The Rift (roguelike)

Your Rift character#

• Level 1
• Punch only
• 50,000 Rift kamas
• No 12 AP / 6 MP cap

For the run, your character is replaced by a copy: level 1, base life, no equipment, spells, characteristic points or bonuses (VIP, potions, Prestige). Its only spell is Punch.

Everything the copy gets stays in the Rift and disappears at the end: equipment, kamas, potions. It can't use the bank, the haven bag or zaaps, or trade with a player outside the run. Your real character is not changed.

Your guild comes along: from the copy you see the guild window and its members and talk in the guild channel. The copy gets no guild bonus; managing the guild (ranks, kicks, invitations) is done with your real character.

The run#

20 portals in 4 cycles of five: battle, battle, rest, battle, boss. Each cycle has its own look: Dream, Twilight, Storm, Blood.

Each battle room has three groups; you fight one. Every fight gives experience (Wisdom raises it): level 13 after the first fight, about 50 at the first boss, then over 100, over 150 and 200 at the last boss.

Monsters grow tougher and hit harder with every fight: about 15 to 30 damage per attack at step 1, 40 to 80 at step 4 in a difficult battle, then more up to the final boss. A lost fight ends the run for the whole party; "Leave the Rift" ends it for you only. Out of combat, the leader may also "Save & leave": the whole party goes back to the Astrub portal and the run is kept as it is. The leader resumes it from the Rift window (or another member if the leader is not at the portal); members standing at the portal come along, the others have 10 minutes to come back. A saved run expires at the weekly ladder reset, and time spent out of the run does not count on the ladder.

Final boss: two level-200 dungeon bosses, each with a monster of its zone.

Endless Rift#

• No final stage
• Nightmare III at portal 60
• Copy up to level 2000

Once the final boss falls, every member gets their Rift Chest at once, then chooses for themself: end their run there, or go on in the Endless Rift for the ladder. The cycles of five portals go on after portal 20: every boss leads to the white portal room, and every 20 portals (40, 60…) the boss is a pair of level-200 bosses, like the final boss. After Blood, the looks go round again: Twilight, Storm, Blood.

Enemies keep growing stronger with every fight, without a cap: at portal 60 a monster has the power of a level-200 monster in Nightmare III (×21 life, ×10.24 damage, +3 AP and +3 MP), and it keeps growing after that. Your copy keeps earning experience: level 200 at portal 20, then up to level 2000 around portal 60, where it stops. Each level past 200 gives 2 characteristic points. Sooner or later the party loses: the portal reached is what counts.

The weekly ladder ranks each account by the portal reached, then the time taken to reach it. Fights pay as in a normal run; the chest's rewards stop at portal 20: the Endless Rift is for the ladder and its rewards, not for loot.

Blessings#

Before the first spell draft, pick one blessing out of three, drawn from the twelve gods. After the second boss, pick a second one, never one you already have. A blessing lasts the whole run.

With the blessings, enemies have 8% more life and damage.

Spells#

At the start, pick 3 spells, one at a time, from three cards. They come from any class, subclass or variant, at rank 1; their rank follows your copy's level. After every won fight, pick 1 more spell.

Each card can be rerolled once. The choice is mandatory.

Characteristics#

After the spell, pick 1 characteristic card, kept for the whole run. The first draw offers Vitality, Strength, Agility, Chance, Intelligence or Wisdom; a rerolled card can be any line of the table. The AP and MP cards are prismatic and each comes up 5% of the time on a reroll.

Glitched portals#

Each room except the shops has two glitched portals of different colours; each player has their own. A portal offers 3 cards, each rerollable once. "Cancel" closes the window without using the portal; coming back shows the same cards. Picking a card uses up both portals. A Rift spell offered again ranks up (rank 3 at most).

Pom and the Munster Crusher#

• Pom sells equipment for your copy: 10 items in the start room, 20 in shops. Your copy's level ±10, 13,000 to 21,000 kamas each. Rarity is rolled when you buy: 50% common, 30% uncommon, 10% rare, 5% epic, 3% legendary, 2% prismatic. Selling her an item pays nothing.
• The Munster Crusher (in the shops, next to Pom) merges at least 2 Rift items into one: one of them, with the average of their characteristics multiplied by the number of items. 2 to 4: uncommon ×1.3; 5 to 7: rare ×1.6; 8 to 10: epic ×2; 11 to 14: legendary ×2.5; 15 or more: prismatic ×3.
• Glitched shop ("???" portal): Pom sells 20 items of your level ±15, 11,000 to 23,000 kamas each, and also: a Waxmod for one of your Rift class spells that has none (at Mystery Box: Waxmod odds), 50,000 to 100,000 kamas, when one of them can take it; 3 different Dofus among Emerald, Turquoise, Crimson, Ochre, Ivory and Ebony, 50,000 to 150,000 kamas each; 3 different Maximum scrolls (a scrolled characteristic raised to 100), 50,000 to 150,000 kamas each. Like every purchase in the Rift, they stay on your copy.