Great thread! Bringing back some memories.

I was in AO on Bristlebane pretty much from inception to PoP when I quit playing. I was a gnome rogue named Stricken.

Some fun tidbits that I'm remembering:

Club Fu formed, or at least got a lot bigger, when a big chunk of AO broke off to join/create it. I remember when Pouty was in AO. There was some animosity but many players in both guilds remained friends. There was a kid down the street from me that was in Club Fu, his brother was the MT for circle of legends, and I was in AO. to my knowledge Meriadoc was the only person with a character in both guilds and actively raided with both (thought not many knew it was him at the time).

Bramel/Troppo was one of the original leaders of AO. he was a wildman who would pull Hate on his enchanter (flawlessly). then realized it would be easier on a monk so he made Vabeker. When Vabaker got banned, he made another monk named Vabtoo and PL'd to 60 in about 4 days. One of the original beards of everquest.

Club Fu was probably the stronger, more organized guild, but AO may have got more dragons due to the fact that they had a lot of euro players and would raid at 4 AM - there was plenty of poopsocking going on, even in kunark and velious, contrary to what people might think. I used to set my alarm and get up and raid super early before school.

Bristlebane was such a fun server. I had good friends in AO, club fu and RoV that I still recall today. Even met a couple irl years later.

Don't forget Omani, although we were a couple of steps behind getting into Time. What blows my mind is that Omani still exists, as does Fanra's wiki. Logging back in and seeing people you played with 20 years prior is a trip even if the game has taken a right turn or two.

Pre-expansion Xegony was mostly the JPN / NA raiding group of Junx and Cognatus that had content on lock-down. Kunark onwards was IC for a long long time.

RIP Ranadin's Vox raids with 100 people before /serverfilter, 7th hammer split was so stupid.

Xegony was a toxic dump that has the distinction of being the only server that had a GM lead removed for abusive conduct. Still, it was home.

Some names I can't remember after all this time, but wish I could.

I didn't know that Pouty was in AO before forming Club Fu, I just remember Him and Vab didn't get along much. You're right they were probably the most organized. Everyone disliked AO and UK, cause they could snipe targets in the off hours ;) Ring of Valor was right up there also. I played a ranger and used to ask Waylander and Arwyen (sp?) for advice a lot coming up. Meriadoc was just an all around good dude, never let pixels go to his head.

Who was the kid down the roads brother that Mt'd in CoL, we had a few? Great thread, bringing back all the memories. :cool:

I played on RZ back in 2001/2. Dominant guilds were Ascending Dawn, Wudan, and Magus Imperialist Magikus. (These were also the 3 guilds that United to defeat the Sleeper) Before I was on server back in 1999 I was told top guilds were Synergy, Rebirth, and possibly Peacebreakers.

Hey Legday, we're Cazic Thule bros, were you affiliated with any guild? My brother and I were in Shadowed Soul through Velious and we had an alliance with some guild....I think it was abbreviated DA?

Some history: Shadowed Soul was the top dog in classic and then some members split to make Element of Darkness. Pirotess was the guild leader of SS while I think it was Bgup with EoD. Also, Element of Darkness and The Relentless worked as an alliance during Velious and had a field day in Ntov while we were farming HoT and sniping Zlandi, Klandi, Sont, and Kael when we could.

There was also Coterie Nocturne...

Remember Cazic Thule Corner forums and all drama there? I probably still have Kela's nudes on a floppy disk somewhere.

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ya you are right furys edge was relentless ascension ,was a merge,but at start was the name relentless ascension

Fennin Ro was The Mystical Order and Order of Redemption

don't forget Arirang and Dol Amroth. AoD were the OGs and had a fracture in Velious which led to the birth of Ascent, who from SoL onward was the distant top dog. AoD basically dissolved as a raiding entity in SoL. Arirang was a South Korean Asian-time hit squad who got almost any raid mob they wanted except true tier 1a mobs. Dol Amroth was behind them, and were the casual raiders clean up crew.

Remember names like Honch, Eelyen, Barbarina, Matteo, Katia, or Azeth?

Gaborn. I think he plays p99... but don’t know any of his chars