MUDS

I have recently got into hunting around for good muds (multi user dungeon, dimension, etc), and I love the idea of them. But so many of them aren't what their all cracked up to be, their unweildy and often frustrating for someone like myself. I like role playing, I dabble, im not hardcore.
most of them run in one of those java clients or.. I dont know what their called, clients of some description anyway, where you have to type in the port number etc. Those ones piss me off. Hollow is ok, but I think I screwed up my bard. Money is hard to get and I havent been training my magic, how was I supposed to know you needed magic to play songs of pain (How emo does that sound).
And to top it off, after your stats reach a certain level you cant kill weak things for experience, and all the other monsters around are kick ass compared to me. I guess ill just have to save up gold and not worry bought exp till I have a fair amount of equipment.

If anyone knows any good MUDs or RPGs please tell me. Im dying for something interesting(literaly).