Dont know if I can do 5...

1. WoW .. Walking up through the Stormwind Gate and over the Bridge while that epic music was going.. That was really nice.

2. Clearing the Deadmines for the first time in WoW. Probably my favorite dungeon from any game I have played.

3. Booting up EQ the first time.. A 3d world back then was something special.

Thats all I can think of.. I dont remember anything special from UO or DAoC.. Guess thats it.

It was around 2001, when I first logged in UO. I was in Haven, which I did not know at the time.  The UO theme music playing in the background, Im walking around approaching what looked like other players and started talking to them. I did not realize then they were just NPCs.

Logging on to Ragnarok Online for the first time so many years ago.  The community was quite enjoyable at the very beginning.  It remains to this day the only Korean MMO I think has any sense of adventuring that isn't efficiency grinding or PvP based.

Sitting with GOD-POING, the only admin at the time, and getting a shout-out on global announcement.

Maintaining top-30 ranking on Pirate King Online for a full day, as a healer.  The initial quest slowed almost every single healer down drastically, and even fewer still could find a proper group.

A two hour grind session in Pirate King Online which was nominally unremarkable, yet I was sole healer for five offensive players.  In order to maintain MP, I had to maintain a constant path of healing and resting.  Four of the five did not speak English as a first language, thus coordination meant maintaining a juggling act of buffs and heals on four positively suicidal fighters and one slightly more conservative mage who was fragile in the first place.

Being paid $80 for about four hours worth of loot from grinding on a throwaway grind MMO.  A friend wanted to get started, but he said he had more money than time, so he'd rather just pay me off for enough to keep himself geared out without worry for a while.  I told him he was overpaying, he didn't care.

It wasn't so much about in-game achievements.  Those came and went.  The top ranking on PKO was memorable though, since it was long after I thought I had lost my edge for grinding.  I fell out of the top rankings a couple days later, since I had to do things like sleep, go to college courses, do nominal amounts of work, and do my own laundry.  I hovered in and out of the bottom ranks for a bit, just from persistence and good grouping, but it finally fell through after so long.  The rest of it, it was more just the experience of having been there.

I never really got that feeling out of any US MMO I've played.  Sure, there's some that are much better in gameplay, but something just felt missing on a lot of those games, like it was all explored territory.

Originally posted by funkyclaude

1.  Killing an AFK, but PVP Bounty Hunter, in the Imperial Base near Restuss in SWG a few years ago.  It wasn't such a noble thing to do, but the guy and his guild had been griefing me all day, so I followed him around stealthed and then I finally caught him alone and I snuck in and took him out, only to realize that he wasn't fighting back - and my Spy finally got his revenge with minimal effort.  After the Bounty Hunter went down, a red dot comes up on my mini-map and I realized it was an Imp. Jedi coming after me.  So I ran out of the base, stealthed again and ran away, getting off scot-free  Ahh, good times.

 

2.  In LOTRO, finally getting a Second-Age Legendary weapon to drop while soloing a quest.  I think that weapon is about the only item worth anything that I've ever acquired in that game.  The unsatisfying part is that the weapon wasn't even usable for my Class.

 

3.  Creating and managing my town on Dantooine with a buddy in SWG.

 

Hmm, can't think of many more at the moment, but I'm sure I have a few others.  They'll probably come to me after I've had my morning coffee.

He was AFK... I think that might have been me! No, really....

Hmm.. lets see if I can do 5...

The first time I logged into Dark Age of Camelot on the Galahad server to join one of my friends who showed me the game.  I made a Norse Viking (starting fighter class) and walked out of Vasudeheim not knowing what to do.  I looked around and absorbed the atmosphere for a bit noticing the animals and Wildkins that were about and finally decided that I should probably kill something shortly followed by getting my first bubble of exp.

Joining my first guild again in DAoC on the Galahad server that went by the name of Loki's Minions.  Those had to be some of the nicest people I've met... ever.  The guild was extremely friendly.  Full of people who loved to joke around, never took anything seriously... it was great.  Wish I could find them again, especially the GM and his wife...

Playing my level 50 Nightshade again in DAoC... I sense a pattern here... with my friends in Emain and ambushing Albs when they came from the Albion portal keep.  One of them would play a nightshade as well and we'd creep around hidden and would always meet by this one white birch tree.  We would get our share of kills and annoy the Albs for hours on end.  It was great fun.  If I wasn't doing this then I would be scouting for people taking keeps by climbing the walls and providing intelligence reports on how many people were in it and what classes they were while picking off casters and archers that were too brave for their own good.

