Never played everquest before, plan on making a cleric on the new TLP server. Any guilds open to accepting a completely new player?
Most will go out their way to help a cleric. Just check out the Discords of the guilds recruiting and find a good time they raid for you. I doubt anyone will turn away a cleric.
Just want to verify what BarknBite stated, I started on Yelinak as a cleric after not playing since 2003 or so and everyone was very helpful.