Your first FB experience

Yay, you started right around the same time as me! I also started a bit before the genies came out, but not a lot more. There were a lot of people not even using their genies because they were "useless except for like one skill," and a lot of people stopped using them after the switched over to the lucky points system and tweaked the requirements of many of the skills. b:chuckle

My first call to duty was 19. I basically just ran around screaming for help, before someone told me I was being dumb and directed me to a public chatroom called "FBs your drops" or something like that where a bunch of people squaded up and helped people with their fbs for the chance at rep and for the dq items. I ended up squadding with a bunch of people who weren't much higher than me anyway because we thought we could do it all at once. b:laugh Surprisingly there weren't many deaths on the mobs, the level 35-40 (i think he was this level range, he couldnt tank it without healer and needed the DD from others, but also wasn't running not knowing what to do either) we had tanking it did pretty darn well. Unfortunately I couldn't stay while we did the thing 4 more times, but I think I stayed for one more of the the FBs after that since I was the cleric. I'm pretty sure I didn't even have rez, at that point. I did my FB19 at 19, so I don't think I had gotten it yet.

I was new to MMOs as well, this is my first and only MMO i've ever played. Prior to that my gaming was strictly consoled and the only game I had ever even beat without losing interest was Super Mario Brothers (the one with Yoshi) for the super nintendo. Even though I had a play station one and two, for some reason I would stop playign games then come back to them. I still do that with console games, get really into them for a couple weeks. Come back a couple months later after losing interest, get back into the game (sometimes forgetting my progress and having to start over) and play again for a few weeks. It's not that I don't like the games, it's that I usually prefer single player games on consoles, but I'd rather be talking to someone during the more tedious parts of games. I almost beat final fantasy seven despite this (cuz it's just that awesome) but the second disk broke. Same thing happened to my copy of final fantasy 10.Besides, often my brother would beat it way before me and hog the game system, and once I knew what happened the storyline wasn't interesting to me anymore and often the game's interest left with the story.

I think that's what I liked about PWI, there weren't any super deep cutscenes to remember and keep track of, it was pretty easy to just pick up again later if I wanted. I also enjoyed talking with and meeting people when the game got tedious and dull, so that it was never unenjoyable to play. ^^


edit: wait, maybe this was FB29......I don't remember as much anymore it's been so long. XD

I did FB19 on my Veno in November of 2008.

It involved 5 Venos level 19, and a level 19 Cleric.

Doing FB19's this way was how I got my Veno to level 22...

For my Seeker's FB29, I dual logged and soloed it for myself because nobody was willing to help me with it, and I didn't feel like waiting 3 weeks for a PUG. >_>

When I was a little w0lf barb, I used t0 think I c0uld tank anything because 0f my bulging biceps. Little did I kn0w when I entered the Den 0f **** w0lves that I w0uld be r0fl pwned by spiders and w0lves half my size....... S0 I called f0r assistance fr0m a passing archer wh0 was ar0und level 80.As we entered the instance I th0ught she was the c00lest thing I had ever met. She felt the need t0 th0r0ughly explain each piece 0f gear she 0wned and h0w p0werful and g00d l00king she was.......

If I had the kn0wledge I did n0w then, I pr0bably w0uld have t0ld her archers are n0t hawt and her 3 star NPC b0w is ****. Anyway as we g0t t0 the final b0ss she explained that I sh0uld stay back and let her lure the m0bs. S0 I did and she successfully pawned the m0bs and began t0 lure the b0ss.

The first thing I n0ticed ab0ut this b0ss was that it was bigger than me, meaning that it was p0ssibly bigger in all 0ther areas.That 0f c0urse made me a little sad 0n the inside but that is n0t imp0rtant. After a few minutes the b0sses life eventually reached 0 meaning it had died. S0 I t00k advantage 0f the situati0n and began t0 w0rship the very gr0und the archer walked 0n with thank y0us and 's.....I asked her t0 befriend me in game thinking I c0uld h00k up with her and eventually marry her....Then ab0ut 3 days later I learned what the little text ab0ve the pers0n meant"insert name here' wife....Needless t0 say I never c0ntacted her againb:pleased.



all in all a very pleasant FB19 experience I w0uld say.

I played PW-MY and was a tiny Veno...(early Jan 2008) I went inside and tried desperately to kill the mobs.. and I died over and over again. I ran into this group from GodOfWar, a relatively new guild...and they asked if I could join their squad - they just did that FB and had time.

Found out - I did not have enough rep, but was very close so they waited for me. I did some quests, got it done and we gathered up again.

They kept telling me to stand back but noo.. if I am in that squad, part of the squad - I am gonna fight with the squad.

They liked my attitiude and called me a fiesty little werefox and ... it was nice.. very nice.

I didn't do my fb19 until I was in my mid 20s on this char almost 3 years ago. Essentially me and a few offline friends, most of which no longer play this game, decided to run the elf fb19 so that me and my better half can finish it. My offline friends were early 30s then and consisted of two bms and a barb, my better half used his archer main.

