Quote Originally Posted by warweasel View Post
anybody give some advice on how they tend to gear new teams? Since i am mostly doing rifts and IA's.. and kinda avoiding dungeons/hard questing.. Would crafting my 5x clerics be the best route? (not really explored the crafting system in rift yet).. or is the crafting gear at lower levels going to gimp me?

What about all that planarite i am getting? can that be used to buy good lower level gear?
One of your toons should be a Runecrafter. When you do rifts, you will get a ton of essences that you don't need. Your Runecrafter should runebreak all of them to get mats to create runes for all your characters. You will need a lot of runes, 5 times more than any normal player. I would suggest that this should be one of your alts, not the main character. The main character should have all gathering skills, so that you can easily see all nodes on your minimap. Having other crafting skills can be fun, but not necessary.

You should first buy sigils ("Planar Focus") for your planarite. Then you should buy a Medic (heal soul anywhere) on all characters.