Conan Exiles Enhanced Rifts Guide: Sorcery Spells and Mi-Go

Conan Exiles Enhanced just cracked open a new layer of the Exiled Lands. The Legacy of the Giant-Kings: Part Two update, which Funcom shipped on October 6 as patch 3.0.0 (followed by hotfix 3.0.1 on October 8), scatters otherworldly Rifts across the map, brings the Mi-Go back in force, and adds four new Sorcery spells you can only unlock by fighting your way through them. If you've been away since the Unreal Engine 5 relaunch, this is the update that gives your sorcerer something genuinely new to do.

This guide covers where Rifts actually spawn, what to expect once you step through one, how to deal with the returning Mi-Go, and how to spend your Rift loot on the new spells. Everything below comes straight from Funcom's own October patch notes and the Legacy of the Giant-Kings: Part Two announcement — nothing here is guesswork dressed up as a strat.

01What's New in Legacy of the Giant-Kings: Part Two

The short version: the fallout from the Akhamet and Cyclopean Halls storyline has torn holes in reality. Strange tears, or Rifts, now scar both the Exiled Lands and the Isle of Siptah, opening gateways into hostile arenas that exist outside the normal map. Step through one, clear whatever's waiting, and you come back with crafting materials and rewards tied directly to how dangerous the fight was.

Alongside the Rifts, the update adds four new Sorcery spells unlocked with Rift materials, brings back the Mi-Go as a full-on threat including a dedicated mini-boss, and adds a new Shemite building set to the in-game Bazaar, styled after Stygian-influenced nomadic architecture. None of this requires a fresh character — it layers directly onto existing saves and servers once you update.

02How to Find and Open a Rift

Rifts don't spawn randomly in the open world — Funcom's patch notes are specific that you'll find them inside enemy camps, both in the Exiled Lands and on the Isle of Siptah (Siptah access still requires owning that DLC separately). Keep an eye out for camps that look visually disturbed, with a tear or distortion effect marking the entrance point. Once you spot one, you can walk through it like a doorway.

How to Open Your First Rift

1. 1Rifts spawn inside enemy camps across the Exiled Lands and the Isle of Siptah. Look for camps with a visible tear or distortion effect marking the entrance.5-15 min
2. 2Approach the tear and walk through it like a doorway to enter a self-contained arena outside the normal map.Instant
3. 3Pick the encounter's difficulty before committing. Harder choices scale up both the enemies you'll face and the rewards waiting at the end.1-2 min
4. 4Fight through Mi-Go Experiments and, in tougher encounters, the Mi-Go mini-boss. Bring ranged options and healing since there's no mid-fight retreat.10-20 min
5. 5Loot the reward cache after clearing the arena for the crafting materials used to unlock the new Sorcery spells.1-2 min
6. 6Bring your Tome of Kurak and Rift materials to a Thaumaturgy Bench to spend them on the new spells. Save or log out first in case of the known upgrade freeze bug.5 min

There's no fixed difficulty curve across every Rift — the game lets you choose your challenge before committing, and the patch notes are explicit that "the greater the danger, the greater the prize." That means a low-pressure early Rift is a fine way to learn the new enemy types before you gear up for something riskier.

03What to Expect Inside a Rift Arena

Once you're through, you're in a self-contained arena rather than the open Exiled Lands — there's no casual retreat partway through, so come prepared with healing, a ranged option, and whatever thrall support you'd normally bring to a boss fight. The arenas are built around combat encounters rather than exploration; your job is to clear what's waiting and then collect the reward cache before heading back out.

Rift materials are the gating resource for the new Sorcery spells, so even if you're not chasing the Mi-Go mini-boss specifically, repeat Rift runs are the only way to stock up. If you're also working through a settings pass for better frame pacing while you're farming these arenas, our tutorials section covers PC optimization for recently updated titles.

Loadout matters more here than in a typical Exiled Lands skirmish. A melee weapon alone leaves you exposed against the Mi-Go's ranged and swarm attacks, so bring a bow or throwing weapon for crowd control, keep a stack of healing items on hand, and don't bring your only set of good gear if you're still learning an arena's layout — there's no mid-fight extraction if things go wrong.

