Not sure.Does Furor even know this community is still around? I know he had an account on ReRolled.
Lol. This article refers to "the vile FoH forums"
The Rehabilitation of Blizzard's Alex "Furor" Afrasiabi | Wolfshead Online
He must have been a member of BrawlHall.com. I hear they were the premier flame community at one point.
Yea, he was Kalaran. Him, some other rogue (who's name started with K as well, I think), Zamtil and a healer (druid?) power leveled to 50 using the early form of 'whirl till you hurl'. It would stun and spin the mob, so each rogue could stand there and backstab it and you didn't need a real tank. Rogues had highest sustained dps, so it was a very efficient way to maximize exp..
I also remember Nagafen took longer to down, but I don't remember why. Maybe his AE breath was working from the start?
Anyway, at some point he decided it was more important for the guild to be a tank and the best race for tanks were Ogres with their frontal stun immunity. That was Kartak, who got banned during the Plane of Fear days for exploiting a nodrop bug. The thing was, for various reasons players would need to switch to alts to help the guild, and then loot for their main would drop off trash mobs which would now rot instead. Anyone who raided back then should be familiar with this scenario. So, while he was using the bug, he was often doing it to get around some of the shitty design we were all suffering through. Getting banned for it made him pissed at Verant, hence the 'Furor' name. Since he was the raid leader and main tank, they powerleveled the hell out of his new character. It wasn't just the dragon's teeth, though that was a big part, but also multiple people all helping. One person pulling mobs, others buffing his pet, dps to kill the mob after he/his pet did 50% of the damage, etc.. I was hanging out in IRC back then, when it happened, and remember hearing the planning of it all. Was very impressive how quick he got back to 50.
Koraf was the other rogue and Nino was the cleric.
Nagafen took longer for two reasons. One was you could pick pocket him and steal loot. We did that and there was not need to kill them. Second there was a nasty negative hp bug back in the day. If a mob had a plus hit point item and a dot ticked to kill the mob the mob would do negative health and not die and was unkillable until it regenerated. This most commonly happened to the animated hand in lower guk but it also happened on Nagafen as well early on making him extremely hard to kill.
Kartak/Kalaran was banned because, he/me meaning I used it as well, used a program someone gave us in irc which allowed you to trade no drop items. He traded his original fear gear which was war/rogue etc wearable before they put in the war only version to his rogue. Someone snitched on him and he was perma banned. I used it to trade a bunch of no drop fear gear to level ones at the time. Once he was banned I deleted all the gear and never got in trouble.
Just wanted to correct a few things.
He must have been a member of BrawlHall.com. I hear they were the premier flame community at one point.
Not Regime, Requiem.Amazing that you can read that and not see the huge parallels with fohguild.org and Regime. That faggot owes us the database for fucking off and leaving your aspie ass and swamp donkey to fuck it into oblivion. He is a worthless piece of shit and deserves a kick in the nuts from the UFC heavyweight champ.