Back in the day when I had 12sky and played it to level 25, I seen only some few people with plus 11 gear that had this rare and powerful buff from a skill book called Garudo song, a skill book for boosting your luck very high. And i was also told people flock to them and paid them to plus there gear because of that buff and they had great luck in making gold from other players even if they failed with all that luck, players did not even get mad they just keep coming back I was told. So I was like I want this skill book how can I get it I ask and they told me you can buy it off someone for 180mil gold or you can get it as a drop from mobs and that can take you a very very long time they told me. So at level 85 I got that lovely book in some cave I was leveling up in and got so excited I nearly fell out of my chair. So I shouted in game "a mistake" rare Garudo song book just dropped for me and received a total of 45 offering whispers, the highest offer was 230mil gold. I did not take the offer :)

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Originally posted by slim26

...and got me many in game friends....

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Purchased friendship is ultimately meaningless. I'm surprised someone would actually say something this naïve publicly.

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Originally posted by slim26

RARE ITEM DROPS IS THE BEST FEELING YOU CAN GET IN A GAME.

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I disagree.

Originally posted by DoktorTeufel

 

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Originally posted by slim26

 

...and got me many in game friends....

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Purchased friendship is ultimately meaningless. I'm surprised someone would actually say something this naïve publicly.

 

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Originally posted by slim26

 

RARE ITEM DROPS IS THE BEST FEELING YOU CAN GET IN A GAME.

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I disagree.

De-rail threads much?

Probably rarest item/s I've ever gotten are just some raid epics when I used to play WoW, nothing fancy really. Oh and some oozeling pet that was pretty cool.

Originally posted by Bigdavo 

 De-rail threads much?

Responding directly to comments made in the OP isn't derailment. If anything, he went slightly off-topic in his own thread by making an arbitrary proclamation at the end that begged for a response.

But okay, I'll bite. The rarest pair of items I received (as far as I know) were an Aurilian Banner and a Sunrider's Destiny lightsaber crystal (among other things) in Star Wars Galaxies right after the NGE went live, when a Jedi friend of mine quit the game for good.

They didn't do me much good though, since I believe I just left them in my house when I quit less than a week later, heh. Funnily enough, this demonstrates my point about the fact that the items themselves ultimately aren't important.

Nightsister Armband

For me it would be unlocking Jedi in 2003 and getting my Jetpack, even though the Jetpack had no animation getting on it and you looked like a plank of wood when flying.

Originally posted by John.A.Zoid

For me it would be unlocking Jedi in 2003 and getting my Jetpack, even though the Jetpack had no animation getting on it and you looked like a plank of wood when flying.

Oh man, I wanted a Jetpack so bad. I must have killed about a thousand Black Suns (like ~50 per day on and off) with no Jetpack Base drop before I got exasperated. Couldn't afford to buy one either.

I did get a Black Sun Ace Fighter Helmet in space though, which was pretty sweet.

When I got my first epic drop and made my Quel'Serrar.   I was the happiest paladin in Azzeroth!

Here is me getting the blade forged:

J-boots in EQ1

The old J-boots where you ran for hours in the sands trying to get to that damned cyclops first ..without SoW.

Nice find. Always good to be able to contribute to your circle of friends.

I had an unlocked jedi also in SWG and had  3 nightsister biceps, 2 I gave away in  pre cu to friends, and 1 I kept for myself.

When I played WoW, there was a small baby gorilla pet you could only get through the TCG, and it was supposedly rare. I think the TCG is a waste of money, but I really wanted that pet. So I bought three packs of cards and found the card I needed!

A personal favorite for me was the [Hanzo Sword].  I know it's pretty lame overall, but it was a cool thing for WoW to have put into the game.

Several of the pieces I had from Vex Thal in EQ were quite rare.

I .. had a black bug mount and the "Scarab Lord" title in WoW.

If you don't know what that is; it's a one-time only reward from a server event to open the gates of Ahn'Qiraj in Vanilla WoW and therefore make it possible for everyone on the server to do the raid instances behind the gates. The guild I was in had the honour of opening the gates on our server waaay back in 2006.

