1)  When Richard Garriot first joined NCSoft and took control of an event on Lineage 1 and put on a display of dragon killing uberness in a single character.

2)  DAOC release of SI expansion.  Highlight of the game for me as it was all downhill afterwards.  Being part of a role playing guild on Mordred called the Shadowclan who actually had its own kobold language to chat with (text only)

3)  Initial release of WOW.  My whole guild from DAOC moved over and the game seemed so full of promise.  6 months later and the reality of the game hit home and the dream ended.

4)  Day I realized that EVE was a good game and I was going to be able to carve a piece of the universe for myself.  (I had resisted for so long)

5) First time my WOW guild took down the final Boss in BWL for the first time.   I was there, and I was proud of what we had accomplished.

1. Getting pk'd in UO with house key and rune to front doorstep in my backpack(always left in bank usually, just had a brain fart that night).  Logged in with another character and fought duels with several hidden players looting my house.   Lost most of my stuff, but had a great time in the fight.

2. Darkness falls in DAoC, when they added that dungeon was one of the best things they ever did in that game.  Monumental fights in there.

3. Asheron's call, one of the best games to explore in ever.  More dungeons in that game than any game ever.

4. The debacle of NGE in SWG, making me change my master creature handler into a medic.  Will never forgive SOE for destroying that game.

5. Beating the boss in molten core for the first time in Wow.  So many wipes prior were all worth it.

anybody remember the undead invasion of trinsic in Ultima Online..that was a cool event

gonna add some more... my first post was not really WoW stuff... but that wasnt fair...

keep in mind I played many MMO's before WoW

First deadmines run... blew my mind.

First time doing onyxia.... now that's what a dragons lair and battle with a dragon should be like!

First time doing the first boss of BWL... omg the madness of it!

Doing the low level warlock class quests on a PvP server in WoW as a total newbie....  horde territory!

more non wow stuff:

Losing my first Battlecruiser in Eve only an hour after buying it, and it was uninsured.... my vision literally blurred and I felt weird for a moment.

First time seeing the login screen of L2 during open beta... omg the graphics and music!

First time doing character creation in SWG... holy customization batman!

Killing Lucan D'lere in EQ1 and becoming KOS in most of Freeport =)

Creating an evil human (DK) in EQ1 and having to sneak around in dark sewers

Falling off the boat to Kunark and having to swim for what seemed like an hour to find land... while fearing what might be beneath the surface.

Being lost in the wilderness of EQ1 (several times)

My first journey from Qeynos to Butcher Block in EQ1.... on my first level 10... epic.

Nothing could touch it and I have played dozens of MMOs. But the most memorable experience was reaching level 50 in Dark Age of Camelot, meaning I was legitimate to play RVR in Albion (as a Paladin). Still sends a tingle down my spine when I recall how fantastic it felt. Long live DAoC, Revive and relaunch DAoC.

Both come from UO

1)Taming dragons and attacking people with them lol.

2 )The first time I ran into a pk town in UO.

Other mmos have been fun games but not terribly memorable. You always remember your first love in any part of life.

Great thread.

1. Wow- First time in Shadow fang keep with some rl friends. 

2. Wow- Onyxia. With 30+ guildies.

3. Lotro- Learning to play an instrument in shire with some random players under a apple tree that jammed togheter.

4. Wow- The hour long battles in AV.

5. Vanguard- The unicorn questline.

Originally posted by Swiftblade13

gonna add some more... my first post was not really WoW stuff... but that wasnt fair...

 

keep in mind I played many MMO's before WoW

 

First deadmines run... blew my mind.

First time doing onyxia.... now that's what a dragons lair and battle with a dragon should be like!

First time doing the first boss of BWL... omg the madness of it!

Doing the low level warlock class quests on a PvP server in WoW as a total newbie....  horde territory!

 

more non wow stuff:

 

Losing my first Battlecruiser in Eve only an hour after buying it, and it was uninsured.... my vision literally blurred and I felt weird for a moment.

First time seeing the login screen of L2 during open beta... omg the graphics and music!

First time doing character creation in SWG... holy customization batman!

