Fun/Memorable moments in MMO.

[happyninja42]

So, I was just reminiscing about playing MMO's, and some of the more amusing and enjoyable experiences I had in them. So I thought I'd share them and let others share theirs.

My two most memorable happen to be from WoW, back in the Burning Crusade days.

I was playing my Orc Hunter on a PVP server, and just running around in a lvl 40 zone. At the time I was lvl 70, and I think I was there to farm crafting materials or something. I wasn't a PKer, unless you attacked me first, and I mostly let the Alliance live in peace unless it was a PVP arena thing.

I remembered coming across a group of 40ish Alliance, who were leveling up in the zone, and just happened to be where I needed to be too. They saw me, and did the typical "oh shit" sort of movement when they targeted me. I was far enough away to not be an immediate threat to them, and proceeded to /wave and /sit down, doing nothing but being there. After a little hesitation, they went back to farming monsters while I watched. There was a major elite mob that would wander through the area, and I knew if it showed up they would be in serious trouble, given their level, especially if it showed up mid fight. And sure enough, the thing showed up and started to chew on their faces. I sent my wolf dashing in and followed it up with an Aimed Shot, almost 1 shotting the creature. They freaked out of course because "OH SHIT THE LEVEL 70 GUY IS GANKING US!" And then they noticed that I didn't hit any of them, and pulled my wolf back once the elite was dead. I /waved again, and went to sit back down and wait. After a little while longer, they were apparently done fighting in the area. And before they left, they all came over to me and /bowed before leaving. It was a refreshing bit of friendly gaming that was rare enough on that server.

Another incident was in the Outlands, in that zone that had all the giant, glowing mushrooms. I don't recall the name of it, but it was a prime crafting farm spot for just about every profession, so lots of traffic. I was there, minding my own business farming, when I saw 3 Alliance coming close. One was a low level dwarf warrior, like WAY too low to be in that zone, but he had to high level backups, so he felt really cocky. He proceeded to rush attack me, counting on his 2 friends to back him up and take me out. They did, and proceeded to kill the mobs I was farming.

Needless to say this irked me somewhat, so I came back for revenge. I waited until they were attacking before returning to my body, and with just 50% health from resurrection, proceeded to almost insta-drop their healer cleric, I set up an ice trap to freeze the warrior who I knew was going to charge me, and then sicced my pet on the 3rd guy who was trying to run away. I ran him down, killed him with arrows, and then turned around and finished off the lowbie dwarf as he tried to flee. I felt quite proud of myself for that bit of vengeance, and for just how enjoyable the payback was. xD

So what moments did you have playing in MMO's that made you stop and admire the moment of it? Doesn't have to be stuff like mine, anything works if it made you sort of smile and enjoy the setup of MMO's and playing with lots of strangers.

 

[Aeshi]

Had a good moment in Planetside 2 where me and about 60-80 other people managed to defend a Bio Lab from 2 other factions for about 4 hours straight with little to no reinforcements (as we had lost all our surrounding territory to the other factions) until the rest of our faction was able to re-connect to us. Man I made a lot of Certs that day!

The other moment that I'd nominate would be visiting Jita in EVE Online for the first time. It's one thing to hear the place is basically the biggest trading center out there and thinking "huh, bet there's a lot of people there"

It's quite another to go there yourself and see the veritable rivers of other players flying ships of all shapes and sizes as they enter, leave and duel outside the massive station. Made me appreciate just how large that game really is.

 

[Guffe]

I have two moments I'll always remember from my days in WoW from around 6 years ago.

