Level 70 Gear – CADRIFT

On this page you will find a quick guide and a detailed guide for gearing up once you hit level 70.
This guide focuses primarily on the Best in Slot PVE DPS gear, with some notes for Tank Gear and alternative gear for those who do not want to do raids/dungeons.
For PVP gear, there is a small guide here. You can also join the PVP discord, with oodles of info to help all PVPers.

Progressing your gear up to the best in slot standards is a good way to improve your character, however, all the best in slot gear will not help you if you are using a bad spec.
You can find links to the most commonly used Raid Specs here.

Best in Slot gear will take time to farm.
It will take a full years worth of world events to grab all the BiS items from them. Unless you are willing to spend credits to get them quicker.
It will take weeks/months of dailies to max out the notorieties you need.
It will take an average player a few weeks to get their eternal weapon up to the iRotP stage, and then 6 weeks at this stage to fully upgrade it.
If you want to be self-sufficient, it will take oodles of time to max your crafting skills and start crafting useful items.
It is best to make small targets for each day/week and then revise them as you complete stuff.
Take your time and have fun with the farm!

Quick Guide

Grab the Eternal Weapon quest from just outside Alittu and upgrade it!
Get your Planar Crafted Helm and Ranged Weapon and upgrade them.
Be sure to do the crafting weeklies on as many characters as possible and participate in CRIFTS.
Ensure you are crafting the Amenders you will need every day so you can upgrade your gear ASAP.
Farm Planarite using NMR – Buy Tenebrean Planar Attuners from Rift Store > Crafting > Reagents.
Work on your Utilla Resistence Notoriety and FARM INTEL. Buy your rings, Earrings, Neck and Trinket from the Utilla Quartermaster in VP.
Farm Celestial IA for Planar Defence Force notoriety – Use it to buy your focus to slot your new essences into.
Join a DRR run at least once a day to start looting your BIS essences.
Buy your synergy crystal from the Rift Store.
Complete as many weeklies as you can and choose Legion Datagrams as the reward if it is available.
Use you Legion Datagrams to buy Storm Cells from the shop or to fill out missing gear pieces (be aware that BIS pieces will only drop in the raid and will need upgrading with storm cells which also drop from the raid bosses)
As you start looting better Planar Fragments from dungeons and raids, upgrade them to at least level 9 (or until you get a bad stat).
You only need to buy VP gear (left side) if you do not plan to be running group content such as dungeons and raids. You can also use VP gear to fill out slots that just don’t drop for you, but you should prioritise INTEL spending on accessories and upgrades. Eventually non-raiders should fill out these slots with T2 quality gear bought with Legion Datagrams from the store.
Ensure you have the correct Runes and Dream Orbs on your gear.
Get 2000 HIT and sort your DPS/Heal/Tank spec then participate in as many TDEM as you can!
As a DPS you are aiming for a maximum of 8540 (37.60%) Crit Power from your gear for end tier raiding. Adding the feast will take you to 39% then with raid sigils you get 40.00% 9086cp in total. A lot of that CP will come from your essences, with the rest from your planar fragments. You should aim for full Overlord gear.
As a Tank you are aiming for a maximum of 8640 (12%) Guard for end tier raiding. A lot of that Guard will come from your essences, with the rest from your planar fragments. You will want to always choose the Endurance heavy options and aim for full Preserver gear.

Sources of BiS gear

Helmet – Planar Crafted – Upgrades to T2 quality – Add Dream Orb
Cape – T2 = From Fae Yule – T1 = From TDNM
Shoulder – Boss drops in Dungeons/Raids – Or buy from VP/Store – Add Rune
Chest – Boss drops in Dungeons/Raids – Or buy from VP/Store
Gloves – Boss drops in Dungeons/Raids – Or buy from VP/Store – Add Rune
Belt – Boss drops in Dungeons/Raids – Or buy from VP/Store – Add Dream Orb
Legs – Boss drops in Dungeons/Raids – Or buy from VP/Store – Add Rune
Feet – Boss drops in Dungeons/Raids – Or buy from VP/Store

Earring 1 – From Carnival of the Ascended or VP boxes
Earring 2 – From Carnival of the Ascended or VP boxes
Necklace – From VP boxes
Trinket – From VP Quartermaster
Ring 1 – From VP boxes
Ring 2 – From VP boxes
Synergy Crystal – Bought from Rift Store
Seal – From Summerfest or Queens Foci – Add Rune

Main Weapons – Eternal Weapon Questline – Add Rune
Ranged Weapon – Planar Crafted

Focus – Bought from Rift Store
Essences – Dropped from Raid Rifts in VP

Add Rune – Legs + Seal + Main Weapons – These runes are Crafted or can be looted randomly in the Challenge Dungeon.
Add Rune – Shoulder + Gloves – These runes can only be looted randomly in the Challenge Dungeon.
You will find the HIT stat only on certain gear pieces; Helm, chest, gloves, legs, neck and all weapons.
Players that do not raid can use the weekly quests available in VP and Alittu to farm Legion Datagrams that can eventually be used to buy T2 quality gear from the store.
Note: Store items should only be bought with currencies that you earn in game. There is NEVER any need to buy gear with credits (real money).
You can find guides for the Dungeons here. You may want to read them before you start your dungeon farming.

Detailed Guide

So.. You’ve hit level 70!
Congratulations!
There is a lot to cover so I’ve split the guide into sections..

Eternal Weapon
Planar Crafted Helm and Ranged Weapon
Planar Crafting Ingredients + CRIFTS
Buying Tenebrean Planar Attuners
VP Rings, Earrings, Neck and Trinket
Sources of Intel
Upgrading Gear
Focus and Essences
Synergy Crystal
Daily and Weekly Quests
Planar Fragments
Runes and Dream Orbs
Dungeons and Raids – Tiers of Gear
World Event Gear – Earrings, Seal, Necklace & Cape + Alternatives
Basic Consumables For Raids

Any low level gear you are still wearing from questing can be replaced with crafted gear, this is especially relevant for jewellery which doesn’t drop often. Craft the cheaper ‘Atramentium’ level gear rather than the ‘Ahnkite’ level as these items will be quickly replaced.

