What’s your FAVORITE fell good memory/story from the game?

gamerguy757

I just started a new sales month and I’m stressed! I want to read some really good memories while working.
Please…no hate, no sarcasm! Let these be some feel good or great memories/stories you have from the game!

For me, mine would have to be beating VMA for the first time.
I had been practicing for weeks. I watched Deltia everyday trying to get it right. I constantly was having issues on that last boss until finally…one night…after 3 hours on that last boss….I hit that boss with a final Mages Wrath and boom! I got the Stormproof title! And not only that…my very first drop EVER was a Precise Inferno Staff!
And this was the days before Transmutes.

So what about all you? What are some good feel-good stories you have from the game?

Araneae6537

Getting through difficult dungeons with PUG groups, several or all of us doing it for the first time. It feels good when everyone’s constructively working together to figure out how to overcome the challenge and then finally succeeding!

ArchangelIsraphel

Watching my 60 year old mother solo the last boss in fungal grotto 1 back when we were new to the game, while my father and I were lying dead on the floor like a bosmer and altmer shaped carpet.

Even though I'm an adult, me, my mom, and dad connect over playing MMO's. They got into gaming because of my interest in it, and have played along side me in many mmo's for a long time. We've 3 manned a lot of difficult content in many other games. But back in 2018 we started playing ESO during the August free weekend and got hooked.

We played consistently throughout September, but none of us were fully leveled yet by the time the October halloween event rolled around. We must have been around level 35-40, not yet capped but close enough. We weren't rushing the game- we were questing, having fun, taking our time. We hadn't yet touched any group dungeons. But when we saw the new motif that dropped in the plunder skulls, we had to have it...

So, a Khajiit Warden (my mom), An altmer sorc vampire (my dad), and A bosmer werewolf nightblade (me) walk into a bar....

Anyway, I know Fungal grotto 1 is one of the easiest dungeons for an established player (I chose it to get our dungeon plunder skull for that reason, on the recommendation of other players) and we decide we're gonna go for it. We aren't geared. We don't yet understand our classes incredibly well, nor do we quite get the idea of how the set bonuses work yet. Sure, we could have done our research...sure, we could have excessively prepared or asked someone...but we weren't really thinking of all that min-maxing at the time. We were more caught up in those glorious first months of an MMO that are full of new discovery and running face-first into anything interesting that came at us, learning as we went.

So we start taking on FG1. And its hard. We die, we res each other, we work together figuring out the mechanics and what we need to do. It was fun, the kind of fun we've always had together in MMO's- learning how to take on stuff with just the three of us, form tactics, alter our characters to work off of each other and succeed.

So after a long fight, repeatedly dying and figuring out boss mechanics, our under geared team finally reaches the last boss.

We start the fight. We die many times over, but we're still having fun. We're determined to beat this thing. Finally, having learned the mechanics through trial and error, comparing them through discussion to other games we've played, we start doing quite well. But then my dad's character dies, and I die shortly after slipping up and getting one-shot.

But my mother with her warden and bear are still on their feet- she's self healing, the bear is tanking while she DPS's. She's NOT giving up this time. She's NOT letting this boss take her out again. It took her a good ten or twenty minutes to wittle that things health bar down until it was dead, but through absolutely stubborn determination, she soloed it like a champ while me and my dad lay there.

This 60 year old woman with arthritis in her hands, who often is tired or feels sore, can still kick some serious arse by sheer will- and continues to do so. We continue to play together, learn together, fight together. And although we're geared far better now and research our mechanics first before we start a fight, we still look back on that story and laugh at the time mom completely kicked our butts in FG1 because she wasn't going to back down.

Ratzkifal

I think my favorite feel good memory was that one time when I singlehandedly defended a keep in PvP against an organized group and got my first Grand Overlord killer achievement.
The keep was basically undefended as everyone else was busy fighting somewhere else and I was pretty much alone. I slotted inevitable detonation, waited until they breached outer and then I just started putting it on as many people in the ballgroup as I could and that got them all killed just like that, because they were too good at stacking together and failed to spread out in time. Forward camps weren't a thing at the time, so the day was saved thanks to me.

