Trion has announced the RIFT 3.0: Nightmare Tide Digital Collector’s Editions on their website! You can check them out when you log into the riftgame.com website and go to Store.
First up, the Nightmare Tide expansion is free. These digital collector’s editions however adds some exclusives that won’t affect your combat ability as well as stuff you can earn in-game by playing the game.
Packs are:
- Typhoon Edition for $24.99 [Get 20,000 Loyalty] [r]
- Infusion Edition for $49.99 [Get 50,000 Loyalty]
- Ultimate Nightmare Edition for $149.99 [Get 150,000 Loyalty]
A few other things to note:
- Packs are available for direct purchase, not Credits. [r] If you are from EU, you will get your items (if you purchase now) once your hotfix comes. [r]
- The following items are available prior to 3.0: Accelerators, Thresher Mount, Abyssal Satchel and Abyssal Crab Combat Pet Skin.
- If you have any questions, read on or check out CM Ocho’s ‘Nightmare Tide Collector’s Edition FAQ‘.
- No Dream Soul Pack included in any of the Digital Editions.
Note: Everything is account-wide unless stated otherwise.
The Typhoon Edition
The Typhoon Edition costs $24.99 and comes with:
- 2 New Equipment Slots*
- Exclusive Nightmare Tide Bag Slot*
- Manugo League Membership
- Planewalker: Water
- Title: the Typhoon
- 20,000 Loyalty [r]
*Benefits don’t stack if you already bought a Nightmare Tide Digital Edition (i.e., just a disclaimer so you don’t buy 10x copies thinking it’ll get you 20x equipment slots).
2 New Equipment Slots
New Earrings UI
These are 2 earring slots. Purchasing a digital edition gives account-wide unlock of the two earring slots.
- Earrings will not be visible so they act like rings. Sorry fashionistas!
In-Game Option: You can also unlock each earring slot per character in-game using currency similar to Infinity Stones (so not IS, but likely the new Level 61+ version of it). [r] These are not purchasable with Credits. [r]
Exclusive Nightmare Tide Bag Slot
Exclusive Bag Slot Unlock
This adds a new bag slot (thus bringing max to 8, up from current 7). Exclusive? Yes, this will not be purchasable in-game. Unlocked for all chars. Gingers has reworked the bag bar UI to allow for this (visible on PTS). [r]
[Here’s something to consider. PvP and PvE gear are merging so you’ll need less space for gear in your bags. Also, Savant crafting/gathering only has one type of node per craft (6 for fish), so you’ll only need around half the space you currently use for crafting/gathering.
That said, an extra inventory slot will let you send all your fluff/interactive items back on your main (instead of hiding it on alts or bank).]
Manugo League Membership
Allows you to earn a variety of equipment and crafting recipes as you gain ranks in this new notoriety. [r]
In-Game Option: The main difference between ‘membership’ (buying a Digital Edition) and ‘non-membership’ (not buying a Digital Edition) is that members earn reputation at a faster rate. [r]
Planewalker: Water
Allows you to equip certain planar gear from the Plane of Water.
- “Roughly 15-20% of the gear in NT will require” this attunement.
- Spread through all gear levels.
- No gear type is exclusive to players with Planewalker: Water attunement.
- Account-wide unlock.
In-Game Option: You can also gain this Planewalker: Water attunement in-game via ‘Abyssal Crusader’s Marks’ earned by completing Expert Level 65 dungeons. This will unlock per char. [r]
Title: the Typhoon
Grants the suffix title “the Typhoon”.
The Infusion Edition
The Infusion Edition costs $49.99 and comes with:
- 2 New Equipment Slots*
- Exclusive Nightmare Tide Bag Slot*
- Manugo League Membership
- Planewalker: Water
- Title: the Typhoon
- “Instant Level 60”
- Additional Bank Vault Slot*
- Aquatic Dimension Pack
- Exclusive Bloop the Jellyfish Companion Pet
- Additional Minion Slot*
- Nightmare Portrait
- Shimmering Nightmare Orb
- 2 Void Source Accelerators – available immediately!
- 2 Abyssal Crusader’s Accelerators
- Delving Diver’s Helm
- 50,000 Loyalty [r]
*Benefits don’t stack if you already bought a Nightmare Tide Digital Edition (i.e., just a disclaimer so you don’t buy 10x copies thinking it’ll get you 20x equipment slots).
“Instant Level 60”
Instant Level 60 Boost Bundle
Consumable used to boost one character to Level 60 ‘complete with gear’.
Full information on the Instant Level 60 Boost Bundle is available here.
- This item is tradeable [r].
Additional Bank Vault Slot
As the name implies, it is an additional bank vault slot. Exclusive to the Digital Edition packs. Note that bank vaults (besides your default one), do not have additional bank bag slots.
Aquatic Dimension Pack
Aquatic Dimension Pack contains:
- Glass-Bellied Mermaid Statue
- Pair of Jellyfish Tanks
- A Rusted Ship (very big)
- And more!
