What Is Your Most Memorable PvP Moment In An MMORPG? | MMORPG.com

System · April 2023

What Is Your Most Memorable PvP Moment In An MMORPG? | MMORPG.com

PvP in MMORPGs - sometimes it can define a player's enjoyment for good or ill. Being PKed or being part of a massive takedown of an enemy can be invigorating in any game. Bradford is looking back on his most memorable PvP moment in any MMORPG.

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Tiller · April 2023

As a Bounty Hunter in SWG finding afk Jedi in the middle of Endor and taking them down; then later getting spammed with hate and being called a noob because somehow it wasn't fair because they were afk.Or being payed off not to collect their bounty, taking their money and doing it anyways.

Kratier · April 2023

in swg the jedi i was after hid inside his house and refused to come out

Tiller · April 2023

Kratier said:

in swg the jedi i was after hid inside his house and refused to come out

I also had a Jedi, and learned Bounty hunting that places like Dantooine and and Lok were great because you could set up a grind spot, set a house down close enough to duck into...haha.

IceAge · April 2023

Going in Wilderness in Runescape - same as OP - ( back in Beta ) for the first time. My hands were shaking, as I knew that if I die, I will lose everything. I was with a friend, and we ventured further and further, up until around lvl 17, where we stopped.

There was a spot there, to kill rats, which they dropped meat. Raw of course, so I came with the amazing idea ( it was for that time ), to stay there for as long as we could and we will cook the meat rats dropped, so we can train for long periods of time. At the same time will also raise the Cooking skill.

Didn't really realized why other players came and just..walk past us without attacking us. Because we were too low levels lol

I believe we were somewhere near in the 20s or something.

Runescape was my very very first MMO and I have plenty of good memories with it! Amazing game then, and still amazing today.

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Iselin · April 2023

A relic raid as Albion into Hibernia in DAoC that involved nearly 300 Albs coordinated (not by me although I was in the alliance officer chat so I got to hear the coordination live) where we had many feints for misdirection and an epic huge fight at the relic keep before we walked off with the relic.

Really emphasized what that first "M" in MMO is all about and what's possible in MMO PvP once players stop whining about FPS shooter 1v1 balancing

Raagnarz · April 2023

The Lurikeen Uprising in DAOC. I was part of the original crew that invaded the RP server in DAOC. Made up of all 3 factions from many servers, mine being Morgan La Fey, we all killed each other so much we got to know each other and decided to play together. So the rules were made you had to either be a Lurikeen with Keen as part of your character name, or you could be our Firbolg with Bolg part of your name to be a class a Keen couldn't be. At the time Lurikeens couldn't be any kind of tank or much of a healer so Firbolgs were relegated to being the Hero's/Druids so we had a tanks and healers. The most memorable event was when we all decided to storm the Albion MFG level be damned. Hundreds of us flooded the frontier. It was a bloodbath just to get the MFG. Hansel and Gretel breadcrumb trail made from Lurikeen bodies. From the Portal gate all the way to the MFG. Well over 100 made it to the MFG. We actually had a few small single groups see us coming but they didn't look close because those max level guys ran from our level 10 zerg of anklebiters. All except for 1 dude. This Troll Thane in front of the MFG started to run then stopped and looked at us. We swarmed him good, tens of us hitting him for 1 damage at a time. Then Ragnarok came and the Thane cast one PBAOE...and the record kill count was scored by him that day. Seriously 1 PBAOE wiped out close somewhere between 100-200 Lurikeens (and a few Bolgs but who cared about them). The second we all died the server I am pretty sure had an aneurysm. I don't think any of us stopped laughing for days. It was glorious and one of the most memorable things in my time playing video games.

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eoloe · April 2023

Holding the Hall of Heroes multiple consecutively in GW1 Heroes' Ascent.

Some GvG fights still in GW1, some were totally crazy.

More recently:

- Killing a full grown adult thalassodromeus with my juvenile Daspletosaurus, saving a juvenile concavenator in the process in Path of Titans.

- Attacking 2 juvenile rexes at the same time, with a smaller deinonychus and killing them both.