First was me and friend just sitting and fishing, I think it was around Goldshire (are there Murlocs there?), anyways we had two around lvl 20 chars and were fishing near a murloc place, around level 8-11 area. He had moved away some while ago so we were basically chatting real life stuff and just getting to know how the other one is doing. When we were finished I noticed my swine (called Shrubber) had killed every single murloc in the area -.-

This same swine also got me and my mates parties killed several times in the first instance (the mines, can't remember the name). I was new to the game and had played only solo so it didn't bother me that my animal had charge and whatnot on, so when we came to the first boss our warrior (my friends big brother) shoutted "CHHHAAARRRGGGEEEEEEE!!!". And well, my Shrubber is a very obidient creature so he did what was ordered and aggroed the whole freaking room and it didn't exactly help that my next move was a missclick to shoot multiarrows...

Good days!

 

[JohnZ117]

The game is SW:ToR. My Character was on the Sith capital planet, and one of the other players was being a blowhard, making bold proclamations IN ALL CAPS. Another player was also sick of this and challenged him to a duel in front of the cantina. On location, a crowd had gathered, the issuer and myself included. (S)he started moving back and forth, which made me ask "Are you actually pacing,lol?" (S)he confirmed. The blowhard never showed up, of course.

Another character of mine, a female Zabrak smuggler, and others, including a male Republic soldier, were trapped in a flashpoint mission gone awry. Having difficulty with a particularly annoying end boss, "he" ended up calling for outside help. While we were waiting, we 3 all started dancing. He, being silly, removed his helmet while still dancing. I, also being silly, typed, "Tatlial says, Take it off!" Soon, only the boots were on him. Not long after that, the high level assistance arrived, and the boss was defeated. I'm not gay, by the way. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

 

[NoX 9]

Playing World of Tanks in my tiny little M7 Priest artillery, I had already scored two kills and a fair bit of damage when I found myself completely alone against 4 enemy tanks. "Pretend you are a Tank Destroyer" came the voice of my friend to me, as he spoke from beyond the grave just like Obi-Wan -or on teamspeak-, and I left my hiding space to go find them. Trough a good helping of luck and/or their incompetence, I ran into the first 2 one by one, and blew them to pieces. The 3rd one showed up on a cliff I was passing under and was about to dive off it and ram me to death, but I hit him before he left the edge, blew his tracks off and stranded him there while I reloaded. Having finished the cliff-diver off I went to hide behind a rock which, to my surprise, had the final enemy hiding behind it facing the other way! As he desperately tried to turn around I destroyed him too, ending with 6 kills, a ton of damage dealt and some very impressed team members.

I've had better battles before and after, but never in such an ill-suited vehicle X3.

 

[WhiteFangofWhoa]

SWTOR again here. While I hate getting some of the Datacrons, the infamous 'Tatooine Balloon Ride' one led to an odd truce I never thought I'd see- a Republic Jedi shares the balloon ride with my Bounty Hunter on a PvP server. We could have fought each other or knocked each other off for the entire 20 minutes... but we didn't. We kept the peace the whole way through. So when he fell off the sandcrawler trying to get the second Datacron there, I grappled him back onto the perch, for which he was grateful enough to sign into his Imperial character, thank me and wire me some credits. Awww... maybe some day, Empire and Republic can get along...

More conventionally, my defeating Darth Malgus for the first time, early on before he was repeatedly nerfed to be just like any other boss instead of the final boss in the final flashpoint of the original game who has also been your mission control for Imperial Flashpoints since Level 10. Probably the only boss in a game I've ever been upset about a nerfing for. I mean, when the final battle music from Episode III shifts into this:

Spoiler: Death of the False Emperor

You'd expect things to be appropriately epic, right? He used to become invincible and unleash devastating lightning storms in those final few minutes (and moments before that he'd been using a little something called 'Unlimited Power' that kills you all if you don't interrupt it), only vulnerable to being knocked into the reactor core of the station. But no, people complained about him being too hard. Bleh. They could have at least kept it in for Hard Mode.

I'd like to bring up something from City of Heroes as well, but nothing really comes to mind besides an epic air-only PvP battle I got into one time, about 10 players on each side flying hundreds of feet above the Warzone.

