Personal Rift question

[Rat Meat]

I am new to the game (about 2 days now) and I was down in a third or forth level and my personal rift icon was not showing.

I am assuming there some areas where you can not use it in?

Thanks for any info.

[Breathing Shadow]

This sounds like you were in a rogue dungeon.
3rd or 4th floor sounds like Steps of Torment area.
Where there undead folks maybe? And did you step through a closed door?
If so, you were inside one of those areas.
It's intended that your rift teleport doesn't work there.
If you die here, you have to start over your gamesession if you want to try this particular dungeon again and you also have to use a new key to open the gates.
Inside Grim Dawn there are some areas like this.
I don't want to spoil you from discovering them, so I'll stay quiet here :)

[Azunai]

the dungeons that require a skeleton key to enter generally block the personal rift function. they are meant to be a challenge, so you only get 1 shot - if you die inside, you have to reset and use a new key to retry.

similarly, the cthonic rifts you'll run into a bit later in the game also block the personal rift function. you have to find an exit protal to leave them (or to move forward to the next level of the dungeon)

[Rat Meat]

Originally posted by Breathing Shadow:

This sounds like you were in a rogue dungeon.
3rd or 4th floor sounds like Steps of Torment area.
Where there undead folks maybe? And did you step through a closed door?
If so, you were inside one of those areas.
It's intended that your rift teleport doesn't work there.
If you die here, you have to start over your gamesession if you want to try this particular dungeon again and you also have to use a new key to open the gates.
Inside Grim Dawn there are some areas like this.
I don't want to spoil you from discovering them, so I'll stay quiet here :)

Yes I was down at the bottom, half asleep and got caught off guard and died. Its all good and I am not upset at all. I should not have started that dungeon so late at night and so tired.

Thank you all for the info and I will head back down again today.

[Breathing Shadow]

Before you try, you'll have to take a trip to your local blacksmith to order him making a new key for you. You should have gotten the blueprint from the quest outside Steps of Torment, that lead you down right to the gates, to kill this skeleton guy guarding it.
After paying a small fee of (if I remember correctly) 10000 iron bits and some components you are good to go!

Have fun and good luck this time!
You can do it!

[Cthulhu's Email Server]

Or you could just skip the rogue dungeons on Normal and save the keys for Elite when the loot is better from a long term standpoint. That has been a fairly prudent use for keys and Blood of Cthon. Plus, you will not get legendaries until level 50 so it kind of seems like a waste.