I spent 6 maybe 7 years in IL raiding EQ and I experienced every expansion from PoP through SoD with IL.
My favorite eras really come down to 2.
When I joined IL back in PoP there were over 100 members easily I'm sure. PoP raids were 72 max and when we did Time we always had an extra 15 or 20 every Saturday. The people back then were awesome. I really enjoyed all the personalities within the guild, especially Ferrien and Illithius. Ferrien lead raids and he was abrasive to say the least but it was very, very comical. A cleric app actually quit the guild when Ferrien berated him for being retarded in a public channel. I laughed... The guild was locked on then too. Everyone knew their class very good to stellar I would say. IL was a class act. We really had some great guildmates back then and IL had the best necro corps ever at the time of any guild, I don't say that lightly either.
My other favorite era was TSS when we merged with HUHU. People leave EQ all the time and it's a constant loss of friends going to other guilds or quitting the game. I can think back over hundreds of names that I regretted to see move on. After years of that it gets hard to deal with losing all those friends and entire eras of friends just gone. The huhu merger was the exact opposite though. I gained an entire guild worth of friends and no matter what disagreements there might have been over policies or loot for others I was happy as hell to welcome them all aboard. The immense amount of ass IL kicked was astounding. We walked right into Demi and cleared it before the final merger was even approved with 40 or more in the waiting channel. We had so many people in waiting we were ready to form a second raid. It was incredible. We finished Demi and went right to PoR finishing it very quickly, we briefly struggled with the 2nd event but once we had it down Ayonae was done... After that we pushed right into the Frost Giant side of TSS and raped event after event flagging everyone. The final event of 3 I believe before we were able to access the last tier of raids of the Giants was the only one that gave us any trouble. We spent maybe a week or 2 learning it and it was one of the best finishes I've seen in EQ. We farmed the Frost Giant side and moved on to the Ashengate raids owning them up at breakneck speed too. Outside of raids we were already finishing people up with flagging for Solteris. The Sister's event in Solteris was well known to be the separator between the men and the boys, it was more than the Redfang of the TBS expansion. We continued to farm TSS but we hit Sisters up everytime we had the people online to attempt it and their dps clickies were up. It took some time but we won and moved on to quickly beat the 2nd and 3rd encounters, then the 4th and it wasn't until the 2nd to last encounter where we started to struggle again. Raids were full then, people were eager to progress and Zarzac posted IL was the fastest progressing guild in EQ at the time because we weren't attempting 54 man raids with average 36 members anymore. We finished Solteris and from Demi to the start of SoF that was an amazing time in IL. Loot flowed like the mighty Mississippi in the spring thaw. I had a ton of friends all around to group with during raids and we destroyed 4 expansions in literally record setting time.
My favorite eras really come down to 2.
When I joined IL back in PoP there were over 100 members easily I'm sure. PoP raids were 72 max and when we did Time we always had an extra 15 or 20 every Saturday. The people back then were awesome. I really enjoyed all the personalities within the guild, especially Ferrien and Illithius. Ferrien lead raids and he was abrasive to say the least but it was very, very comical. A cleric app actually quit the guild when Ferrien berated him for being retarded in a public channel. I laughed... The guild was locked on then too. Everyone knew their class very good to stellar I would say. IL was a class act. We really had some great guildmates back then and IL had the best necro corps ever at the time of any guild, I don't say that lightly either.
My other favorite era was TSS when we merged with HUHU. People leave EQ all the time and it's a constant loss of friends going to other guilds or quitting the game. I can think back over hundreds of names that I regretted to see move on. After years of that it gets hard to deal with losing all those friends and entire eras of friends just gone. The huhu merger was the exact opposite though. I gained an entire guild worth of friends and no matter what disagreements there might have been over policies or loot for others I was happy as hell to welcome them all aboard. The immense amount of ass IL kicked was astounding. We walked right into Demi and cleared it before the final merger was even approved with 40 or more in the waiting channel. We had so many people in waiting we were ready to form a second raid. It was incredible. We finished Demi and went right to PoR finishing it very quickly, we briefly struggled with the 2nd event but once we had it down Ayonae was done... After that we pushed right into the Frost Giant side of TSS and raped event after event flagging everyone. The final event of 3 I believe before we were able to access the last tier of raids of the Giants was the only one that gave us any trouble. We spent maybe a week or 2 learning it and it was one of the best finishes I've seen in EQ. We farmed the Frost Giant side and moved on to the Ashengate raids owning them up at breakneck speed too. Outside of raids we were already finishing people up with flagging for Solteris. The Sister's event in Solteris was well known to be the separator between the men and the boys, it was more than the Redfang of the TBS expansion. We continued to farm TSS but we hit Sisters up everytime we had the people online to attempt it and their dps clickies were up. It took some time but we won and moved on to quickly beat the 2nd and 3rd encounters, then the 4th and it wasn't until the 2nd to last encounter where we started to struggle again. Raids were full then, people were eager to progress and Zarzac posted IL was the fastest progressing guild in EQ at the time because we weren't attempting 54 man raids with average 36 members anymore. We finished Solteris and from Demi to the start of SoF that was an amazing time in IL. Loot flowed like the mighty Mississippi in the spring thaw. I had a ton of friends all around to group with during raids and we destroyed 4 expansions in literally record setting time.
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