I played the game for a long time but I think my most memorable times were camping bled bridge on my mercenary. I was a crush merc so stealthers rarely tried to jump me - and if they did it was in groups of 3 or so.
I would see solo people run across the bridge and I would hop down to the water and meet them on the other side. I had a lot of fun 1v1 fights that way. I did it from RR4 to RR10 lol.
YA we had a similar Peaceful gathering among friends and enemies alike in Odin's Gate when the Warrior named Fame died for Lancelot server. Was truely a beautiful and harmonus event to behold watching a Server wide memorial service, such things seem arcahic in today's MMO Player Base.
I remember Fame. I would see him in Emain a lot as I was also playing Midgard as a cave shaman. I had many good memories from early DAoC. I remember defending a keep we had taken in Albion and looking out of a window only to see what looked like hundreds of red names outside.
I loved sitting at Mid mile gate just guarding it from invaders, killing the solo albs or hibs and calling out in chat if groups went through or what looked like a relic raid force. Man that was a fun game and if they still had classic servers I would be playing right now.
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Tricky question. I still play DAoC so I still create memories. But if I'd have to pick one it'd be the first time I saw a troll when I went to level 20 BG. Freaked me out.
Originally posted by Edany God, what a great read. He managed to capture the mood and flavor of what it was like "back in the day". Thanks for posting the link here.
Originally posted by Edany God, what a great read. He managed to capture the mood and flavor of what it was like "back in the day". Thanks for posting the link here.
Originally posted by Edany God, what a great read. He managed to capture the mood and flavor of what it was like "back in the day". Thanks for posting the link here.
I just thought of something else and other daoc old timers might have to help me out with the names.
My first experience with darkness falls was on my cleric. I was on guin server in Albion. Our guild along with many others were headed for the main bosses in df. Once we got there, don't recall the mobs name, and we started beating on them it seemed like it took forever for their health to go down. I was busy doing may job of keeping our guild members alive when all of a sudden I found myself in another room. Totally disoriented after regaining my composure sent a tell to our group and asked them what was going on?
They started laughing and saying the big boss likes to transport people out of the area. By the time I figured out how to get back they had the boss killed.:P
Anyone remember the mobs name that did this in df?
I just thought of something else and other daoc old timers might have to help me out with the names.
My first experience with darkness falls was on my cleric. I was on guin server in Albion. Our guild along with many others were headed for the main bosses in df. Once we got there, don't recall the mobs name, and we started beating on them it seemed like it took forever for their health to go down. I was busy doing may job of keeping our guild members alive when all of a sudden I found myself in another room. Totally disoriented after regaining my composure sent a tell to our group and asked them what was going on?
They started laughing and saying the big boss likes to transport people out of the area. By the time I figured out how to get back they had the boss killed.:P
Anyone remember the mobs name that did this in df?
Week 2 from release...some high level Hibs (40+) came to the Yggdra Forest realm gate...ALL of midgard of every level turned out to fight them. Was a total slide show on my then crap computer, but I was hooked.
Playing stealther tag with my hunter and later shadowblade in the midgard frontiers, killing gankers in Upland and Yggdra, camping the milegates etc. Always fun in the shadow wars. Then being thanked by other Midgard players years later for killing gankers back when they where leveling.
Coming up with the coordinated GTAE/Seige fire for midgard. I had a whole tab of macro's for a special chat channel I would make to coordinate fire when taking keeps. Normally those attacks don't kill anybody by themselves...but when you drop 4-5 siege weapons and 4-5 GTAE on the exact same spot (/groundtargetassist) and fire at the same time...everything at the target would die. I would climb the walls stealthed, find a nice group of resting defenders etc...then call in the artillary strike. We would kill 10+ people at once sometimes. And I generally never got a single RP from it since I wasn't grouped with the people doing the actual attacks, but I was ok with that.
Having my lvl 35 cave shaman in Caledonia BG single handly defend the CK from 20+ attackers...I picked up the RA that allowed my DOTS to crit. AoE Dot spam...get crits and people would die in mass.
Leveling with my guild blender (6+ supp spec pbae spiritmasters with a few support) in DF or the frontiers...being level 20 and having level 50's attack us and killing them with ease. PBAE don't care about level when you have enough of it. Always fun to pop the 50th stealther out too with massed spam.
When defending the Frontier / taking back keeps, we had a realm leader who always led (Gisli) and I was his primary scout. I would be at the first keep we planned to take back, get defender numbers and dispostions, feed it to Gisli then be off to the 2nd keep as soon as they showed at the first. I would stay a keep ahead for the whole night, feeding important scout information. Did I get very many RP's? Nope. Was it vitally important to our realm and let us take back keeps. Oh yah.
The all stealther keep takes as part of relic raids...20+ stealthers would sneak into an undefended keep, go up and kill the keep lord directly. Sure, alot of us died (we generally had a rezzer outside) but we would take the keep with no guard kill spam.
