raiding seems heavily over-camped, was live like that?

[Amuk]

I was outside perma when elitists did server first vox haha shit that was so long ago I was only like lvl 30 haha.

[Striiker]

I remember when nobody had killed a dragon. Rumors were flying that Lord Nagafen would drop the Firey Avenger (which Aradune liked to roam around with). When he finally fell there was some disappointment at the lack of the FA but it was still fun to see these big firsts in EQ. Breaking Fear successfully was another biggie. People were complaining saying it's broken and impossible.. but it was figured out eventually.. :-)

The servers which I was on mainly did a calendar rotation (Prexus and Lanys and I think Fennin Ro although I didn't stay on that server much past Q1 2000). I do recall people banding together to defeat the big content. It was a great community feeling. Kind of the feeling on P99 for the low to mid-level content..

[Bubbles]

Actually, when we first broke fear mobs weren't even hitting as hard as lower guk mobs and it was a total loot pinata.

But believe what you wanna believe about Live's EQlore. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Just be thankful no one had to experience the unitemized broken mess that was Plane of Sky when it first opened back then.

[Rukku]

Just about everyone knew how to clear the planes once they started on this server. On live you had to probably have someone tell you everything and then see it first hand multiple times. Plus everyone knows where to go to level up the fastest here too to get to raid level.

This server may be about half the population that most servers were on live just before Kunark, but the lvl 50 population (that is normally on at any given time) is certainly greater.

I played on Tunare and quit just before Velious and we were a bit lucky with the crowd we had. Tunare had issues but I think it was more due to overcrowding just before the Drinal split. We never had 70+ people in a plane while I was there... at least not unless it was one full force and to kill something that people had trouble with prior. But there was definitely never 2 separate forces at the same time...

I think a lot of that had to do with the fact that if you weren't apart of that first force, you knew you could just send a tell to the raid leader and show up a little earlier next time and probably get in as they would likely tell you when they plan on raiding next and would put you on the list. Most raid leaders on Tunare were unguilded or apart of very small guilds.

Tunare was with out a doubt by far the best live server at least up until Velious... I'll put it this way... of the 14 epics plus the Fiery Avenger... it was the first server to get four of them. Fiery Avenger went to Musk (sorry Drool), Ragebringer to Kaylum (in full Lustrous in Shaere's first pic here), Water Sprinkler to Kerania, and Fiery Defender to Loevon.

It was also the first server to kill the beefed up Venril Sathir as well as spawn and kill the Sister of the Spires. All of this was thanks to player co-op from all guilds. I don't believe any of these feats were accomplished without members from 10+ guilds or guildless.

[Frieza_Prexus]

Shortly after the first FCFS Trakanon, the rotation system fell apart and Prexus became a FCFS server

It was Venril Sathir on a Wednesday (I think) afternoon. It was Trinity Alliance's turn when they were jumped. At that point, I believe at least 14 guilds were on the VS rotation.

Rotations worked best as agreements between guilds on the bleeding edge of new content. Even then, it only worked well for 3-4 guilds at a time. 5 is pushing it. In my opinion.

-Xasten

[Cars]

I think Rodcet was pretty good until Velious, not a lot of high end raid guilds until late. However I didn't read forums for video games when I was 14 so I could be completely in the dark.

[Lasher]

If only there was a way to fight for raids mobs and raid loot

[Messianic]

Originally Posted by Cars [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think Rodcet was pretty good until Velious, not a lot of high end raid guilds until late. However I didn't read forums for video games when I was 14 so I could be completely in the dark.

There were two or three - but competition wasn't that fierce @ about the time of kunark release. One of those was a Korean/Asian guild, too... Arirang I believe.

Twelve Prophets (IIRC) was one of the big ones. I think they bailed us out of a fear wipe once or twice.

[Ronas]

On live i recall a few guilds locking down the planes so no other guild were able to go up. Got to the point where the GM got annoyed and disbanded one of them. Fennin Ro server. I think the guild was called Seekers of Norrath, T'Kagi, Mythical Synergy?

As time went on would downsize to 2 guild competing for everything on separate time zones during the kunark/velious era.

The Mystical Order vs Order of Redemption (Defenders of Akanan) and Zenith Sage vs Sacred Fyre. Heaps of other sub guilds competing as well, at least 10+

Overall, Fennin Ro Live work exactly like how things work on P99, cutthroat and ruthless. Everything heavily camped so there isn't much difference if you compare. Probably twice as much population as p99 so was worse

[guineapig]

Originally Posted by Frieza_Prexus [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It was Venril Sathir on a Wednesday (I think) afternoon. It was Trinity Alliance's turn when they were jumped. At that point, I believe at least 14 guilds were on the VS rotation.

Rotations worked best as agreements between guilds on the bleeding edge of new content. Even then, it only worked well for 3-4 guilds at a time. 5 is pushing it. In my opinion.

-Xasten

Well with all the guild mergers, there don't seem to be too many guilds left on the server currently that would qualify for a rotation.