What's the most "skillful" thing you've accomplished in an MMO recently?

Recant

I hear a lot of arguments that X game takes more skill than Y game, or that Z game requires "no skill".  And I'm very interested what it is exactly these people claim to be able to do that makes them skillful.  You don't need to be an egomaniac, you don't need to consider yourself the best, but surely you've done something that made you think "damn, I've got skills", and I want to hear about it.



- Are you a maestro with a certain class?  Tell us what you did!



- Are you in a very successful guild/corp/alliance/clan etc, respected by the community - what have you done in terms of skill to get you there.



- I'm very interested in the answers about YOU.  Not interested if you think one game is more "skillful" than another, or even that you think that MMOs require less skill than other games.



Don't be shy!

Recant

Can you at least tell us what character it was? :P

retrospectic

Originally posted by Recant

I hear a lot of arguments that X game takes more skill than Y game, or that Z game requires "no skill".  And I'm very interested what it is exactly these people claim to be able to do that makes them skillful.  You don't need to be an egomaniac, you don't need to consider yourself the best, but surely you've done something that made you think "damn, I've got skills", and I want to hear about it.



- Are you a maestro with a certain class?  Tell us what you did!



- Are you in a very successful guild/corp/alliance/clan etc, respected by the community - what have you done in terms of skill to get you there.



- I'm very interested in the answers about YOU.  Not interested if you think one game is more "skillful" than another, or even that you think that MMOs require less skill than other games.



Don't be shy!

I would have to say, this post is probably going to get some instant WoW hate.  It is not escapable. 



As for accomplishments, pulling as an EQ Monk at 59 was pretty spectacular in some respects.  I was able to pull bosses some 65s were dying on.



In WoW, healing as a Shadow Priest in 70 5mans when the main healer bites it....  That's about it.

nomadian

I used to get a thrill in Everquest for doing anything which pushed the limit or was challenging in some form or another. Like tackling some boss or going down in some dungeon and taking on some challenging path or another. (Unfortunately needing a summon corpse on occasion )

In WoW, I guess it was good when you've got some willy nilly group with their heads all over the place and then organizing and leading that so there is some kind of structure preventing the group from wiping out. Though, usually I kind of erred away from that as a preference just it was satisfying on occasion to lead.

GzSx93

Probaly have a 70 mage, 61 shammy, 65 war, and 60 mage in wow is the best thing iv done in a  mmo

Huria

Maybe I just don't do skillful things because I can't remember. All I do remember is I'm playing a game and having the time of my life.

CaesarsGhost

The most skillful thing I've done recently that was MMO related was...



Make a working server layer for 100 people.

AranStormah

Oh man.

A happy memory from PlanetSide. (Mind, I am nowhere near "best" by any stretch of the imagination, I'm "decent" at what I do. Anyway) My former outfitmate and his new outfit had been trying to get me to defect from the VS to TR for weeks, and I kept claiming I'd never leave cause the pulsar was too awesome :P They weren't convinved.

Not before I hacked and solo defended an amp station against my good friend and four of his squadmates. This in rexo using only a pulsar, decimator (back when two rockets killed a MAX) and the medpacks/decis I looted from them along with a BANK for my armour. Each one of them wanted the kill so they kept coming one or two at a time from their AMS in the yard.

At that time I got _really_ full of myself, and their tells didn't help the matter Of course it was all just down to claiming superior positions along with the advantage of the audio amplifier, and I had a more versatile weapon. I did lose before the whole 15 minutes of the hack was through though.

The fun thing about PlanetSide is that even within the same "class" there are different playstyles. As infantry I swear by crouch-burstfiring in all situations, while many prefer A-D warping or wallhumping. Either way, it gets the job done as long as you're used to it and don't underestimate the other guy :P

njai

Originally posted by nomadian

In WoW, I guess it was good when you've got some willy nilly group with their heads all over the place and then organizing and leading that so there is some kind of structure preventing the group from wiping out. Though, usually I kind of erred away from that as a preference just it was satisfying on occasion to lead.

  Yep best feeling ever... pulling that noob PUG into a decent run in any game is the most rewarding, and greatest feeling of skill

gnomexxx

In DAoC...



Taking down a whole 8 man Alb group with my Hibbie Bard.



















Okay, I made that up.  But it would be so cool if it were true.

