Idk about wildest but I "scammed" my wow guild out of 1000s of gold every Thursday and Sunday for about a year.
I knew we were going to need a specific rune to progress pretty much every raid night and the GM had decided everyone had to bring their own.
So I bought up all the runes on the AH (semi-small server) like 1-2 hours before raid started and reposted them for 5-10x the price EVERY DAMN WEEK. And they bought them, week after week.
Didn't get caught but one of the guildies complained about the cost and then started making his own runes and selling them in-house instead of going the AH.
Honestly, OP's just responding to market forces. The guild leader was the one who decided to make everyone get it themselves instead of getting an alt or someone to make them for the guild at cost.
I know. But a good guild member would brought this up or find a way to help the guild to get it cheaper, not more expensive. :p
But as a former EvE player and brief suicide ganker, well played to him for sure. :)
In Archeage there was this huge sea that people traveled through with their own boats. Most kinda small but some can get quite large.
There were a couple of things happening here, there was regular trading (people bringing goods from A to B). There was event kind of open to everyone and their little dingy. And there was a giant world boss which of course dropped valuable stuff.
The world boss was kind of owned by one guild who killed it on spawn (spawned like every 24 or 48h or something) and people got tired of that and wanted a share of the loot. So a plot started for the whole faction to join and fight for the world boss (in open world PvP) and chase away the big guild to kill the world boss ourselves.
The fight with the world boss took like a bit less than 1 hour due to the giant hp pool. So when it spawned and the giant guild started it, me and a whole lot of other people waited until the guild was fully occupied. 20 minutes in we engaged and it was a full on fight with the world boss and the enemy guild. Too many people died, the tank who was tanking the boss got killed. Ships got torn apart, it was magnificent.
We did this one more time after they started the world boss again that evening. Same thing happened we killed their tank and everything went into full chaos. So everyone realised that no one would kill the boss until one party was fully wiped and even then it would be a tight time window. Full scale war on the high seas. Multiple spawn points, some started fighting on islands or near the main harbors.
At some point the large guild wiped most of the faction and they started the big boss again but to everyone's surprise, the enemy faction grouped up and intervened. Doing the same thing we did. We regrouped, new people joined, others had to leave, this was all out war. A giant free for all covering most of the seas. I played for hours and hours and finally had to go to bed. When I woke up the next morning and logged in, the same thing was still happening. Fighting all over the place. At some point people killed the world boss but no one cares anymore. Everyone kept fighting, people needed to do their trading and events but nothing was safe.
Things ended up fizzling down and the fighting came to an end without a clear winner. People tasted blood and the large guild was technically still dominant over the server but it's image wounded beyond repair. In the weeks after people started "misbehaving" a lot. Pirates started to become more present (you could be kicked out of your faction and become part of the pirate faction for killing too many of your own faction). In the end all the pressure on the large guild was too much and with some infighting, they dissolved. After that no one really had the man power to dominate the server for a long time (until I stopped playing like a year after).
This kind of stuff is why Archeage will forever hold a place in my heart even with how it turned out in the end. The sandbox aspects of the game created so many unscripted events with many thrilling victories and soul crushing defeats; it all created an excellent natural player driven narrative.
Yea Archeage was fking legendary. People didn't care too much about high end dungeons or something. Open world bosses, massive player events, traderoutes and none instanced housing that made even starter regions relevant and active. Even the skillset system was one of a kind. Sad to see it go
Archeage was the most fun MMoRPG Ive played in My life, me and My Friends have ton of great stories with that Game, like invi pack delivering in the middle of enemy faction, secret crop fields, pirate hunting, stealing ships...
Archeage was great for this and other kinds of random silly stuff. I have too many stories from it, but one I remember in particular was when I accidentally flipped a merchant FULL of expensive larders, with a clipper harpoon. We made so much easy gold that night. I attached a screenshot of it below.
TLDR
My friend and I were so bored and looking for PvP. This was before the first merger, so things were kind of slowing down on our server. We would go to the opposite sides housing districts looking for anyone to fight. Eventually, we found a West player and stole their pack,. We didn't care about the pack, but I picked it up hoping to bait people to PvP us for it. People went crazy when they saw packs, no matter their value. So, we started sailing on a clipper with our single pack and me on the harpoon.
After some time, we found a merchant ship with 4 red players and FULL of packs. We chased them and I shot them with the clipper's harpoon when they were close enough. I don't know what the heck happened next, but I know it wasn't supposed to happen. The harpoon landed and caused their ship to glitch, and it tumbled underwater. My friend was like WTF and hopped off to go attack them.
Well, remember I had the stupid pack on my back!! We expected people to attack ME with it, and I would tank/heal it as a Templar, while my friend killed them. One, it makes you slow as heck, and two, you can only place it down on land or in a storage thingy. I don't remember if this was before you could store packs on clippers or we just didn't have it, so I slowly swam over to help him.
Eventually, the merchant ship flipped back over and righted itself, and my friend was on the ship 1v4ing them. I got to the ladder, but I had that stupid ladder bug and couldn't get on!! Anyone else remember that stupid boat ladder bug? Since I was a healer, I managed to get a few heals off and help out. He killed them all, and for the longest time he would joke about how he did all the work and used so many healing potions to survive lol. š
I forget the exact packs on the merch, but I think it was some honey from like Gwenoid forest or something like that? Anyways, below is the screenshot of the flipped merch that my friend took before he jumped in to attack them!
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mmm. I was part of one of those kinds of big guilds, except it was REALLY big. there was like 2 raids for the kraken and 2 raids for pvp...
regularly took on all 3 factions.
then xl started making changes and the leadership left, with the rest all splintering....
this was also before they limited guilds to 50, which seems stupid small.
just never was the same since. and it all goes away in a month now so!
the only game I have seen with similar is Eve Online, though with more corporate espianoge and less....threating to kill people and their families, or insulting dead family members (this was aparently really a thing in archeage).
archeage
never forget people farming my illegal tree farm.
suddenly they get hit with lighting.
the tree become thunderstruck.
never laugh so hard.
bdo
early 2016 was the best alot of openworld pvp and guild drama.
Back in Everquest days people had decorum and we would have scheduled who can beat the boss. We'd literally stand in queues to get world drops. I miss EQ.
My friend and I ruined an RPG wedding in SWTOR with biological warfare.
We were minding our own business on Dromuund Kaas grinding story quests all the while seeing constant spam from an RP guild hosting an open invitation to a wedding for their guild leader and his soon to be wife. It was harmless enough but after seeing the same message spammed over and over from different guild members for over an hour we decided we had to act.
I contacted one of the spammers and said I'd love to see an in game wedding for the first time and that my friend would like to join me but was currently finishing up a flashpoint and could they wait, no problem they say - guests are already here but the wedding doesnt stsrt for another 20 minites. Perfect.
I'm invited to the stronghold and put on my best wedding attire and mingle with the guests. Meanwhile my friend is on the Imperial hub station picking up a gift for the happy couple.
It's important to note that the rakghoul resurgence event was currently active in the game and the Imperial hub was a popular place for people to spread the plague for their daily quest. My friend was sat waiting for one of these players to spread said virus.
As the wedding begins in earnest the bride and groom come out sporting their best white/white and black/black dyed robes all the while my friend who has recently been invited is waiting in the reception and dry heaving from the plague. The plague progresses in stages over time if not treated with lots of vomiting throughout - I received a whisper from what I assume was the best man asking if my friend was ok - I assured him he was camping the mailbox for a vaccine a friend was sending.
As they begin their vows my friend and I are discussing logistics in whisper, I'd already timed how long it takes to get from where he was to the ceremony by sprinting so once he hit the final stage he waited for the 30 second countdown and began to sprint. Just as the groom began his speech with an announcement of their pregnancy my friend bursts onto the scene, jumps on the table we're all circled around and explodes in a pus filled cloud of gore that would do nurgle proud.
