A (hopefully) positive thread

[fiach]

Dunno, this idea came about because of a couple of things and hopefully people will contribute in a similar vein

On sunday I hit 250 in melee and it was a weird experence for me on a number of levels.

I used cats for the first time, (for the last 30 levels) and as I levelled towards the magic 250, it seemed like a mad rush, nearly a blur of speed over a few days, which is weird, because my experience of levelling melee was that it was very sloooow.

The weird thing was...... I didn't want to hit 250, the nearer I got, I wanted to slow down and savour it....but....what was propelling me forward was getting the really cool resistances etc. for OP's

Another thing that was really weird for me was..... I always considered myself a melee'er, thats what Valda started as, by necessity, I had to do Heal, I think everyone should have a decent enough Heal for rezzing or to help healers level offensive skills, as it cant be all "one way traffic", but then along came ELEMENTAL!!!!!

Elemental is pretty addictive, I was able to kill the crap out of mobs significantly higher than my melee counterpart and thus, levelling was pretty easy, also alot of the magic skills can be used for healing, so my healing could coast along with elemental and melee was left all alone by the wayside.

But..... when I returned to melee, I realised that this was really what Valda was all about, at heart I was really a melee'er, but got blindsided by Elemental..... seduced by the dark side LOL

But the point is, I didn't want my melee ride to end......... but the OP propulsion, made it inevitable and the cats made it easier to succumb

So.....why this post?

Well a couple of things really, a conversation with Nysha about "taking time to look around and smell the flowers", and Sasi's post about his experiences in Atys and a trek with Vhaldir, that reminded me of so many beautiful places I had forgotten about .

As I returned to melee with these thoughts in mind, I started to remember the good times. here are some of my memories, hopefully others will share some here too

I remember being asked to join my first team in Fourways, I saw my first Kipee, I nearly crapped my self, I didn't know if they were aggro, so I kept a very wary distance for awhile, they were so HUGE and majestic looking, I never saw a mob like that before, I was frankly amazed!

I remember Fourways so fondly, I actually loved killing a few Kiz and sitting down on the hill to regenerate and just take in all the sights, sand particles dragging along the sand surface in some invisible breeze, the Goaris picking fights with anything that moved, long lost converstaions with friends, in /tell and guildchat, just hanging out and chilling, times were good, it was like an eternal summer.

I remember dying while exploring and rezzing in Dyron, which was weird, because I had never been there before LOL A whole new vista of sights and new mobs with strange names like Timari and Arana, Varyinx and Ocyx, and dying alot trying to find my way back to Pyr in this new alien land.

I remember being in Dyron one night and asked to join an existing team, they said OK, I think they realised how low level I was, but they accepted me none the less, I saw my first Elemental using Electricity, I was ASTOUNDED! It was like primitive man been shown fire for the first time!

I remember, I was oh, maybe about level 80, I was under 100 anyway and tried to solo to Matis from Fyros, it took me the guts of a week, but I learned two things, Max DP is like God Mode..... and a healthey RESPECT for Cuttlers LOL

I remember friends that have come and gone and that even passing aquaintences can become the closest of close friends, while passing time in this wonderful world called Atys that we inhabit

I remember our guild "punching" its way through to Yrkanis, there was about 90 of us, a ravening horde sweeping down through that green and pleasent land, Matis people going WTF?????
We told them it was an invasion and they were our prisoners, they said, ...."OK, so what do we do now?"
A much more innocent time then huh?

So, leave all negative baggage outside the door, step in here and remenisce with me please

[beaut666]

Great post, and congrats on 250!
Beau

PS: will remenisce after my coffee...hehe

Beau

[dakhound]

some of my favorite times were in PR with yaffle digging my sources

I did a 2 week sick blag from work and went from 166-250 sometimes with up to 4 masters on my sources

man I was sick of watching my bars by the end of it but I dinged lvl240 just 5 mins before summer season change and we legged it down to the SN, was kinda when I finally felt no longer a nub

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also doing kincher with infinity for my melee master, most people would pull 1-2 kinchers while they level but we used to get the whole spawn and just rip through them, was challenging but the xp sucked a bit. For the most part tho we didnt care.

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taking over yrk with KoO, seeing 9-10 of some of the best PvP names in your team, fighting ppl for weeks and loving it. Final giving crap to CSR's used to make me laugh too

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and ofc the more recent, Killing all 4 NPC bosses in 1 night with GoJ, topping it off with killing lixie for the first time. was a great feeling to have all the work we did come together.