Killing Lucan D'lere in EQ1 and becoming KOS in most of Freeport =)

Creating an evil human (DK) in EQ1 and having to sneak around in dark sewers

Falling off the boat to Kunark and having to swim for what seemed like an hour to find land... while fearing what might be beneath the surface.

Being lost in the wilderness of EQ1 (several times)

My first journey from Qeynos to Butcher Block in EQ1.... on my first level 10... epic.

 

 

 Hey some of my best Memories are from WoW. Like when I took my Hunter and her BEAR who I originaly had from the first hunter quest that gave me my Training Lesson. See the thing is being a NIGHT ELF and a explorer. (I love to explore in games. I lvl up that way.) So I wound up in IF terriotory to find my ICE claw bear. (Named him BEARBEAR Lol) Well from there I MASTERED my skills enough and after lvl CAPPING. This was pre BC that I knew I was good enought to PVE in HORDIE terroritoy so I went to Splintertree Post just to lvl the area. Hey they deserved it since all they wanted to do was send in 20+ to ASTRANAAR (Why the horde thought they needed so many?? I always viewed them as COWARDS. Lol) SOOOOOO much fun. For most of the part HORDES had to send at least THREE or more to take me out. GOOD times.

The initial opening of the Plane of Fear in Everquest (October 1999) should probably be on that list.

My 5 most memorable moments.  Most were from EQ as that was my first. 

1.  Happy Halfling tours.  There is a good 10-15 minutes maybe longer (probably less but it feels like longer) boat right between butcherblock and east freeport in EQ.  While on the boat this short, dumpy (aren't they all) halfling came on and said, "WELCOME TO HAPPY HALFLING TOURS".  He then proceeded to give details explanations of all the sights, the water, the sharks in the ocean the islands we passed by.  Then he got off on one island and said, "and now I'm leaving before the sea monster comes to get you"  Strangely enough I crashed to desktop right at that moment.

2.  Again in freeport by the bank in EQ.  I guy was having a little session between him and the NPC guard.  He was moaning how the wars had cost him his wife, his children, his parents, his life savings, his 1 legged dog... you get the idea.  This went on for about 10 minutes about how crappy his life was then in a fit of rage he blamed it all on his captain (the NPC guard) who promptly killed him.

3.  Horizons when I first was able to play as a dragon (awesome), then when I first was able to grow into a bigger dragon and finally fly, awesome.  And of cours the bipeds that can learn every skill in the game to become a god haha.

4.  In EQ going to unrest.  Spooky dungeon filled with undead things.  Probably my third time in there and every once in while there is a big train dead guys coming up from the lower levels.  Anyway I travel along the spooky lake, into the spooky tunnel.. zone... and then I'm in and OMG a big ass grim reaper guy (can't remember what they were called was just standing right at the entrance waiting.  Nearly peed myself turning around.  Went back in... AUGGH he's still there.  Wait a minute... some necro had just parked his pet there to freak us all out.  haha it worked too.

5.  My first halloween in even in EQ in Kelethin.  I just finished fighting some bandit and a message pops up, "You feel someone tapping on your shoulder."  Turn around and there is a massive grim reaper guy again grinning down on me... dead.  Think his name was tweedledee, and there was his friend tweedledum around as well.  So much fun. so much death.  Those things wreaked havoc on us little elves.

6.  This didn't actually happen to me, it happened to my brother (no really).  It was in EQ in the throne room at crushbone ( a small zone filled with orcs).  My brother was playing some mellee type and there was a druid who was the healer.  This guy was obviously new, probably not just to the game, but to MMO's in general and was doing a horrible job healing.  Being new he probably didn't realize he was supposed as the only healer he was supposed to heal and not much else.  He would go in and mellee a bit, and draw agro, or nuke a bit and draw agro and not have enough mana to heal people.  Anyway my brother was getting irritated and supposedly sent me a tell saying, "Man this healer just sucks." 