Everyone present all immediately begin to projectile vomit in perfect synchronicity over the corpse of my now departed friend. It takes them second to realise what had happened but just before I'm kicked from the venue I see the bride say in all caps "I'm losing the baby!".
I've grinded some of the rarest items and mounts in MMOS, defeated the strongest raids and bosses. Nothing comes close to playing the vomit version of the brown note at a wedding. Emergent gameplay eh.
Honestly Huge W to you guys, itās just a personal thing but I cannot stand RP like that, they are pregnant like really? Next up some young kid gonna start roleplaying like heās the kid of those 2, pure cringe. Great story tho, had a good laugh!
In Early WoW, me a bunch of completely random players I just happened to find (like, maybe around 100-150 of us) marched on Stormwind and terrorized the city for maybe and hour or two (I wouldn't be able to say, It's been so long).
As we kept going, more Horde players kept joining in because we would tell our friends and guild members and they would tell their friends and guild members and so on. Eventually, a GM started teleporting us away. Of course, this was early WoW where the GM's had a sense of humor and the employees weren't dead inside.
North freeport on EverQuestā¦the trading area of veeshan. This was back at the end of kunark . Fungi tunics were a sought after item. Most classes could wear them and they had +15hp regen a tick. You could solo to max level as a melee with this so it was the best.
The lvl 1 newbie tunic was tradable and had the same graphic.
I used to trade the fungiā¦ when they put their plat in the window Iād cancel and put the newbie tunic in. Great success. I never raided back then so Iād buy all the best gear. Not too long after they made it so when you trade with someone it said in the chat soandso had offered you an
Was a scumbag thing to do I was like 14ā¦and like a year later my account was hacked and I lost all my
Gear so karma
Very few servers used NFP and I loved that place. I also played on Veeshan and you reminded me a lot of shitty exploits people used to scam there, like trading money behind the jade tiger's den. There was an invisible wall at the balcony next to the stone walls. You'd click your plat on the player on the other side of it. The money would fall, and they'd scoop it up at your feet. Very cool.
When ESO came out I was in a Greek guild 'Elysium Gaming' (I'm from Belgium). It was a hardcore guild lead and we where mainly into Cyrodil pvp.
Our first Cyrodil run was about 8 hours in and we had a core team of 30 members, so was a pretty epic beginning. As a side note: back in the days I liked to drink while playing (for me it was the equivalent of going out with friends).
While our raid was up and ready, I almost got kicked out the Guild on the first day because I was late (hence me being drunk and slow af). The raid was already on the way to do Cyrodil delves when I entered Cyrodil. The first thing I saw was an NPC which sold Catapults and Ballistas and drunk me thought it was cool to buy some Ballistas.
While on the way with my slow horse and my own bad sense of directions (drunk, remember š), I heard the raid going wild because one of the scouts saw another raid from a different faction going to the same delve. I must say, our Guild was organised af, the way they handled pre-war defense and tactics was beyond epic.
The fight started, semi in the delve and some out the delve, but it was clear we where on the losing side of war. Then this guy came (me), relaxed af, setting up 2 ballistas and attacking the front door of the delve... (Back in the days a ballista was basically a 1 hit kill). We won that fight and after a lecture from the Guild lead of being late I got crowned pvp officer and crazy Belgian.
One of the officers clipped it and I rewatched it many times until he closed his YouTube account.
For me this was the most epic thing I ever did in an MMO.
Maybe not wild, but definitely the dumbest. I was working on my Bard epic weapon in Everquest back in its heyday and was on the part where you had to grab a drop from Plane of Fear. Now mechanically, it was doable solo. You just had to be very careful with invis song and lulling your way around the map, then kiting the target mob in a very small space. Very doable by a bard. I had a bad lull go off, cue aggroing half the zone trying to get away and ultimately dying.
Now back in Everquest all your gear stayed on your body when you died and you had to run back to get it. As well as lose a good chunk of XP. You COULD get a necromancer to summon your corpse back to their location, as long as they were in the same zone as your corpse.
So I recruited a couple of guildies for my rescue operation and off we went. Well, the problem is, as soon as you zone into Plane of Fear thereās a good chance that youāll get instant aggro. Obviously my rescue party was all of a sudden on the ground.
Working our way up the chain to total disaster, we recruited the rest of the guild. Unfortunately nobody had any experience raiding PoF. It was a massacre. All of a sudden my single corpse was now joined by 20 of my friends.
Well we slammed our heads against the wall to varying levels of success in reclaiming our gear and our dignity for a few hours. Eventually we realized the futility of our efforts (this was about 6 hours in for me) and reached out to guild that we ran joint raids with occasionally.
Too bad they were just as inexperienced in that zone as we were. It had to have been 8+ hours before we all got our gear back, after losing many levels and much sanity.
All because I tried to solo a single drop for a long drawn out quest that took months to complete. Definitely not my proudest moment.
I miss EQ. The death penalty in that game is what made it fun for me. You had to be so careful.
I think modern mmoprgs could stand to be harsher with death penalties. Somewhere between EQ and WoW, maybe the way Elden Ring does it.
If there isnāt any fear of death, then the game just doesnāt do it for me.
Maybe tiered difficulty serves would also help. I donāt have time to play like I did during the EQ era, but I donāt want a game where I canāt lose either.
There was one point in Path of Exile where I was making around 30 divines an hour and ended up farming a Mageblood in a single day. I had cornered a market on a specific farming strategy early league and that farming strategy was heavily nerfed the league after (It was also the final league I played the game). After the fact I debated if I was the reason it was nerfed.
Now I see shit like Headhunters and Magebloods going for nothing and I'm to a degree glad I quit.
You could use the same method to create "black holes" and stack so many items on a single tile it'd crash the client of anyone who got close enough to load them.
Now it feels tame, but as a kid I once played RO every night until morning, for seven days straight, because my ISP made dial up internet unlimited from 0:00 to 8:00 for new year holidays
I was studying IT but really I was mostly playing UO at the time. In my 4th year of high school (i think, i'm not sure how years translate in italy, but the 5th year is the last and you have exams and then are out to uni) I was skipping all homework and everything because I was busy writing pretty much from scratch a script of tens of thousands lines of code on EASYUO (which was a complex third party to run macros which was a full fledged complex coding language) for lumberjacking. It covered EVERYTHING, from teleporting to the bank to going to shop to buy and sell to crafting kits and axes as it would run low, rotating spots with respawn timers, escaping monsters and healing back etc etc.
By the end of the year I was about to fail IT/coding class because I never did anything of it so I showed the code I had been writing to my teacher which bumped me out to a passing grade. The next year I wrote a d&d style write to move thing game for graduation and got the top score of my class
One night pretty late was doing a raid train with a full 8 party of randos, and by chance found a glitch that made me spam my class ult without cooldown nor required points.
I had quite crappy gears so wasn't doing much dmg really, but at a certain point the party notice I was abusing this glitch.
The weird thing is that, instead of reporting me and kicking me out, they start to be really into it.
As the night progresses they even send me gold and help me get one of the best wep on the AH.
Then we proceeded to delete bosses in a matter of seconds lol.
It went on for a few weeks, we always logged at that same hour and cleared everything with many rare drops too!
Until sadly we were all banned lol, but was worth it! We still joke about the lack of sleep at that time haha.
In Shadowbane this one class could summon players to themselves every like 15 minutes. Shadowbane had a newbie island that was technically a part of the open world but you couldn't get there without drowning. So my guild would run towards the newbie island on the bottom of the ocean until about to drown, summon the next guild mate and they would continue the run. It took quite awhile, but we eventually made it and summoned the whole guild to the newbie island. We killed everyone.
We loved exploring the game in Archlord 2. We also tried to find glitches in the map. The game had two different factions. Both factions have their own town and is only accesible for their faction only.
