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Post by Morreion on Sept 17, 2012 16:18:51 GMT -5
This was a particular trial on Master Level 8- the raid had to defeat stone statues in a temple, the last one parried like crazy with his 2-handed sword. Ahhh memories, this takes me back! |
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Post by Regolyth on Sept 18, 2012 11:43:44 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure I see myself in the second and third image. It's a green-haired elf with my old green and brown color scheme at least. I don't think I ever saw anyone else dressed that way.
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Post by Morreion on Sept 18, 2012 16:38:50 GMT -5
You know, I think that IS you Rego- I did ML8 twice on Gack, and at least one time you were the raid leader. I bet this is from that raid!
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Post by Regolyth on Sept 19, 2012 8:21:41 GMT -5
Most of my ML stuff on Rego I got with Nurgh, or a few random other raids I found. I think it was ML7 and ML8 that I didn't have, so I ran them on my own with Rego. So that very well could be me. It fits my old color scheme and crafted clothing style, before I got my artifacts and items from raids.
Anyways, that spawned me running the whole series every few months on all my alts. I ended DAoC with eight characters on Nimue with full MLs (Rego, six alts and my bot). I also had three with MLs on Tristan (Midgard) and two on Percival (Albion).
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Post by Morreion on Sept 19, 2012 11:41:41 GMT -5
You were busy! I got Gack finished up with the whole ML series- he was a Battlemaster Warden- and had 3 alts who made it partway through. In the early days of Master Level raids, it took real effort to get there. I spent months getting Gack through the whole series, and as you remember ML10 was a random spawn.
I had a love/hate thing going with ML raids. There was a tremendous sense of accomplishment when I completed them all, but there was twice in the process that I almost broke down and said the heck with it with all of the frustrations- scheduling around work nights, final bosses who took multiple attempts to kill or took hours to take down as we figured out how to do it, getting good folk to participate, and so on. I enjoy thinking back on them, but it was hectic doing them at times.
Then again, having a real feeling of accomplishment is something that games have been moving away from, which is not a good thing to me.
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Post by Regolyth on Sept 24, 2012 14:07:06 GMT -5
Yeah, the MLs did take quite a bit of work to complete. I know my first two runs of leading it, I did on Saturday nights, one ML a week for ten weeks, until they were done. It gave people plenty of time to do group/solo steps in between, or catch someone else's raid for a missed step. I think I switched them up to a Friday or weekday after that, because I knew of friends who always worked on Saturdays, so they were never able to attend.
Although I botted at least five or more friends/guildmates through as I ran them (I think my bot had a bot one time, LOL - I was running four instances of DAoC across two computers). I felt bad for people not able to be there, because I knew how much of a pain they were to get done. Some of the, such as this ML8 series, took 50 people or more.
I was very dedicated to getting these things done. My first ML2 raid I lead took ten hours or more to complete. By the end, we had lost several people, but others had joined us part way. I remember having the most horrible migraine that night, but I stuck it out so that we could finish the raid. Seriously... it was one of the worst headaches I have ever had. I was barely functioning enough to do the encounter. As soon as Runi dropped, I asked a good friend to distribute the loot and I went straight to bed.
In the beginning, you needed several people to do a lot of these encounters (the most I ever had was 130 something). Eventually I lead a few of these with only two groups of people and was able to complete most everything (even though it was difficult).
By the end of my DAoC tenure, they made MLs available through BPs. I was so mad at that. I spent hours upon hours of going through MLs, researching MLs to lead them, then leading them (then doing loot... oh gosh... the loot rolls!). To have all that cut down to where you never had to even step foot in Atlantis? That made me so mad (but I suppose it made sense, giving the declining population and how hard the trials were).
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Post by Morreion on Sept 24, 2012 14:50:28 GMT -5
Yeah, that happens in games- what took lots of work is made easier to do as time moves on. But nothing can take away that real sense of accomplishing something that was difficult to do!
I remember doing ML4 one night, then spontaneously co-leading an ML2 raid that started late- we did it, but I was up until 5 AM, got up at 7 and went to work- that was a long day! But when you're younger you can do those things, and I was all fired up about DAoC then.
I did several of your raids, they were often fun times and you were a good leader. Doubt we'll ever see anything like that again in MMOs.
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Post by Laethaka on Sept 24, 2012 23:12:47 GMT -5
so cool! this is on the main entrance Atlantis island right?
right before I quit I remember going on an ill-fated raid to the foresty part of Atlantis (Aerias? Aeria? or something). Does anyone have screens from that zone? I remember it being really beautiful
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Post by Laethaka on Sept 24, 2012 23:18:53 GMT -5
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Post by Morreion on Sept 25, 2012 8:09:21 GMT -5
Good finds! I remember Toki with that big hammer! *laughs*
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