Sunday, February 27, 2011

Rift: Gathering and Crafting Professions Help

Need information about the professions?  There are three gathering professions (butchery, foraging and mining) and six crafting professions (apothacary, armorsmithing, artificing, outfitting, runecrafting and weaponsmitthing).  A character can choose up to three professions.  Good explanations of all the professions are found here.
http://telarapedia.com/wiki/Profession

However, I think this explanation is clearer and covers all the crafting and gathering professions in a more comprehensive manner.  It also shows the various crafting windows you'll use.
http://thisisnotarift.blogspot.com/2011/02/crafting-101.html

All about runecrafting, from trainers to upgrading components, runebreaking and transforming components.
http://telarapedia.com/wiki/Runecrafting

Here's a list of runecrafting recipes.
http://rift.ign.com/wiki/Runecrafter

Mining trainers, recipes and ores are listed here.
http://rift.ign.com/wiki/Mining

Crafting videos (Meridian) shows how it works with the interface.
http://wn.com/Rift_Headstart_Crafting_Trainers_Pve_Pvp_Ashtone_Proper

http://wn.com/Rift_Headstart_Crafting_Trainers_Pve_Pvp_Ashtone_Proper#

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Rift: Guides for Builds, Souls, Stats and Leveling

This site has Souls and build guides, plus guides to leveling and stats.
http://topriftguide.com/rift-warrior-builds-guide/

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Rift: Warriors

A warrior class overview.  Follow the links to see more.
http://rift.wikia.com/wiki/Warrior

Rift Plants of Terra has a warrior guide.
http://www.riftplanesoftelaraguide.com/rift-planes-of-telara-guide/rift-warrior/

A video about building a warrior from the designers showing off changing abilities on the fly.

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Rift: Wikis

Besides the official Rift website (www.riftgame.com), there are several other Rift resources that may be worth bookmarking:

Rift Junkies seems to have maps and dungeon walkthroughs already. This site is packed with information, making it hard to navigate.  Click on the tabs at the top under the header (especially Guides) for help finding things.  You can also use the search box at the upper left corner.
http://www.riftjunkies.com/

Telarapedia wants to be your one stop Rift encyclopedia.  There are videos and a navigation column on the left to help you find what you want.  This site has great potential as it seems organized and the articles I've read are well written.
http://telarapedia.com/wiki/Rift

Rift Kingdom is an IGN-hosted site so you'll see lots of ads and contests here, but the home page is a great place to catch up on current Rift news.  Right now the news is all about the servers.  However, the home page has links to the Wiki (second link below) and the Guides sections (third link) which has a lot of information. Note if you click on something in the Guides section (Paladins, for example), you often get a blank page.  This is a work in progress but IGN has the resources and writers to make this something worth keeping an eye on.
http://rift.ign.com/

http://rift.ign.com/wiki/Rift_Wiki

http://rift.ign.com/wiki/Category:Guides

Rift Kingdom's Beginners Guide is very helpful when you are choosing the race you will play.
http://rift.ign.com/wiki/Beginners_Guide

Rift Wiki has an interesting graphic organizational style that may be easier for some folks to navigate.
http://rift.wikia.com/wiki/RIFT_Wiki

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Rift: Macros and Slash Commands UPDATED

While looking for Rift wikis and other resources, I stumbled across these listings of macros and slash commands for the game.
http://www.riftjunkies.com/2011/02/24/macros-and-slash-commands/

UPDATE:  H pointed out this good basic guide to macros, which folks who haven't used them before will find helpful.   There's a link to another list of slash commands in the article.  Thanks for the tip, H.
http://www.riftlevelingguide.com/game/user-interface/macros/

UPDATE #2:  Through Sir Robin I discovered another good explanation of slash commands and building macros from them.   Commands are grouped as to whether you use them in combat, to control a pet, etc.
http://www.tentonhammer.com/rift/guides/commands

UPDATE #3:  Extensive list of slash commands which are called "macros" by the author.
http://www.guildportal.com/Guild.aspx?GuildID=154679&TabID=1311920&ForumID=1879402&TopicID=9539260

To quote Sir Robin, "Basically keybinding lets you bind one ability to one button. With Macros you can bind multiple abilities to one button."
http://forums.riftgame.com/showthread.php?113711-47-DPS-Warrior-Champ-Para-Rift-w-Screenshots-Parses/page7

Telarapedia has separate articles about building macros and a list of commands.
http://telarapedia.com/wiki/Macro
http://telarapedia.com/wiki/Commands

Macro advice from the Rift Junkies forum.
http://www.riftjunkies.com/forums/showthread.php?812-Macro-Advice

A good explanation of using macros for healing.
http://thisisnotarift.blogspot.com/2011/02/mouse-over-macro-and-my-thoughts-on.html

And here's a mouseover healing macro from Havoc, a Defiant Guild on Wolfsbane.
http://forums.riftgame.com/showthread.php?45880-Mouse-Over-Healing-Macro

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