I'll admit when I was playing on live later in my playing career I sometimes would be playing a twink and didn't want to invite others because it'd slow down my experience, since they weren't twinks. Most of the time I just stayed silent and went my own way, so it was ok. But there was once in BOT when I declined a warrior or some gnome/halfling and he NEVER forgave me. I tried and tried to make it up to him, but he was stoic. I came to realize he was a jerk or at least as bad as anybody. The odd thing is I've given my fair share of friendliness and helpfulness to others. When I played on p1999, I never levelled past 23. I played with noobs constantly and you wouldn't ever knew that I had ever played selfishly. My point is just because someone plays selfishly doesn't mean they can't be friendly or never will be friendly again. Don't let one bad day or some bad behaviour by someone let that tarnish the rest of their character. If you're going to do that you must claim to be perfect and never yourself act selfishly?
EQ wasn't and never will be perfect. I don't know of a single mmo which can make up for human nature without completely making it single player. When you play EQ you should keep in mind you're entering an open place where good things and bad things will happen more frequently than the norm. That's the expectation you should have. It's a rocky bump road in EQ. As in anything, you will appreciate the good moments more because you had to experience some bad ones.
Please note I played a ranger when I played in 1999 and played a ranger up until 2010. I also played a paladin up to 65. So I was turned away by many groups in my time and judged as deficient. So don't think for a moment I don't know hte feeling. I suffered many setbacks and tough experience droughts. But I was stubborn. It was a challenge. It made me appreciate more how classes can offer different things which we might not appreciate. Classes in EQ really required you to play them to know them. Perhaps that was a source of a lot of the discrimination. I do think people tend to only play deeply a few classes.
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