Stories: Your Moment of Glory

[EyeRekon]

I'd like to hear stories of when things were looking grim, something you did allowed for a spectacular recovery and victory. Something that you felt really proud of. If you do not have any for yourself, share one that you witnessed.


Healer Kills Harry
For me it was a pug Shroud around U3 on my main healer. DPS lag is terrible as usual at the time, heals were laid on thick. Harry was steadily dropping but people kept dying anyway on account of lag. Eventually everyone is dead but myself and the other healer. At this point you know that everyone has resigned to the conclusion that this is a wipe. I kill Harry with a Cometfall.

There was much astonishment and praise.

Even more amazingly, no one had given up and released already (/ragequit). We raised the mana bars so they could shrine before part 5 and ultimately ended up completing.

I've had that same setup happen only one other time but I was out of SP and no pots so I just pulled my .... mace and charged in valiantly. Did not have the same result.

[licho]

I kill Harry with a Cometfall.



Killing Harry with cometfall is a very sweet revange,

[hityawithastick]

For me it was a moment of complete stupidity followed by wonderfulness.

Tele'd into Part 2 of a PUG shroud on my pale master, found a mob of devil-cats who wanted to play with my spleen, and ran away. I got a bit turned around while I was trying to enervate some of them, and ran right past all four of the rednames while everyone was still scattered through the maze. :eek:

So I did what any self-respecting pale master would do: I threw up death aura and displacement, dropped ice storm on my featherfalling boots, and put a shield up in their faces. My poor drow immediately disappeared under a mob of stoneskinned outsiders.

But much to my surprise, it worked. The combination of ice storm, death aura, and my tiny plink-plink guards actually killed about half of the beizekiras, the party members who were there came up to help, and (although I had 0 (+17) hit points at one nail-biting moment), in short order the rednames were split up and we were rolling as if nothing had happened.

I take full credit. :D

[no, joking, other people helped too. A lot.]

[Musouka]

Eventually everyone is dead by myself and the other healer.

QFT!

Never trust the healer that remains behind you in safety, because they will just let you die or stab you in the back with a little dagger.

[EyeRekon]

QFT!

Never trust the healer that remains behind you in safety, because they will just let you die or stab you in the back with a little dagger.

Lol, that typo really did read in a funny way.

[sephiroth1084]

Well, my tank Ferrumrym has been one big exercise is creating these situations. The entire point of his existence is to survive and see things through to the end.

To that end, a few highlights:
-Running Ghola Fan on elite, the two rogues and a monk all died several times in the gauntlet hallway, eventually so far in that they couldn't be raised. Ferrum stripped off his armor, hit himself with a Jump clicky, chugged a haste pot, and navigated those hallways of death, stopping occasionally to heal and retrieve soulstones. At the end, he busted down the door and wiped the floor with the corpses of the ogres guarding the crest and key, and emerged from the other side to rejoin the cleric with a pocketful of soulstones and a crest.

-In A Vision of Destruction on Hard, while tanking Sulu, the party died to the bats at the end. Continued beating on the boss while healing myself. Tossed a Raise Dead to a healer and a Lay on Hands to get them to full to prevent them from dying before they could heal up. That healer got another up, but died in the process. I kept the second healer up for a few rounds while continuing to attack Sulu and keep myself healed, but that guy eventually went down as well. This story, unfortunately, has a sad ending, as, after 5 minutes of this...I ran out of Remove Curse pots and finally succumbed to Sulu's onslaught.

-In ToD part 2, the kiter died and shadows swarmed the dais. I managed to survive a few cold ticks, partly from cleric healing and from a timely LoH, before seeing that things were going south. Jumped off the side of the dais, healed up, and tossed a raise to the kiter. Once he was back on his way with the shadows, I remounted the throne and brought Nytherios to his knees solo just a few moments after the kiter was shuffled off to the great beyond once more.

[firea]

a low level story:
My low lv barb was doing lair of summoning(nightmare) everyone got killed except for the wiz. he grabed our stones, ran back to the shrine persued by mephits(hate them) but we rez and then went back. this time, no one got killed i killed the boss 200+ dmg with my vorpal sweet revenge:)
got like 6 deaths but it was nice finishing it

Oh another one... if this counts:
my wiz(only lv4 at that time) was doing kobold assualt elite. Got wiped about a few million times. we were ready to give up but the leader said stay on. In the end... we finished
Our final stats
monsters killed:201(the 200+trog)
deaths:88
reentry:6
the most epic fail ever but i admire the determination of the rest of the party members

[Vissarion]

Back when I was first doing endgame raids on my FVS, Vratch, I joined a pug VoD run that was obviously pretty squishy from watching health bars in the SubT. We ended up getting to the second wave of Orthons with Sully at 15% before people started dying. For some reason I decided that I was gonna be damned to see that raid fail, so I started dropping Blade Barriers and winging my way around the room. About 10 pots later, Sully died to the applause and astonishment of the rest of the pug. It was only my third VoD, I believe. :)

Then, of course, I was denied a roll on Tharne's Gogges by the group leader. Oh sweet, sweet irony. :D

[Braegan]

Ahh a moment of glory I recall at the moment might seem a lil less glorious to some but it was a big deal to me.

