If you’re a fan of the popular and recently released Rift game, you certainly know a bit about it. There are two main factions in this game, The Defiant and The Guardian, and regardless of which one you have chosen, you will have to level up. Guardian leveling guides were previously released, but a recent addition is a leveling guide for the Defiant faction that you may want to check out if you’re playing with this faction.
Challenging players begin their adventure in Terminus. You’ll be leveling up there for some time (roughly to level 7), after which you’ll move on to Freemarch. In Freemarch you will also visit your capital city and gain access to your first instance, Iron Tombs. The capital of the Guardians is Sanctum and Defiants Meridian. The flaws that appear here are Fire and Life. You will level up in Freemarch until 17-20.
After that, you will move to an area called Stonefield. It is advisable not to enter this area before reaching level 20 at least or you will have trouble completing missions and killing monsters. Stonefield has Earth and Death Rifts spawning throughout the area, as well as the Deepstrike Mines instance to keep you busy. This area is also interesting due to several puzzles that have very good rewards.
After Terminus and Stonefield, you’ll finally be in Scarlet Gorge, where members of other factions are leveling up as well. That means you will have to watch your back all the time if you are on a PvP server or else you may get caught. However, Scarlet Gorge is divided into two zones: the Defiants are on the south side and the Guardians are in the north. Scarlet Gorge has mainly fire rifts and contains an interesting dungeon called Foul Cascade. Make sure you are at least level 32 before leaving this area or you will have trouble with quests and mobs. Take part in some invasions, go on your daily Warfront quest, and clear the dungeons one more time if you’re missing out on experience. The more levels before reaching the next area, the easier and faster you will level up.
After Foul Cascade, you will move on to Scarwood Reach. It is mainly populated by life rifts and also has a dungeon called King’s Breach. Here are also additional puzzles that I recommend completing for a decent experience and item rewards. Try not to leave Scarwood Reach before reaching at least level 35. As before, be sure to do dungeons, war fronts, and rifts if you run out of missions and need more experience, although if you followed my advice above, you shouldn’t. be a problem.
The next area is Moonshade Highlands, where you will find the Runic Descent dungeon. You should win level 42 here, after which you will proceed to Droughtlands, which has the Lantern Hook instance and is designed up to level 46.
Once you reach the current level cap of 50, you will have numerous options. You can participate in more rifts and invasions, fight on war fronts against other players, attack thugs, work on your professions, do some instances and raids and more. Reaching the level cap as quickly as possible is important as the real game starts at 50.