Provides 12 dimension items. This pack is sent to all your current and future characters. The items are very large.
Exclusive Bloop the Jellyfish Companion Pet
Bloop Companion Pet
A Jellyfish companion pet.
Nightmare Portrait
Nightmare Portrait Eyes
A Nightmare character portrait frame. It’s unique in that the top-left and bottom-right eyeballs move! [r]
Additional Minion Slot
You will receive a second minion slot as well as an exclusive Bloop Minion.
In-Game Option: Additional minion slots are purchased in-game for Credits-only. These are applied account-wide. [r]
Note: Minion Slots are not your Minions List. You can have a ton of Minions. Minion Slots are the ‘adventure/missions slots’ – so basically the amount of missions you can send your Minions to do at any one time. [r]
Shimmering Nightmare Orb
An Infinite-use Dream Orb. Daglar stated the stats won’t be better than existing or future dream orbs. [r]
2 Void Source Accelerators/2 Abyssal Crusader’s Accelerators
Void Source Accelerator. Thanks to Phexlar@Laethys for linking!
The Void and Abyssal Crusader’s Accelerators are used to upgrade your world (Void) and dungeon (Abyssal) gear. The Void Source Accelerators will be sent to your in-game char prior to 3.0 if you buy the Digital Edition prior to 3.0.
Void Accelerators are used to upgrade existing Level 60 Tier 2 and Tier 3 raid gear. [r]
RIFT Upgrade to Dream Walker. More Info about T2 Epic to T3 Relic here.
You can upgrade your Epic Tier 2 Mark Raid Armor into Relic Tier 2 without needing a Heart of the Planebreaker upgrade item. You can also further upgrade your Tier 2 Relic Mark Raid Armor into ‘Dream Walker’s’ with Void Source Accelerators. 2x for gloves/boots/belt; 4x for helm/shoulders; and 6x for chest/legs.
You can also upgrade your Relic Tier 3 “Blood Storm” Raid Armor into Tier 3 “Dream Walker” Raid Armor for half the above cost. i.e. 1x for gloves/boots/belt; 2x for helm/shoulders; and 3x for chest/legs.
More Info about T2 Epic to T3 Relic here.
Delving Diver’s Helm
Scuba Suit Helm Skin
A helm of a diver. Costume piece.
Lore: These are worn by The Ghar faction who live and work in the Plane of Water. (think of the ‘Ghar Stations’ in the various 3.0 zones).
The Ultimate Nightmare Edition
The Ultimate Nightmare Edition is $149.99 and contains:
- 2 New Equipment Slots*
- Exclusive Nightmare Tide Bag Slot*
- Manugo League Membership
- Planewalker: Water
- Title: the Typhoon
- “Instant Level 60”
- Additional Bank Vault Slot*
- Aquatic Dimension Pack
- Exclusive Bloop the Jellyfish Companion Pet
- Additional Minion Slot*
- Nightmare Portrait
- Shimmering Nightmare Orb
- 6 Void Source Accelerators – available immediately!
- 6 Abyssal Crusader’s Accelerators
- Delving Diver’s Helm
- Cobalt Thresher Mount – useable on land and in water! – available immediately!
- Abyssal Satchel 36 slot bag – available immediately!
- Dimension Shadow Scion
- Planewalker’s Call
- Prefix Title: Planewalker
- Nightmare Cosmetic Weapons
- Unlimited Nightmare Black Dye
- Combat Pet Skin: Abyssal Crab – available immediately!
- 150,000 Loyalty [r]
*Benefits don’t stack if you already bought a Nightmare Tide Digital Edition (i.e., just a disclaimer so you don’t buy 10x copies thinking it’ll get you 20x equipment slots).
Cobalt Thresher Mount
RIFT Cobalt Thresher Mount. Thanks to Phexlar@Laethys for modelling!
The Cobalt Thresher Mount is an amphibious (land+water) mount. There’s also an achievement that was briefly available on the PTS for non-testers that required you to have a Thresher mount.
Cobalt Thresher Tooltip. Notice the “Amphibious” – it can ride on Land and in Water.
The Cobalt Thresher mount is ‘exclusive’ to the Ultimate Nightmare Digital Edition. However, the ‘Thresher’ mount model is not exclusive. There will be other variants obtainable in the future – no details on how. [r]
Abyssal Satchel 36 Slot Bag
The Abyssal Satchel is a 36-slot bag. Available as soon as you purchase the pack (might need to log out and log back in). Unique Equip.
Dimension: Shadow Scion
A nightmarish and possibly underwater version of the Port Scion district that you see in the Battle for Port Scion. This is a dimension key.
Lore: Lord Arak has created a nightmare of multiple versions of Port Scion that are corrupted by the death of Regulos. You will fight multiple Regulos’ (Reguli) in RIFT 3.0: Nightmare Tide.
