I fell far behind when I took a year break from the game and on coming back thought everything was all progression, so I missed out on lots of VNM fights and when SoA came out I assumed my gear was too rubbish to take part in it because I needed to progress with VNM gear first, and now I'm at a loss on what to do. People say skirmish, but my gear is too weak for skirmish. I've looked at bayld gear for upgrades but I've no idea what's worth using. Nobody's shouting no more for bayld or skirmish runs, it feels like my server has died. There's no more EU shells so I can't get involved in ls events because they all start past 2am my time. I am desperate and despairing at how it's all turning out. I'm tempted to server switch to one with EU shells in it so I can get the help I need and take part in events, but I risk then ending up on one that either has no EU shells or they take one look at my gear and aren't willing to spend the time and effort in helping me upgrade. I think I've come to the end of this game on my part and it's killing me because I know there's so much I've yet to experience and yet people are neither interested or available. I don't know what to do except maybe move on to FFXIV.