Regarding Rift Spawn Rates

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Hi everyone!

We hope you are all enjoying the Tarlok’s Wrath winter event. We certainly are! Our goal with the event is to provide a fun, seasonal challenge that adds an extra layer of fun to “normal” gameplay. As we have been playing and reading feedback, we have noticed some concern about the spawn rate of the event Rifts, that they are too hard to find.

We hear you guys, we promise! Here’s what’s going on. We set the portal spawn rates the way they are for a few reasons. There is so much awesome content crammed in to this event that we are running it longer than past seasonal events. A whole 30 days. That means more time to enjoy the content and explore everything that Tarlok’s Wrath has to offer. This also means a lot more time to find Rifts. All of these awesome new winter items are pretty rare and special to obtain, as they should be. To prevent the value of these items from decreasing or leaving the lower level bosses vulnerable to exploits, we need to keep Rifts relatively rare. If Rifts are everywhere and you have everything in the first few days of the event, then how boring will it be in the later days of December?

Remember, the likelihood that a Rift will spawn also increases as the difficulty of the bosses increases, with Elite bosses from Nordr and Shuyal having the highest chance to spawn a Rift. This does not include Ashral Heart because of how that encounter functions. Other elite zones tied to older content will not have an improved rate of rift spawn chance. So choose your zones strategically.

We will be keeping an eye on the event over the next few days and will keep you all updated on any changes we make. Keep on fighting the good fight. You all are the only ones that can save Arlor from Tarlok’s Wrath!

Respectfully yours,

Samhayne
Spacetime Games

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