Prexus had some pretty awesome drama. Spill the beans Soy.
Indeed we did, and thankfully it's still all mostly preserved on our Prexus forum. I was in Nameless Order with Soygen from PoP on through my retirement around DoD. Thus I missed the Luclin drama, but there was some doozys. One I heard of was NO killing warders in Vex Thal, and then as they are doing so, see the corpse of a Mage being dragged past them by a rogue of a rival guild Stasis. Suddenly Stasis has their whole guild past NO after they've done the work of killing the warders. Funny as shit now, but they were a pain in the ass guild back then that were all about stealing any kill that they could.
Just one thread here about them that's dripping with drama.
At one point it also became known that Stasis's leader was selling off guild bank items for rent, which was fucking hilarious. Toward the beginning of PoP, our guild leader Perplex manipulated Stasis into thinking that we still desperately wanted Luclin raid targets. As a result, Stasis lagged a bit behind on starting PoP. Still, one night Perplex told us we'd hit Emperor in SSRA before heading on over to our PoP target. Before you knew it, Stasis is rushing out of Vex Thal and starting to cram into the zone. So Perp says fuck it, EVERYONE go /anon (Stasis was notorious for doing this). We then all port over to Vex Thal, and all take off /anon. Doing a /who was just priceless...you saw them all just scrambling back over to Vex Thal. After they start zoning in we port on over to PoP and start our business. Someone in Stasis who joined us a few years later told us the leader was absolutely losing his shit when that happened.
During PoP Stasis started dwindling and things were often ugly between Keepers of the Flame who were the top guild and Nameless Order. We didn't really start butting heads until right around the point we were starting to flag for Rallos Zek. They knew that was our last target before Elemental planes, like most guilds, so they wanted us out. For a good 2-3 weeks, we dealt with these guys up out ass every...single....time we were working toward Rallos Zek and splitting the Zek brothers near him. We all know how fucking shitty optimization was back then for EQ...shit back then was already a lag fest. Now add another 80 people behind your force of 80ish people, and it becomes a slideshow of fail. KtF leaders would constantly pester our leadership with tells and saying engage soon or we're jumping you, all in the middle of leaders trying to give us strats, and Soygen and other monks losing their minds on those pulls. Eventually we got him,
but it wasn't long before our party had to be ruined by more shit being flung at each other. Drama starts probably less than 4 pages in. The constant term always thrown around at that time was that Nameless Order was "toll boothing" by getting to a mob and slowing down. KtF always made NO look like a guild that raced to the mob then took our sweet ass time, but the fact was we had them up our ass lagging us the fuck out on every attempt.
Then we really butted heads on Sol Ro. KtF knew that plane of fire was the jackpot for drops, and they wanted that shit completely locked down. One day as we were clearing all the mini bosses and sol Ro temple, there was just 1 KtF alt at the zone in (big fucking clue what's going on there). Soon as we see Sol Ro pop on tracking, we immediately rush for his room. Suddenly KtF is rushing in as well. As we get to the main room, we begin pulling, and form there, I have no fucking idea what happened, but all the trash is all over both raid forces and we all wipe...maybe Soygen can give some input there. So now you have two forces basically wiped out after most of the trash was killed off by a few remaining people. Both sides begin rezzing up, moving forward pulling the last trash or two, and then we both engage Sol Ro at the same time. I guess we just didn't do as much damage as them, as they get the kill, kill the elemental for the flag immediately, and port out like 1 minute later. That was probably the most pissed I had every been in EQ, EVER.
KtF had him locked down for a good 1-2 weeks, but like all mobs, he had an exact respawn timer (7 days I believe?). So when one day we knew he was spawn at 6am, all of Nameless Order logged on at five fucking thirty A.M. and took that fucker out in one shot without having to deal with a shit lag fest behind us. KtF really never knew we'd have that kind of dedication to do that, and I think that's why they didn't bother to do the same thing. You could tell they were kind of stunned we did that.
That still didnt stop them from bothering us in EVERY SINGLE FUCKING ELEMENTAL PLANE. Listen, competition is great in games, but looking back on this shit now, what ducking terrible design to only have the content available to one guild to kill a week. Plane of fire fields, they were there racing to take our mobs. Clear all of Fennin Ro event trash for two hours, they pop in after a single wipe and kill him. Plane of Earth...jumping over us on those shit temple events. Plane of Air, hopping over us again. Plane of Water...turning an already slide show into a fucking wrist slitting exercise.
Here it is, enjoy...51 pages of everyone flinging feces at each other. How times have changed.
I think I've covered enough, I'll let Soy share some if he wants.