Adventurers that will grant a random artifact of this set.

Pinata Candy
- Hunt Pinatas across Telara for a 50% chance to drop a Celebration Bag for Pinata Hunters that will grant a random artifact of this set.

• Collect and complete all the three new artifact sets to earn the True Veteran achievement, which will give the "Elder" prefix title and 100 platinum.


New Minion

• Uncover the story of the old Ascended Trillian Lockwert by acquiring its Minion Card
- Upon collecting it, a chain of 11 Minion Missions will be unlocked. Complete them all to acquire 5 new Minions, 4 collectible journal entries with Trillians story, and some additional Carnival of the Ascended currency!
- Get the full group to level 25 to unlock the "Long-lived" suffix Title through an achievement.


Updated LootTables

• The Pinata Prize Bags obtained in Carnival IAs can now drop some of the pets added during the Carnival of the Ascended in 2020!


New Items

• Support your faction! Obtain one of the Guardian Valmeras or the Defiant Warhorses with Auroral Doubloons or Credits to show your support and unlock an exclusive title through an achievement.

• Complement your faction looks with the Ascended Guardian or Defiant Wings. Or be a proud Telaran with the Tenth Anniversary Cape.

• The new Tenth Anniversary Cake will grant you a raid consumable granting 100 Endurance and it was modeled after the real Rift Release Cake that the studio made 10 years ago for the launch! Also available as a Dimensional item to sweeten your home.

• Ever wanted to trick others to be Unicorns and join your cavalry? The Fancy Celebration Cake can be placed for everyone to turn into Carnival Unicorns and ride along with you and will grant a special achievement with a vanity unlock: the Celebration Ruff!


Fixes

• Store - Fixed an issue with older Carnival Dimensional items not appearing unless all class types were selected.

• Dimension - Floating Platform Device no longer duplicates itself visually when rotating the item in a dimension.

• Mystic Archer - Legendary Ride the Wind now reduces the cast time of Summoning Quiver as expected.

• Oracle - Prevented an exploit where Legendary Insignia of Blood could be triggered with non-damaging abilities.


What are you waiting for? Come and celebrate with us! Happy birthday, Rift!

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 16:30pm 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:

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 (2x100, 1x150, 1x200, 1x250, 1x300, 1x400)
• 2x Affinity (2x100)
• 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 (2x100)
• 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!

Best wishes,
your Rift team!

Greetings, Ascended!

We hope all of you had a great start into 2021! In order to welcome you to this new year, the Budgies are back – with the Budgie Madness Call-to-Action Event!

Earn Chaos Motes by finishing special daily quests. The Questgivers can be found in Meridian, Sanctum and Tempest Bay.


Get your riding boots and prepare for the ride of your life! Join the Budgie Races and earn yourself your own feathery friend!
Some seasoned professionals may be out on that race track, so here are some tips to be the just like them:

• Stay within the marked path!
• White checkpoints need to be hit throughout the race.
• Make sure to make it to the Green boosts first to receive Terminal Velocity to make your opponents eat your dust.
• Avoid Orange Traps, they’ll only slow you down!

Stock up as many Chaos Motes as possible and trade them in for mounts and pets!

Budgie Madness will start on Friday, January 8, at 12am Server Time, and end on Sunday, January 10, at 11:59pm Server Time.


What are you waiting for? Tell your friends, join us in Rift and grab those Budgies!

We wish you a lovely weekend in Rift and #StaySafe!

Another weekend, another bonus! We are still escaping the cold weather with some hot bonuses!


Log in and enjoy the following bonuses from now on until Sunday, 13th of December:

• Double Experience
• Double Planarite
• Double Zone Event Currency


Stay safe, tell your friends and join us in Rift this weekend!

Best wishes,
your Rift team!

Get ready for the most festive time of the year in Telara! Greatfather Frost has arrived and brings back Fae Yule for 2020!

The World Event begins today, December 10, 2020 at 3.30 PM local server time and will conclude on Thursday, January 7, 2021 at 3.30 PM local server time.

Participate in the Fae Yule festivities to earn Unique Snowflakes and Dark Icicles to obtain all the new items!


Fae Yule 2020
What awaits you in this year's Fae Yule event? See below!


The event will have three distinct phases that start on the following dates:
- Phase 1: Thursday 10th of December at 15.30.00 local server time
- Phase 2: Thursday 17th of December at 15.30.00 local server time
- Phase 3: Thursday 24th of December at 15.30.00 local server time
- End of the event: Thursday 7th of January at 15.30.00 local server time


The Fae Yule Store will be active from:
- Start: Thursday 10th of December at 08.05.00 local server time
- End: Thursday 14th of January at 08.00.00 local server time


Adjustments
The price of previous year's pets and minions has been lowered permanently.


New Essences
Push the limits of your essences with the new Seraphic Zephyr and Seraphic Torrent Unique essences, with a focus on each of the main stats.
Shadowpriest (WIS), Shadowcaller (INT), Shade Stalker (DEX), and Death Knight (STR) versions are available.


New Vanity and Mounts
The Fae whisper about the evil alchemist that lurks in the dark hunting those boglings that have misbehaved this year. Remind them about their folk tales with the Nebulous Omen Cape or the Infinity Flask vanity items.

Always loved the starry nights in Telara? The new Astral Wings and the Astral Voyager levitation mount are here to immortalize its beauty! But if you prefer to see the stars by yourself, get on top of the Mighty Woolly Explorer, our new mount, and travel to the highest mountains to enjoy the view. Remember to stay warm though, or you will end up looking like our new Icy Levitation, a special levitation that makes you frosty!


New Minions
Welcome Mr.Quackers and Leah the Cool to the roster of minions! These two old pals are still looking for their long lost friend Frosty Paws.
Collect both minions to unlock the exclusive title "Winter Spirit" and level them both to level 15 to unlock the minion "Frosty Paws"!


