Quote Originally Posted by LittleAsian View Post
another reason of me to go solo...

You can easily find people that are around your level in an instance. They will most likely always welcome people to help. I've done all Eureka instances that way (although I started from release day). But I've also helped my friends power level through helping them in their challenge log and carrying them from one NM to another.

The NM train does work and will give you good EXP (it gets lower the higher the NM level is from you). But there are NMs that are at your level and even those that are 2-3 levels higher will still give you a really good amount of EXP. When an NM appears, you can join with a party regardless of their level. I've had people that were level 1 join when I was 20. They don't cause any problems to the party, even if they died I still resed them. Some might say "they're not helping you, they're just leeching". But that's not always true. They will still learn to dodge the NM mechanics at least. You'll also get gold in the NM fate and get more EXP than if you were with a party of all of them at your level (since you all won't even be able build enmity to get gold). Once the NM dies, you can just leave that party.