- Spreading chaos with the same tiny deinonychus by constantly yelling and attracting bigger predators to kill the two young eotriceratops that I couldn't kill alone.

and so forth...

Sovrath · April 2023

Our first defense of our castle in Lineage 2.

The defense of Aden (lineage 2) where it was something like 36 clans against our alliance of 28 clans. It lasted the whole 2 hours and at the initial rush, many people were booted/crashed.

Once in the Tower of Insolence (lineage 2) we had a a group pk'ed so our entire alliance rallied and we marched up to the top of the tower and took out the offending groups. that was very epic.

so many but those stand out.

Slapshot1188 · April 2023

Ultima Online Beta (or Alpha, can't remember). In the early days there was a rabbit pen right by Lord British's castle. It was easy to open the fence, step in and kill the captive bunnies. Eventually people would pass by and see what I was doing and try to come in. Well, it's not like there were a lot of bunnies so I didnt want to share. So when someone let themselves in, I would stand in front of the gate and kill them. Most had no idea about PvP.

Shadowbane had 2 memorable ones for me. The first was again in beta when I was killing lizardmen by the starter area. It was a small camp and this guy comes and starts to kill the mobs I was waiting to respawn. So I politely tell him there is a similar camp just a bit further down the road and it would be faster and better if he could just head there. He said "It's a free country and I'm staying". Well since he was a melee and I was a caster, I could easily just tab and hit each mob as it spawned (first hit got XP). After 5 minutes of this he got mad and said he was reporting me. A few minutes later a GM appeared, heard us out, and told the guy "We encourage conflict between our players. You are lucky we are in starter island because in the main land he would just kill you and take your stuff. Have a nice day"

Second Shadowbane was also on the Newbie island. You could force group members into formation. You could run together to a stream or body of water. Cross and hit a formation that forced the others into position behind you so he was under water and eventually drowned. Did that to my friends

But by far the greatest was in EQ2 at launch. I was a healer that could cast a teleport home spell on others. We would find opposing groups at our preferred campsite. Hide behind a tree and then in mid pull teleport out their Healer or Tank. There was no confirmation button required. It was fun watching a whole group wipe.

Runner up: Mortal Online. When someone was annoying I would walk up to them and type "NAME is looking in your backpack. " and " NAME has stolen something from your backpack". I think as an emote. Well it made people think I was stealing from them and they would attack me which meant the guards would come and insta gank them

there are many more.

I am a bad man.

Kyleran · April 2023

Like many here, DOAC had quite a few memorable moments in PVP.

My favorite was when I was part of a role playing guild called the Shadowclan, which considered of only two races, Kobolds and Slyvans on the Mordred FFA PVP servers.

We had a made up language of several thousand words, a distinct code of honor which was always enforced and was a good deal of fun.

One day we issued a challenge to the entire server. Shadowclan would march from one end of the realm to the other, and we would pay like 5M gold to anyone who could stop us.

There were rules, no gang tackling by multiple guilds, and for the most part everyone honored it.

We got quite far actually, resurrecting coming back before all member had died in the fight until we ran into the number 1 guild on the server, Torcan.

To be fair, they took their shot at us towards the latter part of the run, not because we might be weakened, rather the whole affair might have come to a very quick end had they gone first.

We gave a decent showing and they didn't even want the bounty but we insisted they take it.

Later on the forums we got big props for hosting the event and honoring the payout, even though most players thought we were a bunch of role playing weirdos.

Which we were of course.

Pr0tag0ni5t · April 2023

I will say I do not like PVP in the least bit. However, I could not get enough of these 2 memorable times in the MMO history.

SWG - shootouts in Anchorhead, Tatooine. Fights would last hours and players would just leave and join all day but the fight would not stop.

Also, vanilla WoW endless open world PVP battle between Southshore and Tarren Mill in Hillsbrad Foothills. This was probably my favorite by far.

Absolutely the best times I have ever had participating in PVP.

Grymmoire · April 2023

Many memorable WOW moments but when I first encountered Lord Sepentis and heard the fabulous parody of: "I am the serpent king. I can do anything"
And so many failed to recognize the reference (RIP Lizard King Morrison).