Eternal Weapon!

Your first job as a level 70 is to pick up the very first quest of the eternal weapon questline, go to Lessa Korin just outside of Alittu at /setwaypoint 4010 6194 . Complete the small quest chain until you loot your eternal weapon.
Your eternal weapon has an active upgrade path that will eventually upgrade your weapon all the way to Tier 2 Raid quality.
Making progress on this upgrade should be on your To-Do list every day, in fact you should aim to reach the dungeon stage as soon as possible (This is easily do-able within a week, your main bottle neck will be colossi bosses)
You can find a full guide to the Eternal Weapon Questline and Upgrade Path here.
However, before you start upgrading your Eternal Weapon, you should also try to get your planar crafted helm and ranged weapon sorted. This is because your crafted helm and ranged weapon also has an upgrade path that will see you all the way to Tier 2 quality and a lot of the early upgrade requirements are the same as those needed for the Eternal Weapon. Upgrading these 3 items at the same time will save you a lot of time as you wont have to go back and repeat objectives.

Special note for Warriors: Some of the best Warrior DPS specs will require you to dual wield (have two one handed weapons). Your Eternal Weapon will start off as just a Two Handed weapon, once you reach eternal quality you will then also receive a One Handed weapon and a shield (for tanking). Some warrior DPS specs perform better with two one-handed weapons, so you will need to use the Eternal One Handed weapon in your main hand and then pair it with the second best in slot weapon, this drops from the FIRST boss of Tartaric Depths NORMAL mode. You can also use a Planar Weapon, though the upgrade path on the planar weapon is much longer than the TDNM weapon, you will end up with better stats.

Eternal Armor: Eternal Quality armor can drop randomly from ANY level 70 mob. Including mobs in raids, Dungeons and open world. The drop rate is super low, like one in a million. It is very unlikely that you will ever see them drop. The Devs/CMs of Rift used to pop into game and turn into a giant killable boss, when you killed them, a random player would receive an Eternal Armor piece.
Eternal Armor only upgrades to T1 quality stats, so it’s not best in slot gear, you don’t need to worry about not getting them.
You can see a full list of this armor here.

Planar Weapons: If you do not raid or do dungeons then the Planar weapon is very much the best in slot weapon you will find for only open world content. Players that do raid will have a hard time justifying such a long farm when they can get equivalent weapons by raiding! But if you truly want the BIS of everything then for a Warrior and a Rogue the Planar weapon is best in slot when paired with an Eternal. You can find a full guide to the Planar Weapons here.

Planar Crafted Helm and Ranged Weapon

You can find a full guide to Level 70 Planar Crafting here.
The guide page explains Crafting Rifts, Celestial Matrix, Amenders, Planar Crafting, and the upgrading of your Helm and Weapon.

VP Rings, Earrings, Neck and Trinket

In Utilla East in Vostigar Peaks you will find the Uttila Resistance Quartermaster called ‘Nothim’
/setwaypoint 3966 3417

From here you will buy your Rings, Neck and Trinket. All these items are Tier 2 quality and currently best in slot.
You can also buy Earring boxes which will do until you are able to get the two BIS earrings from the yearly carnival event.

Buying these items will require a certain level of Uttila Resistance Notoriety and varying amounts of INTEL (currency).

Uttila Resistance Notoriety is earned by doing the Vostigar Peaks Storyline and Carnages and then the Daily and Weekly quests.
These Dailies and Weeklies are all picked up from Uttila East, you must have completely finished the VP questline and be level 70 to see them.

Trinket

There are a variety of trinkets to buy, each of them have different extras attached to them to make them better for different roles/specs.

The Omnox Trinket is the best in slot trinket for DPS.
Eye of Omnox is for Rogues, Primalists and Warriors.
Gaze of Omnox is for Mages and Clerics.
To use it effectively you will want to stay within 10 metres of the Boss you are fighting.

On fights where you cannot be within 10 metres of the boss you may find the Ranged Buff Trinket available from VP is better for you.
With current content, all bosses allow you to be within 10 metres.. In fact this will be encouraged by your raid leader, who will often tell the raid to ‘stack up on the boss!’.

The Berserker Trinket is the best in slot trinket for Tanking.
Heart of the Berserker is for Rogues, Primalists and Warriors.
Wrath of the Berserker is for Mages and Clerics.

The Daclaron Trinket is the best in slot trinket for Healing.
Horn of Daclaron is for Rogues, Primalists and Warriors.
Clarion of Daclaron is for Mages and Clerics.

Note: There is another Trinket from the Grim Awakening World Events which some players will insist is best in slot, especially on ranged fights, however the Grim Awakening World Events don’t run anymore, so new players will not be able to get hold of it.

Rings, Earrings and Neck

The VP Rings and Necklace all upgrade to Tier 2 quality best in slot items.
This gear has the usual raid sufix’s with different stat weights.
You may find yourself buying many boxes before you get the right sufix.

You can also buy Earring boxes which also upgrade to T2 quality and will do to wear until you are able to get the two BIS earrings from the yearly carnival event.

Armor Boxes

These boxes contain LFR or T1 quality gear. They are low priority, your INTEL will be much better spent on other things!
Players that do not raid may want to buy these boxes to fill out their gear slots, then they can use the weekly quests available in VP and Alittu to farm Legion Datagrams that can eventually be used to buy T2 quality gear from the store.
These boxes are also great for sending to your alts to give them a quick boost when they hit level 70, as long as you have spare INTEL of course!

Vostigar Aspirant’s gear costs 1000 intel each.

The pieces are equivalent to LFR quality gear.

This gear has the usual raid sufix’s with different stat weights. The upgrade paths are very easy and will increase the stats a small amount.

Vostigar Veteran’s gear costs 6000 intel each.

The pieces are equivalent to T1 quality gear once they are upgraded.

This gear has the usual raid sufix’s with different stat weights. The upgrade paths are easy and will increase the stats a small amount, and increase the HIT to 300

Sources of Intel

Your main source of Intel will be multiple runs of TDEM, each boss will grant you around 100 intel before bonuses. This makes each run worth at least 400 intel! With a good group a run can take as little as 10-12 minutes, thus making this the most intel per hour you can earn. Using IRC will not increase your Intel loot, so you don’t need to use IRC unless you are farming for engines too.

