The Autumn Harvest Festival started late last week and folks have been busy helping out Atrophinius and his minions prepare for winter. So far the event seems to be a success, with the new spectral mount rewards arguably being the biggest draw for participants. However, shrewd collectors and Auction House players have also been enjoying a bounty of artifacts from the event’s Autumn Eyes potions.

The Potion of Enhanced Autumn Eyes grants you 45 seconds of artifact gathering within the Realm of the Autumn Harvest zone in exchange for giving 10 Autumncap Fungus to Rollo the harvest helper. (There are lesser options available for fewer Fungus, but why bother?) The artifacts seem to mostly be those you would usually find in the open world, from every zone and level range. Collectibles that are only available in raid zones or any of epic or higher quality do not seem to be included in the event, although it’s not out of the question that they could exist but be extremely rare.

With Easter recently passing and Independence Day creeping up for us here in the United States, one is alluded to the absence of in game events that correspond to real life holidays in Rift. Many MMORPGs have holiday events, as they provide a way of changing the world for a couple days and letting the players connect what they are doing in real life to what they are doing in game. Rift seems like the perfect game to have holiday events, with a dynamic world that is always changing, why would holiday events be absent?

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