All New Dark Rifts

New and Improved!

By nyaiera

Published: Dec 19, 2023

Updated: Jan 16, 2026

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Introduction

The Dark Rifts were revamped to be more accessible and to offer better rewards for completion

The amount of bosses have been reduced from 12 to 6 so there's not as many to complete
Bosses that remain are easier to access, with bosses difficult to travel to being removed
You'll now obtain 100 Cron Stones per boss as a guaranteed reward, up to 600 Crons per week
Ferrid has been left as one of the Mediah bosses as guilds often kill it while waiting for raids.

With the new changes Dark Rifts will be much faster to complete with better rewards!

Boss Changes

Since there were several bosses removed and no longer able to be defeated for rewards, here's a list of which bosses were removed.

Most of the removals focused on bosses that were either far away or didn't offer much benefit to defeat, making sure to keep around bosses that provide Jetina boss materials.

Removed Dark Rift Boss		Dark Rift Boss with Enhanced Loot
Steel Nux Kavali Ancient Puturum Ruins Guard Tower Saunil Siege Captain Ronin		Ferrid Red Nose Dastard Bheg Muskan Dim Tree Spirit Ahib Griffon

These changes were made to try and make Dark Rifts more accessible and worth completing for players who have already surpassed Jetina PEN boss gear.

Ancient Puturum could spawn in a few different places in the desert that made travelling out to fight it a bit inconvenient.

Reward Changes

To help make the Dark rifts more appealing, the drops have been reworked as well. The inclusion of Mythical Feathers

is a really nice addition. All Dark Rift Bosses will reappear 120 hours after being defeated.

The biggest change is now that accessory boxes have been removed and replaced with 100 guaranteed Cron Stones per boss kill, meaning you can get an easy 600 crons a week.

Even more has been added to the Dark Rifts to make them a worth while time investment, now you can grab some extra silver from each boss. A Gold Bar Box grants Gold Bar 1,000G x1-10 according to a set probability.

Item	Quantity	Chance
Gold Bar 1,000G	x1~2	According to set probability
Gold Bar Box	x1	According to set probability
Gold Bar 100G	x8~10	Guaranteed
Faint Essence of Aether	x20	Guaranteed

There was also a new version of Dark Spirit's Greed that was added, the old version was removed on May 15th 2025.

New Dark Spirit's Greed Exchange List
Exchange Limit	Item	Exchange Qty	Required Dark Spirit's Greed
Always	Advice of Valks (+50)	1	50
Always	Latent Boss Aura	1	2
Always	Mass of Pure Magic	10	1
Always	Gold Bar 100G	1	5
Always	Gold Bar 10G	2	1
2 times per week	Krogdalo's Origin Stone	1	20
3 times per week	Item Collection Increase Scroll	1	5
5 times per week	Old Moon Alchemy Catalyst	2	3
2 times per week	Laila's Petal	10	2
2 times per week	Perfume of Courage	1	15
2 times per week	Supreme Cooking Utensil	1	10
2 times per week	Supreme Alchemy Tool	1	10
Once per Family	Black Spirit Crystal	1	50
Once per Family	Awakened Spirit's Crystal	1	50
Once per Family	Valtarra Spirit's Crystal	1	50
Once per Family	Advice of Valks (+100)	1	30
3 times per Family	Specter's Energy	1	10

Boss Location & Rewards

Since the locations of the bosses have changed so drastically compared to having 12 bosses in the past, here's the locations of the bosses along with the rewards that you can expect from them.

Ferrid

Ferrid is best to start with over in Mediah, this makes for the most optimal routing as it's the only boss over in Mediah.
You'll then move through Heidel to Calpheon to the Old Moon Tree to finish up, so it's best to start at Ferrid.

Here's the loot you can get from Ferrid:

Item	Qty	Type
Memory Fragment	2 – 4	Guaranteed
Ancient Spirit Dust	30 – 60
Concentrated Boss Crystal	1 – 2
Latent Boss Aura	1 – 2
Black Stone	8 – 16
Dark Spirit's Greed	5
Cron Stone	100
Dawn Black Stone	1
Mythical Feather	1	Random
Marsh's Artifact - Extra AP Against Monsters	1
Lesha's Artifact - Monster Damage Reduction	1
Remnants of the Rift	1
Shimmering Piece of the Old Moon	1
Rich Merchant's Ring Piece	1

Dastard Bheg

Bheg is super close to Heidel and is useful if you're upgrading your Bheg's Gloves through Jetina's PEN armour system.

