Rifts

The Rifts are three expedition-only zones that tear open beyond the Sundered Vale once you defeat the Sundered One. They are the game's deepest expedition content: repeatable boss fights, a currency all their own (Rift Shards), the Riftforged armour set, and the Rift Bazaar where shards are spent.

Opening the Rifts

All three rift zones unlock the moment you beat the Sundered Vale's guardian, the Sundered One. Depth beyond that is gated by Expeditions level, not by further story — the toughest zone simply asks for a higher Expeditions level.

Rifts do not appear on the Valley Map as ordinary Biomes; they are their own late-game layer past the Vale.

The three zones

Each zone has a patrol action you can run freely and one or more boss fights. Boss fights are repeatable, but each zone's boss is gated behind 25 patrol wins in that zone — clear patrols to earn the confrontation, then fight the boss as often as you like.

Zone	Action	Type	Expeditions level	Difficulty	Time	XP	Key rewards
the Rift Fringe	Rift Skirmish	Patrol	68	260	62 s	345	Fringe Shard, 3 Rift Shards, Apex Scale (4%), Riftglass (3%)
the Rift Fringe	Confront the Rift Warden	Boss	72	640	130 s	1,430	Warden's Sigil, 25 Rift Shards, Riftforged head + shield (5% each)
the Deep Rift	Deep Rift Patrol	Patrol	78	310	66 s	435	Rift Bloom, 3 Rift Shards, Emberheart (3.5%), Riftglass (3%)
the Deep Rift	Confront the Twin Sovereigns	Boss	82	800	140 s	1,850	Sovereign Twinshard, 25 Rift Shards, Riftforged chest + legs (5% each)
the Riftheart	Riftheart Assault	Patrol	88	360	70 s	540	Heartshard, 3 Rift Shards, Apex Scale (4%), Riftglass (3%)
the Riftheart	Confront the Riftheart Colossus	Boss	92	980	150 s	2,400	Riftheart Core, 25 Rift Shards, Riftforged weapon + trinket (5% each)
the Riftheart	Storm the Riftheart Core	Boss	96	1,100	160 s	3,000	Rift Prime Shard, 25 Rift Shards

Every patrol also has a small chance (1.2%) to drop a Sundered Vale dig map for Delving. Boss fights hit hard but their damage is scaled down so a single blow can never overwhelm a maxed fighter.

Rift Shards

Rift Shards are the rift currency. You earn 3 per patrol win and 25 per boss win. They cannot be sold — no trader will touch them — so their only use is the Rift Bazaar. This keeps the rift economy self-contained: shards in, permanent rewards out, with nothing to launder back into Amber.

The Rift Bazaar

The Bazaar spends Rift Shards on permanent stock. Two of its offers are one-time gear purchases; the rest are repeatable egg crates for thin stables.

Offer	Cost	What you get
Rift Standard	1,500 Shards (one-off)	A carried banner: +10 expedition score on every expedition
Riftbound Trinket	2,500 Shards (one-off)	A trinket-slot charm (+12 attack, +20 defence) that adds +6% win chance inside the rifts
Small Egg crate	90 Shards	3 Small Eggs
Speckled Egg crate	90 Shards	3 Speckled Eggs
Large Egg crate	90 Shards	3 Large Eggs
Rich Egg crate	90 Shards	3 Rich Eggs
Pristine Egg crate	90 Shards	3 Pristine Eggs

The egg crates are a pity source for players whose stables don't yet lay a given egg class themselves. Vale Eggs remain stable-only — you can't buy them here.

The Riftforged set

Riftforged is a boss-only expedition set — the bridge between the Sundered set and the top-tier Primal set. Its six pieces drop only from rift bosses, at designated slots, 5% per piece per boss win:

Rift Warden → Visor (head) and shield
Twin Sovereigns → Plate (chest) and legs
Riftheart Colossus → Cleaver (weapon) and Idol (trinket)

Per-piece stats: weapon +85 attack; each armour piece +68 defence; trinket +13 attack / +20 defence. Wearing the full set adds a flat +20 expedition score. Duplicate pieces sell for 780 Amber each.

Related pages

Expeditions — the skill the rifts extend
Sundered Vale — the zone whose guardian opens the rifts
Sets — where Riftforged sits among the expedition sets
Breeding — egg classes the Bazaar crates supply
Amber — what Riftforged dupes sell for