Going to start this tonight again, whats a decent PVE server?
You might have started already, but I'm on Icewatch and I've found it a good and populated server. There might be a better one, but I'm not sure.
Riptalon on the Guardian side is very very busy, its great, sanctum is always packed out.
Yeah, it's far from empty. Maybe just through the first level 20 areas and below?
How is healing in Rift?, just I never tried it last time I played it, also I got a Mage which hit 50 last year then was left, would it be easy getting him geared?
The Mage is quite versatile, it does have a specific soul for healing called Chloromancer but it's not as effective as a cleric obviously.
For solo questing or 'farmage' I use a Chloromancer/Elementalist build which does large single target DPS and uses the greater elemental pet as a tank. This allows you to just rain the pain on the target without it attacking you and works well if soloing rifts.
I have only PvP armour on all my chars as warfronts are all I play now, PvE gear shouldn't be that hard to obtain.