The MMOSide Chat - What's Your Fondest MMORPG Moment?

System · April 2020

The MMOSide Chat - What's Your Fondest MMORPG Moment?

A fireside chat about our fondest moments in our time playing MMORPGs.

ShankTheTank · April 2020

A few come to mind:

1. Walking from Hobbiton to Rivendell with my friends in LOTRO
2. Finally *getting* the scale of ESO as I opened the map for the first time since the One Tamriel update and realizing I could wander ALL of it
3. Tiragarde Sound. Just all of it.
4. Atlas breaking my PC. Oh wait...

But nothing, NOTHING will ever top me playing LOTRO for the first time and asking Bradford, "What...do the skills...mean." To which his response was utter confusion.

Allwynd_01 · April 2020

Getting my pet on my Hunter in Vanilla WoW back in the day and feeling as though my character instantly became twice as strong.

Journeying with the same character from Teldrassil to Westfall for the first time and when I leveled up to Redridge Mountains and Stranglethorn Vale.

Amathe · April 2020

EQ. Picking a pulling spot and grinding mobs, with an occasional shiney. It was the conversation (and beer) that made it fun.

redonyou · April 2020

One that always makes me smirk when I think about it happened in Vanguard. The monk class in that game could play dead and be ignored by monsters, which can allow them to sneak around in even the most difficult areas.

I was in a raid guild and we had this monk from a rival guild trying to spy on our strategy for defeating a particularly difficult boss. He refused to leave, so I healed him to death with my Blood Mage by taking advantage of the way monsters in the area reflect lifetap spells.

lotrlore · April 2020

ShankTheTank said:

A few come to mind:

1. Walking from Hobbiton to Rivendell with my friends in LOTRO

2. Finally *getting* the scale of ESO as I opened the map for the first time since the One Tamriel update and realizing I could wander ALL of it

3. Tiragarde Sound. Just all of it.

4. Atlas breaking my PC. Oh wait...

But nothing, NOTHING will ever top me playing LOTRO for the first time and asking Bradford, "What...do the skills...mean." To which his response was utter confusion.

That moment will forever be etched into my brain as one of the tawdriest things ever to happen to me.

Viper482 · April 2020

The first time I logged into UO in 1997. First MMO experience....was in awe.

tsturme · April 2020

In the final hours of City Of Heroes, watching so many people do everything they could, both online in in the real world to prevent the shut down. People were sharing stories and tales of adventures and friendships made. Exploring a world for the very last time.

ChildoftheShadows · April 2020

Amathe said:

EQ. Picking a pulling spot and grinding mobs, with an occasional shiney. It was the conversation (and beer) that made it fun.

this and “2 bags second torch!” EQ has the best player interaction back then.

Po_gg · April 2020

Hard to pick one "fondest" moment, there's a lot. They're sorta piling up over the years, since with the MUD era counted, it's about 2.5 - 3 decades of MMORPG play soon.

I'd say the first Weatherstock is my fondest memory. Which was maybe the third I believe? After Turbine's takeover, in 2011.

It was a sad period, Codies and their GMs were really good, and Turbine's reputation was... less friendly, so to speak.

But at the same time the gates opened up for both sides with the merged account, and we could create characters on Landy.

I was curious about Weatherstock, since I always liked the music scene of the game and was big concert-goer, so I made my character, leveled to 20 (at that time I didn't know about the taxi service to the summit

) then at the evening I jumped in, went to Weathertop - and was baffled immediately by the crowd there. And the massive lag.

Not to mention the music, a lot of great compositions, funny lyrics...

It was the first time when both sides of the Atlantic could perform together (at least officially, the option existed before too to jump the hoops, get a US account and access it), and the bands were amazing.

Just as the audience, and the thought of hundreds of people from all around the world are here now, for hours, and enjoying the same show together.

When it was over and we were sitting at a table back in the Pony I noticed it's almost 4 a.m... didn't feel that long at all.

I have fond memories of the following Weatherstocks as well, some good (breaking the addendance record each year, crashing the servers too),

some sad (the first one without Tinki among the organisers...), but probably that 2011 Weatherstock is the best moment, with the Strollers, the Shades...