A secondary source of Intel is the zone events in the Celestial lands. Zone events in Vostigar Peaks will give you around 90 intel per event. Events in the other 4 zones will give you around 50 intel per event. You should complete as many zone events as you can, these can be perfect to tag quickly between dungeon runs and raids.

Your other most profitable source of intel is killing the VP Rares. These are the elite mobs that are marked on the map. Kill all that are up, then switch shard to find more. There are 36 different rares, with 4-5 up at any one time. Each rare will give you 10-15 intel, which may seem like a small amount, but when you kill them between zone events or while doing your dailies it all helps to add up. The VP rares also drop quite a lot of Plat. Each rare can be killed once a day for ‘free loot’ subsequent kills will require 1 IRC each, there isn’t much point farming them this way, better just to kill each one once than one of them multiple times.

Other sources of intel include..
Random dungeons – gives 50 intel each
VP dailies and weeklies – The VP dailies can be very quick or very time consuming, depending on which ones you get! Your time is better spent elsewhere after you have maxed the notoriety.
Bastion of Steel bosses – Each boss in the BoS raid gives 500 intel.

Upgrading Gear

A lot of the items that you loot during dungeons/raids and even open world will have an upgrade path that increases the stats of the item. anything below level 70 gear is not really worth the time/effort to upgrade, although you may want to check if the item gives a different skin (Wardrobe unlock) when it is upgraded, you can keep these items in your bank and upgrade them later when you have plenty of the low level currencies.
Level 70 dungeon gear will be quickly replaced with LFR and T1 gear, so there isnt much need to upgrade these drops, you will mostly just be upgrading T1 and T2 gear. (Or if you don’t plan to raid then upgrade the max gear for the content you want to do)
You can hold down [ALT] and left click the item to see the upgrade path.
Upgrade requirements are generally from 3 main categories.

Amenders

The various amenders are all crafted by different craft professions, the recipes are bought from the Rift store for crafting marks. Amenders can only be crafter once every 20 hours, so try to start stocking up on them before you need them!

Visionary Alchemical Amender – Crafted by Apothecary (Materials) – Does not upgrade.
Visionary Metal Amender – Crafted by Armorsmith (Materials) – Upgrades to Prophetic Metal Amender using 2x Tenebrean Planar Attuner.
Visionary Ornament Amender – Crafted by Artificer (Materials) – Upgrades to Prophetic Ornament Amender using 2x Tenebrean Planar Attuner.
Visionary Dream Amender – Crafted by Dream Weaver (Materials) – Does not upgrade.
Visionary Textile Amender – Crafted by Outfitter (Materials) – Upgrades to Prophetic Textile Amender using 2x Tenebrean Planar Attuner.
Visionary Rune Amender – Crafted by Runecrafter (Materials) – Does not upgrade.
Visionary Weapon Amender – Crafted by Weaponsmith (Materials) – Upgrades to Prophetic Weapon Amender using 2x Tenebrean Planar Attuner.

While the Amenders are ‘Visionary’ they are tradeable, so you can ask other players to craft them for you if you don’t have the recipes. The materials to craft the Amenders are not too difficult to farm, the Chondritic Planar Dust can be expensive to buy, so its best to farm this yourself by closing rifts/defeating planar baddies in the Celestial lands.
You have to upgrade a Visionary Amender to Prophetic yourself, once it upgrades to Prophetic it will become bound to account.
You will need 2x Tenebrean Planar Attuners to upgrade, these are bought directly from the Rift Store for 10k Planarite each, you can find these under Crafting > Reagents. (To find it easier, use the search in the top left, pop 99 of them on your wish list to find them easier later!)

Upgrade Parts

There are 3 main upgrade parts for level 70 gear.
These items are all stored in your bags so be careful with them!

Mark of Prophecy: Used to upgrade Dungeon quality gear.
You can buy Mark of Prophecy in the Rift Store under Equipment > Upgrade Parts.
They cost Tower Fragments, which is the currency that will drop when you run dungeons, it can also be earned from weeklies, PVP and various other sources. You will also get Mark of Prophecy from the daily rewards calendar.
Most dungeon gear will also have an active upgrade.
If you plan to raid then you should be running LFR asap which will replace your dungeon gear very quickly, so there should be no need to spend time/effort upgrading your dungeon gear.

Tenebrean Engine: Used to upgrade LFR and T1 quality gear.
Tenebrean Engine will drop randomly from the bosses in LFR and T1 Raids, they also drop from the mini bosses in the T1 raids. You can also buy a single Tenebrean Engine each week using Prize Tickets (not recommended! save your prize tickets for pretty things!).
The only way to ‘farm’ these is multiple runs of the LFR Raid: TDEM. You will need to spend Individual Reward Charges to get Tenebrean Engine as loot. Tenebrean Engines are a rare drop from TDEM.
Make sure you save your Tenebrean Engines for upgrading your VP Raid Rift Lesser Essences which will be best in slot rather than your T1 gear which will eventually be replaced.

Storm Cell: Used to upgrade T2 quality gear.
Storm Cells drop randomly from the T2 Raid bosses. You can also buy one per week from the Rift Store > Equipment > Upgrade Parts. You buy them with Legion Datagrams, the T2 Raid currency. You should spend your Legion Datagrams on Storm Cells rather than gear until you have a good stock.

Active Upgrades

Sometimes a quest, sometimes a specific boss that needs to die a certain amount of times, sometimes rift closing or invasion killing. Active upgrade requirements will be something you ‘do’ rather than an item to collect.
Some items (such as the Eternal Weapons) will allow you to ‘track progress’, creating a quest sticky that will allow you to see your progress when the box is ticked.

Focus and Essences

Focus

Your focus can be found in the Rift Store under Equipment > Focus
There are 3 different focuses here..
Focus of Vengeance for Rogue, Primalist and Warrior DPS
Focus of Domination for Mage and Cleric DPS
Focus of Protection for Tanking

You will need to be revered with Planar Defence Force to be able to buy it. Planar Defence Force notoriety is farmed in Celestial Instant Adventures, hopefully you will have done some of these while you were leveling. There is a weekly to pick up from Alittu to complete 30 of these instant adventures, make sure you pick it up!

