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

This is the one of my four Warrior Guides. Here are the other three:

Rift Warrior Souls guide

Rift Warrior leveling guide

Rift Warrior stats guide

Alright, let’s get started with the Rift Warrior builds guide

In this post, I will be discussing about Rift Warrior 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 Warrior souls, what they do, and which ones I suggest that you should use. Lets get started and look at some Rift Warrior builds.

Rift Warrior Builds Guide for Solo play

First lets look at Rift Warrior Builds for Solo game play and then group. As you may have guessed the Warrior class is one that will be used for either tanking or DPS and is not a viable healing class.

From the eight available warrior souls there are 3 tanking souls, 4 DPS, and another soul that would be considered a tank soul but is also used to sort of buff other players in a party instead of focusing mainly on tanking. Of the three tanking souls we have Paladin, Reaver, and Void Knight, all with different abilities used for tanking. As for DPS we have Beastmaster (which allows for you to have a pet) Paragon, Riftblade, and Champion. The tank/buff soul I referred to earlier is called the Warlord soul.

In rift you’re able to purchase up to 4 different roles, so it’s easy to have multiple Rift Warrior builds for multiple types of gameplay. If you’re going to be doing a lot of solo tasks like questing you’re going to want to select the souls Reaver, Beastmaster, and Riftblade. All of these focus on two-handed weapon abilities. The reason Reaver is so important for soloing is because it has several self-heal abilities. One of these being a talent that will heal you every time you kill a mob, which makes it great for kill quests.

You also may want to consider using the Paladin soul in combination with Reaver if you want to try doing a lot of AOE leveling as you would have a lot of healing as well as AOE damage. In any case, for soloing you will want to put as many points into Reaver as you can, but if you choose Beastmaster and Champion as your off-souls they have some fantastic first tier abilities you can put to use whenever you have points that you can’t spend in your main soul. Also there are 0pt abilities such as the ability to have a pet with Beastmaster and the Charge ability with Champion that make this such a great combination early on.

Rift Warrior Builds guide for group play

Now let’s look at Rift Warrior Builds guide for group or team play. As for playing in groups as damage you’re going to want to use the souls: Riftblade, Champion, and Beastmaster. You will want to make a choice between Beastmaster and Champion as for which soul you want to put the most of your points into, Champion offers great single target damage as well as good AOE for trash pulls, whereas Beastmaster offers some nice group buffs.

One thing to keep in mind as a warrior is that you should always have at least one of your roles using the Paladin soul, there is always going to be a time where you’re the only one alive and you need to use that resurrection spell and as long as you’re able to switch over to a role with Paladin it won’t be a problem.

Now for tanking in groups you’re going to want to use Reaver and Paladin and it doesn’t matter which soul you put your points into, both of them are going to be fine and it all matters on how you want to play your character. As for your third soul you’ll want to choose between Warlord for the 0pt debuffs, and Riftblade for the increased damage. I think this covers different kinds of Rift Warrior Builds for all the scenario.

Guides other than Rift Warrior Builds guide:

That’s all on my Rift Warrior Builds guide. If you want to learn more about individual Rift Warrior Souls, then check out my Rift Warrior Souls guide. For build guides for other classes check out:

Rift Mage builds

Rift Rogue builds

Rift Cleric builds

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