Proudest Moment

[atonal]

What is your proudest moment of DDO?

Is it finally getting that item you have been grinding for?
Is it soloing a particularly difficult quest?
Is it rescuing your party from disaster?

Reply below and receive no accolades whatsoever

[Zerkul]

My proudest moment is 25-april-2011... epic ADQ1 with templars. I looted bloodstone shard and traded it against ring of spellstoring shard in the same chest. Thanks templars ;).

It took 1 year of farming with 4 characters, each time ransack over and over, to acquire it.

[C-Shell]

generally being a pally tank and outperforming all the op classes (monks, sorcs, pms, younameit) in total kills on a regular basis with s+b mode.

[samthedagger]

The very first time I soloed The Pit on a 28-pt. first-life rogue with no hireling on elite was a pretty good feeling for me. And this was back during Update 5 as I recall. I think my character was level 10 or 11 at the time. It took me a couple tries, but I did it. I continue to have a special place in my heart for puzzle quests and platforming quests like The Pit, Spies in the House, and Prove Your Worth. Sometimes it is fun to do more than just kill monsters and smash boxes. It reminds me of the many hours I used to spend playing Mario Brothers and the Legend of Zelda where often the greatest amount of time would be spent on challenges of dexterity or cleverness as opposed to just stomping on or stabbing stuff.

[WruntJunior]

My proudest recent moment was making my suit of redscale (http://i1090.photobucket.com/albums/i371/PerryAndJacobDDOPics/JacobsScreenshots/ScreenShot00145_zps183bef46.jpg) for my FvS (first red scale I've ever made despite 2 years of trying - difficult for me to save that many reds up), and then yesterday capping Exalted Angel on him, finishing my ED grind on my last character that's doing the ED grind.

[Drona]

generally being a pally tank and outperforming all the op classes (monks, sorcs, pms, younameit) in total kills on a regular basis with s+b mode.

is this a joke? or did I fail the sarcasm check? :D

[Doomcrew]

generally being a pally tank and outperforming all the op classes (monks, sorcs, pms, younameit) in total kills on a regular basis with s+b mode.

Perhaps upgrading the players you group with would give you more of a challenge ....

[fco-karatekid]

Soloing EN ADQ1 and 2 last character. Had owned the pack for two years and didn't want to ruin a PUG; so I never ran it at all. Learned both parts last character.

This character's job was Crucible and Tor... same situation - had never run them till now, but got thru Tor thus far (Heroic Hard for now, EDIT: and not all dragons yet). Gotta see if MrCow has a video on soloing the raid, tho...

[TasMagar]

generally being a pally tank and outperforming all the op classes (monks, sorcs, pms, younameit) in total kills on a regular basis with s+b mode.

That 's fantastic !! :D one of the best jokes the past year :) Thanks for the laughs C-Shell !

[legendkilleroll]

Although people maybe do it all the time, i was proud when i was in a pug for elite von3, had no healer or hire, the party all died at the marut and i managed to do it with my rogue, awesome moment for me :)

[Qhualor]

when i soloed EVON 1 on my barb pre epic levels with a level 19 cleric hire, Klin. that led to more daring adventures soloing other epics when normally casters/divines were the primary classes at soloing epics.

another very proud, but expensive moment was soling my way into EChrono with no hire on my barb, but with stacks of SF pots. after several attempts and strategy tweaks, i finally made it into the MP. i decided not to continue and recalled out. i didnt have many SF pots left to keep going.

[Joldahks]

Being one of two people to survive through a near wipe in Shroud part 5, finishing off Harry with nothing but my SLAs, and saving the raid.

[Chilldude]

I don't know about proudest, but my most recent was yesterday in the shroud. I was on my 18 fleshy artificer, pretty much just a crafter, but is flagged for shroud and a friend needed a shard of power to make a GS item before they TR'd and all my other toons were on timer. In part 3 quite a few people had trouble with their puzzles and the wall made an appearance.

