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Your Personal Greatest Moments You have experienced playing MMO's
xover33
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http://xovergamingfront.blogspot.com/2009/08/moments-to-remember.html
Now the link above is a link to my blog I made about this very topic. You can read it if you want to get a background on what I mean, but it is not neccessary. What I am asking is what are your top 5 moments you have had in playing MMO's.
Now it is something that is personal to you and, and it is something that you feel is one of the funnest things you have experienced while playing MMO's.
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Hmm might be less than 5, anyway:
1. Fighting against 5 mammets, Omega and Ultima weapon on a middle of an Airship fleet in FFXI. What made it epic was that you had to fight all 8 monsters after another so you couldn't just continue from where you left if you died. Time limit was 45minutes and we cleared with 30secs to spare.
2. Clearing the Chains of Promathia expansion in FFXI after 6 months of weekly static'ing with 5 of my friends to clear the missions. The fight, the cutscene following it and the resulting reward were the best moments I've ever had in a game. What made it even more awesome was to clear the fight with the same group I started the missions with half a year ago. That's an accomplishment if something.
3. Upgrading the last endgame equip for my Monk after doing the 'raid' for 2½ years 4 times a week. I felt like king of the world at that point!
4. Killing off the boss of a raid in FFXI after 5 months of trying. It was so hard it was almost insane.
5. Quitting FFXI after 6 years of playing. Remembering all the good (and bad) things that happened on the journey really made it a memorable moment for me. No regrets.
Wow at the time it takes people to clear some raids and bosses in FFXI. I am glad I left that game after a month. That seems like a complete life steal right there.
I guess =P. It's not like the raids were long, you just could only do set amount of them per week.
The raid was really fun and random enough to stay interesting for the years, so I didn't mind it. And yeah, I felt more accomplished after getting it done after such a long time, which is why I'd do it again any day
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- Mastering doctor in SWG. Being able to create medical equiptment thats needed by everyone was amazing. I loved running a buff business in the major ports.
- Going red in UO (becoming a murderer)
- Getting my first house and decorating it in SWG
- Unlocking my jedi in SWG and using a lightsaber for the first time.
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I don't know if I have 5 really memorable moments, but I'll give it a shot. In no particular order:
1. The first time I logged in to WoW, my first MMO. The feeling of excitement has never been, and most likely never will be, matched.
2. In WoW, our guild had just started working on BWL and we had only beaten Razorgore once. It looked like we were going to wipe on him once again, but the handful of us remaining somehow managed to whittle down his last bits of health at the last possible second. We had wiped so many times on him trying to figure it out, so people were getting really frustrated. The feeling of being a survivor and everyone cheering and yelling in Vent was a lot of fun. That joy was short-lived thanks to Vael though.
3. The end of LotRO's open beta, the devs had waves of trolls and other baddies attack Bree. There were so many people in one place the server nearly choked. But it was a lot of fun to be in such a large group defending Bree against the overwhelming odds.
4. Open PvP in Tarren Mill in vanilla WoW. The sheer number of players that would gather was impressive. "Famous" players from both the Alliance and Horde that you had heard of from others were there and it was like a badge of honor if you had a hand in bringing them down or keeping them alive. The fight would swing in favor of one side and then another and it would last for hours. Lots of fun!
5. Again in WoW, at the farthest southern tip of Tanaris, there's a distant island. You have to swim through deep water to get there, and would die before you could reach it. I tried every trick I could think of to get there with my druid, but never managed to make it. I would get really, really close though. Close enough to see the shallow "safe" water around the island. People have claimed that they made it and found messages from the devs.
Not sure if that's what you were looking for. That's more like 5 of most memorable moments, but that'll have to do.
Current: None
Played: WoW, CoX, SWG, LotRO, EVE, AoC, VG, CO, Ryzom, DF, WAR
Tried: Lineage2, Dofus, EQ2, CoS, FE, UO, Wurm, Wakfu
Future: The Repopulation, ArcheAge, Black Desert, EQN
Knaw that all works and similar in feel to what I wrote in my blog. Yeah the early open PVP days before the honor system and battlegrounds in WoW were tons of fun. Only problem was my comp as crap and could barely handle it haha.
Killing Lord British in the UO beta.
First major war in UO at a chaos shrine.
First dragon pet in UO.
The first major open war(I actually started it) on my server between midgard and albion at their gates.
