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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Rift Lore

If you want to read summaries of the game lore, this is a good place to start.  The right hand column breaks down lore into various areas.
http://ashacatari.blogspot.com/

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Rift: Traveling Telara

Want some pretty pictures with your coffee this morning?  Visit Traveling Telara.
http://travelingtelara.com/

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Rift: Level 50 Ten and Twenty-five Man Raiding

The developers show off end game raiding for 10- and 25-mans.
http://horrifticintentions.com/component/content/article/1-blog/11-the-expendables-raid-rifts-and-mercenary-guilds-in-rift

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Rift: Currency (Source Shards, Source Stones, and Planerite)

ZAM's Rift wiki has a section devoted to the various currencies available in the game.  It lists all the available monies, the level (if any), faction and what type of money each is (dungeon, crafting, PvP, world event, etc.).
http://rift.zam.com/wiki/Currency_%28Rift%29

Rift Junkies talks planar currency.
http://www.riftjunkies.com/2011/02/01/planar-currency-and-item-rundown/

Source shards and source stones information, plus planerite information.
http://www.riftplanesoftelaraguide.net/rift-planarite-guide/

Otherworldly sourcestones (associated with the River of Souls Patch 1.1 world event)
http://telarapedia.com/wiki/Grim_Harvest

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Rift: Guilds and Their Quests UPDATED AGAIN

Apparently there are quests just for guilds.  The guide to guilds on IGN's Rift Kingdom says you can see any guild quest on your guild info tab.  Guilds can work on one quest at a time and apparently receive guild perks for completing quests.
http://rift.ign.com/wiki/Guild_Guide

UPDATE #2:  I've found an article at Massively about how guilds work in Rift that has a section about guild quests.  This is an excellent overview about how guilds work in Rift from how to start a guide to how the various guild windows work in the UI.
http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/03/03/the-guild-counsel-a-guild-guide-to-rift/

UPDATE #3:  A brief explanation of guild quests from the forums.
http://www.guildportal.com/Guild.aspx?GuildID=396067&TabID=3349438&ForumID=1903286&TopicID=9559584

UPDATE:  Zam is building a page about guilds and how they work on their wiki.  So far there's nothing on guild quests except how the UI works.
http://rift.zam.com/wiki/Guilds_%28Rift%29

(If you need information about your guild panel, look on page 19 of the online game manual.)
http://www.riftgame.com/en/docs/RIFT_Manual_EN.pdf

This forum posting done during one of the betas describes the points you get as rewards.
http://www.lore.guildportal.com/Guild.aspx?GuildID=387377&TabID=3266924&ForumID=1855694&TopicID=9460587

I've found a listing of several Guardian guild quests here but haven't been able to find any Defiant guild quest information to date.
http://rift.ign.com/wiki/Category:Guardian_Guild_Quests

I've also found a list of Rift guilds (organized by shards) with links to their websites, if any.
http://telarapedia.com/wiki/Category:Guilds

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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: A Dungeon Finder in the Works

Love it or hate it, WOW's dungeon finder is coming to Rift.  It will be cross-shard (i.e., cross-server), too.  Since the Solo MMO Player occasionally finds it hard to get through fights because no one else is around despite the high population on his beta server, this probably is a positive sign.
http://www.riftwatchers.com/2011/02/15/a-dungeon-finder-is-coming-to-rift/

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