I played on 7th hammer my whole career (just before Kunkark to Luclin), mainly because it was the server where the Italian community was.
I played in <Oligarkia> <Armata Mercenaria> <Usque Sidera> and finishing, at the end, in <The Dark Exile> ... funny how i didn't consider it, at that time, something like an "hardcore top-raiding guild" ... it seemed just the right way to play the game.