The first time I explored Kedge Keep and no one else had ever explored it in EQ. (Tons of sharks, underwater darkness, nothing but my fishbone earing and really bad camo spells to save me. really scary/creepy place)
The end of EQ beta with the wrath of all the gods.
Finding the character the Everquest devs named after me in EQ.
First Onyxia kill on our server in WoW.
First Nagafen and Lady Vox kills on our server EQ.
3 UO
4 EQ
1 each for DaoC and WoW.
I had a lot of good times in WoW and DaoC, but for some reason they just didn't have the same memorable effect that UO and EQ did. Maybe it;'s the whole "first time" thing and that WoW/DaoC basically spiritually descendant of EQ
quitting WoW for good...=)
1. My first mmorpg SavageEden and all the memories about it, i still wish i havent quit that game.
2. Lots of wow server firsts to many to write, pretbc was d shit.
3. GuildWars open beta that lasted like 3days, i soooo liked the game, really dunno why i havent started playing from day one. (GuildWars2 here i come)
4. Vanguard: Saga of Heroes memories i
this game even tho i dont play it anymore since none of my real life friends play.
Some of my Vanguard Screanies
check them all :]]
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Holy Flamin' Frost-Brand Gronk-Slayin' Vorpal Hammer o' Woundin' an' Returnin' an' Shootin'-Lightnin'-Out-Yer-Bum!! ~Planescape: Torment~
2 specific wars in runescape.. dont mock me i was young and it was fun ><
Being present for my guid's first Rag takedown and reaping the loot. 40man raids were just... better.
5. Running with the zerg through Hibland wiping out everything in sight
4. Killing the Mob that earned level 50 on my first DAoC toon
3. Killing my fist red name one on one in UO
2. Finally getting 100 blacksmithing in UO
1. Hitting all the good ore spots with my miner/blacksmith in UO naked so when I got robbed I wouldn't lose much!
UO, DAoC, FFXI, GW, WoW, LOtRO, WAR... <UO is still my favorite... >
It was during the lineage beta. 2 korean PKers had stopped everyone from entering the boat to the mainland by killing anyone setting their foot on the dock (the dock was PvP, together with some other small places). The korean players started before everyone else so many of them were high levles and PKed noobs for fun. They were not popular with the rest of us.
They were max levels and no-one on the island could fight of 2 even if there was 50 people wanting to board the ship.
I however had saved a wand of polymorf for quite some time, I turned one of them into a chicken. then everyone killed the chicken first and stormed the other guy. He got 10 of the guys until we finnished him off.
Never got so many thanks at the same time in a game before or after
-First week in WOW starting at launch (My First MMO) shit was soooo epic world seemed soo big and I know absolutely nothing about the game or how mmo's worked.
-Holding the record for raid progressions in vanilla wow (right before I quit the first time when BWL was the big bad raid)
-Various mini skirmishes that took place before battlegrounds and just after the release of WSG (back when people still world pvped)
-Guild PVP in white sands the week conan launched
-Looking for a new mmo that's pvp measures up to both swg oldschool base busting and shadowbane. (I am currently not playing an mmo)
Blizzard uses WOW to harvest hours played into bottles so that the dev team can remain immortal
It was the first time our kinship took down the Balrog in LotRO. I just had this immense feeling of satisfaction helping take this meance down!
Hedonismbot: Your latest performance was as delectable as dipping my bottom over and over into a bath of the silkiest oils and creams.
god.....so many glorious memories.....here we go...
1. killing 2 terran BFR's at the same time with my magrider in planetside.
2. me and my guild leader holding down a base and defending it from a squad 2v10
3. killing the shadowlord for the first time in ffonline.
4. unlocking sky..... god that place was beautifull....
5. unlocking all my summons on my summoner the LEGIT way (lvl50+) getting fenrir and diablous. those were some edge of your seat battles back when there was no true set method in taking them down
6. i was in this newb HNMLS (endgame guild) a lot of the players were new to end game in this clan. at the time i was one of the few vets. so we decide we were ready to take on kirin for the first time as a guild. things got out of control with the other gods and kirin was killing everyone so i summon good ole fenrir and pull kirin away from the guild while they take out the gods. and i litteraly keep him occupied for like 5-10 mins while we killed the other gods and won the raid.
7. first straight up victory in pvp darkfall. both geared, both were aware of each others presence. my heart was pounding
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If that's all true, then you are quite the MMO pioneer.
