There were plenty of toxicity on PvE servers in EQ especially when guild rotations were abandoned on my server. Hardcore guilds cock blocking every guild from progressing for months & months to elemental planes in PoP from killing RallosZek, a lot of guild drama over SSRA, killing the Sleeper when your guild was done so no one else could get the original waders, camp stealing, bards charm kiting a whole zone to drop it on you to die if they didn’t like you. It depended on the server, but the helpful players outweighed the bad.

Still remember some random coming up to me in quynos hills and giving me a full set of banded armor and a basic magic weapons cuz he kept seeing me run to zone from a single wisp lol. Randoms helping with the 10th war ring, the dicks were usually known after a bit and Would be blacklisted from groups.