I've only seen the wall one other time, when I was trapped in a room where as soon as I saw it, it killed me. This time however I was not trapped in a room, so with half the group dead I managed to make my way around to the final unsolved puzzle, unlock the door, solve the puzzle, and put water in the fountain before the wall came around again. We even got the 2 water chests because I solved the puzzle before throwing water in the fountain.

Yeah, nothing to write home to mom about, but it was exciting at the time. (I still don't know how fast the wall moves, when I saw it behind me I ran as fast as I could and never looked back!)

[Xynot2]

I dont have *A* proudest moment but helping newbs understand aspects of the game they didnt and seeing them achieve more as a result... That's the best. Especially if they end up being better at the game than me.

[xTethx]

My best and worst moment: Moving to Khyber.

[bartharok]

My best moment: Not giving up when 4/6 group members decided we had wiped and left, and completed the pit

[AzB]

Mine was just the other day running the missing chain at level on my multi tr wizard. Before starting, another wiz entered the pug, and the leader immediately started the "you don't have enough hp" diatribe. The wiz responded "I'm not melee" but the leader pointed out my toon as being the same level and having almost twice the hp. I sent a tell to the wiz and simply said "don't mind him".

Naturally everyone wiped during the fight with Palefire, except me. I don't even think I took much damage, and polished off palefire with all my hp and nearly all my sp. ;)

But that wasn't the best part. That came after we finished the chain, the wiz sent me a tell asking me how I got so many hp. I proceeded to explain, and an hour later, he had a wiz with 100 more hp than he started with. He was actually a pretty good player, and those extra hp should help him a lot.

At any rate, I waited for him to ask me for help rather than come off sounding like a know it all, and now we've got another good player having more fun on our server.

[Vint]

My worst moment: Moving to Khyber.

Fixed that

[dotHackSign]

I have two, finishing a 3 man EE Belly of the Beast and just a little bit ago I managed to jump and land right on top of Teblyn Dun'Robar's head and stay there. His AI eventually gave up and he just stood there with my toon standing on his shoulders. Going to post a picture in the achievements section when it lets me upload to my gallery again. :D

[Memnir]

The moment I realized that just because a grind exists, I don't have to do it if it's not fun to do so.

[adamkatt]

Hitting 5k sp.

[silence383]

Guess a few years ago when people said you can't solo crucible. Yes before hires. You can but have to be fast. It annoyed me when someone said it's impossible and my friends were not around ..I needed it for flagging so as many things just had to do it :)

[HackSlashKill]

One of the proudest moments in DDO... has to be soloing the pit on a batman build from long ago (Rogue Pally Fighter) and pulling a Muckdoom.

[SirTeo]

It's hard to put my finger on it, might have been a long process but creating and gathering the best & most appropriate people i know to Mitis mors and building up it's structure to make it the perfect guild in my perspective is something I'm very proud of. Although if I have to pick one moment it's either creating my epic sos after about 150-200 runs, might have been more, true greatness for ages ago. or.....

The moment when I decided to speed run Tower of despair when it was the hardest raid out there, me along with some guildies sat down for hours planing it down to details, what we possibly could do to run it as efficient as possible, for instance; zooning in to the quest and have one caster haste and another one cast displacement on the fastest monk we knew of while this monk gave himself invisibility and abundant step like a maniac to the lever to set off the drama. The whole run was awesome and we even changed a few strats along the run, so took us a few attempts and sweaty hours to make it perfect. When we finally got the perfect run it was euphoria, we were so happy that we got the best time on the server and shared in the world:) unforgettable moment in ddo that I sometimes think back on even tho I'm not playing the game any longer.

[Xynot2]

Couple weeks ago?


Solo EN LoD, pulled 2 seals, 2 scrolls, end chest had a +2 tome and end reward was upgrade +2/+3 tome. I NEVER get that lucky. And then within the next couple of days I got Encrusted ring AND the Knost belt and I was actually running my barbarian! Best ... Week... EVER!

[IronClan]

The moment I realized that just because a grind exists, I don't have to do it if it's not fun to do so.

