I really don't see how most people who played the box since the start can consider any time other than the initial ~6 months the best time in the server's history. Fights over manastone camps, tranix, guises every day. Guilds blowing up / merging / disintegrating left and right, alliances formed, relatively even competition at the top with dragons going down to both sides. Who knows how it would have ended up with GM intervention didn't result in the banning on one side of the competition.
PS, let's remember the last good video Smedy produced, fitting for this occasion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kJXGKRSSmQ