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Your most cherished MMO Memory
twstdstrange
Member Posts: 474
No debates this time, chums, just a simple, quaint, straightforward chat about your most beloved MMO memories. Whether it's recent or from years past, I'd love to hear your stories!
I would say my favorite story is thus:
I was playing WoW a few years back, and I was on my level 66 human Paladin named Gurzi.
I was mounted and riding through Elwynn Forest feeling rather bored. I was just about to log out when I came across a level 6 Priest who was about to be killed by a few murlocs at Crystal Lake (I believe it's called). Without really thinking, I immediately rode over and laid waste to the murlocs, of course, saving the priest.
I thought she would, as most players do, just /thank me and be off. Instead we became very good friends for a while.
This was one of the few instances I actually made a good friend online instead of a quick conditional partner.
What do you guys have to share? 
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I'd have to say back in Pub 9 SWG, killing 40+ Imperials trying to kill me on my Jedi... aww the days..
I'm not too familiar with SWG, I'm assuming they were NPC's? Anywho, that does sound epic! They shouldn't've been messing with a Jedi in the first place.
No, they were players
but we were extremely OP in pub 9, buuut, we had a risk of Perma-death.
Breaking Plane of Fear for the first time in EQ1 is definitely up there
Virtual Reality
Haha, that's brilliant!
I really wish I knew more about games like EQ, SWG, and UO and such.
They seem like they used to be so awesome.
Sadly, I have no idea what you're talking about, but it DOES sound epic!
Haha... hmm... how to describe...
Imagine 50 people jumping into a flaming portal and emerging on the other side in the middle of about 30 mobs that can one hit kill almost everyone in the raid. If you wandered just a few feet away from where you were supposed to be, you'd cause an insta raid wipe. And with so many people jumping through, it was almost impossible to keep everyone where they were supposed to be. Keep in mind this was before voice communication was common in games, so, at least in my guild, we coordinated all of this by typing.
Oh, and the best part? Dying in EQ meant you lost all your armor until you looted your corpse. And your corpse stayed wherever you died. In other words, after a raid wipe, we all had to repeat the process naked.
Ah that was fun
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Randomly fragging in Combat Arms and willing the match 120/119 in a final 2 vs 1
That sounds like some hardcore shit, if I do say so myself.
Wow... Everything nowadays seems so kindergarden compared to something like that!
By the way, if memory serves me right, isn't there some sort of rare mob in EQ that allegidly took hundreds of players around 13 hours to take down? I just remembered hearing something about it years ago.
Back when Ulduar came out in World of Warcraft I had migrated to my friends server, so we decided to do the raid for the first time. I was on Skype with my friend and a couple of his friends which I didn't know too well. We chose our designated vehicle and I was paired with one of his friends. We were all having a good time, laughing and stuff but when we drove down the ramp one of his friends and I fell through the ground with our vehicle. For some reason we just burst out laughing and I knew then that playing with these guys was going to ensure me some really good times - and they sure did. Since this is now also my real life friends we occasionally meet up and have a film marathon. These are now some of my best friends - possibly for life - and to think that all this started over a game.
Eleanor Rigby.
Sign of the times.
It's really exciting to make great friends online, and actually keep them.
*Most* of my online friendships just end abruptly or fizzle out.
Yeah. Its name was Sleeper, or Kerafyrm. It was actually supposed to be unkillable, but some creative people found a way to hack it and kill it for the first time. I think a bunch of them got suspended =P
That guy was nasty, though. If I remember correctly, he was able to zone, and if you fought him and lost, he would run around killing innocent people in zones across the entire continent. It was kind of ridiculous, actually, lol. But not very many people tried to take him down back in the day. He was basically considered invincible.
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My most cherished memory? After spending thousands of hours playing MMO after MMO, I finally realized that the minuscule amounts of fun I was having wasn't worth time and money I put into them.
I have far more fun playing single player games, where the storyline and content are much more enjoyable. I also don't have to put up with thousands of idiots and sociopaths.
Cheers!
What are you doing on MMORPG.com for then?
Mine was back in Dark age of Camelot...
