[Striiker]

I recall that the SoulFire quest (part of the Paladin Epic) was broken. There were a few message boards for Paladins where they were sharing all that they had figured out to that point. Eventually Verant (prior to SOE taking over) admitted to the fact that it was broken. At that time only Aradune Mithara (Brad McQuaid's character) wielded a flaming sword. It was pretty cool to see him in game now and then..
Before the SoulFire quest was even know about, I can recall that there was rampant speculation that the flaming sword would drop off Nagafen in SolB (before anyone was actually able to kill him).