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One of our roaming reporters attended the Vanguard Launch Party the other night in San Francisco and landed an exclusive interview with Sigil's President, Jeff Butler. This interview covers a lot of areas the community wanted to know about, including, future content, PvP and explaining "core" versus "hardcore". This is a must check for all...We'll try explore the use of some of the islands out in the ocean for some sort of ongoing PvP struggle that involves control of territory. If you're familiar with Warsong Gulch, that sort of style of PvP. Not instanced, but find a way to reset it on a regular basis. I think we've got some pretty good ideas how to bridge that gap and come up with a pretty engaging PvP experience. You should expect to see, I would say arenas right off the bat, but you should expect to see certainly some Battlegrounds-style PvP plans in the works in the near future. 
-- -1313-Evil_Homer @ 7:16AM Sat 03 Feb 2007
News Recap for the Week
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Vanguard Patch Notes 1/27/2007
Update on server issues 1/27
Vanguard Tech Support Forums are Live!
We're happy to announce that the Vanguard Tech Support forums are now live. These forums are administered by SOE technical staff. SOE will assist you with technical problems that you may be experiencing that occur outside of the game environment.
Patch in the Works
Character Progression Loss
We are currently preparing a patch to correct the problem where some characters lost progress. This patch will fix the cause and will also return characters to previous high points in their level progression.
Patch - 9:15PM PST
Patch- 10 PM PST 1/27/07
Servers Coming Up!
Bards Can Now Compose Songs Offline!
Daroken from VGbards has put together a very useful Flash song composer allowing bards to compose songs offline! Mix and match those melodies and lyrics until you get it just right.
Top 8 Issues Being Worked On 1/27/07
From http://www.vanguardsoh.com/status.php :
Top 8 issues that we are working on:
(in no particular order)
1. No character or server list appearing for some players. This is our highest priority issue right now.
2. Better character create flow
3. client performance
4. Group bugs - where you can't invite or talk in group chat
5. Ship Bugs - Getting stuck on ships or falling to your death after chunking.
6. Quest directions ( clear directions to most quests)
7. Crossing a chunk turns off your torch and resets you into first person
8. NPC’s dying and still have health on their bar
updated: 01/27/07
New European Server!
Due to the overwhelming response from our European player base, we are pleased to announce that we will be bringing another European server online. Infinium will be a PVE server located, as with the rest of the European servers, in Amsterdam. The support we’ve received from our European player base has been tremendous, so a big thanks to all of our players overseas!
Infinium is coming online right now, so log in and check it out!
EU Server Hardware Upgrades
Due to a patch this evening the hardware upgrade has been postponed until 8AM GMT. EU server downtime is still expected to be 4 hours
Patch On 1/30/07 12AM PST - All Servers
Pre-Launch Preview from MMORPG.com!
Carolyn Koh, from MMORPG.com, takes a peek inside the game pre-launch to give us her impressions of this new MMORPG offering.
Patch Notes- Tuesday Morning 1/30/07
Official Site Revamped!
With the launch of Vanguard closing in upon us Sigil and Sony Online Entertainment have given the official site a sleek new look! It now features a database of items, a player of the day, guild listings, server information, and more!
Hail Adventurers!
As everyone knows, today is a big day for Vanguard and with it comes an officail press release issued by Sony.
GameSpy Out of the Box Preview
GameSpy published their first Vanguard: Saga of Heroes preview in their Out of the Box Feature...
New Community Content!
Below is the latest list of community submitted entries to our databases.
No Subscription Error
For a short time tonight, many people may attempt to log into Vanguard only to be told they do not have a subscription. You are getting this error because we are running a quick script to fix some issues. It is temporary, and you should be able to log in again in just a few minutes
Vault Network Vanguard Community Forums!
Here at the Vault we believe that the community that surrounds the game is just as important as the game itself. We try to establish a friendly and inviting set of forums for players no matter what your in game activities include. We would like to invite you to join us on our forums to build an even bigger and better Vanguard community!
3AM PST Nightly Restarts
Patch – 3AM PST 1/31/2007
Topic of the Week!
We have a new Topic of the Week that has been posted on the Vanguard General Forum - Impressions from the Vanguard launch
Vanguard Patch Notes 1/31/2007
European Downtime!