I was playing a troll shaman in Midgard, and we had this incredible xp session. I was in the werewolf camp (don't remember the name), and got in a group. There was another group, and we had this fun competition of which group killed more werewolves. Then we decided to go camp elsewhere (to increase xp gain, because the group was very efficient), and beside incredible fights (we were taking on big big mobs for our levels), we talked a lot... And had so much fun that we forgot, sometimes, that the downtime was over and we could pull again. We all went to sleep very late.
And the best is that we didn't know each other before grouping... Each of us was in a guild (because at that time, MMORPG were social stuff, and we could play with people outside our guild
), and guildmates met other guildmates after that.
That was the magic of downtime, and "need to group" MMOs :')
I feel like a dinosaur now :P
Everytime the bane tried to take over the control point in tabula rasa, the moment when you stand back to back with random player to defend it at all costs
) shame the game didnt make it 
I think I actually spent way more time reading and theorycrafting about MMOs than playing them
My first two kills in WWIIOnline. Took me a few hours and deaths to get there :P
winning a 1vs3 encounter in wow as a rogue in classic times.
They engaged me first but i managed to let them lose track of me for long enough to restealth, in stealth i kept them at the place by using my distract skill -animation throws a small stone, and all enemies turn automatically to the point where i throw, so they knew i was still there and kept looking for me, meanwhile i equipped my mindcontrol hat, applied poisons to the blades and engaged. Sapped one, mindcontrolled second with gnome hat and finished third in the timeframe of the mindcontrol (the mindcontrolled attacked with me on the third) then went back into stealth, changed mindcontrol hat for dps hat, set different poisons for my next target,sapped the previusly mindcontrolled finished the one i sapped before and finally killed the mindcontrolled. Felt imba and epic :]
Also had to grin thinking how the mindcontrolled guy must have felt, first mindcontrolled into killing his buddy and then sapped for the second fight and lastly killed by me, overall he was completly useless *g
edit: what made this operation so exiting besides beeing outnumbered was that the mindcontrol hat is actually very prone to failing, so lady luck was with me on that day
Pi*1337/100 = 42
When I tried to come up with my favorite memory, the one that I finally settled on surprised me, because it didn't actually happen to me and it wasn't really "exciting" in the usual sense. In Asheron's Call, they had a little contest where players could submit stories based on their character's experiences in the game; my friend submitted one of hers, it won, and that story was published in a book that was (and still is) sold in-game at one of the world's libraries near the city of Hebian-to. As far as I know, it's the only time that ever happened, but it was so neat to see someone's efforts have a lasting effect on the game.
2002, Pluto server, Neocron
Probably finishing my epic in EQ back in the day. I had a lot of fun playing that game at the expense of way to much of my time.
Finishing my 1.0 epic with my beastlord. Huddled in my little apartment at the time in the computer room under a comforter aroumnd 2am sunday morning. We did the fight in timours deep with about 6 people, then we headed over to fungus grove for the final Dark animist fight.
Participating in the Coldain Shawl quest ......man......what a blast.
One grouping the PoF break-in after massively (and repeated) failed PoF break-in and saving them from corpse rot (only 2 hours left on many corpse timers).
Forever looking for employment. Life is rather dull without it.
When I made it from Qeynos to Freeport for the first time in EQ.... Never had such a great feeling and being scared when I ran through runnyeye..
EQ days, will never die but the nostaligia will never be relived with those of us who started in the begining of MMO's.. There was nothing like it out there, we were confused, scared, addicted.... fascinated and on dial up LOL...
now its the same ol thing but not new to us anymore.
peace.
Getting my Water Sprinkler of Nem Ahnk in EQ1... I was the third cleric in our guild to complete the quest... I will never forget the day ragefire popped for me.
Imagine camping a random spawn on a weeklong timer, in an non instanced dungeon with raid caliber trash mobs .... and EVERY cleric in a raiding guild on the WHOLE server itching to be there when it popped....
And that is AFTER having to clear two planes to complete other parts of the quest.
hellish quest... but the feeling of accomplishment after finishing has never been matched by any other gaming experience. In WoW I got benediction for my priest which was by comparison a cake walk.