My second favorite feel good memory was when I was still pretty new to the game and played in below50 PvP and an emperor was defending a keep alone against a small group of players. The emperor was a NB and not that great at the game either, but because of cloak they could just keep avoiding death and try again. Since I was a NB as well, I went out of combat and slotted Mark and morphed it into Piercing Mark, which at the time granted sight on invisible enemies for as long as the duration of the resistance debuff, so killing the emperor was very easy at that point and I even ended up getting the killing blow and the achievement.

My third favorite feel good moment was also in PvP. We had just opened the scroll gate and gotten through, but the enemies were pushing us back. I was on the sidelines and grabbed the skyshard and while I did, the gate closed behind me and another player. We were the only ones behind the gate at that point and nobody had noticed us. And while the enemies kept taking back their keeps, we were still there thinking about trying to take the scroll as just the two of us. We came up with the plan that he would run in first and take all the aggro and then I would run in a bit later and take the scroll as I was the faster runner. We ended up getting the scroll, got outside the gate (you can/could interact with it while on the inside) and managed to get it around half the way home before eventually dying. Everyone in zone chat was so confused as to how that had happened and I can only assume so were the enemies. It was glorious! The only reason this is my 3rd favorite is because we didn't end up getting that scroll home.

jedtb16_ESO

defeating white whales with friends...

xilfxlegion

my favorite memory was when my series x didnt constantly crash

Slimebrow

Ehh honestly none... If they had characters you met a long the way/helped out showed up in other quests lines and developed character over time it would have had more impact. RN is just typical MMO quests. Do this, defeat enemies, or talk to some guy you most likely will never meet again and that's it.

Even the bosses in quests are so underwhelming combat wise that they die in like 3 to 4 hits so I just don't bother reading all of the notes or books about story and lore of what happened as it just doesn't have as much impact in terms of feeling good or a sense of accomplishment or progress. I kinda just feel sorry for them its like I can just one punch em to death and that's the end of them.

Mik195

My best moment still makes me giggle. One time in the deep dead of night, I soloed 2 dolemens in Alik'r. Now soloing a dolmen isn't a big deal, but I never expected to see empty ones in Alik'r so very much enjoyed the empty desert experience.

Cillion3117

Not long after release, I got my wife to give the game a try. She fell in love with it immediately. The day she called me at work all excited and asking me questions about something she was running really made me smile. Happy wife = happy life.

Sylvermynx

ArchangelIsraphel wrote: »

Watching my 60 year old mother solo the last boss in fungal grotto 1 back when we were new to the game, while my father and I were lying dead on the floor like a bosmer and altmer shaped carpet.

Even though I'm an adult, me, my mom, and dad connect over playing MMO's. They got into gaming because of my interest in it, and have played along side me in many mmo's for a long time. We've 3 manned a lot of difficult content in many other games. But back in 2018 we started playing ESO during the August free weekend and got hooked.

We played consistently throughout September, but none of us were fully leveled yet by the time the October halloween event rolled around. We must have been around level 35-40, not yet capped but close enough. We weren't rushing the game- we were questing, having fun, taking our time. We hadn't yet touched any group dungeons. But when we saw the new motif that dropped in the plunder skulls, we had to have it...

So, a Khajiit Warden (my mom), An altmer sorc vampire (my dad), and A bosmer werewolf nightblade (me) walk into a bar....

Anyway, I know Fungal grotto 1 is one of the easiest dungeons for an established player (I chose it to get our dungeon plunder skull for that reason, on the recommendation of other players) and we decide we're gonna go for it. We aren't geared. We don't yet understand our classes incredibly well, nor do we quite get the idea of how the set bonuses work yet. Sure, we could have done our research...sure, we could have excessively prepared or asked someone...but we weren't really thinking of all that min-maxing at the time. We were more caught up in those glorious first months of an MMO that are full of new discovery and running face-first into anything interesting that came at us, learning as we went.

