Editing How to get into eq parties (section)

= Writer's thoughts. =

These "requirements" and everything else mentioned here are not written in stone, but should give you some clue as what to aim for, roughly. 
Join the public channel "eqparty" and keep an eye out for parties and general chatter. Listen, learn. 
Loot is divided upon participants with party dice, and leader usually gets a bonus of +15 or so.
If you are idling in parties, getting -x to your dice is not uncommon, tho it is more likely you will just not be invited so readily in the future.

Easiest way to get your foot between the door, might be to play an Air priest and be vocal about being interested in EQ partys. You could get in as a "camp healer" (not much gear required, just some spr and skill/spell % as 
not to fail every cast). Naturally, if there is a fully geared, pro Air priest around, you might not get the spot, but one is always not available and often might not be interested in "lower/mid tier" eq monsters. A newbie air priest
can fill this camp healer role easily for low/mid tier bosses like: Red Dragon, Serpent, Lich. Probably can join "Box runs" as well (a party that runs and decimates lower/mid tier eq monsters and hope for box drops (shards/charms)).
Camp healing consists of you sitting at the camp, and healing when rest of the party comes to camp.

Box runs might be another way to learn about stuff and partying, and getting yourself known, as they usually dont require as much as "normal" eq parties, since in these runs you only kill the low/mid tier stuff and there usually are few
higbies involved. Box runs should fall into the low/mid tier requirement category.
Some easy and "cheap" gear to help you with eq is easy to make: Buy some +3 or +4 haleness shards and resist shards and slap them onto some armours (only use +5 shards on good items). If you are a caster, you could try and get a fine steel 
full plate gear set for this, it will also help with soloing, if you are a tank you should have that kind of gear anyway, and if you are an off (offensive melee, flanker) you probably want light armours.