As someone who came back at the end of Jan from 6 years of being away this is what I have learned:
I found that savages (buy realm buffs and use aug healer = win) and spec line LT casters (SM, Cab, Sorc) farmed glass really well in a solo/duo situation. Bonus to sorcs who have crack. I also found that being an ice wizzy/sup SM/mana chanter work well for getting green glades glass groups. Most groups will accept you with a bb (or if you have a speed class as your second).
Hib seems cliquey, I agree its not fun to find groups in NF and I didn't feel there were many guilds to choose from if you didn't know anyone.
Alb is terrible for molvik, 30 albs will sit between at and ck in a zerg all day long. They rarely have roaming groups. Mid and hib have roaming groups that run regularly and side swipe the albs for free rps. Hib almost always has ck.
I noticed on mid skalds = group, at least in CV, as a bard in molv and CV i have no trouble ever finding groups so I can probably assume a mins are the same. With that said mins = kinda op.
I suggest having a temp if you plan to run in CV or molv for any extended period of time. Its worth advertising in LFG that you are temped (this usually = better quality groups)
Depending on how withdrawn from the game you are I would suggest sticking in molv for a bit. It feels like ez mode compared to CV which feels like ez mode compared to NF.
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