One of the moments I still remember was back in EQ1.
My guild and a few allies decided we were going to try Naf. We were not succesful and we not even the first to down the dragon but we were the first guild to come close and actually had a few GMs show up to watch. Was pretty fun.
We WERE the first to conquer the Plane of Fear though, so that was pretty cool, but the dragon run was the best I think.
Another fun moment that I remember was back in DAoC when Albion, my realm, had a truce with Hibernia. I was running around the RvR zones solo and was attacked by a Mid, we were fighting and a guy from Hib came by and helped me smoke the Mid. Afterwards I killed the Hib, man I laughed for a good 20 minutes. I still chuckle when I think of that, I was such a dick. Haha, making me laugh as I type...
That Guild Wars 2 login screen knocked up my wife. Must be the second coming!
Just going to quickly ask...What are the "raids?" You're talking about salvage right? its the only thing i can think of that you can do 4 times a week. If so, grats on full usuk.
--don't think clearing expansions takes that long. He had a set group the whole time i did mission 2-3 > fin in a week (granted 4 nights i was up past 4 am).
--also would like to say that there are "relic weapons" in ff11 that take people years to achieve. they are truly worth it though.
1. Buying ff11 (may 1st 2004 on ps2)...moved to pc in '06
2. Figuring out how awesome mines were in tabula rasa
3. getting suspended in ff11 for warp hacking (really funny story) ...greatest fail moment in my mmo history
4.getting paladin unlocked in ff11 and eventually to 75 (BEFORE IT WAS EASY)
5. probaly gettin 80 pally in WoW (illidan server btw) my first 80 so it felt cool.
6. realising most of the mmo community sucks when i realised AoC is actually a good game and the BEST looking mmo period if you have the right set up.
7.(soon to be) upgrading my pc, buying a new ps3 harddrive, and selling my soul to get into the ff14 beta.
Look at them nasty character models.
1. Killing an AFK, but PVP Bounty Hunter, in the Imperial Base near Restuss in SWG a few years ago. It wasn't such a noble thing to do, but the guy and his guild had been griefing me all day, so I followed him around stealthed and then I finally caught him alone and I snuck in and took him out, only to realize that he wasn't fighting back - and my Spy finally got his revenge with minimal effort. After the Bounty Hunter went down, a red dot comes up on my mini-map and I realized it was an Imp. Jedi coming after me. So I ran out of the base, stealthed again and ran away, getting off scot-free Ahh, good times.
2. In LOTRO, finally getting a Second-Age Legendary weapon to drop while soloing a quest. I think that weapon is about the only item worth anything that I've ever acquired in that game. The unsatisfying part is that the weapon wasn't even usable for my Class.
3. Creating and managing my town on Dantooine with a buddy in SWG.
Hmm, can't think of many more at the moment, but I'm sure I have a few others. They'll probably come to me after I've had my morning coffee.
Yeah Salvage. God I loved that event.
And yeah my static did 1 mission a week so we weren't really fast or anything.
keep them coming
Here are some of my most memorable moments.. In random order.
EQ1 - Logging in for the first time. As others have mentioned, your first MMO is amazing, almost magical. I had seen EverQuest on the store shelves for quite a few months and finally decided to give it a try in mid 2000.
EQ1 - Quitting EQ for the first time. Handing my guild over to my most trusted officer (who promptly merged it with another guild, losing the original forever).
DAoC - Getting my first level 50 in that game and gaining access to /level to 20 on all alts.
EQ1 again - Obtaining my first Fungi Tunic. Promptly rolling a melee toon for instant uberness.
EQ1 - Playing beta and release of the Sullon Zek PvP server. Having my name wrongly taken away in the first 30 minutes of server release.. and having the GM's apologize to me, yet telling me that there was no way to get the name back at that point. Everyone online and in-game knew me as that name.. That was the very first moment of hate toward SoE. You always remember your first..
EQ1 - Hitting the 1 million plat mark for the first time.
Okay that was 6.. sue me.
Acidon
Dont know if I can do 5...
1. WoW .. Walking up through the Stormwind Gate and over the Bridge while that epic music was going.. That was really nice.
2. Clearing the Deadmines for the first time in WoW. Probably my favorite dungeon from any game I have played.
3. Booting up EQ the first time.. A 3d world back then was something special.
Thats all I can think of.. I dont remember anything special from UO or DAoC.. Guess thats it.