Rift Butchery (Crafting Professions)

One of the professions in Rift is butchery.  Here is everything you ever wanted to know about butchery, including maps that show locations of trainers.
http://rift.incgamers.com/guides/Butchery

Telarapedia has a list of dropped and trainable recipes for butchery.
http://telarapedia.com/wiki/Butchery

Zam's Rift wiki has a Defiant butchering guide as well as a list of butchery quests plus other information as above.
http://rift.zam.com/wiki/Butchering_%28Rift_Profession%29

Can't find heavy leather?  It sounds as if one needs to move to a new area and find higher level skinable mobs.
http://forums.riftgame.com/archive/index.php/t-53292.html?s=a21996d169ec5bd63429d657746ff25c

The online Rift Manual (page 39) says, "To gather, you must find a source.  Sources are marked on your Minimap when.you.have your Track Ability active, and they shine and sparkle when you’re close enough to see them.  Stand by the source and right-click on it.  After a few seconds, a Loot window opens, with one or more items to gather." The gathering skills include butchery, foraging and mining.
http://www.riftgame.com/en/docs/RIFT_Manual_EN.pdf

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Rift: Mage Builds UPDATED

Here is the Mage Build website that has a great many builds for various flavors of mages.
http://riftmagebuilds.com/

UPDATE:  Rift Junkies has started a multi-part mage discussion called The Magic Storm.  The second link is to the Necromancer.
http://www.riftjunkies.com/2011/03/23/the-magic-storm-a-mage-calling-overview-part-1/

http://www.riftjunkies.com/2011/04/04/the-magic-storm-the-necromancer/

Rift Role Builder has a build-your-mage page.
http://www.riftrolebuilder.com/builder/?calling=mage

UPDATE:  A very sophisticated discussion of the Mage Cholormancer with rotation and theory crafting information.
http://www.etherealshadows.com/rift_Chloromancer.php

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Rift: Choosing Souls

The Zam wiki has a page about soul collection with some information about soul quests and all the souls available for each calling.
http://rift.zam.com/wiki/Rift_101-_Soul_Collection_%28Rift%29

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Rift: Gear Lists (End Game)

Rift Junkies is starting to compile gear lists that show what you get where.  This is the one for Greenscales' Blight which is end game.
http://www.riftjunkies.com/2011/03/19/raid-dungeon-gear-list/

This is the Tier 2 list for high level dungeons.
http://www.riftjunkies.com/2011/03/19/tier-1-expert-dungeon-gear-list/

This is the Tier 2 list for expert level dungeons.
http://www.riftjunkies.com/2011/03/19/tier-2-expert-dungeon-gear-list/

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Rift Security: Account Hacks

A Rift player discovered how to access accounts without any account information.
http://www.riftjunkies.com/2011/03/19/rift-junkies-not-the-source-of-account-hacks/

Apparently this security hole has been patched by Trion.
http://www.riftjunkies.com/2011/03/19/scott-hartsman-weekend-security-update/

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Rift: Soul Swapping Mechanics

After much searching, here's what I have found about switching out souls.   You have to be Level 13 before you can switch any of your currently equipped three souls.  You have to go to the class trainer to reset souls and this has a cost.  If there are zero points assigned to a soul, you can switch it at any time (unless you are in combat) but you must have quested for souls to have replacements.  In other words, you can't switch out your three souls with something else until you earn something else to switch the original(s) with.  Here is an article that shows the soul UI and explains how the soul and role system works.
http://rifterguide.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-do-souls-work.html

Check out what Troster says about 2/3 of the way down the page about how to get your souls once you have collected a shard from a rift fight.  "Once you have collected the shard, you can open your inventory and you will find the shard plus a 'net' to capture the soul. Right click on this and an enemy mob will appear. Kill him. No need to go to another rift to do this. You can do it anywhere. Then return to the quest giver to collect your new soul.*  There will be five NPCs offering soul quests dotted around your capital city. When you have completed a soul quest, you can go straight back and pick up the next one. I got all five souls inside a hour with my last character in beta.

In order to start swapping roles, you need to visit your trainer and purchase a new role for 30 gold.  Once you've done that, press N to open your soul tree and you will see you now have four new slots at the bottom centre of that screen. Your original soul tree is role one, and there will be another blank one called role two. You can rename these to something of your choice. You can now fill out role two with any mix of souls you have available. Having previously had zero points in one of your souls in the original role is irrelevant as you are starting from scratch other than you have however many points already accrued to spend as you like.

