Sonetime in 2000 I got a phone call around 230 or 3am. The person on the other end said "ragefire is up"

I woke up my older brother. "Ragefire is up"

We logged onto EQ and proceeds to help with our first guild kill of ragefire which was the bottleneck for the cleric epic quest. The quest in question gave a cleric a weapon that has a clickable ability to rez someone with no mana.

Raid wipes on that game took probably over an hour to get people rezed and buffed up, you lost xp when you died, so you had to get a rez to mitigate the loss.

There weren't instances, the whole server competed for mob kills, it was an extremely big deal in order for your guild to compete if you wanted to be one of the top guilds on the server.