Umm, dude. Quellious? To fuck Lotus Cult? YUH.EQ1 fights pretty much all followed the same pattern: Find the safe spots to dodge AOEs/hide your healers and squishies, figure out the tank swaps, deal with the x-factor (knockback, poisons, mana drains, etc). The strategy usually was much harder to crack than the actual execution requirements, which is why every guild kept that shit as close to the chest as possible.
If you look at it with unclouded vision, Mythic raids in WoW or Ultimate raids in FFXIV are much harder than anything we had to deal with in EQ1, primarily because flawless execution on the shoulders of everyone matters. In EQ1, it was more macro level: Make sure X% of your raid doesn't die, but that ratio could be fucked with it you zerged the boss. I remember in Planes of Power, we teamed up with a bunch of other guilds and ultra zerged Rallos Zek just so we could get into the elemental planes faster. No joke, we probably had like 120-150 people in there. Shit was a slideshow, I had to stare at the floor the entire time and even then I was getting like 1/4th a frame a second, if that lol
Monq was good. I think Genj is talking about Arlos. Manalope had skills.Monq ?
One guy I'd fangirl over if he were still around: Manalope. He was funny af and was a damn good player. He had rings and magic amulets out the wazoo! (remember that article?)
Shadowspear was a legend too. Fijian roomate! Dear God I can't believe it has been TWENTY YEARS ago!
Was it like having 2 marbles in a santa bag?Little known fact: My monk had the biggest scrotum across all servers.
Little known fact: My monk had the biggest scrotum across all servers.
Nah, Cazic ThuleUmm, dude. Quellious? To fuck Lotus Cult? YUH.
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That RZTW encounter apparently broke the old system on multiple servers then. Because it was this that caused the implementation of the new 72 person raid system.Furor told me monks don’t deserve high
AC for wearing dragon foreskin armor lol
Nah, Cazic Thule
I haven't heard Lotus Cult in a long ass time.Umm, dude. Quellious? To fuck Lotus Cult? YUH.
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With FOH the forum? I'm pretty sure he doesn't, and for some reason I thought he had told people in IRC to let the forums die after the Req/Tyen fiasco.Does Alex/Furor have any association with FOH at all anymore?
Did you play a cleric? Staring the book and the walls, you know?When the once mighty Roman Church split in two, and kept fragmenting, and Byzantine, a strange land, claimed right, did they quit?
No.
Should they have?
Yes.
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You are probably thinking of Vis Maior? Quellious represent! Them and Lotus Cult were kind of the 1-2 as far as I remember. I was in one of the "support" guilds and would sometimes raid Fear with them.I haven't heard Lotus Cult in a long ass time.
I thought there was a guild on Quellious whose name started with "M" that was up there too, but it's been so fucking long now.
With FOH the forum? I'm pretty sure he doesn't, and for some reason I thought he had told people in IRC to let the forums die after the Req/Tyen fiasco.
He was probably right, LOL
Yah, that was them.You are probably thinking of Vis Maior? Quellious represent! Them and Lotus Cult were kind of the 1-2 as far as I remember. I was in one of the "support" guilds and would sometimes raid Fear with them.
Hold up. I had forgotten about this one. Oh, and Utnayan ROFLWraith/Rev. Two guild (wraith was pretty mandatory raiding, rev was come as you please, shared dkp system).
We destroyed VM, then we destroyed LC.
The true test of a Quellious veteran: "The Darkoor Mistell"
I have a story on the other end of the spectrum.
Since I started EQ1 kind of late (on Quellious), all the people I knew RL who played were already max level and playing around in their respective guilds and those guilds weren't about to take a lvl 1. Fortunately we all played at a LAN store so I was at least able to ask questions of people around me, and they got me started and into the game. But outside the occasional group, they were usually busy with their guilds and I was pretty much left to level to whatever the max cap was at the time (I don't even remember) so I could app to their guilds. And they had me start a War (/wrists).
I was having snakes kick the shit out of me when I met a couple of people outside of Oggok, talked to them for a while, and they tossed me an invite. Mind you this was my first MMO right off the bat, and I was just happy to have people to group with. I didn't know that I was going to have a guild tag that would in some ways be a badge of shame, or that the guild leader happened to be someone that was one of the favorite flame targets (particularly on the boards like Quellious collective). That person was Leerah, and the guild, was Unholy Czars.
I was completely oblivious at the time, and I met a number of good people, but I kind of felt like I should have been awarded a special title for coming up in that guild, which had only a handful of active members at a time and the rest were inactive or alts. This on a Warrior mind you, when there were little to no low level groups at all. I can still remember telling my RL friends who had just got me started playing that I had joined that guild. Looks were exchanged, and a couple people broke out laughing. They quickly informed me that A) Leerah was some sort of champion server drama magnet, B) I needed to level and GTFO out of that guild as quickly as humanly possible. To be fair to Leerah, she was a very nice person, but as time went on I started seeing all the fucking drama and thinking "holy shit". I did eventually leave and went to go play with friends once I did get leveled (was the plan all along) but when I look back I cant help but shake my had at how absurd a lot of it was.
I didn't have much luck right now with Quellious Collective, I'll try searching there later, but then I saw this thread...dated Feb 2013. I she has changed servers (probably multiple times) but...just lol. This seems pretty tame compared to a lot of the old stuff though, but she's still at it it seems.
http://forums.station.sony.com/eq/in...-in-game.3988/
Take it for what was reported instead of trying to make this about the source.
Yeah, I'm a carebear and proud of it. Every person who is griefed diminishes the community. I don't know why that is so hard for you guys to grasp.
The original owner of Retrievil was in my guild.We changed your baby necro diapers. You were raised to be kind to others. I recruited you to EIE and then you got all snotty and snarky. You were not brought up this way!
I went by the name of Guide Taldayan on the Quellious server. I remember that name, which wouldn't be good.View attachment 58658
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I met truly nice people, but then I'd see a fuckton of weird drama
You are probably thinking of Vis Maior? Quellious represent! Them and Lotus Cult were kind of the 1-2 as far as I remember. I was in one of the "support" guilds and would sometimes raid Fear with them.
Yah, that was them.
EDIT: oh shit, do you remember ORQ? I think it was "Organized Raiders of Quelliuos" or something like that.