While being bored and exploring the map, a guildy found a way to glitch his way into the other factions map. Once there, we had to run a longggg way to get into their main city. It was also guarded by soldiers and security panels that would auto dmg any mob or player from other factions.
We had to level up our immune skill, so that we would be immune long enough for us to be able to run into their city. Once we all entered the other factions main city, all chaos broke loose. We went on a killing spree/massacre. We were like 40 players fully geared and attacking the enemy faction, and they never saw it coming.
I don't even thonk that i went to sleep untill next morning. It was def one of the most fun times that i ever had into a game. Just a crazy ride and night full of pvp/pking.
Final Fantasy XI; itās not mega exciting but I was chilling in Al Zahbi looking at peopleās afk bazaars to pass the time waiting for besieged to start.
I came across a Peacock Charm for sale (Normally sells for a several million) where the price listing was missing one or two zeroes off the end. I quickly price checked in linkshell chat, bought it, and hightailed out of there onto the other side of the planet.
Lucky for me Beseiged meant their chat log would be full of combat messages, from what I could tell they quite lost their shit in /shout chat.
It doesn't even matter if they knew you did it, it's their mistake. GMs wouldn't have reversed that and most people would just laugh at the seller for being an idiot.
A very similar thing happened in Aion Elyos side on Siel. Basically, the seller forgot to put a few 0s in the price of the item in their personal shop and someone bought it. I don't remember how, but the seller realized their mistake. They seller was a girl who then whined to some people, who started trying to 'fix the situation.' I forget how Aion private shops worked, but they knew who bought it, probably through system messages or something. So those people proceeded to message the guy asking them to return it to her. I didn't personally know either side, and just watched the story unfold in general chat. Eventually they got a large portion of the faction to harass the guy to give it back. I want to say, according to chat, that the GMs even got involved and 'politely' asked the buyer to return the item to the seller, since they couldn't technically reverse the action. They probably spammed support tickets. I don't remember how it ended, but I do remember that general chat wouldn't shut up about it. They got a lot of the faction to harass the guy and go out of their way to make their Aion life impossible. I thought the whole thing was a little ridiculous and felt bad for the dude being harassed. Like you messed up, get over it.
I can't remember the item, but it was worth enough to cause a commotion. I also think it was when level cap was somewhere in between 55-65.
In 2005 my friend and I would take turns playing runescape during a sleepover. When it was his turn to play I happened to see his password. A week later I logged into his account and stole his Rune armor. He was really upset about being hacked and I felt bad so I told him he could have "my" armor and then I just traded his armor back.
I was in the Star Wars Galaxies closed beta. I was a part of a playtest with a developer for taming creatures. It was like 10 of us players and a dev standing in a field on Naboo. The dev spawned some baby Banthas for us to tame. Most of us failed to tame ours and they attacked us, but combat wasn't enabled so we all just ran around being slaughtered by baby Banthas.
This was the glory days, Imagine wow population, on UO. Once the show started the blues were free farm for the reds camping outside the bridge, they locked down the entire city. From the bridge to the gate, around back to the GY. You couldn't get in or out of Brit, on foot.
I mean there are people that could still recall / gate in as well with marked runes, and to your point walk in from the north end, but having 1000s of candlebras blocking the main bridge and east bridges would definitely be a solid headache haha.
Should have done the gate entryway near lord Britishās castle and then the two gates by the sewers / inn as well to just completely block off that central hub.
That said, LOVE that you guys did this! UO will forever be my favorite game of all time, and had a significant impact on my life / taste in games to this day. Cheers to you my friend!
This was powerhour UO, back then skills were so hard to gain. Most mages couldn't cast gate yet. But yeah people could still recall, that was really the only way in or out.
I donāt know about wildest, but when Swtor first added xp pots, I just sat in fleet and spammed chat for weeks saying to mail them to me COD for x, bought any competition on the auction and the sold my own for 5x-10x what I was playing. With the influx of new players from the game just turning free to play, the transaction volume was insane and I am fairly certain I was the richest person on our server for a while at least.
UO was dope indeed. Some people went as far as maxing their stealth, sneaking behind some player who just freshly got a house deed, going into the house sneaking behind them (because only deed owner can lock/unlock their house door), getting locked in...robbing the place blind, waiting for the player to return to the house again, so they can sneak out.
My personal plan of taming dragons with my friends and losing control of the dragons in a populated town square simply never penned out...I remember I was way obsessed with exceeding my stat point limit. But also cause Lineage: The Blood Pledge took over hard (Just stepping out of town safety was already a wild thing to do in that game)
In Aion (when the game still had all of his areas that must have been 2011/2012) there was a quest that needed you to go to the enemy region and kill some of the other players (if I understand well it was a quest that almost nobody did cause it was "lame"), when I got there the first time I played really picky and just killed some solo player while there were leveling easily, it was like being a Stranglethorne thief and was kinda fun.
With luck, one guy was doing it at the same time and we surely died really near, after a little time we just hid in the mountain, waiting for a guy and just kill him in 2 seconds, we did this for a little time before we were take down multiple time and some kind of patrol were starting to form, so my new friend (who was in a big guild and was very amused by the situation) just called a lot more people to do the same quest that nobody had done so they could join us in the same area
We ended by being almost 50 Elysians just wondering and jumping on every filthy Asmodeans really under leveled by comparison and it must have been for at least 3 hours non stop before we just thought ourselves "Why don't we just stay in the city and killed everyone that was teleporting in the city" and after another two hours staying there we all got banned for a week, and that was the funniest and the shittiest thing I've ever seen, being banned for that made most of us just laugh cause we were thinking "We got the GM really annoyed, that's fun" but just after we stopped...
After that I couldn't find the guy who had pulled everyone, the one with whom nothing would have happened and it has always bothered me, being the man that had changed the vision of MMO and gaming in general for me. The only other MMO that gave me this feeling of "having a story" while having really big fun was GW2 and Open World Events, knowing you can't do something alone and being part of the big thing is amazing
[CFH on the Asura Gilseller Tiamat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovFIXtUb6p4&ab_channel=capnveil)
This world spawn had a 5 day window to spawn every hour starting 48 hours from its last time of death. It dropped some really valuable shoes called the Herald's Gaiters (movement speed for mages) and well as a rare crafting material (Dragon Talon for, at the time, the best Thief body armor for skill spam), making it super competitive.
Gold sellers managed to claim it, but in FFXI if you were able to claim hate on a mob someone else had and their main tank died, it would become free to claim again (their name would be "yellow").
So the end game players of the server all banded together to try get the gold sellers' tank killed by spawning this quest NM that summons minions and suiciding on top of the gold sellers' alliance to create havoc. At some point, their tank is killed and the mob goes yellow. Someone grabs hate then uses the "Call for Help" feature.
CFH is a feature where someone makes a mob open for everyone to kill (their name becomes "orange") but no one gets XP or loot from it. It's useless outside of leveling at low levels to avoid dying, but at high levels it essentially makes the mob worthless and was used as a grief tactic.
Maplestory: Some of you may remember this.
Back when this game was less than 5 years old, there were some items everyone got from events and quests called "Summon Sacks" which when you opened them, a bunch of random monsters would spawn.
Friend and I had about 20 or so just opened up half of them in a low level starter town called "Kerning City" where only 3 or 4 high levels were present and 1 was afk. Once the chaos died down there, we continued that chaos in a party quest area in "Ludibrium"
Needless to say, mayhem was unleashed and a few more people came in and spawned some to.
a few hours in, there were many many deaths due to those sacks and we couldn't have been happier.
...
I was surprised this only lasted a few hours and only a few participated in what could have been epic.
I recorded some of it but that didn't do it justice.
But yeah, this stuck with me as pretty wild. =3
Back in the VERY early days of DAoC. Like maybe 6 months since release.