Waiting for the famed Mod 9 (back in the day :D ) there was an all Cleric Titan organized. I enlisted and found myself in the company of some very knowledgeable and reputable forumites like Impaqt (who organized the run) and MrCow. To say that I wished not to stand out as a sucky player in the presence of such credible folk would be an understatement.

Anywho, on to the good part. I found myself going Purple Side and us poor clerics found ourselves at an impass with trying to get the hops (jumps) needed to hit a lever to lower the barrier. I had anticipated this area being a problem and even stocked up on jump pots...alas they were not enough to get my naked self to where I needed to be.

There came one option. The lava swim. All this time I could hear the Green Side doing there puzzle and it would just be a shame if we clerics could not complete do to something paultry as a lil dip in some lava. A roll call of HP came out, y'know to choose the lucky one. At this point I was floored. My lil human battle-cleric was well over a hundred more hp than some sturdy dwarven builds. So go-go Phalse :)

I get every buff I can think of, and jump in the lava, swimming for my life and the continuation of the raid. I notice with a cold sweat my hp ticking away in chunks. Finally I reach the ladder with single-digit hp, throw a heal and pull the lever. It was really a great moment in DDO for me and just felt like I was a hero at that time. :)

[suszterpatt]

Epic Offering on a rogue with under 350 HP. All goes well until we get to the lightning traps, where people start dying. Before you know it, I'm the only one still up, hiding in a corner at the base of the slopes. Realizing that I'm the next one on the scorps' menu, I pop a haste clicky, haste boost (bless you, Ranger splash), uncanny dodge and just about everything else, grab the 3 soulstones within sight, and make a break for the shrine. I just barely make it, we regroup and finish the quest.

[dragonmane]

This is more about my daughter then me. She is ten and well she has a gimped cleric, but she loves her cleric. She was level 8 and I was a low level 9 monk and we went into I think the shadow knight quests. I was a killing machine but then got overwhelmed and my pocket cleric went down. Her own cleric was dead(she always would let her cleric die lol), but she had a great axe with fire and pure good so all she does is swing it around and hope people die. At this time I am yelling at her to heal me and she has no idea where that button is so she just swings. Her hitpoints are going, going and almost gone.
I saw her kill about 3 spetres and 5 zombies and a host of those phase spiders and in the end she was still alive. I could not believe it. The rolls must have gone her way. Its was just incrediable.
At the end she jumps up and hugs me and then goes, "Ha, come get some!". I had to laugh. That is the best story I can come up with.

[Relenthe]

This is more a group moment of glory than a solo 1.

So basically we are in an epic von 6. Little coordination and so-forth and after a few seconds all of base fire was dead except for me, all ice base was dead except for 1 cleric, and all of the elec base was dead except for 1 caster (with no dd) and a melee. Due to panicking while taking down the bases and running on the bridges, the bridge between fire and elec base went down, and between elec and ice was 2 shots away from falling.

I picked up fire base and run home, and the cleric pickes up ice and runs home. In order to keep the bridge between elec and ice alive, they decide to jump to island below the dragon. Thankfully it was the melee on elec who grabbed elec stones, because the caster (also the leader) didn't make the jump.

So we all raised up at home and w/o a leader the bard took control. We decided that myself and a cleric would handle fire, and the rest divided between ice and elec. With no cc on fire base I just grabbed the eles aggro and ran around while the cleric healed me, ice base was fine with the wizard dancing the flensers, but elec base still had people dropping due to people hitting fascinates.

We got coordinated long enough to take the djinn's somehow, and the pillars were down. Now with every single bridge out, and 20 deaths, we all jumped to the center island, regrouped, and took the dragon out with 0 deaths.

[varusso]

Third time I ran Tempest Spine, ever. Playing my heal-spec cleric (back when the aura came with RS 1 instead of RS 2). Solo healer (we had another cleric, but they werent anything one would actually classify as a healer) and I still had NO idea how the mountain and surrounding area was laid out. We hit the top, and everyone piled in behind us instead of waiting for the runes. OOM, Saw the wipe coming, knew there was noting to stop it. Jumped off the mountain just as the last person dropped, FF down and ran around like a looby trying to find the way back to the cave, buffs wearing and only my auras for healing. Finally found it, trudged my way back up to the top, trying not to stumble into the 'wrong' corridors along the way. Got back out to the puzzle, grabbed as many stones as I could, jumped off again. Blundered back to the cave, dropped stones at the nearest shrine, and went back for the rest. Got everyone else, regrouped at the shrine, then went in with about 2/3 of the party (rest ragequit) and beat his candy-ass down.

