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Your Top 3 Best Times in an MMORPG
Well, I am just interested in haring about all the good times you guys have had so i made this thread.
I'll start with my Top 3 best times in an MMORPG(in no particular order)
- Well, I was playing WoW, and was taking my first journey through The Deadmines/Van Cleef, and I was playing my level 17 rogue, So we had just dropped the boss right before Van Cleef, As we were heading up the ramp to take on VC our tank fell into the water so me being new, rushed VC with the priest healing me and the other two players helping we downed VC with me a rogue tanking it was the most adrenaline i had ever had playing an NPC.
- I was playing EVE online, i had been playing for about a month and a half so i was still fairly new, i joined a pirate corp, so i thought i was a big shot. I was just hanging out in the station chatting with some corpmates over vent when one of them said they had saw a blob out by a planet, so we all warped out there, and we come to realize the blob was mostly made of battleships so we were all stuck but we fought will pride and honor and took two of their battleships out but were all podded eventually, it was awesome.
- Well, back when WAR was just getting it's start i had just made level 10 and joined a guild, a few days later the guild wanted to go do some PVP so i went with them, we were met by about 20 other players, and we started roaming around, well a few minutes later we ran into about 30 Order and it was an all out battle for the next two hours, it was fun, and filled with adrenaline.
well it's your turn...
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1. The day started with me knowing that I was going to make level 50 on my Warrior in DAoC (was at like 90%). However, that wasn't the big thing of the day. About 2 hours into playing in the Frontiers (the old ones!), several of my friends I've met over my journey to 50 logged in and we began raiding Hibernia. Pretty soon we found ourselves in the midst of the largest battle I've ever seen in a MMO, still not topped today (I'd guess around 300 players). I'll skip ahead and just say that Midgard ended the day with all relics and all keeps
(I miss the good ol' days)
2. In FFXI, there was a monster that none could defeat (except the GMs). Its name is Absolute Virtue and he was tough. On one fateful day my guild and I finally were able to bring down this beast, still one of the hardest PvE moments I've ever had.
3. In my 3rd place, I didn't kill anything infact, but in Lotro I spent about 8 hours with some bandmates playing music in the Brill auction house. It was a blast
hmm for me it goes..
1.) all time best thing i ever seen happen in an mmo was an event in EQOA where orcs (NPCs) had an all out raid on Freeport. it was mass chaos it had been building up for weeks random orcs showing up in FP attacking and 1 shotting lowbies, one here and there nothing major. we knew something was gunna happen we didn't know what but SOMETHING. we figured there was gunna be some huge event having to do with the orcs some did think some raid or something. and some thought it would be funny to cry wolf several times a day everday for weeks. so when they actually finally showed up and was happening no one believed it at first..lol we had no global chat wich ment it pretty much had to be spread by word of mouth throughh guilds and they'd tell people in the zone they was in. first it was just ALOT of Orcs and we was kickin thier buts then outta nowhere full Raid elites showed up started 1 shotting people left and right all you heard was death groans around you..lol to this day i think there was GMs controlling the elites they just did not act like mindless AI, taunt did nothing and targeted healers first. it was a 1 time thing never happend again it was insane.
nothing else really compared to it but maybe second could be my first experience with open world pvp in WoW at TM i bet over 1/2 the server was there of all levels going at it for hours was alot of fun. we eventually crashed the server tho >.< it was before BGs and even before the honor point thing.
honestly can't think of a 3rd tho
1. My wife and I both dinging 50 at the same time in High Pass Keep killing nobles. I realy miss playing EQ with my wife. Best game ever.
2. Killing Nagafen for the first time. Also with my wife. EQ
3. The day My wife and I finished her Druid Eppic. fantastic. I had completed my Rogue eppic the day before. EQ
Then we had kids......
BoB
Lineage 2, one of the largest Aden sieges ever. something like 20 clans against 29 clans or so. At the start and first rush my computer froze up completely. lasted for the full 2 hours non-stop. Best time I ever had in that game.
LOTRO when we went after the Balrog
Aion my first siege, was a blast and everyone seemed into it even though we were too low to really win the fortress.
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
1. Soloing on my warrior in DAoC and killing an entire PL group consisting of 2 50's and a bunch of 44-48's. Die you albs die!