To join the Celestial Instant Adventures, press [ . ] and click the join button. These Instant Adventures take place in the Celestial Zones or inside the plane of fire/life.
You will get bonus XP for the first 14 IA of the day, after that you can just keep farming them for the notoriety.
Try to do some every day and be sure to at least finish your weekly quest each week.

Essences

Your best in slot Essences are dropped by the Raid Rifts in Vostigar Peaks. You should aim for Crit Power essences if you are a DPS/Healer and Guard essences if you are a Tank.
There are many different stat weight distributions on the essences, some with slightly more main and off stat, others with more Crit Power, and all combinations in between!
Best in slot Lessers will have 556 CP and and 780 main stat once fully upgraded.
Best in slot Greaters will have 638 CP and 895 main stat once fully upgraded.
The tank essences with 375 guard are good, but you should focus on getting 780 endurance essences with tank stats (guard/block/dodge).
You do not ‘need’ to get all 6 essences best in slot, but you should at least aim for 6 ‘good’ essences with the correct stats.

Best in slot Essences for each class have certain Suffix’s..
Rogue/Primalist – DPS = Malevolent ~ Tank = Forwarned Prophecy
Cleric – DPS = Despair ~ Tank = Endless Anguish
Mage – DPS = Hindsight ~ Tank = Dusk
Warrior – DPS = Sunken Prophet ~ Tank = Cloudy Insight

Raid Rift lures are bought from the Uttila Resistence Quartermaster in Uttila East /setwaypoint 3966 3417
There is a Daily quest to close one of the 3 Raid Rifts, most groups will close all 3 different rifts and close the daily rift last.
There is a weekly quest to close all 3 of the Raid Rifts twice.
These quests are picked up from Uttila East at /setwaypoint 3989 3409
The first time you do each Raid Rift for the day you will get 2 free loot rolls, one on stage 3 and one on stage 5, you will have a chance to loot an essence. Subsequent Raid Rifts will cost IRC, so its best to do 1 set of all 3 each day.

Synergy Crystal

You will find your Synergy Crystal in the Rift Store under
equipment > accessories

For Mage and Cleric
Unwordly Crystal – For AOE DPS
Dominion Crystal – For single target DPS
Philosopher’s Crystal – For single target heals
Diviner’s Crystal – For AOE heals

For Rogue, Primalist and Warrior..
Martial Crystal – For single target DPS
Brutish Crystal – For AOE DPS
Salver’s Crystal – For single target heals
Medico’s Crystal – For AOE heals

For ALL Classes
Hero’s Crystal – For tanking

Be sure to buy the correct Crystal that matches each of your specs. You can use an add on like Roles to change your spec and gear quickly and easily!

Daily and Weekly Quests

There is a good selection of daily and weekly quests to pick up. Each of them offers slightly different currency rewards as well as notoriety towards the various factions.

You can find a full guide to the daily and weekly quests including pick up locations and rewards on this page.

You can also trade Sigil of Valor for notoriety in the Rift store. Open up the store and click ‘Boosts’ on the left side menu, then within this tab click ‘Notoriety’ on the left side menu. Here you will find a list of Notoriety Decrees which you can buy with your Sigils of Valor. You should do this daily, as you can only hold 5 Sigils at a time and only buy one decree for each Faction daily.

Zone Dailies - For Farming Notoriety

These dailies are useful for farming the various notoriety that they award. Once you have maxed out the notoriety there is no need to keep doing them, your time will be better spent farming INTEL. The only dailies you may want to keep doing are the portal quest dailies as these count towards a weekly picked up from Alittu.

Scatherran Forest for Felibocan Notoriety
Xarth Mire for Bailghol Notoriety
Gedlo Badlands for Saint Taranis Notoriety
Ashenfell for Thedeor’s Spear Notoriety
Vostigar Peaks for Uttila Resistence Notoriety
Find details about quest locations and rewards on this page.

Weekly Quests from Alittu

Most of the Quests in Alittu are found upstairs in the main building with the exception of the crafting quests which are in a side room off the plaza where the portal is. Each of these weeklies award 150 Legion Datagrams.

Breaking Through – A weekly to complete the Xarth Mire zone event ‘Cracking Xarth’s Skull’ 4 times.
Through Hell and Back Again – A weekly to Complete the Tartaric Depths Raid on LFR difficulty.
Celestial Tales – A weekly to complete 16 of the daily instanced quests found in the celestial zones.
Planar Assault – A weekly to complete 30 celestial instant adventures.

Find details about quest locations and rewards on this page.

PVP Quests from Alittu

From the PVP questgiver at /setwaypoint 4184 6446 (upstairs)

The Starfallen – A daily to kill 100 enemies while in warfronts. This daily awards 100 Tower Fragments.
To the Victor – A daily to win 3 warfronts. This daily awards 100 Tower Fragments.
Descended – A weekly to complete the daily quest ‘The Starfallen’ 5 times. This weekly awards 150 Legion Datagrams.
Victorious – A weekly to complete the daily quest ‘To the Victor’ 5 times. This weekly awards 150 Legion Datagrams.

Quests from Vostigar Peaks

In Uttila East in Vostigar Peaks you will find the most important dailies/weeklies. These quests will give you INTEL and Uttila Resistence Notoriety. You can only pick up these quests after you have finished the Vostigar Peaks questline.
You will find the Daily + Weekly questgiver in Uttila East – /setwaypoint 3988 3408

Hinder Ahnket: *various locations* – A daily to complete the 5 quests that have been chosen for the day. When you have picked up this quest you will be given a yellow dot marker on your map, go to that marker to pick up the 5 daily quests, when you complete those 5 dailies the Hinder quest will complete. There are 6 different ‘sets’ of quests that change most days to give you variety. This daily awards 30 Captured Intel.
Enemy of My Enemy is… – A weekly to complete the daily ‘Hinder’ quest 5 times. This weekly awards 150 Legion Datagrams and 200 Captured Intel.

