In this Rift Rogue builds guide I will be discussing about some of the best and most widely used Rift Rogue builds. While some could be literally outstanding, some might just not even make sense. This Rift Rogue builds guide explores possible combinations for selecting souls for both solo and group or team play.

Now let’s look at Rift Rogue Builds

In Rift you will be selecting three souls which will be the basis for all of your character’s abilities, generally you will have one main soul and two other souls which will mainly be used for the starter abilities they give. In this guide I will be discussing the Rogue souls, what they do, and which ones I suggest that you should use.

The Rogue is a pretty versatile class, but should mainly be focusing on DPS. However you can actually go for tanking with the Riftstalker soul. You also have an option between ranged and melee dps, the ranged being the Ranger and Marksman and the melee being the Saboteur, Assassin, Night Blade, and Blade Dancer. There is also a support type soul that offers healing and buffs which is the Bard, but doesn’t quite give you enough to be the main healer.

Rift Rogue Builds guide for Solo game play

When playing Rift you’re able to purchase up to four roles so it is good to have a grouping role and soloing role at the very least. First we’ll look into the best soloing option for the Rogue class. You’re going to want to use Blade Dancer as your main soul and the Ranger and Bard souls for your off-souls. When these three souls are combined it gives you a ton of survivability along with damage. The ranger will give you a pet for a good source of extra DPS, and the bard gives you a 30 second heal over time which is great as it’s long enough to where you can just keep refreshing it every 30 seconds of combat.

Rift Rogue Builds Guide for group or team game play

For grouping it gets a little more complicated, you can go the route of the tank if you want to, this is using the Riftstalker soul as your main as mentioned earlier. You will be wanting Blade Dancer for the dodge buff as well as Assassin for the poison buff. When you have extra points you can’t put into Riftstalker put them into Blade Dancer for the increased dodge.

Second is the DPS, you’re able to go with the same build mentioned above for soloing with Blade Dancer as your main soul but you’ll want to switch out Assassin for the Bard off-soul, unless you want to hang on to it for some extra group healing. You’ll also want to tweak it a little bit from your soloing build to get rid of some of the damage reduction and such and replace it with more DPS oriented talents.

Another option to keep in mind is that Assassin is actually a pretty viable main soul build for DPSing in groups if you don’t like the Blade Dancer or just want to try switching it up from your soloing build if you’re getting bored of it.

Finally you’ve got the possible role of the off-healer. You’re going to need to use Bard as your main soul and pick up all of the talents that help with your buffing and healing. For your off-souls you’ll want to take Ranger and Saboteur, though they aren’t going to make too huge of a difference. Now it should be noted that you simply won’t have enough healing to be a main healer for groups in this build, so I would suggest not even going for it unless you really like healing and happened to pick the Rogue class instead of the Cleric class for some reason.

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