 

[MHR]

WoW PvP moment. In Burning Crusade I was just an orc warlock fishing in Nagrand with full possible fishing gear on - Pole, hat, gloves, boots. This alliance mage thinking he's slick comes up behind me and starts charging a pyroblast, the big 8 second cast-time fireball. I notice him doing it because his nameplate shows up as he starts casting the ability. My first instinct is to react and cast fear on him, but suddenly I have a better idea. I recast my line and pretend to keep fishing and not noticing the giant pyroblast that's gonna hit the back of my head. When the fireball is ready, I pop Sheen of Zanza, a very rare consumable that lets you reflect one spell, and this mage's pyroblast blasts him right in his own face and he just sits there stunned IRL as I run at him - fishing pole in hand to finish him off.

Then grinning from ear to ear I keep fishing.

Then I get a whisper saying something along the lines of "My friend won't shut up about how you reflected his spell at him. I keep telling him warlocks can't reflect spells, but he won't stop yelling about how you did it to him. What happened?"

Then I explain to him how this was a very hard to get item that you needed to raid for in Zul'Gurub back in vanilla and turn in raid loot tokens to a vendor in stranglethorn to get it, and that I always carried it around just waiting for the perfect opportunity to use it on someone, and that was more perfect than I could ever have hoped for.

That was my playstyle back in the day. I'd often have an entire bag devoted to obscure crap because I was big into world PvP and preparedness. Two weeks ago I reactivated that old account from 8 years ago, and I saw this whole paranoid bag full of this old PvP shit. Multicolored buff potions arranged in a row, tracking-blocker potions, invisibility potions, some ancient "really sticky glue" from a lowbie quest that apparently was an amazing 10 second root at any level, nets for rooting, an obscure spell-lock consumable from a Stratholme boss, and the second sheen of zanza. I was quite proud of my insane past self.

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

Had one in Destiny recently.

My legendary rocket launcher, called the "Unfriendly Giant", has an ability that allows the rockets to detonate early based on the proximity to enemy targets. It's great for aiming straight into a group, without aiming at the ground. However...

As I was farming a bunch of mats and engrams on the surface of our dear planet Earth, I chanced to come across two factions of enemies duking it out for supremacy over.....donuts or something, I dunno. Point is, I thought it'd be rather keen to whip out my Unfriendly Giant, lay waste to a dozen and a half combatants that were about to be bathed in fire and screams and possibly get some nice loot out of the whole deal.

I pulled the trigger...only to have the rocket explode immediately upon expulsion. What I later realized was that a cloaked enemy had snuck up behind me and was about to give my spine a rather violent acupuncture. The blast killed both of us and I was cursing up a storm for about 5 minutes before I got to laughing at the ridiculousness of that scenario.

I'm now more aware of my surroundings thanks to that.

 

[MHR]

Had one in Destiny recently.

My legendary rocket launcher, called the "Unfriendly Giant", has an ability that allows the rockets to detonate early based on the proximity to enemy targets. It's great for aiming straight into a group, without aiming at the ground. However...

As I was farming a bunch of mats and engrams on the surface of our dear planet Earth, I chanced to come across two factions of enemies duking it out for supremacy over.....donuts or something, I dunno. Point is, I thought it'd be rather keen to whip out my Unfriendly Giant, lay waste to a dozen and a half combatants that were about to be bathed in fire and screams and possibly get some nice loot out of the whole deal.

I pulled the trigger...only to have the rocket explode immediately upon expulsion. What I later realized was that a cloaked enemy had snuck up behind me and was about to give my spine a rather violent acupuncture. The blast killed both of us and I was cursing up a storm for about 5 minutes before I got to laughing at the ridiculousness of that scenario.

I'm now more aware of my surroundings thanks to that.

Were those players or NPCs? that's funny.

 

[The White Hunter]

Also did Titan EX today, we tried to play seriously at first, but then we just started messing around, dancing for him, grovelling while he uses landslide, all that jazz, was a good laugh.

