Rift Leveling Guide

Level 1-10.

 If you build a glass cannon DPS character, you’re pretty much chained to the codependency of dungeons, which is fine if you like that, but having your leveling pace dependent on dungeon queues, especially DPS dungeon queues, is anything but efficient.Just do the special task. You don’t need to put a lot of thought in here. I will point out that the methods I’m going to suggest going forward would benefit GREATLY from a build designed to survive somewhat. I find no method of survival beats a gross amount of self healing or a pet to hide behind and support properly.

Level 10-19

Don’t forget to do the daily instant adventure quest, and to utilize rare planar goods vendors to gear yourself amidst loot caches now and all the way up to 45 or so. Simple stuff, doesn’t get complex just yet.

Level 20-25ishQueue for instant adventures. Do your daily randoms, then perhaps queue specifically for your favourite between silverwood and freemarch.

If you find you’re getting smoked in gloamwood/stonefield, keep dropping group until you get freemarch or silverwood for your randoms.Do your daily random IAs, do the quest, same as last bracket, But be aware that you will be at the low end of the stonefield and highly annoying gloamwood IA levels.  Heck, if you find you hate gloamwood for the unnecessarily annoying terrain (because boy howdy do me and mine ever do) don’t feel you have to do it. IA’s are low obligation content, and while you’ll never see me recommending you just AFK and collect XP, you don’t have to do an area you don’t want to if you’d rather fish for your favourite area to come up in random queue. Once your randoms are done, queue specifically for your favourite areas. At this point, the XP difference between the first and second bracket of IA’s are so miniscule, just queue for wherever you rift mining nodes like best.