I normaly use this site for mmo info and stuff but reading some of these experiences has brought back some good old memories.
My fondest memory would have to be when i first played swg, creating my character doing my first mission(i had to bring a package from theed to deeja peak, i didnt have enough money for a shuttle and mounts were a few months off so i walked. Ill never forget the sheer terror of those agro butterflies or getting my ass handed to me by nuna. But most of all was the feeling i got, like i was in the starwars universe.
and then all the epic pvp battles between the imperial and rebels running back and forth from bestine to AH battling out in player cities and sitting in theed with a few buddies dueling untill some of the rebel scum showed up.
and i cant forget to mention roleplaying with a goodfriend of mine talking in character of an imperial officer discussing how great the empire was and how the terrorist rebels were just a bunch of bloodthirsty hooligans.
The first year of playing that game was filled with good memories, the community the openess and working hard for my special order pistols (bh/p ) all of it awesome.
wow also has some memories too, vanillia that is, i was in stv and a pally ganked me now i was on a pve sever and i was flagged because i wanted some excitement, i deffended and killed him and thought nothing of it. He comes back with friends and tries to corpse camp me so i rally all the local players and got my revenge, we camped his ass till he logged and i know some of you think of this practice lowly but in my defense he did it first
I have a few but one that sticks out was in WoW. It was back in bc and I was a 70 troll hunter. I had a nice pvp gear set and was an avid PvPer. I was riding through STV and heard the announcement for the treasure chest at the Gurubashi Arena. I decided to swing by and see if there was any action.
I didn't see anyone nearby so I thought I would jump in but about that time about 5 alliance came rushing in and owned me. Wasn't a big deal but before I released I seen them kill a 69 draenei mage. I walked back and was watching from the side lines when the mage appeared beside me. There was 5 alliance holding the center with a 70 warrior, 70 hunter, 68 priest, a shaman and rogue in the high 50's, then a lvl 19 rogue waiting on the side. They were in the same guild and obviously getting the chest for the twink.
I looked at the mage and /point. She /nod, then we both jumped in back to back ... It was amazing! When we landed I put a frost trap a few feet in front of her and caught the warrior in charge. She sheeped the priest and I ate through the shaman in a few shots. Before I could target the priest she pompyro, fireblasted more than half their health, I silenced the priest and scattered the hunter while she finished off the priest. I set another frost trap and caught the 50ish rogue at the same time she sheeped the warrior. I stepped back and took out the rogue with ease. The shaman pop'd but the mage quickly killed them again. The warrior stayed sheeped but the hunter almost killed the mage until she blocked and I polished him off with only a little health left myself (he would've gotten us if he hadn't been switching between targets, silly BM hunter didn't even have his pet on aggressive/defensive). Then we kited around the warrior tank until his demise.
After the fight she sheeped me to heal and I frost trapped her for jest. When the chest appeared, I pointed and start/canceled my hearth. She bowed and then looted the chest. I bowed and we left the arena, mounted up and rode our seperate ways. It was cool working with someone with no communication but playing well together, especially considering we were enemies.
great topic... my favorite memory was the time i had to play a friend's 75 ranger in FFXI. at the time i knew absolutely zero about end game raids or ranger. i was only lvl 30WAR/15BLM (if u know that game u'll know just how newb i was for even considering that combo). he was in line for a Kirin Osode to drop and he had to work that day. the guild rule was that u had to be present to loot or u forfeit ur drop to the next guy who was present. he was really desperate because he'd been waiting and helping the guild out for months. so he asked me.
i was actually nervious when i logged in and saw a massive room of maxed characters all adorned in awesome gear. it was a gorgeous collection and i knew i was gonna get everyone killed. during the fight i did as much wiki research as i could about the skills as i went. at one point one of the tanks died and they called for all rangers to do a sequence of shadowbind and i was second in the chain. i remember seeing my name in text and thinking WTF is shadowbind as the mob made his way around the room dropping all the mages and myself. we all but completely wiped as one godsent whitemage survived and ran around a room of dead bodies raising other healers. it was a great guild of friends and everyone was so optimistic. no one pointed a finger at me, but i managed to squeeze in an apology into the chatbox. im sure they'd have all raised hell if they'd known that the char wasn't mine.
after everyone had raised cast on them we waited for the right moment, then it was a scene out of night of the living dead. we actually regrouped and tried again. this time i knew what my job was and we went on to beat kirin. my friend got his drop and i had a great time... i hear that now a group can drop this boss in under 10mins. our fight took 2.5 hrs. (death and recomposing included). i found out that the guild i was with that day was (by our server standards) a bunch of nobodies and newbs, but what a great batch of ppl.
First guild I joined, I met a frenchy that has became a gaming friend for 9year now.
My first pvp kill at kelethin, using a fine steel morning star as a high elf paladin at lvl 6 then Looting a mithril beastplate.
First time playing a bard and dying to guard over and over at qeynos just to know that my second song(dot aoe song) were agroing them lol.
