Thott/Aftathott was one of the first to actually analyze the data (and went on to create Thottbot which became one of the most used MMORPG news sites and then a wildly successful WoW info aggregator). Dude was min/maxing before it was cool.

You guys are all forgettign that dude that wrote that long non stop thread about being the first at everything and really being Leory Jenkins but it was in EQ and not WoW and he beat a GM in the arena...blah, blah blah.

The top guilds were the ones using secret borderline exploits that are well known now. And they got all the early access beta info. Once you have a solid, geared crew it was trivial for a lot of servers to cockblock Trak, Aary, Emp and RZ.

You can still see Furor's magelo as it was when he quit during LDoN

https://eq.magelo.com/profile/123895

10k hp.

geeeee

Trinagle

This is the sound of a man who spent 9 months gearing himself to find out he was beat by another player who spent that entire time winning. :D

I know some of the high end guild leaders and such from back in the day were actually hired by Blizzard for work with WoW when it came out.

https://wowwiki.fandom.com/wiki/Alex_Afrasiabi

I was thinking of my old guildie who did maps.

http://www.eqmaps.info/

remember when fungi's dropped down to 38K at one point during velious? you're welcome.

Alan from Vallon Zek for main streaming the RMT system and creating solid drama for years.