A message from Ryan Elam, Director of Technology, Sigil Games Online
New Poll about Classes!
There's a new poll for this week! It asks "What class have you chosen for your main?"
A Brief Introduction: Halgarad!
Fuury has been hard at work and writing furiously to bring you a guide to the starting are of Halgarad! This guide will give you some pointers on how to level up in this area and features a list of color and number dot mobs. So without further adieu we bring you A Brief Introduction: Halgarad.
VGPlayers.com Maintenance
At 10AM this site (www.vgplayers.com) will be unavailable for approximately 10 minutes while we perform general maintenance, all Vanguard Players services will be unavailable at this time. You can take this time to sign up or read the news and posts at our affiliated fansites; you can find a list here: http://vgplayers.station.sony.com/links.vm
Patch – 4AM PST 2/1/2007
Daily Restarts – Rescheduled to 4AM PST
In response to our Oceanic playerbase all patches and nightly restarts are being pushed back 1 hour to 4AM PST starting with tonights patch on 2/1/2007. Thank you everyone for your understanding and your feedback.
Aruspex Talks Diplomatically
Over at V:SoH affiliate site Vanguard Tact, Aruspex, Diplomacy lead, posted about Diplomacy.
New Wallpaper - Heroes!
Each week we will feature a new desktop wallpaper freshly made by our wonderful art team.
Pre-Order Ends Tomorrow - 02/02/2007
At 12PM PST tomorrow, 02/02/2007, all players will be required to have a valid retail key associated with their account in order to continue playing. Thank you everyone for your understanding, if you have billing or technical support issues and need assistance with registering your key please contact SOE Account/Technical support at: http://support.station.sony.com
Vanguard Patch Notes 2/1/2007
February Desktop Calendar!
The Vanguard Vault presents February's desktop calendar! Stay tuned each month for a new desktop calendar made by our talented art team.
< a href='http://vanguardvault.ign.com/fullstory.php?id=26119'> PvP: A Guide to Etiquette, Tips, and Common Information for the Free For All (FFA) Server!
Xyrem has been hard at work to bring PvP beginners a guide full of tips and information! So without further adieu we bring you PvP: A Guide to Etiquette, Tips, and Common Information for the Free For All (FFA) Server.
Naming Policy Enforcement
In the near future Sigil will be evaluating all player names to make sure they are in accordance with the naming policy. Names that are not will need to be changed – we will post more information on this soon but in the mean time, please take a moment to go over the naming policy if you have not already.
What and What Not to Petition
Greetings! While Telon is still a young world, players are bound to run into issues that will cause them to look for Customer Support’s help in resolving. However, most often the best resource for help is fellow players. With simple shout, tell, or message to your region players can usually find the answer they are looking for.
Vanguard Launch Art Show: Jeff Butler Interview
One of our roaming reporters attended the Vanguard Launch Party the other night in San Francisco and landed an exclusive interview with Sigil's President, Jeff Butler. This interview covers a lot of areas the community wanted to know about, including, future content, PvP and explaining "core" versus "hardcore".
-- Rasa @ 7:16AM Sat 03 Feb 2007
What and What Not to Petition
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Greetings! While Telon is still a young world, players are bound to run into issues that will cause them to look for Customer Support’s help in resolving. However, most often the best resource for help is fellow players. With simple shout, tell, or message to your region players can usually find the answer they are looking for.
If players have an issue where their character becomes stuck, they notice a policy violation, or a game community issue please use the /petition command and let us know. In your petition, make sure to give as much information about the issue as you can. Please be sure to include location, chunk names and any other pertinent information. Customer Support and the Petition Queue are not meant to be used for general information, quest information or bug reports.
Customer Support cannot help with:
* Items that have been deleted or sold.
* Non-functioning quests.
* Issues caused by a custom UI.
* Wrongly chosen quest items or claimed rewards.
* Account issues.
* Billing or technical support.
If you have a billing, account or technical issue please visit the http://support.station.sony.com website.
If you have noticed a bug in game or a quest you are sure is not working please use the /bug report command and list as much information as you can. The information that will be most helpful is:
* Where it happened, try to get a /loc (location) if you can.
* How it happened, what you were doing at the time you had the issue.
* Any and all NPCs involved.
* The quest name and type of quest it is.