In EQ1 as a very new player at the time, I played a tad to long one night and was killed with my corpse being dragged down into a lair near 2am on a week night. Calls went out for a Necro to come for the rescue and several hours latter,(like 4 of them) they finally got my body out. Of course I had to be at work by 8 am; a very sleepy day I can tell you!

Can't recall the game but do remember we could tame animals. A gal from Australia had tamed several bears and had them going around in a circle to the song; "Safety dance"; quite enjoyable to both see and hear.

ultimateduck · April 2023

Both DAoC, hands down. My first was sneaking behind a bunch of Mids at the Alb gate in old frontiers on my Infiltrator. At the time, a kill from stealth left you stealthed. I took out casters and healers by the droves.

The other was when my guild, the first stealther guild in the game (Shady Characters), took a keep with nothing but stealthers. Archers killed the people running in while the infiltrators and minstrels climbed up and killed the lord. We had close to a hundred stealthers there.

Slapshot1188 · April 2023

ultimateduck said:

Both DAoC, hands down. My first was sneaking behind a bunch of Mids at the Alb gate in old frontiers on my Infiltrator. At the time, a kill from stealth left you stealthed. I took out casters and healers by the droves.

The other was when my guild, the first stealther guild in the game (Shady Characters), took a keep with nothing but stealthers. Archers killed the people running in while the infiltrators and minstrels climbed up and killed the lord. We had close to a hundred stealthers there.

Yeah Albs suck

Uwakionna · April 2023

Probably the most meaningful for me, though not necessarily most fun, was in Asheron's Call with the Shard of the Herald. Not many games where you get to beat the devs at their own game in a very meta way. It held a lot of meaning to me for the extended narrative ties and place it's consequently had in the lore of the setting. That element of 'making your mark' as not just a fleeting thing you recant to a few people later, but something we got an in-game monument to commemorate.

The actual defense, though, was pretty eh. Most of the time it was just 1) feed the shard and do a corpse run and 2) either stack up to make a wall or wait to deal with incoming threats. Fighting the devs was kinda just a zergy mess, they were buffed up a ton compared to the defenders, so we just had to rush them, corpse run, and rush again.

Another fun but also annoying time was in early WoW when I got jumped by a hunter while I was doing quests in Duskwood. Was on my paladin and managed to gain the upper hand, at which point the hunter just started to flee. Because they could move faster than the paladin it became an annoying yet somewhat funny stop and go chase as they would run a distance away before my stun would recharge, drop a hammer on them, run up and hit them a few times, then they would flee again. Ended up chasing them to near the bottom of the Stranglethorn before finally getting them.

Probably the most straight fun I had in PvP was Planetside 1 though. Playing as a unit of VS max suits was quite the novelty, being lighter armored but having the jump jets. Was constantly part of a vanguard force jumping base walls to blindside enemies and clearing towers top-down. If it wasn't a max suit, then my time was otherwise split on support healing/repairing, or hacking everything in sight to steal enemy vehicles and stations. Enjoyed being able to turn base turrets on unexpecting defenders.

BrotherMaynard · April 2023

A couple in Wow, most in Rift. My best PvP times in WoW were in WotlK as a dwarf disc priest, they were pretty much unkillable. A half an hour long duel in Dalaran sewers with a death knight that ended up in us both alive and healthy, completely exhausted and just gave up.

Same game, same expansion, four hordies attacking Darkshire, none of them PvPers, but a warrior and a paladin with decent raid gear. Killed them all several times, one of them (warrior) then made the effort to log on his Alliance alt to bitterly complain why I wouldn't leave them alone and then they all left.

Rift was by far my favourite PvP time, during Storm Legion. My most memorable moments were when I first got into the top leaderboard tier (I think it was diamond or something like that). I didn't even notice until a guild officer whispered me asking wtf was that. I had recently changed guild, was a rookie in that one. So we chatted for a while and then he promoted me to veteran, lol.

Then another memorable moment, Port Scion match, 29 killing blows (and about 70 kills) and 1 death in a single match, my best record, I think. Felt nice, the square in front of the cathedral was drenched in the opposite team's blood.

