to get from 1 - 50 as fast as absolutely possible with as little hassle as possible yes soloing is probably fastest.
however it is my opinion that it completely bypasses the whole point of playing EQ, and 80% of the awesome content.
last night me and my regular group went to sol a, it was a rocking group, we talked, had fun, got decent exp, at about midnight right before we were going to log , we decide to try and pull 2 gnome bots, we got a few adds including singe, things went south fast, and we all died, I was bound in oogok, and the rest in FP or lavastorm, a handful of see invis mobs popped between us and our corpses, the CR was a nightmare and took an hour , keeping everyone up past their bed time who had work the next morning.
THAT is what EQ is all about, hard as nails, balls deep in trouble, no win situation, and coming together and working as a team to accomplish something that you shouldn't be able to accomplish otherwise.
sure I lost some exp, sure at the time we were all pulling our hair out, but that is also probably the most fun, and the most truly classic experience I have had so far on this server, you just don't get to experience awesome shit like that soloing.
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