Amazing Moments

[Atlaworks]

My best moment? Well, that happens when I was doing Bismarck hard for the first time in the story. So this will have heavy story spoilers up to that point.

I was feeling pretty bad what with Haurchefant dying in a cutscene like an hour prior to that. He was like one of my favorite characters, and we all know how important a figure he was- I could go into it, but that's not what this topic is about. I zoned into a df for Bismarck hard, and who was my tank for that pug?

HAURCHEFANT FORTEMPS

but not just anyone named Haurchefant Fortemps. A level 60 paladin who looked exactly like him, had the Of the Silver Fuller title, and drank hot chocolate before the pull. Someone sees him and goes "F**K YOU" because y'know, their best friend just died half an hour ago. But what does our Haurchefant say?

"Oh, do not look at me so. A smile better suits a hero..."

The other tank decides he just can't take this, announces as such, and jumps off the edge of the island. Haurchefant shouts "Look out!" and jumps off after him. Everyone else immediately jumps after him because by now all pretenses of having our crap together are gone. When everyone respawns?

"You... you are unharmed? Forgive me, I could not bear the thought..."

We just could not handle dead best friend NPC coming back half an hour later to fight primals with us. But the icing on the cake?

Haurchefant Fortemps was the best tank I've ever partied with

He called out instructions on the fight in mid-fight because he knew we had new people, cheered everyone on, offered to hold the adds so we could DPS Bismarck ourselves, used proper cooldowns and was easy on the healers, and even operated the dragonkillers when he could, all while he called us friends, and wished us well on our journey even after the fight had ended. I've never had a tank I appreciated more in a duty finder group than Haurchefant Fortemps.

I swore no one would believe me after that. That one instance has damn near changed the tone of the actual story for me. It's like you get to say goodbye to someone you never got to one more time. And even if it's some joker masquerading as our favorite NPC, he's doing a perfect job of it and I appreciate it more than he could ever know.

Man, people are really cool sometimes.

[Lyndis]

Was helping a real life friend clear snowcloak for story. She asked me to go as DPS so I could help her manage damage. I went as black mage which wasn't geared super good but since she was a summoner she liked that we would both be in the back line. We got in a party with another new person and a person who had a little experience. Everything went good until Fenrir.

We were having trouble getting everyone to avoid lunar cry. The healer could not learn to run behind crystals despite multiple tries. On our last attempt everyone except me goes down. I'm alone. I limit break and bring him down to 1%. I can do this! Fenrir drops crystals in preparation of lunar cry. I'm thinking my only hope is to kill him now so it doesn't matter if I dodge lunar cry or not. Fire III goes off, the strongest spell I could think of. He's still at 1%. Lunar cry casting bar is at 90%. I'm going to die. What's the fastest spell I have?! SCATHE. Fenrir dies. Killed Fenrir with 1oo Hp with scathe.

[Gamer3427]

Greatest Experience Ever

My first Bismark run had something similar. I had Godbert freaking Manderville in mine. He looked exactly like him, and we spent a solid five minutes before the run just doing the Manderville dance with him.....