I remember Midnight Sojourn was pretty good during Vanilla and Kunark and would get together to take down shit like KDT in Velious. I dunno wtf I did as a little kid but I used to always send tells to level 60s to be like whooaaawhoaa golden efreeti!? whoa! Talking to those high end raiders is what got me to roll a Rogue and Mage (wizard) in WOW when that started and I've generally rogue/wiz'ed every game since.

Agreed :)

Oh btw. During Kunark Gorenaire was a server first for us. Probably other mobs as well, but definately Gorenaire.

Synergy was an early raid alliance. They went to war with the other raid alliance, Sabbat, in the first multi-guild war on the (RZ) server.

Rebirth was not a guild, either, it was another multi-guild war, in this case between an alliance led by Peacebreakers (a Taiwan-based guild) on the one side, and Ascending Dawn on the other. Pretty much every serious guild on the server was involved. Peacebreakers might have won if they didn't attract so much unfavorable GM attention, and in the end the whole thing turned in AsD's favor after the server GM at the time (Ozuri) intervened.

Ascending Dawn did spend most of the server's history, once they were established, on top in terms of PvE. But PvP was another story. Beyond any doubt, the top PvP guild was <Hidden Power>, later reconstituted as <Facultas Utrimque>. Hidden Power dominated the BotBs, and very famously won the gamewide 6 v 6 (Test of Tactics) against blue server teams that were light-years ahead in terms of gear.

Also, fair to mention that one lightie guild, <North Star Avengers> made it to the end on Sullon. Their members and leadership were just as goofy as you would expect a good team guild to be, but hey, it takes all types.

Also, the top guild on Zek post-merge was the Euro guild, <Ancient Dawn> (merge of <Ancient Orden> and <Ebon Dawn> from VZ). When they moved to ABayle due to loss of numbers during PoR, it took nearly a year for the next guild to catch up.

<Pandemonium> was tops most of the time after <Ancient Dawn> left, especially after <Defiant> merged into them. <Ascending Dawn> was ahead for a very brief window before that, and <Wudan> (with some of the original members from the Sleeper kill era of RZ) would eventually come back and finish <Pandemonium> off at the very end, taking the top spot for a little while before numbers became such a problem that Zek simply doesn't support raid guilds anymore.

Ah, the memories, Darkwind on Antonius Bayle, those were the days. (Also the days when Ciniel had real gear) :D

/Cin

Saryrn server
Early on the top team was Order of the Phoenix.
Later shortly after SoV the team Heaven & Earth took over server first status.

Mojofingers Heaven & Earth
Blunted brotha 60 rogue
Growenstone 60 druid
Azuth 60 wizard
Saryrn server

Indiica 45 cleric
P99 server

Hey hey .. I was also in SS then. Give me a shout in game ... same name 😊

Good memory. Honch was Ascent's Barbarian Warrior guild leader. Katia was his IRL wife, and a female wood elf druid who truly was always in the bazaar during SoL.

Matteo was a Dol Amroth officer, and just a really well known guy. Wood elf rogue.

On Vazaelle I remember Caer Cadarn being really good, but I don't know who came after. What I heard was they were an Asian-time guild so they got a lot of uncontested spawns.

I was in Appotus Dominus starting in mid-Pop when we became the number 3 guild on the server, but we were the fifth guild to get to the elemental planes. Triality became the number 2 guild, but I think AD was ahead of them when I started. I know Agony and Eternal Advocates were good, but I don't know how long they were around.

I started playing on Vazaelle during Velious and I think it was a fairly new server.

lol i was in DC on Oomega Back then

Rebirth.. Paradigm Nocturne**? Malus Imperium? dam i forgot who else... i think it was Rebirth who woke sleeper.. Funny.. I bought the 1st SoD that got stolen from Rebirths guild bank from some eurdite cleric chick for 250k lol