I will be returning to Everquest shortly and was just curious of the classes that are in a high demand or that there aren't a ton of on the Mischief server. I checked through the forums and didn't see anything recent mentioning this.
Bards, Clerics are usually the top two for any guild. Seems server is very top heavy on melee dps and tanks. Seems to be a need for caster dps but not nearly as much as Bards and Clerics and maybe a druid.
clerics are always needed.... if not cleric i'd say go for a great puller class like bard... it's going to be the main puller in planes of power... which is about a week away.. but over the last week running groups, it's been easy getting tanks, healers and dps.... good pullers are rarer....
Clerics (bleh...), bards will be in demand. Probably don't pick an SK (not that they are bad in any way, but most servers have a metric fuckton of them). Otherwise, pick what you like.
Don't play a cleric. Yes, you will always have a raid spot but grouping becomes a pain in later expansions. Unlike Druid and Shaman which can slot in as a DPS, you're pretty much always just exclusively a healer. Everyone and their mother has a healer box and contrary to popular belief, people don't actually kick their boxes to make room for you.
Having played a druid on multiple servers, and quite well, I can say definitively that druids are never in high demand.
Raids: Clerics, Bards, Wizards, Druids, Paladins Groups: Tanks, Enchanters, Pullers, and Slowers for PoP and beyond.