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One of the most enticing facets of Rift Planes of Telara is the innovative Soul system used to help players ascertain their abilities in their class. The system mainly works like this. You begin the game by deciding upon a Calling - instantly after you begin playing, you will obtain your first Soul, a specialization within the Calling that supplies you with certain kinds of abilities. For instance, if you choose the Mage Calling, you will have the ability to choose from possibilities like Warlock, Pyromancer and Necromancer. Each form of Soul provides distinct bonuses to your character, allowing you to deal different types of damage, and in some cases supply healing or support abilities.
The Callings: There are four callings in Rift - Warrior, Mage, Cleric, and Rogue. Each fits a particular generalized role including tanking, DPS, healing and support. The bulk of the roles are associated with damage dealing in some style or another, but there are a lot of different combinations that will permit characters to heal themselves or others and to conduct crowd control.
Choosing Your Souls: In the course of the game you'll have the ability to unlock various souls in the game - each of them linking specifically with two other souls. At any given time, you could have three souls active on your character. Each soul will link up with specific abilities that then unlock abilities in your Soul's tree and root system. Those abilities will go with each other across all souls, permitting you to perform a range of actions based on what you want to do in the game. In addition, Rift enables you to obtain extra Soul tree slots. By doing this, you can generate up to four various layouts for soul trees. This means, if you unlock all the souls for your Calling (of which there are more than a 12), you can produce four different combos of souls, allowing you to change your gameplay dependent on the end-game content you are playing - PvP, raiding, or solo questing.
Making Your Decisions Count: The thing about the soul system is that you will just about never be in a position to decide just right. With thousands of possible combinations, hundreds of hybrids you can create, and countless more styles of play that will change depending on the decisions you make, it's not possible to get it just right. But, with practice and a keen eye, you can start tweaking your character to play as you need them to in the style you enjoy.