Playing my Berzerker on the Merlin server and joining another guild by the name of Dragon's Blood.  These people were once again extremely pleasant and great fun to be around.  Second only to Loki's Minions and even then it would more likely be a tie.  I still talk to some of the members even though we have not played anything together in a long time.  If I wasn't younger back then or if I was the age I was now, I'd more then likely would have gone to the guild meets they set up just so that I could get to know some of my guildies for real.  I think I'll remember those people for a long time to come.

Perforating a Theurgist's artery for over twice his total hit points and watching him crumble at the feet of my Shadowblade.  I miss stealthers using 2handed weapons.  I remember getting a thread started that was directed at me playing said Shadowblade asking me how I managed to get such massive damage.

In the end all my best memories come from my first mmo.  Dark Age of Camelot will never be surpassed if you as me.  The people I played with were amazing, the game at the time was spectacular and try as I might I don't think I'll ever find the same community feeling in any games around today or on the horizon.  I have very little hope that I'll ever reclaim that sense of wonder I had back then.

Originally posted by Loke666

It was during the lineage beta. 2 korean PKers had stopped everyone from entering the boat to the mainland by killing anyone setting their foot on the dock (the dock was PvP, together with some other small places). The korean players started before everyone else so many of them were high levles and PKed noobs for fun. They were not popular with the rest of us.

They were max levels and no-one on the island could fight of 2 even if there was 50 people wanting to board the ship.

I however had saved a wand of polymorf for quite some time, I turned one of them into a chicken. then everyone killed the chicken first and stormed the other guy. He got 10 of the guys until we finnished him off.

Never got so many thanks at the same time in a game before or after :D

See now this is the kind of shit i like reading,i was expecting 99% end game raid junk to be the norm in here.

The FFXi talk ,ya i could never argue anything in FFXI is truly a chore  at hand and does leave a sense of accomplishment.As for the Lineage,ya those Koreans take their PVP way too serious,there was tons of news from that game,from people fighting each other in RL cafes over the game.There was also talk of mafia members forcing info to players houses and going there to beat the crap outa them for in game stuff,just crazy.

That lineage thing really shows why PVP is a fail,but it took an O/P item to finally set them straight,that would be epic anyhow,the sense of winning out over a near impossible task.What makes it even more incredible,is knowing the satisfaction you would get ,knowing how pissed those Koreans would have been,since they do take Lineage so seriously.I'm surprised they didn't come over on a boat and kick your ass lmao.

My first ever MMORPG game was SWG just after the CU from what i understand from the chat in game and timeframe. (May/June 2005)

My first ever experience was that of trying to decide what kind of player character i'd be, i decided on the Smuggler style to begin with so i worked on those skill boxes that would give me the feel of a Pistol weilding support class, after a while i ended up going through ALMOST every box and combination i could think of before settling on a Tera Kasi/Swordsman mix.

My second experience was that of joining a guild for the first time, something i wasn't keen on for some reason. A friend who'd been playing the game about a month more than me was questing with me, visiting places and such, we were doing the Rebel Themepark and upto the point at the base on Dantooine, we met a guy called Eris while there and got chatting for a while, he invited us to his place and showed us around the guild city he was in, sure enough less than 2 days later and we were members of that guild ourselves. Such a brilliant welcome from the ERS lot, they were friendly and gave us equipment straight away for our chosen skill boxes/classes, we all gathered at a tent nearby the city and were introduced to the members online at the time. We've been pure ERS ever sinse then, my mate is now Guild Leader and i was content with being the guild Shipwright and helper.

Oh the memories of days long ago, i sometimes wish the NGE never happened and that those days were still around.

Rather than reminisce I thought it would be relevant to point out how many of the best moments chosen have been about playing with other players. Not completing a quest or getting the Uber Sword of Greatness.

The moments chosen have been about grouping, business crafting, PvP, sieges and RvR. Clearly the best times have been the times we interacted with each other. Does following the preset solo formula to end game feature much here?

