How does Rift’s class selection system work

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Can anyone explain the class selection system present in Rift?
I understand that there are 4 different classes. My main confusion lies within the "Souls". How are these souls picked? How many can we choose? Any further details would be great.

Best Answer

I'll try to put them in ways you'll relate to :)

Souls are unlocked as you do quests and close rifts as you level up.

Each Calling (class) has access to 9 souls (talent trees).

You can pick any 3 souls at any given time (when you've earned them all) and can swap between up to 4 different soul settings (think dual spec but with 4 slots).

Recommendations are usually not suggested as an answer on these boards. But to give you a little direction, a hunter (which I also played :D) is in the rogue calling, and a shaman is more of a cleric calling.