That shit eating Bard trying to kite him nearly killed me it was so funny. Then he got table flipped to oblivion.

Good times.

Edit: The other day we also took down Leviathan extreme with 5 picked up guys, just got passed the last potential wipe and all the DPS but me and a lone Dragoon (poor at his job, Dragoons should be napping) managed to die and fall off.

Basically took the last 20% of Leviathan between us. Heavy heavy deeps. Was an epic victory.

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

Had one in Destiny recently.

My legendary rocket launcher, called the "Unfriendly Giant", has an ability that allows the rockets to detonate early based on the proximity to enemy targets. It's great for aiming straight into a group, without aiming at the ground. However...

As I was farming a bunch of mats and engrams on the surface of our dear planet Earth, I chanced to come across two factions of enemies duking it out for supremacy over.....donuts or something, I dunno. Point is, I thought it'd be rather keen to whip out my Unfriendly Giant, lay waste to a dozen and a half combatants that were about to be bathed in fire and screams and possibly get some nice loot out of the whole deal.

I pulled the trigger...only to have the rocket explode immediately upon expulsion. What I later realized was that a cloaked enemy had snuck up behind me and was about to give my spine a rather violent acupuncture. The blast killed both of us and I was cursing up a storm for about 5 minutes before I got to laughing at the ridiculousness of that scenario.

I'm now more aware of my surroundings thanks to that.

Were those players or NPCs? that's funny.

NPCs. What makes matters even more embarrassing is that I was roughly 20 levels above them, too...

 

[kasperbbs]

Hundreds of people were waiting for one of the 3 most important bosses in the game to spawn while fighting among each other for the right to enter his chamber and around 10 people from our alliance snuck in in the middle of the chaos, we killed everyone else who entered and woke up the boss so noone else could get in. We formed a sad excuse of a party from the people we had and somehow managed to kill it while laughing at all the raging people outside.

Spoiler: random SS from the event

 

[Rayce Archer]

So I spent four hours with friends slogging through the last mission in the first area of Guild Wars, diligently tapping the same 4 buttons over and over, And one guy was bored and kept running ahead and dying and slowing us down and finally we won a fight with the same guys we'd been fighting for hours already and the king kicked us out of the kingdom where everything was brown and ugly to a new kingdom where everything was grey and ugly, and I stopped playing Guild Wars.

Guild Wars is the only MMO I have ever tried.

 

[spartandude]

PlanetSide 2 story. Playing as Vanu we took a base but the road to the next base was uphill through a canyon with very little cover. The enemy had set up tanks at the far end and a bunch of guys along the cliffs. We massed at the force field and when we went through it was pure chaos. All the infantry were dashing to the rocks and trying not to get picked off, meanwhile our tanks were just getting blown up the moment they came into view. We did eventually manage to push foward and win but dear god was it a struggle. It was also more cinematic then nearly any other game has done.

 

[bliebblob]

One of my best is also one of my oldest, back when I was playing this shitty pay to win korean mmo. Its one redeeming factor was a really fun cops and robbers system involving trader players taking caravans from one town to the next. (It was called silkroad online.) I was playing a thief and was literally trying to hide in the bushes by a road, hoping to pounce passsing caravans. Then I bumped into another thief trying the exact same thing (which doesn't work at all BTW) and we became fast friends after that.

