Rift guilds database

A handy guild finder from Rift Junkies – search by faction, shard, playstyle and recruitment status.

Rift bard basics video

I’m loving my bard. I’ve never played a support class, so this is new for me, but the personal and party buffs are great. I’m finding it’s very easy to find groups with the bard plus it’s fun to play.

Here’s an intro to the bard with an example build, basic buffing guide to the various motifs, anthems and fanfares. I’m wondering now if there’s a macro to keep those 30-second motifs up? Will look into it.

Where to find crafting stations

Chart showing the location of each type of crafting station throughout Telara.

Beginner’s guide to crafting

The Beginner’s Guide to Crafting in Rift is a well-written 3-part article with a lot of great information, including:

• An overview of the Gathering professions (Butchering, Foraging, Mining)
• An overview of the Crafting professions (Apothecary, Armorsmith, Artificer, Outfitter, Runecrafter and Weaponsmith)
• How to use crafting stations
• How to use the crafting interface
• Crafting dailies

Comprehensive crafting profession guides

A short list of general Rift crafting guide sites:

Rift Craft – profession info and leveling guides for every craft plus news on crafting changes and updates.

Telarapedia – comprehensive guide to professions.

ZAM – a great guide that includes quests and material gathering location maps for all crafts, and a diagram showing craft dependencies.

Crafting 101 – informative guide with lots of screenshots of locations and UI crafting details.

Deepstrike Mines walkthrough

A detailed, well-written walkthrough of DSM from Rift Junkies.

Deepstrike Mines Dungeon Guide Parts 1-3

First of three-parter DSM tutorial from Rift Junkies.

Part 2 and Part 3.

Iron Tombs Dungeon Guide

No voice narration, but this guide is well-documented.

Mage talent builds

A collection of soul talent builds for mages.

Rift leveling guides

Free leveling guides (basic and limited, but some decent general info):

• Mage leveling guide
• Cleric leveling builds
• Warrior leveling guide
• Rogue leveling guide

Commercial leveling guides (not so free):

• Xerxes Rift Mastery Guide
• Rift Planes of Telara
• KFGuides Defiant Leveling Guide
• Rift Supremacy/Video Guide

From all the reviews I’ve seen, Xerxes is the clear winner among the paid guides at the moment. I haven’t purchased it because at this point we’re just having fun and not in a big hurry, but perhaps later…