2. Myself and 4 of my friends "tower humping" in Hibernia (DAoC again) and holding back ~40 Mids and about ~30 Albs by taking one of their towers and barricading ourselves in there. This was back before you could raise the tower completely and expose everything in it. Multiple times we'd lose the tower while on the very top level only to get it back and lock all the shmucks in the lowest level due to the doors closing on them and then picking them off 1 at a time. Eventually I ran out of repair materials and could no longer fix up the tower to close the doors. After 4 straight hours I think we got tired as well.
3. My friend and I using our Shadowblades (DAoC) and doing double PA's on people with 2handers. Tons of fun.
No required quests! And if I decide I want to be an assassin-cartographer-dancer-pastry chef who lives only to stalk and kill interior decorators, then that's who I want to be, even if it takes me four years to max all the skills and everyone else thinks I'm freaking nuts. -Madimorga-
1. EverQuest - Undertaking the quest for Darkforge armor on my Shadow Knight. This is how a "quest" should be made. This wasn't some mindless task that took you 5 minutes. This was a 3 month journey to the ends of the earth to fight some incredibly tough mobs and acquire extremely rare components. This wasn't just a challenge of taking on mobs, it utilized every skill and spell I had. From using sense undead to determine the locations of rare spawns I needed in the middle of a dungeon, to using invisibility to infiltrate a hostile city and assassinate a guard. Obtaining a full set of Darkforge armor was nothing short of epic and it was the best experience I've ever had in any RPG.
2. World of Warcraft - Working with my guild to bring down Ragnaros, Hakkar, and Nefarian for the first time. They were fantastic individuals and working together to bring down tough encounters was nothing short of incredible. Every time someone got a new, rare piece of loot, I cheered them on, even if it was something I could use. It's a shame they're not around anymore. I could never get that much back into raiding since they left.
3. Warhammer Online - The opening week. This game was so much fun when there were tons of people and no one was in tiers 3 or 4 yet. You were never at a loss for a public quest group, open RvR skirmishes and sieges were constant, and the world was just alive with people. Sadly, this could not last as the game is so dependant on the population being high in every zone.
1) Beating Hakkaar in Zul'Gurub in World of Warcraft. It was the first time I'd cleared a raid instance, the game back then was much harder (even in the 20 mans), and we were still wearing almost nothing but blue UBRS gear. Was a big thrill beating the big baddie and looting the purples off his corpse.
2) My first pvp win in EvE Online. I'd only been playing a couple weeks but I managed to kill a can flipper (basically, a thief in secure space for people unfamiliar with the game) by using some simple strategy. That was the moment that happens for every EvE player where you really 'get' that skillpoints are completely secondary to sound strategy, even when solo.
3) The time I spent in Microfunks corporation (basically a guild) in EvE Online. People to play with that are both skilled and not complete assholes seem to pretty rare in any game. I had a lot of fun and we did a lot of pvp. Shame it's over, but we finished our mission (as we were subordinate to a larger nullsec corporation and only existed for a specific purpose) and went our seperate ways. Still a great way to end any relationship, and we still chat and such.
This is kind of long. Didn't expect it to turn out to be such an epoch, lol.
1.) Ragnarok Online - I was the leader of a guild with my level 99 priest, this was before the advanced classes and all that. I came up with a build that worked really well for me, prevented all status ailments, while allowing me to heal for over 2k and cast at a reasonable rate. I was basically invincible on the character. So We're fighting in the War of Empyrium and I think all my guildmates are dead. Regardless, for shits and giggles I decide to keep running around the opposing guild's castle. They're chasing me, trying desperately to kill me but I have near 90% dmg reduction and can outheal all the damage they're throwing at me. I get a message from a guild mate ( a rogue) telling me he's in the empyrium room, invisible. I go into the empyrium room and pop in and out of the portal a few times. Eventually everyone follows me out to kill me. The room we're in is a giant square with several levels, steps really. Anyway, I run around the room constantly and eventually realize I'm in no real danger so I just stand still while around 12 people are desperately trying to kill me. Meanwhile my rogue guildmate is smashing the emp by himself. The message comes up saying that we've taken the castle while they had no idea there was even anyone else there besides me. I smile and wave good bye to them right before they're forcefully teleported out. Great times.
