Why bother? A lot of the bread and butter dps are DOTs or instant-cast. With Chain-wearing "casters" or in my current setup, Plate-wearing "casters", the damage the MOBs do in melee isn't too hurtful. Especially in the cleric-case with some instant-cast heals available.
Maybe it's because I originally boxed DAOC versus WOW, but I don't think being in melee range is so bad, compared to the constant interrupt problem in DAOC.
Been playing mixed 5 box set up through head start, one of each archetype with two Mages.
Have all 32 souls, been testing various synergies and parsing everything since I started.
Parser here btw : http://www.riftjunkies.com/combat-parser/
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