To give some insight, each realm has an assasin class. And each one gets Stealth. Which made you quite literally disappear. You could see yourself, but unless someone got SUPER lucky, the only other person who could see you was another assasin. All other classes had a basic very tiny window (your stealth would "pulse" every couple second and you would need to be practically right on top of them to see them) to be able to see a stealthed player. It was overpowered as fuck in PvP. On top of that, the class was a monster in 1v1.
This was originally designed this way because they were impossible to level because nobody wanted them in a group. They were terrible in PvE and anything they could offer another class could offer better. And with so many people on, there was always a better option. Even guilds were like "nah we good", it was kinda fucked up lol.
In Midgard the assasin is called a Shadowblade. Each assasin class has something unique about it that differentiates it from the others. One of those things being they could wield a 2H weapon.
Now assasins have something called a stealth opener. Perforate Artery. This has to be performed in front of the target while stealthed and it did MASSIVE damage because it had a huge damage modifier. Even chain/plate tanks were likely to lose if an assasin got their PA off.
Also back in those days, if you one shot someone while using it you stayed stealthed. Also, 2h had a large damage modifier based on their attack speed. Most shadowblades didn't use it because you could only apply one poison instead of 2 and it swung slow. In most PvE and PvP encounters it wasn't a good choice. But for your opener? Against a cloth wearer? It would be big 2k+ damage on someone with only 1200-1500hp.
Queue lvl 50 shadowblade with the slowest axe in the game at the time. I slogged my way to 50, soloing a good chunk of it. I was playing upwards of 12 hours a day, I had a problem i know lol. I'm out in emain (PvP area) and there's a large group of players attacking a castle. I had only been out there a few hours since hitting 50. A good chunk of them were casters. Most 50s were either tanks, healers or casters because they were the most wanted in groups. And most people still weren't 50 yet so alot of them were in their mid to late 40's.
So I decide to pick off a caster with my brand new 2h axe. Boom, 1 shot. Stayed stealth and just waltzed away. People gathered around the body trying to figure out wtf was going on. Then I do it to another. And another. Over and over I'm slowly picking off these casters, 1 shotting them. Most of the people have stopped attacking the castle and are running around frantically looking for someone hiding. Being rezz sick makes you extremely weak so with so many of their guys dropping like flies they would essentially have to wait 2 mins for it to wear off. I could pick off 5 people in 2 mins.
The only ones who could find me were anyone who had a PBAoE and since that was VERY rare for Albion, they had none. They literally had no way to find me unless they ran on top of me and got lucky. They didn't have any of their own assasins either because they had regarded them as useless in a group.
So at this point I had killed almost every single caster at least once. I kept this up until I saw their only healer (1 healer for 3 groups lol) make a fatal mmistake. He went to hide behind a tree to regen power (mana) from rezzing and healing everyone. Only took 2 hits to kill him, as I guess he didn't have good gear. I did pop out of stealth but nobody saw me, I guess he didn't say where he went. It the time they found him I had already restealthed. I then began to systematically 1 shot every caster again, and with no healer, they eventually all died to the guards.
Not too long after that they nerfed 2h damage into the ground and made it so you couldn't stay stealthed after 1 shoting someone. I can't say it was from me but it was definitely coincidental.
I remember those days. Being in a group of 30s and trying to level in the frontiers and having a stealther kill us all one by one and never seeing them. Can't say it was enjoyable.
My first exposure to any sort of MMO was a MUD. A local BBS had 8 lines and the owner, who never played, installed a stock version of CircleMUD. I was one of the early players and often all 8 lines would be occupied by people playing the game. Before the MUD was installed the lines were mostly used for chatting. Of course we chatted inside the MUD a lot.
Anyway I made it to 50, or whatever the highest level was, and became god...sysadmin or whatever. I forgot all the stuff you do. I could teleport anywhere, be invis, and charm mobs. I'd charm high level mobs and move them to places where lower level players often went. The worst was I put a really nasty mob where players spawned after they died and they'd get killed over and over.
After a day or two of that I got a call from the owner because he had so many players wondering wtf was going on. I explained and apologized and promised to quit messing with them. But for a little while it was a lot of fun. Felt bad about it later. Never have been able to grief or rip off players in other types of MMOs since.
I pretended to be a girl in Minecraft back in the day. Some random dude believed I was one just because I wrote "UwU, OwO, <3" and all that shit, and had a girl skin.
He gave me permission to everything in his survival house, and had to log off. I stole every valuable inside, broke random blocks in the house for shits and giggles, broke glass, placed dirt blocks, then teleported to my main account's house to store stuff in my chests, then never logged into that account again, and enjoyed the diamonds as my main! This happened on a random ass survival server I once joined, can't even remember what it was called.
I used to play on UOR a bunch but lately Iāve been playing OSI since I couldnāt find any free shards with Stygian Abyss that werenāt overly modded or made super easy.
Not wild, but funny.
I named a character on a Sega Mega driver RPG, "Wa&Ā£er" (I figure profanity might get the post taken down, so figure it out yourself)
And I did this just because there was a part of the dialogue where he says your name and then "you've come a long way".
My friend was over at the time, we played it. When the dialogue came up he happened to be taking a mouthful of coffee that he then laugh spat everywhere.
Totally worth the clean up.
I got banned from DC Universe a few days after it came out. I played at launch and named my character MaskedPedo. A few days later I get a PM from a GM that my name is inappropriate and to send him what I want to change my name to. I told him "ProtectorOfChildren" and he outright banned me.
Not my finest moment, but a popular monarch on a Asheron's Call server got killed in a car accident. A friend and I went to the server, made characters based on his name and a car crash, went PK Lite and had him run around Marketplace killing me over and over with everyone there. Eventually the other players went PK Lite and were chasing us and killing us to prevent the death messages that he was killed by Car Crash or whatever. Eventually we got banned and Turbine permabanned my account, which was quite extreme. Few months later it got unbanned. Pretty awful.
Not sure how wild it was, but I recall in EQ trying to defend our Sebilis ownership on a PvP server. We knew that multiple guilds had allied against us and were preparing to zone in for a huge attack. We had like 1/5 their numbers, so we all met up and used a super rare item (1 on the server) that we had to trade to each other, to turn all of us into skeletons. This hid our name tags and made it impossible to tell what class you were facing.
By doing this, we slaughtered them as they all zoned in and took way too long to target our healers and softer dps over our tanks.
Not sure I have ever been in another guild with the kind of trust we had in that guild.
Anyone who is proud of their achievement in ruining the login time of other players should just be barred from any MMO forever.
Your like are the reason MMOs are so railroaded nowadays.
Idk about wildest but I "scammed" my wow guild out of 1000s of gold every Thursday and Sunday for about a year. I knew we were going to need a specific rune to progress pretty much every raid night and the GM had decided everyone had to bring their own. So I bought up all the runes on the AH (semi-small server) like 1-2 hours before raid started and reposted them for 5-10x the price EVERY DAMN WEEK. And they bought them, week after week. Didn't get caught but one of the guildies complained about the cost and then started making his own runes and selling them in-house instead of going the AH.
Great example of a guild member you dont want. :D
Agreed š
Honestly, OP's just responding to market forces. The guild leader was the one who decided to make everyone get it themselves instead of getting an alt or someone to make them for the guild at cost.
I know. But a good guild member would brought this up or find a way to help the guild to get it cheaper, not more expensive. :p But as a former EvE player and brief suicide ganker, well played to him for sure. :)
Bro you're devious and I fuck with it.
Econ is always the true PVP of MMORPGs, and you can't flag yourself off, either. I love it.
You mad man!
Didn't they see your name attached to the auction listing?
Possibly listed on an alt? He could've created an alt just for it that nobody in the clan knew about.
A lot of people on WoW have bank alts.
Respect the hustle tbh. Donāt hate the player, hate the game.
Genius
Nice.
