Crafting ProfessionsĬrafting professions for the most part use materials which you gather with gathering professions and turn them into something useful, such as equipment, weapons or consumable potions. Alternatively you can sell these materials on the auction house if you don’t need them and make a decent amount of platinum. Butchering collects hides and leather from various monsters, foraging is used to collect plants, herbs and wood, and mining for collecting ore.Įach of these three professions gathers materials which are used for crafting professions.
There’s a total of three gathering professions in Rift, and they are butchering, foraging and mining. This guide will explain to you the basic difference in various professions and give you recommendations on which ones are best suited for what callings. They are divided into two main groups: gathering and crafting. In Rift: Planes of Telara, a game I’ve been recently playing there are 9 different professions your characters can learn.