Having a laugh with your mates is what makes a MMO, not doing 1000’s of solo quests

Originally posted by Blazeyer

Originally posted by Hyanmen

Hmm might be less than 5, anyway:

1. Fighting against 5 mammets, Omega and Ultima weapon on a middle of an Airship fleet in FFXI.  What made it epic was that you had to fight all 8 monsters after another so you couldn't just continue from where you left if you died. Time limit was 45minutes and we cleared with 30secs to spare. 

2.  Clearing the Chains of Promathia expansion in FFXI after 6 months of weekly static'ing with 5 of my friends to clear the missions. The fight, the cutscene following it and the resulting reward were the best moments I've ever had in a game. What made it even more awesome was to clear the fight with the same group I started the missions with half a year ago. That's an accomplishment if something.

3. Upgrading the last endgame equip for my Monk after doing the 'raid' for 2½ years 4 times a week. I felt like king of the world at that point!

4. Killing off the boss of a raid in FFXI after 5 months of trying. It was so hard it was almost insane.

5. Quitting FFXI after 6 years of playing. Remembering all the good (and bad) things that happened on the journey really made it a memorable moment for me. No regrets.

Just going to quickly ask...What are the "raids?" You're talking about salvage right? its the only thing i can think of that you can do 4 times a week. If so, grats on full usuk.

--don't think clearing expansions takes that long. He had a set group the whole time i did mission 2-3 > fin in a week (granted 4 nights i was up past 4 am).

--also would like to say that there are "relic weapons" in ff11 that take people years to achieve. they are truly worth it though.

1. Buying ff11 (may 1st 2004 on ps2)...moved to pc in '06

2. Figuring out how awesome mines were in tabula rasa

3. getting suspended in ff11 for warp hacking (really funny story) ...greatest fail moment in my mmo history

4.getting paladin unlocked in ff11 and eventually to 75 (BEFORE IT WAS EASY)

5. probaly gettin 80 pally in WoW (illidan server btw) my first 80 so it felt cool.

6. realising most of the mmo community sucks when i realised AoC is actually a good game and the BEST looking mmo period  if you have the right set up.

7.(soon to be) upgrading my pc,  buying a new ps3 harddrive, and selling my soul to get into the ff14 beta.

One thing about FFXI,is so many seem to forget that using the internet for answers is not playing the game as intended.

I was there from day 1 as a noob,and it took several weeks just to find your way around and familiarize yourself with the game.Heck i self taught macros ,that alone took me several weeks before i truly understood it.

The other thing about FFXI ,is that putting time into any equation should never be a factor.It is much better to learn the game and play it's mechanics,something 90% of the ffxi players did not do,they were more in a rush to level.Players started to shun certain jobs,build parties that leaned towards ease over fun and satisfaction.

Heck players and their gear took years to figure out ,welland tons of cheating,otherwise players would never know half of the NM's because they only spawned once i na blue moon or under certain conditions.The last few years of FFXI was full of players using the best gear and the best weapons,the best of everything,with fully skilled up groups all with maxed out skills,it was not the way the game started out let me tell ya.No LS 75 whm standing on the side P/L or 75 ninja to lead you through any danger,in the first year EVERYTHING was earned and was unrealistically satisfying,knowing the effort it took.

To tell the truth the first year was so tough most NA players were paying JPN's who had a year under their belt GIL to guide them through tough times.So even then many did not endure the true toughness of the game.

Hmm.... this make me reminisce, let’s try

1. Horizons - first time getting my flight rights with my dragon and flying up, which was amazing feeling.

2. Horizons - on the way to finish the rite of adult (or something I don’t remember now) there was a quest to defeat a monster, deep in the blight territory, me and another dragon went in and "stealth" in until we took it down, we felt like, special ops. taking down a major mob boss.

3. Horizons - when they (dev) did the first event to release new race, we had to destroy several huge crystal/machines, I remember we all went to the first one in my realm and everyone was there around it attacking, we had to pull back when patrol came and back in when they left because they were so strong, due to lag many went DC and then back again just as patrol came, I remember I was awake all night just to help take it down.

4. Horizons - on the first few days, someone announced the dev are doing a raid against us, several of us grouped together to "fend" off the attack we were mostly around level 15 some were 20, we tried to find it but we couldn’t, we started spreading out to seek the attack, eventually we found the aggressor but we all got wiped one by one (we didn’t organized attack), apparently what happen is someone pulled a normal boss out of his patrolling area (he run away because it was too high for him) and that boss was just wondering out of his normal place, we then all vowed to level as fast as we can so we be ready to the real attack.

