My favorite memory was in SWG on Chilastra.

It was during the NGE and as a Rebel Bounty Hunter I tracked a mark to Theed. I headed to the square right out of the starport and there he was. A Jedi I'd never beaten in a fair fight before. He looked AFK so I scanned the area because I was combatant and Theed was full of high level Imperial NPC's who would shoot me on sight.

I decided to open fire and within a few seconds he retaliated, obviously back at the keyboard.

Shit he's hitting hard I thought... before realising someone else was hitting me. A tag-team of 3 Bounty Hunters had appeared from nowhere and my health was critically low.

I quickly hit my shields and ran for the med center, trying to get out of their line-of-sight. I ran around the outside dropping traps at each corner to slow them down and give me time to get my act together. Fortunately my mark whispered that he wouldn't attack and stood their watching the fight.

The whole thing lasted maybe 5 minutes, but felt like 30. Luck must have been on my side because with some nifty trap work and conserving my stamina, I managed to take out 2 of the 3 bounty hunters, finally losing to the 3rd, but even that was so close only one shot was in it. I had also started taking damage from NPC's in my kiting attempts.

That was the ultimate adrenaline rush I ever had in a game and I was a hairs width of coming out of it alive.

Fun times in SWG.

A couple of days into the DF release, some dude was bringing together 6-7 people to walk up from elf starting area to Mahirim country to seek out pvp. none of us had mounts, none of us had good gear.

This guy had been scouting a route up there the day before so he lead the way. we were sneaking our way up and had to walk circles around badass mobs, and the game was new and you really didn't know your way around that good.

After what felt like an eternity (in a good way) we arrived at the wolfpeoples lands, spotting out 2 of them naked whacking bushes.

after 20 seconds they were lying in pools of blood.

from there we were sneaking around killing mostly singled out or small groups of gatherers. After a while we all returned to elflands with not a single death.

It was sneaky, not very honourable, and we were always greater numbers.  Not at all competitive pvp.

But damn that night was pure fun.

My first ever experience of PvP was at Crossroads in vanilla WoW. Much fun.

My fondest memory is with classic AV in WOW.  On our server, Alliance was the dominant faction and provided crazy battles for us Horde.  The map was just the right size to prevent the ridiculous running of WvWvW.  Nerfing AV was the worst thing Blizzard ever did to that game.  

I wish I had played DAoC to see what the big attraction there was.

My worst experience was attaining High Warlord in Vanilla WOW.  Endless days of WSG for weeks.

I could have sworn I replied to this thread...hrmmm.

Looking through my posts, I guess I did not.  Perhaps I started to reply and went to sleep...er...something.

SB - running around on my Rogue Assassin and spying on Goonies when they came to raid our town.

EVE - killing my first ganker in a sui-Kessie and making enough to start my own corp the first week of play.

WoW - preBC running around with my Suc out on my Lock and watching Rogues die.

AO - running around with a group of other Fixers and killing Smurfs.

UO - hunting Reds.

There is a series of achievements in WoW, all focused around particular monthly WoW Holidays. Some of them center around the battlegrounds, and they are really hard to do in a normal battleground. For instance, switching flags or resetting towers after the opposing team has grabbed the flag or started capturing a tower. These achievements are near impossible on a normal day. What both factions do is allow the other faction members into the flag rooms or towers and everyone stands around trading flags or flipping and reflipping the towers. It always goes OK for awhile, but as more people show up small fights break out or one person shows up who either doesn't get what's going on, or who just doesn't want to play along. Tensions build until suddenly there is a HUGE PvP fight over the fact there's just too many people in one spot to not fight. It is chaos spawning out of order and it's glorious. :-)

Vanilla WoW going for grand marshal 16 hours of instanced pvp a day to get that 500k honor a day lol.

Something I could never imagine doing anymore but man those 5 min AB wins were SO FUN back in the day!

Originally posted by Thebigthrill

I was in my couch this morning thinking of pvp and how the new pvp battlegrounds in mmorpg's have ruined pvp.

I was thinking of what I missed and thought of Asherons Call 1 and how much fun I had in it.

One  thing that happened to me in that game that I still remember to this day.

Some of this is a little sketchy since its been so long since I played.

 

1.I had a mage or some kind of caster. I was around level 40 something and I entered a dungeon I would guess for level 15 or so players. My toons name was Doxx.

I remember a group of 4 entering the dungeon , I went to the middle of the dungeon waiting for them.

A few minutes later they appeared and this is somewhat what the chat looked like.

Random toon: Hey look theres someone in here

Random toon2:Hello

Doxx: It is time

Random toon: Time for what Doxx?

Doxx: Time to die!  (I threw out a fire aoe killing the group)

Random players: Wtf! Assh***

Random toon1:Assh***!

(A few minutes later they appear again)

Random Toon: Hey Doxx can we finish this dungeon please?

Doxx: No! (Boom Fire Aoe , they die again)

(A few minutes later I see them appear in chat again)

Random Toon: If you keep this up , we will call in more people.

Doxx: Im sorry , you all may finish.

Random toon:Thank you

Doxx: Do you know what today is?

Random Toon: No Doxx whats today?

Doxx: The worst day of your life! (Boom fire Aoe , they die again)

(About 10 minutes later they appear with a friend a level 30 something)

Random toon whispers me :Hey this is funny shit do you mind if I watch you please dont kill me?

I whisper back:Sure np , stand to the side and enjoy.

Random toon 2: Ok everyone charge at him , hey where is random player 1 going? Why is he standing next to Doxx?

(Random player 1 starts to laugh and taunt the other players, random player 1 is now my friend)

(They all charge me)

Doxx: No one can stand the fire power of Doxx! (Fire Aoe nuke , they all die again)

(This continues for the next hour me and random player 1 become friends)

A few months later I run into random player 1 , he is now 5 levels above me and much more powerful.

We talk about that day , we become best friends in game for the next couple of years.

 

 Your fondest memory was being a dbag? That memory could have easily been had a million times ... log in , kill scrubs .... awesome.

Originally posted by Meridion
fondest PvP memory:
warhammer tier 3 sieges during beta, hands down.

Along the same lines, mine also in warhammer, repeated t4 keep defense vs zergs with organized tactics like feigned withdraw and misdirection. 10 or 12 of us could make 3+ wb's have really bad days.

In Vanguard when we were all starting, pvp server.

Some guys decide that camping a respawn area was a fun idea. One of the ganked guys warned people on the continent channel, and the place got swarmed inmediatelly by green and black people (us) who "explained" them why that was not a good idea. They ended up logging out after over an hour of intense retribution gank fest.

Then another day, when our group was about to pull the end boss of a mid level area, the same guys showed up. Nobody did nothing for a while, until we decided pulling the boss, hoping those guys would be civilized this time. We were wrong. As soon as we pulled the boss, they attacked us. Amazingly, we managed to kill them, and then the boss.

I hope that told them a lesson, cos they never showed up a third time.

- SWG - Pre-CU PVP: anywhere, anytime from 1 vs 1 to hundreds of player beating the crap out of each others. Especially chasing this rebel named Skirrel. He had the name asking for it ;)

- WoW - Tarren Mill, Southshore, Crossroads at launch: when PvP was something and being in the Horde meant playing 1 vs 4 and still holding tight.

Lineage 2- Free servers back in 2005-2008 when ppl did know how and when to attack and not just at random like now days.

Planetside- What can i say it was the best, if you played it in 2004-2007 you know.  WCM !

Planetside 2- its in CB but damn this game is good.

probably my first big baium fight in lineage 2.