ZAGAN

Never used an Exploit. EVER. 

b0rderline99

buying and selling epics in WoW and making hundreds off it

TSOTNWGEOL

To See My Friend In Ragnarok (Level 99 Rogue) Got killed By A "Picky" He Summoned From A "Dead Branch", While I Was Standing With My Character (Level 97 Paladin) In The "City Of Izlude".

Though This Is Like Off Topic, I Can Consider It The Best Thing During My Time In RO.

Omega3

Wow - 60 warlock - Full GM gear



Taking all the alliance towers and killing all the lieutenants, also dealing with those pesky rogues trying to bother me, alone in the back while most of the crowd was on the alliance bridge, then taking Snowfall and Iceblood and entirely turning the tides of the battle for the alliance. I even lead it since people were trusting me, something pretty hard to achieve in PUGs AV games.



After that day, hordes never let towers/GY go unprotected ever on my PvP shard.



I don't know if i was extremely lucky or extremely skilled, but i sure as hell was the man of the day.

Ravanos

Planetside - Dropping on a yellow alert base with 2 others, mowing through thier defense to resecure the base ... and THEN holding it till reinforcements arrived.

probably one of the most intense moments ever in a video game, because i knew if any of us died we would not have a chance (we already had a slim one as it was). It took real skill not "oh my armor is tier 3 epic so i should win", we had to use our skill not be some pansy who can play with one hand (yeah im looking at you WoW PVPers)

Vion1x

i havnt done something real real special in a mmo lately.... i play FPS games and GuildWars atm, and well u dont do much in GW alone, and since im monking then i wouldt be able to say "ahh i killed em all".... but well i keep my guild alive and are pretty good at saving spikes.

also have a good talent on fps games....

 

but ey, what is skills nowdays ? u got skills because u got more time to grind then ur enemy ? or u got more skills because u controle ur char better ? - ppl dont seems to agree on this with eachother.

Stumpy26

In EVE I am an interdictor Pilot (basicly everyone shoots you first cos you can drop warp bubbles)

I managed to stay alive(barely) during a 3 hour epic battle against the Mercenary Coalition, although my ship did look like swiss chesse after that (permanent structure fire halfway into the fight.

400 people were involved in this battle

Obraik

Winning against a well known Bounty Hunter that's buffed with nearly every available buff in the game while I'm only using the 3 I have available as part of my profession (Medic).

 

Jarlo

Mine is planetside as well, the most skill based MMO out there!

Mine was a recent cave offensive where the CC we were holding got whiped by 2 TR with chainguns and one max.  Our 3 guys killed the max but the 2 softies survived.  At this point we had no spawn point in the cave and the hack was almost through on a Redoubt base.  I swept in while the softies were giving each other high 5's and lashed em down to bits then rezzed my squaddies and we held the base.  Was rather exciting 8)

Also getting the kill shot on TR BFR with my NC sparrow last night was fun.

Oh and solo'ing a lightning twice and a mosquito in the same life with a lancer.. talking close combat not sniping!  That made me giggle more than get excited though.

Drafell

First one would have to be GuildWars and winning 10 consecutive Guild Battles shortly after the game released with GWOnline.

The second was learning how NOT to die in DarkSpace. I remember it was around August 2003, I had been trying to fly my Carrier Dreadnought and was being reasonable successful but had seemed to hit a wall in my playing skill. No matter how hard I tried I just seemed to be unable to gain any more prestige (the DarkSpace equivalent of experience). DarkSpace is almost totally a PvP twitch-based game, and I was continually getting trounced on by the 1+ year 'veterans', but was still having a lot of fun.
Out of desperation, and to avoid losing more prestige, I resorted to piloting as smaller ship, called the Assault Destroyer. I was still dieing lots, but I was slowly starting to gain prestige again.

About a week later it suddenly hit me like a revelation. I seemed to enter this zone where I simply could not die. Instead of going into battle and having a 50/50 chance of survival, I had this seemingly magical ability to dodge the incoming enemy fire, while dealing a good lot of damage in return. For about 7 hours solid I played and did not die once, and I realized that I had gone from being a merely average player, to a somewhat decent pilot. No longer would I have to fear the veterans, for I had joined their ranks at last. I had not become one of the elite, for there were only a few such pilot's with the god like ability to take on whole fleets and win, and I still would not consider myself to be one of these few individuals today. But... that probably has to be one of my greatest gaming moments ever.

