I played this game as a member on and off for years as a kid, some of the best/most boring games I've ever played.
I've had a lot of great moments in this game but nothing beat the sense of wonder I felt when first entering the world. It was my first mmo and I was hooked from the starting area. I remember getting past the tutorial and just wandering around for about an hour before arriving in a far away desert land that I thought was halfway across the world(in reality it was actually only like a minute from the starting area but what the hell did I know). All of my friends got into it at the same time and we would talk for hours about mining, crafting, lvling, etc at school and it was just a great experience in that regard too, everyone was having such a great time being new to the game. I have a good laugh thinking back to when my friend started getting mythril stuff and I was so jealous, thinking I would never get any of that armor.
The first day I started also happened to be the first day they did non-tradeable holiday drops, the bunny ears for Easter. I still have a pair of those sitting on my account, I imagine not many people still have those in the game. I also ended up buying a Halloween mask for a few hundred k, does anyone know how much those are worth now? I think its sitting in my long rotting account, which I can't get back onto because I was a dumb kid and can't remember any security questions I made or anything, and I don't really care to get back on anyways.
I kept playing into the runescape 2 days while a lot of my friends left, but there was always some of my friends playing throughout the years, I ended up grinding way way too much and getting 99 attack, 90 strength, and 80 defense, and many other skills really really high, and had all of the cool shit back in the day, like the abby whip, poison dragon dagger, obsidian shield, dragon plate legs, and all that kinda stuff. I also had some kind of god armor, it looked like rune but it was gold plated, anyone remember the name of this? I think I was like lvl 104 or something, I can't really remember. It was a lot of fun walking around bad ass like that but honestly the grind could be torture sometimes, it took hours and hours to make any little amount of progress in the high 90s, I don't know how it is today but it used to be pretty time consuming to get high lvls. I used to duel a lot in the desert arena, can't really remember the name, and made a good amount of gold doing that as well.
I also loved the questing in runescape, I completed almost every single quest, there's probably a lot more now but every time a new quest was released I was one of the first going to do it, and my favorites were the ones that introduced new lands to the game, epic quests that took days and days to complete. In the end I eventually got tired of it but it was a ton of fun, especially in the beginning with my friends, wouldn't give up that experience for anything.
