Are passive Skills always active even if i dont bind them to hotkeys?

Having an MMORPG experience that is purely single player makes no sense to me, it's antithetical to the entire point of the genre and I don't understand the appeal.

what is chance to rare mobs to spawn?

The game is quite fun at it's core but a lot of numbers need tweaking and Quality of Life improvements would not go amiss. Leveling feels way too grindy right now for a single player game. I had fun until I hit level 9 or so, I'm currently level 10 on my highest level character. At that point I tried to do the Molorai dungeon, the mine outside port azure, and the ogre cave. All the enemies are between blue and orange in difficulty yet even with a level 12 tank he just gets popped very quickly. The healthba...

So there's a zone... I've noticed tends to be a bit harder than others... Tougher mobs... Do some zones... that may be a bit tougher... have different drop rates for loot and/or blessed items? This zone seems to be dropping more twinkly stuff than norm. Either that or I'm on a really lucky streak....