Not my proudest and I figured this out before DDO, but yeah, enjoying the game without repeating the same handful of content over and over because you HAVE to have that one item is pretty huge.

[IronClan]

Proudest moment, Tear joined the group in progress on my fresh S&B Pali, I think I had just gotten the first tier DOS stance, and this was back when S&B was *cough* still gimp *uncough* and just put on my Mith Full plate and Mith Tower both with fresh AC rituals and min maxed AC gear.

Anyway someone else just joining started talking over Voice about how gimp a Pali with 1Rog splash must be (Intim was not a Pali skill back then), while we were running to catch up, he promptly died in an uncleared trap, so I grabbed his stone, yellow alert, organge alert *ding*.... *ding* and *ding* suddenly I'm the only one left alive of 5 players and its obvious that they were not killing anything on the way so, I stupidly decided "when in rome do as the romans" and run through EVERYTHING but they had left lots of mobs and not knowing the way that well I probably also went in and activated some mobs that they hadn't. I get to their stones and pick them up thinking I'll shoot to a shrine, only to get harried and mobbed by everything in the dungeon. So I switch from greataxe to S&B mode, hit my brand new Defender of Siberys stance, and swing away while chugging buffs and resists (because of the casters) and cure pots, and spend what seemed like 20 minutes, nearly dieing multiple times; killing every living thing converging on me with my trusty Shock/Frost/PG Daxe, ended up with something like 20hps, totally out of pots, zero SP from using empowered cure lights, and no more LOH, when I got to the shrine. The proud feeling came in when 3 other players started telling me how epic that was and thanks for saving a wipe, and more than a one "well I guess that answers so-and so's gimp question lol". That guy never said a word after dieing in the trap BTW not even after raising at the shrine.

[DoctorWhofan]

Worst PuG evar.

I was about to re roll my pally, Sousake. He was a 28 point build and not working. So with heavy heart I decided to start anew.

So here I was, level 12, sending stuff to my other toons and deciding what to sell, I got a tell asking if I would be willing to do a 5-6 VoN run.

I thought about it and decided, 'sure, why not?' His last harurah.

Did I mention worst PuG ever?

The leader was doing it wrong, people were EVERYWHERE, no communication, no nothing. I spoke up, asking questions in which got no answers. Finally I took charge. I didn't know the quest very well but I manage to corral everyone who didn't drop and start from the beginning. THe leader, who had been silent the whole time, not even answering the tells, got mad and dropped group, not without some parting ...words.

I shrugged, took the star, and set up an advert. Found out only one person besides me had did the quest before. Fun. Regardless, dispite not having alot of melee types (my 22 STR Pally had to take down a pillar, it took 5 minutes!) We got to Velah with one loss onthe bridge. Buffed and the healer in the safe spot, we went to town. I kept hitting her, not really paying attention to the others, happy I had frost/lesser dragon bane weapon.

Suddenly after about 2 minutes I started to hear/type "Go Sousake Go!" I looked and noticed outside the healer, I was the only one alive! I kelp hitting her, saving everytime from her effects, healing and rebuffing resist fire on me when needed. This when on for another 3 or so minutes until she you couldn't see her bar anymore. THe I FINALLY failed a save and died before I could do anything about it.

THe healer raised the barbarian and he kiled her in one hit. We got two docents for the raid loot- good thing we had two WF- But everyine was happy! It was challenging andtook like 4 hours, but a bunch of newbies, a French guy and a gimp of a pally managed to kill the dragon on HARD.

Afterword, after we broke group and everyone congratulated me, I stared at my gimpy pally for a long time.

He almost killedthe dragon! He was useful! I...didn't want to tear him down. SO I didn't, placing him in storage and swallowed the then limit on characters one could have.

THen TR came out, and he was woken up and used my very first Greater TR. Fixed him and along with the PREs, he is now at level 21...never re-rolled and never True Reincarnated.

Because he almost killed the dragon.

[PNellesen]

What is your proudest moment in DDO?

Probably the first time I solo-healed VoD (normal). This was when cap was 20. That, or the first time I solo-healed an at-level normal Shroud (again, back when cap was 20).