As my dwarf paaldin, lvl 6, in kelethin then falling down kelethin and being "unconcious" and surviving the fall! That was epic.
Unrest, the train zone haha.
Crushbone, clearing the place to get shiny brass shield, dwarven ringmail, dvinn dagger and belt/spaulder for quest.
WISH Beta(Game that didnt make it) Whena town got ravaged by a sickness, most npc were dying from it. As well as me taming a ice cat, Suck ti didnt made it.
Damn, there still so many lol. I don't know why but now most mmo seem to be grinding for me, barely any immersion, if any at all.
Southshore/Tarren Mill PvP back when the honor system was first intoduced, before the battlegrounds were built. I used to listen to an Acid Bath cd and just kill and kill. Well, actually I played a healy priest so I would just heal and heal and dispel alot too. Every time I listen to that cd it brings back memories of that time.
I really liked that time in WoW because my character was exactly how I wanted him to be. He had a disc/shadow spec that became broken a few patches later. Once BC came out, that character was basically ruined for me. I would still be playing in that same spot if nothing had changed. Listening to the same CD.
Vault-Tec analysts have concluded that the odds of worldwide nuclear armaggeddon this decade are 17,143,762... to 1.
Guild Wars: When our english buddy, Blind drew a message on the minimap, telling us in this way his keyboard ran out of battery power.
Tabula Rasa: Every time when we, random players took back a base or captured another.
SWG Post NGE (Current): When i assembled my first ship after hours of searhing for still operating Vendors at the deserted towns.
Warhammer Online: When our guild reasembled a second time, and we done some ORvR in T2. We saw that large amount of people, who fought with us. There were 70+ random people, and we just destroyed every opposition in our way to lock the zones. And my first Chosen in the beta.
World of Warcraft: I have lots of good memories from this game. I got a girlfriend from this game, its over now, but it was a good time.
We played a lot together, the best moment was, when she wanted to farm some crocodiles near Sattrath, she needed it for mana flask. I beta tested WAR that time, but i still had my subscription. She bumped into an enemy warlock, who had full t6 set, and the warlock killed her toon. She was upset. I logged in, went there with my PVP geared BM huner, and killed that full T6 warlock for her, and guarded her till she farmed enough meat. The T6 warlock was near us, on his epic flying mount, up in the air, out of my shooting range, and he waited till we finished, with a Hunter's Mark on his head. He waited some 45 minutes till we left. He was scared of me.
On a low level UD rogue (lvl38) I bumped into a lvl 41 night elf feral druid. He attacked me, but i killed him, almost bled to death, but I ate his body, and survived. He was furious, searched me again. I killed him again, but after he died, i died from bleeding, used bandages instead of food, stupid me. He tried to kill me two more times, and he died trying. Then we bumped into each other in the neutral town, he waved, bowed to me and left.
When some of my guildies tried to gank back Envy in STV. He ganked me and my friend, we just tried to quest there with our low level characters. We asked for help, 3 guildie came to help, but they were PVE dudes, against Envy who was Warlord, in Warlord set. He beat us up again. We asked for help on Local, and got lots of people. The level range was 25-60. We were 10+ and we actually got Envy and his 3 lvl30 friends. It was so epic, like a boss fight for us. We fought from the Nesingwary camp to the beach, back and forth, we died a lot, but it worth it, when we finally killed Envy for the 5th time, and he logged out. It was a 3 hour battle.
Champions Online: When my collegues praised my Character's costume.
I have had a few...as everyone else has. but my most fond MMORPG memory is something that re-accures. I love randomly hunting out in the wilderness and seeing someone dying or almost dead and from outta no where, I spam heal them. I almost always play a healer type. its one of coolest feelings in the world, followed by there many thanks'
My favorite MMO memory was in SWG (Pre-NGE) on Corbantis, I was a rebel Carbineer/Combat Medic. Our guild got a message from one of our friendly guilds to come help defend their base on Naboo. There was a group of maybe 10 of us from our guild that went to assist. We got into the base just in time to see a BIG clump of red coming at us on radar. Outnumbered about 4 to 1, we pushed the imperials hard and wound up making them retreat after about an hour of intense fighting. That combat system back then was perfect for huge battles and I miss it. The fight for Drei Monde on Naboo was my favorite moment in SWG and in MMOs.
Well, I have a few that I cherish, but there is one in perticular that I love to tell, more so because it is hilarious, at least my friends and I think so. So in City Of Heroes, every once in a while they would hold a costume contest in game, whether it was most original, look-a-like, ect ect. Well my friends and I were hanging out, Lanning, and I happed to just be messing around in CoH. A player made an announcement that he was going to hold an "ugliest Character" contest and he would wait for everyone to go create their entry. Well, I decided it would be funny to create a character that looked like one of my friends at the time, Wheeler. I made up the character rather quickly, nothing special to it, t-shirt with a big "W" on it, cargo shorts, shoes, nothing out of the ordinary. Funny enough, it actually looked just like him, even had his creepy smile. Well I enter the contest and I am about in the middle of the line. Contest holder starts sidestepping looking at entries. he passes me goes down about 3 more, stops, comes back to me, and just sits there. After the pause, he says in general chat " You win it dude, here take the prize, you deserve it". My friends and I instantley burst into laughter, there had to be 20 more entries he didn't see yet, but I win, no contest with a look a like of my friend in an ugliest character contest. He was a good sport about it, but it was an almost too good to be true moment.
