When do clerics become... wanted?
 

So I am sitting here on my level 17 cleric and there are no groups that seem to need or want me in oasis or unrest. LFG for about 10-15 minutes before giving up without a single tell.

No offense, but I've gone hours LFG without a tell. My advice, solo blues while you have a LFG tag up. You could also start your own group. Clerics are always needed, and no guild can ever have too many of them.

This.

Solo with LFG up. If you absolutely hate soloing and only want to group (not sure why you'd be of this mindset though), then just form your own groups.

fuck up some undead

while medding: alt-tab, play other video games, learn a skill, etc

Gonna bandwagon this advice, it's spot on. Check the zone you're in to see how many clerics are there in your level range, if too many either do some solo or move to another zone or play a different char for a while.

It's worth mentioning here that "/who all lfg" doesn't work worth a damn, it generally returns nothing outside the zone you're in at the time, so just putting up your LFG tag is no guarantee you'll be noticed. When you're forming/filling/replacing a group, you need to check by class (i.e. "/ all warrior 18 24") and read the results if you want to see whether people have their LFG tags up.

Give the Red server a try. You can play both servers at the same time. Type lfg on blue and while you wait, you can actually get a group on red.

Why is everyone directing me to the containment server?

Not everyone, only the red players who want more easy marks to gank and/or more grunts in their pretend armies. What fun is it to pretend to be a predator if there're no sheep to prey upon? What fun is it to pretend to be a leader if there're no sheep to follow your lead?

From my experience in the server my advise is that you go proactive and create your own groups.

Maybe if you follow the usual Unrest > MM > FM giant Fort > CoM > KC you will be able to get some direct /tells as a cleric tho, but it's always better if you go ahead and create your own.

Clerics become more and more wanted starting from level 35 or so, when items like fungi, or being twinked in general stops being so useful.

Except it wont be a full group because theres never more than 5 people on RED at one time.