What is your favorite all time in-game memory from any of the MMORPGs past or present and why?
Early bird Kilsin... When we took over the boxes on SOD from Knyn and Brohn made a Music Video about it... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQtgcLYGsOY sucks tho music was turned off.. the music thats suppose to be playing is from..
A memory that still brings a smile to my face to this day, and often comes up when the reminisincing with friends commences.
I was new to EQ, the game had just been out a few months. And a RL friend and I were adventuring, he had been playing a month or 2 longer than I had, so he was farther ahead. I created my Human Paladin in Freeport and began my crusade of slaying the rats and skellys in WFP. With help of my friend who re-rolled a new character to help at the time, I progressed to East Commons and continued my advance.
After reaching around lvl 8 or 9, we had heard o this place called Crushbone, and that the xp there was amazing. We inquired in guild and they informed us we needed to take the boat from East Freeport to Butcherblock. So, we decided to take a little trip. Out to the docks we ran, waited patiently for the boat and promptly jumped aboard.
Neither of us had ever ridden the boat before, so this was an adventure in itself. The boat stopped, we were surprised, thinking "that was shorter than the guild said it would be". So we jumped off and started wandering, found we were on a very small island (Isle of the Sisters Errollisi). We quickly realized something was wrong, and asked in /guild again, where someone informed us we needed to stay on the boat until it docked at a big dock with large block walls and stuff named Butcherblock.
So back to the dock to wait on the next boat. After quite a travel we arrived in BB. We quickly ran out the gate and followed the path. As we approached Kaladim(at the time, not knowing what it was), we approached slowly, not understanding it was the Dwarf city. Once we realized they were friendly, we proceeded down the path. Mobs everywhere, we took some on here and there and we held our own, but the deeper into the zone we got, the harder it became.
It took us a while but we did find the tunnel to Gfay and knew we were getting close. it was night, and Gfay was rather dark, but we thought if we stayed on the path we'd be good. Always a solid plan, but seldom works that way. Before we could barely leave the tunnel, we came across a young elf with a trail of mobs, in need of help, or so we thought. We jumped in to help, only to realize the elf went through the zone, and now we had half a dozen mobs beating on us.
We fought and fought to within inches of our life, when suddenly, "You are healed". huh? healed? Then "You are surrounded by a thorny barrier", "Your skin turns hard as steel" and "Your feel the Spirit of the wolf", and the mobs just begin dropping. When the mobs were dead, we turned to find a heavenly angel, a Druid from our guild. She introduced herself and then offered to escort us to Crushbone, with a stop in Kelethin for food and water and sell the trash loot we got on the way.
She provided us more buffs and binding before disappearing in a swirl of magical lights.
Overall the adventure took us the better part if 4 or 5 hours, with the boat wait and ride, the wrong disembarking at the Isles, and multiple fights in BB with rest between. It was a magical time, and everything was new and exciting.
Azraell said:
Early bird Kilsin... When we took over the boxes on SOD from Knyn and Brohn made a Music Video about it... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQtgcLYGsOY sucks tho music was turned off.. the music thats suppose to be playing is from..
- "Sincerely Abbey (A Love Poem)" by Semaj The Poet ( • • )
Haha nice Az! :)
I used to stand on those boxes too but my favorite spot was under the tree just off to the left with my box army and guidlies (Usually Telerant, Psycroptic, Pulsatex, Kieko, Norm ;)
Fulton said:
A memory that still brings a smile to my face to this day, and often comes up when the reminisincing with friends commences.
I was new to EQ, the game had just been out a few months. And a RL friend and I were adventuring, he had been playing a month or 2 longer than I had, so he was farther ahead. I created my Human Paladin in Freeport and began my crusade of slaying the rats and skellys in WFP. With help of my friend who re-rolled a new character to help at the time, I progressed to East Commons and continued my advance.
After reaching around lvl 8 or 9, we had heard o this place called Crushbone, and that the xp there was amazing. We inquired in guild and they informed us we needed to take the boat from East Freeport to Butcherblock. So, we decided to take a little trip. Out to the docks we ran, waited patiently for the boat and promptly jumped aboard.