Well, I have a few that I cherish, but there is one in perticular that I love to tell, more so because it is hilarious, at least my friends and I think so. So in City Of Heroes, every once in a while they would hold a costume contest in game, whether it was most original, look-a-like, ect ect. Well my friends and I were hanging out, Lanning, and I happed to just be messing around in CoH. A player made an announcement that he was going to hold an "ugliest Character" contest and he would wait for everyone to go create their entry. Well, I decided it would be funny to create a character that looked like one of my friends at the time, Wheeler. I made up the character rather quickly, nothing special to it, t-shirt with a big "W" on it, cargo shorts, shoes, nothing out of the ordinary. Funny enough, it actually looked just like him, even had his creepy smile. Well I enter the contest and I am about in the middle of the line. Contest holder starts sidestepping looking at entries. he passes me goes down about 3 more, stops, comes back to me, and just sits there. After the pause, he says in general chat " You win it dude, here take the prize, you deserve it". My friends and I instantley burst into laughter, there had to be 20 more entries he didn't see yet, but I win, no contest with a look a like of my friend in an ugliest character contest. He was a good sport about it, but it was an almost too good to be true moment.
That's too funny. I came in 2nd or third in one of those ugliest contests. I tried to make a huge male character dressed as much like the carnival (faction in game btw) females as possible.
"Never met a pack of humans that were any different. Look at the idiots that get elected every couple of years. You really consider those guys more mature than us? The only difference between us and them is, when they gank some noobs and take their stuff, the noobs actually die." - Madimorga
sad that my most memorable and cherished memories are all negative.... o wait, i do have a positve one.
years and years ago a game called last kingdom found its way on to my pc. i was broke at the time and it was free to play or beta, i forget. anyway, if it was beta it lasted for over a year. it was my first mmo experience and many of my gripes about "improved" games since are because they dont do simple things like guild management, half as well. in any case, it was just announced that it was going to subscription and i simply could not afford the 10 bucks a month at the time. college guys gotta eat....and drink
the game closed soon after and i still find myself missing it. usually when i find a game that cant do the basics as well as last kingdom did.
but my favorite memory was that bcz everything about online gaming was new to me, each discovery was exciting. sigh, to be old and jaded.
Like most of you, EQ1 has most of my Cherished MMO Memories.
Finally stepping foot into VT after months of working the key was a great feeling. Knowing that I got a key that most people on the server would never ever get. (SoE made it keyless now).
The day my first ever MMO character reached max level. My Dwarf Warrior hitting lvl 50. That Ding was the sweetest sound in the world at that time. Yes I did every Hell level EQ ever had with this character and to this day I still play him from time to time but my Necromancer is my main.
I have 2 best memories. One from EQ and One from WoW. Both are saving my raiding guild from wiping.
In EQ, we were working the PoP progression, We were working on BoT. We were on the last guy, Agnarr the Storm Lord. It was our first try and we wiped. Myself and another necromancer were the only ones left. I stood up from FD and started running Agnarr around, Snared landed and he did not summon, so I dotted him. He was at around 10% health. The other necro started pulling corpses to the stairs and rezzed a cleric. So my guild is re setting up, re buffing and I am running around a giant room being chased by a raid mob. Well, after about 10 minutes of me running this guy around, my guild re engaged and we won the fight. It was a great feeling knowing that I was able to save the raid that night and we all got our flag.
In WoW I played a Tuaren warrior, my guild had just started raiding MC when I hit 60. My guild could not get passed the second raid mob (the fire dog). I joined our 3rd raid into MC, told the raid leader to let me tank. I tanked the fire dog and we won the fight no problem and then made it another 3 raid mobs deep. I became the main tank in the guild from that point on and we cleared MC a few tries later. Great fun know I was the only tank in the guild able to tank every mob in MC.
1. My first world event on EQ1. I had a lowbie monk that couldn't do much to the armies of skeleteons that were respawning but it was amazing to see so many people in one zone on dial-up. My system was lagging like crazy but it was cool to see so many characters and packs of druids shapeshifted into wolves.
2. Neocron at the end of beta. I had a good friend that I knew IRL since highschool that played the beta with me and we both played spy/hackers. We decided since it was the end of beta that we would get revenge on the biggest group of Grief killers in the game... by joining their clan. We then went up to they clan apt with a team from a rival clan, and opened to door allowing them access to the clan apt. Then we emptied out all the clan cabinets while the rival clan looted everything and then ran out. The Grief clan put a price on our heads and tried to follow us through the neutral zones in the city as we fled it all the while shouting how we were dead as soon as we were caught outside a neutral zone (they were a big clan and most parts of the world were open pvp if you took out your protection chip, which most people did since you got more xp if you removed it). By running around and jumping off ledges and taking the train to random parts of the city we managed to make out the gates unfollowed. Nothing beats the feeling of riding our hoverbikes out to the military base while looking over our shoulders for Warbots and Clanners out to get revenge on us all the while wondering what we were gonna do now that were hated by the biggest PK griefers in game..