2.) Tibia - A friend of mine and I were at the Orc Fortress North of Venore. I had just started playing the game again after taking a break for a few years. We're standing in this small entrance to the fortress waiting for a third friend who's supposed to be coming. I'm playing a druid, my friend's on a paladin. I think I was level 28 or so at the time. My friend was maybe level 22 or something like that. This level 36 Master Sorcerer walks up and starts pretending to say the command for electric wave, a powerful spell that can kill a druid in one hit if the caster is powerful enough. He throws a few smilies our way ";)" and the like. I know he's going to actually let one go soon so I tell my friend that over MSN and say we should head back to Venore to meet our other friend before this guy takes us both out. He agrees and we start to leave.
The Sorcerer isn't on our screen so we think maybe he's not following us. Then he suddenly pops up and I tell my friend to move away from me, so at least one of us won't have to die if he starts firing off waves. Sure enough he does and I'm the lucky one to get hit, I assume he wanted whatever runes I may have had on me. In Tibia when you die you lose a percentage of your total exp(you can de-level), some skills and whatever you have in your inventory plus possibly pieces of equipment, it's enough to make the battle real for you. I manage to outheal his damage, barely, but because he's a higher level he's faster than I am. He uses great haste and ends up blocking me off by standing between two trees, the only way to get back to Venore. He starts shooting me with his wand, doing moderate damage, throwing in the occasional wave spell. I try to back away, hoping that he'll follow me so I can maybe sprint past him through the trees. Meanwhile I'm PMing a high level friend of mine to tell this guy to fuck off before he gets his ass hunted. He finally leaves, out of fear, I assume. We later find out that his main is one of the highest levels on the server, and one of the scariest. It all turned into some political BS between us and him, with him lying and saying we tried to kill him, but eventually it got worked out. It was definitely an adrenaline rush.
3.) Tibia - I was playing my druid, he was low level at the time, maybe 18 or so. I'm killing amazons at the camp North of Venore when a paladin comes along, level 26 I think. This is like 3 AM, by the way. I'm about done so I start to head back to town, the path is very narrow, having to slide past trees and rocks and such the whole time. I see a white skull pop up on him, meaning he's targeted another, non-skulled player, me. I tell him that its obvious and laugh it off, thinking there's no way he can take me down because my magic level is ridiculously high for my level. I continue on my way to town with him firing bolts at me the whole time. I laugh and heal it off easily enough.
I decide, you know what, I'm gonna kill this bastard and put him in his place. I start firing at him with my rod, doing small amounts of damage, move in for the occasional exori vis/flam and continue on my way. Turns out, he has some healing runes on him. He heals my damage with healing spells and then starts using the runes when he's out of mana. At this point I'm pretty fucked. I haven't brought any runes with me and my mana's getting pretty low. We get to the entrance to Venore, a ladder going up near the docks, still a minute or so away from the nearest safe zone. I call out shortly before we get to the ladder, "HELP, PK!"
Unbeknownst to me, a friend has just logged on (fuckin' 3AM, remember. Wtf kind of time is that to be logging into a game?) and PMs me asking if I'm serious or not. I tell him I am and the PK and I continue going up and down the ladder, me trying to prevent him from targeting me and getting any shots off. I'm black HP at this point, one to two hits and I'm done for. My friend shows up while I'm on the top and I go down as the PK goes up. My friend instantly slams him for some decent damage. The PK comes down the ladder as I go up. I fuckin' book it for the depot(safe zone). The PK doesn't have time to chase after me with my friend taking his HP down. My friend manages to kill him in a few seconds and gives me his loot. I narrowly escaped death and actually got the bastard's loot out of it. My heart was pumping the entire time.
1. Shinobi- on atari console game my first console played last boss funnest and most adrenaline 2d game lol
2. Final Fantasy 7- Confrontation with Sephiroth...end game he uses supernova and my party wipes my jaw is left wide open...
3. World of Warcraft My last day playing with friend before he heads to IRAQ trying to get his epic flying mount before midnight...succeeded
1. Playing wow with my RL friend, at like 4am 2 maning BRD and UBRS (during TBC) we were like lvl 63 or something, we just really wanted the worg pup pet thing. was so much fun and we actualy did it. good team work and thinking had to be used, was fun.
