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I think the issue is it's how people are behaving in dungeons vs. overland. Everyone is obviously really horny to level up as fast as possible, so overland zones where it seems like almost anyone can split a spawn it makes sense to just farm a camp of blues solo instead of grouping. Though it makes no sense to do that in dungeons.

I was 11 in SRO and there was a Warrior and me at the two three spawn camps and then a necro at the two spawn one. I broke my camp horribly and the warrior grabbed the cleric I pulled to the line (thanks by the way, went fine after that) and then I just got my full level nearly sitting there for an hour. Before all this I threw out an OOC message and then just went to the camp because obviously no one wanted to group.

I ran into a 7 who wanted orc groups and earlier an 8 who wanted them, both Shaman like me. Actually turned down the 8 because we were duoing fine and if he pulled aggro he'd just get croaked and told the 7 he should just kill some gators in Innothule. So I think it's a combination of a few things, soloing just being pretty efficient for a bunch of people who are engaging in obsessive compulsive behavior and a bunch of people who want to get into a group fighting stuff that cons Yellow to them so they get a little bit of a slingshot.

edit: In the end using SRO as an example, you can easily kill snakes there if you're seven or eight and once you're nine or ten you can probably start getting solo orcs too. I think a lot of this "why won't people group with me" might be a result of being unwilling to XP off blues and dark greens.