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The saddest time I had was when we came oh so close to taking zo-kian, we hit TH11 (I think) and the karavan defended at 3am, I came home drunk and yaffle n Co kept me awake in chat/vent. The sad feeling I had when the Kara hit my TH really knocked me back, it seemed a dawn of a new era but instead turned into a total false dawn. Was kind of when I stopped "caring" in ryzom and instead started to see it as the game it is

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running pyr to yrk solo at level 20ish pure sneak no fighting, maxed my DP, took me hours as 1 aggro I was dead

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trying to manage the chaos that was KoO

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in the kitin nest event, running to the top alongside Jayce (my sworn enemy at the time) and both sides working together, managing to be the team to kill the kizarak (think thats the big flower headed thing) 4 times in a row and getting the loot (basic crap that's still in my apt)3 times


(in the spirit of the post plz dont flame, these are just the experiences I remember most)

[acridiel]

*sigh*
Those were the times

I remember my first time I came to the Mainlands, then from the old Matis-Starter-Island, and staring in amazement at my screen.
Those huge House-Trees and this weird, giant Larva hugging that one tree...

And then I ran to the Main Gate and someone cast a high-heal on me and there was this brilliant flash of runes and this pillar of light and I was like
"What was that???"
reply: "Oh, just a heal."

Damn I was determined to learn that.
Before on the Starter Isle we had only those puny little lvl 30 or so heal spells, wich looked cool too, but this was a revelation

Ah, and back on the Islands...
Throngs of people sitting/running around and swapping craft-recipes, giving advice on how to get from point A to point b, or just RPing...
And how annoyed we all were, when the Servermesages about the first Kitin Invasion came and we couldn´t get to the Mainlands yet.
And how we envied those who thought they had the right levels and could.
And how we laughed when they told us that they were hopelessly outclassed and got cut down by those huge insects like grass...

Someone later on the Mainland took me on a small trip to the Matis Arena and all I could think was:
"Man, this world is huge. Such a long way to walk..."
A Destroyer Bodok rumbled by and I nearly wet myself.

When our guild back then tried to reach Fyros on our own, on foot.
Our max. Level was I think about 150 for some of us and it took us about 4 tries to make it. We hugged the walls, thinking that it would be easier, but it only prevented us from running away from Aggros that swarmed us from the front and back.

And how we all marveled at Pyr and how delighted we were when we discovered the Bathhouse.

Or my very first trip into the Primeroots...
Man, my PC wasn´t even half able to show full detail back then, but I was stunned...
And all the more stunned was I when I finally got my new machine...
My first GuildChat Message back then was: "Guys, why didn´t anbody tell me that there is real grass and flowers???!!!" *LOL*

It felt like a completely new game for me and still I love it.
I still enjoy immensely to show newcomers around. To show them the hidden treasures of the world and to make them understand that there is so much more on Atys then just Levels.

CU
Acridiel

[moyaku]

My best memories in chronological order would be :

- When Frydeswinde invited me to Evolution.
- When Blondy Took me on my first trip to the jungle thru Trench of Trials (I was about level 30 )
- When I got initiated to PR sneakage by Snake, this lasted for weeks just the two of us wandering thru every acres.
- When Snake powerleveled my Elemental.
- When Groom powerleveled my Melee
- When I finally Hit 250 PR dig after 3 months doing nothing else.
- Rejoining Evolution a few weeks ago and a certain trip some of us had a little after that (that was hecka' fun)

- Many "Evo guild Chat" convos (The star toons one we had with Scarazi, Groom and Ishy a year back or so) (I love Evo guild chat ! it's crazy)

And of course like all of you I keep in mind many sightseeings of beautiful landscapes.

[skifryan]

Too many great memories in the short time I have been here.


First, coming to the mainland was the most amazing game experience, first thing I saw was some friendly dueling at the Yrkanis stables, which seemed to last forever. Then some Kami vs Kara in Yrk, first time I saw Sehraci own everyone.

Then my first mainland team, with Furiouspope (friend I met on Silan) and his guildie Moonravin. Killing cratcha in the winter, which were way too high for me to solo, getting 3k xp for the first time, and the other teammates talking about getting 6k xp from it (I wasn't guilded at the time).

My first trek, from Yrkanis to Fairhaven, with the Elders of Atys(during which I decided I wanted to spend the rest of my Ryzom life with them.)

Ayur healing me out of team for the first time, first time I was getting decent xp quickly.

My first outpost battle in Grove of Confusion, where I seemed so powerful seeing everyone die that I was attacking (except Hijati, the gingerbread man), only to later see that it was the nukers killing everyone.

My second trek from Yrkanis to Pyr with Kali, Nayari, Xythus and a certain "bunny" that liked to get everyone killed.

After this, too many to think of. Recently, leading the KA to victory over Lixie(which was worth the 4 hours of people not following instructions).

[bf649ztp]

I levelled Elemental 0-250 100% solo. A lot of people frown on soloing but it gave me the chance to truly learn about mobs, their habits and how best to err kill them. I did this all without cats (before they were around) and I feel very proud of it. Soloing much as I did in the early days meant loads of sitting around regenerating and really made me appreciate the look, feel and sounds of the game. I remember every mob and spot and what level I went to and from in that spot, still to this day.