So we start taking on FG1. And its hard. We die, we res each other, we work together figuring out the mechanics and what we need to do. It was fun, the kind of fun we've always had together in MMO's- learning how to take on stuff with just the three of us, form tactics, alter our characters to work off of each other and succeed.

So after a long fight, repeatedly dying and figuring out boss mechanics, our under geared team finally reaches the last boss.

We start the fight. We die many times over, but we're still having fun. We're determined to beat this thing. Finally, having learned the mechanics through trial and error, comparing them through discussion to other games we've played, we start doing quite well. But then my dad's character dies, and I die shortly after slipping up and getting one-shot.

But my mother with her warden and bear are still on their feet- she's self healing, the bear is tanking while she DPS's. She's NOT giving up this time. She's NOT letting this boss take her out again. It took her a good ten or twenty minutes to wittle that things health bar down until it was dead, but through absolutely stubborn determination, she soloed it like a champ while me and my dad lay there.

This 60 year old woman with arthritis in her hands, who often is tired or feels sore, can still kick some serious arse by sheer will- and continues to do so. We continue to play together, learn together, fight together. And although we're geared far better now and research our mechanics first before we start a fight, we still look back on that story and laugh at the time mom completely kicked our butts in FG1 because she wasn't going to back down.

You, your dad, and especially your mom just ROCK. I got tears reading that.... Thanks. Best thing I've read about this game EVER.

Hapexamendios

Choosing Varen Aquilarius at the appropriate time

xgoku1

I started out in 2019 with Elsweyr. Realizing how much stuff there is to do in the game was pretty amazing.

Granted, I didn't know what I was doing and just mashing random buttons, but it was so magical. The big zones, fully voiced quests etc. evoked a similar emotion to playing Skyrim back in 2012.

VDoom1

Hmmmmm, had a lot of good ones over the years.

One of the best ones has to be achieving victory in veteran Maw of Lorkhaj. My guild and I had been working hard to get the strategy right for all bosses and one glorious evening we finally finished. It was a lot of fun.

In general achieving something difficult is a good memory. Finally unlocking the title Tamriel Hero was a lot of work, but it felt great to finish.

DreamyLu

When I arrived in Artaeum and Summerset first time... Was stunned by how beautiful it is there (personal opinion of course).

Coatmagic

Soloing vanilla group content for furnishings and inadvertently becoming useful
The ability to help others from time to time leaves a nice warm and fuzzy feeling

alcoraptor

Back in about 2017, I joined a guild and ended up playing most nights with a few of the people in it - and becoming very good friends with them.
Before long, though, the guild became quite elitist so us more casual players split off and formed our own guild - which still exists to this day, and we all still run together.

When the CP cap was 720, we had a lower CP member join us (around CP400), and tentatively ask us if we'd help run some content because other guilds were refusing to run with her due to lower CP.

We now run all of the vet 4-man content in the game together, as well as vet trials.
We also got married last year

LalMirchi

Hitting Level 50 for the very first time.

For me this thread is the most refreshing feel-good in the forum for some time Such beautiful stories

ArchangelIsraphel

Sylvermynx

You, your dad, and especially your mom just ROCK. I got tears reading that.... Thanks. Best thing I've read about this game EVER.

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@Sylvermynx I'm glad I could make you smile

whitecrow

When I finished the three alliances and said "I've seen the whole world, Cadwell!" The way I read it my character just seemed so happy and excited about it.

ZOS_Adrikoth

Thanks for sharing everyone, so many great stories here! This was a great idea for a thread @gamerguy757.

Celephantsylvius_Bornasfinmo

Fell good?

Well if it's 'Fell good' then I'm going to have to say: 'Bridge tossing competitions with Golum AKA Gambino on Alessia bridge!'

Good times and I even offered him fish to be able to pass.

WiseSky

There was a moment when I was in Cyrodill and our alliance just got an elder scroll, I was in RP mode so no UI playing in 3440 x 1440.

The Elder Scroll Carrier was kinda running like in Naruto with a crew around them, it was surreal I had shivers