Players looking to get up close and personal with their enemies need look no further than the rift champion and rift void knight. Because both classes are part of the warrior archetype, there are a few basic things they have in common. Plate armor allows both the rift champion and the rift void knight to survive the most punishing physical damage in the game. Also, unlike classes that cast spells, warriors don’t use mana as a resource. Their abilities rely instead on a resource called energy, which recharges much more quickly than mana. This allows warriors to perform abilities much more often than spell casters. However, that’s where the similarities end, as both classes offer two very distinct styles of play.

The rift champion prefers to fight aggressively, wielding a two handed weapon and closing in on opponents to deal extreme amounts of physical damage. Any attempts to keep them and their deadly weapon out of arms reach will be completely futile, thanks to moves like cornered beast and leg sweep, which make sure the rift champion is always able to keep their opponent nearby. And once the rift champion has an opponent weakened, the powerful deathblow move becomes available to finish weakened enemies off.

The rift void knight specializes in disrupting spell casters, prohibiting them from unleashing their full arsenal of deadly spells. Employing a deadly combination of moves that directly attack caster’s resources, draining their mana reserves and leaving them unable to cast their deadly arsenal of spells. At higher levels, rift void knights will be able to master the deadly power sink move, causing a rift in space and damaging all enemies caught inside. Perhaps most devastating of all the rift void knight’s abilities is the ability to reflect enemy spells back at their caster, preventing any damage that would have been inflicted to the rift void knight and instead dealing it to the spells caster.

Whether you enjoy charging in recklessly and mercilessly pummeling foes, or the more strategic approach of turning an opponents spells against them, both the rift champion and rift void knight are sure to make for thrilling adventures in the world of Telara.