Rift Rogue Solo Guides.

 

~ These guides are not suitable for Group content, as they will be awfully sub-par. If you’re looking for builds to use in endgame content check the Rift Rogue Compendium for a list of the current viable rogue specs and a lot of information that’s extremely useful for rogues.

 

Table of Contents

1.0 - Planar Attunement

1.1 - Gearing.

1.2 - How to level quickly

1.3 - Experience Vials

1.4 - Levelling in SFP

 

1.0 Planar Attunement

 

This is only for solo - Once you hit max level it would be worth resetting your Planar Attunement (from your trainer - First reset is free then any other reset is 100p per)

 

As for levelling, start off putting points into Death tree to begin with (once you hit 50) - 50 points into death and you can get Vampiric Essence, which gives damaging attacks a 20% chance to return 10% of the damage done (this can be used on both of your weapons), once you get this you have 2 choices in how you want to spend your PA. You can either put it into Endurance based PA elements (Earth, Life, Water, Nature, Dusk and Dust) or into the dps route (as stated in the Rogue Compendium)

 

The way you spend PA when levelling isn’t a major factor (the main part is getting Vampiric), as mentioned before, you’re not stuck with what you choose.

 

1.1 Gearing

 

I see loads of people asking about “what is better between [x piece] and [y piece] - Honestly it doesn’t matter what gear you use when levelling, the gear from questing and IA boxes will give you gear relevant to your level, as long as you equip gear that’s near your current level then it doesn’t matter.

 

You get good gear from IA’s as you level (from the boxes it drops), but don’t worry about gear until you hit the higher levels (65-70), depending on what your max level is. (when levelling to 70 the 65 quest gear is really good, even if it has less hit than your current gear the stats make up for it, and you don't need hit when levelling)

 

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1.2 How to level quickly

 

From level 0-10 you’re going to be doing questing, you can’t do anything else (IA’s require you to be level 10 before you join) which means you’re going to be doing the starter zone (Terminus - Defiant, Sanctuary of Rebirth - Guardian) quest line.

 

When making a new character, rift will force a preset on you (depending on what you picked during character selection, if you try to change that selection you will be hit with this warning;

 

 

 

This is fine, just click ok and continue with changing it to the souls that you want, you don’t need to use the presets (as most of them are bad anyway).

 

If you’re looking for the fastest way to level check out Riftraids for that, it also includes ways to get power leveled to 70.

 

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1.3 Experience Vials

 

Experience Vials are extremely helpful to get you to max level faster, you get 2 free 160%  experience pots from the Ascended Trove (you get every 10 levels) at levels 10 and 60, you’ll want to save these for levels 65+, as just doing quests in SFP will not get you to 70, best way to do this is delay using your pop until you stack up 10 carnage quests, when you hit 10 pop a vial and consume all 10 quests at once, then continue levelling from there.

 

If you’re one of the players who likes to support the game they play, or would like to progress faster, you can buy Experience Vials from Rift Store, and Patron gives an experience bonus too.

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1.4 Levelling in SFP.

 

What’s the best way to level?

 

The questline, is by far the most efficient way of levelling in SFP, combining this with the carnage quests you find along the way and the dailies you find in each zones quest hub.

 

The dailies can be found here:

 

Alittu:

~ Fragging the Fragments - NPC - Strike Force Commander Korel /setwaypoint 4145 6345

~ Daily Carnage: [Changes Daily] - NPC - Lana /setwaypoint 4169 6392  (waypoint won’t be exact because she walks around in a circle in her area, but she won’t stray far from the waypoint)

~ Notoriety Republic - NPC - Blainey /setwaypoint 4191, 6458

~ Breaking Through - NPC - Jinan Tawniks /setwaypoint 4171, 6464 [Weekly Quest]

 

Scatherran Forest:

~ The Tale of Mael Salach - NPC - Scealai /setwaypoint 4908, 5778

~ Pure Hearted/Kick The Barrel - NPC - Roger Happy /setwaypoint 4921, 5714

~ Rifts of Scattherran Forest - NPC - Yokai /setwaypoint 4951, 5695

~ Onslaught: Blackthorn Court  - NPC - Yokai

 

Xarth Mire:

~ A Tale of Twilight of the Tuath’de - NPC - Jubjub /setwaypoint 4183, 3935

~ Rifts of Xarth Mire - NPC - Dubgrub /setwaypoint 4191, 3855

~ Onslaught: The Marsh Gate - NPC - Krumnun /setwaypoint 4182, 3846

~ Tuatha’Don’t Even Try It - NPC - Melanie Dreamdancer /setwaypoint 4814, 4527

 

Xarths Skull:

~ Clear the Forest - NPC - Reiala Spellbane /setwaypoint 4824, 4115

 

Gedlo Badlands:

~ The Tale of Scarlet Knight/Counterfeits - NPC - Fortaeller  /setwaypoint 3641, 6379

~ Rifts of Gedlo Badlands - NPC - Nosliw /setwaypoint 3615, 6332

~ Onslaughts: Gedlonia - NPC - Nosliw

~ Ballistic Arc - NPC - Brokenfang /setwaypoint 3617, 6328
 

Ashenfell:

~ A Tale of The Devil Who Would Be King/For What Curious Purpose - NPC - Redeemer Constanze

/setwaypoint 2634, 4286

~ Onslaught: Valley of the Condemned - NPC - Kiarra /setwaypoint 2687, 4318

~ Rifts of Ashenfell - NPC - Kiarra

~ Scream Theater - NPC - Talone /setwaypoint 2688, 4314

You start the SFP questline in Tempest Bay, where the Storm Breaker Protocol dungeon entrance used to be (just past the crafting area) inside you will be able to get a quest from General Batua, to begin your journey into SFP.

 

Some of these quests won’t be readily available for you, as some require you to finish a storyline and some require a certain level.

 

Note - If you are an avid crafter, crafting dailies also give a decent amount of XP and are worth doing.

 

PvP, sadly, is not. It took me about 2 weeks of pvp to get from 68-70 (about 120 wf wins each

week) - Wins give more XP.

 

IA’s are a really bad way of gaining XP