3. Pre CU/NGE SWG- seeing my first Jedi using a dual blade lightsaber deflect and kill a Bounty hunter out to get him in the middle of Theed. I was in shock since back then you were lucky if you saw any Jedi...
While playing in Lavastorm (EQ1) my friend and I started to proceed into Najena's Liar, we where only killing he mobs close to zone in but during a lag spike (those happend often back in the day we just learned to play around them) We both died. Once we returned to get our corpses, true penalty was a part games then, we could not find my corpse. My shiney new Daggers and blackened iron armor that I just got was lost, needless to say I was sick. Almost quit that night, GMs said he believed it was within reach so he could not help. (/corpse command was used to pull a corpse to you, I tried for hours but couldnt find it) I loged out and played FFVII for a few hours before turning into bed. The next day after classes/work I decided to log back in and maybe start a new toon. As I loged out my guildleader said to give /corpse permission to all the officers and they would each try and get the corpse. To my suprise a cleric in the guild Ainven had spent all night trying to recover my corpse. He found it! Shadowspawn, the guild I was in, was always my best guild experience I can remember. Every person in the guild I considered a friend. It never bothered me that any time on a raid or just hanging out I constantly got the blame, "I blame the rogue," was a constant phrase I would hear for the rest of the time i played EQ1. Even though I never had a name I can remember, other then rogue, in that guild I felt it belonged. Thats my most cherished mmo memory....as i understand is "i blame the rogue" is now an almost coined pharse on Emarr..if I was the origin, I dont know, but on Emarr any time I heard that it was almost always a reference to me.
There is no single memory that I can say was the best.
There are two collections of memories that made me fall in love with MMOs.
First was in EQ. I made friends with a group a people, and we played together almost everyday for 2 straight months. That was a fantastic time.
Second was in DAoC. I met another group of people, and we RvR'd about 3 or 4 times a week. We ran other toons together in the BGs, and just leveled up together, as well.
Nothing I've done since has reached the fun and excitement of those times. I started to meet a lot of people in DDO, but found my motivation to log in waning at the higher levels.
Breaking Plane of Fear for the first time in EQ1 is definitely up there
eff those CRs! EFF THEM! lol
That is one of them as well.
I would say my most cherish memory was when I first played EQ. I was a half elf paladin and my best friend who played was also a half elf paladin. We started in Freeport, west freeport to be exact. We were adventuring in the east commonlands to get level 8 or so. I was behind because of limited playing time. My frist mmo friend, a human mage and his friend a human cleric thought it would be a good idea to go on a dangerous adventure. I suggested we should go to Riverdale the halfling city. Ive never been.
We wanted to get a full group together because we didn't know what to expect. We picked up two other female high elves, an enchanter and another cleric. First we ventured through the wild west commonlands where lions where there which conned red and could out run you. However, our magician friend invis'd us all! So we snuck by those scowling mobs. We finally made it to the dreaded Kithacor Forest. To our luck it was night when we arrived. That meant, only at night all undead mobs that can see invis anyways where out roaming. Boy that was a heart thumper. The cleric suggested that we should ride the wall to the entrance to the rivervale city. Just to our luck we made it. Not one person died. It was an awesome adventure right before my best friend passed away in a car accident. To him, introduced me to this great genre that I was really never interested before. Thank you Jason for those memories and I made many more in future to come.
I would say another one of mine is right before we pulled Terris Thule in Plane of Nightmare B with my guild....
/occ "If you type /ex it will reveal the experience you have accumulated in raid."
Man as soon as I said that, the Shadow Knight Troll Raid leader said <<< Pulling Terris Thule >>>
(if you type /ex in EQ you exit the game)
As soon as he said that and pulled, half of the raid already logged off or went link dead. Even most of the officers and guild leader. We wiped, the raid leader yelled at me. I was only expecting everyone to be like oh good one, Eron. No, they actually fell for it. The guild leader sent me a tell and said that was by far the best time to say that and told me it didn't mater what the raid leader said. That was really funny because I really didn't expect that to happen.
Anyway my first MMO was WoW after a couple of month of it being released in Europe so things like server stability and lag would be sorted out by then and luckily that was the case. I created a tauren warrior and my friend since he also was a tauren warrior, came in and showed me the ropes (he was about 40-50 at the time I don't really remember)
But first seeing the kodo mount... well it just looked pure epic and knew from that on what I would do, grind my ass off for it since battlegrounds wasn't added yet.
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I normaly use this site for mmo info and stuff but reading some of these experiences has brought back some good old memories.