04The Mi-Go Are Back: Enemies and the Mini-Boss

The Mi-Go — Conan Exiles' spindly, otherworldly insectoid threat — return as a core part of the Rift content, including lesser enemies the patch notes refer to as Mi-Go Experiments, and a dedicated Mi-Go mini-boss that shows up in tougher encounters. Funcom hasn't published a specific proper name for the mini-boss beyond "Mi-Go mini boss" in its own announcement, so treat any name you see elsewhere as unconfirmed.

Funcom's announcement also teases that players who prevail against the Mi-Go "may even find a way to bring a Mi-Go thrall or pet back to their settlement." The exact taming or acquisition method wasn't detailed in the patch notes, so budget some trial and error if you're specifically farming for one.

If photosensitivity or heavy particle effects are a concern, hotfix 3.0.1 added a console variable, dw.RiftEvent.DisableAVFX, that suppresses the Rift event's audio-visual effects locally. It's aimed at players running their own servers or with access to the console, so check with your server admin if you're on someone else's world.

05Unlocking the Four New Sorcery Spells

The headline addition for spellcasters is a set of four new spells, each unlocked using materials you earn from Rift encounters rather than bought or found on a vendor. Funcom's own description of the set, taken directly from the patch announcement, breaks down as: a defensive ward to protect yourself, a spell that controls the battlefield with the power of the Void, a spell that spreads corruption among your enemies, and a spell built around swift casting for when every second counts.

One of these is confirmed by name in the hotfix notes: Corrupting Miasma, the corruption-spread spell, got a fix for incorrectly knocking out Mirror Image decoys. The other three weren't given explicit in-game names in anything Funcom has published, so this guide describes them by function rather than inventing labels for them — expect the Thaumaturgy Bench's crafting menu to clear that up once you've earned enough Rift materials to unlock them.

Treat the three unnamed rows as functional descriptions straight from Funcom's own announcement rather than final in-game titles — they're accurate to what the spells do, even before the exact names show up in your own Thaumaturgy Bench.

As with existing Sorcery progression, spending Rift materials runs through your Tome of Kurak at a Thaumaturgy Bench. One known issue from the current patch is worth flagging before you dive in: Funcom's notes mention the character can stop responding after upgrading the Tome of Kurak, so save or log out beforehand if you're playing solo.

06Other Changes Worth Knowing

A few smaller additions from the same update are worth factoring into how you play after patching. Legendary items can now be dismantled at the dismantling bench for legendary fragments, which is a meaningful quality-of-life change if you've been sitting on duplicate drops. Warpaints no longer expire, inventory filters now separate heavy, medium, and light armor from regular clothing with hover tooltips, and the DLC toggle in the knowledge menu now filters all DLC items, including ones you don't own yet, which makes Bazaar browsing less cluttered.

On the building side, the new Shemite set heading to the Bazaar draws on Old Stygian influence mixed with eastern nomadic practicality, aimed at players who want their base to look the part of a skilled bowman or master smith rather than another plain stone fort. Check the Steam store page for current Bazaar availability, since cosmetic rotations change independently of the content patch.

A handful of under-the-radar fixes also change how the world behaves. Creature corpses now settle into the ground much faster, which stops bodies from visibly vibrating after death — a long-standing issue on crowded servers. Server-side movement checks are also tighter when a server is running well, which makes speed-hacking noticeably less effective, and beds now show the player base icon on the fullscreen and respawn maps instead of a generic marker, which makes it easier to tell your own base apart from a teammate's at a glance.

07Is Legacy of the Giant-Kings Coming to Console?

Not yet. Funcom confirmed on October 27 that Conan Exiles Enhanced is heading to PS5 and Xbox Series X|S with PC cross-play, but that release is planned for early 2027, and Funcom hasn't published detailed console patch notes or a firm date beyond that window. If you're on console, Legacy of the Giant-Kings: Part Two — along with Rifts, the Mi-Go, and the new spells — is PC-only for now, through Conan Exiles Enhanced's Steam release.

Funcom's official launch trailer for Legacy of the Giant-Kings: Part Two, released alongside the October 6 update.

Legacy of the Giant-Kings is a four-part arc, and Part Two is only the second chapter — expect the Rifts, the Mi-Go, and whatever's spreading through them to tie into Parts Three and Four down the line. For now, the fastest way to make progress is simple: find a disturbed camp, step through, and see what's waiting on the other side.