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

[casdegere]

It might be a case where I am not remembering it correctly. At this time, many Luclin and Velious named were almost being ignored. (Like dragon ring etc.) in Lieu of the newer content and not enough guilds interested or who could do them. (Though it was older content I had alot of fun over a weekend doign the Dragon Ring. My rogue got Myrlokar's dagger of blood or something like that. Was great fun!)

[Molitoth]

On The Tribunal there was "The Elitists" and "The Vagrants" that joint raided together and pretty much owned the server.

"Assembly of Knowledge" (Later "Sol Invictus") provided a bit of competition until velious when "Legendary" and "The Companions" emerged.


There was no where near the level of competition as this server, and it was much more fun imo.

[Mcbard]

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

I wasn't an officer in my guild, but once Luclin hit, the top guilds had worked out a deal for Vex Thal. There were 3 or 4 in the rotation, and new guilds needed to prove themselves to be able to negotiate into the rotation. I think you needed to clear several things in Ssra Temple to get into the conversation.

On Tarew-Marr there was one of the biggest cock blocks of all time over that zone. The "uber guild" Enlightened Dark locked down Emp and SSRA so that no other guilds could even gain access to the zone, and they farmed it this way for like 6 months. I believe they were in the elemental planes before another guild had even broken into VT.

I foresee a very similar thing happening on this server with Trakanon. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Valroth66]

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

On Tarew-Marr there was one of the biggest cock blocks of all time over that zone. The "uber guild" Enlightened Dark locked down Emp and SSRA so that no other guilds could even gain access to the zone, and they farmed it this way for like 6 months. I believe they were in the elemental planes before another guild had even broken into VT.

I foresee a very similar thing happening on this server with Trakanon. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

My aunt was in ED, I remember her calling me to get on her cleric whenever she was at work and Emp/HP/Creator popped.

That was honestly one of my favorite zones in EQ

[Uthgaard]

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

Wow. This would be a different experience than I had on Erollisi Marr.

Cool to see what per-server differences there really were.

Karana had the KCOG (Karana Council of Guilds). Which was a player enforced rotation. By Velious there were over 50 guilds on the planes rotatation. There was one guild that formed to buck the system, but they didnt last long.

[Nivar Quartz]

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

The raiding guilds on Brell were mature enough to work out a scheduling system.

Brell had a player run rotation, but the list was hella long, think it got up to 20 plus in the dragon rotation. The raid rotation was inforced all the way threw Velious and it worked much better with more content/gear in the expansions. There is always a guild that formed to buck the system back then, but blacklisted very fast.

[mimixownzall]

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

On The Tribunal there was "The Elitists" and "The Vagrants" that joint raided together and pretty much owned the server.

"Assembly of Knowledge" (Later "Sol Invictus") provided a bit of competition until velious when "Legendary" and "The Companions" emerged.


There was no where near the level of competition as this server, and it was much more fun imo.

I was in Dragon Army for a bit. When did they start to rise up?

[quellren]

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

The raiding guilds on Brell were mature enough to work out a scheduling system.

And it was awesome. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
At least in the beginning when there weren't 20 guilds clearing Fear trash.

Also they had a public raid slot, some guy would claim a plane, then post up they needed X# tanks, y# healers, and so on, you sign up and be at the place when the time came.

[Cyrano]

Kunark is wayyyy behind release here so there's been a ton of time for guilds to gear out players.

If Velious isn't close to being on time you'll see the same thing happen in Kunark with epics.

[Molitoth]

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

I was in Dragon Army for a bit. When did they start to rise up?

I'd forgotten about them. (They didn't last long)
I remember them trying to compete with EV, but it was never anything serious.

After EV burnt out it's core members in VexThal, (The zone Sol Invictus bypassed)... they had to mass recruit at the beginning of PoP and SI pretty much got most of the server firsts in that expansion.

EV got a few server firsts in GoD, and then fully recovered in OOW.

When Tribunal Merged with AyRo and EV lost it's leader "Puurrdy", Rest in Peace pretty much owned the server after that.