[tekkentroop]

-doing the swim on crucible elite for the first time and succeeding.
-hitting 18 and 20 on the third life on my wiz and becoming a machine of destruction.
-soloing sins of attrition and weapon shipment for the first time (quite a while ago)
-soloing new invasion for flagging for the first time, and succeeding in 17 mins (well, thats what the xp display said)
-probably my first shroud/ToD (running important roles like healer, shadow kiter, and tank)
-doing 2 5x5 puzzles for other people in shroud

[Shyver]

Two-manned the shroud back when the level cap was 16. It was a few years back, but still one of the most challenging things in game that I've done. And it was a ton of fun.

[Qaliya]

Realizing how much time I was wasting working towards artificial and meaningless "achievements" in a video game, and instead applying that energy to achievements in the real world.

[xTethx]

Two-manned the shroud back when the level cap was 16. It was a few years back, but still one of the most challenging things in game that I've done. And it was a ton of fun.

Good ole Attacks the Darkness, good times...good times.

[Sparky21]

My first character ever was a fighter...and I totally sucked but was learning the game and having fun. I met a player who was extremely good at caster by the name of Flamicia Sparkbringer. We partied quite a bit...he totally destroyed everything and it inspired me to make a caster as soon as I hit 20 with the fighter.

So a week later I roll a drow wizard, I didn't tell anyone, and he had a new melee toon and didn't tell me. I posted a group for deleras to do xp runs, and he clicks, along with a couple other randoms. We do a few runs...they are smooth and I racked up most of the kills in a group between 4 to 6 players (people were joining and leaving as they pleased).

Toward the end of the runs, he compliments me on my skill as a caster, and I happen to glance over at his character and notice his last name matched Flamicia's. Sparkbringer. I ask "Any relation to Flamicia Sparkbringer?" He says "Yeah, thats me". I told him it was me, and he says "holy ****". I guess he realized that when I partied with him before, I was studying his play style and learning how to kill efficiently.

I guess that was my proudest moment in DDO...being complimented by a veteran when I was a newbie.

[Matuse]

My proudest moment was this time 2 years ago when I forgot to jump when climbing up a ladder, but didn't rubberband off the bottom 20 times before successfully getting up. My character just grabbed the ladder and climbed. I'd never seen anything like it before or since.

[Whesper]

My proudest moment was this time 2 years ago when I forgot to jump when climbing up a ladder, but didn't rubberband off the bottom 20 times before successfully getting up. My character just grabbed the ladder and climbed. I'd never seen anything like it before or since.

Thanks for hereby exploding my face. The save was so high only a natural 20 could have done it.


My proudest moment was after first time I went berserk on my WF wizzy in sins and got like 1/5 of the dungeon on me and killed everything. Didn't have DC nor spell pen required for it then :)

[oldkraft2]

the first time i was the only one alive of a hard working party when finally killing boss
sadly as a barb i couldnt raise any so they all had to recall and reenter for the chest
was ghosts of perdition

[Moltier]

When i soloed the old epic OOB on a melee before MotU, without silver flame pots. :)
It was also a tonn of fun!

[wonko_the_sane]

Doing the swim in Crucible on my bard. The evasion character died and no one else in the party was willing to try. They were just going to quit. I did the swim, grabbed his stone on the way and raised him at the end. My first run through Crucible, too. Wish someone had known the lever trick. Good Times.

[Strider1963]

The coolest (and dumbest) thing I ever did are one in the same. Was doing a normal TOD with my 18 ranger-1 fighter-1 rogue tempest build, we were on the last part, and Sulo had come down, was waiting for the sulo tank to say it was ok to come in on him when something hit me from behind. Thinking it was an orthon or such, I turned around swinging and lo and behold there stood Horoth (the monk tank had died). Since he seemed to like me a lot after I whacked him, I ran him over to the wall where he is usually tanked (thinking the monk who was now res'd would come over and retake aggro, or I would simply die and then he would take aggro, was better than a wipe). Well, he never retook aggro and I wound up tanking Horroth right till the end (thanks to great heals), never lost aggro, I dont think he ever turned around once, even when Sulo was dead and everyone else was beating on him.
My tempest had 489hp, zero aggro item, and zero intim.. just kept whacking away with my 2 lit2 kopeshes to hold aggro..... :-)

[Talon_Moonshadow]

Saving parties from wipes are my favorite moments. I have a few stories, but I have posted them on the forums before.

