If its any insight. I am euro and played lately on P99 and Live servers. If I am only considering the player population :
- on live (AB) you do almost never find a group before level 90+ because almost noone is leveling without crazy powerlever. Live EQ is not group-grind oriented anymore. Its mostly pots, boxes and mercs.
When you reach max level life is nice as a cleric, fine as pure dps and very hard as tank.
Since everything is instanced its relatively easy to join pickup raids and roll on loot like in every other mmo.
- on P99 If you dont have anything against non-optimal groups and low ZEM zones you can find groups any time. EC, oasis, loio, overthere... always has people to group with (maybe less on euro late mornings but never empty like it can be on live)
If you want only optimal group in high ZEM hard dungeon you have to play a wanted class (war/cleric/enc) and play at high population hours. It is very doable but will need you to work you social networking skills.
Since on P99 there is a no-box rule it means everyone playing rogues, clerics or warriors are always looking for people to play with, even twinks. Powerlevel does exist but is extremely rare since it implies two active players.
At raid level its back to old EQ, it pretty much means you need a guild and you need a decent guild. And since target are not instanced there's the race on spawn and such.
Like on old EQ if you are not in a top end guild you have to accept to come across twinks with 10 times your gear.
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