2. First time logging into Darkfall, just was a cool experiance, o and when my DFO clan went to help another clan who's areas were being attacked by our mutual enimies. Man there were actualy like 500 people on that one island in the lower right. was so intense.
3. EVE online, i had been playing for a month at this point, had never done pvp and was still in NPC corp, when i hear some ppl say, CAS COMBATDAY!! and i was exited, joined, we romed for like an hour, didnt find anything, was getting bored, but then all 35ish of us jumped through a gate and there was another gang of like 40 or so. Such a fun and intense fight, even if i lost my best ship. really showed me what EVE had to offer when i was thinking of stopping.
haha, mine arnt to great. but o well.
Playing EVE
Played Darkfall, Played Wow,
1) Everquest. As a noobie Barbarian Warrior, I had gotten lost in Everfrost, "thought" I found my way back to the Halas ramp, then discovered the ramp was to Blackburrow. My heart sank as it might were I the actual character in that situation.
2) Everquest. I was drinking (my character, not me) and the effects of drunkeness were making precarious my trip up a narrow ramp in the Elven tree city of Kelethin. Heck, my Barbarian got drunk in Halas, stumbled into the well in town and almost drowned, hehe.
3) Everquest. Someone was auctioning a Bone Bladed Claymore (a fieresome weapon in early EQ) and they wanted 100 Platinum pieces for it. I said I have only 40 in the bank, and they said, "Go get it." I ran as fast as I could to the bank in Freeport, then ran back to East Commonlands where the auctioneer was and made my prized purchase.
Really, my very best memories were in EQ (I have tons of great memories), although I had some fond ones in DAOC as well.
Oddly, I have really no memorable experiences from WOW, which I have played for the past five years. I cannot even tell you who I grouped with two days ago. The only thing I can say for WOW is it runs smoothly. No other MMO's out there really run that smoothly, IMO.
My best time is when i was 50 in Vanguard Ranger and took out a whole group. I still love that game then they all cryed. Seconds is Runes of magic took out a whole guild with my guild and then i would have to say Everquest when my necro kited a 3 people at once.
Brief due to being sleepy
1) DAoC - Attacking the Hib mid-keep in 20-24 BG with shit loads of other Mids, joining forces with King Arthurs dudes and eventually taking it over. Was absolutely massive and the best time of gaming I've ever had.
2) Guild Wars - Winning the trials with my guild for the first time in the open beta pre-order
3) Ultima Online - Owning my first house and decorating it
SWG -- Playing my Jedi after having to master EVERY profession
SWG -- Playing my Swordsman/DOC to buff my Jedi
SWG -- Playing my BE/Chef to support my Jedi
3. My first ZG run in wow. My guild asked if any others wished to join a ZG run, and having just dinged 60 I decided to volunteer. Even though I was enhancement they told me to heal, so I just spammed chain heal over and over again. I had no clue what I was doing but I had a blast.
2. My #1 guilty pleasure, Classic Runescape. The first time I played back in 2002 I was awestruck that a game of that size could be played through a web browser. Still had dial up back then, I would unplug the phone to ensure I recieved no interruptions. I would do anything to be able to play RS Classic again... Now the game is full of whiney teens and gold farmers...
1. Another slightly less guilty pleasure, puzzle pirates. Way back in 04 I was promoted to officer in my crew. My first pillage was an outright fail. After loosing a chain of battles, my whole group dropped leaving me to bring the ship into port or suffer the harsh consequences of abandoning it at sea. (Usually resulted in being expelled from said crew, or being demoted). Although unejoyable at the time, it was then that I realized that YPP was the only mmo entirely based on skill.
Make it so...
1. EQOA - Making my first attempt at running the width of Tunaria from Klik Anon to Qeynos in one shot with a friend using only the map in the manual that came with the game. Just to see the size of the world. It took 55 minutes.
2 WoW - My first 'zerg' if you will of Taren Mill with my guild and have an equally large guild come to its defense. The guild talk was what made it memorable for me.
3. EQOA - Staying up for 39 hours straight playing with guildies grinding ice giants, kappas, and gargoyles Oh my!
Those are the 3 that stick out the most even though I have played many other games for much longer and agree they are better than those on my list.
