[Nerull]

I just got my mage to 18th level today, and man it's been a real fight all of the way. Almost all of it has been soloing. I chose a server (Dragonblight) with a lower population, but I still see other undead players running around (mostly warlocks, but occasionally other characters). Any time I put out a request to group on the #4 channel for an area, I rarely get responses, and most of the ones I do get involve "oh, I did that one by myself". I've only had three groups so far. Once was to do that Agamand Crypt (had 3 other players join, making it easy), once was with a warrior that was only level 10 (and he died in the same crypts, then left the game), and once just yesterday with a warlock 5 levels lower than me (just to grind regular stuff). People will stop real quick to cast buffs for free on you, but then head along their way. I've done pretty well soloing, but I have to be REAL careful all of the time (one bad pull and I can be in trouble; I can handle two mobs, sometimes three weaker, but I constantly have to skulk around picking off one at a time as best I can). I've died a lot (I've counted over 25 deaths so far, but that includes getting caught in the middle of a raid and getting a pvp flag after buffing another Horde guy). I get lots of offers for duels (mostly by guys 20+ levels higher than me), but no real offers to group. I have lots of tougher quests left to do in my quest log, and I think I'm probably going to be stuck grinding more levels until I get strong enough to do them (including the elite ones) by myself.

I've actually thought about changing servers to a more populated server, or even changing over to another class that can make soloing a bit easier. I do like my character so far, but the whole reason I'm playing a MMPORPG is so that I can group with others (you know, just having some kind of tank in front and some kind of healer in the party). Any suggestions as far as changes or ways to increase my "marketability" to a group?

(Oh, on a side note, anyone notice that the Horde players get picked on a lot by the Alliance guys? It seems like every single day they are raiding us, and they always kick the Horde guys' butts because we are constantly outnumbered. I have yet to play a day without running into paladins in the middle of the road, and they get all rude with dancing around me and farting trying to provoke me into fighting. Gets a little annoying, but with Horde being outnumbered so badly it is not surprising we get bullied as much as we do. Maybe Horde needs some kind of recruitment drive or something...).