Rift

[Nitro]

Seastone US PvP server
4 Cabalists
Main toons name is Harm
Guild is Knights of Sahdow

[MiRai]

I'm definitely sold on this game thus far... 'sold' enough that I went ahead and grabbed the actual boxed CE edition from
Amazon. If it ends up being a flop, oh well, I spent $30 extra on a game I would have bought anyway. Some of us are
actually on the Reclaimer US server that we had chosen yesterday. Since I've become a Reclaimer, every time I log into
the server I have, "And I would walk five hundred miles..." in my head.

[Lyonheart]

Nitro, i made cabalists as well, i read that they are the best AE class. I was having an issue where when i would cast with them all, my regions would swap. Going to try your macro and see if that helps. might just play 3 though. 5 was unbearable lag, 4 was better, I'm thinking 3 will be the magic number.

[Lyonheart]

ok so i have to turn off the instant swap and only use hotkeys to swap ( so when i cast they dont swap ) but i cant find ANY hotkeys that work for all regions.. no matter what I choose, i end up only being about to swap two of teh four regions..grrr!

[Lokked]

I will try all 5 tonight, Lyon. What are your comp specs? If the lag you are referring to is background windows, I believe Rift implements some serious Inactive Window throttling. Possibly turning on "Force Foreground" option in IS might help.

For now, I've played (up to lvl 8):

3x Stormcaller/Elementalist/Dominator
Lots of knockback, Stun and Snare. With 3 of these classes, I could lock down a group mob (Elite?) without it reaching me. Stun and knockback cooldowns for these classes is pretty low (maybe too low).

3x Chloromancer/Warlock/Necromancer
You get a pet that holds agro fairly well, and a shitload of DoTs. 1 DoT from Chloro that AE heals friendlies in melee range of the mob (keeps pets alive), another that Damages the mob and heals you, 2 more instant casts. Chloro includes a debuff which gives a 15% chance on damaging the mob to return 100% of the damage as health. These DoTs have no cooldown and cost very little mana. You can chain pull mobs to no end. 2 DoTs have cast times, 2 (+ Debuff) are instant.

All DoTs stack.

Kill Collections drop 1 for each player in party (YES!!!), at least for the collections I've had to do. The only annoyances are Ground Spawn quests. Quests involving interacting (but not looting) with an object will update for all in party.

There is an option in Interface for AE Looting, but I never got around to trying it out. If this works the way I hope, it would mean never having to mouse-over to alts screen to loot, just walk them near the mob and spam AE Loot Keybind!

There is Click-to-Move, but I haven't looked into Interact With Target.

Not sure how this will play out at higher levels, but at low levels, your level vs mob level makes quite a noticable difference. Level 6s were hitting my 5s pretty hard, compared to lvl 5 mobs.

The delays allowed in macros is not as automated as it sounds - You can only have a single /cast function work per macro. You can include multiple /cast lines, but only 1 will trigger. This is beneficial in this way:

 
/cast Cooldown 10 sec spell
/cast No Cooldown Spell

When spammed, this will use your cooldown ability on first press, then spam the No Cooldown Spell, until the 10 sec Cooldown Spell is available again.

I haven't found a use for delays, except when pulling to have an Instant cast on 1 char go off the same time as a cast-time spell on another char.

There are several abilities which are off the Global Cooldown, which can be smushed into these macros as well.

[Lyonheart]

my specs are

intel core i7 920
12gigs ddr3 ram
Nivdia 480gtx 1500ram
velocaraptor hard drive