5. Not a specific moment but almost every day since I met my g.friend in WoW, till now I remember the first day we started ... since then we play together every day
 

1. Getting 100 pickpocket in UO and emptying peoples entire reagent bags in 1 steal.

2. Getting chased by pkers with my GM bard and provoking wisps on them, instant kill and loot them.

3. Owning my first house in UO outside Vesper.

4. First time logging into UO and being lost and immersed. Finally finding other players training skills on dummies outside town.

5. Provoking dragons on people when they would attack others, then everyone would share loot.

1. Raiding in Everquest - Planes of Power. Some of the boss fights took up to 1 hour, like first kills on Xegony in plane of Air. Very epic battles with 72 people coodinated, and ALL doing what they are supposed to in a raid. No slackers, no afk's.

2. Dark Age of Camelot PvP. The battleground areas were just amazing. Even for lvl 10-20 it was way more fun and skilled than WoW pvp is at lvl 60-70, and 80.

this is all hat comes to mind at the moment.

DAoC PvP... It didn't matter what level or what battleground or what frontier... it was always fun. One of my best memories was playing in Thidranki on my Shadowblade. Getting a stealth group together and just causing havok on the casters was great. But the best was going solo. I was feared in Thidranki... When I decided to leave and grind to 50, roaming DF was fun too.

Buying my first house was great.

Worst memory was farming the scrolls for the harpy cloak... hours of my life wasted....

Favorit moment was when I decided to visit SWG after 3 or 4 years. My old buddies and I arrived and saw some of our old cities still up, the building were kept by other players but they had the same names.

Then later on that night, we visited a city with street named after us lol… And the icing on the cake, on Naboo, I got to visit a player made museum with all my ancient gear on display. It brought back a lot of memories and I got to admit, for a moment, it almost made me cry lol. It was quite a moment to see a player made aquarium with at least 25 named weapons, my old armor sets and even some old ring I had back in the days.

My guild was a fairly large guild that ruled over the server for quite some time. Some hated us, some loved us but no one could denie that we influenced the economie and pvp on the server.

Favorit moment was when I decided to visit SWG after 3 or 4 years. My old buddies and I arrived and saw some of our old cities still up, the building were kept by other players but they had the same names.

Then later on that night, we visited a city with street named after us lol… And the icing on the cake, on Naboo, I got to visit a player made museum with all my ancient gear on display. It brought back a lot of memories and I got to admit, for a moment, it almost made me cry lol. It was quite a moment to see a player made aquarium with at least 25 named weapons, my old armor sets and even some old ring I had back in the days.

My guild was a fairly large guild that ruled over the server for quite some time. Some hated us, some loved us but no one could denie that we influenced the economie and pvp on the server.

In the more recent times, I guess the epic EVE battles where thousands of people are fighting over the control of a system. It’s scary to see that much organization over a game. It’s always something to see 3 titans drop in the middle of a battle and hear ventrilo going nuts for a moment and then seing a triple Doomdays attack followed by hundreds of explosions.
 

 My first time loggin in to Diablo in multiplayer, joining a game, and being killed, then ressed, then killed, then ressed, then killed... 

My first encounter with the Army of Darkness PK guild in Ultima Online and fighting them off with another group of people.

The first time I heard "the ding" in Everquest.

The second time Anarchy Online ate my OS during beta testing and forced me to format c:... again.

The first time I was able to play FFXI without being confused by the controls.

Originally posted by Illius

The first time I logged into Dark Age of Camelot on the Galahad server ...<snip>

Joining my first guild again in DAoC on the Galahad server that went by the name of Loki's Minions.  ..<snip>

That's funny.  Galahad was my first (and primary) server.  Albion!

I even remember people running around with the <Loki's Minions> guild tag. =)  I was in a guild called <Particle Sun> back then.

Great memories in DAoC.  It was my second MMO, which i played the heck out of during my extended break from EQ.  The best community I have ever found.  Only two other communities come to mind that came close - Old school EverQuest, and Vanguard (a couple years ago anyway).

Acidon

charming the plane of hate god, Innoruuk, with my bard in classic EQ then making him says who his master was. good times.. good times.

aslo killing GMs in Anarchy Online with a trimmer exploit.