Welcome! Now that youre 9, maybe try heading to the oasis, north ro, south ro, and /ooc Ogre war LFG! and see if you can kills some bandits and gaters!
edit: also eq is like life in the 1800s, its what YOU make of it. You may get lucky and find a gold nugget (rng) you may find someone who tosses you some free gear, you may get invited into a group randomly from someone searching all over.
But the main thing you gotta do is put your foot in the door. The best way IMO is to just never stop looking, find the zones people level in for your level range, go there, and literally send tells to people "hey got room for ogre in your group?"
If you see a group of people kiling stuff, stop and count them, are there 6? if not, send each one a tell, "hey can i join ogre war LFG!!"
Theyll 9.9/10 times let you join if there is room, and if they say they are full up, say cool can I join if a spot opens up? and just sit there and start watching another epsode of SLIDERS.
Once you get into a group, if you want to play for another 4-10 hours, fill the spots, ask if anyone is leaving soon and when? start going /who all class/level and cold call people with tells "hey im in a group at X and we gonna need a rep for Your Class in 30 you wana come over?"
get creative and keep tending to the machine that is the grind.
You do this, and youll pug your way to 60 ez!
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But it takes tenacity!