Just how much of a "big deal" was Fires of Heaven back in the day?

[redgiant]

FoH was top guild on Veeshan, and with Afterlife, Legacy of Steel, Realm of Insanity and Kreiger one of the top guilds on any server.

Furor Planedefiler was GL of FoH, and was the first 50 as his rogue Kalaran (who got banned). He was also the first warrior to get his epic done (and iirc there were some stats or ratio or something he didn't like about it that SOE actually changed). He may have been loud, but he usually backed up what he said/griped about. Sites like Lum the Mad was standard fare for covering all the EQ drama back in the day, I wonder if some of the posts about Furor are still available on wayback...

Fires of Heaven was the name of the 4th book in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, where the name came from. In fact, there were a LOT of guild and player names lifted/adapted from those books (how many variations of Rand, Perrin and Lan can you invent), along with from the usual suspects like Lord of the Rings, D&D, etc.

[Kimm Barely]

FOH was the first and greatest 133754|_|C3 MMORPG guild back in the day. They are single-handedly responsible for promoting the idea of EPEEN. Blizzard skyrocketed to the behemoth they are today thanks to selling accessible EPEEN.

Influential much?

[Dullah]

If you "didn't care" or didn't know about FoH back in the days, its because you weren't doing anything big.

Its like trying to be a pro ball player, and not knowing who the new york yankees were.

[Arclanz]

No mention of Thott? Hard to forget a guy who used robot from Lost in Space as his avatar. Plus who could forget thottbot. Oh and he won the Bard BoTB server-wide. Regarding FoH, yes I remember the day they switched from an EQ guild into a WoW guild; and I thought hmm that sounds like a mistake. When WoW turned out to be the joke that most EQ players expected it to be, I laughed. You have one of the hardest core raiding guilds go to a game which caters to twelve years olds and their soccer Moms. The only other hardcore guild names I remember are Shock of Swords and, of course, AfterLife. I remember when AL or FoH was recruiting cross-server; it was during Luclin. Cool times.

[azeth]

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

The only other hardcore guild names I remember are Shock of Swords and, of course, AfterLife. I remember when AL or FoH was recruiting cross-server; it was during Luclin. Cool times.

Brotherhood of the Spider

Cats in Hats

Couple more top end guilds.

[Trax]

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

Brotherhood of the Spider

Cats in Hats

Couple more top end guilds.

Is everyone forgetting about the infamous exploiters known as Conquest? Clever use of mechanics I say.

[Brut]

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

Verant loved Pallys - FA (epic) before anyone else, full set of Sky armor- wind etched- pallys got pandered to- SKs us poor bastards didnt get any real love untill Luclin and PoP

Don't forget Ghoulbane off a lvl30 mob while SKs were swinging sharjaw cutlasses!

[azeth]

Quote from FoHGuild.org forums "EQ1 exploit/nostalgia" thread from the leader of Veeshan's *other elite guild, CT.

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

When Luclin came out, I lost some appreciation for FoH and their tactics became a bit clearer and their reputation with me fell. The Itraer Vius, was some large spectre and early on he was pullable to the zoneline. CT farmed him for days until it was patched that he was unmovable. Trying to kill him in his room with the zerg of adds was a chore but CT managed to do it the legit way.

On one attempt at the Itraer, CT failed to kill him and once the guild departed FoH zerged into the zone with 40 players. I stayed around to watch how they would do it. Instead of killing him as intended, an FoH dwarf used some BFG4000 rare item with a knockback shot to push the Itraer out of his spawn room. FoH spent 30 minutes systematically exploiting this boss and to move him to a safe area, where the encounter was then trivial. To me that is the day I realized that FoH was nothing more than just another group of players, that happend to be ahead of the curve on others, they sploited mobs just like everyone else and the only reason they were so uber was because they happened to have a better core group that was formed at the start of the game with a clear goal in mind.

[Xadion]

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

Don't forget Ghoulbane off a lvl30 mob while SKs were swinging sharjaw cutlasses!

Yes it always annoyed me that the Ghoulbane was 1) better and 2) easyer to get even solo than the DarkReaver.... and they where "the same tier" or weapon for SK and Pal... if you compare pal stuff to sk stuff, verant had hardons for pallys and the shaft to sks....its a hard knock life ;-)

It was a sad day when they took voicegraph and pet healing away from us :-(

[Xadion]

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

Quote from FoHGuild.org forums "EQ1 exploit/nostalgia" thread from the leader of Veeshan's *other elite guild, CT.

I like how we use the term ZERG now meaning 40 players... when the raid system was set up for 72... 12 groups right? I was on a CoECT fear raid back in "the day" that was 115+ strong.... and breaking was still a pain in the ass hahah