Closing the Tear: *named raid rift* – A daily to close one of the 3 available raid rifts in VP. A raid rift group will usually close all 3 of the rifts anyway to maximise loot chances. This daily awards 30 Captured Intel.
Defender of Vostigar – A weekly to close each of the raid rifts twice. This weekly awards 150 Legion Datagrams and 200 Captured Intel.

Planar Fragments

Planar Fragments are dropped from pretty much all of the 65-70 content.
Click here to go to the Ghar Stations very awesome Planar Fragment guide.
If you really like number crunching then there is a database of fragment stats here.
As you work your way to higher level group content, the fragments you loot should gradually get better and better.
You will find yourself getting lucky drops every so often with an epic (purple) or relic (orange) fragment with the correct stats for your class/role. These ‘perfect’ fragments should be upgraded to level 15 as soon as possible. So by the time you enter T1 and T2 raids you should have at least half your fragments with level 15 good stats and the other half at level 3-9 with not so great but still acceptable stats.
Your end goal is of course to get all your fragments to level 15 with good stats on all of them. This is a LONG TERM commitment!
You can also buy boxes of Planar Fragments from the quartermasters in Alittu or from the Rift Store > Equipment > Planar Fragments. These boxes contain a random Planar Fragment. There is a guide to the content of these boxes here.

Note: There are 11 Fragment slots currently open. There are 8 ‘locked’ slots on the right hand side, these may be opened up to give us more stat slots for future content. There is no way to open them up at the moment.
Note: You can upgrade a fragment while it is in your fragment inventory, then you can see if it is better than the one you want to replace.

These two spreadsheets show the Best fragments for each class. The information is the same on both sheets, they are just laid out slightly differently , choose the one that you find easier to read!

You can see here how the different Tiers determine different amounts of the same stat (crit power) at infusion level 15.

Runes and Dream Orbs

Crafted Runes are added to your Legs, Seal, and Main/Off-hand Weapons (Not your ranged weapon).
You can also loot runes in the EoA dungeon for your Shoulder and Gloves.
Dream Orbs are for your helm and belt.

There are many low level runes available for other item slots, but you will not be able to attach these to your high level gear.

Crafted Runes

The crafted runes are just below best in slot. They are easy to acquire and decent enough to clear T2 content.
Most people will stick to just the crafted runes, you do not need to farm the EoA runes!
While you are replacing your gear every few days you will want to stick to the less expensive ‘Visionary runes’. Once you have T1 or T2 quality, make sure you put the Prophetic runes on them.. these are listed below.

Physical Class = Rogue, Warrior and Primalist.
Magical Class = Cleric and Mage
All Classes = Used by everyone

For Players using Two One-Handed Weapons
Prophetic Starfall Weapon-runeshard – All Classes – Weapon Rune For Main Hand – All Roles – Gives proc
Prophetic Rage Weapon-runeshard – Physical Class – Weapon Rune For Off Hand – DPS/Heal – Gives +345 AP
Prophetic Recondite Weapon-runeshard – Magical Class – Weapon Rune For Off Hand – DPS/Heal – Gives +345 SP

For Players using a Two-Handed Weapon
Prophetic Starcrash Weapon-rune – Physical Class – 2 Handed Weapon Rune – All Roles – Gives proc + Stats
Prophetic Starstrike Weapon-rune – Magical Class – 2 handed Weapon Rune – All Roles – Gives proc + Stats

For Seal
Prophetic Aegis Rune – All Classes – Tank – Gives 332 dodge and 532 guard
Prophetic Imperium Rune – Physical Class – DPS/Heal – Gives 283 AP and 265 PC
Prophetic Ingenuity Rune – Magical Class – DPS/Heal – Gives 283 SP and 265 SCH
Prophetic Shattering Rune – All Classes – DPS/Heal – Gives 384 CP
The Prophetic Shattering Rune is likely to be best in slot for you.

For Legs
Prophetic Dominating Rune – Mage – DPS/Heal – Gives 510 Int and 319 End
Prophetic Stalwart Rune – Warrior – DPS/Heal – Gives 510 Str and 319 End
Prophetic Unblurring Rune – Cleric – DPS/Heal – Gives 510 Wis and 319 End
Prophetic Wrathful Rune – Rogue/Primalist – DPS/Heal – Gives 510 Dex and 319 End

Challenge Dungeon Runes

The gear from Enclave of Ahnket drops with Runes attached to it. You should remove those Runes using a Rune Unsocketing Apparatus (you get one free on the second day of each month). These Runes are Best in Slot and should be saved til you have Best in Slot gear to put them on! DO NOT upgrade the Enclave gear with a rune still attached to it as you will lose the rune.
Enclave of Ahnket is the only place to get Shoulder and Glove runes from, there are no crafted versions of these. The other runes are a very small upgrade from the crafted runes and you shouldn’t worry if you can’t get them, the drop rate is very small!

Legs + Shoulders – Integrated Growth Rune – Wisdom +612 ~ Endurance +383 – Cleric
Legs + Shoulders – Integrated Finesse Rune – Dexterity +612 ~ Endurance +383 – Rogue/Primalist
Legs + Shoulders – Integrated Intensity Rune – Intelligence +612 ~ Endurance +383 – Mage
Legs + Shoulders – Integrated Empowering Rune – Strength +612 ~ Endurance +383 – Warrior

Seal + Gloves – Integrated Shielding Rune – Dodge +398 ~ Guard +638 – Any Class Tank
Seal + Two Handed + One Hand – Integrated Cataclysm Rune – Crit Power +460 – Any Class DPS/Heal

Two Handed + One Hand – Integrated Destruction Rune – Spell Power +414 – Magic Class DPS/Heal
One Hand + Off Hand – Integrated Onslaught Rune – Attack Power +414 – Physical Class DPS/Heal

Two Handed – Integrated Assault Rune – Attack Power +414 ~ Tenebrean Equation Proc – Physical Class DPS/Heal/Tank
Two Handed – Integrated Elimination Rune – Spell Power +414 ~ Tenebrean Equation Proc – Magical Class DPS/Heal/Tank

The Tenebrean Equation Proc is the same Proc given by the crafted Rune. A player with two one handed weapons should use the crafted Proc rune on their off hand and the Challenge Dungeon rune on their main hand.
A tank will need to use the Proc rune on their main weapon and a stat rune on the shield.

