Upcoming Changes for Greater Rifts

by JR Cook - 10 years ago     show comments

Greater Rifts are one of the most important new features of 2.1 and is no surprise that they are going through many iterations before the feature goes live. Xarishflar recently  posted on the EU forums about some of the upcoming changes for Greater Rifts, check out the news.

There has been a ton of great feedback coming our way about Greater Rifts and your experiences with them. So let me take a moment to just say thank you! It’s been super helpful to us and confirmed a lot of suspicions our development team has had regarding their current reward structure. Plenty of changes are coming in the next PTR patch that reflect these concerns.

• Urshi will no longer only spawn when a Greater Rift is failed; instead, she will spawn at the end of every Greater Rift level. You’ll be able to choose whether you wish to upgrade your gem or, assuming that you completed that Rift within the time limit, move on to the next level.
• The Rift Guardian will spawn at the 15 minute mark regardless of whether your bar has reached full progress. This should eliminate “the slog” at higher Greater Rifts where you fail, but have the rest of the level to go before you get your rewards.
• The pacing for upgrading your Legendary Gems is being significantly revised.

 

• Legendary gem upgrades are now more likely to receive multiple ranks per upgrade attempt at higher Greater Rift tiers, to a maximum of 4 ranks at a time.
• This is in addition to the higher chance to upgrade gained at each additional Greater Rift tier.
• To compensate for this change, individual ranks are less powerful. The rate of power accrual will roughly be the same, you’ll just experience it more frequently!

These are some pretty significant changes to the Greater Rift reward scheme and they should vastly improve your experience when completing and conquering higher Greater Rift tiers. Be sure to let us know what you think once these changes are on our PTR!

How do you feel about the changes? In paper they feel really positive, lets hope they translate well.