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No. You had good memories with your old friends right? Keep them in a box and don't ruin it by coming back.
"Do you get parties without +15 or do you get parties at all as a dps or is the game/servers dead?"
You do get parties without +15, but you will have to wait a while to do any HM dungeons, because you cannot compete against people who have +15s. They will always be picked over you. BHS broke the gear balance so much that right now, it is worth it for parties to wait longer to get a +15 rather than take a +12 and start the dungeon right away. In the past, the gear differences were small enough that it was not worth waiting for people with NF pve to show up, so WH +12 was perfectly fine. Those days are gone. EME take note here, this is how you deal with elitism: make gear differences small enough so elitists don't have incentive to be elitists.
"If it is worth returning could someone tell me how to get back into it what dungeons to try and run / how to solo make money to +15 / if I should do quests or anything of the sort?"
You should do celestial arena, ace dungeons, Island of Dawn dailies, LKNM and SSNM for guile gear. Slaughter is useless. To get +15 from scratch, you need a credit card with a high credit limit. It is the only practical way.
Constant delay and sudden spike. So you'll experience this a lot. Ohh.. btw, if you have a high ping, don't bother to spend to much time playing the game. It will just give you stress, especially playing pvp or battleground.
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Do you need +15 for RMHM (cuz for HH consider as a "must have")?
Nop if you're a broken dps class (ninja, archer, sorc), a healer or maybe a good low ping Lancer...
Then just join a good friendly guild (cuz of cancer "n> exp" LFG), then gl farming 1020100213x FOD and MWA for +15 without Mongos (we should not "break the economy"!!1!).
Maybe, by the end of the patch and if you're luck (RNG is still a big thing on Tera), you'll get yours ambush+15 so you can farm vm9+15 all over again...
Plz ignore Imperator +15, cuz by the time you farm it, there will be new vm9 gear and imp will be worthless gear like starfall+15 now.
If you're a weak dps class like Slayer or Gunner and got Guile+12: Rip, GG.
This game still got such huge issues with class balance that even VM8.5 Slayers/Gunners, on most dgs, are supposed to deal the same or less dps than a +12 guile sorc/ninja/low ping archer...
Anyway, some fun Tera facts:
Did you know that, on a 10 month time span, from brawler release till sorc revamp, we got 3 new VM gears (Starfall, Imperator and Ambush)?
Did you know that, right now, the gap between mid-tier (Guile) and BIS (VM8.5) is bigger than ever? It's ~20%+ now vs 10~12% on Ninja patch (so, VM7 +15 is more of a mid-tier gear now)..
Did you know that, on some servers, a single glove or weapon VM8 design can cost almost as much as a +15 imp weapon? Btw, on Brawler patch, a single VM6 design for everything were sold for 15K gold?
If you like PvP, FWC is now equalized so you can run any BG without specific gear.
Good advice: unless you plan go play for like 5 hours/day, don't go for VM. This thing is super frustrating as you can see. Nobody will require you to be +15 unless you play really underpowered class in 5-star dungeon.