MMO Nostalgia...

[Euramon]

Those were the days. I remember Plane of Fear raids, where you wipe trying to "break" the spawn at the zone in. Then you spend the next 4-5 hours trying to get everyone's equipment back. It was stressful, but I miss the challenge of those types of zones.

The first EverQuest.. back when it launched. Great MMO to cut your teeth on and learn the genre.

Nowadays people wouldnt be able to cope with how that game was set up. They whine now when they have to walk an extra 5 minutes... Imagine dying and all your gear dropping to the ground while you get ported to the nearest city and have to get back to your stuff naked.

So, having lived through that, I can laugh at most of the whiners who come here thinking they've got it "oh so hard".

Pfft, you dont know what hard is.

[Myvar]

World of Warcraft - The Burning Crusade: getting stomped on by a Fel Reaver as a fresh level 60 (or 58).

For something so big, they were surprisingly sneaky.

[Teirshin]

Those were the days. I remember Plane of Fear raids, where you wipe trying to "break" the spawn at the zone in. Then you spend the next 4-5 hours trying to get everyone's equipment back. It was stressful, but I miss the challenge of those types of zones.

I know right???

Planar raids took days sometimes, and if you got a drop, you seriously earned it.

I remember getting the chest piece of my purple cleric set..... last piece of the set. Felt like I'd been through a war to get it.

[Tauu]

I loved being a tele-taxi in FFXI (only WHMs had teles and they could make good gil teleporting people). I'd get to know the regulars and they'd start seeking me out for teles. I'd watch the Lower Jeuno traffic run by. Sometimes a conversation would start in /say chat and we'd end up with a spontaneous group of people sitting around. Good times.

[Euramon]

I was a Magician and finished the 1.0 epic quest.. Getting people to do a raid all the way to the last island of Plane of Air. OMG that was a pain, but it was so cool to have that rod and the pet.

I know right???

Planar raids took days sometimes, and if you got a drop, you seriously earned it.

I remember getting the chest piece of my purple cleric set..... last piece of the set. Felt like I'd been through a war to get it.

[TheUltimate3]

Best Nostalgia Memories: Quoting Han Solo in the cabin of a YT-1300 Freighter in my first flight into space. My six hour trek into Black Rocks Depths from beginning to the end and seeing Shadowforge City for the first time.

[skaterger]

World of Warcraft - The Burning Crusade: getting stomped on by a Fel Reaver as a fresh level 60 (or 58).

For something so big, they were surprisingly sneaky.

Haha, from the horrible screeching sounds it made to the whole screen shaking, it was epic. I disagree they were sneaky though, you could hear them from a mile away, the problem is that sometimes you can't outrun them by the time you know where they are

[Kiara1]

When I played WoW (vanilla) me and a friend I had met online ran around looking for lowbies to gank
Then he finds two lowbies in a zone, they are like 30 levels lower than him.
So I tell him I'm on my way, and he goes "I'm hiding in the sewers" and I don't know why but that is the funniest thing ive ever heard.
I just imagine this super unstoppable hero hiding from two, critters, like rabbits! and I just couldn't stop laughing.

Noone ever finds this story funny but its my greatest memory from an mmo, and im using the quote "im hiding in the sewers" everywhere

[Marael]

Both of my most memorable moments in MMO gaming come from FFXI.

Beating the Chains of Promathia expansion storyline before they nerfed the difficulty felt like actually accomplishing something. The expansion had a great storyline, awesome side characters, and it was hard as balls when most of it was first added to the game. And it was long as hell. It took a lot of time, effort, skill, and trusted friends to work your way through it back then. I still have the screenshots my static took upon winning saved on my comp.

And the day I got my Aegis. For anyone unfamiliar with the relic system in FFXI, let's just say that until recently when older content was made soloable, it was damn hard, expensive, and time consuming to obtain one. This shield basically made any paladin who held one invulnerable. It required nearly 20k ancient currency that dropped from raids that required upwards of 30+ people to do, and maybe ended up with 200ish per run. Could only run twice a week. And on top of the currency grind there were several very, very hard bosses that had to be defeated within those raids, which dropped materials needed. It took me almost three years of dedicated work to finish that shield. My raiding group put all of our currency toward that shield for me and we used the hell out of it over the years that followed. To finally be finished with that, and have that shiney golden shield hanging on my arm, making me impervious to just about all meaningful damage the game could throw at me felt sooooooo good.

[Shyluv]

I have so much nostalgia for FFXI it sometimes makes me feel nauseous. That's probably weird. I miss HNMs and the LS I was in. Until I transfered to Phoenix with some friends to merge with another HNMls, I had tons of fun in XI.

Hearing Ronfaure music hurts.