Planewalker’s Call
Planewalker’s Call allows you to summon an entire group of Ascended friends to your side. Cooldown is 1 hour. [r] Can be used anywhere that you can currently summon friends with (for those with the Summon Friend ability).
Prefix Title: Planewalker
Obtain the prefix title: “Planewalker”
Nightmare Cosmetic Weapons
RIFT 3.0 Nightmare Tide Weapons Concept Art
Nightmare Cosmetic Weapons: one for swords and one for staves. Unknown which ones at this point. These are also earnable in-game.
Unlimited Nightmare Black Dye
A reusable, unlimited use dye. Both Daglar and Gingers have confirmed that the color of this dye is a slightly blacker dye than Exceptionally Black Dye. [r]
Combat Pet Skin: Abyssal Crab
Abyssal Crab Combat Pet Skin
Abyssal Crab Combat Pet Skin 2. Note: Image not indicative of actual size.
Available immediately, this gives you a new combat skin to make your combat pet look like an Abyssal Crab.
Side-by-Side Comparison
Below is a side-by-side comparison image made by Cummseng@Laethys. (Thanks to Efi for linking the image and Cummseng@Laethys for producing it!)
Each Digital Edition builds on the previous.
Additional information and any screenshots of the various items will be added in as they become available.
Please check out CM Ocho’s ‘Nightmare Tide Collector’s Edition FAQ‘ and respond in that thread for any additional information you may require.
The Digital Editions are available for purchase on the Trion website and at Riftgame.com (Trion’s RIFT website; they both redirect to the same place once you log in).
RiftGrate 
going for the infusion edition. The ultimate is so expensive…. 😦
Too sad i wont get it soon the Thresher mount,at least its confirmed by Daglat that there gonna be other Thresher mounts in game sometime, only the cobalt thresher is exclusive
Yea, I see a few people on the mount already. 😛 Phexlar@Laethys modeled the mount so we’ve got an in-game screen of it (updated in the article just then).
I’m also seeing a lot of shard first for Tier 2 Raid gear (thanks to the removal of the raid-dropped upgrade component). Now you only need ESM for it.
Anyone find a picture of the Abyssal Crab combat pet skin? I’m intrigued….
And also, do you know if the Accelerators are per toon or per account?
Should be available to every character like all the other items. But they are Bind on Pickup so you can’t trade them to your other chars.
I hope they add in a way to buy Planewalker: Water for our alts so we only have to level up 60-65 without that gear once. I’d much prefer they limited the gear to being 65 only, or gave a lower level way to unlock it – I sincerely hope they reconsider, as I think seeing all those unequippable items will be a big let down. The rest is cool though, esp the creepy portrait and the unlimited dye. I hope there’s a way to get the Shimmering Nightmare Orb in game as well though – sooo much plat to be saved.
I would imagine that months down the line they might make it BoA like they eventually did with Notoriety gear, runes and essences. Trion likes to nerf content and buff players over time – so those pushing the content won’t finish too fast but those catching up don’t take too long either.
As for the Shimmering Nightmare Orb – it has a green border and the current speculation is that it won’t have the best stats. It’s probably something to be used for a quick boost when 3.0 hits and so you can put dream orbs on all your leveling gear as you quickly replace them. However, for the best Dream Orb stats, you’ll probably want the one-use versions (perhaps once you get your first NT raid gear). More casual players – however – would probably still greatly benefit from the Shimmering Nightmare Orb.
Side-by-side comparison of the packs can be found at http://screencloud.net/v/iVNq (made by Cummseng@Laethys)
Awesome! I’ve added it in to the post. Thanks to both of you for the info! 😀
The “Void Source Accelerator” description states: “Used to upgrade goods purchased from World Gear Merchant”. Yet is is used to upgrade T2 raid relic gear??
Does that mean that we will be able to buy T2 raid relic gear from the World Gear Merchant when Rift 3.0 hits?
The description might just be meant for 3.0 but they decided to release it early. They might not have added it into the tooltip so as to not confuse players when they see this item for upgradeable items in 3.0. It could be possible that the World Gear merchant ends up selling Level 65 world gear that can upgrade to gear with Tier 3-like stats.
They did state that the best gear in Storm Legion (Tier 3 Relics) would take players to “Level 65 and a bit beyond” so it isn’t too farfetched to think that upgraded Level 65 World Gear would be around what Level 60 Tier 3 gear is like.
is it me or does the infusion edition seem like the best deal?
It’s looking that way. The Ultimate Nightmare Edition mainly adds some fluff and stuff that players might not be interested in.
Depends. Is a title, a bag, a shark mount, a dimension, a crab and cosmeticals worth extra 80€ to you?
The shark is awesome, yes, but a similar mount can be obtained through other means.
Can these be bought with credits?
Unfortunately no; only direct purchase for the Digital Editions.
If I buy the Infusion Edition can I upgrade later for a reduced price?
There’s currently no discounts for owning a lower-tier pack when purchasing higher-tier packs. You can still buy multiple packs and apply them to your account but there are no discounts for doing so.