Couple of people have posted and been struggling during the same levels I
had difficulty with the first time around, so I thought I'd drop a few tips
on how and why you should peserve (its amazing what you see in hindsight):

The general concensus is that the time from 19th to 26th is quite
fustrating; you're at the point were the disparity between your melee and
your tank friends melee prowess begins to show, and yet your songs don't
adiquately compensate for that lost. Its difficult to find a good group
during this time because this is also the weed out period - worse that hell
levels, the 20's test your commitiment to that class in my opinion.

At anyrate, your position is clear (push past these levels as quickly as
possible) and while boring, doing the noterious deepwater goblin pets of
Lake Rathetear will get you though it, and will get you out of your rut. I
just checked today as I sold at the ogre camp, 2 pets still run by every 2
mins. As someone here stated before [referring to hell levels], 'Quantity
over quailty." Just set up camp right near the ogres on the hill if you're
solo, or right at the tree in the gut if you're in a group and go to work.
You have a convient zone line if something goes wrong and a food and water
vendor literally next door. You can kill the bandits on the other side of
the gut handily for lunch money.

Trust me, stay on it, you'll get through it in about a week with modest play
time doing the pets and then suddenly your 20's songs, powered by your new
higher levels, will be more effective and desired in a group (for the
record, besides selo's, the song I ALWAYS have mem'd: chain, even if I
grouped with 3 rangers and 2 druids you couldn't pay me to forget the song.
Just like insurance, ya hope you never have to use it but you don't leave
home without it.). I suppose there is an argument to go through these
levels the traditional way, but I did that the first time around -- it was
painful and in the end the only valuable lesson/tactic/govering principle I
drew from the experience was "Ain't doing that again!"

Have fun and good luck,
-GW
<Tork@Nameless>