My fondest memory would have to be when i first played swg, creating my character doing my first mission(i had to bring a package from theed to deeja peak, i didnt have enough money for a shuttle and mounts were a few months off so i walked. Ill never forget the sheer terror of those agro butterflies or getting my ass handed to me by nuna. But most of all was the feeling i got, like i was in the starwars universe.
and then all the epic pvp battles between the imperial and rebels running back and forth from bestine to AH battling out in player cities and sitting in theed with a few buddies dueling untill some of the rebel scum showed up.
and i cant forget to mention roleplaying with a goodfriend of mine talking in character of an imperial officer discussing how great the empire was and how the terrorist rebels were just a bunch of bloodthirsty hooligans.
The first year of playing that game was filled with good memories, the community the openess and working hard for my special order pistols (bh/p
) all of it awesome.
wow also has some memories too, vanillia that is, i was in stv and a pally ganked me now i was on a pve sever and i was flagged because i wanted some excitement, i deffended and killed him and thought nothing of it. He comes back with friends and tries to corpse camp me so i rally all the local players and got my revenge, we camped his ass till he logged and i know some of you think of this practice lowly but in my defense he did it first
I have a few but one that sticks out was in WoW. It was back in bc and I was a 70 troll hunter. I had a nice pvp gear set and was an avid PvPer. I was riding through STV and heard the announcement for the treasure chest at the Gurubashi Arena. I decided to swing by and see if there was any action.
I didn't see anyone nearby so I thought I would jump in but about that time about 5 alliance came rushing in and owned me. Wasn't a big deal but before I released I seen them kill a 69 draenei mage. I walked back and was watching from the side lines when the mage appeared beside me. There was 5 alliance holding the center with a 70 warrior, 70 hunter, 68 priest, a shaman and rogue in the high 50's, then a lvl 19 rogue waiting on the side. They were in the same guild and obviously getting the chest for the twink.
I looked at the mage and /point. She /nod, then we both jumped in back to back ... It was amazing! When we landed I put a frost trap a few feet in front of her and caught the warrior in charge. She sheeped the priest and I ate through the shaman in a few shots. Before I could target the priest she pompyro, fireblasted more than half their health, I silenced the priest and scattered the hunter while she finished off the priest. I set another frost trap and caught the 50ish rogue at the same time she sheeped the warrior. I stepped back and took out the rogue with ease. The shaman pop'd but the mage quickly killed them again. The warrior stayed sheeped but the hunter almost killed the mage until she blocked and I polished him off with only a little health left myself (he would've gotten us if he hadn't been switching between targets, silly BM hunter didn't even have his pet on aggressive/defensive). Then we kited around the warrior tank until his demise.
After the fight she sheeped me to heal and I frost trapped her for jest. When the chest appeared, I pointed and start/canceled my hearth. She bowed and then looted the chest. I bowed and we left the arena, mounted up and rode our seperate ways. It was cool working with someone with no communication but playing well together, especially considering we were enemies.
great topic... my favorite memory was the time i had to play a friend's 75 ranger in FFXI. at the time i knew absolutely zero about end game raids or ranger. i was only lvl 30WAR/15BLM (if u know that game u'll know just how newb i was for even considering that combo). he was in line for a Kirin Osode to drop and he had to work that day. the guild rule was that u had to be present to loot or u forfeit ur drop to the next guy who was present. he was really desperate because he'd been waiting and helping the guild out for months. so he asked me.
i was actually nervious when i logged in and saw a massive room of maxed characters all adorned in awesome gear. it was a gorgeous collection and i knew i was gonna get everyone killed. during the fight i did as much wiki research as i could about the skills as i went. at one point one of the tanks died and they called for all rangers to do a sequence of shadowbind and i was second in the chain. i remember seeing my name in text and thinking WTF is shadowbind as the mob made his way around the room dropping all the mages and myself. we all but completely wiped as one godsent whitemage survived and ran around a room of dead bodies raising other healers. it was a great guild of friends and everyone was so optimistic. no one pointed a finger at me, but i managed to squeeze in an apology into the chatbox. im sure they'd have all raised hell if they'd known that the char wasn't mine.
after everyone had raised cast on them we waited for the right moment, then it was a scene out of night of the living dead. we actually regrouped and tried again. this time i knew what my job was and we went on to beat kirin. my friend got his drop and i had a great time... i hear that now a group can drop this boss in under 10mins. our fight took 2.5 hrs. (death and recomposing included). i found out that the guild i was with that day was (by our server standards) a bunch of nobodies and newbs, but what a great batch of ppl.
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Finally get my full T9 gear and i ordered a fingerprint statue (in the likeness of my toon, of course) to celebrate.
The (my first) fleet battle after camping the gate for 12 hours waiting for the MC to crash through, defending The Big Blue , in Eve Online.
F2P/P2P excellent thread.
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/282517/F2P-An-Engineers-perspective.html
So far, EQ is the game with most memory.
First guild I joined, I met a frenchy that has became a gaming friend for 9year now.
My first pvp kill at kelethin, using a fine steel morning star as a high elf paladin at lvl 6 then Looting a mithril beastplate.
