HI all,

I thought i'd just add my 2c in. Glad to see this NG start to pick up again too. :)

I play a Human cleric and basically broke as well. Almost every group i've gotten into
loot up before the cleric does. I played in one group for 4 hours and only looted
once. During a random roll for a nice item (armor piece), the tanks got first roll on
it. I'm lvl 44 and still wearing some Bronze and Banded pieces.

I've been playing the cleric since the day EQ opened its servers to the public, and
joined Tunare (Hi Mu! :) ) the minute it went live. I'm not a power player, and in
all this time i've only made it to lvl 44.

However, I did take a few months break inbetween. What I noticed though is that as
the server ages, or maybe its the more ppl on the servers, or the level range of players
i'm grouping with now, but groups have gotten very greedy. The first 20-30 levels way back
when the server was still new, people were nice, loot was evenly distributed, and all was
good. I take a few months break and come back and its gone down the toilet.

These days I have to summon food and water just to save money. I can't afford all my
lvl 44 spells yet either, which is a shame. This is not to say that there aren't "good"
groups/people out there, but they're just very hard to find these days.

Ciao,
-Knight; hopping one day to make it to lvl 50 and have All his spells. :)