* The steps to reproduce the issue.
We do not want to discourage petitions, but rather to help direct players to their best source of information so that their issues can be resolved and we can provide help as efficiently as possible.
Thank you,
The Vanguard Customer Support Team
-- Midnight-Elf @ 1:34AM Sat 03 Feb 2007
 | |  | |  | | Friday, 2 Feb, 2007 | |
| | | | | Naming Policy Enforcement
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Vanguard News Update – 2/2/2007
Naming Policy Enforcement
In the near future Sigil will be evaluating all player names to make sure they are in accordance with the naming policy. Names that are not will need to be changed – we will post more information on this soon but in the mean time, please take a moment to go over the naming policy if you have not already.
For Vanguard's naming policy, click here.
-- Morreion @ 10:54PM Fri 02 Feb 2007
PvP: A Guide to Etiquette, Tips, and Common Information for the Free For All (FFA) Server!
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Xyrem has been hard at work to bring PvP beginners a guide full of tips and information! So without further adieu we bring you PvP: A Guide to Etiquette, Tips, and Common Information for the Free For All (FFA) Server.Etiquette
This is a very touchy subject in PvP but let’s give it a shot!
It is not polite, no matter HOW entertaining it may be, to camp lower levels’ quest givers and popular hunting spots! You will not gain any infamy or coins by killing players below 20% of your level so don’t do it unless you wish to be branded a PKer, thus making yourself “kill on sight” by many.
There is generally an uneasy peace among your fellow players and it is wise to maintain this peace unless you’re looking for a truly interesting existence in Telon. If you become hated or a well known killer it will be very difficult to find groups. You may also have to put up with constant battles, which will make leveling and progressing in the game even more difficult.
Since it is a PvP server it would be pointless without PVP! The best way to deal with getting your fill is to keep within your level ranges for battles. So by all means attack anyone you wish, but also use judgment before doing so as it may come back and bite you.
Now I know many hardcore player killers will consider the above statement to be “carebearish”, which it is to an extent. However, there is no reason to ruin another gamers’ experience just so you can have the pleasure of beating them to a lifeless pulp with your higher level weapons and spells. Give them a chance! Remember you were once one of them. Stay tuned as he continues to bring you more PvP guides and read the rest of this guide here!
-- Midnight-Elf @ 4:58AM Fri 02 Feb 2007
February Desktop Calendar
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The Vanguard Vault presents February's desktop calendar! Stay tuned each month for a new desktop calendar made by our talented art team.
-- Midnight-Elf @ 4:27AM Fri 02 Feb 2007
| | | | | | Thursday, 1 Feb, 2007 | |
| | | | | Vanguard Patch Notes 2/1/2007
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Vanguard Patch Notes 2/1/2007 Build 1728
GAMEPLAY NOTES
- The automatic defensive target self setting now saves.
- After death you will be immune to aggro. A 30 second timer will begin once you have moved. Beneficial skills will not cancel this effect.
- Updated multiple travel journal entries for Tursh.
- The Tursh bindstone has been moved to a more convenient location.
- Raian Vases no longer occur in mysterious pairs.
- A new quest is available at the north Neamsog bunker.
- The beginning of the Infineum quest line has seen significant alterations and polish; this should not break the quest for anyone that is currently on it.
- The runic consoles in the Ark of Harmony now port the group of the person that uses them, as originally intended.
- Numerous items have had their icon and descriptions corrected.
- Several Vendors that did not have their merchant list now have their items for sale!
- Bindstones have been added near: Tahean's Vengeance; Veskal’s Exchange; Arlinora's Retreat; Dark Horse Track; The Beacon of Hafeez al'Azzimat; and the Refugee Camp in Jharru Flats.
- Camels can now be purchased form the camel merchant starting at rank 2.
ADVENTURING
- Bard - Song components will no longer automatically be added to the hotbar when you learn them, as you can't use them from there anyway.
- Bard - The Bard Trainer in Tursh should now sell instruments like other bard trainers
- Bard - Swirl of the Tempest (all ranks) now display their floating damage numbers correctly.
- Dread Knight – Increased the aggro modifiers of your special attacks. They are now similar to the other tanks.
- Druid - Increased the damage of the earthen brute’s attacks.