During this time I had joined a fleet(the DS version of a guild or clan) called the Shattered Star Confederation, or =SSC= for short. I became an influential member of the DarkSpace division and pretty much ended up running it by the end of the year. Unfortunately nearly the entire SSC collapsed a couple of years ago due to internal 'leadership' issues, which in itself was a conflict with the entire set of ideals the clan embodied. I decided to leave and found my own fleet, which has been around in variously named incarnations ever since. SSC itself split in to two new clans, The SSX, or Shattered Star Exiles, which are still around as a community today, and the original SSC, which I believe has dissolved into somewhat of a non-entity.

It was a couple of months after my 'revelation' that I got invited to apply for a GM position for DarkSpace, and in July of last year I joined the development team.

There, I ended up telling more than I originally intended to...

garbonzo

Well, I don't play WoW anymore, but one of my favorite things I did about 6 months ago was to create a new character on an alternate server to see how much gold I could amass just by using the auction house and direct player trades - basically a trader roleplay character.  I adventured to about level 7 to collect up some linen cloth and light leather, then parked in Org and "played the market."  After about 2 months I had around 350gold, which was pretty funny for a low level with no support from a main.  Unfortunately I quit without really doing anything with all that gold since it was separated from my main server...guess I should have given it away.

My main is usually a healer in every game I play.  I have to agree that holding a PUG together in WoW with desperate heals when things got really ugly was a tremendous rush - I certainly wasn't the best, but those were the moments when my "skill" was seriously needed - i.e. the ability to monitor the health of everyone in the group and dole out the right heal/protection at the right time, while not dying or running out of mana.  Really fun stuff.  

Jackcolt

Last thing I did something skilled in a MMO... probably something in GW(not a MMO i know) or PS, but I honestly never really feel challenged skills wise in a MMO. Either you can defeat someone or not... you usually play your best.



I mostly feel skilled when handling a difficult situation in a RTS, or killing a lot in a row in some FPS. Of course in multiplayer.

NeoSpud

One of my favorite moments was back in planetside pre-release.  I just remember rockets and grenades and killing a ton of people and feeling like rambo.  The large scale battles in that game were intense.

Keldien

Let's see.  Mine would have been leading the first Plane of Time raid for my guild.  We were the second (third actually, but one guild left the server) guild to get there behind Township Rebellion on Stormhammer.  We managed to tear through phases ones through three, and decimate all but Rallos Zek on our first try. 



Almost makes me want to play EQ again.

earthhawk

Probably not the most skilled thing I've done, but certainly tone of the most memorable...

I was in a level 70 5-man group headed to Sethekk Halls. We consisted of a feral druid (tank), priest, holy pally (me), mage, and hunter. The group was decent considering it was a PUG, but we had our fair share of problems. Finally after about an hour we get to the end boss. The strategy was laid down before the fight began, and when all aggreed we were ready, the fight started. Within 30 seconds the shadow priest, mage, and hunter were dead, basically killing our DPS. That left me (holy paladin), and the feral druid to finish the fight. The tricky part to this encounter, was the boss had an AOE spell that did about 5k damage (on average 70 characters have around 8k-10 depending on the class, gear, and talents), we had to hide behind these pillars to avoid the balst, all the while tryng not to loose LOS of each other. I would heal, run and hide, and begin healing again. The fight was intense and took skill on both of our parts not to wipe on the boss. With very little mana left, and the druid still having about  1/3 of his HP left, the boss went down. We cheered, rezzed the party, and slpit the loot. It was a neat expeirence, and I had people from other guilds congratulating me on the succces.

TSOTNWGEOL

Another RO Highlights:

My Level 1 Novice Was Accidentaly Teleported To GH, And Baphomet Killed Me In Just 6 Shots, where Obviously Could Have Been Dead During The First Shot.

In R.O.S.E.on,

I Didn't Know That Pomic King Was The Boss Monster Level Among The Pomics, And I Was So Obviously Scared When I Started Attacking It With My Level 30 Dual-Wielding Soldier, Though That Was A Hard Time, Knowing You I Got Two Buffs, Since Other Skills Won't Stack With My Wepon.

In FlyFF,

I Killed A Level 30 Acrobat With My Level 20 Mage. It Was The First Time I Tried A Real Duel.

In Ragnarok,

I Have A Level 99 High Wizard, And I Kept Spamming Lord Of Vermillion In Front Of The Emperium And Hey I Damage Everyone Around, Along With My Male Husband (Anyway Same Sex Marrage That Is) Scholar/Professor. Didn't We Have That "A Student Learns Alot From His Teacher."