DAoC - Running with a regular group before ToA. Rebekhann, Alanon, and some other awesome people. Taking on Devon and his hib buddies. Those were some memorable days.
EQ - Fighting at the snow orc camp in everfrost in my mid 30s. Twinrivers and Baile as our puller and healer(pre-velious).
EQ- Running around with my brother, Twinrivers and a druid named Willowsong in very early EQ days(pre-velious).
1. UO- best game hands down til AOS. Stealth archery was great with the shadowclan
2. WoW- til easy mode took over completely. First time finishing kara was neat. that place rocked.
3. Toss up Between RF and L2. Both had RMT and bot problems but were graphically and pvp pleasing. Big robots and orcs, who can beat that? In L2 there was a farmer guild on Devianne server. They took Dion castle back when 50 or whatever was cap. An ass load of 30s went in and fought them for it. Was the only time a massive server wide attack on farmers ever happened to my knowledge.
Console- CoD6 hands down. Great story line and hella fun multi-player. Still haven't got a nuke but 2 EMPs^^
FF series all have been decent except for 10-2. That game they should have never made and just split 10 up into 2 discs with an extended save Titus ending.
That's so funny, because I can remember people I grouped with in EQ back in 2000, but I can't remember anyone from WoW or any other new game. In fact, of my group experiences in WoW I remember the people being complete idiots. In EQ or DAoC I remember cooperation.
Not a knock on WoW, because right now in DDO its the same way. Most people haven't a clue how to play. Are these games just so easy now that there is no need for people to work together?
Sadly , Difficulty does not = Subs. Infact, it seems to deter people which is a shame.
Make it so...
3. Running a successful architect/shipwright shop in SWG.
2. Helping construct several player towns/cities in SWG.
1. In WoW, somehow managing to be the last person alive in a 40 man raid and soloing the Blackwing's Lair Raid boss Vaelastraz down by the last percentage of health for about 20-30 seconds, on an arms warrior. This was back when most raid guilds were still trying to clear Molten Core, and AQ40 wasn't even out yet. Most epic experience I've ever had, especially after the raid leader had called a wipe when it would have been our third wipe that night. The raid went nuts over vent when the boss died.
All the best come from Guild Wars but those memories are so grand that they cannot be easily surpassed. Here's my list.
#1 Guild Wars: Winning the European Championship and going to a 4 day trip to Taiwan for the World Championships. All payed by NCsoft/Arenanet.
#2 Guild Wars: Winning the Reach for the Stars -challenge during E3 '05. We were the only guild to do it.
#3 Guild Wars: Holding a place among the top10 guilds in the guild ladder for 9 months.
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#6 WAR: Beating the top, the most hardcore PvP guild (in our server) in a near flawless match which lead to them ragequitting the scenario. Our team consisted solely from GW players.
I'm aware that the above mentioned are related only to PvP but that is just a coincidence.
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been -Wayne Gretzky
In no specific order:
- first few days in WoW, killing ossirian in AQ20, first steps into MC, killing ragnaros and the other old raid bosses
- getting my own ATV after building a week on it in FE, and getting my first scoped rifle after building a night on it
- tier1 pvp in WAR was pretty entertaining too
Let's play Fallen Earth (blind, 300 episodes)
Let's play Guild Wars 2 (blind, 45 episodes)
Damn I remember early on in TBC (WoW), when Blizzard buffed the other tanking classes (And people didnt have all the elite gear yet), I was around the time I speced Protection on my Paladin for the First time.
And I was in AV, trying to Solo Ninja SHGY, when another Alliance mage came along to help me. But out of nowhere, like 10 Horde spawned from the GY, and attacked us.
They quickly killed the mage, but he stayed at his body to watch me fight. Damn I took on all 10 of them
(luckly they were Warriors and Rogues
, all Melee)
Damn I managed to take out 2 rogues in the process. And lasted like 15seconds without my Divine Shield which was on cooldown.
LOL even the mage had to whisper me a complement , on that
EQ2. The first time I went to Stormhold in a group with my Templar. It was awesome, I had a blast. This day I discovered I love to be a healer when the group works well.
Lineage 2, Trying to enchant my sword, more than +3 to have some little glow on it and failing, 2 times. The sword had a cost of around 1 million adena if I remember correctly.
Can't remember anyone more.