The massive, coordinated relic assault plans come up with my our offensive realm leader (Galroth, and one other...). We had maps that showed where every piece of siege would be placed around the relic keep, every group knew what keeps to hit, with who, what time, where to be at the relic keep etc. Massive detail and great success.
Having enemy relic raids hit our frontier and having entire midgard dragon raids of 50+ people all suicide out to go fight them.
We had Alliance defense nights. The major alliances each took different nights of the week that they would patrol the frontiers. They where the first line of defense and always ensured we had people out for quick response defense.
But over all...I miss the sweaty palms, shaking hands and panting breath of the excitement and stress of being out in the frontiers fighting other real people that I had for the first few years of the game. It was awesome.
So many memories from Mid Lance.....Where do I start? How about attempting to cross the lake outside Galpen the first week of release and getting slayed by Nessie repeatedly? It was such a great feeling when you actually made it
We had the first successful relic raid in the game lead by Enkiwa, Kindred Alliance which domianted in RPs for the first couple years, Kindred had the honor of participating in the Mordred beta test and playing WITH some of our fiercest enemies on lance......Skeltah turned out to be an alright guy after all.......I remember my first RVR experience where I decided to port to emain for the first time and run behind Tyrobi as he killed pretty much everyone with a single spell. I was amazed when he invited me to join his group and later his guild(Kindred)....so many fond memories from that Guild/Alliance.........Leviathan - hopefully you're still out there somewhere buddy
I think everyone's experiences were so unique and special. Hopefully CU can bring back that same nostalgic feel.....Mark - After reading all your principles i'm a believer!
So many good memories, but if I have to choose a few that stand out then it is the memorials of Tabbie and Granarc (if I recall their names). Those people died from cancer I believe, but tons of players from all realms gathered. For Granarc's memorial so many people turned up in Emain that the server went down.
The other story I'll relate is about Mourginn, a foul-mouthed, rude dwarven berserker who baffled me when I first met him. That guy always stayed in character and his trash talking was never l33tspeak and once we got used to him, he was great to have around. One time he carried the ram for a relic raid, but halfway to the relic keep he gets into an argument with another dwarf, and suddenly the two of them are duelling. Mourginn died and had to run to catch up because he carried one ram while everyone else waited. Don't remember if we succeded in taking the relic, but looking back now it doesn't matter. The story is worth more than the relic at the time. And as one realm leader stated afterwards: "Should have known better than to give that dwarf a ram".
YA we had a similar Peaceful gathering among friends and enemies alike in Odin's Gate when the Warrior named Fame died for Lancelot server. Was truely a beautiful and harmonus event to behold watching a Server wide memorial service, such things seem arcahic in today's MMO Player Base.
Drakonal - I remember this all too well. Fame's son played and I believe he logged in as Fame that day. That was a sad and shocking day for lancelot. I remember after that it was actually odd porting to emain and not seeing Fame out there. That was his home and the game was a big part of his life.
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I played the game for a long time but I think my most memorable times were camping bled bridge on my mercenary. I was a crush merc so stealthers rarely tried to jump me - and if they did it was in groups of 3 or so.
I would see solo people run across the bridge and I would hop down to the water and meet them on the other side. I had a lot of fun 1v1 fights that way. I did it from RR4 to RR10 lol.
I remember Fame. I would see him in Emain a lot as I was also playing Midgard as a cave shaman. I had many good memories from early DAoC. I remember defending a keep we had taken in Albion and looking out of a window only to see what looked like hundreds of red names outside.
I loved sitting at Mid mile gate just guarding it from invaders, killing the solo albs or hibs and calling out in chat if groups went through or what looked like a relic raid force. Man that was a fun game and if they still had classic servers I would be playing right now.
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This guy sums it up pretty well.
Again for those that may have missed it.
Wonderful read Davis, thank you.:) Tomb of Mithra was a very intense place but had some great group experiences there.
The most enjoyable PVE I had was in Mithras Tomb and then later Barrows Den on my paladin. Was so epic to go into a dungeon at "Stone Henge" haha.
That and power leveling using a catapult on Pygmy goblins on my Midgards toons hahah.
I just thought of something else and other daoc old timers might have to help me out with the names.
My first experience with darkness falls was on my cleric. I was on guin server in Albion. Our guild along with many others were headed for the main bosses in df. Once we got there, don't recall the mobs name, and we started beating on them it seemed like it took forever for their health to go down. I was busy doing may job of keeping our guild members alive when all of a sudden I found myself in another room. Totally disoriented after regaining my composure sent a tell to our group and asked them what was going on?
They started laughing and saying the big boss likes to transport people out of the area. By the time I figured out how to get back they had the boss killed.:P
Anyone remember the mobs name that did this in df?
Was it Legion?
Drakonal of Lancelot/Kay
Drakulaz of Mordred
http://www.riskymilk.com/Kujii/Player_Base.wmv (classic guild video alb no cloth group)
So many memories from Midgard Percival...
