It seems before Trion Games went belly up they were working on this new addition to the game called a Battle Pass, now Gamigo has appeared to finish it and it's on the PTS (Public Test Shard) to snoop around at and play with.So what exactly is this Battle Pass?
Source: http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...ml#post5373968Greetings, Ascended!
Prepare your weapons; the first season of Battle Pass goes live very soon!
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What can you look forward to?
Progress through 30 levels (Season 1) by completing Daily and Weekly Quests
5 Daily Quests (+2 for Patrons) per Day
Quests chosen at random
3 Weekly Quests per Week
Quests chosen at random
30 Levels of rewards
Rewards split up between Free (no purchase required), Premium (purchased the pack) & Patron Premium (purchased the pack and have active Patron status).
Free rewards include a new artifact set which unlock their own unique rewards, individual reward charges, rune unsocketers, and more premium service items.
Premium rewards include numerous fiery cosmetics, as well as the new Great Balls of Fire mount, bonus credits and more!
Patrons who unlock premium will also gain bonus rewards including Loyalty, premium lock boxes and more!
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The end date of Season 1 has not been set in stone yet, we shall announce it at least a month before Season 2 begins. We’ll be monitoring progress, and compiling feedback before we start planning Season 2. Once Season 1 is finished, you will have at least 7 days to claim all of your well-deserved rewards.
Battle Pass - $9.99 / £7.49 / €9.99 - (Giftable)
While on initial look you'd be thinking "hang on, 10 Euro/Dollars whatever, WTF?" a closer look at the rewards that your hard earned money gives you are a new, unique mount, cosmetic fire wings, a few thousand credits, Loyalty and other goodies so add all that up and it's not a bad deal for €/$9.99 or £7.49.
Here's an example of some of the daily quests, it will have you doing old Expert Dungeons, PvP Warfronts, the usual 'close X Rifts' in the Open World and the weekly has you doing Old Skool raids and more:
There's a bit of controversy about the dailies that have you winning Warfronts as X Class as Primalist is a paid for class but there's enough choice of other dailies and weeklies to make up the ppoints as each level is XP capped, as you see from the screenshot level 1 is capped at 10,000 points and i already earned 7,000 without doing some dailies/weeklies.
An example of how the rewards will look, these are the "end" scale ones:
If you want a look at the full list of rewards, Rift Players Holyroller12 and Ambrodel have posted lists:
http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...ml#post5374021
http://forums.riftgame.com/general-d...ml#post5374020
Bear in mind that all this was just pushed to the PTS yesterday,this is not Live, the final version might look nothing like this, rewards and quests can be changed or adjusted based on player feedback.