- Druid-“Lighting Strike” (rank 3-5) and “Call Lighting” (all ranks) no longer display
“Resisted” when they are actually hitting and doing damage. The abilities were functioning correctly, just the over the head combat text was incorrect.
- Rogue – You can no longer pickpocket any race.
- Sorcerer - Summoned rings are now unique, no drop, and no rent as intended
- Warrior – Fixed an issue with the Defensive Form quest in Lomshir. You should now be able to complete the quest and get your defensive form.
- Counter spells have had their refresh times reduced.
- Hit points have been increased for the Sorcerer, Druid, Necromancer, Psioncist and Bloodmage.
- Upper damage melee attacks and percent attacks have had their endurance costs reduced.
- Upper damage ranged (bow) attacks, percent attacks and AE attacks have had their endurance costs reduced.
CRAFTING NOTES
- The outpost quest and outpost horse renting have been moved to crafting level 11 to match the changes to the tier quests and specialization quests.
- The amateur tier-directing quest now is granted at 11, not 10, to reflect the updated amateur tier quest.
- You now need to actually assemble the needle to finish the Ca’ial Brael outfitter training.
- Kef Jortul has been moved to a more accessible spot in the general area of Martok.
- Updated descriptions on 1 and 3 item work orders that said they gave a chance at a rare item.
- Made all crafted items bindable
- Fixed equip issues with crafted rings
- Fixed unrecognizable tool issues
- Ornate crossbow can no longer be equipped
- Work order supply pack reward values have been adjusted to give a little less cash items
- Repair Tools and the remedies that love them have finally decided on a name
- Modified XP progression some
- Mangled Tool is fixed
- Uneven Modification is fixed
- Weak Product’s description is fixed
- Stretched Fabric description is fixed
- Skipped Detail description is fixed
- Loose clamp description is fixed
- Odd shape description is fixed
- Careful Sculpting description is fixed
- Rindol Field Medal has been removed from work order reward tables
DIPLOMACY NOTES
- Quest “Thinkers of the Thinkery” is available from Wizard Malkavar in Three River’s.
- There are now more brokers available who will accept crude and significant information. Arcana, Blackmail, Trends, and Plots brokers have been added to Namsoong and Dark Horse Down’s Racetrack. Arcana, Blackmail, and Trends brokers have been added to Tawar Galan. And a Blackmail Broker has been added to Tursh.
WORLD POPULATION
- Several NPCs in the Tainted Lands have had their spawn rate corrected.
CODING
-You will no longer need to confirm looting No Drop items on your own corpse.
GUI
- Rarities in the "Random for Magical" group loot option will now be colored and the names will match usage everywhere else.
- Item stats now display properly in the Loot Roll window.
- NPC attacks and spells will now display descriptions.
-- Morreion @ 10:36PM Thu 01 Feb 2007
Pre-Order Ends Tomorrow - 02/02/2007
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Greetings!
At 12PM PST tomorrow, 02/02/2007, all players will be required to have a valid retail key associated with their account in order to continue playing. Thank you everyone for your understanding, if you have billing or technical support issues and need assistance with registering your key please contact SOE Account/Technical support at: http://support.station.sony.com
Thank you!
-- Midnight-Elf @ 6:50PM Thu 01 Feb 2007
New Wallpaper - Heroes!
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Each week we will feature a new desktop wallpaper freshly made by our wonderful art team. Now I would like to present this weeks' wallpaper...
To get this wallpaper for your own desktop check out this page! Every past Wallpaper of the Week can be found in the Wallpaper Database.
-- Midnight-Elf @ 6:48PM Thu 01 Feb 2007
Aruspex Talks Diplomatically
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Over at V:SoH affiliate site Vanguard Tact, Aruspex, Diplomacy lead, posted yesterday:
A few quick notes as I drift off to some sleeps. :)
There are a lot of valid concerns here. I'm willing to face the music on these issues, so do not feel like you need to pull punches. You _will_ get better response out of me if you're constructive - and so far, even the "worst trolls" have had some constructive criticism in there.
I'm working tonight on a little device we're calling the "Altar of Kaerellun" - which allows you to trade information for cards, adventuring items, prestige items, etc. this should help relieve the bank slot pressure while we expand our content...