New Pets
The forecast from the Icewatch was correct. This winter is going to be one of the coldest in Telara, and the patrols are starting to find out all kinds of frozen creatures.
Consider adopting one to warm it up? The new frozen pet set is available! Collect Flurry, Snowfall, Drift, Avalanche, Slush, Tundra, Powder, Glacier, Sleet or Rime!


Happy holidays, Ascended!

gamigo is turning 20 years old! 20 years of memories, ups and downs, friendships, soulmates, enemies and kinship. We would like to share our happiness with you all in the form of events, challenges, social media and forum activities, and much more! There will be tons of chances to win some amazing prizes, such as gaming devices, hoodies and thousands of Euros of in-game currencies across our dozens of games!

Since this is the perfect opportunity to show you all how much you mean to us, we will also have a very special tiered reward system with special bundles. Every time we hit a goal you will be rewarded for your favorite games. Our communities make us the amazing gaming company we are today, we never could have done any of it without you! You all make this a gaming family; you are the heart and soul of this 20th anniversary celebration. Thank you!


All that is happening:

Anniversary Points – Win cool stuff!
You can win Anniversary points in weekly challenges and screen shots event and via voucher codes!

Challenges
Compete in server challenges and be the best of your game to win anniversary points. The first one has already started, check it out here!

Screen Shots
Mimic the posted screen shot and win anniversary points. The first one has already started, check it out here!

Vouchers
Watch in-game, social media pages, Discord chats, and forums for surprise vouchers codes. There is no rhyme nor reason to when or where they will pop-up. They will only pop-up in one location at a time, so keep your eyes peeled for them. The first 10 players to redeem the voucher will earn 500 Anniversary Points, the small gift is yours to keep of course! Be quick and don’t miss out.

What can I win?
Gather the most anniversary points to rank in the leaderboard for your game. If you manage to stay on the leaderboard by the time the event is fully finished, you will receive a cool prize and be entered into a raffle for a Mouse and Keyboard bundle as well as game cash for your game.

Want to keep an eye on your points? Then watch the Leaderboard!

Special Bundles with a kick!
Special Shop Bundles have been created and each purchase helps progress the bar towards a goal to earn cool prizes or events that can be received and enjoyed by everyone!

Check out the Bundles in game!

Special bundle purchases from all games will help move the bar.


These are the fun things you can unlock:

Level 1
2 Greater Experience Vials
2 Great Favor Vials

Level 2
3 Dark Levitation Supply Crate

Level 3
1 Cache of Individual Reward Charges
5 Tenebrean Planar Attuner

Level 4
1 Fabulous Moosedantix


View the progress of the bundle tiers anytime on the Anniversary Website!

Share your moments
Share with us your most memorable moment from any gamigo game for the past 20 years
OR
Wish us a happy birthday!


Wanna know how, check out the website!


Important Information:

Winners
Winners will be published at the end of the month when all events have ended, and everything tallied. We appreciate your patience and understanding while we take the time to ensure everything is counted properly before we announce the winner.

Anniversary Point Ranking and Bundle Progression
The Anniversary Point rankings and Special Bundle progression bar will not be auto updated, they will be updated once per normal workday to reflect the goings on from the past hours. We do not have an exact time this will happen, nor do we guarantee it will happen over the weekend. Only the top 50 users on the rankings will be visible, and rankings will be split per game. All point totals for all users, even those not in the top 50, will still be saved.

Rankings
Names in the rankings will be displayed with asterisks blocking all except the first and last letter of the ranked party’s name (for example O****N instead of ORION). There will be a voucher item available to anyone who wants/agrees to have their full name displayed in the ranking on the anniversary. By using the voucher item, you will be agreeing to have your full character name available to everyone who views the page: SHOWYOURNAME20RIFT
The name that will be displayed in the ranking, will be the name of the first character you login on you account, after redeeming the SHOWYOURNAME20RIFT voucher.

Frequently Asked Questions
Visit our FAQ for more information!


Rules of participation for contests
1. Everyone who participates must be at least 18 years old.
2. Employees of gamigo AG or their relatives, and Game Masters or their relatives are not allowed to participate.
3. Participants will be entered to win the prizes mentioned in the event description.
4. If gamigo has reasonable suspicion of the violation of these rules, then gamigo reserves the possibility to exclude those persons from participating. In those cases, it’s possible to revoke prizes afterwards and draw a new winner.
5. The prize cannot be transferred to another person and cannot be paid as cash. gamigo reserves the right to replace single prizes with equivalent or superior prizes. It’s not possible to give prizes to underage persons.
6. If there are disagreements regarding the rules, the process or results of the raffle, then the decision made by gamigo is final. It is not subject to legal recourse.
7. The data is confidential and will be handled by gamigo according to the legal data protection regulations.

We like big bugs and we cannot lie!

Hellbugs are attacking Telara and the world needs your help once again! Ready your weapons and show them who's boss!


Call-to-Action Event

From Friday, September 18, 2020 beginning at midnight server time until Sunday, September 20, 2020 at 11:59pm server time, Hellbugs from Defiance 2050 will invade RIFT! During this limited-time event, Hellbug Rifts will spawn more frequently throughout Telara.

Participating in this Call to Action event can net you some unique prizes. Completing these Hellbug Rifts have a chance to award you:

• Minor XP or Token Boosts (15%)
• Bonus Currency
• Special Dimension Items
• Minions
• Wardrobe Skin Items & Bundles
• Special Mounts

Note that zone events use personal loot Individual Reward Charges. Players get two free rolls per zone per day, after that, they are charged.


What are you waiting for? Save Telara now, Ascended!

Best wishes,
your Rift team!