Sort of my biggest fail and yet best story from EQ days. One late night after a raid I deleted my main raiding bard. Full panic mood, I contacted in game CS, and who contacts me back but Aradune himself. He digs a couple hour old Paloo out of the trash. We meet up and chated for about 30 mins.
Getting nerfed always sucks.
First Everquest character, I think I just turned 46 on my Monk, and my guild told me to meet them in PoFear, I was young and scared lol becuase I'd never been there before, but I went and they said "ok your're going to FD pull." Welp, I pulled a group of scareling imps and they teleported to me so when i FD the whole squad of them trained over my a** and wiped my guild. Learning lesson for sure.
I had a lot of fails...I think the biggest one was falling asleep at the keyboard on my Paladin in Highhold Pass where the orcs spawn, and also being bound at the zoneline of the orcs, and dying all night to where when I got back on I lost like 4 levels and the place was littered with like 100 of my bodies. I got 35% rezed on all my bodies by my dad(also a paladin) and ended up getting around 2 levels back, but yeahhh...good times...
Oh yeah... Another one is I fell off the bank bridge drunk in Qeynos and fell into the water an drowned and lost like 2 yellow bars...good times
My guild was doing Fear and we got to the point of pulling Cazic. I was picked to eat the Death Touch. Everyone gets properly ready and I run all the way to Cazic (mezzing where needed etc.) and throw a Tash on him. He yells out my name and... Nothing. I RESISTED a Death Touch. No one had ever heard of a resist for that and I haven't a clue as to how I could possibly do it. To this day it is still a mystery. But the results were amazing. I had never seen so many Fear mobs trounce the ever-loving hell out of a guild before. It was a massacre. Guild leader says "Only you could *&^* up dying."
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I'd say not continuing progress on my main (shaman) and playing another class because it seemed to be wanted more in groups/soloed better/etc. By the time I got back to playing my shaman, my friends were all way ahead of me. Not gonna make that mistake again...I hope.
Kilsin said:What has been your characters biggest downfall or fail in any MMORPG you have played? #MMORPG #communitymatters
When playing a game that has talent/skill trees and you decide on one approach to your class only to find out many many levels later your choice was one that completely gimped you for raids or more difficult content.
Foolishly thinking that a small race rogue would be "better" at their role than a large race, in EQ1. And then seeing the parses. And not being very happy I had 100 days /played into a small race rogue. By that time, it was ok though, because there were many other MMO options.
Never again. Until I prove it to myself with my own parses, I no longer believe any of the community folklore/guesses.
So, if the developer that coded STR over DEX for rogues autoattack damage for EQ1 is on the Pantheon team? Yeah, you get a light beer. Not a real beer. :|
Kilsin said:What has been your characters biggest downfall or fail in any MMORPG you have played? #MMORPG #communitymatters
Downfall - Being a hoarder. Never, ever, ever, ever enough bag/bank space in games for me.
Fail - Having a raid mob targeted before well before engagement and accidentally loosing a ranged ability, never usually ends real well.
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Hmm.. Biggest failure?
I developed a strategy for taking down the AoW for my guild. We had a very limited number (30-40 if I remember right, could have been more but it was way below accepted norm) and honestly we were not "over geared" for the fight (ie we took him on during Shadows of Luclin, but we had no real SoL raid gear at the time for our raid) which made succeeding this fight with that number to be rather significant (ie I think few if any actually took down the AoW during Velious due to the extreme difficulty).
So, I had a very detailed healing chain and assisst scenario design, and a complex tank switch off cycle for the fight (it really was complex as the entire raid had to act in unison during attack/stop attack call while tanks switched over fromTT, to ST to MT).
We get him to 0% HP and everyone begins to relax (thinking we got this) right when we had an important tank switch. Tank goes down as mana runs out on healers (necro/mages started to wane on providing mana regen and rods) and druids missed key areas where they synced up the drop off in the switch and the AoW while enraged turns on the entire raid (ie everyone on the raid gets riposted for 1400 a hit) and people drop like flies and the raid wipes all while many people were arguing over who should get first dibs on the drops.
Epic failure of what would have been an epic fight due to our numbers and gear.
It really brings about that saying "Don't count your chickens until the eggs hatch"
In Vanguard my disciple was with a very nice PUG in a palace at the end of a long gorge. I don't remember the name of it.
After hours of grinding we managed to get to what I assume was the main boss of the zone. It was a giant with tons of HP but surprisingly little DPS capability. We were in no real danger, but it took forever (maybe half an hour each time) to get him down to his last few hit points, and each time he cast a heal on himself restoring all of his life. This went on for a long, long time without us finding a solution. Finally, when RL morning broke, we gave up and disbanded.
Right after I lay my tired head on the pillow it struck me that the disciple had a spell that I had never used. Its description said that it would counter the last spell cast by my enemy!
Of course, I never managed to get back to that giant, and to this day it irritates me insanely that I didn't use that spell on him right after he healed himself.
When I first ran Karazan with my guild as a freshly minted 60 Pally I was instructed to focus on the tank. Keeping the tank alive was my only job. Being a noob raider at this point my gear was a mix of trash; basically just grabbed anything with INT on it to get my mana up. As the raid progressed I was feeling pretty confident. The only wipes we had were due to people not ready or aggro being pulled incorrectly; your typical stuff. It was a blast! Then we made it to Prince. The first fight was going well. He started dropping his flame totem dudes and raging. The hits to the tank were getting progressively harder and my mana was starting to run low; my pots were on cooldown, then it happened. The tank took some massive damage. He was down to 10% health and I couldn't keep up with damage, so I did what any faithful Pally would do...I kept the tank alive. Poof...Devine Sheild! Yep, the good old faithful Pally bubble...on the Tank. Which dumped all agrro right onto me and the group while the Tank could just stand there and say "WTF?". As we all lay there dead the chatter on Vent was "What happened?". The Tank said he couldn't move. Then I spoke up..."I bubbled him". The group busted out into laughter. My next response was simple..."You told me to keep the tank alive. Well, he's still alive."
That was the moment I discovered the importance of knowing your class and their abilities.
