Theres plenty of people on CLW, yes theres a low number of people at the low end of the game but once you get to around 40 it will be easy to find a group. Up to then groups are semi scarce but not rare.
And don't worry to much about slow grinding, with the xp boost boon of hagley it goes by 4 times as fast as it used to. Last night I grinded form 48-51 and I was nearly halfway to 52 by the time I went to bed. And this was from killing light blue to white phantoms.(forgot you weren't a eqoa player:the game labels mobs levels by color, green are very low, you receive no xp from killing, lightblue are very low also but withing like a fourth of your level, like at 60 45 would be light blue but anything below is green, Dark blue means 1,2 or 3 levels below your own, white is same level as you, yellow is 1 or 2 above you and red is 3 or more above you)
As for asking for help just find a active guild and I's sure ou would find people to help you.
Edited, Oct 4th 2008 2:05pm by SefanaPPO