DAoC Memories
DAOC.... oh sweet DAOC. I was in a hotel room the night the game was released in Ocala, FL and I was badgering Jay to get me a copy of the game - we had planned for two weeks to get there on live day... finally I got home and got in game, and there indeed was Jay tailoring his ass off in Jordheim, and when I come flying in as this newb human pally, he simply hands me like 70s (an obscene about of cash on day one) and says, "That's my contribution - go start the guild". By 8pm Eastern on day one, eight Scarabs stood in a circle at the Guild Registrar in Jordheim and I paid the one gold, and the <Scarab> tag suddenly blinked over our heads. There was much rejoicing... and as we walked out of the guildhall, in came Knut Forkbeard and 7 of HIS merry men to form the Hrafn Warband... and he was shocked to realize someone beat him to the punch! We later became great friends.
Then, the first keep raid... most old-time Scarabs will note that I was in DC the night of our first raid, where Bunny checked in with her bartender trainer and received the quest "Get Dolvin Hammered". She proceeded to do just that, but all it did was make me focus as we took the first keep on the server that I was aware of. I think we only had like 5 level 40's so everyone was just focused on healing the 40's as they fought the lord.
Finally, the greatest RP moment in DAOC was the forming of the All-Father Alliance. We had about 100-150 people in the courtyard of one of the border keeps, and the six biggest guild's GMs went through this fun ceremony to found the guild, with Scarab, Reckoning, Hrafn, Staedwall, and Aesir's Chosen being the key five guilds. My biggest ego trip happened about two days later, when I'm talking to a GM in Jordheim (about what I can't remember) and about three or four times in the space of ten minutes people walked by and said to me, "Good evening, my liege", or "Hail, Jarl of Midgard". That's when I finally realized what Scarab had actually accomplished - we had unified a server to the point where complete random strangers recognized the structure we had helped set up - and RPed to it.
*raises a DBF in salute* HAIL, SCARAB!!!!
I remember running around like a madman capturing video footage during the forming of the All Father Alliance to make a great Alliance Video. Gyst helped a lot with coordinating some scenes and let me borrow his account for some of the special rogue footage 
Oh.. and I accidentally killed the scarab website bandwidth when I posted it.. whoops.. won't do that again.
Macedon
One of my favorite memories was from DAoC...
I remember taking the first week of release off and just sitting in front of the screen and tailoring and tailoring and tailoring and then giving Dolvin the money to start the guild.
Loved peoples faces when I would announce in town selling Tier 3 or Tier 4 equipment on day 1.
Loved making the Battering Ram in the center of town at the end of week 1 and having a GM actually say, "Holy Hell...people shouldn't be able to make those yet." Then asking him how I take it apart and he said I honestly don't know.
Fyi on DAOC - very reliable rumor has it The scarab gear added to the game in later expansions was named after our guild. .. which follows a mythic tradition of naming new content after exceptional players or guilds. (that "thinmble" in the frontiers was named after a beta tester)
Well.... it might be the first day of DAOC, we all logged in, got militant, and rumor says we were the first "go live" DAOC guild to get the tag. (we were #10 on the guild list, but apparent 1-9 were beta guilds)
It also drew GM attention. We had a habit of doing things that drew GM attention is a generally positive manner... like the first mega-alliance meeting (pre all-father) where we had every big guild attending. Not all of them joined (some could not for rp reasons), but they all listened and respected the ideas and our guild.
Mind you, this was also our first real mega-burnout game, imo too.
Ozwyn
Everybody remembers the first time they conquered an enemy's keep or captured a relic. What a thrilling rush it was! Here are some of our greatest relic memories:
The first time we took a relic... that was possibly my proudest moment to be a Scarab
I remember taking that first keep in DAoC....watching Jay and Dolvin build balista on the walls.