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Classic - Inglourious Basterds dominated, merged with other guilds to form Transatlantic Rampage towards the end of Classic.

Kunark - Transatlantic Rampage dominated early Kunark, VP release was stalled for about a year, TR started to grow bored waiting for VP release, and TMO fueled by cotton candy started to chip away at their dominance. VP was released and GM's forced TR, and TMO to roll to decide who got which dragons.

TR left P99 to play on EQmac, TMO dominated Kunark in their absence, some time later TR came back to P99, and reformed as Inglourious Basterds. TMO was hit with a mass ban wave because of certain members duping plat, leader of TMO along with many other high ranking members within the guild quit as a result. TMO was then taken over by Forceful Entry a BDA split off guild. IB and the new TMO would remain relatively even in terms of strength for the next 2 or so years. During this time the C/R/FFA class system was implemented, allowing casual guilds previously dominated by TMO to see raid content without having to compete against the top two guilds.

Late Kunark with Velious approaching IB decides to merge with The A-team, and Idiots and Savages to form Rampage. They begin to dominate content, and TMO starts to lose many of its members, Detoxx rebrands TMO as Forsaken but nothing really changes.

Velious - The C/R/FFA system is aboloshed and Rampage dominates early Velious for the first several months, Forsaken allies with Asgard and Taken to create the FAT alliance in hopes of competing against Rampage. The FAT alliance starts to chip away slowly at Rampage's dominance, Rampage leadership decides to stop playing, and wakes the sleeper before disbanding the guild. Taken grows tired of being treated like a third wheel by Asgard and Forsaken and they merge with the remnants of Rampage to form Awakened. Forsaken merges with Asgard to form Aftermath, the not so great era of A/A is born. The A's compete against each other for the next 2 years or so, neither guild being substantially better than the other.

Awakened makes the fatal mistake of breaking a mans heart, and is forced to change leadership in order to survive. Tempest is born from the ashes of Awakened, but a general dislike of the new leadership causes many of the "core" players from Awakened to split away and form their own guild called Core which focuses on smaller content. Tempest struggles to compete with Aftermath, and with Tempest members becoming increasingly disappointed with the new leadership the guild starts bleed members to both Core, and Aftermath. Aftermath starts to dominate content for the next year or so as Tempest slowly dies, and Core remains focused on smaller content.

Eventually the GM's grow unhappy with the current raid environment and decide to root dragons in ToV, Aftermath having grown accustomed to quick zone line pulls begins to lose members who aren't interested in spending hours crawling through ToV to receive their pixels. Smaller guilds like Core, Paradigm Shift, and Azure Guard start to chip away at Aftermath's dominance, and eventually Core, and Paradigm Shift merge to form Riot. Aftermath continues lose members due to increased competition, and a general dislike of the new crawl meta. Riot quickly overtakes Aftermath, and that is where we are at today.


I left a ton of shit out, I didn't mention many of the smaller guilds, there were way more "raid meta's" than I mentioned including No CSR VP, Mario Kart, Kunark Footraces etc. but I didn't want to turn this already long post into a full fledged novel.