Favorite GM Event from Live of P99?

[zt004]

Originally Posted by Kender [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

GM's made a monster in loio and was spamming shout with challenges. ended up with like 300 people wailing on it for about 30 minutes. every minute or do it was kill someone at random.

Yes, they spawned Faydedar in LOIO on our server and it grew in size for every person it killed. Needless to say, it was pretty huge by the time a cooperative of guilds took it down. Even more impressive was the corpse pile at the FM zone...

[XDrake]

Battle between Tunare and Cazic Thule in LFay. Changed the zone for a few days.

Loved the one month Plague of Bertoxxulous on the Karanas. Special mobs and it changed Paw forever.

[skorge]

I won an event on Veeshan one day where the GMs took control of some hill giants in SK. There were about 75 of us trying to take 'em down. Then the GMs let everyone roll on the loot...they divided us into three groups: casters, healers, and meleers...and I had the highest roll for the meleers (PS - there were a lot of guys doing /ran 98 100 thing, lol)

[Messianic]

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 =(

[Raavak]

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.

[Lagaidh]

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.

[Scroll]

Excellent reminiscent stories.

[purist]

Originally Posted by skorge [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I won an event on Veeshan one day where the GMs took control of some hill giants in SK. There were about 75 of us trying to take 'em down. Then the GMs let everyone roll on the loot...they divided us into three groups: casters, healers, and meleers...and I had the highest roll for the meleers (PS - there were a lot of guys doing /ran 98 100 thing, lol)

Ha! Dude, do you remember the name of any of the GMs on Veeshan? There was an Iksar GM, maybe a Guide, there whose name I've been trying to remember.

[Stanlei]

The final day of beta in nektulos forest there was a huge event where Marr and Inny came to the bridge where the 4 delf guards normally spawn and had a large scale battle. When it was all said and done we all got to look at the corpses to see what uber loot would be released when the game went live. I think the Fiery Avenger (marr's weapon) was something like 12 / 48 2hs no stats, no effects. Just 12/48. I'll see if I can't find the screenshots of the looted mithanel marr corpse, anyway was just a really good way to close the beta, gave us all something to look forward to

[Uthgaard]

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