You can use some of the souls from your original build, or none. It's up to you. Once you have created your second build, press N to open your Abilities window and you will see a new tab there called Roles. This will have two icons. One for Role 1 and one for Role 2. These can be dragged to a skill bar allowing almost instantaneous switching between roles. You will need to setup all your user preferences, UI layout, skill bars etc again for the second role."an then http://forums.riftgame.com/showthread.php?94509-Cannot-change-a-soul&highlight=soul+swapping

"If you want to change which souls you're using in your current spec you can also do that, by simply paying for a respec, then clicking on the square in the center of the soul tree and changing it out with another soul you have earned by the aforementioned questing/rift closing/running back and forth process."

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/riftplanesoftelara/show_msgs.php?pid=995594&topic_id=m-1-58385992

"To 'get rid' of a soul, got to your class trainer and respec your talent points to 0. Once a soul's talents points are at 0, you can click the soul itself on the soul trees screen (hit N), and change it to something else, providing you have earned more than three souls already."  (quoting Kahrn middle of page here)

http://forums.riftgame.com/archive/index.php/t-40528.html?s=a15147dbdc6a83bcc52f9d040311ab8d

The Zam Rift Wiki's Soul Collection page  talks about where to find your souls and gives help in choosing the right soul for each calling (Cleric, Mage, Rogue, Warrior).
http://rift.zam.com/wiki/Rift_101-_Soul_Collection_%28Rift%29

Once you have all the souls locked and they are in your tree, how do you switch one out?   How do you switch souls, in other words?

"Simply click the soul Icon and a drop down menu will pop up allowing you to choose a new one. If you have points spent in the soul you'll only be able to 'preview' a soul. If you have 0 points spent it will replace the soul that was there."
http://forums.riftgame.com/archive/index.php/t-132606.html?s=77e36f6f5f43e1538330b6946c26d16b

*More about soul quests-"You will be given a quest item when you pick up the quest, you will then need to go to any kind of rift near your character's level and complete it. (make sure you aren't dead when it closes) You will have a high chance of obtaining a Plane Shard in your rift contribution loot. You now will need to use the quest item you were given originally to summon a hostile mob, it will be a white ghost with the same abilities as the quest you are on. Kill it and return to your quest giver. You will now have a brand new soul in your collection."
http://rift.zam.com/wiki/Rift_101-_Soul_Collection_%28Rift%29

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Rift Security: Coin Lock

The Solo MMO Player has been on vacation and was surprised to discover the new "coin lock" procedure (implemented March 17) had him locked out of Rift.  Here's the best summary I found about how it works.
http://forums.riftgame.com/showthread.php?122396-Update-on-Hacked-Accounts

Note that some sort of authenticator system is in the works.

Apparently the new coin lock system had problems.
http://forums.riftgame.com/showthread.php?129952-Coin-Lock-is-there..wait..no-it-s-not

So Rift updated (March 19) the coin lock system they implemented in such a way that everyone has to use an email code to get into their account. More information about how it all works here:
http://rift.ign.com/articles/news/7486/Coin-Lock-Update

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Rift: Starter Zone Walk Throughs

IGN's Rift wiki has posted Defiant and Guardian starter zone walk-thrus for beginners.
http://rift.ign.com/articles/news/7443/Wiki-Spotlight-Beginners-Guide-Updated

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Rift: Warriors in All Their Glory UPDATED

Rift Junkies has posted part one of a three part article about warriors, including attributes and a suggested rotation for both offensive and defensive warriors.
http://www.riftjunkies.com/2011/03/14/the-warrior-pulse-warrior-overview-part-1/

UPDATE:  Part two has been added.
http://www.riftjunkies.com/2011/03/22/the-warriors-pulse-warrior-over-part-2-offense/#more-6147

UPDATE:  Part three is now available.
http://www.riftjunkies.com/2011/04/06/the-warriors-pulse-overview-part-3-defense/

UPDATE:  The Beastmaster Warrior
http://www.riftjunkies.com/2011/04/19/the-warriors-pulse-declassified/

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Rift: Callings, Souls and Roles for Beginners

Raging Monkeys analyzes how callings, souls and roles work for those just starting out in Rift from a World of Warcraft perspective.
http://raging-monkeys.blogspot.com/2011/03/rift-souls-for-wow-brains.html

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