Thats easy, my best memory of a EQ event is........
My Iksar monks solo trip to Plane of Fear for his Whistling Fists quest.
Since most of you got no clue what that quest is about, its a monk quest for kind of an epic weapon (we got the robe as the "epic", then iksar monks, and REALLY REALLY insane human monks could later on get the Whistling Fists), and it include TWO trips to falk to Cazic-Thule, but it can be cut down to one trip, if you plan ahead, which i had done.
The memorable part of this was doing it solo! (ok, almost solo, i DID get a port out, but i had a TP portion for that, if i had needed it, those were EXPENSIVE back then)
I'm sure everyone here still got nightmares about the Plane of Fear breaking, and the huge number of enemies you got on each pull, so you know how nasty it was up there.
I knew that Valhalla had been camping Fear for a few hours to wait for CT to spawn as he was supposed to, but he didn't, and they left, but had more or less cleaned out the zone, so i decided to go up to CTs spawn spot, at the wall, to camp out there and check for him the next few weeks, since he was still a contested spawn back then.
So I go in, and suddenly i hear him shout, and when he spawns, the zone respawns....so there i was, stuck in Fear, on a full spawn, KOS to everything BUT CT (he was my god after all, he love us scalies).
After heroically pissing my pants and FD'ing, I asked the guild if anyone could help, but it was late for us euros, and Sceptered Isle wasn't so big back then, so we had nothing near a force online to help clean Fear.
So I was stuck up there, and did the only sensible thing in my situation, when you NEED to talk to a rare spawn contested NPC to finish a quest, i started FD flopping my way to the wall behind CT.
This was BEFORE Sony changed FD to clear aggro after two minutes, so standing up was insta aggro from all the roamers that had aggroed on me before....and since aggro from one of those if they were near CT or one of the other bosses would mean a DT, i had to do it oldschool, /q'ing out, logging back in and hoping like hell I didn't die before I finished loading
40 min or so later, i managed to get all the way to the wall behind CT, and could see the ugly thing....sadly i could also see 2-3 roamers nearby, and aggo from those, as mentioned earlier, would mean a DT from CT himself, despite not being KOS to him.
So i did the only other thing i could do, told Valhalla that CT was up, and they were welcome to come and get him, i just had to talk to him first, and would REALLY like a port out after
So they came in, and started clearing out the zone, while i waited and looked at the stupid 4-armed menace in front of me, waiting for a chance.
And after 30 min more of waiting, the chance came, all roamers were far enough away for me to run over and say hello.
So I ran over, said my quest words (made a macro while i wait waiting, not stupid enough to stand up and write it), and finished the first part, then FD flopped again to prepare for part 2, and got the chance for that 10 minutes later.
Then i managed to FD flop my way back to Valhalla, and got a TP out, and could finally finish my
Whistling Fists
The quest itself also had some great lore, but the height of the experience was the solo Fear run
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Oh, and then of course i remember Brownies......"Ladidadi, im a level 7 wood elf, visiting Lesser Faydark, dumdidumdidum, lets stay away from that orc camp, they look nasty.....ohh, whats that cute little brown thing....hiya cute little brown thing, come here so i can pet you....LOADING...PLEASE WAIT"
I did get my revenge though, level 57-60 on the brownie camp, muahahahahaha.
Getting my epic for Hesten, when our tank, only japanese guy in Sceptered Isle (who could speak almost no english) feel asleep at the Faydedar pull spot, and after 30 min of everyone waiting, we had to pull and he of course died, and needed a rez some hours later.
The realization that Small Wisdom Deity was a massive moneymaker when you were the only one on the server making it.
The realization that getting almost all acrylia drops on the server due to a specific chanter selling exclusively to me sitting 16+ hours a day in the AE groups in Acrylia Caverns, and noone else wanting the heavy bricks....and having another friend camping the rockhopper cave for almost 2 weeks, and giving me all hides, was VERY VERY lucrative
A Sceptered Isle raid in City of Mist going wrong, where the Black Reavers kept spawning...the ones that dropped Jade Reavers for the Ranger epic, going for around 10-12K plat at the time. We were there for shammy epic i think (whatever it was you did after the Black Reavers), i recall the Black Reavers actually ruining the original planned epic raid.
We kept killing, they kept spawning, and after around 110 Black Reavers, we gave up on being able to pass them, and had to warn the guys at the zone entrance that a small fun train was incoming had to run the entire raid to the zone...we got like 8 or so Jade Reavers left over from that, AFTER every ranger in the guild, and a few alts, had gotten theirs, so the failed raid actually funded the guild bank for quite a while.
Having my monk in AE faction groups in Lower Guk, when everone and their mother wanted the Wood Elf mask, and a non-faction group decided to be in Guk, and placed themselves in that middle area where you HAD to pass to get from one half to the other, and they kept bitching about A, training and B, we taking every mob in the zone, and saying since they were not level 60+, they had claim on them.
Some spell that made you look like the monster you were near when you cast it, and running around as an Othmir snarling at people.
And the last time i logged out...i had made a
Interplanar Brain Blaster, ridiculously hard to make due to the Kirin Horn rarity, so i had it for like 5 months never using it....and when i stopped playing, i gave guild bank all my important stuff, various tradeskill friends my tradeskill stuff, and then gave random stuff out to people in PoK, and ended up drinking that one, so there was a wood elf lying drunk on the floor of the PoK tavern