For every dungeon you encounter during your journey to the level cap, there is a second, more difficult, version for players at level 50. These dungeons are called “Expert” Dungeons. Ten in all, they are divided into two tiers; the first tier is aimed at players who have just recently hit level 50 and the second tier is geared towards those who have spent time in Tier 1 Expert Dungeons.

For the purpose of this guide, Realm of the Fae is considered a Tier 1 Expert Dungeon. General requirements for all Tier 1 dungeons include a Tank with at least 50 Toughness, a credible healer and an off-healer. The Tank will generally be a Warrior due to the lack of Rogue Tank gear available at the onset of Tier 1 Dungeons. Healers will consist of Clerics mostly where your best off healer will be a Chlormancer. This does not mean you will not be able to use a Bard or Justicar as an off-healer or a Chloromancer as a main healer.

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Deep in the hedge mazes in northern Silverwood, the realm of Fae Lord Twyl is situated. This dungeon is full of satyrs, treants and faeries. Work your way through this dungeon by fighting your way through the four seasons and meet up with their avatars at the very end. See if you have what it takes to hold court with Lord Twyl.

This dungeon is meant for levels 17-19 and is located in the northern part of Silverwood, the first zone for new Guardian characters. There are three quests associated with this dungeon and two are given inside the zone. As with all dungeons, the first quest is the automatic dungeon quest, the second is given to you by an NPC at the entrance and third is given from an NPC in Sanctum.

Here’s a newbie video we’ve been working on from Beta 3. This one shows you a dungeon run that I did as a Mage. There were several runs in this video, thanks to server crashes, but I got some great footage. First you’ll mostly see me being the party’s main healer. Lock up the Chloromancer soul, full Chloro with some Dominator for CC and the extra points going into Warlock for the life-to-mana (6 pts) ability so you can never run out of mana. The second build is a champ with AOE, which is the Pyromancer. All you need is to grab Fire Storm and combine that with Improved Smoldering Power for awesome mana efficiency and your enemies will burn en masse.

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Post Christmas Updates: Videos! Here are some user created Realm of the Fae videos from the Beta 2 Event. Enjoy!

With Gamescom going on, IGN got a chance to take a look at the Rift: Planes of Telara. In this article the take a look at one of the game’s entry level dungeons: Land of the Fae. It consists of four different bosses, two of them being, “Trickster Maelow, for example, has two friends who constantly power him up, so they have to be killed early. Battlemaster Atrophinius, on the other hand, fights players in the middle of a ring of drunken satyrs who, if you get too close, will start smacking you around.” The dungeon also gives a quest to you automatically when you first entered the instance. No longer do you have to scramble around and get the quests for the dungeon.

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