Haha I remember well in the old days on SolRo they (including me) tried to raid Tunare with around 130 ppl.

All in all it was not a success but I had a lot of fun.

last open public raid was probably in beta. those were fun times. :)

The only reason some of those PuG Nag/Vox raids even worked (most were guaranteed xp loss and wasted time) is because the players had the benefit of easily obtained Kunark/Velious gear.

I wouldn't touch a pug Nag/Vox raid on this server, yet.

Problem is the boss mobs are usually down within 30 minutes of popping (save for Phinny, but is he really a boss?), so open raids will never see anything save for maybe PoH/Fear armor mobs until Kunark is well released.

He's a boss if you go at him with a typical raid set up of a melee tank + clerics and dps. However bring a couple mages and you have yourself a deceased fish.

Open raids here would be nothing like open raids on live. The people who play here are almost exclusively veterans of these raids, and there are very few actual newbs.

This server also has WAY more old school raid leaders playing than any normal server on live ever had. Its just not the same environment at all...an open raid for fear/hate trash would likely be as successful as most other guild raids.

I'm sure an open raid could be done on the lesser of the raid "bosses" (aka Phinny, Maestro, etc.) but I could just be totally underestimating the chaos that would ensue.

edit:

This is complete and utter nonsense. There are so many noobs on this server, even at level 46+, who just can't play for shit and have no fucking clue how to play their class, and will never get better. I still group with people on my main who don't know how to assist or how to /pet back off. Just because you played classic EQ, or even raided in classic EQ, doesn't mean you're any good.
I'm not trying to be hostile towards you or anything, but you have to be very naive to actually think what you just wrote.

Pick up xp-groups are scary enough, this is horrifying.

We had fairly successful open raids on Mithaniel Marr, but I don't recall when they started. It was organized by a druid named Leo - Raids by Leo was the name (RBL). I think that later he started a guild and continued his tradition.

It was fun for off nights, or when I was too bombed to be raiding with my real guild(s).

Good times.

How is the raiding handled on this server?

Is there 1 guuild clearing everything asap, multiple guilds fighting over everything or multiple guilds sharing everything?