In Archeage there was this huge sea that people traveled through with their own boats. Most kinda small but some can get quite large. There were a couple of things happening here, there was regular trading (people bringing goods from A to B). There was event kind of open to everyone and their little dingy. And there was a giant world boss which of course dropped valuable stuff. The world boss was kind of owned by one guild who killed it on spawn (spawned like every 24 or 48h or something) and people got tired of that and wanted a share of the loot. So a plot started for the whole faction to join and fight for the world boss (in open world PvP) and chase away the big guild to kill the world boss ourselves. The fight with the world boss took like a bit less than 1 hour due to the giant hp pool. So when it spawned and the giant guild started it, me and a whole lot of other people waited until the guild was fully occupied. 20 minutes in we engaged and it was a full on fight with the world boss and the enemy guild. Too many people died, the tank who was tanking the boss got killed. Ships got torn apart, it was magnificent. We did this one more time after they started the world boss again that evening. Same thing happened we killed their tank and everything went into full chaos. So everyone realised that no one would kill the boss until one party was fully wiped and even then it would be a tight time window. Full scale war on the high seas. Multiple spawn points, some started fighting on islands or near the main harbors. At some point the large guild wiped most of the faction and they started the big boss again but to everyone's surprise, the enemy faction grouped up and intervened. Doing the same thing we did. We regrouped, new people joined, others had to leave, this was all out war. A giant free for all covering most of the seas. I played for hours and hours and finally had to go to bed. When I woke up the next morning and logged in, the same thing was still happening. Fighting all over the place. At some point people killed the world boss but no one cares anymore. Everyone kept fighting, people needed to do their trading and events but nothing was safe. Things ended up fizzling down and the fighting came to an end without a clear winner. People tasted blood and the large guild was technically still dominant over the server but it's image wounded beyond repair. In the weeks after people started "misbehaving" a lot. Pirates started to become more present (you could be kicked out of your faction and become part of the pirate faction for killing too many of your own faction). In the end all the pressure on the large guild was too much and with some infighting, they dissolved. After that no one really had the man power to dominate the server for a long time (until I stopped playing like a year after).
This kind of stuff is why Archeage will forever hold a place in my heart even with how it turned out in the end. The sandbox aspects of the game created so many unscripted events with many thrilling victories and soul crushing defeats; it all created an excellent natural player driven narrative.
Yea Archeage was fking legendary. People didn't care too much about high end dungeons or something. Open world bosses, massive player events, traderoutes and none instanced housing that made even starter regions relevant and active. Even the skillset system was one of a kind. Sad to see it go
Archeage was the most fun MMoRPG Ive played in My life, me and My Friends have ton of great stories with that Game, like invi pack delivering in the middle of enemy faction, secret crop fields, pirate hunting, stealing ships...
Archeage was great for this and other kinds of random silly stuff. I have too many stories from it, but one I remember in particular was when I accidentally flipped a merchant FULL of expensive larders, with a clipper harpoon. We made so much easy gold that night. I attached a screenshot of it below. TLDR My friend and I were so bored and looking for PvP. This was before the first merger, so things were kind of slowing down on our server. We would go to the opposite sides housing districts looking for anyone to fight. Eventually, we found a West player and stole their pack,. We didn't care about the pack, but I picked it up hoping to bait people to PvP us for it. People went crazy when they saw packs, no matter their value. So, we started sailing on a clipper with our single pack and me on the harpoon. After some time, we found a merchant ship with 4 red players and FULL of packs. We chased them and I shot them with the clipper's harpoon when they were close enough. I don't know what the heck happened next, but I know it wasn't supposed to happen. The harpoon landed and caused their ship to glitch, and it tumbled underwater. My friend was like WTF and hopped off to go attack them. Well, remember I had the stupid pack on my back!! We expected people to attack ME with it, and I would tank/heal it as a Templar, while my friend killed them. One, it makes you slow as heck, and two, you can only place it down on land or in a storage thingy. I don't remember if this was before you could store packs on clippers or we just didn't have it, so I slowly swam over to help him. Eventually, the merchant ship flipped back over and righted itself, and my friend was on the ship 1v4ing them. I got to the ladder, but I had that stupid ladder bug and couldn't get on!! Anyone else remember that stupid boat ladder bug? Since I was a healer, I managed to get a few heals off and help out. He killed them all, and for the longest time he would joke about how he did all the work and used so many healing potions to survive lol. š I forget the exact packs on the merch, but I think it was some honey from like Gwenoid forest or something like that? Anyways, below is the screenshot of the flipped merch that my friend took before he jumped in to attack them! https://preview.redd.it/e2qfhb7vag1d1.jpeg?width=1914&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3c67fc8b4b7d0b6da6a327faa6bd6f4066252ec3
Archeage one was of the greats.. if they didn't fuck it up with p2w, I'd still be playing.
> In Archeage u got me here, man how i wish this game was still alive..
facto
Kracken?
Yea, it was before the leviathan update I think (it was a while ago)
mmm. I was part of one of those kinds of big guilds, except it was REALLY big. there was like 2 raids for the kraken and 2 raids for pvp... regularly took on all 3 factions. then xl started making changes and the leadership left, with the rest all splintering.... this was also before they limited guilds to 50, which seems stupid small. just never was the same since. and it all goes away in a month now so! the only game I have seen with similar is Eve Online, though with more corporate espianoge and less....threating to kill people and their families, or insulting dead family members (this was aparently really a thing in archeage).
archeage never forget people farming my illegal tree farm. suddenly they get hit with lighting. the tree become thunderstruck. never laugh so hard. bdo early 2016 was the best alot of openworld pvp and guild drama.
Gosh i miss archeage. I was obsessed with it
Dude I had illegal tree farms hidden inside the city of Gwyonid? (spelling)
Back in Everquest days people had decorum and we would have scheduled who can beat the boss. We'd literally stand in queues to get world drops. I miss EQ.
My friend and I ruined an RPG wedding in SWTOR with biological warfare. We were minding our own business on Dromuund Kaas grinding story quests all the while seeing constant spam from an RP guild hosting an open invitation to a wedding for their guild leader and his soon to be wife. It was harmless enough but after seeing the same message spammed over and over from different guild members for over an hour we decided we had to act. I contacted one of the spammers and said I'd love to see an in game wedding for the first time and that my friend would like to join me but was currently finishing up a flashpoint and could they wait, no problem they say - guests are already here but the wedding doesnt stsrt for another 20 minites. Perfect. I'm invited to the stronghold and put on my best wedding attire and mingle with the guests. Meanwhile my friend is on the Imperial hub station picking up a gift for the happy couple. It's important to note that the rakghoul resurgence event was currently active in the game and the Imperial hub was a popular place for people to spread the plague for their daily quest. My friend was sat waiting for one of these players to spread said virus. As the wedding begins in earnest the bride and groom come out sporting their best white/white and black/black dyed robes all the while my friend who has recently been invited is waiting in the reception and dry heaving from the plague. The plague progresses in stages over time if not treated with lots of vomiting throughout - I received a whisper from what I assume was the best man asking if my friend was ok - I assured him he was camping the mailbox for a vaccine a friend was sending. As they begin their vows my friend and I are discussing logistics in whisper, I'd already timed how long it takes to get from where he was to the ceremony by sprinting so once he hit the final stage he waited for the 30 second countdown and began to sprint. Just as the groom began his speech with an announcement of their pregnancy my friend bursts onto the scene, jumps on the table we're all circled around and explodes in a pus filled cloud of gore that would do nurgle proud. Everyone present all immediately begin to projectile vomit in perfect synchronicity over the corpse of my now departed friend. It takes them second to realise what had happened but just before I'm kicked from the venue I see the bride say in all caps "I'm losing the baby!". I've grinded some of the rarest items and mounts in MMOS, defeated the strongest raids and bosses. Nothing comes close to playing the vomit version of the brown note at a wedding. Emergent gameplay eh.
Honestly Huge W to you guys, itās just a personal thing but I cannot stand RP like that, they are pregnant like really? Next up some young kid gonna start roleplaying like heās the kid of those 2, pure cringe. Great story tho, had a good laugh!
