Amalur Theorycrafting

Builds
http://amalurfoundry.com/theory-forge/reckoning-builds

Talent tree breakdowns
http://amalurfoundry.com/guides/reckoning-guides

Ability calculator (check the Comments for more ideas)
http://amalurfoundry.com/calculator

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Rift: Warrior Guide

Rift Watchers has published a warrior guide, complete with a compact description of all the souls available and a link to a recommended build.
http://www.riftwatchers.com/2011/02/20/warrior-guide/

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Rift: Rogue Builds UPDATED

Rift Watchers has posted a Rogue Guide that describes the classes and souls available.  As always, check out the Comments for more insight into various rogue combos.
http://www.riftwatchers.com/2011/02/24/rogue-guide/

UPDATE:  Rift Junkies has published the first in their Jagged Blade overview of rogues.
http://www.riftjunkies.com/2011/03/24/the-jagged-blade-a-rogue-calling-overview-part-1/

How Patch 1.1 will effect rogues.
http://www.riftjunkies.com/2011/03/28/the-jagged-blade-whats-coming-up-in-patch-1-1/

UPDATE #2:  There is a website devoted to rogue builds (that includes some rotations/casting sequences).
http://riftroguebuilds.com/

UPDATE #3:  A series of YouTube videos about the rogue and various builds.  I haven't watched this so I don't know how good the videos are, but I've inclucded the link for the visually oriented.
http://wn.com/Rift__Rogue__Basic_Overview

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Rift: Cleric Builds UPDATED

Rift Watchers has posted a guide to the Cleric.  The various Souls are categorized as to whether they are a tank, a DPS character, etc. and there is a link to a recommended tree for each.
http://www.riftwatchers.com/2011/03/03/cleric-guide/

The Cleric Justicar is a DPS melee tank.  Here are builds.
http://rift.zam.com/en/buildlist.html?calling=Cleric&type=Melee+DPS&soul=Justicar

UPDATE:  Rift Junkies has posted the first part of The Divine Retribution, a guide to playing Clerics.
http://www.riftjunkies.com/2011/03/25/the-divine-retribution-a-cleric-calling-overview-part-1/

Part Two covers offensive (DPS) Clerics.
http://www.riftjunkies.com/2011/03/30/the-divine-retribution-part-2-offensive-soul-overview/

Rift Junkies talks healing Clerics.
http://www.riftjunkies.com/2011/04/07/divine-retribution-a-cleric-healing-overview/

There is a website dedicated to Clerics now with plenty of discussion of various builds.
http://riftclerics.net/riftclerics/

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PvP Glyphs for Hunters (with Recommended Builds)

Garwulf has posted his recommended glyphs for hunter PvP on the Huntsman's Lodge blog, along with recommended builds for each flavor of hunter.
http://huntsmanslodge.com/7752/hunter-pvp-glyphs.htm

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Cataclysm Talent Calculator (Beta)

Blessing of Fish reports that Blizzard has set up a fully functional Cataclysm talent calculator.  He also summarizes what is known about how talents will work here.  Thanks, Zal!
http://blessingoffish.wordpress.com/2010/07/17/stumpy-talent-trees-and-awesome-hats/

Here's the link that goes directly to the Cataclysm talent calculator.
http://cata.wowhead.com/talent

Remember, this is the beta version.  Things are still in flux and who knows how this will work once the next expansion is released....

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Leveling a Fire Mage in Patch 3.3

Psynister starts a series about leveling fire mages by covering information up to Level 30.
http://psynister.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/mage-leveling-fire-1-30/

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The Combat Rogue

All about the combat talent tree.
http://www.wow.com/2010/04/07/encrypted-text-combat-101/

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Cataclysm Mastery System Details UPDATED

Blizzard has announced details about the new mastery system that will change the stats of your characters forever when Cataclysm hits.  WOW Head explains it all in a few words:  "In a nut shell the mastery system will basically give you bonuses that increase damage, healing or survivability according to the amount of points spent in the tree. Along with it you will get a secondary bonus to a stat that is most desirable to you, like haste or crit. There is even a third bonus which will be completely unique to the tree and will benefit from the mastery rating on high-level gear."
http://www.wowhead.com/?blog=147803

UPDATE:  WOW Insider published some clarifications Blizzard made this evening.
http://www.wow.com/2010/03/09/updates-and-clarifications-on-the-mastery-system/

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How to PvP as a Frost Mage

NOTE:  This information is from February-April 2010.