Another amazing one was this epic maneuvre I pulled on a ganker in WoW. Fair warning though: lots of WoW jargon ahead, it's unfortunately neccessary to explain what I did.
I was a nighelf deathknight on a PvP server and while questing spotted an orc deathknight stalking a gnome mage. clearly he was looking for a good opportunity to gank. So I in turn stalked the orc and jumped to the gnome's help the second the orc went for him. A counter-gank if you will. The orc then appreciated the irony and moved on with his life. Just kidding, of course he didn't! 30 minutes later I'm questing somewhere else entirely and there he is again, along with a max level undead rogue in full PvP gear. Clearly he sought me out. I get ganked, and then corpsecamped because ofcourse they would. After failing to respawn and run a couple of times I decided to try one last thing before just logging off: I respawn, open my deathknight portal and instead of just jumping into it I shadowmeld at a little distance from it. I knew I had to be quick about it because team corpsecamp would start scanning the area the second my corpse turned into a skeleton. And I was right: it didn't take them more than a minute to arrive at my portal. They then just stood there for a minute, I assuming they were chatting, then the rogue jumped on his wyvern and left. I had't even dared hope it would work that well. The second the rogue was out of sight I pounced the orc, killed him, than did a /wave at the rogue who returned just a bit too late and hopped through the portal. Glorious.

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

While I missed the very first incarnation of Ilum (the persistent PvP zone of SW:TOR for max level players), which by all accounts was heavily exploited [http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=109969] and poorly implemented [http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=114680], I was there the very day it "relaunched". The initial problem with Ilum was that players were rewarded for capturing objectives currently controlled by the opposing faction. The idea being that Empire and Rebels would fight each other for them. However it was significantly more worthwhile for them to *NOT* fight each other and actually allow each other to capture the objectives in turn. Anyone who tried upsetting the status quo got kicked out the raid group by their own team and killed.

So BioWare relaunched Ilum with new rules to get rid of the objective trading exploit (rewarding opposing PvP factions for actively cooperating), and somehow screwed it up even more. The "relaunched" Ilum basically allowed us to enter the enemy base (an oversight I'm sure), destroy the turrets supposed to protect it and annihilate enemy players within. Factions were rewarded based on how much territory they controlled in the zone and because of the faction population imbalance (Imperials heavily outnumbered the Rebels) we [the sith] controlled the entire zone AND moved on to the base.

The issue in the base was quite tragic (for Rebel players). When they arrived there, they'd die instantly and respawn on the same exact spot. Since logging off and using the Hearthstone ability took 10 seconds of standing still to use, it couldn't be done. They were stuck endlessly respawning and dying in seconds, unable to leave the base or teleport out. For the Sith there, the challenge was the frame rate (< 1FPS with so much going on and so many players) and even getting in a hit on the Rebel player before they melted (we had to hit them to get any PvP/Honour points).

I wasn't one of the heavy exploiters, some of whose accounts were banned or Honour points taken away for heavy abuse. I got to keep mine without punishment. For an hour or two however, I was there and I was part of the problem. I and friends were really there just to be a part of it TBH, it was "historic" in its way (the fact that I can recall and tell the tale of the woe of that day is evidence of that). Ilum was poorly thought out when it launched, disastrous when it relaunched and by all accounts "broken" or pointless today. It was fun to have been there tho.

I have so many memorable moments for CoV that I won't go into, a game that I'll always remember fondly and would still be subbed to today if it hadn't been shut down by NCSoft. Still hoping it can be reverse engineered one day

 

[BarkBarker]

Generally just wasting away hours socialising and chilling in towns, not any specific MMO because I do this all the time, just find myself watching others lives go by, reading the chat to catch up on the lives of the older players, fun stuff.

 

[Fractral]

In Planetside 2, the platoon I was in had been suffering a bit on the front lines so we pulled back to the Warp Gate. At this point we'd lost almost all of our territory around the Crown (playing Vanu on Indar) so we decided to head east. We fully loaded up about 30 players into a pair of Galaxies and a bunch of Liberators and Scythes and headed to the nearest major base, dropping out of the galaxies onto the top all stealthy like. We killed the few defenders there and took control of the base in about 15 minutes, but as we were preparing to form up and march on the next base the guys on the outside notice about 50 heavy tanks heading towards us from the north. Cue a two hour long struggle to defend the base (no reinforcements, since we were the only organized platoon on the continent) culminating in an epic standoff around the generator before the superior numbers of the terrans took us down. It was epic.
You can say what you like about Planetside 2, but there's nothing like it for huge scale player battles.