I realize this is totally a sappy-writing-in-the-yearbook type thing, but screw it, I’m having too much fun and I don’t want these moments to all bleed together over time.
Quick list from the top of my head, I’m sure I’m forgetting many already.
Last Pre-Alpha
- Logging in without reading the player guide (doh) and muttering to myself in frustration only to have multiple people hear me and help me get started. Amazing feeling. (Paid it forward later on, which was also fun.)
- Taking an airship ride for the first time. (I’ve taken countless rides in other games, but in VR, it’s just something else.)
- Spontaneous Runemage spellcasting classes cropping up all over town all playtest.
- Celebrating each time anyone in the group got their first hat on their character.
- Seeing the giant entrance to the final boss room in the dungeon and having the entire group fall silent to marvel at it, side by side.
1st Alpha
- Having someone tell me near the end of the playtest that there was a crazy tongue-demon that can spawn and murder you if you kill sheep. Most of the group didn’t really believe him, but we were all willing to indulge the claim, until it actually happened! (We apologized)
- Forming a group with a pile of low level (1-2) runemages (who were practicing in town) to attack the ghosts to the south. Seeing 4+ fireballs land in rapid succession, and watching as everyone became more comfortable with their glyphs as we progressed until we moved on and were destroying wolves by the droves.
- Exploring and finding the mysterious Temple I’ve only heard about in whispers.
- Having someone ask me where I got my shoulders right before they went whooping off to go get some themselves (after I let them know where I found mine).
- Fishing in Loch Carplagh just north of Highsteppe with a couple other players, just hanging out and chatting. Also, midnight fishing in the middle of nowhere.
- Assembling a firing squad of muskeeters and rangers facing the Elongata boss and counting down to our opening simultaneous volley of attacks while watching everyone’s arms raise up to fire their charged shots.
- Legit taking down Elongata with no cheese.
- Finally killing the dungeon boss after a number of glitched out previous attempts from multiple playtests. It was extremely satisfying watching him finally fall. And of course all the virtual high-fives afterward. (Shoutout to Kailus, Skywalker, Pyrarrows, and enoch!) {CRITICAL EDIT! Honorable mention shoutout to False, Luvstosmooth, Kamina, and Wousa for our repeated valiant attempts on day 1 to take him down!}
*Touring the incredible Guild City for the first time, and picturing how it’s going to fill up over time.
*Constantly running across and greeting various community members I recognize from previous playtest groups, these forums, the discord chat, etc, even if just in passing.
Anyone else have some memorable moments from the playtests they’d like to share?
But later, when I fought it again with a fuller group, it was a great fight, and one that I look forward to tackling again in the future. 
that’s a great way to put it.