My first trek out of the lakelands was done by Atys Ghosts with Zella as their leader, they did a fantastic job and got me my first look at matis. The trek was massive and so much fun, loads of screaming at people to stop trying to kill everything but almost everyone there was a newb then. I remember seeing Absinthia's OMG HQ !! amps on that trek and started to think about how i'd get my hands on a pair. From this I started my first craft which was ampmaking.

The first guild I joined was Evolution and being as this was my first ever mmo and up until that point to frightened to actually talk to anyone, it was a fair amount of trepidation that I sent off a tell to Sxarlet asking for membership. I had to officially apply on their forums and when accepted, me and a couple other newbs to the guild had to pass an Evolution rite !!

It involved me and the other 2 newbs given tasks in Winds of Muse to see how well we worked as a team and how we backed one another up. We had to find the resources needed to craft a sword..dig them, and after, a high level Evo member crafted it and gave it back to us for the second part of the test. We had to use this very sword to kill a boss in the region. Well surficed to say we were very scared but we managed it (with only one or 2 helping heals from Frydeswinde )

The above was the best time in this game so far for me as it was the first time ever i'd teamed in an online game Big big thanks to Evolution providing it.

Umm sorry for the life story, but this game holds huge memorys for me

Kodel.

[mugendo]

So, leave all negative baggage outside the door, step in here and remenisce with me please

I don't strive to improve my toon ingame...he is a reflection of the relaxing me...Drifting along taking in the sights.

Of course the negative to this is......my toon is an under achiever..lazy, distracted, no ambition....the ultimate procastinator of Atys

Which translates into Low skills, little practical knowledge (lots of theory though ), Few posessions of worth....even my Mek has a lazy eye.
But I do have a friend list that scrolls off the screen...a 'to do' list that seems endless, and an endless fascination with the possibilities that await me.......


..........When I finally get focused enough to actually map my movement keys correctly and setup some useful Macro's

[wardone]

i can remember being taught how to dig by avila and later misatey i can still see them shaking their heads in frustration lol

endless huge fun hunts at FF ramp on zerx with a full team and the exp was still 3000 used to go on fro mwhen i logged in to when we all logged off way to late with work in the morning. usually involving bnold teaming with us to lvl the few trees he had left.

discovering pvp and outposts then discovering your PC needed urgent upgrades

Digging PR......... still my favourite area of the game and still spend many hours there after being sidetracked by range for a while.

First hunt in void ........ what the hell is that big blue thing?!! ahh thats a jab lol

[raisrev1]

Too many Memories to count....but I will try to post the best

My first awe inspiring memory goes all the way back to Beta when I first loaded up the Game (successfully I might add ) You see SoR was my First MMO and to me Nothing compares in beauty. I remember running around the Old Newbie Islands and getting killed by the various ragus and gingos, killing kippee's for their mats, and downright having fun. Of course there were the constant server crashes which swarmed Klients every time, (wish i could remember the guy they always had to restart the servers, mighta still been Soulsnatcher *shrug*)

Then I eventualy made it to the Mainland. I remember the ability to use bomb heals on the rez points to heal myself (yeh we really could heal ourselves with bomb heal in those days ) I remember getting the pants beat off me by Ora who wanderd by Yrk in those days. The first people I made friends with took me all around the world to get various respawn locations, (at the time there was no Tryker mainland as it was still in development) I still remember Boness as a Zorai, (yes he went by the name Boness, Bones for those who are wondering who im talking about)

In those days we were fighting In Hidden Source, or even at Tunnel of Woe, and once we went into Abyss, man it took ages to kill those Kirosta...
(if anyone remembers the Character SylviaDarkFire or something close to it that was me)
Nuff about beta

I remember my first Mainland experience sometime after the game went live. (sadly I moved during beta and missed the preorder so took me a while before i got my hands on a copy) It was addmitiadly on my first day on mainland that I joined up with the guild Order of the Dragonblades... Back then that ment something as they were a well respected guild.

I remember our weekly "training" sessions, you learned how to heal, melee, or what ever skill you were using, or even how to sneak.

I remember sneaking through from Zora through ToT, BB, all the way to Fairhaven all bymyself at lvl 50 melee and only speed run 1 and hp self heal 1. Or my first time successfully sneaking through Underspring.

I remember the first time I got 1 mil dappers, Teaming with Infinity in Void on several occasions to fight in middle of the kincher spawns, Getting my first 250 (which happend to be in Forest foraging No cats), then my 2nd 250 like 6 months later in Elemental (thanks to all that helped, no cats here either), Watching my Guild Dragons of Shadow grow ( I do plan to regrow DoS here soonish)

So many more memores but soo little time or space