Neither of us had ever ridden the boat before, so this was an adventure in itself. The boat stopped, we were surprised, thinking "that was shorter than the guild said it would be". So we jumped off and started wandering, found we were on a very small island (Isle of the Sisters Errollisi). We quickly realized something was wrong, and asked in /guild again, where someone informed us we needed to stay on the boat until it docked at a big dock with large block walls and stuff named Butcherblock.
So back to the dock to wait on the next boat. After quite a travel we arrived in BB. We quickly ran out the gate and followed the path. As we approached Kaladim(at the time, not knowing what it was), we approached slowly, not understanding it was the Dwarf city. Once we realized they were friendly, we proceeded down the path. Mobs everywhere, we took some on here and there and we held our own, but the deeper into the zone we got, the harder it became.
It took us a while but we did find the tunnel to Gfay and knew we were getting close. it was night, and Gfay was rather dark, but we thought if we stayed on the path we'd be good. Always a solid plan, but seldom works that way. Before we could barely leave the tunnel, we came across a young elf with a trail of mobs, in need of help, or so we thought. We jumped in to help, only to realize the elf went through the zone, and now we had half a dozen mobs beating on us.
We fought and fought to within inches of our life, when suddenly, "You are healed". huh? healed? Then "You are surrounded by a thorny barrier", "Your skin turns hard as steel" and "Your feel the Spirit of the wolf", and the mobs just begin dropping. When the mobs were dead, we turned to find a heavenly angel, a Druid from our guild. She introduced herself and then offered to escort us to Crushbone, with a stop in Kelethin for food and water and sell the trash loot we got on the way.
She provided us more buffs and binding before disappearing in a swirl of magical lights.
Overall the adventure took us the better part if 4 or 5 hours, with the boat wait and ride, the wrong disembarking at the Isles, and multiple fights in BB with rest between. It was a magical time, and everything was new and exciting.
That sounded like an epic adventure Fulton, thanks for sharing! :)
Azraell said:
Early bird Kilsin... When we took over the boxes on SOD from Knyn and Brohn made a Music Video about it... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQtgcLYGsOY sucks tho music was turned off.. the music thats suppose to be playing is from..
- "Sincerely Abbey (A Love Poem)" by Semaj The Poet ( • • )
What about the picture on Shendu's platform with everyone, including Naghite and Brohn in Shendu Robes?
First trip from Qeynos to Freeport at around level 16.
First time I set foot in Velious.
The great Peace of Formosa war early on the RZ server.
Combining the force of the top 3 guilds on our server for The Sleeper kill... and the sweet GM text after the carnage.
Rathe Council kill when it really meant something.
Coirnav stands out in my mind for some reason also... was creepy at the time.
The flavour text back in PoK after you beat Quarm.
Making it to Trengal Keep in the early days of VG. Clearing a lighthouse of undead on the way there really stands out for some reason lol.
The trials in PotA in VG. Oh and the Shendu trial was crazytown for sure.
Just off the top of my melon,
Kiz~
Well, I missed the boat on playing at launch, and only found out about EQ right when Luclin was released. The guys (two brothers) that got us into the game had been playing since launch so one was a 59 bard, and the other was a 53 mage.
I remember the mage taking my level 9 wizard to the mouth of infected paw and telling me not to move from the entrance or I would die. I nervously stood there for about 30 minutes when he finally resurfaced and handed me the Robe of Ishiva. They had previously given me the little newbie staff, the Runed Totem Staff, so I felt like I was geared to the teeth.
So, with my newfound power I decided I would delve into Blackburrow and teach those gnolls a lesson. Well, things started out well enough that I was able to make my way to the bottom of BlackBurrow, only to find the commander and his room full of lackeys. They all conned yellow and red to me, so it didn't take long for me to panic and just start to aimlessly run. I managed to headless chicken myself off a ladder and into a stream right as they all killed me.
I was devastated.
I went back in two or three times, dying every time, until I finally gave up. My corpse was lost forever in the bottom of this “deep dangerous dungeon”. I was ready to just quit the game forever. After all, I was never going to be able to get gear that good ever again.
