Citations:highbie

English citations of highbie

Noun: "(gaming) a high-level character in an MMORPG"

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• 1996 November 16, Chuck Foster, “Weekly rec.arts.drwho stats (16 Nov)”, in rec.arts.drwho‎^[1] (Usenet):

  He's back! And its about SAD! Suddenly everything changes as the highbies of last week disappear rapidly downward. In fact, last week's number one does not feature at all!

• 1997 June 23, Jay Moretz, “Re: Retromud”, in rec.games.mud.lp‎^[2] (Usenet):

  We all believe, however, that in order to enjoy the MUD, new players should advance on their own, and not just dragged around behind a highbie and handed Exp.

• 1998 June 9, Arlie Stephens, “Re: Botting and Autoplaying”, in rec.games.mud.admin‎^[3] (Usenet):

  […] and since everyone knows what they did, the players give them all the respect *they* believe a 'botter deserves. (I.e. they aren't a "real" highbie in the eyes of their peers.)

• 1998 October 6, Osku Salerma, “Two weapon combat, gamma 8 was FUN, and more”, in rec.games.roguelike.adom‎^[4] (Usenet):

  Lets calculate how this would affect highbies.

• 1998 December 12, Gourry31 [username], “Re: Ick”, in dejanews.comm.retromud‎^[5] (Usenet):

  […] but not every caster is a tele and sometimes you are just stuck without one (happens to everyone..including highbies :))

• 1999 March 31, EATpikachu [username], “Re: Pokémon Simming Game”, in alt.games.nintendo.pokemon‎^[6] (Usenet):

  All the "highbies" (AOL phrase, sorry) would gang up on all the people they didn't know-- the newbies.

• 1999 July 6, trescami [username], “Re: http://retromud.org - Critical Mass?”, in alt.mud‎^[7] (Usenet):

  Highbies may be in the middle of something and thus not able to help even though they are newbie helpers.

• 2001 May 1, Richard Burge, “Re: Money making with tailoring”, in alt.games.everquest‎^[8] (Usenet):

  Backpacks go to high levels who want to replace their crappy 6 and 8 slot containers - if you are too low level to auction where they hunt, try somewhere like EC tunnel where many highbies stop by to off load their wares.

• 2001 September 5, Silverlock [username], “Re: Why trivial loot code sucks mister Harmon.”, in alt.games.everquest‎^[9] (Usenet):

  A lowbie always has access to highbie stuff simply by leveling up, but highbies are purposely restricted from this content.

• 2004 November 3, Marcel Beaudoin, “Re: For me, City of Heroes is more fun.”, in alt.games.everquest‎^[10] (Usenet):

  I can't count the number of times that I have been in a fight, and some anonymous highbie runs by, throws a bubble/heal/buff on the group and keeps on going.

• 2006 January 24, Lehl [username], “Re: Have your guilds 'branched out'?”, in alt.games.warcraft‎^[11] (Usenet):

  Apparently, their lowbies are now in one of the guilds, and the highbies all migrated to the other guild.

• 2011 — Lauren McLaughlin, Scored, Random House Children's Books (2011), →ISBN, page 3:

  The score was "the great equalizer," and Imani knew that as a "highbie" she was poised to benefit at the highest level.