Solution to lower level grouping woes: hotzones or group XP?

[Splorf22]

Well part of it Fisch is your level. 50 is the peak of caster power relative to melee I think.
From 55-60 it seems things are much more balanced, and there aren't that many good places to solo anyway at that point.

Personally I think half of Verant's problems with balancing classic everquest were due to them trying to save memory on their servers by storing skills as 8-bit numbers leading them to cap skills at lower values. If melee got appropriate skillups in their 40s they wouldn't be nearly so weak (probably something like 100 more AC/ATK would make a big difference).