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What was your single greatest MMO accomlishment?
LisaFlexy22
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What do you remember as your best mmo moment? Maybe a piece of loot you finally got, a boss you downed, a hard achievement earned? Pick any game and talk about what happened to make it so memorable for you.
For me - completing the meta achievement Patience is a Virtue in RIFT would probably be it. For that one you have to kill every rare mob in the game, over 250 of them. Worked on it hardcore for 3 months straight and was definitely the most time or effort ever put into a single achievement like that. I didn't play RIFT for that long really but finally completing that achievement definitely has been the biggest accomplishment for me personally.
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Running a 12hr guild raid EQ2 and a horny girlfriend.
Being able to 'complete' both without anyone getting annoyed or knowing what I was doing was a lot of work but I was impressed I pulled it off.
Programmable keyboards and playing an enchanter helped.
Post Pub 9 but Pre CU (before JTL) full template Jedi in Star Wars Galaxies.
If you don't know what was involved, suffice to say it was a challenge to unlock. It was even more of a challenge to become full template without generating visibility. Lonely months..
If you do know what was involved, then you understand. Most work I have ever put into a game, and the most reward I ever got out of a game in terms of character power. It was still strong after the CU, but nothing like early on.
Find out that I can get D3 for free when i continue to play WoW (before i quit subbing WoW).
There are two greatest accomplishments in any given mmorpg.
1) The day you start playing the game.
2) The day you quit playing the game.
The rest is all fluff.
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Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you playing an MMORPG?"
My 2 biggest accomplishments
SWG-CU Jedi, a week before the NGE hit.
WoW vanilla PvP Rank 11 Warrior , never afk, all Pug
Both took me about 6-7 months of 40-60 hours a week, I worked them harder than my real job in construction. Now before you say that they were a waste of time , remember I would have spent that time bellied up to a bar if not playing MMORPGs. I had way too much spare time back then and very little ambition...
Solving investigation missions in Secret World without walkthroughs or spoilers.
Best feeling you will ever get from an MMO
Lol yeah mts were great in EQ.
The day many many years ago.... I got my revenge against that bastard Mor'Ladim
"Be water my friend" - Bruce Lee
EQ1
Getting my click stick on my Cleric. Several 72 person raids later I was a rezzing machine!
In UO, getting to 100 taming, then to 120 when they raised the cap. It used to take between 2-4 hours for a 0.1 skill gain above 100 taming.
I have no idea how difficult it is now, as I have not played in over 10 years.
In SWG, it was ulocking Jedi after 22 professions. I used to train 7000m away from the nearest starport on Endor. I would also log off in the water, just in case I was killed. It seems a little excessive now.
Discovering that the "blue" value for MediumPurple in A Tale in the Desert for paint purposes was off by 3 from the standard, accepted value. It had probably been like that for years, but no one had noticed.
Lest you scoff at such a strange accomplishment, I dare say that is much harder than just about any "official" intended accomplishment. Because even if you knew that some color had one of the red, green, or blue values slightly wrong, how would you discover which one?
Tanking when beating a Raid Dragon for the first time for our merry band of misfits on the EQ2 Test Server.
Thrown away on the next raid night when the other full-time tank had lead and dropped a big steaming dump on my character. I was SO pissed and reacted in the worst way. But I think I had a day or two of pride before the fall, heh.
Avatars are people too
I'm fairly proud that I have never defined my achievements in MMORPGs in relation to other peoples, but only in attaining my own personal goals. Because it struck me a long time ago when I first started playing online that there was always going to be someone out there smarter than me. Or maybe even more to the point, lots of people crazier than me (i.e. your 80 hour a week, power leveling, basement dweller types). So I think that pretty much freeing myself of the idea of competition in MMORPGs has let me enjoy all the little moments even more. And it is the sum of these that I value the most.
Becoming a member here and not spontaneously combusting
:P
"This may hurt a little, but it's something you'll get used to. Relax....."
No one commented that they were great accomplIshments in life. Just in game. Sheesh.
Currently playing:World of Warcraft, Planetside 2.