Finally, my buddy with the 59 bard logged in, and after laughing at my devastation for a good couple minutes, located my corpse and pulled it out for me. Crisis averted.
I know this sounds more like a bad experience opposed to a good one, but I had never played an online social game where things mattered this much. It had me hooked. I can’t think of another game that has ever made me so nervous and excited. Without an online social game where there are real risks, I’m a man without a home. Well, for now anyways!
Katalyzt said:
I had never played an online social game where things mattered this much. It had me hooked. I can’t think of another game that has ever made me so nervous and excited. Without an online social game where there are real risks, I’m a man without a home. Well, for now anyways!
This is the same way I feel, and some of my fondest memories of EQ were in similar situations. No other game has had the same sense of danger or held me so enthralled.
As for some of my favorite memories,
The first character I made in EQ was a Half-Elf warrior starting in Kelethin. I logged in during the middle of the night and couldn't see anything around me, of course this lead to me falling off to my death. I then had no idea where I respawned and couldn't find my corpse so I logged out and remade my character, then felt really dumb since my corpse was laying maybe 10 feet away from the respawn point.
On this same character I was lfg for crushbone one day when I got a tell from someone asking what my weapon was, so I told them all I had was my rusty short sword. At wich they asked if I could come to the wizard spires, I said sure but had no idea where they actually were. So I followed the path and finally found them. To my suprise the person that sent me a tell was a 50 necro who handed me an Avenger Battle Axe. I was so thankful that I wen't around telling everyone this guy's name and how nice he was.
A few days later some people that I regularly grouped with wanted to goto the Nybright Sister Bandit camp in Lesser Faydark. I said sure, and was happily following them when we came across a brownie that promptly spanked us. Respawning in Greater Faydark and having no idea where I just died at I was sad and furious at the same time. We managed to get all of our corpses back and had a good time camping those bandits.
I also remember my first time taking the boat from Butcherblock to Freeport. I managed to find the docks but couldn't find the npc selling tickets for the boat ride. I just assumed since everything else was so life like that I would need a ticket, took me awhile to figure out that was not the case and sure enough I felt dumb at that too.
A year or two later a rl friend of mine, his college roommate, and I made new characters and played as a trio all the way up to PoP. My WoodElf Ranger from that group is what I consider my main as I went through a pretty big alt-aholic period. One night I was online by myself and looking for a group in Velious. I found a group with a couple of people who were all in a guild together (I was not at the time), we were in one of the dungeons that I don't remeber anymore, and were going up an ice ramp. I then was invited the the same guild as these guys simply because I was the first person they grouped with that turned running off so I wouldn't slip off the ice. (another thing that doesn't really happen in modern mmos anymore)
Some of my earliest fondest memories were (many noob moments):
Sure there were always the bigger/more epic world boss kills that came in various games, but it was the day-in-day-out stuff and early moments that seemed to stick the most.
Filzin said:
Azraell said:
Early bird Kilsin... When we took over the boxes on SOD from Knyn and Brohn made a Music Video about it... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQtgcLYGsOY sucks tho music was turned off.. the music thats suppose to be playing is from..
- "Sincerely Abbey (A Love Poem)" by Semaj The Poet ( • • )
What about the picture on Shendu's platform with everyone, including Naghite and Brohn in Shendu Robes?
hmmmm I dont have that.. but have this...
My fondest memory is from WoW, a boss named Heigan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmArX8GvHLo
I went back with a PUG to do that boss. Everyone sucked at dancing so everyone died except me (mage) and the tank. With everyone dead and spectating, the two of us killed the boss extremely slowly. I wish I had a video.
So basically I am fond of skill encounters.
Naked corpse run, all the way to the library entrance hall in Kaesora, from the start. We fought our way down...carefully!... with summoned weapons (I provided). We were 24-26 level range. SK, Ranger, Druid Cleric, Mage and guest Iksar BST. At one point we each had a monster on each of us. The summoned snake fang, is a better piercer.