First time playing a bard and dying to guard over and over at qeynos just to know that my second song(dot aoe song) were agroing them lol.
As my dwarf paaldin, lvl 6, in kelethin then falling down kelethin and being "unconcious" and surviving the fall! That was epic.
Unrest, the train zone haha.
Crushbone, clearing the place to get shiny brass shield, dwarven ringmail, dvinn dagger and belt/spaulder for quest.
WISH Beta(Game that didnt make it) Whena town got ravaged by a sickness, most npc were dying from it. As well as me taming a ice cat, Suck ti didnt made it.
Damn, there still so many lol. I don't know why but now most mmo seem to be grinding for me, barely any immersion, if any at all.
When I sold my Barc Speeder for 100,000 credit's... And it was going for over 2 mil...
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Southshore/Tarren Mill PvP back when the honor system was first intoduced, before the battlegrounds were built. I used to listen to an Acid Bath cd and just kill and kill. Well, actually I played a healy priest so I would just heal and heal and dispel alot too. Every time I listen to that cd it brings back memories of that time.
I really liked that time in WoW because my character was exactly how I wanted him to be. He had a disc/shadow spec that became broken a few patches later. Once BC came out, that character was basically ruined for me. I would still be playing in that same spot if nothing had changed. Listening to the same CD.
Vault-Tec analysts have concluded that the odds of worldwide nuclear armaggeddon this decade are 17,143,762... to 1.
Guild Wars: When our english buddy, Blind drew a message on the minimap, telling us in this way his keyboard ran out of battery power.
Tabula Rasa: Every time when we, random players took back a base or captured another.
SWG Post NGE (Current): When i assembled my first ship after hours of searhing for still operating Vendors at the deserted towns.
Warhammer Online: When our guild reasembled a second time, and we done some ORvR in T2. We saw that large amount of people, who fought with us. There were 70+ random people, and we just destroyed every opposition in our way to lock the zones. And my first Chosen in the beta.
World of Warcraft: I have lots of good memories from this game. I got a girlfriend from this game, its over now, but it was a good time.
We played a lot together, the best moment was, when she wanted to farm some crocodiles near Sattrath, she needed it for mana flask. I beta tested WAR that time, but i still had my subscription. She bumped into an enemy warlock, who had full t6 set, and the warlock killed her toon. She was upset. I logged in, went there with my PVP geared BM huner, and killed that full T6 warlock for her, and guarded her till she farmed enough meat. The T6 warlock was near us, on his epic flying mount, up in the air, out of my shooting range, and he waited till we finished, with a Hunter's Mark on his head. He waited some 45 minutes till we left. He was scared of me.
On a low level UD rogue (lvl38) I bumped into a lvl 41 night elf feral druid. He attacked me, but i killed him, almost bled to death, but I ate his body, and survived. He was furious, searched me again. I killed him again, but after he died, i died from bleeding, used bandages instead of food, stupid me. He tried to kill me two more times, and he died trying. Then we bumped into each other in the neutral town, he waved, bowed to me and left.
When some of my guildies tried to gank back Envy in STV. He ganked me and my friend, we just tried to quest there with our low level characters. We asked for help, 3 guildie came to help, but they were PVE dudes, against Envy who was Warlord, in Warlord set. He beat us up again. We asked for help on Local, and got lots of people. The level range was 25-60. We were 10+ and we actually got Envy and his 3 lvl30 friends. It was so epic, like a boss fight for us. We fought from the Nesingwary camp to the beach, back and forth, we died a lot, but it worth it, when we finally killed Envy for the 5th time, and he logged out. It was a 3 hour battle.
Champions Online: When my collegues praised my Character's costume.
I have had a few...as everyone else has. but my most fond MMORPG memory is something that re-accures. I love randomly hunting out in the wilderness and seeing someone dying or almost dead and from outta no where, I spam heal them. I almost always play a healer type. its one of coolest feelings in the world, followed by there many thanks'
My favorite MMO memory was in SWG (Pre-NGE) on Corbantis, I was a rebel Carbineer/Combat Medic. Our guild got a message from one of our friendly guilds to come help defend their base on Naboo. There was a group of maybe 10 of us from our guild that went to assist. We got into the base just in time to see a BIG clump of red coming at us on radar. Outnumbered about 4 to 1, we pushed the imperials hard and wound up making them retreat after about an hour of intense fighting. That combat system back then was perfect for huge battles and I miss it. The fight for Drei Monde on Naboo was my favorite moment in SWG and in MMOs.
