Rifter's Defiant Level Guide Chapter I (1-6)

Welcome to The Life Factory!

The first 6 levels help you get all 3 Souls, (talent trees) and teach you the fundamentals of the game.

By simply following this guide you wont waste hours looking for quest objectives and wandering around aimlessly. But by all means explore to your hearts content! :)

Simple Rules 

• Spend your Soul points in DPS talents throughout this guide at each level up.
• Ensure you learn your next level talents at your Class Trainer.
• Sell Junk at any Vendor you see.
• Keep an eye out for books and artifacts in buildings or laying on the ground.
• Take all quests in order they are mentioned as some quests wont be available until you hand in a particular quest to unlock it.
• Try to participate in at least 2-3 Rifts per level to help break up the questing and gain a little extra exp and planarite.
• Enjoy the scenery & have fun!

Color Code

•  Quests
•  NPC's
•  Objectives
•  Locations
•  Notes

Starting Area: Part 1: The Life Factory

• (1) Welcome to the Life Factory! 
• Accept Born Again from the Resurrection Forge Technician in front of you.
• Head up the stairs and turn right then turn in your quest at Sylver Valis, this is where you select your first Soul (Talent Tree).
• Take the quest Ascended of the Highest Quality and head back out the door you just came in and turn right and follow the hallway to the next room. Run to the other end through a gap in the right corner of the room and out the door.
• Turn in your quest to Dacia Ultan and accept Trial of Ascension.
• (2) Head out and kill Telaran Husks x6 (or like i always do, until i level up).
• Return to Dacia Ultan and turn in your quest.. accept the followup Our Last Stand. You should have leveled up! Spend your points in a manner to increase your DPS.
• (3) Run into The Caul and click on 5x Defense consoles. There are 2 on the left and two on the right as you run through the area. The last one is before you leave The Caul on your way to Koke's Hold. 
• (4) At Koke's Hold turn in your quest to Koke Teglis and accept Thorn in My Side.
• Talk to Vexa Ix'thla and accept Gathering Power.
• (5) Head into Regent's Fall and kill 3x Endless Dominators and 5x Spectral Harvesters (You'll get your Scourgestone Ore from the Harvesters and from laying about on the ground.)
• Head down the hill to LastLight.

Starting Area Part 2: Last light

• (1) Turn in Gathering Power to Kain Sunsworn and accept Paving the Way.

• Talk to Asha Catari and turn in your quest Thorn in My Side and select your second Soul. Then accept Flipping the Switch.
• Talk to Kaspar Massi and accept War Effort. (this may be different depending on class.. I'll update this as I find out.)
• (2) Head North East to kill 6x Hulking Phantasms and enter the cave. The Temporal Flux is at the back of the (3) cave.. click it and then head out.
• Head back to LastLight and turn in War Effort to Kaspar Massi.
• Talk to Kain Sunsworn and turn in Paving the Way.
• Talk to Asha Catari and turn in Flipping the Switch and accept Turning the Knob.
• Talk to Ignacia Bulwart and accept Walking the Dogma.
• Sell your junk.
• (4) Head down the path and to the left (do not go over the bridge yet), and kill 2x Guardian Sergeants and 6x Guardian Zealots on your way to the Control Console in the middle of Clods Hollow.
• Click on the Resonance Capacitor in your bag (or on your quest tracker on the screen) and prepare to fight and kill Fredrick the Betrayer.
• Once completed all the above head back to LastLight.
• Talk to Ignacia Bulwart and turn in Walking The Dogma.
• Talk to Asha Catari and turn in Turning the Knob and accept A Matter of Training.
• (5) Head back down the road and this time across the bridge to Tempest Station.

Starting area Part 3: Tempest Station

• (1) Talk to your Class (Calling) Trainer and turn in A Matter of Training. Then train your skills.
• Talk to Faceless Man and accept Reduce, Recycle, Reeducate.
• In the middle of Tempest Station talk to Raj Tahleed and accept Fully Armed and Operational.
• (2) Head North East to Castium Hiberna and go to the Automata Inflecta (Right side back after coming up the stairs). Click the Emergency Aquafier in your back pack to put out the fires (3 times) and then click  the Inflecta to start it up.  (Note you can complete this quest if others complete this quest and you are in close proximity to the Inflecta.) 
• (3) Head North West across the central yard to a lower area where Shyla the Falen is. You'll need to run up to her to start to sequence. You'll fight her till shes about 50% then you need to kill 3-4 adds that come out (Shyla cant be hit during this). Once the adds are down just finish off Shyla and click the Soul Reclamation Device to complete the quest. (if your lucky, Shyla is already dead and you can just run to her and click the Soul Reclamation Device to complete the quest).
• Head directly south back to Tempest Station.
• Turn in Fully Armed and Operational to Raj Tahleed.
• Ensure you spend your Soul Points in your talent trees.
• Talk to Faceless Man and turn in Reduce, Recycle, Reeducate and accept This Might Hurt a Little.
• Just to the left click one of the Soul Rebuilders and prepare to fight and kill the Sundered Soul.
• Return to Faceless Man and turn in your quest and select your 3rd Soul. Accept Applied Theory.
• Talk to Raj Tahleed and accept You Reap What You Sow.
• (4) Head North East to Castium Hiberna again and kill 8x Risen Telarans and 3x Soul Callers (purple light marks them) to get 3x Anima Essences.
• Head back to Tempest Station, talk to Faceless Man and turn in  Applied Theory.
• You should be level 6 by now! Train and sell any of your items as we are about to leave this area and have a bit of a fight ahead of us.
• Talk to Raj Tahleed and turn in You Reap What You Sow and accept No Quarter. This quest begins automatically when you accept it. A huge construct will now lead the way to Rubicon this will be the final battle before moving out of the starting area. Follow it.. you don't need to kill anything as it will do it for you.

Starting Area Part 4: Final Battle   

• (1) Talk to Isach Undiugar and turn in your quest and accept Into the Time Machine.
• Head South to Quaeni Nidain and accept Special Delivery.
• (2) Head up the hill and speak to Stavel Rosso.. he will open your first (3) Rift (Time Machine). Kill all mobs to advance the stages and then on the 4 stage, wait for the beam to turn blue/white before jumping into it. (Note this is your first taste of how a Rift works. You'll notice if there are other players that you can press the 'Join Public Group' button at the top to join in if its in progress.. you will automatically complete the first step of talking to Stavel.)
• Once through the Portal you will be in Ark of the Ascended.. talk to Trinian Nillor and turn in Into the Time Machine.

This concludes the Defiant Starting Area Guide!

I hope you found it somewhat useful :)