Top raid guild per server?

[dyonak]

Tribunal had The Elitists and The Vagrants as the top two. Someone else mentioned The Elitists as the more successful and I'd agree with that if I'm remembering correctly. They did merge later but that was Luclin or PoP I think.

[Speedi]

Erollisi Marr:

Da’Kor then remade as Magister

Midnight Sojourn

Storm’s Fury

They two previously mentioned guilds ended up merging and reforming under the tag Midnight Fury

[Swish2]

Tholuxe Paells

Rebirth and Altered State were the big guilds from my sketchy memory. Rebirth particularly during vanilla. If any Tholuxe players can add to this, please do [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Mewse]

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

I played casually on Cazic Thule server but I remember the top guilds being <Element of Darkness> and <The Relentless> from Kunark to about PoP when I stopped playing.

I could be wrong since it was all word of mouth to me. Anybody from CT able to confirm. I remember other top end guilds were <Shadowed Soul> and <Cohort Chalybeius>?

I can't confirm for classic, but I know when Brell and Cazic merged <The Relentless> was the top dog from CT. Cohort was also still relevant in the endgame at that time as well, but as a second tier option behind the big boys, with <Silent Redemption> holding the throne from Brell.

[Valakut]

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

That is correct: Club Fu was the dominant raiding guild on Bristlebane, at least well into Luclin (and I think at least partway into PoP also). Their biggest competitor/the #2 guild on the server was AO ("Arch Overseers" IIRC), and then I want to say that third place went to Ring of Scale ... but I might be misremembering that last one.

I wasn't in any of those guilds, but I had lots of IRL friends in both Fu and AO (more in Fu, because like half the guild played at a computer gaming center I went to).

Fun historical side note: the SOE staff tried to make Club Fu change their guild name (ie. "Club Fuck You"), but they managed to convince them (falsely) that it was Fu as in the Chinese "good luck" character, and so they got to keep it [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Club Fu and AO were big but where is the love for Aureal Champions? I know AC won best of the best for shaman and shadowknight on bristlebane. Maybe more?

[Tipsyer]

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

I played casually on Cazic Thule server but I remember the top guilds being <Element of Darkness> and <The Relentless> from Kunark to about PoP when I stopped playing.

I could be wrong since it was all word of mouth to me. Anybody from CT able to confirm. I remember other top end guilds were <Shadowed Soul> and <Cohort Chalybeius>?

Element of Darkness and The Relentless were the tops from as far back as I can remember, which is like early 2000. EoD started to fizzle out after Velious. Pretty sure TR laid claim to the Sleeper.

[pasi]

Innoruuk was pretty weak until everyone just joined SR.

Legions of Darkness (LoD) until either late SoV or Luclin.
Ashen Vendetta from above/Luclin until late PoP.
Silent Resurgence from late PoP until Present? despite multiple server merges.

[evilkorn]

Zeb - Dark Horizon

I think they had a another guild that was was a part of them, Yiltrith's Hord. They were commonly referred to as DHYH.

[feniin]

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

Dragon Council had a bad reputation? I don't remember that for some reason... Then again it was a long time ago and I was pretty young. I can certainly say we had some great people and great players in the guild.

<Divine> and <Prophecy> were the top 2 early on. Divine ended up fizzling out and eventually <Phantom Raiders> showed up and became the strongest guild at least Velious-PoP.

Honorable mention to <Order of the Scattered Winds> who really grew in strength and had many awesome races against Dragon Council.

We also had the greatest leveling guild of all time <Guardians of the Mossy Log>

Arcane Dominion was an early one too, before Prophecy, I believe.

[Kemadin]

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

Was never a hardcore raider on live but I think on Quellious it was <Vis Maior>. They went over to WoW for many years after EQ...guild probably ran ~10 years or so

Probably would have been a part of them had I not server hopped so much

In addition to Vis Maior, Quellious also had two other high-end raid guilds named Wraith & Lotus Cult around the time that Kunark/Velious/Luclin/PoP were active.