Well, I have a few that I cherish, but there is one in perticular that I love to tell, more so because it is hilarious, at least my friends and I think so. So in City Of Heroes, every once in a while they would hold a costume contest in game, whether it was most original, look-a-like, ect ect. Well my friends and I were hanging out, Lanning, and I happed to just be messing around in CoH. A player made an announcement that he was going to hold an "ugliest Character" contest and he would wait for everyone to go create their entry. Well, I decided it would be funny to create a character that looked like one of my friends at the time, Wheeler. I made up the character rather quickly, nothing special to it, t-shirt with a big "W" on it, cargo shorts, shoes, nothing out of the ordinary. Funny enough, it actually looked just like him, even had his creepy smile. Well I enter the contest and I am about in the middle of the line. Contest holder starts sidestepping looking at entries. he passes me goes down about 3 more, stops, comes back to me, and just sits there. After the pause, he says in general chat " You win it dude, here take the prize, you deserve it". My friends and I instantley burst into laughter, there had to be 20 more entries he didn't see yet, but I win, no contest with a look a like of my friend in an ugliest character contest. He was a good sport about it, but it was an almost too good to be true moment.
That's too funny. I came in 2nd or third in one of those ugliest contests. I tried to make a huge male character dressed as much like the carnival (faction in game btw) females as possible.
"Never met a pack of humans that were any different. Look at the idiots that get elected every couple of years. You really consider those guys more mature than us? The only difference between us and them is, when they gank some noobs and take their stuff, the noobs actually die." - Madimorga
i have a top 3 actually
1. uninstalling conan
2. uninstalling warcraft
3. uninstalling runes of magic
sad that my most memorable and cherished memories are all negative.... o wait, i do have a positve one.
years and years ago a game called last kingdom found its way on to my pc. i was broke at the time and it was free to play or beta, i forget. anyway, if it was beta it lasted for over a year. it was my first mmo experience and many of my gripes about "improved" games since are because they dont do simple things like guild management, half as well. in any case, it was just announced that it was going to subscription and i simply could not afford the 10 bucks a month at the time. college guys gotta eat....and drink
the game closed soon after and i still find myself missing it. usually when i find a game that cant do the basics as well as last kingdom did.
but my favorite memory was that bcz everything about online gaming was new to me, each discovery was exciting. sigh, to be old and jaded.
Like most of you, EQ1 has most of my Cherished MMO Memories.
Finally stepping foot into VT after months of working the key was a great feeling. Knowing that I got a key that most people on the server would never ever get. (SoE made it keyless now).
The day my first ever MMO character reached max level. My Dwarf Warrior hitting lvl 50. That Ding was the sweetest sound in the world at that time. Yes I did every Hell level EQ ever had with this character and to this day I still play him from time to time but my Necromancer is my main.
I have 2 best memories. One from EQ and One from WoW. Both are saving my raiding guild from wiping.
In EQ, we were working the PoP progression, We were working on BoT. We were on the last guy, Agnarr the Storm Lord. It was our first try and we wiped. Myself and another necromancer were the only ones left. I stood up from FD and started running Agnarr around, Snared landed and he did not summon, so I dotted him. He was at around 10% health. The other necro started pulling corpses to the stairs and rezzed a cleric. So my guild is re setting up, re buffing and I am running around a giant room being chased by a raid mob. Well, after about 10 minutes of me running this guy around, my guild re engaged and we won the fight. It was a great feeling knowing that I was able to save the raid that night and we all got our flag.
In WoW I played a Tuaren warrior, my guild had just started raiding MC when I hit 60. My guild could not get passed the second raid mob (the fire dog). I joined our 3rd raid into MC, told the raid leader to let me tank. I tanked the fire dog and we won the fight no problem and then made it another 3 raid mobs deep. I became the main tank in the guild from that point on and we cleared MC a few tries later. Great fun know I was the only tank in the guild able to tank every mob in MC.
Sooner or Later
Great stuff, chums.
Let's keep the memories comin'!
3 big memories for me:
1. My first world event on EQ1. I had a lowbie monk that couldn't do much to the armies of skeleteons that were respawning but it was amazing to see so many people in one zone on dial-up. My system was lagging like crazy but it was cool to see so many characters and packs of druids shapeshifted into wolves.
2. Neocron at the end of beta. I had a good friend that I knew IRL since highschool that played the beta with me and we both played spy/hackers. We decided since it was the end of beta that we would get revenge on the biggest group of Grief killers in the game... by joining their clan. We then went up to they clan apt with a team from a rival clan, and opened to door allowing them access to the clan apt. Then we emptied out all the clan cabinets while the rival clan looted everything and then ran out. The Grief clan put a price on our heads and tried to follow us through the neutral zones in the city as we fled it all the while shouting how we were dead as soon as we were caught outside a neutral zone (they were a big clan and most parts of the world were open pvp if you took out your protection chip, which most people did since you got more xp if you removed it). By running around and jumping off ledges and taking the train to random parts of the city we managed to make out the gates unfollowed. Nothing beats the feeling of riding our hoverbikes out to the military base while looking over our shoulders for Warbots and Clanners out to get revenge on us all the while wondering what we were gonna do now that were hated by the biggest PK griefers in game..
3. Pre CU/NGE SWG- seeing my first Jedi using a dual blade lightsaber deflect and kill a Bounty hunter out to get him in the middle of Theed. I was in shock since back then you were lucky if you saw any Jedi...
