I will never play EQ without MQ so Phinny isn't it for me.
Also the part I like about EQ least is leveling.. so again no thank you Phinny. XP rate is horrendous.
From what I hear is LJ is just a slightly less populated version of Ragefire.
Ragefire has 2 guilds that have beaten everything, and 1 up and coming guild that has killed all but Vulak/Veymm I believe.
There is a 4th guild that has been building and does smaller style raids like HoT farming and smaller dragons.
The population is low right now due to literally over a year at the level 60 cap. Luclin should spruce things up a bit.
You're not going to find much at the lower level group game, until luclin when a surge of new cats pounce up.
Most people box to some degree. 2-3 is very common, plenty box 6 and there are a good bunch of 12 boxers. Very few do more than 12, and those that do generally share accounts with other boxers. There are only 2 or 3 "Mega Boxers" on the server, the 20+ toon guys, and they are all more or less friends who hook up to do raids occasionally. They've gotten Vulak twice now I believe.
The days of "oh muh godz! Evil boxers ruining muh Gamez" are long gone. I've not come across those types of people In a long while or even a boxer holding down a premium camp for an unreasonable amount of time. It's all very tame now. Everyone gets along.