Potential new players

[Norathorr]

I am an old time EQ player who started in Kunark and quit sometime during the VoA expansion! For a long time pretty much since Luclin I did not feel EQ was the same (I did rather enjoy the game up till OOW came out as I was not a GoD hater due to my hardcore playstyle at the time). There will be potentially five of us and we were wondering how people are spread across the level ranges. Are there plenty of people to group with after level 20 or so? I ask this because I do not know how many of us will see it through and how many will quit.

My other question is the raiding scene. Is there a good variety of raiding guilds for all content, or is there like one crazy guild with a huge call list that monopolises all content like we see on the official progression servers. I am not even sure we would want to raid, but I guess there is a point that if we play long enough that will be the only thing left to do! Mainly we want to level up in zones we did not play in the past because they were considered unpopluar due to difficulty and experience the game once more in a non dumbed down enviroment. Hopefully the community here embodys a more oldschool mentality in both work ethic and also decorum. Old EQ had the best community I have seen in any MMO!

Thankyou in advance for your replys!

Norathorr/Ogrebane (Former Dwarf Paladin later Dwarf Berserker Mithaniel Marr/Venril/Antonius Bayle for those that may have met me in the past!)