Dream Orbs

Dream Orbs are crafted by Dreamweavers. Each craft awards 4 dream orbs, so they are quite cheap to make.
When Dream Orbs are applied the stats that are generated are random, this means it may take you a few tries before you get the stats you want.

While you are still upgrading your helm you may want to just pop a dream orb on and go with whatever stats it gives you on the first try. But once you have your helm at T1/T2 quality then you will want to try to get those better stats. The best stats are..
(T1) Blazing Chondritic *helmet name* = 770 Main Stat + 464 End
(T2) Celestial Chondritic *helmet name* = 854 Main Stat + 464 End

For the Belts, its the same process.. just stick anything on it when you are replacing it a lot.. then when you hit T1 or T2 quality, try to get the best in slot stats..
(T1) Cinderhide Belt of the *suffix* – Upgraded IROTP belt
= 585 Main Stat + 318 End
(T2) Thunderhide Belt of the *suffix* – Upgraded BoS belt
= 721 Main Stat + 391 End

Dungeons and Raids - Tiers of Gear

As you progress through the different content the gear that you loot will improve.
When you have looted enough gear from one Tier of content then you will have the stats and HIT to participate in the next Tier of content.
You will find the HIT stat only on certain gear pieces; Helm, chest, gloves, legs, neck and all weapons.
Trying to do higher Tier content without the correct level of HIT will severely lower your DPS.

Gear is important, but the Spec you play and how well you play it is also very important! Even the best geared player wont get decent DPS if they are playing the wrong spec. Use a DPS meter to check your DPS. Watch other people playing too, if you see another player of the same class and gear level with much higher DPS then ask them which spec they are using! You can find info about specs on the Raid Specs guide page.
If you are tanking or healing then the same applies, a tank needs to have decent enough gear to be able to survive being hit by the boss along with enough knowledge of their spec to keep agro! A healer needs to have intimate knowledge of all those spells and abilities that will save the lives of their fellow players.

Hint for NA players: You may notice 70 chat is very quiet! On EU, 70 chat is used for most PUG group forming, but on NA there is a separate player created channel for this. Type ‘/join crossevents’ this puts you in the right channel to find all your PUG groups.

You can find hints and tips for joining dungeon groups on the Dungeons guide page.

World/Quest Gear

The best quest gear in the game at the moment is from the Vostigar Peaks questline. This quest gear will give you enough stats to get into dungeons or TDEM when you add it to the first stage Eternal Weapon and your crafted helm and ranged weapon.
You can also buy world gear from the Rift store using Celestial Remnants, though there really is no need to! Its best to save that currency for other things.
World/Quest gear has 250 HIT

Expert Dungeon Gear

Once you have 2000 HIT you can join Expert Dungeons. These dungeons are instanced content made for a group of 5 players. Dungeon gear has better stats than the World/Quest gear.
Dungeons will ‘require’ around 250-400k DPS.
When you run Expert Dungeons you will earn Tower Fragments, you should save these to buy planar fragment boxes from the store.
Some of the Dungeon Gear has ‘Active Upgrades’. Each gear piece has a different requirement to complete before you can upgrade it. ALT+Click the gear piece to see what the requirement is.
Expert Dungeon gear has 250 HIT

As long as your DPS is high enough you can pretty much skip the dungeon phase and go straight into TDEM runs, be aware though that you will need to run 25 dungeons during your eternal weapon upgrade path.

You can find a guide for every dungeon in Rift here.

LFR Gear

LFR also requires 2000 HIT to join. LFR Gear has better stats than Dungeon gear.
The LFR Raid is called Tartaric Depths. It is an easier version of the T1 Raid with the same name. The raid is instanced content for a group of 10 players.
It is often described in chat as TDEZ, TDEM or just LFR.
TDEM will ‘require’ around 300-500k DPS
Most LFR Raid Groups are formed using the public chat channels, very few players use the actual LFR queuing system.
You will earn small amounts of Ethereal Shards, which you can use to buy missing gear pieces from the store, or save towards T1 gear pieces.
You will also loot Tenebrean Engines which are used to upgrade gear, you should save these for the T1 gear.
However most people are farming TDEM for the INTEL (currency) that drops from each boss.
The gear that drops has 275 HIT

Challenge Dungeon Gear

The Challenge Dungeon system has only one dungeon (Enclave of Ahnket) in the queue. The dungeon is instanced content made for a group of 5 players.
Upgraded Challenge Dungeon gear has better stats than TDEM gear.
Challenge Dungeons will ‘require’ around 400-600k DPS.
The Gear has ‘Active Upgrades’. Each gear piece has a different requirement to complete before you can upgrade it. ALT+Click the gear piece to see what the requirement is.
Challenge Dungeon gear has 275 HIT

The gear from Enclave of Ahnket drops with Runes attached to it. You can see a list of these runes on the Enclave of Ahnket guide.
You should remove those Runes using a Rune Unsocketing Apparatus (you get one free on the second day of each month). These Runes are Best in Slot and should be saved til you have Best in Slot gear to put them on! DO NOT upgrade the Enclave gear with a rune still attached to it as you will lose the rune.

T1 Raid Gear

Tier 1 Raids require 2200 HIT.
There are 2 Tier 1 raids, TDNM (Tartaric Depths Normal Mode) and IROTP (Intrepid Rise of the Phoenix). The raids are instanced content for groups of 10 players.
IROTP is considered to be the much easier raid of the two, with PUG groups easily completing it. You will want at least 500k DPS.
TDNM is considered to be a form of torture and is avoided at all costs. You will want at least 650k DPS.
You will earn large amounts of Ethereal Shards which you can use to buy the T1 gear from the store to fill out your gaps.
You will also loot Tenebrean Engines which are used to upgrade gear.
T1 gear has 300 HIT

T2 Raid Gear

Tier 2 raids require 2400 HIT.
The T2 Raid is called Bastion of Steel. The raid is instanced content for a group of 10 players.
This is currently the top Tier Raid, the DPS requirement will vary depending on your guild, but most PUGs will ask for around 1million DPS.
The bosses drop various gear items as well as Storm Cells which are used to upgrade the gear.
You will earn Legion Datagrams which you can use to buy missing gear from the store.
T2 gear has 325 HIT

You can find a full guide to the Bastion of Steel raid here.

