Rift Leveling Guide

Here are the attributes that I looked for in a Guide, as I compared them… I shall list them out with the worst of the Guides that I bought and The very best guide.

There are so many Guides out there for Games, like Rift, that it is mind boggling. What I’ve done is gone out and purchased a bunch of them, mainly to help me in with Rift Leveling my characters, but being the kind of person that loves to share, I have done the work for you and paid out over $200 to page through these Guides so the work is done for you. In return for all this time and money, I’ve found the best there is to offer as I’ve found the Gold Mine in the rough with ““The Ultimate Rift Mastery Guide”.

What do I look for in a Guide to make me happy? For the sake of brevity here, I will use the absolute worse Guide out there for an example. This one was a real Loser, with a capital “L,” it’s Kalmars Guide, and doesn’t it figure, this was the first Guide I purchased? (to see why I decided to purchase guides, instead of just playing and following information in the forums: rift leveling why. For the sake of comparison I shall show what my favorite Guide, Xerxes Ultimate Rift Mastery Guide has to offer

Guide that includes your Quests:

Kalmars: Does give you your Quests, where to get them, where to go do them and where to submit them, but that is all there is in this guide. ?  

Xerxes guide has a quest through as well. ?

Completed Guide (to the current game… updates? Build? Release?):

Kalmars: Being the nice person that I am, I shrugged off the “release” dates for the levels 20-50 that weren’t up yet. The time of releases were spanning all the way up to March 25^th (about 10 levels/week) to get the guide all the way to lvl 50. ?

Xerxes: Is a complete Guide, that will continue to grow and develop as the game does. ?

Guide that includes Builds:

Kalmars: This guide doesn’t include any information what so ever on the Character Builds.? 

Xerxes: Contains information not only on the Builds but what builds are best for each character if you want to Ace in PVP or Gold ?

Factions (2 Guardian & Defiant Factions):

Kalmars:I looked at first at a Guide called “Kalmars Guide,” the so called “Fastest Rift Leveling Guide in the World”, now I know that this is just for Guardians but that is what I had, at first chosen to play, but lets face it we all have our dark side, so already that rules the other half of the Game Factions, the Defiants ? ? (1/2)

Xerxes: Covers both the Guardians and the Defiants in their Guide ? ? (2/2)

Now for the extras:

Kalmars: No Extras, though they stated they will release a video with all the hours spent leveling from 1 to 50 for his character (wow, who wants to watch 4 days of video… by the way his 4 days is 24 hours each day of video = 96 hours of video. Okay so he says just under and then states 80 hours of video… still who wants to watch that?) 

Xerxes: Has Many Extras, these include what I mentioned above:

Starter Guide for (Beginners), which includes:

1) Rifts and Invasions Guide,

2) UI Guide

3) Game Mechanics Guide.

Rift Leveling Guide, which includes:

1) Guardian and Defiant Leveling Guides

2) Step by step Quests

3) Power Leveling, Detailed Maps

4) Comprehensive Leveling Guide

Rift Souls and Builds Guide, which includes:

1) All Four Calling Guides (Warrior Guide, Mage Guide, Rogue Guide, and Cleric Guide)

2) Best Leveling Builds

3) Best PVP Builds

4) Ideal Raiding Builds

All in all Xerxes is the Best out there, everything else out there that I tried, well lets say they just were a big waste of my money. The most complete guide that I found was Xerxes. I love the fact that they virtually took my by the hand through everything that the game has to offer and that even after weeks of using his guide I still can use it, it is that complete and met my expectations and more.

The sad part is, that if you read their spiel about their guides, you would notice that Kalmar’s doesn’t give you specifics, sure their site looks spiffy but I would avoid any Guide purchase that doesn’t want to tell you what they will be giving you in return for your money. Now looking at Xerxes Guide, they give you specifics on what you will get in their Guide, now not all will deliver you quality for their specifics that are in their description, but it’s a good place to start. And think about it, if your a long term player do you really want to play the same character Faction every time in the long haul? No, probably not even the same character class (chosen profession) so my advice is to avoid the one Faction or one class guides and go for the more complete, it will save you time and money in the long haul.

To check out Xerxes Guide Click here: Xerxes Ultimate Rift Mastery Guide Here