party??? 420 solo siromas every day. 157 flee ain't hard to get by 70.
actual things people might not realize you need to be effective on classic:
-make an endow slave (sp slave later on if you wanna get crazy self-sufficient)
-also make a buffslave
-yeah sorry this game is really biased towards being solo and getting as much benefit as possible without sharing exp
also re: ice titan parties i will usually come up with any excuse to keep the party smaller unless we absolutely need them because a) efficiency, sorry i get to level weird alts like once a week and we don't need a second wizard or a regular priest and enough people have just tried to screw with my parties after being told no that i am grumpy and don't care anymore.
when bg is not running, make money + buy things. 100 badges isn't the worst, but odin help you if you go for a medal of honor jeez man that's not the first priority
also hello renewal people this is not about renewal hope your dorams and woe or whatever are fine but they don't really apply here
Have you tried doing this with zero starting out zeny or gear? It's an mmo people play it to interact with others. You should really try making a char on renewal and just see how much more awesome the levelling experience is even solo, via the bounty board system.
Personally on classic I just had out mercs + 5m zeny and say "this is how you do anubis". That's the easiest way to level with the cursed set anyway. Then leech them 89-99 in thors. Encourage people to make knight/LK to get ez income in luina, but those players are hidden and not helping in community building.
If classic was fine as it is this wouldn't even be a discussion.