Rift

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**EDIT - Disregard the piece here about Chloromancers AE healing each other. It's either been fixed or I'm an idiot. Probably the latter. **

I must say, the starter quests and mobs are far too easy, at this time. I've heard it gets harder around lvl 20, when OP classes (Druid/Warden and Cabalist, basically all Cleric classes) level out in effectiveness. Lyon, because you are rolling 4 of the most OP class (according to some forum posts), you may be finding the early game too easy because of this.

As far as the Edge Smoothing setting, I sat back in my chair, where I normally sit, and compared a line (building edge) and didn't notice a difference between Edge Smoothing and No Smoothing, so I think this is a fail algorithm.

AE Looting is not something you can bind It just makes it so when you loot one mob that is near others, it auto-loots all the mobs in the area. Slightly useful, but not what I was hoping for :/

For anyone wanting to run WoW's 4xShaman equivalent, try 4x Chloromancer. At level 10, with 10 points spent, they get an ability called Veil of Lifegiving, which AE Heals the party (minus the Chloromancer) for up to 80% of the direct Life damage done by the Chloromancer. So you can nuke and heal at the same time! 1 is able to MH a tank in dungeons (as shown by some youtube vid), so I'd imagine 4 is overkill, but you can spec some for more damage.

This game is very similar to WoW, and the Rift experience is going to make or break it. If Rifts aren't a fun alternative to Questing, Grinding, Farming or PvP in the WoW sense, what point is there to play this game? Public Quests were a spectacular idea in WAR, and were fun for a little while, but their implementation turned them into a gear grind. Rifts can actually take over towns and areas, and spawn (in later areas) at mostly random spots. Occaisonally, Rifts (Minor Riftsspawns can open up to become Major Rifts, spawning harder mobs and dishing out more valuable items. You could think of this as the whole Placeholder/Named spawn EQ thing.

I have high hopes for this game, as long as they up the difficulty of the first 20 levels. Unfortunately, the early level range can put a veteren MMOer to sleep.