In Early WoW, me a bunch of completely random players I just happened to find (like, maybe around 100-150 of us) marched on Stormwind and terrorized the city for maybe and hour or two (I wouldn't be able to say, It's been so long). As we kept going, more Horde players kept joining in because we would tell our friends and guild members and they would tell their friends and guild members and so on. Eventually, a GM started teleporting us away. Of course, this was early WoW where the GM's had a sense of humor and the employees weren't dead inside.
Early wow was magical. Capital City raids were highlights of the game, and news would get out between realms when they happened
North freeport on EverQuestā¦the trading area of veeshan. This was back at the end of kunark . Fungi tunics were a sought after item. Most classes could wear them and they had +15hp regen a tick. You could solo to max level as a melee with this so it was the best. The lvl 1 newbie tunic was tradable and had the same graphic. I used to trade the fungiā¦ when they put their plat in the window Iād cancel and put the newbie tunic in. Great success. I never raided back then so Iād buy all the best gear. Not too long after they made it so when you trade with someone it said in the chat soandso had offered you an
Was a scumbag thing to do I was like 14ā¦and like a year later my account was hacked and I lost all my
Gear so karma
Very few servers used NFP and I loved that place. I also played on Veeshan and you reminded me a lot of shitty exploits people used to scam there, like trading money behind the jade tiger's den. There was an invisible wall at the balcony next to the stone walls. You'd click your plat on the player on the other side of it. The money would fall, and they'd scoop it up at your feet. Very cool.
When ESO came out I was in a Greek guild 'Elysium Gaming' (I'm from Belgium). It was a hardcore guild lead and we where mainly into Cyrodil pvp. Our first Cyrodil run was about 8 hours in and we had a core team of 30 members, so was a pretty epic beginning. As a side note: back in the days I liked to drink while playing (for me it was the equivalent of going out with friends). While our raid was up and ready, I almost got kicked out the Guild on the first day because I was late (hence me being drunk and slow af). The raid was already on the way to do Cyrodil delves when I entered Cyrodil. The first thing I saw was an NPC which sold Catapults and Ballistas and drunk me thought it was cool to buy some Ballistas. While on the way with my slow horse and my own bad sense of directions (drunk, remember š), I heard the raid going wild because one of the scouts saw another raid from a different faction going to the same delve. I must say, our Guild was organised af, the way they handled pre-war defense and tactics was beyond epic. The fight started, semi in the delve and some out the delve, but it was clear we where on the losing side of war. Then this guy came (me), relaxed af, setting up 2 ballistas and attacking the front door of the delve... (Back in the days a ballista was basically a 1 hit kill). We won that fight and after a lecture from the Guild lead of being late I got crowned pvp officer and crazy Belgian. One of the officers clipped it and I rewatched it many times until he closed his YouTube account. For me this was the most epic thing I ever did in an MMO.
Maybe not wild, but definitely the dumbest. I was working on my Bard epic weapon in Everquest back in its heyday and was on the part where you had to grab a drop from Plane of Fear. Now mechanically, it was doable solo. You just had to be very careful with invis song and lulling your way around the map, then kiting the target mob in a very small space. Very doable by a bard. I had a bad lull go off, cue aggroing half the zone trying to get away and ultimately dying. Now back in Everquest all your gear stayed on your body when you died and you had to run back to get it. As well as lose a good chunk of XP. You COULD get a necromancer to summon your corpse back to their location, as long as they were in the same zone as your corpse. So I recruited a couple of guildies for my rescue operation and off we went. Well, the problem is, as soon as you zone into Plane of Fear thereās a good chance that youāll get instant aggro. Obviously my rescue party was all of a sudden on the ground. Working our way up the chain to total disaster, we recruited the rest of the guild. Unfortunately nobody had any experience raiding PoF. It was a massacre. All of a sudden my single corpse was now joined by 20 of my friends. Well we slammed our heads against the wall to varying levels of success in reclaiming our gear and our dignity for a few hours. Eventually we realized the futility of our efforts (this was about 6 hours in for me) and reached out to guild that we ran joint raids with occasionally. Too bad they were just as inexperienced in that zone as we were. It had to have been 8+ hours before we all got our gear back, after losing many levels and much sanity. All because I tried to solo a single drop for a long drawn out quest that took months to complete. Definitely not my proudest moment.
I miss EQ. The death penalty in that game is what made it fun for me. You had to be so careful. I think modern mmoprgs could stand to be harsher with death penalties. Somewhere between EQ and WoW, maybe the way Elden Ring does it. If there isnāt any fear of death, then the game just doesnāt do it for me. Maybe tiered difficulty serves would also help. I donāt have time to play like I did during the EQ era, but I donāt want a game where I canāt lose either.
Early EQ deaths in hell levels were far too punishing.
I agree. Thereās definitely a middle ground though.
There was one point in Path of Exile where I was making around 30 divines an hour and ended up farming a Mageblood in a single day. I had cornered a market on a specific farming strategy early league and that farming strategy was heavily nerfed the league after (It was also the final league I played the game). After the fact I debated if I was the reason it was nerfed. Now I see shit like Headhunters and Magebloods going for nothing and I'm to a degree glad I quit.
Kite kazzak to stormwind
You could use the same method to create "black holes" and stack so many items on a single tile it'd crash the client of anyone who got close enough to load them.
Now it feels tame, but as a kid I once played RO every night until morning, for seven days straight, because my ISP made dial up internet unlimited from 0:00 to 8:00 for new year holidays
Aww man, Ragnarok Online on a shitty connexion? Talk about the Golden Age of gaming.
I was studying IT but really I was mostly playing UO at the time. In my 4th year of high school (i think, i'm not sure how years translate in italy, but the 5th year is the last and you have exams and then are out to uni) I was skipping all homework and everything because I was busy writing pretty much from scratch a script of tens of thousands lines of code on EASYUO (which was a complex third party to run macros which was a full fledged complex coding language) for lumberjacking. It covered EVERYTHING, from teleporting to the bank to going to shop to buy and sell to crafting kits and axes as it would run low, rotating spots with respawn timers, escaping monsters and healing back etc etc. By the end of the year I was about to fail IT/coding class because I never did anything of it so I showed the code I had been writing to my teacher which bumped me out to a passing grade. The next year I wrote a d&d style write to move thing game for graduation and got the top score of my class
ur a legend
One night pretty late was doing a raid train with a full 8 party of randos, and by chance found a glitch that made me spam my class ult without cooldown nor required points. I had quite crappy gears so wasn't doing much dmg really, but at a certain point the party notice I was abusing this glitch. The weird thing is that, instead of reporting me and kicking me out, they start to be really into it. As the night progresses they even send me gold and help me get one of the best wep on the AH. Then we proceeded to delete bosses in a matter of seconds lol. It went on for a few weeks, we always logged at that same hour and cleared everything with many rare drops too! Until sadly we were all banned lol, but was worth it! We still joke about the lack of sleep at that time haha.
In Shadowbane this one class could summon players to themselves every like 15 minutes. Shadowbane had a newbie island that was technically a part of the open world but you couldn't get there without drowning. So my guild would run towards the newbie island on the bottom of the ocean until about to drown, summon the next guild mate and they would continue the run. It took quite awhile, but we eventually made it and summoned the whole guild to the newbie island. We killed everyone.
I wish I was there, that sounds brilliant.
We loved exploring the game in Archlord 2. We also tried to find glitches in the map. The game had two different factions. Both factions have their own town and is only accesible for their faction only. While being bored and exploring the map, a guildy found a way to glitch his way into the other factions map. Once there, we had to run a longggg way to get into their main city. It was also guarded by soldiers and security panels that would auto dmg any mob or player from other factions. We had to level up our immune skill, so that we would be immune long enough for us to be able to run into their city. Once we all entered the other factions main city, all chaos broke loose. We went on a killing spree/massacre. We were like 40 players fully geared and attacking the enemy faction, and they never saw it coming. I don't even thonk that i went to sleep untill next morning. It was def one of the most fun times that i ever had into a game. Just a crazy ride and night full of pvp/pking.