What Gear Drops From Each Boss?

LFR/TDEM Tartaric Depths – Drops Earth and Water Fragments.

First Boss – Beligosh – Cape, Shoulders, Ring and Offhand Weapon.
Second Boss – Tarjulia – Feet, Gloves, Earring, Two Handed Weapon and One Handed Weapon.
Third Boss – Council of Fate – Legs, Helmet, Ring and Belt.
Fourth Boss – Malannon – Neck, Chest, Earring, Trinket and Ranged Weapon.

T1 Tartaric Depths – Drops tier 1-4 Earth and Water Fragments

Mini-Bosses – Rings and Earrings.
First Boss – Beligosh – Cape and Offhand Weapon.
Second Boss – Tarjulia – Feet and Rogue One Hand.
Third Boss – Council of Fate – Shoulders and Mage One Hand.
Fourth Boss – Malannon – Neck and Legs.

T1 Intrepid Rise of the Phoenix – Drops Fire and Life Fragments

Mini-Bosses – Rings and Earrings.
First Boss – Ereandorn – Belts.
Second Boss – Beruhast – Gloves.
Third Boss – Silgen – Trinkets.
Fourth Boss – Arakhurn – Chest.

T2 Bastion of Steel – Drops Air Fragments.

First Boss – Azranel – Gloves and Shoulders.
Second Boss – Isiel – Legs and Feet.
Third Boss – Titan X – Chest and Belt.

Gear Suffixes

Raid gear all has a Suffix (thats the words at the end of the name of the gear item). The suffix will tell you how the stats are weighed out across the item, the stats are your classes main stat, off stat and endurance. Items with highest main stat are best for Dps, while items with more endurance are good for tanking, the suffixes tell you where in the scale your item falls..

TANK << Preserver < Hero < Vindicator > Conqueror > Overlord >> DPS

So a main tank will want to try to find as many gear pieces as possible with a Preserver suffix, whereas a DPS will want pieces with an Overlord suffix. As you start collecting gear you will have a wide range of all the different suffixes, then you will start to replace them with suffixes that lean more towards your desired role.
A player that plays both tank and DPS roles will unfortunately still need to be collecting 2 sets of gear, along with 2 complete sets of fragments with one set with DPS stats and the other with tank stats.

Content Lock Outs

Dungeons can be queued for specifically once a day, after that you will need to hit the random button (probably best just to stick to random queuing anyways as your queue will pop faster) – You can kill each dungeon boss once a day for free loot, on all subsequent kills you will need to spend IRC to get loot from that boss -You should NOT do that! Dungeon gear is lovely stuff, but no where near as lovely as TDEM gear. Save your IRC for in there!

TDEM can be run again and again and again and again and should be! TDEM drops gear on your first 2 runs of the week, after that you will need to spend IRC to get loot. After you have all the loot you need from TDEM… Keep running it! This is because you are farming TDEM for INTEL… INTEL will drop even if you don’t spend IRC, so you can keep farming it even if you have run out! Some groups will do a full 2 hour run of repeating TDEM (generally around 10 runs in a row), this is so you can get the most out of a currency vial which lasts for 2 hours and will increase your INTEL loot.

Tier 1 Raids both have 3 mini-bosses, these mini-bosses drop T1 quality earrings and rings. Just killing the mini-bosses will not lock you, you can kill them many times a week, each kill after the first will cost you IRC, these were farmed quite heavily on release but the best source of rings/earrings has now changed to the VP boxes so no-one really farms them anymore. So most groups now will just go in to kill the proper bosses of these raids and may kill the mini-bosses as well. Once you have a killed a boss you will be locked to the instance and can complete one run a week.

Tier 2 Raids can be run once a week per character. There is a normal instance lock and no mini-bosses.

World Event Gear

There are a few items of gear where you will find the best in slot item comes from a world event.
There are 4 world events throughout the year.
Each of them gives a different best in slot item.
Carnival of the Ascended – Earring
Summerfest – Seal
Autumn Harvest – Necklace
Fae Yule – Cape

You can use the trick to the right to find missing items in the store, or check the list below for the next best items til the event come along again.

If you missed a world event item, ask your friends (or in general chat) if they have an un-upgraded version of the item, if they equip the item you can inspect them (right click char portrait and select inspect) and do a ‘Rift Store Lookup’ on the item, you should change the key binding for this in your keybindings (The default is CTRL+F this often doesn’t work for most people). Hold Ctrl+N and left click the item to bring that section of the event store up so you can buy the item with event currency or with credits.

Carnival of the Ascended

The 2020 Prismatic Parade Earring (Upgrades to Prismatic Planar Earring) coupled with a 2019 Parade Earring (upgrade to Esteemed) are the Best in Slot pair.
If you missed the Carnival event then 2 VP earrings will work til the next one comes!

Summerfest

Gives the best in slot Seal.
If you missed Summerfest then you will need to farm for the Seal from Queens Foci. Queens Foci is a single boss in an instance with an expert level difficulty. It is very very easy to do.
It used to only be open after a successful run of the Xarth Mire event ‘Cracking Xarth’s Skull’ but it is now available to run all the time.

You will find the Special Mages of Alittu Quartermaster in Xarth Mire near the Camp Quagmire portal at /setwaypoint 4788 4530
From here you can the Seal and the Upgrade Component.
These are bought with Fortress Tokens. Fortress tokens are earned by…
Completing a Cracking Xarth’s Skull zone event – 1 per event
Queens Foci boss kill – 1 per event (costs 5 IRC after the first kill each week)
Completing the Queens Foci weekly ‘Clear the Forest – 5 tokens – This weekly is picked up from the NPC right next to the quartermaster in Camp Quagmire.