Being the last man standing always makes me feel proud.


Back in the day, Rogues had a bad rep. I wasn't the first to prove Rogues can be great killers, but I remember feeling like I had something to prove as I leveled mine up.

I specifically rememeber two Barbarians and a Fighter commenting on their respective kill counts compared to each other..... and totally ignoring the fact that mine was waaaay higher than any of theirs. :cool:

More recently, (before epic destinies( peopl ecomplained that mages were OP. So any time I could get more kills on my rogue than a bunch of mages I felt proud about that.

Important to note that my Rogue is not on my main server and lacks gear... specifically she lacks a radiance weapon... so I have to get sneak attack damage the hard way (by not getting agro, or using Diplo/Bluff).




Ranged has had a bad rep in the past too.
My Fighter archer received a lot of critisism, so whenever he managed to get a high kill count I was very proud.

same with some of my Rangers. (still so, since Rangers are still thought of as gimped by many)



Actually any time I am playing a build that people consider subpar...especially if they critisize my build.... and then I either get a high kill count, or become the last man standing and save the party...

[IronClan]

Realizing how much time I was wasting working towards artificial and meaningless "achievements" in a video game, and instead applying that energy to achievements in the real world.

Just wait til you realize how many of those are artificial and meaningless as well :) Life and games are not about achievements, but the journey.

From a purely analytical objective standpoint, consider how many Human beings in the brief couple thousand year flicker of recorded history became "famous", "renowned", "recognized", "beloved", "revered" (etc.) compared to the billions who existed anonymously in the same span. I suspect if you tallied it up you would find better odds of hitting the mega millions, twice in a row, than "achieving" anything that's considered truely notable by the world at large.

[Nephilia]

Entered in a Inferno of the damned on elite, late in, so I was separated from the rest of the group.
Still I wanted my loot so I tried to move into the quest even if I was (and I'm) completely clueless about the maps and which portal take to go in whatever part.
Suddenly all people died but me with my sorc.
I figured out how to move through portals (getting their stones) and finished the quest!!!

[illusion28]

Helping a couple of players learn basics and strategy of the game and now being the one asking them for help :D.

[Loromir]

I don't know about proudest, but my most recent was yesterday in the shroud. I was on my 18 fleshy artificer, pretty much just a crafter, but is flagged for shroud and a friend needed a shard of power to make a GS item before they TR'd and all my other toons were on timer. In part 3 quite a few people had trouble with their puzzles and the wall made an appearance.

I've only seen the wall one other time, when I was trapped in a room where as soon as I saw it, it killed me. This time however I was not trapped in a room, so with half the group dead I managed to make my way around to the final unsolved puzzle, unlock the door, solve the puzzle, and put water in the fountain before the wall came around again. We even got the 2 water chests because I solved the puzzle before throwing water in the fountain.

Yeah, nothing to write home to mom about, but it was exciting at the time. (I still don't know how fast the wall moves, when I saw it behind me I ran as fast as I could and never looked back!)

One of mine is similar to this. I solved 2 3x3's (Before the wall appeared) and a 5x5 myself without a solver (After the wall appeared). Wall took out prolly 2/3 of the raid members.

Oddly, the other 4 parts went very smoothely without the slightest hint at trouble. Too many people like to rely on others to do puzzles. Unfortunately only about half of us in this raid new how to do the puzzles.

[Seb]

My proudest moment was getting everyone to the end of the Titan pre-raid in a PUG I joined a couple months ago. People had destroyed some of the corridor crystals by recalling and re-entering. Other people wandered down the blue corridor from the green room, missed the turn-off and got lost in the purple room. By the time I got everyone through I felt like the mother duck in Make Way for Ducklings.