Meanwhile I am in my room playing my bard listing to him playing his character across the hall, when all of a sudden "silence".  He didn't send the text to me, yes it was all our worst fears.  He accidently said it in /say to the whole group and everyone else around.  The leader just says, "open mouth, insert foot."  The druid says, "I'm trying my best it's my first day."  My brother never played that character again.  To this day I always bug him going that could have been just a kid, someone like your neice just starting out in the genre and you destroyed them. 

That one was the best.

Venge Sunsoar

1.  The cutscene for the Veteran of the Wrathgate achievement.

2.  Tanking General Ssraeshza in EQ1

3.  Shadows of Luclin release

4.  City of heroes launch.  Hell, everytime I make a new character it's my favorite event in MMO history.

5.  Number 5 is reserved for when Darkfall Online closes. 

Some good links people might enjoy on things I never experienced but always looked for them after having read about them in EQ.

http://www.notacult.com/fansythefamous.htm   a story about Fansy the Famous Bard.  Man I would have loved to meet that bard.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/archive/index.php/t-72711.html  A story dealing with a true and arrogant newb that bought their chracter.  I loved this one too.

Venge Sunsoar

5.  Lineage 2 Closed Beta , a lot of craziness, mde a lot of friends, it was a classic time

4. First Time through the Great barrows in LotrO

3. Actually getting a chance to feel how great Vanguard could be. For me that game world is what mmorpgs are about, it is just sad it was locked into SoE

2. The LotrO MPvP developers vs creeps event on Melendor, that was awesme

1. Shangrilla Banes every weekend on Wrath for a month straight, NA EU vs CN / PacRim , that was EPIC beyond anything I've done in a game.

In no particuler order (These are all bout Runescape)
 

My first time doing barrows killin all 6 brothers and recieving my first item... guthans skirt... i screamed like a girl and woke my whole house up :P

Getting my Barrow gloves from RFD... all that hard work :)

BUT

The best memory of ALL Time, was in runescape, when i was an uber noob, i was walking round, asnd my friends told me to come to dwarven mines, and it took me so long to get their... oh noobiness... it was sooo fun.

Originally posted by XredemptionX

In no particuler order (These are all bout Runescape)
 

My first time doing barrows killin all 6 brothers and recieving my first item... guthans skirt... i screamed like a girl and woke my whole house up :P

Getting my Barrow gloves from RFD... all that hard work :)

BUT

The best memory of ALL Time, was in runescape, when i was an uber noob, i was walking round, asnd my friends told me to come to dwarven mines, and it took me so long to get their... oh noobiness... it was sooo fun.

Lol.... Hey I made THOSE kind of NOOB mistakes also Heehee I bet eveyone here HAS.

5.(World of Warcraft)-Finally getting my first mount, and riding him around till i was blue in the face.

4.(Star Wars Galaxies)-Laying down my first house in the game, and surrounding it with my harvesters.

3.(Guild Wars)-Beating my first campaign on my first character. The feeling of accomplishment on the time I put into the game.

2.(Star Wars Galaxies)-Seeing all of the characters from the movies playing out in the game, like i was in the movie.

1.(Star Wars Galaxies)-Sitting in my first meeting in my first guild ever. There was over 50 people sitting in chairs like you were in a school lecture. Some chairs made by me. The officers were sitting in the front facing the guild. An officer would walk up to the podium in the middle and talk about certain issues. Than he would sit down and the next one would talk about another issue.

Though I played alot of MMOs, my best memories come from early days of WoW. I was an active PvPer and killing people around Azeroth pefore even honor system was implemented... well, it was great fun. First MC runs were also cool.

MMO's nowadays are too safe and easy to provide good stories (least the ones ive tried).  No consequences equal no tention.  The original EQ was, on the other hand, more like a saditic school master with a liberal additude on corpral punishment so most of my interesting stories come from there.

1.  Kurn's Tower (EQ, Necromancer).  Kunn's was a large tower at one end of the field of bones, something like 5 floors of undead of arround level 15 or 20 if I remember correctly.  Tried to find a good spot to camp in one day when it was packed and all the regular spots were taken and setteled on the dinning room at the very top.  This turned out not to be a good idea and I was soon forced to run while screaming "Train to Zone" and taking every wrong turn I could on the way.  End result, I probably trained most of the upper floors down to the enterance.  Around 3 full groups of players plus some odds and ends decided to ignore my warnings probably figurning I only had 4 or 5 skellies on me.  Was more like 30.