Autumn Harvest

Gives a necklace. Although this one isnt really best in slot, the VP necklace is better, but only when it is upgraded. The VP necklace costs a Storm Cell to upgrade, so you may be better off wearing the Autumn Harvest Neck til you have a stormcell spare to upgrade the VP neck.

Fae Yule

Gives the best in slot Cape.
If you missed Fae Yule then you next best cape will be the T1 cape that drops form the first boss in TDNM.
There is also a sparkle quest from Fae Yule that awards a random piece of T2 gear. Info here.

Consumables For Raids

When Participating in Raids you should at least bring along your own raid consumables.

Weaponstones

Weaponstones are added to your weapons as an extra buff that lasts for 4 hours.

Physical Class – DPS/Heal – One Handed Weapon – Atramentium Whetstone
Made by Weaponsmith – Increases Attack Power by 1000 For 4 hours
Physical Class – DPS/Heal – Two Handed Weapon – Atramentium Oilstone
Made by Weaponsmith – Increases Attack Power by 2000 For 4 hours

Magical Class – DPS/Heal – One and Two Handed Weapons – Faetouched Powerstone
Made by Artificer- Increases Spell Power by 2000 For 4 hours

Vials

Vials are consumed to give you extra stats for an hour. Be sure to reapply them during your raid when they run out.

Physical Class – DPS/Heal – Prophetic Powersurge Vial
Increases Strenth and Dexterity by 1400 for 1 hour

Magical Class – DPS/Heal – Prophetic Brightsurge Vial
Increases Intelligence and Wisdom by 1400 for 1 hour

All Classes – Tank – Prophetic Enduring Vial
Increases Endurance by 1400 for 1 hour

Feast

The Feast is placed on the ground for everyone to eat. The buff from the feast lasts 40 minutes. Be sure to eat another feast before the buff wears off

All Classes – All Roles – Gedlo Curry Pot
Increases either Spell Power or Attack Power by 900, Crit Power by 300 and Max Health by 11,000

Insoles

Staying out the bad is much easier with extra speed.

All Classes – All Roles – Tuath’de Insoles
Increases runspeed by 10% for 4 hours

Reliquary

A Reliquary is an item that you keep in your bags and use on cooldown (every 3 minutes) to buff you while you play.
It is not consumed, so you only need one! An easy way to use it is to pop it into your main spam macro using the command,
use Reliquary of Rage
Replace the word rage with your reliquary name as needed. A more seasoned player may take it out of the macro and use it manually during a cooldown block instead.
The Reliquary is crafted by Apothecarys, the recipe is bought from the vendor in Alittu at /setwaypoint 4032 6360, once bought the recipe will be found in your recipe book under the ‘Planar Crafting’ section.
A Reliquary will become soulbound the first time is it used, so be sure to trade it quickly after crafting!

Physical Class – DPS/Heal
Reliquary of Rage
Increases Physical Critical Hit chance by 6000 for 15 seconds and heals 64000 health.

Magical Class – DPS/Heal
Reliquary of Ingenuity
Increases Magical Critical Hit chance by 6000 for 15 seconds and heals 64000 health.

All Classes – Tank
Reliquary of Domination
Absorbs up to 32000 Physical damage for up to 30 seconds. Increases healing received by 20% for 15s.

Combat Sigils

Combat Sigils are buffs for the whole raid provided by the guild perk system.

The raid leader will usually provide the Combat Sigils. Most people call them ‘Combat Banners’ as this is what they have been called in every previous expansion!

Combat Sigils can be bought in the Rift Store under Services > Guild. A bundle of 20 Sigils costs 100 plat, most guilds will cover the cost of this for their guild raid groups, allocating a specific guild member to buy them and use them during the raid.

Combat Sigils are placed by using the abilities found in your ability book under Guild Perks. You can only use two Sigils at one time, placing more will make them overwrite each other. Most groups will use Sigil of Concentration and Sigil of Rage.

With the correct guild perks spent, each Sigil will last for 9 minutes, this is long enough to last for an entire boss fight. However this does mean that you will need to lay down new Sigils for every pull, be sure to delegate only one player in your group to do this or they will be wasted.

Saving and Changing Gear Sets

Due to different stats on different items of gear you may find yourself having to switch certain items to match your role, for instance; you will want preserver suffix gear for tanking, overlord suffix gear for DPS, a trinket with a heal proc while healing, different planar fragment sets and a different focus with a specific set of essences in!
Having to change over all this gear when you change roles can be a huge headache. Thankfully you can save and load up different gear sets to allow you to change all of your gear at once!

Saving and loading gear sets is done using 2 main slash commands, this is not a perfect system and it would be lovely if it was properly expanded and given its own UI, but alas it is what we have.

The 2 main commands are..

/saveequip #
/loadequip #

The number # can be any number from 1-20, so you can save up to 20 different equipment sets. For instance; you may want ‘/loadequip 1’ to load you DPS set, while ‘/loadequip 2’ loads your tank set and ‘/loadequip 3’ loads your healing set.

Using the ‘/saveequip #’ command will take a snapshot of the gear your character is currently wearing, you can then change some of the gear, (for instance, swapping out DPS gear for Tank) and then ‘/saveequip #’ again with a different number.
Use ‘/loadequip #’ to then equip the set.

Each time you get a new piece of gear to replace an old piece, remember to save it to the set you want it in. This is where this system really isn’t great and you can very easily type the wrong number and end up overwritting the wrong set, meaning you then have to create them again.
It is a good idea to make a note somewhere (a text file on your PC, or use a spare macro slot to make notes) of which number is attributed to each gear set.

Your equipment sets may be completely different or may have only one small item change, usually a trinket with a different proc. Proper management of your equipment sets will save you a lot of time long term!

The Roles add on is recommended to help you with automatically changing gear sets when you change your role.

Planar Fragments

The saveequip+loadequip will save and load ALL your gear, including your currently selected Planar Fragment set. If you want to change your Planar Fragment set independently then you can use the command..

/loadplanarfragmentset #

Your sets are already saved in the Planar Fragment UI, so you only need to command to load them.