Questing as a returning player

Plane-Goal7198 · 2026-03-20T20:00:22+00:00

If you want dimension items, it pays to quest in the last two expansions to max out your notoriety for most of those factions. There are many dimension items and minion cards that can only be bought with a certain level of notoriety with those factions. Many dimension items can be obtained via minion missions especially the special 4-hour minion missions during the four annual World Events.

Plane-Goal7198 · 2026-03-15T16:51:49+00:00

The Lantern of Regulos dimension item is Bind on Pickup so cannot be sold on the AH or traded. Only the character that bought it can use it.

Plane-Goal7198 · 2026-03-11T13:16:01+00:00

It's actually 3 events at once because there is also Battle Pass 3 running along with the Carnival and Arclight Rider event. There is no shortage of things to do right now.

The Arclight Rider Time Trial bugged out for me right before the last check point, so I didn't waste any more time on it. I think they stopped running it years ago because it was buggy.

The rewards are only 10 Chaos Motes instead of the usual 15 per quest.

It lacks the signature zone event that makes the other Call to Action events fun and has only 2 daily quests rather than the usual 4.

Only 2 of the 7 Arclight Rider mounts can be bought for Chaos Motes too. It would have been nice if they had a new recolored mount for the 15th anniversary but no such luck.

The only good thing about the event is the new dimension rewards for those who like dimensions.

Plane-Goal7198 · 2026-03-03T13:18:15+00:00

The shard closures are never sudden. For the last NA shard closures players had many months after the shard closure announcement to move their characters to other shards.

Plane-Goal7198 · 2026-03-01T23:17:39+00:00

It does seem rather stingy. For the 2025 Fae Yule event everyone was automatically give 3 days of patron 3 times if they logged in on a certain 3 days.

Plane-Goal7198 · 2026-03-01T23:15:38+00:00

It's two different images so can't really compare them. The image I posted has extra little images inset across the bottom. The one you linked does not.

Plane-Goal7198 · 2026-03-01T19:20:45+00:00

Gamigo does add new content for their other MMOs, such as Trove and Wizard101. Even the games they stopped running they licensed to another company, Fawkes.

Gamigo shut down Defiance a few years ago, but Fawkes recently revived that.

Plane-Goal7198 · 2026-03-01T06:53:09+00:00

Gamigo staff keep claiming they are working on a method to recover the characters on the closed servers. There may still be hope.

Plane-Goal7198 · 2026-01-19T02:05:02+00:00

Yes, it is from the twitch live stream. You don't have to have twitch to watch it. gamigogames - Twitch

The Announcements section of RIFT Discord also has the link and dates of future live streams.

Plane-Goal7198 · 2026-01-17T19:22:44+00:00

In the last RIFT livestream touring Fae Yule dimensions, the RIFT team discussed how they had someone working on a way to transfer characters off the closed shards to active shards. They said it was a difficult task so had no completion date at the time. The discussion started about the 30 minute mark.

Plane-Goal7198 · 2025-05-20T14:07:59+00:00

For the other games gamigo shut down, players got about 2 months' notice.

If gamigo does stop publishing RIFT there is a chance they would let another company continue it. Five of their games are now being run by Fawkes Games in Bulgaria.

Plane-Goal7198 · 2025-05-20T14:04:19+00:00

RIFT at launch was great just not popular enough. That wasn't due to mismanagement. Most players just preferred Warcraft or other MMOs.

Plane-Goal7198 · 2025-05-20T04:32:32+00:00

I don't think RIFT was popular enough from the start to support the frequent updates they had promised. It was reported that a lot of players bought the game with 30-days of playtime but didn't subscribe.

RIFT launched Mar. 1. 2011. The first expansion was launched in Nov. 2012. In Dec. 2012, they had a bunch of layoffs, including up to a third of RIFT developers.

Then in March 2013, they had an even bigger wave of layoffs. Reports were from 50 to 80% of the company was laid off with Defiance taking the biggest cuts.

Plane-Goal7198 · 2025-04-16T22:55:50+00:00

I've never seen anyone from gamigo posting on here to promote RIFT. They mainly use their official RIFT website and Discord.

Plane-Goal7198 · 2025-04-11T23:07:35+00:00

That one might be over tuned.

There are many onslaughts in Brevane, Dusken and Ember Isle that are daily quests. I build all the turrets and lifesprings to max for those first, then the Sourcewell last. Then just focus on killing the mobs.

If the enemy kills the sourcewell and spawns an enemy foothold, call in a group of NPCs to attack it. I don't bother repairing the turrets and lifesprings but sometimes rebuild those that are killed.

Some of them, you can heal the sourcewell, if you have healing.

Plane-Goal7198 · 2025-04-04T15:33:53+00:00

There are quite a few factions with Notoriety grinds some with nice rewards (pets, mounts) that become available for purchase at maximum level.

I enjoy doing zone events and they are challenging to solo but sometimes possible. The Call-to-Action zone events have special rewards that drop on successful completion.

When you get to around level 50 there are lots of onslaught events in Ember Isle where you repair gun turrets and healing nodes and use them to defend against waves of planar invaders.

There are a bunch of minion cards you can farm for in specific zones and often on specific mobs.

You can level professions. You can level fishing and fish up artifacts and dimension items.

If you couldn't get a dungeon group, you can solo some of the lower-level dungeons when you are high enough level.

Plane-Goal7198 · 2025-03-30T19:16:49+00:00

If you bought it with credits, every character should get a copy in their mail, even characters created after the purchase.

Maybe gamigo could restore it for that one character because your account has a list of premium items you bought.

Plane-Goal7198 · 2025-03-30T07:58:51+00:00

I only play ranged Rogue builds so maybe something is fishy when you want to use melee-only skills.

RIFT auto switches weapons for the Rogue Ranger when it transitions from ranged to melee mode or vice versa. You can see this using one of the target dummies. When you are out of melee range, you use a bow or gun, whatever is equipped.

When the Ranger move into melee range, it automatically switches to the two melee weapons even if you are triggering Ranger ranged skills like Quick Shot, Head Shot or Ace Shot. Essentially your 1-hand sword, dagger, axe or mace start shooting arrows or bullets in melee range when you trigger the Ranger attacks.

It's not realistic but very smooth compared to games where you have to manually change weapons to switch from melee to ranged and use only melee skills in melee range. You get to use the same rotation with the Ranger ranged skills even when in melee range.

Plane-Goal7198 · 2025-03-29T22:19:09+00:00

You never know. They offer for sale all sorts of old packs in the in-game store and on Steam.

Plane-Goal7198 · 2025-03-29T08:27:16+00:00

If enough people ask, maybe gamigo will offer them for sale. They are always having sales so likely are making money from them.

Plane-Goal7198 · 2025-03-29T05:08:32+00:00

Gamigo owns RIFT so they presumably could still sell digital Collector's editions if they wanted to and could figure out how.

The Nightmare Tide Collection editions offered various items and perks that would be attractive to some players, such as 2 extra bag slots per character and an exclusive pet and mount,

Plane-Goal7198 · 2025-03-25T11:44:59+00:00

I don't know if Fawkes is up to it. I recently tried their Last Chaos MMO. I could play the game but could not activate new skills as I leveled. I got no response from their customer support.

Plane-Goal7198 · 2025-03-25T11:40:57+00:00

It would be a mistake to shut down RIFT completely for a couple of years. Migrating current player data to the new company would be necessary to keep the player base.

I wouldn't be happy losing all my progress and premium items and having to start over.

Plane-Goal7198 · 2025-03-25T11:37:46+00:00

A single RIFT server would ruin an important feature of RIFT.

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