We made it! got our stuff. Then a bunch of higher levels in a group showed up and saw us also wanting the librarian. We decided it was late enough and we wanted to med up and then have the druid port us out to camp for the night. We knew the librarian had a nice book for the cleric, but it was not our main goal. We did not think we could get that far, we initially wanted to step inside and look around a bit, see how far we could get. So they took down the librarian, as they wanted the book Buffed us up before they left and their leader- as an after thought- gave me the power of water they got on the way in, that did not drop at all along the way for us, lol. It was like, "ok, see you later- hey, are you a mage? " " yes" "working on your epic?" "eventually- heh" *flips power of water, like a coin, into my hand* says nothing else, and leaves with his group.
I've told this one before - but this is the perfect thread to tell it again:
Shortly after the Luclin expansion released - I had been doing some research and wanted to go get the Ornate Sword of the General in Echo Caverns. So one afternoon I logged onto my guild website at work and put up a post asking if folks would help me out that evening. It was short notice - but I figured I'd give it a try. Well... from there on, my day just imploded. Everything that could go wrong at work went wrong. I ended up leaving work hours late and by the time I got home, ate, and sat down at my computer - well, I checked the clock and it was more than a little after the time I posted for the event.
However - no sooner did I log in than I got a tell: "Hurry up you lazy ranger, we're waiting for you..."
So over I go - and what do I find... more than 40 of my guild mates had gathered, cleared, and waited for me to arrive. That night I got the Ornate Sword of the General. It still sits in my ranger's bank, and will be there on the day they close the EQ servers down (whenever that may happen). Because even though I had long since stopped using it by the time I quit the game - that so many people would, on very short notice gather, clear, and spend their time WAITING for me to arrive... well, that really meant something to me.
And that is my greatest MMO memory. It's one not of a great item - but of a great guild, with great people, who would do great things for each other.
Theres only one and it was Black Burrow in the very early days of EQ , as a train of gnolls cleared the whole dungeon with players running for their lives. Wondering if your safe spot was trully safe ..... Good Days when Guilds weren't needed and everything wasnt Insta Mail , Auction House or Travel ...
Wandidar said:
...... That night I got the Ornate Sword of the General. It still sits in my ranger's bank, and will be there on the day they close the EQ servers down (whenever that may happen). ..
:) My character still has his Soulfire blade in the bank, much for the same reason. The guild assisted many times to acquire the peices, and then almost the whole guild came together for the Lucan raid. It meant so much, that so many people would put aside their time to assist me. By the time I actually got the soulfire, I had actually recently aquired a Wurmslayer (Skill: 1H Slashing Atk Delay: 40 DMG: 25) and a Sword of Morning(Skill: 1H Slashing Atk Delay: 27 DMG: 16) , so the Soulfire(Skill: 2H Slashing Atk Delay: 45 DMG: 23) was pretty useless, but looked cool. :)
Wandidar said:
I've told this one before - but this is the perfect thread to tell it again:
Shortly after the Luclin expansion released - I had been doing some research and wanted to go get the Ornate Sword of the General in Echo Caverns. So one afternoon I logged onto my guild website at work and put up a post asking if folks would help me out that evening. It was short notice - but I figured I'd give it a try. Well... from there on, my day just imploded. Everything that could go wrong at work went wrong. I ended up leaving work hours late and by the time I got home, ate, and sat down at my computer - well, I checked the clock and it was more than a little after the time I posted for the event.
However - no sooner did I log in than I got a tell: "Hurry up you lazy ranger, we're waiting for you..."
So over I go - and what do I find... more than 40 of my guild mates had gathered, cleared, and waited for me to arrive. That night I got the Ornate Sword of the General. It still sits in my ranger's bank, and will be there on the day they close the EQ servers down (whenever that may happen). Because even though I had long since stopped using it by the time I quit the game - that so many people would, on very short notice gather, clear, and spend their time WAITING for me to arrive... well, that really meant something to me.
And that is my greatest MMO memory. It's one not of a great item - but of a great guild, with great people, who would do great things for each other.
I want to join this guild...
I posted about the first Kotasoth Kill on the Facebook page...but I've since thought of a dozen treasured memories. Most of them all center not precisely around the game, but rather around the people I played with. In retrospect now, maybe the most precious are of my friends who have either disappeared, or passed away.
