Etiquette in Blackburrow...?!

[Unferth]

Hey guys!

I'm a bit new to the server, but I've been having a good time reliving my old EQ experiences. I'm stoked to have found a Classic EQ server that resembles the glory days, and I've had a lot of fun leveling a Rogue and now a Druid.

If I can be straight-forward, one thing that's not so cool, though, is the general etiquette /manners/behavior I've seen in the Blackburrow zone in the Qeynos Hills.

On this server, it seems like the norm for 20+ toons to camp outside/inside of Blackburrow and clear mass amounts of green-conning Gnolls for their fangs. I know that turning in the Gnoll Fangs grants a massive XP boost from levels 1-24, but what the heck ever happened to courtesy?

There are literally over 1k people on this server at primetime, with 10+ people on average in Blackburrow at any given time on the weekends. With a crowd of level 6-10s trying to group up and struggle for XP kills, how can any 16+ that cons green to all the Gnolls justify slaughtering green con mobs for the offchance of getting a fang?! That's just greedy.

For the past few nights, I've been appalled to see level 19s + camp all the low level spawns outside the entrance of blackburrow while on my level 6 Druid trying to grind. I send them tells, politely asking them to move deeper, but they just respond saying they were there first.

If you think I am just a whiny noob, I even have screenshot proof that Blackburrow is ridiculously offensive to noobs trying to level. When I was fighting on my level 12ish Rogue, another Dwarf rogue of a MUCH higher level named Bahkrel (at least 20 because he had a surname, but he was ANON) came up and backstabbed my Gnoll as I was fighting and just barely did under 50% damage. After the fight ended, he just sat there and did not acknowledge me so I /cough /rude him, and he wakes up and asks me if I know about the Rogue double backstab glitch. I tell him I've noticed that the server generally causes double attacks for killing blows (at least from what I've seen), and the rest of the conversation was as follows...

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He proceeded to follow me for like the next 4+ fights and took my kills by out-damaging me and insulting me. I got fed up with it, logged into my Druid and petitioned a GM for harassment. (The GMs still have not responded to me 4 days later after regular play. but whatever, I get it). When I logged into my Druid, I tried to fight the low-levelled Gnolls at the entrance but I was unluckily competing against an 18 wizard and 19 cleric, both that were soloing on their own and collecting gnoll fangs. I sent them tells, and they acted like I was an asshole for expecting level 18s to NOT be hunting in a level 5 zone. Seriously? a 19 cleric soloing? Why even roll a cleric?!

My question is, I guess, what the hell?! Is this normal behavior, and should I just roll an Iksar Necromancer and forget about socializing with people in this game? The reason I left the other shitty themepark MMOs with crappy communities is because, well, they had crappy communities.

Anyways, I'm not sure why I'm posting this other than to hopefully to ask a question. What is the acceptable level for hunting in Blackburrow? Is it actually OK for people to horde Gnoll Fangs their whole lives until they level to 30? or should they leave the nest at 16?

I will admit I made this post a bit angrily, so sorry if it comes off as a rant.