EQ Makes #5 on the Five Most Memorable Events in MMORPG

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EQ Makes #5 on the Five Most Memorable Events in MMORPG

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Veeshan should have its five more memorable events!

http://www.mmocrunch.com/2007/12/04/top ... g-history/

The death of The Sleeper at #5 is EQ's entry. No Veeshan or Fires of Heavens mentioned.
5) Death of the Sleeper - EverQuest - November 15-17, 2007 (should be 2003)

The guild Blood of the Spider on The Rathe server was the first guild system-wide to kill Ventani (the fourth warder) on July 28, 2001, and therefore wake the sleeper. The event caused a stir on the server when Kerafyrm went into multiple zones, including Skyshrine, killing everyone and everything in his path.

On November 15, 2003, on the Rallos Zek PvP server, the three top guilds (Ascending Dawn, Wudan, and Magus Imperialis Magicus) assembled over 180 players with the intent to wake and kill The Sleeper. This was in response to an attempt to wake The Sleeper by an Iksar monk named Stynkfyst, who partnered with the largest random-pk guild of the time. Having been a former member of uber-guild Ascending Dawn, he had the knowledge the random pk guild needed to wake The Sleeper. The top guilds did not assemble their forces until word of Stynkfyst’s intentions had spread, and it became clear that he intended to wake The Sleeper, forever preventing future guilds from farming the old loot table. Until this point, waking The Sleeper had not been seriously considered by any guilds, as it was believed that waking The Sleeper would make the offending guild’s players kill-on-sight to the other guilds of the server. After 3 hours and 15 minutes, at 26% health, Kerafyrm disappeared (despawned). The players talked with the EverQuest Game Masters, and there was a general consensus that a bug had caused the problem, although some suggested (backed by statements from one GM) that higher-ups at SOE had purposely despawned Kerafyrm, because it was not intended to be part of the story.

The following day, the players logged in to find that Kerafyrm was back in his “sleeping” state, ready to be triggered again. There was also an apology on the official EverQuest forums from SOE, explaining that they had stopped the encounter because they feared the players were engaging the boss in an unintended manner. Although annoyed (the players pointed out that the reasons SOE gave could not have occurred, and felt lied to), they attempted to battle Kerafyrm once again.

On November 17, 2003, after a nearly 3-hour battle, Kerafyrm was defeated. He had between 100 million and 400 million hit points, likely around 250 million (most EverQuest bosses have 2 million at most), was immune to all spells except wizard’s manaburn spell and Shadow Knight’s Harm Touch, possessed two death touch abilities (abilities that automatically killed players), and attacked players for 6999 damage per swing. By using the cleric’s epic weapon and other resurrection spells, the players were able to bring their dead characters back into the battle faster than Kerafyrm could kill them all.
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6) Erny ninja loots a Cloak of Flames

7) Fires of Heaven kills Karana, Sylvos astounded, says "I can't believe you killed Karana"

8) Ogre Form raid cock-block implemented in Ssra Temple
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Although I was a victim of it, equipping Cazic with haste weapons deserves a nomination.
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2 and 3 are retarded. I've never heard a peep about 3 in specific. Jenkins was memorable, but damn, doesn't deserve to be 2nd most memorable moment. How about WoW totally pounding the competition into the ground?
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3 was something I heard about, and it made me play Eve, to be honest. The fact that something like that could occur in a game, and be completely endorsed, was something I couldn't pass up.

Then I started playing and realized it would take years to get to the level those players were at. See yah!
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The EVE heist was brilliant!
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Kaldaur wrote:3 was something I heard about, and it made me play Eve, to be honest. The fact that something like that could occur in a game, and be completely endorsed, was something I couldn't pass up.
Then I started playing and realized it would take years to get to the level those players were at. See yah!
You can train up a decent character in 2 months or so now. But you still have to grind through the most boring PvE game ever designed to afford all those shiny new ships that are gonna get blowed up during the fun part of the game.

Mecha Cazic gets my vote.
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Sleestakk wrote:WE SPAWNED HIM!!!
Killing Dain so CT couldn't spawn the Ring War event was pretty good too.

Xanupox and his whole frontpage news of the "Yelinak mod-rod exploit".

Kraptos' failure to kill Xegony because they failed to understand the concept of "Song of Highsun", so she was "bugged".

Herzog ebaying his items, then gets his "hacked" account back, and SOE reimburses him for everything he sold.

Mecha-Cazic was awesome, especially Xerxes' answer when the GM asked him why he did it.
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My most entertaining moment: CoE blaming me (or should I say my corpses) for them losing to Xegony.
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the plague one should be #1 - people who dont even play video games were reading about that in the news


locally, mecha-cazic steals it and the firepot incident should at least get an honorable mention
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Sargeras wrote:
Sleestakk wrote:WE SPAWNED HIM!!!
Killing Dain so CT couldn't spawn the Ring War event was pretty good too.

Actually, this would be incorrect. They did the ring event to despawn Dain while we were pulling him. Of course someone found a solution to ensure that never happened again.
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