Threads such as these will lose their meaning once the RMT happy crowd starts dominating the next generation of subscription games. It is my hope that that particular model will fail, because the sense of achievement (no matter how small), will be lost for good when everything can be bought and sold with a credit card.

I don't know if anyone will remember it but the first version of the rebel theme park questline in SWG had a "endor" style helmet as a quest reward. They changed the reward soon after and there was no other way to get one.

I have it still.

hmmm all would have come from EQOA. for some reason it was the only game i played that had actual rare items that you may never get...ever.

umm first thing would have been an "Arcanists Robe" it may not have been as rare as it seemed. but it had HORRIBLE stats like 2 resist stats and not much of either. so if people did get it more than likely just junked it.but i'm a bit vein and i always try stuff on no matter how crappy the stats are and equip didn't bind at all in that game so didn't matter. but the robe was a completely unique color wich was a super deep dark blue. i would always get tells asking to buy it or where i got it. later tho in the expansion they added couple of robes with that color and minus the suck stats so meh.

the other in the same game was "2 horned Ripper" another item i believe was made rare was the fact that its icon in the bag looked like a meat cleaver,and again lame stats, caster only. was out exping with others and it dropped no one wanted but i picked it up to junk later. for what ever reason i tried it on for shits and it ended up being a 2 handed sword. THAT got me crazy tells asking where i got wanting to buy ect ect. eventually they made it no longer drop in game at all because "casters wasn't ment to carry 2 handed swords".

neither of those 2 items did i try for, was just plain dumb luck and a neat bonus. 1 item i went out on a mission to aquire was the "Crystaline Orb" it was a caster only shield made of pulsing light. me and a friend found out where it dropped some how, and prior to this no one seemed to know and only seen maybe 3 in game on our entire server. Tak Frostbiter a rare named spawn in one of the goblin camps up twards halas dropped it. he had 3 or 4 spwn points in the camp and we had to kill the place holders over and over and over for him to spawn and when he did spawn he almost never dropped it. we farmed for i bet 10 hours a day over the course of 4 days before he finally gave it up. then being the glutton for punishment we was we farmed 2 more over the next 2 weeks. then it got leaked where it dropped and the place ended up being camped 24/7..lol

but deffinitly the Crystaline Orb i got in everquest online adventures was the rarest and felt like a big accomplishment when i got it.even if couple months after i got it alot of people had it

Originally posted by DoktorTeufel

 

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Originally posted by slim26

 

...and got me many in game friends....

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Purchased friendship is ultimately meaningless. I'm surprised someone would actually say something this naïve publicly.

 

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Originally posted by slim26

 

RARE ITEM DROPS IS THE BEST FEELING YOU CAN GET IN A GAME.

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I disagree.

What are you talking about? I made friends cause of the rare item. No item mail stuff to help me plus is what i mean.

Oh my bad if I went off topic in my own, was just trying to add a bit of a quick story.

Originally posted by John.A.Zoid

For me it would be unlocking Jedi in 2003 and getting my Jetpack, even though the Jetpack had no animation getting on it and you looked like a plank of wood when flying.

lol, a plank of wood...

Runescape Party Hat.

Originally posted by Ramonski7

When I got my first epic drop and made my Quel'Serrar.   I was the happiest paladin in Azzeroth!

 

Here is me getting the blade forged:

Very nice indeed.

Originally posted by Xasapis

Threads such as these will lose their meaning once the RMT happy crowd starts dominating the next generation of subscription games. It is my hope that that particular model will fail, because the sense of achievement (no matter how small), will be lost for good when everything can be bought and sold with a credit card.

Sadly true.

Since I'm assuming it can be any time of MMO, my rarest item I received was the Valor Citation from Killzone 2. I earned it by being part of the 10% most top elite players overall that week. And it's noteworthy that I received this honor only one month after buying (and first playing) the game.

Originally posted by eagle4x4

I don't know if anyone will remember it but the first version of the rebel theme park questline in SWG had a "endor" style helmet as a quest reward. They changed the reward soon after and there was no other way to get one.

 

I have it still.

Very Nice! how is SWG now?