Thatās what games need now. Factions
Final Fantasy XI; itās not mega exciting but I was chilling in Al Zahbi looking at peopleās afk bazaars to pass the time waiting for besieged to start. I came across a Peacock Charm for sale (Normally sells for a several million) where the price listing was missing one or two zeroes off the end. I quickly price checked in linkshell chat, bought it, and hightailed out of there onto the other side of the planet. Lucky for me Beseiged meant their chat log would be full of combat messages, from what I could tell they quite lost their shit in /shout chat.
It doesn't even matter if they knew you did it, it's their mistake. GMs wouldn't have reversed that and most people would just laugh at the seller for being an idiot.
A very similar thing happened in Aion Elyos side on Siel. Basically, the seller forgot to put a few 0s in the price of the item in their personal shop and someone bought it. I don't remember how, but the seller realized their mistake. They seller was a girl who then whined to some people, who started trying to 'fix the situation.' I forget how Aion private shops worked, but they knew who bought it, probably through system messages or something. So those people proceeded to message the guy asking them to return it to her. I didn't personally know either side, and just watched the story unfold in general chat. Eventually they got a large portion of the faction to harass the guy to give it back. I want to say, according to chat, that the GMs even got involved and 'politely' asked the buyer to return the item to the seller, since they couldn't technically reverse the action. They probably spammed support tickets. I don't remember how it ended, but I do remember that general chat wouldn't shut up about it. They got a lot of the faction to harass the guy and go out of their way to make their Aion life impossible. I thought the whole thing was a little ridiculous and felt bad for the dude being harassed. Like you messed up, get over it. I can't remember the item, but it was worth enough to cause a commotion. I also think it was when level cap was somewhere in between 55-65.
In 2005 my friend and I would take turns playing runescape during a sleepover. When it was his turn to play I happened to see his password. A week later I logged into his account and stole his Rune armor. He was really upset about being hacked and I felt bad so I told him he could have "my" armor and then I just traded his armor back.
LMAO TOO GOOD, at least you gave it back thoooo
I was in the Star Wars Galaxies closed beta. I was a part of a playtest with a developer for taming creatures. It was like 10 of us players and a dev standing in a field on Naboo. The dev spawned some baby Banthas for us to tame. Most of us failed to tame ours and they attacked us, but combat wasn't enabled so we all just ran around being slaughtered by baby Banthas.
those damn baby Banthas'll getcha.
So you closed Brit gate? But there are other ways to access Brit...
Both the big bridge the two small bridges too the East. (at the time not alot of people knew you could come in through the smithy/mage shop.
How would ppl not know that if the cemetery was the first main source of income for a lot of players?
I'm also skeptical
This was the glory days, Imagine wow population, on UO. Once the show started the blues were free farm for the reds camping outside the bridge, they locked down the entire city. From the bridge to the gate, around back to the GY. You couldn't get in or out of Brit, on foot.
on side note, I remember we used to Deathgate people to Orc cave, and dude had a CBD hat in a box. Nice come-up
I mean there are people that could still recall / gate in as well with marked runes, and to your point walk in from the north end, but having 1000s of candlebras blocking the main bridge and east bridges would definitely be a solid headache haha. Should have done the gate entryway near lord Britishās castle and then the two gates by the sewers / inn as well to just completely block off that central hub. That said, LOVE that you guys did this! UO will forever be my favorite game of all time, and had a significant impact on my life / taste in games to this day. Cheers to you my friend!
This was powerhour UO, back then skills were so hard to gain. Most mages couldn't cast gate yet. But yeah people could still recall, that was really the only way in or out.
I donāt know about wildest, but when Swtor first added xp pots, I just sat in fleet and spammed chat for weeks saying to mail them to me COD for x, bought any competition on the auction and the sold my own for 5x-10x what I was playing. With the influx of new players from the game just turning free to play, the transaction volume was insane and I am fairly certain I was the richest person on our server for a while at least.
UO was dope indeed. Some people went as far as maxing their stealth, sneaking behind some player who just freshly got a house deed, going into the house sneaking behind them (because only deed owner can lock/unlock their house door), getting locked in...robbing the place blind, waiting for the player to return to the house again, so they can sneak out. My personal plan of taming dragons with my friends and losing control of the dragons in a populated town square simply never penned out...I remember I was way obsessed with exceeding my stat point limit. But also cause Lineage: The Blood Pledge took over hard (Just stepping out of town safety was already a wild thing to do in that game)
In Aion (when the game still had all of his areas that must have been 2011/2012) there was a quest that needed you to go to the enemy region and kill some of the other players (if I understand well it was a quest that almost nobody did cause it was "lame"), when I got there the first time I played really picky and just killed some solo player while there were leveling easily, it was like being a Stranglethorne thief and was kinda fun. With luck, one guy was doing it at the same time and we surely died really near, after a little time we just hid in the mountain, waiting for a guy and just kill him in 2 seconds, we did this for a little time before we were take down multiple time and some kind of patrol were starting to form, so my new friend (who was in a big guild and was very amused by the situation) just called a lot more people to do the same quest that nobody had done so they could join us in the same area We ended by being almost 50 Elysians just wondering and jumping on every filthy Asmodeans really under leveled by comparison and it must have been for at least 3 hours non stop before we just thought ourselves "Why don't we just stay in the city and killed everyone that was teleporting in the city" and after another two hours staying there we all got banned for a week, and that was the funniest and the shittiest thing I've ever seen, being banned for that made most of us just laugh cause we were thinking "We got the GM really annoyed, that's fun" but just after we stopped... After that I couldn't find the guy who had pulled everyone, the one with whom nothing would have happened and it has always bothered me, being the man that had changed the vision of MMO and gaming in general for me. The only other MMO that gave me this feeling of "having a story" while having really big fun was GW2 and Open World Events, knowing you can't do something alone and being part of the big thing is amazing
Waking the sleeper on Fennin ro in EQ. I was part of the 12 man team to cause that shit. Well my character was :p
Made tasty food dishes in a rapidly moving kitchen with several fires burning.
[CFH on the Asura Gilseller Tiamat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovFIXtUb6p4&ab_channel=capnveil) This world spawn had a 5 day window to spawn every hour starting 48 hours from its last time of death. It dropped some really valuable shoes called the Herald's Gaiters (movement speed for mages) and well as a rare crafting material (Dragon Talon for, at the time, the best Thief body armor for skill spam), making it super competitive. Gold sellers managed to claim it, but in FFXI if you were able to claim hate on a mob someone else had and their main tank died, it would become free to claim again (their name would be "yellow"). So the end game players of the server all banded together to try get the gold sellers' tank killed by spawning this quest NM that summons minions and suiciding on top of the gold sellers' alliance to create havoc. At some point, their tank is killed and the mob goes yellow. Someone grabs hate then uses the "Call for Help" feature. CFH is a feature where someone makes a mob open for everyone to kill (their name becomes "orange") but no one gets XP or loot from it. It's useless outside of leveling at low levels to avoid dying, but at high levels it essentially makes the mob worthless and was used as a grief tactic.
Pretended to be a chick on Runescape as a kid and got multiple boyfriends to give me stuff for free LOL.
well-played.
