I quit shortly before Velious came out. I raided all the time more so for the fun of it than the loot. We had generally the same group of 30 people that would do plane of sky every other weekend and plane of sky had average at best loot because this was not long after Kunark was released.
It was great because our server wasn't guild biased. You could be in any guild and get into any raid. Because of this, our server (Tunare) was the first to not only get the Fiery Avenger (Musk... with Drool giving him the glory), but the first to get the Rogue epic (Kaylum) and a number of other epics and (unconfirmed) the first to spawn the Sister of the Spire in PoS.
However, shortly before Velious, things started really tilting into being guild biased. Guilds were becoming greedy (greed will imprison us all). It also didn't help that I played a druid, and the server was loaded with druids. Then there was a server split to Drinal and most of the people I normally raided with went with it because they saw the same thing happening with the guilds.
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