Week 2 from release...some high level Hibs (40+) came to the Yggdra Forest realm gate...ALL of midgard of every level turned out to fight them. Was a total slide show on my then crap computer, but I was hooked.
Playing stealther tag with my hunter and later shadowblade in the midgard frontiers, killing gankers in Upland and Yggdra, camping the milegates etc. Always fun in the shadow wars. Then being thanked by other Midgard players years later for killing gankers back when they where leveling.
Coming up with the coordinated GTAE/Seige fire for midgard. I had a whole tab of macro's for a special chat channel I would make to coordinate fire when taking keeps. Normally those attacks don't kill anybody by themselves...but when you drop 4-5 siege weapons and 4-5 GTAE on the exact same spot (/groundtargetassist) and fire at the same time...everything at the target would die. I would climb the walls stealthed, find a nice group of resting defenders etc...then call in the artillary strike. We would kill 10+ people at once sometimes. And I generally never got a single RP from it since I wasn't grouped with the people doing the actual attacks, but I was ok with that.
Having my lvl 35 cave shaman in Caledonia BG single handly defend the CK from 20+ attackers...I picked up the RA that allowed my DOTS to crit. AoE Dot spam...get crits and people would die in mass.
Leveling with my guild blender (6+ supp spec pbae spiritmasters with a few support) in DF or the frontiers...being level 20 and having level 50's attack us and killing them with ease. PBAE don't care about level when you have enough of it. Always fun to pop the 50th stealther out too with massed spam.
When defending the Frontier / taking back keeps, we had a realm leader who always led (Gisli) and I was his primary scout. I would be at the first keep we planned to take back, get defender numbers and dispostions, feed it to Gisli then be off to the 2nd keep as soon as they showed at the first. I would stay a keep ahead for the whole night, feeding important scout information. Did I get very many RP's? Nope. Was it vitally important to our realm and let us take back keeps. Oh yah.
The all stealther keep takes as part of relic raids...20+ stealthers would sneak into an undefended keep, go up and kill the keep lord directly. Sure, alot of us died (we generally had a rezzer outside) but we would take the keep with no guard kill spam.
The massive, coordinated relic assault plans come up with my our offensive realm leader (Galroth, and one other...). We had maps that showed where every piece of siege would be placed around the relic keep, every group knew what keeps to hit, with who, what time, where to be at the relic keep etc. Massive detail and great success.
Having enemy relic raids hit our frontier and having entire midgard dragon raids of 50+ people all suicide out to go fight them.
We had Alliance defense nights. The major alliances each took different nights of the week that they would patrol the frontiers. They where the first line of defense and always ensured we had people out for quick response defense.
But over all...I miss the sweaty palms, shaking hands and panting breath of the excitement and stress of being out in the frontiers fighting other real people that I had for the first few years of the game. It was awesome.
So many memories from Mid Lance.....Where do I start? How about attempting to cross the lake outside Galpen the first week of release and getting slayed by Nessie repeatedly? It was such a great feeling when you actually made it
We had the first successful relic raid in the game lead by Enkiwa, Kindred Alliance which domianted in RPs for the first couple years, Kindred had the honor of participating in the Mordred beta test and playing WITH some of our fiercest enemies on lance......Skeltah turned out to be an alright guy after all.......I remember my first RVR experience where I decided to port to emain for the first time and run behind Tyrobi as he killed pretty much everyone with a single spell. I was amazed when he invited me to join his group and later his guild(Kindred)....so many fond memories from that Guild/Alliance.........Leviathan - hopefully you're still out there somewhere buddy
I think everyone's experiences were so unique and special. Hopefully CU can bring back that same nostalgic feel.....Mark - After reading all your principles i'm a believer!
Zenin(Thane) - Mid Lancelot
Zeni(SM) - Classic
Enjoying a nice leisurely day of playing PvE with my guildmates and doing my Epic Armor questline in PvE.
Sandbox means open world, non-linear gaming PERIOD!
Subscription Gaming, especially MMO gaming is a Cash grab bigger then the most P2W cash shop!
Bring Back Exploration and lengthy progression times. RPG's have always been about the Journey not the destination!!!
Drakonal - I remember this all too well. Fame's son played and I believe he logged in as Fame that day. That was a sad and shocking day for lancelot. I remember after that it was actually odd porting to emain and not seeing Fame out there. That was his home and the game was a big part of his life.
Zenin(Thane) - Mid Lancelot
Zeni(SM) - Classic
Sounds like WoW is more up your ally, CU won't have PvE no matter who complains :P
Drakonal of Lancelot/Kay
Drakulaz of Mordred
http://www.riskymilk.com/Kujii/Player_Base.wmv (classic guild video alb no cloth group)
Anyone as corny as me to keep these still in good condition? pretty sure I have the original manual still somewhere.
EDIT: Nvm I tried to upload a photo of the original box and trifold Map but alas I can only reference from an image on the net.
No I did not but of course now wish I had.:P
I have the huge poster by Terese Nielsen that came with the original box.
What happens when you log off your characters????.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFQhfhnjYMk
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