The Hidden Forest is also a highly customized server, where they offer their own set of customized gear to help you on your journeys. If you go back to the starting zone with all the teleport NPC's, and utilize the fairies that have specified levels above their heads (e.g. 1-30) and hail them, they will tell you customized zones such as Crushbone and Paludal Caverns.
These zones you'll find items dropping that don't fit. I recommend gearing up via that method and then visiting the zones of old times to re-experience them. (They'll likely be a LOT more trivial however).
Also don't forget to type #bot help, and #bot help create in /say (default channel when you talk). You can spawn a bot to assist you in your battles. This is a minor patch to the fact the server does not have a very large population. You may only utilize 1 bot per group however. On top of that, as you go around and find loot, you can hold the item on your cursor and type #bot giveitem, while your bot is targetted, and the bot will put on the item you selected.