Everything you need to know, from glyphs to your spec.  More blog entries on this topic are planned, so I'll update this as they are published.
http://spicytunas.com/2010/02/frost-mage-pvp-101/

Spell Penetration and Resilience
http://spicytunas.com/2010/03/frost-mage-pvp-102-spell-penetration-and-resilience/

Gearing for PvP
http://spicytunas.com/2010/04/frost-mage-pvp-103-gearing-for-pvp/

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Rogue Mutilate Build

What mutilate is and how a rogue plays this.  Info on talents and assassinate, too.
http://www.wow.com/2010/02/24/encrypted-text-mutilate-101/

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Guide to Holy Priests and Paladins

The WOW Insider covers stats, leveling and talents for holy priests.  The emphasis seems to be on PvE.  A more thorough priest leveling guide is planned.
http://www.wow.com/2010/02/07/spiritual-guidance-holy-101/#continued

They've also just done an article on essential macros and addons for holy paladins.
http://www.wow.com/2010/02/07/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-essential-addons-and-macros-for-h/

Coreil has an article up with specs for the new healing paladin.
http://blessingofkings.blogspot.com/2010/05/ask-coriel-new-paladin-healer.html

General macros for priests (Patch 3.3)
http://www.wow.com/2010/02/21/spiritual-guidance-macros-for-priests/

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Hunter Talent Points in Patch 3.3

How to spend your talent points as a hunter in Patch 3.3.
http://www.thehuntersmark.net/2010/02/01/spending-your-first-hunter-talent-points/

How to spend the pet talent points.
http://www.thehuntersmark.net/2010/02/05/spending-your-pet-talent-points/

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Most Popular Level 80s and Their Trees

News on which classes (and which tree among class) are most popular at Level 80 currently (hint:  DKs and Paladins).  There are some disclaimers but it is an interesting read.
http://armorydatamine.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/appetite-for-destruction/

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Leveling Builds for the New Hunter

For the new hunter to use in leveling.
http://www.thehuntersmark.net/2009/10/28/hunter-talents-for-leveling/

Level 10-20 (armor, weapons and a guide to best stats)
http://www.thehuntersmark.net/2009/10/30/hunter-gear-for-leveling-10-20/

Level 21-30 gear.
http://www.thehuntersmark.net/2009/10/31/hunter-gear-for-leveling-21-30/

Levels 31-40
http://www.thehuntersmark.net/2009/11/04/hunter-gear-for-leveling-31-40/

Levels 41-50
http://www.thehuntersmark.net/2009/11/18/hunter-gear-for-leveling-41-50/

Levels 51-60
http://www.thehuntersmark.net/2009/11/23/hunter-gear-for-leveling-51-60/

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Various Talent Builds for Paladins

This undated site lists a variety of builds for paladins and asks folks to rate them.
http://www.thenoobschool.com/worldofwarcraft/paladin-talents

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A Guide to Discipline Priesthood

Lilitharian sees a lack of guides to playing as a discipline priest so s/he is going to write one.  This is the introduction.  As always, I'll update this blog entry as more is written.
http://divineaegis.haecceity.nu/2009/09/06/l2disc-intro/

Here's an analysis of the talent tree for disc priests.
http://divineaegis.haecceity.nu/2009/09/07/l2disc-talents/

Disc priests gear in Patch 3.3
http://bobturkey.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/discipline-priest-gear-list-for-3-3/

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Enhancement Shaman Leveling Specs

Big Hit Box has a long article up about the talents, specs, glyphs and trees he feels enhancement shamans should use.

http://bighitbox.com/index.php/2009/09/enhancement-leveling-talents/

There are 3-4 other excellent articles about enhancement shamans captured on The Solo MMO Player blog. Search "enhancement shamans" in the search box in the upper left corner to find them.

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