Rift Crystal



Rift Crystals are items, and a form of currency in Dragon's Dogma. There are multiple ways to both earn and spend them.

Description
Rift Crystals are a currency used by pawns in Dragon's Dogma. They can be acquired by having your pawn hired by another Arisen through the Rift, can be found as drops from enemies and can be obtained as rewards from Quests.

They are primarily used in the renting of player-created or offline pawns from the Rift, and can also be exchanged for weapons, armor, inclination elixirs and cosmetic items from the Rift Shop. In Dark Arisen content, Rift Crystals may also be used to further enhance Dragon Forged items, to repair broken Rift stones, and to purify Cursed items.

Refer to the Earning Rift Crystals page to calculate the RC value of enemies killed when a pawn is hired by another Arisen online.

Obtaining rift crystals
Rift Crystals may be dropped as items that can be picked up, be bought, obtained as quest rewards, and gained through the hiring of ones own pawn by other Arisen.

Items
When a foe is dispatched it may drop a rift crystal - these rift crystal drops are more common in the Everfall or on Bitterblack Isle, but do occur in Gransys, even from relatively mundane creatures such as wolves and golbins. Monsters located in Bitterblack Isle have the highest chance of dropping Rift Crystals.

There are nine different types of Rift Crystals:

In Dragon's Dogma there were three types of rift crystal drop :
 * Rift Fragment which contains 100 Rift Crystals
 * Rift Crystal which contains 400 Rift Crystals
 * Rift Cluster which contains 800 Rift Crystals

In Dark Arisen a further six types were added, which are only found on Bitterblack Isle:
 * Rift Crystal Speck which contains 30 Rift Crystals
 * Rift Crystal Flake which contains 50 Rift Crystals
 * Rift Crystal Chunk which contains 200 Rift Crystals
 * Rift Bicrystal which contains 2,000 Rift Crystals
 * Rift Polycrystal which contains 5,000 Rift Crystals
 * Perfect Rift Crystal which contains 10,000 or more Rift Crystals

Acquisition
Rift Crystals may also be purchased with real world money, not in-game gold on console. These microtransactions are not available via the PC version.

These were implemented via the console marketplace in Dragon' Dogma as the Rift Crystal Pack or Rift Crystal Bulk Pack and in Dark Arisen's online store via a specific in-game NPC prompt as Olra's Rift Crystal Pack, as either the Knight, Queen, or King Pack.

Via Pawn Hires
Rift Crystal earnings are determined by the base amount of the monster multiplied by modifiers, which are determined by the level of the support pawn relative to the Arisen, Main Pawn and other party member at the time of the monster's death.

Rift crystals earnings start at a base value of one tenth (10%) of the base Base Monster Experience Points for each monster the pawn kills or witnesses being killed.

This amound is multiplied by modifiers, which are determined by the level of the support pawn relative to the Arisen, Main Pawn and other party member at the time of the monster's death.

The modifiers are determined by comparing the level of the rented pawn to the Arisen, the main pawn and other support pawn. Each level disparity is worth either +1% or -1%, which is then capped at +25% or -25%. For example, a hired pawn 30 levels above that of the Arisen/Main Pawn receives a modifier of 25%, while a hired pawn 25 levels below that of the Arisen/Main pawn earns a penalty of 25%. Hired pawns with levels between the caps are calculated on a sliding scale worth 1% of each level disparity.

An empty party slot is equivalent to a 25% bonus, e.g., a pawn more than 25 levels above the Arisen/main pawn. The game assumes the party members are working harder due to that empty slot. The modifiers also apply to XP gains; an empty slot gains the Arisen and main pawn, if present, an extra 25% of XP earnings per empty slot.

Example
The Arisen and Main Pawn are level 75, and are accompanied by a level 200 pawn and a level 40 hired pawn. The party kills a Gorecyclops (Condemned). (Base 57,000 XP) - equating to a base rift crystal reward of 5,700.

The level 200 support pawn earns three +25% modifiers for a total of 13,359 RC for that kill, because the level 200 is presumed to be doing most of the work while accompanying three lower-leveled people.

The level 40 support pawn earns three -25% modifiers for a total of 1,603 RC for that kill. The lower levelled pawn is hit with extreme RC penalties because it is assumed that the pawn is being protected/carried by the rest of the party members.

In the meantime, the XP gain for both Arisen and Main pawn get a 25% bonus for the level 40 pawn that is cancelled out by the level 200 pawn's XP penalty of 25%.

Calculator
A very good RC Calculator is located here: RC Calculator

Gallery
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