In particular one I like to recall when I want a smile is of my friend and guildmate Jaris. During raids, on occasion he would use his deep, soothing voice to call for finishers or crit chains during key moments of fights by telling the raid to "drop your big'uns". It never failed to bring a smile to my face, and seemed to de-stress and focus the raid all at once. I miss him quite often when gaming.
All of this is to say, I agree with above posts: I play these games to be with my friends. The game matters, the game is important, but it is less important no matter what the measure, than the people I play with.
Rathe Council as an enchanter... oh man
Adventuring in lower guk as an enchanter, keeping 15+ mobs locked down because our puller left the group and our pally thought he could pull.
Barely surviving while camping the entrance at Karnor's Castle when you're probably too small to be there anyways, then hearing "TRAIN TO ZONE!!!!"
Reverting to camping the ruins in Dreadlands and having some great conversation and making some new friends.
"NOW CASTING MAX EXT KEI AT NEXUS STONE - Donations welcome!" and seeing everyone swarm over to you desperate to give you a few plat. Ahhh, plat.
Losing my corpse in the Hole along with all my gear, only to have someone randomly rez me after begging a necro to go there to summon my corpse, promising him I'll pay him back for the coffin because all my plat was on my body.
Everything involving PoP flagging and raids - my favorite expansion by far.
Stopping by Crushbone to pass out some free Clarity and Augmentation.
Realising the enchanter nuke had a stun component, which is why I was getting aggro... not because my damage was "uber" :(
Being OOM and getting chased all over Marus Seru by Stonegrabbers.
Being neurotic about my spellbook organization.
Spending countless hours trying to learn XML to make a custom UI
Being pissed at the druid who perma-camped Rathe Mountains and root-rotted everything.
Venturing to EC tunnels with some plat farmed from Rathe Mountains to see whats for sale.
Kurns Tower... pandas? Maybe mole people? Nah, I think they were pandas. Yeah, pandas for sure.
My first trip to a Luclin zone when the expansion launched. Amazing graphics! :D
Falling into the fire at Sol A entrance.
Running from the goons in The Overthere. Being sad that your groups cleric was AFK when the goons showed up and didnt zone with the group :(
Charming crocodiles in Gates of Discord Tipt trial with a druid friend and scoring tons of AA.
Camping Grachnist the Destroyer for hours and hours and hours trying to get an earring drop for a friend.
Meeting new friends and having the time to get to know them. Most of which I still have to this day. Really miss Everquest.
"Stopping by Crushbone to pass out some free Clarity and Augmentation"
People who never played EQ, never understood this when I explained it. I often would end, or start, my play session in town and would run out to the lowbie areas to buff lowbies.
If I had no plans for the night I could spend a couple hours just buffing and assisting, and enjoyed it.
Sometimes I would hit empty lower zones (Befallen, Najena's, Highpass Hold, Unrest) just for the revenge factor.
My favorite MMO experience was a few years ago on Project1999 PvP, I was in my very first Plane of Sky raid with my guild(which in and of itself was pretty awesome) and as we were progressing through the islands we noticed that well over a dozen players from an enemy guild had zoned in behind us. We spent a good hour or so progressing through the islands while we would leave behind certain members in an effort to occupy the enemy so we could get as far as we could before they would inevitably engage our raidgroup. We had just downed the Keeper of Souls and it finally happened, we luckily had just enough time to get most of our players prepared for the fight, and it was a good thing we did since we were about to be attacked by players from the top guild at that time. We lost many players (considering most of us were lower 50s and the enemy force was entirely made up of very well geared level 60 players) but after a good 45 minutes of battle the final we finally killed one of the enemy group's bards and were able to wipe out half of them, after another 5 or 10 minutes of battle the 4 or 5 enemy players who remained were forced to flee.
It was truly an awesome experience for me as it was both my first time doing a planar raid, and also my first time doing large scale pvp. We were definitely the underdog despite having a group and some change on them. I'll definitely always remember that raid, it was the most fun and exciting time I've had in EQ I'd say. Damn I love that game!