2.  Travel in EQ.  I was an Iksar and a necromancer.  I was hated by everyone outside of Cabilis.  There was almost no safe haven for me outside of Kunark, almost no merchants, no bank, and all the guards wanted to kill me.  If I wanted to catch a boat it genrealy ment I had to sneak into an enemy city and find a safe place to hide near the port until one showed up to stow away on.  The world was huge and on foot it could take hours to get from Cabilis to the nearest good hunting spot (think It was Freeport).  In the early days befor travel got eazy people were surprised to see an iksar anywhere beyond Freport, especialy below 20th level.

3.  Crystal Caverns (think that was the place).  Me and a mage friend wandered to the top of that place to a good pull spot.  The place wasnt a cavern so much as a tall room full of ice bridges so if you weren't careful you could slip off and fall to your death.  Unfortunatly, this is exactly what my pet did as soon as I summoned him at the top.  To add to the misfortune, he didn't die.  Instead he fell to the bottom, decdied that gravity and pathing was for the birds and shot  straight back up to the top somehow agroing EVERYTHING on the way back.  Everything ment the spiders who decided to follow my pets example and came boiling up from a crack in the floor like a poisoness fountain. 

4.  Planetside.  I didnt get to play this long befor the population started dieing unfortunatly but it was the best MMOFPS (only sofar I think).  Never got to do half the stuff I would have liked in that game but between Galaxy drops, tank colums, running AA at a bridge battle and shelling the crap outa people in a Lighting (personal favorite) it was nothing but fun.  Amost the first day I found myself part of a huged force trying to take a well defended enemy base.  I spent most of the battle helping to hold a ridge that provided a great vantange point for our artilery against their ground and air.

5. WoW.  The only story I have from there was befor the devs ripped the testicles off of Alterac Valley.  The game used to be a 40 on 40 slugfest where victory went to the most orginized.  It could take an hour if done right or 22 hours if you had a bad group.  Sure Alterac Valley was extremly flawed but you could get some sirious pitch battles in there where individuals could make a difference.  Once at a near stailmate I, a druid, steathed up behind the enemy lines to drop my single aoe on them hoping to sow a little confusion for a push.  To my surpise 2 or 3 friendly mages had seen me and managed to follow.  The resulting aoe slaughter fest combined with a push from our lines was a sight to behold.

Honnorable mention.  Got to mention the Naked bug from old EQ.  The devs screwed up when they upgraded the engine and for probably 6 months a large precentage of the popualtion found their gear didnt show on them and neither did their underwear.  This is all well and good when you group with topless female barbarians but the naked ogres and trolls were a joy killer.

AC: Died once running by a pack of Jelloes in VOD. WEnt back for a corpse run and died again. 3rd time died again. Was left standing in my underwear at the Lifestone and started bawling. Waited till my brother got home at 5- called him crying and asked him to get my armor off my 3 bodies because he had DSL and I was on dial up AOL LOL! He thought I was joking when I said I had 3 corpses and he couldn't stop laughing when I told him twas the truth! I was age 38 when that happened:)

LoTRO: Hearing a player play "Dust in the Wind" on his lute made me cry. Was so beautiful and he was playing by hand- before they introduced the ABC cheat files for music. Hearing another lady named Elianor play "Tea House Moon" was equally as moving. Sounded like angels in heaven.

AC: Dev was at the PK hill in Ayan and he spawned whatever monsters we asked for! Was SO DANG COOL! DEcember 26, 2006

AC: Standing at our mansion when we lost a member of Alliance in RL back in 2004. We had a funeral and seeing all of us on bended knee in our finest clothing made a strong memory.

AC: Getting the best villa in all the land. I parked a toon at it for a year till it came up available. I was on a mountain top with winding rivers to the left and right. Was stunning!!

Reanimating great thread.

Anyone could name some MMO events that stood out and were very unique. Like that Lord British kill in UO or record sale in Entropia. Always fun to read about such