Top 5 Most Memorable Events in MMORPG History

[Heenan]

The cool thing was that he hopped over zone lines.

In EQ1 there were distinct loading points on the maps, where you had to load into the next zone. Non-existent today, but very annoying back in the day.

Mobs would not give up at all. If you aggro'd, they chased you forever, unless you could get to the zone line. When you loaded into the next zone, you dropped aggro, but if the mobs were still on the other side they would aggro onto whoever was there. This is what caused massive "trains" of mobs to pile up at zone entrances.

So all of the mobs were contained in their specific zone. But only the Sleeper could hop across these zone lines, and he had a near zone-wide aggro, where he wouldn't rest until everything in the zone was dead.

Imagine Ony, or some equivalent, being released in the Barrens with a super huge aggro radius. Good times.

[kadaan]

Meh. Leeroy Jenkins wasn't an event. It was a staged video. Very funny, very popular, but it doesn't deserve to be on that list imo.

[Zoroaster]

Back in the BWL days there was a bug with Burning Adrenaline ( http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=23620 ), the debuff Vael would put on 1 player at a time. Pets could get BA and then be dismissed. We had a warlock pet get BA once, and the person reacted in time to dismiss the pet before he blew up. As soon as the raid was over the entire guild went into the IF AH (only AH was in IF) and the pet was resummoned.

Imagine being in the AH checking auctions and suddenly everyone is hit for ~5k fire damage, a lot of damage in those days. I'll see if I can find the video a guildy made of it, got some good forum drama out of it too. Blizz fixed it shortly after though.

[PhyrraM]

So, you could take down up to 3 guardians, but never all 4 or the event would start?

I'd be pissed too, but I do like the idea of having something unique. It seems like in current games ( I suppose even RL ), everyone feels entitled to the same, or better, then the next guy.

I suppose, in WoW terms, this could be interperpeted and having only 1-2 Thunderfury's per server. The AQ opening event mount is the only really unique thing in WoW as most servers only have 1-4 of them. It seems in 'endgame' sooner or later, everybody becomes clones of one another.

[Wilbur]

Yeah, you could kill three of the Wardens but not the fourth, otherwise all hell would be unleashed :-S

[dniem]

That Sleeper fight must have been epic, would have loved to see it. Interesting setup too, I would never forsee any other MMO to do soemthing that similar.

Thanks for sharing this.

[Xzin]

So were AoW/ Zek fights. It was just "throw bodies at him" and rez rush until he dies.

45 minutes later.

What was REALLY amazing were the Nagafen / Vox fights. Granted, they were not epic in the sense that every server had many fights but the first ones were so epic and amazing - the risk / reward was amazingly intense.

Imagine dying and popping up naked. Outside the dungeon. And you lost a level. You had to fight your way back in. Naked. To get your corpse back. Which was at the feet of a very pissed off dragon and surrounded by 40 other corpses.

[Tonuss]

Everquest makes other MMO's seem so... candy-coated. That game's developers punished us over and over and over... and we loved them for it. Or at least, we claimed that we hated them but kept coming back. >.<

[Wilbur]

As far as High-end PvE goes, no other MMORPG I've played has come close to EverQuest. Its just all the other buggy shit/broken quests/unbalanced items/unbalanced classes etc...

[kadaan]

Back in the BWL days there was a bug with Burning Adrenaline ( http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=23620 ), the debuff Vael would put on 1 player at a time. Pets could get BA and then be dismissed. We had a warlock pet get BA once, and the person reacted in time to dismiss the pet before he blew up. As soon as the raid was over the entire guild went into the IF AH (only AH was in IF) and the pet was resummoned.

Imagine being in the AH checking auctions and suddenly everyone is hit for ~5k fire damage, a lot of damage in those days. I'll see if I can find the video a guildy made of it, got some good forum drama out of it too. Blizz fixed it shortly after though.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zkk5A2GAITQ

Not sure if that's a geddon bomb or vael bomb. I don't remember getting the swirly particle effect from BA, but it's a bomb going off in the Ironforge AH nonetheless .