In Rift, as in other MMO's, you have different roles that can be played and, if you're playing a rogue, you may want to take a closer look at the Rift Rogue builds.
These are the roles: Tank: You absorb a great deal of damage and concentrate the mobs or the other players on you.
Support (or off tank): You support or help the tank in holding the mobs.
DPS: DPS means Damage Per Second, and with a DPS role, you're supposed to do a lot of damage.
Healer: You keep the players alive.
Rift has made a system whereby almost every class can fulfill virtually every role.
The rogue can use these nine following souls: - Assassin - Riftstalker - Nightblade - Bladedancer - Marksman - Ranger - Bard - Saboteur - Infiltrator (PvP soul) If you want a DPS-melee build, because you like to stun or step from nowhere and back-stab your enemy, then go through the Assassin tree.
This tree is very good in PvP if combined with Riftstalker to gain better damage mitigation.
Eventually, pick Infiltrator (PvP soul) or Saboteur, as your third soul.
Choose the Marksman build if you prefer to go ranged.
This class is a heavy damage dealer from a distance, but weaker if you become involved in close combat.
For this reason, you will want to take Assassination as a second tree to make up for this weakness.
As the third tree, you can use Ranger (thus gaining a pet), or Nightblade in order to have spelled-based attack.
A word about the Ranger build: This is a ranged soul with a pet.
The ranger ability is not as good as the Marksman, so you will have to take Marksman as second tree in order to make up for it.
You have your pet that you can use as a tank or a DPS.
It's not a big damage dealer in PvP, though.
At a low level, it can be impressive and give you an advantage but, if you are up against an opponent somewhat used to PvP, it won't work very well.
But again, everything can be turned around in Rift, so you might discover a mix that will be very viable in PvP too.
The Bard soul is a very weird soul to use at first.
In the middle of a fight, to pull out a luth and begin to play music, appears to be a very strange action indeed.
But don't be fooled: This is a very strong build.
As a main soul, it will be an excellent support class which can heal and buff the party, and debuff the enemy.
The Bard has the great ability to heal himself (and his party) while dealing damage to others.
You can mix this soul with almost any other souls: Ranger (zero points in Ranger, just the tree to obtain the pet) and Marksman to stay ranged, deal good damage and have a pet (very good survivability in PvE and PvP), or use Nightblade and Riftstalker to keep melee.
If you want to build a tank, you should take Riftstalker as your main soul.
Even though this tree doesn't have healing, it has wonderful damage mitigation.
You can use almost all of your points in this build and add Bard and Bladedancer to make a tank with a little self healing and good avoidance thrown in.
A good world PvP build will use Bladedancer and Nightblade together, resulting in an all-round character, featuring healing, attack power and mitigation.
Now it's up to you to choose one or more of these Rift rogue builds.