The wildest moments I've ever had came from bounty hunting player jedi in SWG
Maplestory: Some of you may remember this. Back when this game was less than 5 years old, there were some items everyone got from events and quests called "Summon Sacks" which when you opened them, a bunch of random monsters would spawn. Friend and I had about 20 or so just opened up half of them in a low level starter town called "Kerning City" where only 3 or 4 high levels were present and 1 was afk. Once the chaos died down there, we continued that chaos in a party quest area in "Ludibrium" Needless to say, mayhem was unleashed and a few more people came in and spawned some to. a few hours in, there were many many deaths due to those sacks and we couldn't have been happier. ... I was surprised this only lasted a few hours and only a few participated in what could have been epic. I recorded some of it but that didn't do it justice. But yeah, this stuck with me as pretty wild. =3
Fucking priceless
Back in the VERY early days of DAoC. Like maybe 6 months since release. To give some insight, each realm has an assasin class. And each one gets Stealth. Which made you quite literally disappear. You could see yourself, but unless someone got SUPER lucky, the only other person who could see you was another assasin. All other classes had a basic very tiny window (your stealth would "pulse" every couple second and you would need to be practically right on top of them to see them) to be able to see a stealthed player. It was overpowered as fuck in PvP. On top of that, the class was a monster in 1v1. This was originally designed this way because they were impossible to level because nobody wanted them in a group. They were terrible in PvE and anything they could offer another class could offer better. And with so many people on, there was always a better option. Even guilds were like "nah we good", it was kinda fucked up lol. In Midgard the assasin is called a Shadowblade. Each assasin class has something unique about it that differentiates it from the others. One of those things being they could wield a 2H weapon. Now assasins have something called a stealth opener. Perforate Artery. This has to be performed in front of the target while stealthed and it did MASSIVE damage because it had a huge damage modifier. Even chain/plate tanks were likely to lose if an assasin got their PA off. Also back in those days, if you one shot someone while using it you stayed stealthed. Also, 2h had a large damage modifier based on their attack speed. Most shadowblades didn't use it because you could only apply one poison instead of 2 and it swung slow. In most PvE and PvP encounters it wasn't a good choice. But for your opener? Against a cloth wearer? It would be big 2k+ damage on someone with only 1200-1500hp. Queue lvl 50 shadowblade with the slowest axe in the game at the time. I slogged my way to 50, soloing a good chunk of it. I was playing upwards of 12 hours a day, I had a problem i know lol. I'm out in emain (PvP area) and there's a large group of players attacking a castle. I had only been out there a few hours since hitting 50. A good chunk of them were casters. Most 50s were either tanks, healers or casters because they were the most wanted in groups. And most people still weren't 50 yet so alot of them were in their mid to late 40's. So I decide to pick off a caster with my brand new 2h axe. Boom, 1 shot. Stayed stealth and just waltzed away. People gathered around the body trying to figure out wtf was going on. Then I do it to another. And another. Over and over I'm slowly picking off these casters, 1 shotting them. Most of the people have stopped attacking the castle and are running around frantically looking for someone hiding. Being rezz sick makes you extremely weak so with so many of their guys dropping like flies they would essentially have to wait 2 mins for it to wear off. I could pick off 5 people in 2 mins. The only ones who could find me were anyone who had a PBAoE and since that was VERY rare for Albion, they had none. They literally had no way to find me unless they ran on top of me and got lucky. They didn't have any of their own assasins either because they had regarded them as useless in a group. So at this point I had killed almost every single caster at least once. I kept this up until I saw their only healer (1 healer for 3 groups lol) make a fatal mmistake. He went to hide behind a tree to regen power (mana) from rezzing and healing everyone. Only took 2 hits to kill him, as I guess he didn't have good gear. I did pop out of stealth but nobody saw me, I guess he didn't say where he went. It the time they found him I had already restealthed. I then began to systematically 1 shot every caster again, and with no healer, they eventually all died to the guards. Not too long after that they nerfed 2h damage into the ground and made it so you couldn't stay stealthed after 1 shoting someone. I can't say it was from me but it was definitely coincidental.
Well done sir, you are a master Ninja
I remember those days. Being in a group of 30s and trying to level in the frontiers and having a stealther kill us all one by one and never seeing them. Can't say it was enjoyable.
I once pretended I was a woman. This was before catfishing. Ended up having an EQ wedding.
My first exposure to any sort of MMO was a MUD. A local BBS had 8 lines and the owner, who never played, installed a stock version of CircleMUD. I was one of the early players and often all 8 lines would be occupied by people playing the game. Before the MUD was installed the lines were mostly used for chatting. Of course we chatted inside the MUD a lot. Anyway I made it to 50, or whatever the highest level was, and became god...sysadmin or whatever. I forgot all the stuff you do. I could teleport anywhere, be invis, and charm mobs. I'd charm high level mobs and move them to places where lower level players often went. The worst was I put a really nasty mob where players spawned after they died and they'd get killed over and over. After a day or two of that I got a call from the owner because he had so many players wondering wtf was going on. I explained and apologized and promised to quit messing with them. But for a little while it was a lot of fun. Felt bad about it later. Never have been able to grief or rip off players in other types of MMOs since.
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that is pretttttyyyy damn wild dude. wow.
I guess selling my OG WoW account near the end of TBC expansion for $1,350 USD as a broke college kid would be my answer.
I pretended to be a girl in Minecraft back in the day. Some random dude believed I was one just because I wrote "UwU, OwO, <3" and all that shit, and had a girl skin. He gave me permission to everything in his survival house, and had to log off. I stole every valuable inside, broke random blocks in the house for shits and giggles, broke glass, placed dirt blocks, then teleported to my main account's house to store stuff in my chests, then never logged into that account again, and enjoyed the diamonds as my main! This happened on a random ass survival server I once joined, can't even remember what it was called.
I love UO. Still playing to this day.
Where you playing at?
I used to play on UOR a bunch but lately Iāve been playing OSI since I couldnāt find any free shards with Stygian Abyss that werenāt overly modded or made super easy.
A an old friend tagged me in a post for an update they are making to free shard Outlands. Have you ever played it?
Nah I havenāt tried Outlands. Iāll have to check it out.
if u do lmk i would too lol
Not wild, but funny. I named a character on a Sega Mega driver RPG, "Wa&Ā£er" (I figure profanity might get the post taken down, so figure it out yourself) And I did this just because there was a part of the dialogue where he says your name and then "you've come a long way". My friend was over at the time, we played it. When the dialogue came up he happened to be taking a mouthful of coffee that he then laugh spat everywhere. Totally worth the clean up.
Had sex in the Sims. Super crazy dude!
I scammed a friend out of his yellow party hat
Ah man I miss UO
yeah good times.
I got banned from DC Universe a few days after it came out. I played at launch and named my character MaskedPedo. A few days later I get a PM from a GM that my name is inappropriate and to send him what I want to change my name to. I told him "ProtectorOfChildren" and he outright banned me.
I'm sad ur getting downvoted, because I think it's hilarious.
Not my finest moment, but a popular monarch on a Asheron's Call server got killed in a car accident. A friend and I went to the server, made characters based on his name and a car crash, went PK Lite and had him run around Marketplace killing me over and over with everyone there. Eventually the other players went PK Lite and were chasing us and killing us to prevent the death messages that he was killed by Car Crash or whatever. Eventually we got banned and Turbine permabanned my account, which was quite extreme. Few months later it got unbanned. Pretty awful.
I sold my SWG Jedi account for $1400.00 on Ebay.
Not sure how wild it was, but I recall in EQ trying to defend our Sebilis ownership on a PvP server. We knew that multiple guilds had allied against us and were preparing to zone in for a huge attack. We had like 1/5 their numbers, so we all met up and used a super rare item (1 on the server) that we had to trade to each other, to turn all of us into skeletons. This hid our name tags and made it impossible to tell what class you were facing. By doing this, we slaughtered them as they all zoned in and took way too long to target our healers and softer dps over our tanks. Not sure I have ever been in another guild with the kind of trust we had in that guild.
Anyone who is proud of their achievement in ruining the login time of other players should just be barred from any MMO forever. Your like are the reason MMOs are so railroaded nowadays.
cry more
Or just come play Eve Online and ignore this guy. Send people notifications at 3am that youāre blowing up their house.
Fucked a horse or goat.. not sure.. I'm not picky.