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Originally Posted by Regorium
Two from everquest:
1) First, there were no instances back in the day. If a boss was up, you would race to mobilize your guild and engage the boss. Engaging the boss first meant that that boss was "yours" and you had 1 shot at it - or the other guilds would take it from you. In one of the expansions, there was a ridiculous number of flags (or keys) needed by each member, and killing the bosses dropped these keys. We needed a couple more keys to progress, but so did every other guild on the server. So, we know the bosses spawn every 3 days +/- 18 hours. There's a ton of guilds kind of waiting at the spawn point right at 10am. It just so happens that it doesn't spawn all afternoon, and goes into the evening. It spawns at 3am - and by this time only 20ish people were online, while you need about 50 to kill it. Of course, we had a list of phone numbers and start calling people (random strangers on the internet), and we manage to get 45 people online in 20 minutes, and move on the boss.
It was basically the most ridiculous moment in my entire time of gaming. How people got called by strangers at 3am to wake up to kill a boss just so the guild could progress is something that, a) i'll never forget, b) I'll never do again.
2) Killing TRC. Spent 2 weeks straight on this boss. A kill attempt was ~1 hour. You had to stay focused the entire time. So intense, and just absolute exhilaration when it finally died.
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It's weird how most of my favorite gaming moments come from MMO's. I remember tons of aces, clutch moments and such in CS and shooters, but I guess it's just cuz these extreme highs are so rare in MMO's, where it's much more common in other games.
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My favorite moments are mostly from EQ as well.
The first ever Avatar of War kill probably being the highlight, but the best part was really just playing EQ with all the guys who worked at Blizzard when WoW was just a twinkle in their eye. I came back to the game and the guild many times over the years and no one really matched that original crew for shear awesome fun.
Epic raids to the original Planes back in the day when it would be a 24-48 hour event just to have a chance of clearing it all. Even better was doing it all again with a friends guild. 5 of us sitting in their basement suit yelling frantically at each other and trying to organize a bunch of people who had no business being there. All of us living of a box of 40 x 59 cent Dairy Queen cheeseburgers and Dilly bars all weekend.
Camping items was boring, but we always turned it into some kind of epic event. I recall one time, camping for the ring for journeyman boots in Ocean of Tears and killing giants as a group for about 60 hours straight. The generated some pretty good coin, and this was in the day when you would just throw copper and silver away since it was worthless. An ultra cheap friend of mine, would grab all that heavy coin and carry it around, unable to move more than the minimum speed. When it came time to leave, he had to get on the boat, but he was so heavy that he fell off the dock and was crushed to death under the weight of the coins, by falling 5 feet.
The most overall fun I had, was working with my sister at developing strategies for new fights. We worked at a meat packing plant at the time, and for 3-4 hours a day we would work together and draw up plans on the walls using cow blood clots.