First off, playing an untwinked warrior or rogue in EQ is hard, no way around it. It's a terrible choice for a casual gamer. "Switch classes" is a perfectly valid argument. There's no coincidence that the server is heavy on non-gear dependent classes that can solo if necessary, or at the very least be useful in most random duos/trios.
Second, if you want groups, you have to go where groups are. I played a lot at off-peak times this week on my wizard and went from level 1 to 14. After level 5, I soloed probably for an hour, the rest was spent grouping, mostly in full groups. How, you ask? I did a "/who all x y", sent tells to people in my level range, and went to where people were (misty-ec-nro-oasis in my case). I formed my own groups by finding 1-2 people and filling up as we went. By the looks of it, this would be easy to do until the 30s at least, it seemed a bit less populated in the final 20 level stretch.
Work to get groups. It's not impossible, but you may have to move to a different part of the world. And if you're not a masochist, choose a class that can at least solo for some xp while you wait for that group. There are no classes in classic EQ that can solo untwinked for better xp than a decent group anyway, so all you have to do is find those people in your level range and meet up with them.
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