Had a great evening yesterday!
After soloing from 38,5 to 39 with my BL (new warder, finally!), I logged in with my lvl 9 baby necro. And was astonished by the number of players in the tutorial.
There were between 15 and 20 toons chasing through the tunnels of Gloomingdeep, the place was buzzing from life. I was so surprised to see that there is still low level life on my server! Of course, not all of them were newbies (one even had a Jester of Bristlebane), and "in the old days" 20 characters below lvl 10 would have been nothing... But it just made me happy to see that EQ is not as dead as many people presume.
Dinged 10 on the necro.
As I said, had a great evening yesterday!