- Starting in the next code patch for the game (I'm not allowed to reveal our patch schedule for non-content stuff :) ), you will not be able to parley with an opponent more than 50 points greater than you in Diplomacy.
This goes with two other fixes, which are:
- You cannot gain more than one skill point in a single parley.
- The time in which you are locked out on a win with a single NPC on a single specific conversation is increased.
As we tweak the AI for our decks, we watch player response closely. When you have a group of testers who know the game inside and out, the only way we can truly understand the difficulty of the deck is 1) math, and 2) look and feel when they hit Live. We have folks doing the math, and we have folks doing the look and feel thing - and then we watch how it plays. :)
The level 50 deck thing is my top AI/deck priority while we work on coding in new functionality for the AI to be able to handle more situations in parley. It is not the only thing we are working on.
As we put in low-level content, we also have resources allocated to putting in some upper-mid-range stuff - the sort of thing that shows you what you can DO with Diplomacy. I'll give some hints in the next weeks, but we're saving the proof for the pudding. :)
In all my experience with MMO communities on both sides of the looking glass, I have never seen a more enthusiastic, inspired, and motivated team than the one I have the honor of working with. Coupled with the outstanding and the gratifying response of you, the players, this system is a diamond in the rough. If it wasn't for you guys, it would never be shaped into the amazing thing that it is becoming.
-- Morreion @ 6:05AM Thu 01 Feb 2007
| | | | | | Wednesday, 31 Jan, 2007 | |
| | | | | Daily Restarts – Rescheduled to 4AM PST
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In response to our Oceanic playerbase all patches and nightly restarts are being pushed back 1 hour to 4AM PST starting with tonights patch on 2/1/2007. Thank you everyone for your understanding and your feedback.
Have a great day, or night, wherever you are!
- The Vanguard Team
-- Midnight-Elf @ 9:43PM Wed 31 Jan 2007
Patch – 4AM PST 2/1/2007
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At 4AM PST on 2/1/07 all servers will be brought down for a patch, the estimated downtime is 2 hours.
Thank you!
-- Midnight-Elf @ 9:42PM Wed 31 Jan 2007
VGPlayers.com Maintenance
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To all players,
At 10AM this site (www.vgplayers.com) will be unavailable for approximately 10 minutes while we perform general maintenance, all Vanguard Players services will be unavailable at this time. You can take this time to sign up or read the news and posts at our affiliated fansites; you can find a list here: http://vgplayers.station.sony.com/links.vm
Thank you!
-- Midnight-Elf @ 9:42PM Wed 31 Jan 2007
A Brief Introduction: Halgarad!
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Fuury has been hard at work and writing furiously to bring you a guide to the starting are of Halgarad! This guide will give you some pointers on how to level up in this area and features a list of color and number dot mobs. So without further adieu we bring you A Brief Introduction: Halgarad.You feel a cold breeze as you start to walk away from the warmth of the fire pit. You raise your eyes and see high rocky hills dotted with tall swaying pine trees. So begins your quest around the home of Lesser Giants and Varanjar Barbarians.
This area and the area of Dahknarg, starting area for Vulmane, are LOADED with quests that can easily propel you to level 10 and beyond. Hopefully, this guide will give a little advice to make that journey a little more pleasant and quick.
As you start your career as a Lesser Giant or Varanjar, the start area of Derogar's Post has the standard starting quests of killing a certain amount of the local creatures, and a few collection quests. One thing you will notice in Vanguard is a little difference in quests when compared to some of your standard MMOs. You must really spend the time to read the quests and follow the directions. It's very easy just to hit accept and then overlook a good point of reference in the text. Read the rest of this guide!
-- Midnight-Elf @ 6:32PM Wed 31 Jan 2007
New Poll about Classes!
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There's a new poll for this week! It asks "What class have you chosen for your main?"
-Warrior
-Paladin
-Dread Knight
-Ranger
-Rogue
-Monk
-Bard
-Psionicist
-Cleric
-Shaman
-Blood Mage
-Disciple
-Sorcerer
-Necromancer
-Druid
To vote head to our polls page!
Last week's poll was "How many hours a day do you plan on playing?". Here's the results.
0-1 : 38 votes
1-2 : 106 votes
2-3 : 208 votes
3-4 : 191 votes
4-5 : 114 votes
5-6 : 60 votes
6-7 : 36 votes
7+ : 235 votes
Total Votes = 988!