Bahut · April 2020

Dark Ages of Camelot I played on the Lancelot server Midgard faction. The community was pretty toxic to say the least. People would quit & join whatever faction was currently steam rolling the other.

The Albion faction made up like 80% of the server. We captured a bunch of keeps in their frontier & Albs showed up in massive numbers.

Our small group of like 8 held them off all through the night fighting from the Lords room. If the Lord dies the keep is captured.

Ancient_Exile · April 2020

EQ2: My Troubadour walking into Qeynos castle and having an audience with Queen Antonia Bayle while totally drunk. My character, not me.

Theocritus · April 2020

EQ1 - I was playing in the beginning area when a level 37 Druid came by and asked if I was new to teh game...I said yes nad she asked if I would like a tour of the world (or as much as she could show with her ports). That sounded awesome to me....We went from place to place and I got to see some of the world and from then on I was hooked. I made more friends in EQ than in all other MMOs combined.

Ungood · April 2020

I have a huge list of really fond memories playing games, some I still laugh about years and years later.

This memory is a bit of an odd one, but, it involves a game called DDO (Dungeons and Dragons Online), and the subject of healers vs clerics happened on the forums, and there was a lot of back and forth regarding how melee/dps classes expected Clerics to babysit them and tend their every boo-boo.

Well at the time I was playing a Cleric/Tank, and on my server I was well known for playing very indomitable builds, as such, I never had to deal with anyone asking ME for a heal, even if I had cleric levels.

So a friend on mine challenged me, their challenge was simple enough, I had to play a pure cleric, no mixes, just a pure cleric, straight up from 1 - 20, PUG the whole way up, and.. here is the hard part.. not heal, and see what people said.

Well it was around time for me to TR anyway, I had done my fill of raids for that life, so I took their challenge, shook hands, and.. just to make sure I was not going to wimp out, they played a ranger (mix, some kind of Archer), to run with me from time to time just see what kind of hate I would get as a non-heal-bot cleric.

Alright, so..I rolled out and ran with what I could, did my open PUG, where at least half the group slots were open to randoms, and off I went.

Well overall, I barely got much flack, I mean, I would heal people from time to time, but it was never my principal role, I was always in the thick of the fight all my levels going up. But one quest stands out in my mind.

We were running Lord of Stone, and well, I put the LFM up and just zoned in and started to do the quest like I always do. Well my friend that challenged me, also was in my group, and watched me take off just craving through the mobs like scrapper cleric tank I always was.. now with less Fighter and Monk Levels.

Anyway, we get a Barbarian In the group, and they just stand at the zone for a bit longer then what someone would expect for a EXP grind run, and my friend asks them if they are "Ok"

The guy responds "Oh yah, I'm fine with following in the decimation of our cleric"

Needless to say my friend started laughing.. I mean like.. like hysterical snort level laughing, and told me that I won the bet.

That.. we still joke about that today.

Ancient_Exile · April 2020

Ungood said:

I have a huge list of really fond memories playing games, some I still laugh about years and years later.

This memory is a bit of an odd one, but, it involves a game called DDO (Dungeons and Dragons Online), and the subject of healers vs clerics happened on the forums, and there was a lot of back and forth regarding how melee/dps classes expected Clerics to babysit them and tend their every boo-boo.

Well at the time I was playing a Cleric/Tank, and on my server I was well known for playing very indomitable builds, as such, I never had to deal with anyone asking ME for a heal, even if I had cleric levels.

So a friend on mine challenged me, their challenge was simple enough, I had to play a pure cleric, no mixes, just a pure cleric, straight up from 1 - 20, PUG the whole way up, and.. here is the hard part.. not heal, and see what people said.

Well it was around time for me to TR anyway, I had done my fill of raids for that life, so I took their challenge, shook hands, and.. just to make sure I was not going to wimp out, they played a ranger (mix, some kind of Archer), to run with me from time to time just see what kind of hate I would get as a non-heal-bot cleric.

Alright, so..I rolled out and ran with what I could, did my open PUG, where at least half the group slots were open to randoms, and off I went.

Well overall, I barely got much flack, I mean, I would heal people from time to time, but it was never my principal role, I was always in the thick of the fight all my levels going up. But one quest stands out in my mind.

