Just how much of a "big deal" was Fires of Heaven back in the day?
 

I read an offhand comment about them in RnF today, and seem to recall hearing the name elsewhere on these forums as well. Were they some legendary guild during live? Anyone got a quick history lesson on what they did and why they were so famous?

It's interesting how a guild's name can live on in fame or infamy, I kinda miss having IB around. As a newb here they held a certain lofty image. Reminded me of my server's elite on live.

Anyways just curious about what history throughout live I missed (pre PoP, before the game died)

I think afterlife and FoH were the top guilds for game firsts

Most of the original firsts revolved around FoH and AL, and a couple other guilds. And Furor was big, among other GL's, about posting cutting edge stuff on their page that may or may not have gotten encounters/bugs etc looked at rather quick. He also went on to work with/still work with? Blizzard with WoW I think. I remember I used to like readin their pages on new stuff just cause my guild wasn't quite cutting edge, but we got there eventually.

Mith Marr was my home server AL used to rape everything they were pretty legit.

Not nearly as big of a deal as the people P99 claim to be. :P

FoH used to be pretty good. Now they just read like reddit.

-Brimacombe

I mean big enough that I heard of them and visited their website as a midlevel player on a different server

speak to FoH legend on this very server, Bisch the monk.

FoH was cool, until it let the fame of being one of the best guilds on an MMO go to it's head and their former members waltz into every game/server they play with a stuck up dickish attitude.

examples?