While playing in Lavastorm (EQ1) my friend and I started to proceed into Najena's Liar, we where only killing he mobs close to zone in but during a lag spike (those happend often back in the day we just learned to play around them) We both died. Once we returned to get our corpses, true penalty was a part games then, we could not find my corpse. My shiney new Daggers and blackened iron armor that I just got was lost, needless to say I was sick. Almost quit that night, GMs said he believed it was within reach so he could not help. (/corpse command was used to pull a corpse to you, I tried for hours but couldnt find it) I loged out and played FFVII for a few hours before turning into bed. The next day after classes/work I decided to log back in and maybe start a new toon. As I loged out my guildleader said to give /corpse permission to all the officers and they would each try and get the corpse. To my suprise a cleric in the guild Ainven had spent all night trying to recover my corpse. He found it! Shadowspawn, the guild I was in, was always my best guild experience I can remember. Every person in the guild I considered a friend. It never bothered me that any time on a raid or just hanging out I constantly got the blame, "I blame the rogue," was a constant phrase I would hear for the rest of the time i played EQ1. Even though I never had a name I can remember, other then rogue, in that guild I felt it belonged. Thats my most cherished mmo memory....as i understand is "i blame the rogue" is now an almost coined pharse on Emarr..if I was the origin, I dont know, but on Emarr any time I heard that it was almost always a reference to me.
My most cherished memory was way back shortly after UO had launched.
I remember stepping out into the world for the first time, grabbing an axe and wondering if I could chop trees... I COULD!! Yay!
Then I was chased all the way through Britain city by a lizardman who cornered me inside the vendors shop, hilarious and great fun!
You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
My most cherished memory was way back shortly after UO had launched.
I remember stepping out into the world for the first time, grabbing an axe and wondering if I could chop trees... I COULD!! Yay!
Then I was chased all the way through Britain city by a lizardman who cornered me inside the vendors shop, hilarious and great fun!
You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
Heh.. double post FTL.
J/k. Wish I could have gotten into Mmo's during UO. I got in when EQ1 came out back when Voodoo FX cards were the thing to talk about lol
There is no single memory that I can say was the best.
There are two collections of memories that made me fall in love with MMOs.
First was in EQ. I made friends with a group a people, and we played together almost everyday for 2 straight months. That was a fantastic time.
Second was in DAoC. I met another group of people, and we RvR'd about 3 or 4 times a week. We ran other toons together in the BGs, and just leveled up together, as well.
Nothing I've done since has reached the fun and excitement of those times. I started to meet a lot of people in DDO, but found my motivation to log in waning at the higher levels.
eff those CRs! EFF THEM! lol
That is one of them as well.
I would say my most cherish memory was when I first played EQ. I was a half elf paladin and my best friend who played was also a half elf paladin. We started in Freeport, west freeport to be exact. We were adventuring in the east commonlands to get level 8 or so. I was behind because of limited playing time. My frist mmo friend, a human mage and his friend a human cleric thought it would be a good idea to go on a dangerous adventure. I suggested we should go to Riverdale the halfling city. Ive never been.
We wanted to get a full group together because we didn't know what to expect. We picked up two other female high elves, an enchanter and another cleric. First we ventured through the wild west commonlands where lions where there which conned red and could out run you. However, our magician friend invis'd us all! So we snuck by those scowling mobs. We finally made it to the dreaded Kithacor Forest. To our luck it was night when we arrived. That meant, only at night all undead mobs that can see invis anyways where out roaming. Boy that was a heart thumper. The cleric suggested that we should ride the wall to the entrance to the rivervale city. Just to our luck we made it. Not one person died. It was an awesome adventure right before my best friend passed away in a car accident. To him, introduced me to this great genre that I was really never interested before. Thank you Jason for those memories and I made many more in future to come.
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I would say another one of mine is right before we pulled Terris Thule in Plane of Nightmare B with my guild....
/occ "If you type /ex it will reveal the experience you have accumulated in raid."
Man as soon as I said that, the Shadow Knight Troll Raid leader said <<< Pulling Terris Thule >>>
(if you type /ex in EQ you exit the game)
As soon as he said that and pulled, half of the raid already logged off or went link dead. Even most of the officers and guild leader. We wiped, the raid leader yelled at me. I was only expecting everyone to be like oh good one, Eron. No, they actually fell for it. The guild leader sent me a tell and said that was by far the best time to say that and told me it didn't mater what the raid leader said. That was really funny because I really didn't expect that to happen.
That is EPIC in its hilariousness.
Funny though, you could get ideas on how an MMO can be great just from this thread. Baffles me whats going on with developers lately...
Good thread, OP!
Anyway my first MMO was WoW after a couple of month of it being released in Europe so things like server stability and lag would be sorted out by then and luckily that was the case. I created a tauren warrior and my friend since he also was a tauren warrior, came in and showed me the ropes (he was about 40-50 at the time I don't really remember)
But first seeing the kodo mount... well it just looked pure epic and knew from that on what I would do, grind my ass off for it since battlegrounds wasn't added yet.