Come Back to Naggy and The Forsaken will grp with you from level 10 to level 90 from 0 aa to 300 aa and yes we might get ganked but we will GANK that GANKER After the servrs come back up

As for any game, its always more fun and interesting to play with other people. I started playing EQ2 for the first time last week and kind of sad that the servers keep going down. This is the third time during my entire experience it has gone down. I do not blame SOE, the whole fiasco with the security breach would cause anyone to go willy-nilly. This game is solo friendly to an extent and grouping is definitely one of the highlights of this game.

I did not start on a PvP server, so I have no idea how the ganking is. If it is as bad as you described you, then I'll take your word on it. PvP does not sound like something I would enjoy (especially playing for the first time) unless I knew people on that server. I had my fair share of WoW-PVP servers, that was fun until all the classes became identical.

I never had much problems forming groups for low to mid level dungeons in EQ2 whenever I last played, though it has been two years since I last leveled a toon. 

Of course, SOE seems to have deemphasized dungeon runs for XP with Rise of Kunark, hence you won't get many groups for dungeons there, yet I don't know that much about the last two expansions.

Ah at level 80 on the pvp the level 88's will be killing you which would of sucked with all thier gear and +8 levels.Antonia Bayle is a good PvE server with loads of recruiting guilds  that will group at all levels with you,also i see lots  of people asking for groups below level 90.

Necromancers are nice solo classes and do really good dps in raids at 90.I recomend spending your 1st 21 aa in tainted heals (necromancer tree)then get max points in perceptors command(summoner tree).this way you don't need groups and can solo heroic content np:).

If it ever comes back online ofc.....

Come to Naggy, Join Undead Lords, I along with some of the others in guild have toon ADD and roll toons in all tiers, we are also starting to build a x2 raid force for light raiding and pq's.  We need Necro, chain/plate healer, and maybe some brawler dps.  Look for Godof when servers come back up, off work for another 3 weeks or more, so i'll be online alot.

The problem is that the game have so many levels now and soloing is as fast as grouping.

There is no use to run low level dungeons for gear, even the best you find is useless after just a few hours gameplay since you leveled past it, and since you level as fast by soloquesting few players bothers with groups, only some guilds run many of the dungeons, no PUGs.

The problem here is that the game have twice as many levels as intended, it just raised the bar too many times. The only reason to fix it would be by revamping it to fewer levels again but that would mean that you would have to revamp and rebalance all classes, and fix all gear as well and it is a gigantic project.

Sadly enough is a MMO just good for a certain number of expansions, EQ2 peak at EoF. The whole problem is the levelsystem and the fact that they raise it so often. This is the reason EQ were dropping in players before Wow even was released and it is something most MMOs suffer eventually. 

Either you have to do like GW and never raise the max level or make a new system to get rid of the problem. No dungeon finder or similar is enough.

Older players still enjoy the endgame but few new players get into the game because of this, and many older players never bother to level alts or get their frinds to power level them.