We were running Lord of Stone, and well, I put the LFM up and just zoned in and started to do the quest like I always do. Well my friend that challenged me, also was in my group, and watched me take off just craving through the mobs like scrapper cleric tank I always was.. now with less Fighter and Monk Levels.

Anyway, we get a Barbarian In the group, and they just stand at the zone for a bit longer then what someone would expect for a EXP grind run, and my friend asks them if they are "Ok"

The guy responds "Oh yah, I'm fine with following in the decimation of our cleric"

Needless to say my friend started laughing.. I mean like.. like hysterical snort level laughing, and told me that I won the bet.

That.. we still joke about that today.

Cool.

I found an interesting article about D&D/AD&D earlier today. Haven't read all of it yet, but here's a part I enjoyed:

"In Which I Digress Somewhat

Guys, let me tell you something. This probably doesn’t come up a whole lot. What happens instead is the cleric player gets pressured to do nothing but cast healing spells and save spell slots for healing. Lord knows I saw this continue into 2e and 3.x, so I see every reason to believe it was a major part of OD&D and 1e.

Day 1: Dear Mum, today we got our teeth kicked in as part of that good adventuring we was doing. Fortunately our cleric buddy, whose name I cannot be arsed to learn because it is degrading for a lordly fighter like me to have to learn the name of a first-aid kit, spent his sacred magic keeping our insides inside and our outsides in one piece. But we was still cut up pretty good at the end of the day, so we rested up. We did not heal any from natural healing, as you well know, mum.
Day 2: Dear Mum, today our cleric buddy spent his sacred healing magic patching us back up. We are ready to go back to burning, pillaging, and doing those two things in a more appropriate order, because we are full of hit points, piss, and vinegar. Our cleric buddy looks sad and says that he has no more of that good sacred healing magic to keep our insides inside, &c. We could either rest another day, which is very boring and also won’t go super good because of 24 hours of resting is like eleventy billion wandering monster checks, or we could go have some fun and our cleric buddy could suck it up and just be the first aid kit that his gods made him to be." - https://www.tribality.com/2017/07/06/hit-points-dying-and-death/

Jamar870 · April 2020

Well mine is of a misadventure in WoW. My group was doing the stonetrogg quests in Dun Modan. We were to go into a small valley do those quests. Might have been the one for the teeth. Memory is foggy for back then, but to the interest part. We some how managed to aggro a group abit to big for us and had to beat a hasty retreat. In the process we managed somehow to aggro the whole area. I was killed before I got to the exit. But as I watched, it was funny as hell seeing my companions running for their lives exiting with all those stonetroggs hot on their butts. Lol

lahnmir · April 2020

There are many but these two stuck with me all through the years;

1. Arriving in Bree in LotRO and visiting the Prancing Pony. That feeling, of adventure and the journey ahead, powerful stuff.

2. Launch day of WoW, created a night elf and just after logging in my screen started to shake. I turned around and this towering treant came stomping by. I knew them from W3, but the size of the thing, the way it was animated, I literally yelled at my then girlfriend, now wife, to come check it out.

/Cheers,
Lahnmir

shadyjane63 · April 2020

The first time I saw the Druids ride in AV in Vanilla WoW. It is the single best moment in any game ever for me.

Savenaz · April 2020

My first flight on my newly won Wyvern in Vanguard, SoH! Watching his muscles ripple under his beautiful brown skin as we rode higher and higher, the land dropping away beneath us, then watching the smooth, steady beat of his wings. From that point on, riding that Wyvern was my favorite part of Vanguard and I've been missing him ever since the idiots who blew the game abandoned it and whisked him away into the netherworld of lost games.

Wedlen · April 2020

Guildwars 1 Presearing. Such great memories .

Guildwars 1 Post searing. Such great memories.

The best game ever made in my opinion. Untouchable skils and skill system

BizkitNL · April 2020

One that really sticks out:

Ragnarok Online Beta. Being a merchant, farming Trunks and setting up shop at the Payon entrance. Advertising it in chat, talking to people passing by and whatnot. All day, every day.

HazenXIII · April 2020

Pre-CU Star Wars Galaxies

Sherri · April 2020

The best game I ever played and wish it was still available was Asheron's Call

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