Another one when a group of raiders were ransacking Meridian. One lower level (2 levels below cap), 3 more raiders, but all PvE geared. They had a proper raid tank and healer, too. Plenty of Defiant lowbies panicking as all NPCs were dead. But to be honest, by that time in my PvP career I had full relic PvP gear, pretty much all BIS PvP items, enchants and essences, so their raiding team was dismantled very fast and after a few follow-up kills they got the message and left. Again, felt nice, 1 vs 4 open world match, and all the lowbie players in Meridian were happy that things got back to normal again.

Lots of good conquest memories from Rift, too.

Brainy · April 2023

DAOC for me, playing a healer, my small 8 man group was holding a small tower against an entire relic raid 100+ that was trying to take a nearby keep. As a midgard healer, I had an AOE heal that could heal through walls without line of sight, so I would stay in a safe place up top, and heal the entire AOE group near door entrance. The entire raid was throwing themselves into this tiny entrance and they were dieing almost instantly. If they left us alone, we would harass them to bait them back to the tower. They really wanted us dead. I cant remember if we eventually died but we held that little tower for a LOOOONG time. That deathspam was hilarious.

Another time DAOC, our small group saw an entire raid on Autofollow just standing in 1 spot not moving. We ran up with Skald speed, AOE Mez, AOE stun, few AOE's later they all died. Bye-Bye raid.

Fun times, I really enjoyed that Midgard Healer.

mirlok666 · April 2023

1. Crushbone Keep corpse retrieval for my Ranger on Everquest 1. Oh the misery.

2. Skirt only poison kris fencing; PK in ultima online hanging outside Brittania. Trying to make a living.

mirlok666 · April 2023

OH also saw the above;

3. Fencing grinding in SWG to get my jedi, weeks and weeks; krayt hunting and of course the planet surfing for shopping

Angrakhan · April 2023

Many memorable moments in DAoC on my scout. Dropping some guy running back to his back line at 5% health with his healer warming up that big heal then POW... oh so close... sorry my friend. Good times.

BrotherMaynard · April 2023

One thing that pops in my head with this topic is that all the descriptions will be very individual and hard to share with others unless they were in a similar situation or playing the same (PvP) game.

So topics like this are bound to lead to a very fragmented collection of personalised reports across all the MMORPG, with very few of them bringing up collective memories (SWG seems to be a good candidate) and resulting in not much more than a breath of individual experience unique to each of us, but ultimately not understood or appreciated by others.

Which is not bad per se, but it will be more a stream of individual experiences, at best acknowledged and at worst completely disconnected or not understood by others. It's not exactly a community topic, tbh.

Uwakionna · April 2023

BrotherMaynard said:

One thing that pops in my head with this topic is that all the descriptions will be very individual and hard to share with others unless they were in a similar situation or playing the same (PvP) game.

So topics like this are bound to lead to a very fragmented collection of personalised reports across all the MMORPG, with very few of them bringing up collective memories (SWG seems to be a good candidate) and resulting in not much more than a breath of individual experience unique to each of us, but ultimately not understood or appreciated by others.

Which is not bad per se, but it will be more a stream of individual experiences, at best acknowledged and at worst completely disconnected or not understood by others. It's not exactly a community topic, tbh.

This is sort of why the Asheron's Call PvP experience was one that stood out for me. While the actual skirmishing was meh, the impact it had extended across servers, became a permanent part of the canonical timeline of the game's lore, and even had a memorial made in the game world.

Many PvP experiences just exist in the fleeting microcosm of a few people fighting one another with limited context, or the scope only really remaining relevant to guilds and not the game in any broad way. This moment was one of the few that broke past that, which makes it mean a decent bit to me even though the personal experience of it's kind of a wash.

Scot · April 2023

Too many to mention so this is one I am not sure I have mentioned on here before. In RIFTs (not really a great MMO for PvP) I found a place where both sides would visit that was quite out of the way apart for going there for that quest. I challenged anyone from the other side who approached, they must defeat me in a knightly duel or go back whence they had come from (some corny 'Elizabethan' words help clue players to the idea that this is roleplaying).

I was surprised at how many where up for it, few passed me and just headed on even if they thought they were not going to win. Just shows you how players want something a bit different not just the same old grind.

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