[Ushurak]

My proudest moment was also my most EPIC DERP moment...

I was on my main (Deadbot) about 3 years ago, which at the time was my only toon.

We were running ADQ and for the second time in about 3 runs, LO AND BEHOLD...ANOTHER Torq...my second one.

I ecstatically exclaimed "YESSSS...MY 2ND TORQ...WOOOOHOOO"...I looted it, recalled, and dropped group.

It took me about five minutes for the "face-palm" to set in...IT IS BTC...a 2nd one does me NO GOOD!

So I then realized why everyone else was so quite when I looted it instead of giving me the big "GRATZ".

What I said was "YESSSS...MY 2ND TORQ...WOOOOHOOO"; but what they heard was "I'm a ****, I'm a BIG ****, I'm the BIGGEST **** YOU WILL EVER MEET".

So for all of you who may read this and say "Yeah, I remember that...I was there"...I am SOOOOOO SOOOORRRRYYY!
Even though I was lvl 20, I was still a nooblet.

But the point is...I looted 2 Torqs in 3 runs which was only a total of about 5 runs.

[Double_O]

When I finally reached Post 100 on the forums..

[MrLarone]

Logging in my main after a few months off and getting tells welcoming me back before I've fully loaded in.

That was nice =)

In the Spirit of Double_O's post; reaching 1.0 posts per day at ~600 posts =p

[arkonas]

generally being a pally tank and outperforming all the op classes (monks, sorcs, pms, younameit) in total kills on a regular basis with s+b mode.

except total kills doesnt mean you are better then anyone. it just means you got the last hit in. they could do more dps then you. then you get the lucky hit in.

[Miow]

Although people maybe do it all the time, i was proud when i was in a pug for elite von3, had no healer or hire, the party all died at the marut and i managed to do it with my rogue, awesome moment for me :)

Repeater rogue? :)

[Miow]

My proudest moment was also my most EPIC DERP moment...

I was on my main (Deadbot) about 3 years ago, which at the time was my only toon.

We were running ADQ and for the second time in about 3 runs, LO AND BEHOLD...ANOTHER Torq...my second one.

I ecstatically exclaimed "YESSSS...MY 2ND TORQ...WOOOOHOOO"...I looted it, recalled, and dropped group.

It took me about five minutes for the "face-palm" to set in...IT IS BTC...a 2nd one does me NO GOOD!

So I then realized why everyone else was so quite when I looted it instead of giving me the big "GRATZ".

What I said was "YESSSS...MY 2ND TORQ...WOOOOHOOO"; but what they heard was "I'm a ****, I'm a BIG ****, I'm the BIGGEST **** YOU WILL EVER MEET".

So for all of you who may read this and say "Yeah, I remember that...I was there"...I am SOOOOOO SOOOORRRRYYY!
Even though I was lvl 20, I was still a nooblet.

But the point is...I looted 2 Torqs in 3 runs which was only a total of about 5 runs.

First off i hate you for looting 2 torqs with such little effort, secondly you need two if you plan on epicing 1 and keeping 1 for tr purposes. That is all. Smiley face

[Blackwolfe]

I know I'm tardy to the party here, but here is mine.

I also know its a few years old, but I ran into a stranger last night that reminded me of this incident and thread....so enjoy


http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?p=4125010#post4125010

[Habreno]

Soloing Elite Weapons Shipment reliably on a first-life 32-point Elf Cleric through melee.

This was pre-U14 (I've done it afterward but was a 34-point second life HElf then with THF, not TWF as I did first life) and always invited people for bauble pulls... even after I had mine, I'd run it for friends to get theirs.

Keep in mind this is when people are saying how hard Weapons Shipment was to solo... because they were doing it wrong.


If you go in Weapons Shipment and expect to instakill everything, you're going to run out of SP.

If you go in Weapons Shipment and melee everything, you're going to have mostly full SP.


If you want to melee things, a Cleric/Favored Soul isn't a bad way to do it. Nice self-heals :D