The only group Sin Vida fielded that was decent was ran by Kration, who, IIRC, screened the bad SV from joining his group. I don't know/remember why, but I'll assume it's under the pretense that you guys were free realm points and that he knew his group would be/was successful without the relics.
Whatever the reason, his group left Sin Vida and created a top tier group within that time frame. Honestly, some of the best times I had in DAoC was fighting his group, about a year up to the point I joined the Navy. Tagged Sin Vida or not his group was one of the more memorable moments I had in the game.
It was Kration, Orenishi and myself who did a 3v3 against your co-GM, Nexussix. Each group was a void eld, body sorc and his group had a druid+ML2 perfecter (why would that matter, Kawaja?) and ours had a ML0 shaman. I think all our group had over his was endurance regeneration, I don't know if that time in the game if people used regen pots. I'm sure they did and they'd be stupid if they didn't use them. So really, they had DI, extra pet, heals, pr, cure ns over us.
On top of that, relics were very much in play during these fights, heals, nukes 30% more effective. You can see that when you look at the HP bars when nearly getting two bolted every so often.
It would be fun to play with the following again, either with or against: Runney, Ilsun, Fanta, Jessx, Orenishi, Rodhette, Blondiner, Kration, Kozzoloz, Gaitheurg, Zalera, Fixxed, Minded, Gaiaonline, Tobytaxi, Paul, Xvim, Qiez, lars, dunlinde, marco, spinaltap, Kvg, pasty puffs crew so on and so fourth.
These people in one way or another I've either played with, against or both. Was a small community but in essence the fights were always there and always fun. And for the most part people didn't give up after a loss, most of the times fight the same group upwards in the double digits every night, and the next fight would be 5 minutes later, unless switching up the group build.
It was during that time period, Kawaja, that you felt like you were superior to other groups. The core of the good players/groups were off in their own little world in their own community constantly setting up fights amongst themselves, not caring about SV or relics. Sin Vida groups never dared to even stay in the same zone. The groups that formed up and attacked your keep didn't comprise of these names and if they were out there, they were in it for the realm points.
So, really, what did you really accomplish? Other than most time spent in a loading screen, of course.
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