On the bright side, that was the day I learned the layout of TS :D

[Cardtrick]

Then, of course, I was denied a roll on Tharne's Gogges by the group leader. Oh sweet, sweet irony. :D

Dude. . . that is not cool. You should have gotten to roll twice.

[Yagi]

The many times that my dorf barb who apparently can no longer tank horroth because he is not a tr'd horc with a sos has snaped up horrth after the horc and his 30 fort save kissed the dirt.

Another one was when I was on a lowbie ranger doing a tempest spine and the entire party somehow managed to get themselves killed at sorj and ragequit in the time it took me to lead a lost new guy who had crashed from the firetraps...he was pretty bummed out at not completing his first raid so I told him it would be ok and stepped in the portal, and a few minutes later pulled the bp of giants for him.

[ceiswyn]

Ah, I have two sweet memories, both of them on my ranger, known before LR for his squishiness.

The first was in ToD part 2. "Hey guys, I seem to have a little more boss-love than I had perhaps hoped for. ...guys? ...GUYS?!?!" Why yes, the kiter had gone down, shadows were on the dais, and the healers were desperately attempting to put the raid back together. My job was to, err, tank the shadowmaster while they did it. Nobody was more surprised than me that I actually survived the experience!

The second was very similar, in an epic Velah. We'd, err, mistimed the hide-behind-the-pillar move slightly and the entire melee contingent of the party was dead. Well, almost the entire contingent... Cue five minutes of ranger vs dragon, mano a mano, locked in epic combat, type thing. Have I ever been glad of Improved Evasion.

So, yeah. Ranger tanking. It's the next big thing, I tellz ya :)

[Xyfiel]

I have saved more raids then failed them so I am happy. Saved an Abbot once by seeing inferno coming and no islands in time, water strided it out, jumped up as everyone was dieing, and ran around while giving one cleric(Impaqt) a raise. Impaqt handled it from there while I kept Abbot busy for a few more seconds before he changed aggro.

Saved a part 4 shroud once when 16 was cap. Start of round 2 or 3, lost everyone but 2 melee and my Warforged battlesorc, he was at 10% or so. They ran around the outside chugging pots while I beat him down and reconstructed myself. They came in before the blades to help finish him off. They still died though:D

Had some Visions and Dq also, but don't remember the specifics of each one.

[EyeRekon]

Second Hand Story
This is a story about a friend of mine and is second-hand because I did not witness it, only know of the story.

He has some Pally mix build and is uber-geared. Very high DPS that can easily steal aggro via hate from most tanks, yet also has an absurdly high AC.

So he's in a VoD pug and he is accustomed to tanking Sulu. The party would not allow him to tank because he wasn't WF. Bah! He explained that Sulu can hardly even touch him to land a curse anyway. Still denied.

Fine.

He concedes to allow the designated tank to do his thing, but sure enough my friend continually steals aggro without even trying. The second wave of Orthons spawn and wipe everyone except for my friend. Sulu nor the Orthons could hit him directly but he was taking damage from glancing blows. He is able to heal himself. He throws off a few raises for the clerics but they kept getting killed from the Orthons & Sulu's chain lightning.

He goes ahead and just completes the raid himself and everyone raises themselves at the end-shrine.

Blew the party's mind.



In another VoD pug after he was yet again denied the tanking role and kept stealing aggro, he was instructed to "go lay down in the corner." We jokingly tell him to fight bare handed or throw lumps of coal when he isn't tanking.

[Vissarion]

Dude. . . that is not cool. You should have gotten to roll twice.

It's all good, I got a pair during an all divine VoD. One of two pairs that dropped. Take that, melees! ;)

[Talon_Moonshadow]

Sadly, all of my recent moments of would-be glory have ended with me being the last one in the dungeon as people left group or DCed. :(



But one of my most memorial was a Shroud run led by our old forum Vet DoctorWhoFan, on her main Cleric Trissa.

For some reason things went real badly in prt 5.... I raised her twice. She was out of mana. But scroll healed a really awesome tank as he solo tanked Harry.

Only the three of us left alive now.

I ranged from a distance. Used all of my healing resources. Got Manyshot recharged and killed Harry with only 14 HP left.

As the celebrating and rezzing of the other party members commenced......my madstone ran out and I died. :eek: