few years back in anarchy online, my biggest mmo love up to date,,

especially during a year or a year and a half period i played pretty much only my title level five ( higher mid levels ) bureaucrat pvp twink, despite having several endgame toons,,, those were the times!!

Originally posted by Vladamyre
Dark Age of Camelot, the classic game and Shrouded Isles. Running my 8 man team was the most fun in any game I've ever played. Playing a hib on Lancelot was also a blast. Albs outnumbered both hibs and mids combined on that server. Hitting realm rank 8 on my hero, which was a beast class to play then. There hasn't been a game to come even remotely close to the rvr on DAoC. Guild Wars 2 comes close to it, but its still not the same. Its a damn shame that new frontiers and trials of atlantis ruined the game.

Ditto

I am tempted every now and then to give it another go.

World of Warcraft.  We had a 25 man raiding guild during BC and we were racing to clear Black Temple.  At this point in time you still had to clear the pre-content; SSC and TK. Our server was low pop so finding dedicated players made things difficult.  Wound up having to play a "Game of Thrones" type espionage against other guilds, merging and poaching to stack our player base to clear the content.  Dumping dedicated 'weaks' and taking 'solid' newbies was gut wrenching sometimes. Sounds terribly devious and hard, but it made the game quite, "real".

Late vanilla World of Warcraft. Had many real life friends and family playing in the same guild. I could never put as much time into an mmo as I did at this time.  The old pvp ranking system was brutal but addictive. Took two weeks of leave from the Navy to try and rank up as much as possible.  Finally gave up at rank 11 since it seemed impossible to catch the higher players.

Raided MC for months before I got my first epic item. Epics were truly epic. If you were fully purple, it meant somthing. People forget how hardcore this game was at the time. I had the most fun during this time period and have been chasing that high ever since.

World of WarCraft, late vanilla through the Black Temple patch in TBC.

I got hooked up with a great circle of online friends who were also pretty good players and we just had a blast chatting while running dungeons, hitting up BGs, and leveling alts together.  Even though in retrospect I devoted far too much of my life to that game, being able to accomplish what we did *together* is something I certainly will never regret.

Originally posted by Amjoco
Although not mmorpgs, probably AD&D Gold Box series, Bards Tale, and the Ultima series. WoW would be my most fun of mmorpgs. :)

I remember those old games.

U6 is the best of the series, and i love the AD&D gold box games ... though in restrospect, they are very much hack-n-slash. The stories came in a little book too.

Gold box games >>> bards tale in my opinion primarily because of the grid like tactical combat .. that beats the menu type combat for me.