-- Midnight-Elf @ 4:51PM Wed 31 Jan 2007
European Downtime!
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So you can think, and plan, and spend copious amounts of money on the best possible hardware you can have, with enough redundancy to make a geek’s heart proud, and STILL Murphy and his darn law will get you. Yesterday, we had two hardware failures in our Amsterdam facilities that effected users. Both were with read-only data (in other words, it didn’t affect your character, just the server’s ability to run!) and both required separate fixes.
It is the exact same hardware that we’re running in the US, and it was just bum luck that it happened. We’ve since moved to backup hardware (which is not to say ‘lesser’ hardware, we just bought spares!) and things seem to be cooking along. We’re really very sorry we haven’t communicated this to you earlier, but most of us have just been working hard trying to get everything settled. Now, it’s time to sit back a little and enjoy the game.
Thank you so much for your patience.
Ryan Elam
Director of Technology
Sigil Games Online
-- Midnight-Elf @ 4:30PM Wed 31 Jan 2007
Vanguard Patch Notes 1/31/2007
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Vanguard Patch Notes 1/31/2007
Welcome to Vanguard: Saga of Heroes!
You are now one of the first to witness the exciting, dangerous, and ever-changing world of Telon. Telon is a living world, and like any world its early days are going to be fraught with turbulence. Expect us to have to “patch” any cracks as they appear for the first days.
We know you are excited to explore the world we created for you, and we are equally excited to have you here. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the landscape… enjoy the freedom… of Vanguard.
GAMEPLAY NOTES
- A level component has been added to your chance to stealth, sneak and hide. This makes gaining skill much easier.
- The stealth, sneak and hide skill gain rate has been significantly increased.
- Melee AE attacks have had their costs slightly increase.
ADVENTURING
- The Druid, Necromancer and Psionicist have had there nuke damage increased.
- Bard – Invisibility song components are no longer maintained.
- Bard – Slightly lowered the movement increase for Tynen’s Components.
- Psionicist - Thought Pulse now has a 4 second refresh timer.
- Psionicist – Mirage is no longer a maintained ability.
- Shaman – Removed two abilities from the Rakurr (wolf) pet that were not intended.
- Shaman – Skin of Rakurr now grants 8% chance to crit instead of 108%.
- Shaman – Skin of Rakurr should now modify chance to crit for auto attack, too.
- Shaman – Skin of Rakurr’s movement speed bonus should no longer stack with other movement speed buffs.
- Shaman – Skin of Tuurgin now properly raises auto attack damage.
- Shaman – You should no longer be able to be in patron form while you have a summoned attendant.
- Shaman – Removed the + spell damage from Skin of Rakurr and lowered the melee damage mod by 2%.
CRAFTING NOTES
- Added harvesting tools to the General Goods Vendors.
- The outpost locations for the level ten crafting outpost quests have been changed for most starting cities.
- A few artificer and outfitter recipes that were missing from certain Thestran basic trainers have been added.
- Attuning dusts have been added to utility vendors.
- Outposts now give double the continental artisans faction of regular cities and towns.
- Outposts now give artisan faction for the city they trade heavily with (if any).
- Outposts now give normal city faction for doing work orders in an outpost that city trades heavily with. If you do enough work orders and gain enough faction with them, hostile cities may become more tolerant of you, allowing access to content inside the city.
- The outpost quest in each city now has directions to get there safely in addition to the already present waypoint.
- Some obsolete recipes have been removed from game.
- Erron in Leth Nurae will now properly switch your trade if asked.
DIPLOMACY NOTES
- Players should find much less frustration parleying with Sylwen, Prince Dargand, Keyvan Minoo, Getzin the Gnome, and Hubert Ringsworth.
- “Dreamspeaker” now fails correctly when the timer runs out.
- Deck transmogrification continues.
- Some alterations to the Civic Diplomacy levers in many cities.
- There is now an alternate source of Diplomacy experience in the form of a group of soldiers that need your diplomatic skills! Speak with your local racial trainer to get the lowdown. This content is available only for players below 40 skill.
WORLD POPULATION
- Uvela should now properly direct players to the various shrines.
