I remember my first Cove. As always with new things, I was reluctant.. then I learned that Cove was an easy way to get nice things, so I spent hours upon hours farming that shit.. until one day I was so fed up with it that I wouldn't even put my foot in there. I miss that passion for farming.

And of course.. I miss when cap was 20 and epics were epics.

I'm also one of those who miss the time before rtbs.

There. My moment of nostalgia for.. donno this year? Feel free to make fun.

When TRing meant something and there was an end game.

I just miss the fun times with my RLF, all a bunch of noobs, including myself.

The best thing I remember is when my cleric killed everybody as I lit the bombs in Irestone Inlet.
I was fumbling aroung and the torch was lit. It took me a while to realize what was happening, then I started running away and told the people to do so. I saved my skin. All other dead.

It was really one of the best gaming days I ever had. Involuntarily trolling.

The raiding and the endgame scene.

Also I miss when I logged on and found over 20 people online.

The time when running with a group meant something.

When population was high enough there were more than hundred people on the server that wouldn't suck.
You either play now with the same handful of people, join the same 50 people for raids or endure the shittiness of pugs and failed EN raids. I don't mind permanent - 10 % but it sure feels like you either get some uber player just bored with solo all the time or complete moron that has no business of doing EE whatsoever, there is nothing in between.
Maybe 200 people on, ghostown outside EST prime time.

tl;dr More decent ( not uber ) people interested in raids and something else than their daily wiz king or whatever.

1. I miss questing was a group effort, rarely did you ever see a solo artist.
2. When everyone died except me the lowly rogue who had 1 raise dead scroll, listening to everyone, even taking my amour off because people said it would increase my chances.
3. being able to recall and run at the same time
4. running with one of the very first WF sorcs int he game (everyone thought he was crazy for making such a toon)
5. Having stacks of firewall and DD scrolls at hand
6. When traps mattered
7. When needing a healer mattered
8. Geeking out when a guy was slashing everything in Deleras only to find out he had something called a "disruptor" (I think only a handful of people had them at the time)
9. Getting online to find no anonymous LFM's, plenty of groups to choose from.
10. When cap was 12, lol (when raids meant something and there was some pride in being "raid" ready.

The only thing I miss was the pre-motu era, right after epic lotb/ma. Holy fuck this game was good back then.

I never (ever) did cove.

I miss Grumpy repeatedly failing Von 2 and the increasing intensity of anger as he flew into the dreamscape.

first fail message pops, everyone else is  WTH? "Hudson! Who else?!"

next try "Hrrrr! I'm getting grumpy!"

Next try, before the fail message pops we hear swear shouting rant with Dungeons and Dragons and not Mario worked in.(He had equipped featherfall so there was time to shout it out instead of you know, finishing out and re-entry)

Next try a redline GD followed by incoherent screaming and rage logoff for the night.

I miss that dude. Any quests that required twitch to avoid death and or failure were going to turn into rage comedy.

When there was a guaranteed 2 pieces of raid loot for every raid. It made shortmanning awesome!

We used to 2 & 3 man DQ2 and VON 5 & 6 & Stormreaver when it was hard, just so we wouldnt have to share our loot !

We had von 1-6 down in an hour, 3 man. ah good fucking times!

Best was 3 manning von 6 and running out of time on Velah when she had 0.0001% HP left

Rog + pali + archer was an awesome 3 man combo back then

I miss Malbar Event.. still have at least 2 of those signets of the endless night on each character that I farmed legitimately during all that flippen lag

Dirty rotten bastards... I want my +5 books

Do I sound bitter?

I miss having to get those stones to allow you to take your next lvl. been so long I forget what they were called.

I miss when the Kobald Shamans were a concern..

I miss days before the guild ships that would allow a lvl 1 toon to solo Elite quests.

I miss the days when you didn't have to just run a quest a couple times to get your ioun stones.

I miss the challenge of past days.. when soloing Elite Raids was not possible.

Its pretty sad when you see people making a toon that using a scroll as a main weapon just to get a challenge.

I guess I miss the heart and soul of what originally brought me to this game that seems to be missing these days.

Wipe wrote on Jul 7^th, 2015 at 12:12pm:


A long, long time ago.  It was changed back in Module 5.  (Yes, that’s module 5, not Update 5)

http://ddowiki.com/page/Raid_loot_mechanic

Edit:  And, no, the system was just a different kind of fucked up.  Their main problem is that they needed to stick with a 15% drop rate for the named items.  Not the bullshit they’re pulling in Mark of Death where you have to wait for the 20th end reward list to see an item.

Bacardi wrote on Jul 7^th, 2015 at 5:13am: