I HAVE THE GREATEST EXPERIENCE!!
It was back in the days of the old wildy.
My friends and I would venture out into the wildy EVERY DAY during summer in like rag tag robes and scimmies, sometimes as mages. We would just run out into the wildy with nooby things and try to set up a base at bandits or something.
Even though we weren't that great, we always had fun because it gave us all a sense of adventure with very little loss. We would often gang up on a guy wandering in full rune and defeat him because there were 6-8 of us.
Adventurous, butterflies-in-your-stomach days I probably will never forget.