- Altered a roaming (potentially) KOS npc who would sometimes path near the corpse altar in Qa Riverbank.
- Fixed several NPCs that erroneously had Khal faction assigned to them
- Added increase to Upside Alliance for slaying Ksaravi Rat Men
- Decreased the amount of faction required to gain to become “Not Killed On Sight” in various starting areas and the few outposts that are hostile
- NPCs that drop coin will no longer do so at a 100% rate its still quite a high rate, but it was out of whack with other forms of money making
- Many outpost NPCs in Jalen’s Crossing are now on the Students of Lao’Jin faction, the students are much more understanding than other inhabitants of the continent
- Challenge Rating on many NPCs in the Ksaravi Gulch dungeon have been modified allowing more diverse groups of players to experience the content
- Entrepreneur Nargix setup his General Goods shop at the Tracker Camp within the Wildgrowth Forest.
- Increased the number of spawn points of Pod Tree Sprouts within the Wildgrowth Forest associated with the quest “What’s in the Pods?”
- Uvela now knows about how many wisp corpses are needed to repair the shrines
- Foruil Gladesworn now knows the location of the Imperial Poacher
- wildlife in the northern plains of Thestra is generaly slightly less dangerous now
- Verdant Lurkers are less likely to notice when their friends are being killed
- Verdant Lurkers are generally less dangerous people than they used to be
- the quest “Breaking The Mindbreaker” is now properly listed as Group
- Mihdi Khadim is now (appropriately) female.
- Martok - Put dot on the map for Port of Martok.
- Rindol Field - Some quests in Rindol Field were incorrectly marked as ‘Solo.’ They are now correctly marked as ‘Group.’
- The Ksaravi Hostage should no longer aggro surrounding mobs.
- Rindol Field - In the quest, “Take Back the Mill,” the waypoint to the Storehouse Mill has been updated.
- Tursh - Added a waypoint to Shimmerleaf Lake for the quest, “No Fish for Tursh.”
- Bind Stone Additions
- Additional bindstones added to the continent of Martok.
- Additional bindstones added to areas surrounding the Village of Three Rivers
- Bindstone added in the general vicinity of the Upside Defense Garrison on Skrilien Point
- Atlar added in the general vicinity of the Upside Defense Garrison on Skrilien Point
- The entrance to Kalendra's Coven should no longer have bunched up mobs.
- Bindstones added to
- Hathor Zhi
- Tanvu
- outpost on side of island
- blighted land outpost
- Leth Nurae
- Northern Plains
- Hilsbury/Misthaven
- River Valley
- camp/tents outside the valley
- small village inside the valley
- Kurashasa area
- arena
- Qa Riverbank
CODING
- Fixed a bug causing the value of max expertise from one item to not show up in the Equipment Expertise tooltip.
~The Vanguard Team
-- Morreion @ 10:42AM Wed 31 Jan 2007
Topic of the Week!
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We have a new Topic of the Week that has been posted on the Vanguard General Forum!Impressions from the Vanguard launch.
Here are some basic questions to facilitate the discussion. They are here to help the discussion get started.
Now that the two launch days for Vanguard have come and gone, how do you think that those launches went?
Were you a part of the pre-order launch or just the regulard launch?
What things stuck out in your mind about the launch?
What do you think could have been done differently, if anything, to make the launch smoother?
Overall, how would you rate the launch on a scale from 1 to 10? 1 being a total disaster and 10 being flawless. Head over to our boards and share your opinion for a chance to gain one week VIP status or a permanent title!
-- MeanKeenLurikeen @ 8:22AM Wed 31 Jan 2007
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| | | | | Patch – 3AM PST 1/31/2007
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At 3AM PST on 1/31/07 all servers will be brought down for a patch, the estimated downtime is 2 hours. Thank you!
-- Midnight-Elf @ 9:04PM Tue 30 Jan 2007
3AM PST Nightly Restarts
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In order to provide the best service possible we will be having nightly restarts at 3AM PST. The estimated downtime is approximately 30 minutes. Please note that this is only on nights we do not patch, patches will take the place of the nightly restart and may require additional downtime.
Thank you everyone for your cooperation as we move to standardize our service.
See you in Telon!
-- Midnight-Elf @ 9:04PM Tue 30 Jan 2007
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