Here's the rewards that you can get from Bheg:

Item	Qty	Type
Memory Fragment	2 – 6	Guaranteed
Ancient Spirit Dust	30 – 60
Concentrated Boss Crystal	1 – 2
Latent Boss Aura	1 – 2
Black Stone	16 – 24
Dark Spirit's Greed	5
Cron Stone	100
Dawn Black Stone	1	Random
Mythical Feather	1
Marsh's Artifact - Extra AP Against Monsters	1
Lesha's Artifact - Monster Damage Reduction	1
Remnants of the Rift	1
Shimmering Piece of the Old Moon	1
Rich Merchant's Ring Piece	1

Red Nose

Red Nose is another one close to Heidel, making it pretty convinient to do right after Bheg, when you're up to Red Nose you're already half way done.

Here's the list of drops for Red Nose:

Item	Qty	Type
Memory Fragment	2	Guaranteed
Ancient Spirit Dust	30 – 60
Concentrated Boss Crystal	1 – 2
Latent Boss Aura	1 – 2
Black Stone	6 – 12
Dark Spirit's Greed	5
Cron Stone	100
Dawn Black Stone	1	Random
Mythical Feather	1
Marsh's Artifact - Extra AP Against Monsters	1
Lesha's Artifact - Monster Damage Reduction	1
Remnants of the Rift	1
Shimmering Piece of the Old Moon	1
Rich Merchant's Ring Piece	1

Muskan

Head south of Heidel, over to the town of Glish, Muskan is just nearby. After this we'll head towards Calpheon.

Bheg and Red Nose both give the lowest amount of memory fragments, here's the full reward table:

Item	Qty	Type
Memory Fragment	2	Guaranteed
Ancient Spirit Dust	30 – 60
Concentrated Boss Crystal	1 – 2
Latent Boss Aura	1 – 2
Black Stone	6 – 12
Dark Spirit's Greed	5
Cron Stone	100
Dawn Black Stone	1	Random
Mythical Feather	1
Marsh's Artifact - Extra AP Against Monsters	1
Lesha's Artifact - Monster Damage Reduction	1
Remnants of the Rift	1
Shimmering Piece of the Old Moon	1
Rich Merchant's Ring Piece	1

Dim Tree Spirit

Time to make your way over to Calpheon, the Dim Tree Spirit is just South East of the city, with the map icons they're really easy to path to.

While the drop tables might not be that fantastic, the extra crons help a lot, here's the list for Dim Tree:

Item	Qty	Type
Memory Fragment	2 – 4	Guaranteed
Ancient Spirit Dust	30 – 60
Concentrated Boss Crystal	1 – 2
Latent Boss Aura	1 – 2
Black Stone	8 – 16
Dark Spirit's Greed	5
Cron Stone	100
Dawn Black Stone	1
Mythical Feather	1	Random
Marsh's Artifact - Extra AP Against Monsters	1
Lesha's Artifact - Monster Damage Reduction	1
Remnants of the Rift	1
Shimmering Piece of the Old Moon	1
Rich Merchant's Ring Piece	1

Ahib Griffon

And finally here's the list for Ahib Griffon:

Item	Qty	Type
Griffon Claw	3 – 5	Guaranteed
Memory Fragment	2 – 6
Ancient Spirit Dust	30 – 60
Concentrated Boss Crystal	1 – 2
Latent Boss Aura	1 – 2
Black Stone	16 – 24
Dark Spirit's Greed	5
Cron Stone	100
Dawn Black Stone	1
Mythical Feather	1	Random
Marsh's Artifact - Extra AP Against Monsters	1
Lesha's Artifact - Monster Damage Reduction	1
Remnants of the Rift	1
Shimmering Piece of the Old Moon	1
Rich Merchant's Ring Piece	1

Kharazad Accessories

With the new Best-in-Slot accessories, Dark Rifts have had new loot added to them which helps keep them relevant. This new material is used to enhance the accessories to DEC.

How to Obtain #1: Defeat Dark Rift bosses.

Dark Rift Boss Loot - "Dawn Black Stones"
[Guaranteed] - Ferrid - Ahib Griffon - Dim Tree Spirit	[According to Set Probability] - Red Nose - Bheg - Muskan