More people haven't mentioned Holy?
The way i see it is everyone is gonna continue to mention guilds from 10 years ago or endorse their favorite guild without really giving credit to guilds like Holy or even IP/Money/HOT as well. Very few guilds have actively stuck around and have had large varieties of domination on the shard. Sure there might be specialized guilds who were the best at certain time in ONE catagory of the game but that doesn't make them truly a legendary guild. A legendary guild conquers all aspects of the game not just one area.
Some facts on why Holy/ONE is the most legendary guild. If any guild can match these ackolaids I will acknowledge them as contenders.
Size/Influence on the creation of other guilds
-ONE was at one time the second largest guild and Holy has been the second largest only to HOT since we changed tags. They are in fact the same guild so when you combine the numbers (most are old hybrid players who no longer play) Holy/ONE easily makes up the biggest guild to ever hit hybrid number wise.
-The return of Raw was due to them being in ONE and working with us. Chase, Hombre, parlimento, ashline, wesnile, scatman, and a few others who i cant remember I recruited into one and they joined Raw at the same time. Meaning another legendary guild came back to life because of ONE.
-The return of EQMS to fight against Holy/S1ck and create action at idocs. (not only to fight us but we were a major factor)
-The return of IP as loot to fight against Holy and create action at idocs.(not only to fight us but we were a major factor)
-I can't even begin to name the amount of guilds that were created for the sole purpose of destroying ONE/Holy that didn't thrive or died out quickly for one reason or another.
IDOC
-Longest consisting running idoc guild that actually wins idoc (5+ years of consistent idocing)
-Many people who were once members of Holy or ONE went on to create idoc guilds of their own. (few ex: Grant : Raw (the revival anyway) paratwins : HS, Fab : S1ck, Dirt McGirt : 1CE)
-Some of the best idoc timers/and placers to ever play hybrid where born in Holy.
-Countless players learned how to time, find, pvp, and place by joining holy.
-The current idoc book system 90% of idocers use currently(past 3 years) was created by Holy and most adapted it when learning how it works from rouge members
PVP
-Won more idocs then all other guilds combined. Shut down guilds like intrusion, GNG, I P, OWN, and MS EQ within its first year of creation.
-Dominant PK group that consistently PKs to this day
-80% of your favorite pvpers who still play or have come back I have called for them in the field at one point or another. And in call I am often the caller. This is so well known that much of the time i am the first target. Many players who are callers for their groups now learned from being in Holy while I was caller and then adapting what I did and making it work for them in their own ways.
-Duelists in the top ten for the last 3 years in everything from alcky(kenshin, mickey, nefarious, neon) to 5x(folken, shini)
-Duelists in the top top 100 from day one of the guild(back when 2000 people still played)
-Multiple faction guilds who held the highest faction points throughout time
-Always accepted any even number fight and been willing to record it to prove victory or just to have fun.
-More people then i can count through out the years learned how to pvp in Holy, everything from the very basics how to set a hot key, up to the highest levels of dueling.
TRADE
- Vendor Malls at Yew Bank and Yew moongate consistently for 4+ years.
- More unique items have been re introduced back into the game from Holy then any other group through means of recovering them from IDOCs
-Some of the most impressive and possessive item collections are from Holy Members. Remingtons castle surpassed Nekobis Ice island house for eyesore.
Wealth/Poker
- I would say the at least 5 of the top 10 richest people to ever play are Holy members. Most likely at least 3 in the top 5 Richest are holy members.
- Item wise collectively Holy members hold more rares and uniques then any other guild.
- 4 of the 5 top sharks on the poker website are Holy members.(meaning we've won more gold in poker consistently and kept it then anyone else)
EVENTS
- When the event league started me kenshin and nef held the top 3 most points for the first 6 months.
- over half the statues in the champ of brit are Holy members.
I could continue but my Kanye rant has gone far enough. Honestly most of you know me and I've had alot of fun playing hybrid. Denie Holy's status as you want but there is no argueing when you break down the facts Holy is the ROME of hybrid.