Since I was the squishy cleric I got smacked around quite easily. The barb and the bms did fairly well but they played aggro pong so that was a little difficult for a newbie cleric like myself at the time to catch up.

When we reached the scorpion boss, we had one squad wipe, the second attempt was an almost squad wipe. We realized that if someone died in the squad we could run into the pools of water that were either side of the boss. On the third attempt we succeeded and had felt accomplished.

Overall, at the time, the fb was fairly challenging. It took awhile to get done, but yet it felt so rewarding. We had so much fun, especially after I got my Trail Wand, I felt so cool with it

This is also my first MMO ever. I started playing on Sanctuary server about a week before Dreamweaver launched, just to get the hang of things. My first fb was my fb 19 (on cleric) on Dreamweaver. Hellion (sp?) was a barb in Armagedon; he ran me and my friend through each of our fb 19s and 29s, after which we both joined his faction.

My friend quit playing a few weeks after that, as did Hellion, but joining Armagedon ended up having a hugely positive impact on my experience playing this game. To think, of all the factions actively recruiting during a server launch (bear in mind, this is when the game was GOOD), I lucked out into joining that one. _Tigger_ set an example I've seen very few follow. b:victory

DeadRaven - Sanctuary wrote: »

LOL, I know exactly what you mean. I remember getting that FB 19 weapon too for the first time on my wizzy and thinking of all that power in my little hands b:dirty

....and ya, doing those quests at a time in PWI history when everything was still a challenge always felt so rewarding. I miss those days.

And now, as soon as I hit 22, I ditch that trial weapon for a Legendary weapon to make questing easier until 34 QQ. >_>

My first FB was on pw-my long ago. b:chuckle PW was my first mmo ever and I was so clueless about everything. When I hit 10 everyone started telling my to hurry to 19 for my FB. I had no idea wth FB was and they wouldn't tell me anything but "You'll see at 19". I hit 19, they rushed me through culti for magical tab which I had no idea what it did. Ran into magical wall that sent us to other place. All of them being 70+ cleared the dungeon really fast. Told me to talk to the pillar then killed the boss almost instantly. All of them dropped party leaving me without a timer and no clue wth just happned. Not until 29 would I understand what an FB was. Anyways took me about 10min before I pm:ed my friend QQing that I couldn't find the way out, they all disapeared and that my townportal was on cooldown. b:sad The cooldown on townportal always got me in trouble. I was exploring on my 2x veno outside plume. Found the really big boat in the lake. Managed to jump down into it. Couldn't get up. My friend had to run to plume and find a guy to fly me out of there. b:cute

some high lvls were camping at fb caves and asking every noob passing buy if they had a call of duty,

i said i have one in about 20 seconds it was done...

yea reputation was worth helping back then

NiightmareXz - Harshlands wrote: »

Glad to see everyone sharing their experiences. b:pleased
I actually sat and read every one of them, and laughed-- especially at ResMePls'... oh you~~

I kinda miss having everyone as a newb, it was so fun to learn everything together. Now we all make alts and rush them through these instances without a care.

I'm still fighting myself over powerleveling alts. Though, I absolutely refuse to buy it from someone else, I can do it myself if I choose to. >_> Spend money for levels vs make money and get levels...

My first FB was on my old blademaster. Luckily I had a roommate that started playing a couple weeks before I did, so she had learned the term FB and told me not to go in there alone lol. This was back in Oct 2008 so there weren't much for high levels to help, though I recall seeing ads in world chat on occasion. My roommate and I ended up standing in Timberfield asking for help in common chat, and found a lvl 30 BM that organized a squad for us of 20-30s. It did not go well, but it was much fun. My first death I used a res scroll because we had no cleric in the party. After that followed two more wipes, and after the last one I d/ced and, because I didn't know about the force log option, couldn't get back into the game. My roommate didn't know how to either so she told them we would have to give up for the day.

The next day I answered one of the world chat ads. The group that took me through was in the 60s-70s and cleared it pretty quick. I remember specifically that they gathered a bunch of mobs and the archer used Wingspan on them, and it looked so cool. Rays of light came down and stabbed all the mobs! I was jealous and wanted that skill.

And then, the FB reward. How cool was a glowing weapon at that time in the game? I was so excited and imagined all the lower levels were jealous when they saw my glowing blue scythe. I think I might have just run around Etherblade a bit showing it off before I moved on to Archosaur (funny story about that too... I didn't realize I got a tele point to Arch so I ran the whole way there, terrified when I saw mobs with orange names and having to check the map frequently to make sure I was still going the right direction).

Ah the good old days. When i had real friends and faction ^_^. Omg my best friend taught me how to play pwi and showed me the farming spots to get going. Also her and her friends helped me for the fb19. I was kind of scared of the xenobeast, it looked strong o.o. But i was amazed by her veno(gaciel walker) and it felt good when the monsters died. Also i miss my old faction, had nice people, but now most of them left pwi or gone to those big factions and got absorbed by the system and become tw machines and nirvana.

Still had fun. Probably this and scape were the only games i have found helpful faction/clan and friends that cared.