Despite the fact you dont worth an answer I think you are blinded by the gazililion paulina alts that you find or see in game.
For your surprise ungeared players are a minority. Why? Because both servers have round 1500 real players and 3000-3500 of alts and bots.
I can bet all my items for this statement > 80% of active players pay real money, some more some less...but all pay.
Also for your surprise you might find(as I did with my paulina Feoh) that players can exp without any problem with right class up to 110.
But ofcourse, if you insist to play dead classes with or without gear you will not pass 107.
Here another thing, many newcomers, like you, dont know what roll play NcWest in this dance...you and your friend Madona might be please to learn that NcSoft is just a service provider(to keep it simple: they own physical servers and they keep them in good shape; on behalf NcSoft Korea they take money from players for ingame electronic items and services). So you see, they have no power or knowledge of game indepth software...deh, all come crypted from korean dev and they just double click on patch...in fact any bug, any change, any game software alteration come from korean devs. To go in abstract, if Juji want to pee he need to ask korean devs permision.
So, the korean devs want that game to go in solo direction and they have solid reasons for that. What you and Madona and another 10 randoms can do?Answer is nothing...just polute forum with nonsense threads over and over again.
Dont like what NcWest is offering? Just move on EU servers!
Really you cant spit against the wind...its bad