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09-27-2010, 07:28 PM
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luclin days, they did an event in paludal caves where the phlarg king and his minions (all controlled by gm's) starting killing everyone at the bandit camp near shadowhaven.
i was playing a level 14 rogue at the time and there was one called a phlarg rogue which did backstab (was a yellow con to me). so i started dualing with him. most of the other players were all after the king so it was basically 1 on 1. well i would have killed him about 4 times but everytime i got close he either did a full heal, or punted me 200 meters away so i couldn't get the death blow. he was terrabad at backstab jousting hehe. anyways eventually the king was killed and someone showed up and thanked us all for saving shadowhaven, and gave us all cake and beer | ||
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09-28-2010, 08:20 AM
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"NAUGHTY!" Played on euro times on US server, missed nearly everything. I recall sometimes special mobs in zones, but back then I didn't usually bother. =< Recall the Grobb-reclaiming-war as the only one I actually attended. Trained the frogs and their leaders to the ogres, got some bonus exp potions as loot and some not-my-class -gear that rotted. Then some other douches decided that if they nuked the nameds they get the exp and loot, so it became a KS contest. Aaaand then I guess the GMs made the frogs run at selos speed because they started catching me.
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09-28-2010, 07:48 AM
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I never had a good experience with a GM event. The head GM on Mith Marr at the time was a prick to most people. If his event didn't go exactly as scripted, he took it out on the players in zone. During a Mistmoore event, he killed everyone by using... what's it called... the spell effect that throws you up in the air. Technically, the spell didn't kill you. The fall did... exp death, no rez and no attempt to fix it. Most of the people in the zone, myself included, were just there to watch the event (it was a roleplay script providing lore on part of the game). Had a couple of hecklers which disrupted him so he just whacked everyone.
Had a GM event in Permafrost where some goblins challengers were looking for a "worthy opponent". I must have died 6 or 7 times. I came back to fight them over and over when everyone else was screaming they couldnt be beaten and to ignore them. I mentioned it in my guild to see if we could raise a force to take them out. Another paladin (female high elf) came in, walked up and cowed to them (in emote). She gave them muffins. They gave her a Mithril Two Handed Sword and depopped. She was two levels below me at that time but I watched her level past me by 10 levels within a couple weeks. Then she quit the game. Another GM event had a GM come in and port every "good" character in the zone to the cat room to leave us there for the duration of the event. Yeah, the GMs on my server could have used some common sense when it came to running live events. I had way more fun with the scripted events in Velious than I ever did with a live GM event.
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09-28-2010, 11:17 AM
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Lfay GM event where I almost got a GBS-looking uber monk weapon. It was sad day - I was literally about 15 seconds from getting it but got sniped by another monk =(
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09-28-2010, 11:46 AM
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I think every event besides the BotB were so crowded and laggy I hated them. I stopped going early on.
Last one I ~almost~ did was the newbie gnome race to Qeynos or something. | ||
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09-28-2010, 01:04 PM
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My favorite was an impromptu event. I started in July of 99. I had a RL buddy with an early 20s ranger. He kept telling me how we "are gonna go to Unrest when you hit 15".
The day finally came. I'd saved up scraps of gold here and there, had nearly full bronze. We went to Unrest. My first trip. "Oh you'll love it- pallies decimate the undead." We zone in and play around in the yard a bit; the zone was fairly populated. There were a good 20 players in there. All of a sudden, two named start shouting. "You've invaded the Estate of Unrest and soandso shall not stand for it!" Four level 50 ogres in what appeared like full fine steel pour out of the basement and begin raping everything in sight. My friend and I died. The reason this was my favorite event is because of what followed. Keep in mind MMOs were a brand new thing to most players and social media simply didn't exist in any sophisticated fashion. The word went out. Survivors and slain began to spread the word. Pretty soon, all of the most uber players and any high level began to flood Butcherblock. I realized what was happening and spread the word as best I could to help: / all 46 50, /t soandso Unrest is under attack! Avenge me and my friends! It was great. Unrest was flooded with power players and anyone with the balls to zone back in. Those GM ogres fought the wave of players for the better part of 45 minutes before being brought down. They handed out goodies to the victorious. I hadn't been playing long... I knew EQ was going to really be a special experience... a place... somehow, a real place. I had just witnessed truly dynamic content. Bah... I wax nostalgic. But I've never ever forgotten that nameless event on the Rathe in the fall of '99. It was so much better than the NPC, scripted GM events that would follow. It was unannounced and spontaneous. I always wished to see more of that. Actually, on Live, after a certain time I began to celebrate each ding by going to Unrest and gutting that place. It's still my favorite zone in classic.
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09-29-2010, 07:15 AM
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09-29-2010, 07:35 AM
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