Whidon
Blackwing Lair Raider
My friend just happened to join EQ Veeshan server. So in late 99 i stopped playing my RZ char and joined him. I was very young, age 14, and i'm almost 100% sure furors story was legit as basically furor offered to do the same thing for me when i led a failed fear raid that summer. FoH and CT were the last two i asked, it was near 4am est and every other guild said no. CT replied they would help us first, and so they did. But Furor said yes also. Same time period Summer of Kunark.. So it kinda freaked me out to read that heh. I was so afraid i had lost everyone's corpse..
Oddly enough my WoW guild featuring many of my RL friends then got server merged to BDF server in classic. So i was on the same server as FoH once again. Except we were ahead of them now as my guild somehow was the top NA horde until nearly everyone rather famously got banned for wall hacking in AQ to avoid trash. Save me and my best friend (we were 19 and more interested in women/RL things we had ignored in our EQ days so we missed many raids and were basically only around bc our RL friends made up half the officers)
Amusingly one of my friends, an absolute total slacker turned this notoriety into a gaming industry job with that dude who made WoWs new game company.
Near BC launch i joined foh with my Shaman had a good time, FoH were getting some world top 25s kills and appeared on the way up again and appeared to be establishing itself among the very best NA guilds. Yet i was burningout, and i suspect so were others. Guild was basically reliant on 25 of the same 27 or so logging on each night. The few subs we had played classes/roles we had no need for. I think the issue was simply finding people with the correct skills, dedication, and mentality to fit in was just impossible so the guild had little choice but to shoot for lesser targets, and become less competitive. Of course i fell asleep on a raid and got banned even on the forum until RR via Melia (ravv) who disliked me for whatever reason.
Oddly enough my WoW guild featuring many of my RL friends then got server merged to BDF server in classic. So i was on the same server as FoH once again. Except we were ahead of them now as my guild somehow was the top NA horde until nearly everyone rather famously got banned for wall hacking in AQ to avoid trash. Save me and my best friend (we were 19 and more interested in women/RL things we had ignored in our EQ days so we missed many raids and were basically only around bc our RL friends made up half the officers)
Amusingly one of my friends, an absolute total slacker turned this notoriety into a gaming industry job with that dude who made WoWs new game company.
Near BC launch i joined foh with my Shaman had a good time, FoH were getting some world top 25s kills and appeared on the way up again and appeared to be establishing itself among the very best NA guilds. Yet i was burningout, and i suspect so were others. Guild was basically reliant on 25 of the same 27 or so logging on each night. The few subs we had played classes/roles we had no need for. I think the issue was simply finding people with the correct skills, dedication, and mentality to fit in was just impossible so the guild had little choice but to shoot for lesser targets, and become less competitive. Of course i fell asleep on a raid and got banned even on the forum until RR via Melia (ravv) who disliked me for whatever reason.
- 1