[VGNecro.com] Vanguard Saga of Heroes - Necromancer Community Blog Feed http://www.vgnecro.com/rss/index.xml Thu, 08 May 2008 17:57:35 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/images/topic_thumbs/lifebane.jpg http://www.vgnecro.com Vanguard SOE News, Guides, Stories, Grafts, Spells, Bugs, & Blog Feed provided by VGNecro.com http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Another-Chance-to-Switch-Servers It seems that our friends over at SOE have decided to allow our PvPbrothers and sisters a chance to move servers again before the merger. Now everyone and anyone can move if they choose to. fun fun. Here is what was written over at the Official SOE Site. "We recently announced that there... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Class-Leader-Steps-down--for-real-this-time Hello fellow necros and community members. I wanted to let you all know something first before I post it on the main forums since you all are my second family of sorts. Yes I know, we are a bit dysfunctional at times but we are family just the same.. brothers and sisters in gore or something along... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Dagada-s-Guide-to-Vanguard-Raid-Mobs A loud and overly opinionated pushy necro friend of mien has decided to take the long walk out of Telon. He has however chosen to follow in the steps of the few and give something back to the community and in this case something which many will likely appreciate. Dagada of Seradon has submitted the... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Vanguard-Patch-Notes-4-1-2008 Vanguard Build 2006 Patch Notes 4/1/2008GENERAL- Adventuring and crafting assigner NPCs will now allow you to refund your attribute points. DIPLOMACY - Rakhashan diplomacy gear has been returned to Merchant presence. The Vol Tuniel set still has Crafting presence. Previously, both sets... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/April-1st-Maintenance-we-hope Greetings fellow necros out there enjoying the Spring break from the human education slave drivers.  The powers that be have decided to grace your April 1st date with a chunk of server downtime in the wee hours of the night. Hopefully this is only a server tweak and not a new introduction... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Vanguard-Patch-Notes-3-26-08 GENERAL- A new riftstone has come back into phase in Tanvu- Added a point for a Tanvu Riftway to the Riftway window.- Fixed the issue where you would be dismounted if you mouse over your flying mount item in your inventory.- Problems with many sunken, floating, or clipping housing plots have... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Vanguard-Wants-YOUR-Vote---Oh-do-they-now Greetings fellow necromancers of Telon. It woudl seem that amidst all of our disgruntled grumblings about recent changes and breakages to our class we as part of the overall community have been asked to go Vote for Vanguard! Basically the SOE Community Relations Team wants people to vote to see... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Vanguard-Patch-March--18--2008 GENERAL- Fixed an issue with raid buffs being stripped when they should not be.ADVENTURING- Druid - Fix for an issue where druids could summon infinite pets.DIPLOMACY- Fixed diplomacy refresh timers, which were becoming bugged under certain circumstances.CODING- Made it so that you can ... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Vanguard-Update-4-March--11--2008 Vanguard Update 4 March / 11 / 2008 1. Flying Mounts 2. Riftway Revamp 3. Character Optimizations / Helmets 4. Overland Raid 5. Class Updates 6. Refund Points 7. Veteran Rewards 8. Bug Fixes / Performance 9. Patch Notes 1. Flying Mounts With Update 4 we have added the first two... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Silius-Update-4-preview-info Greetings necromancer brothers and sisters.  Interesting news from Silius, most interesting indeed.  He posted his preview of GU4 on the SOE Forums.  The GU4 changes are Test so you can go see them yourselves, but for now, this is the preview as given by Silius: Vanguard Update... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Bucketheads-anyone-Flying-mount-perhaps Greetings fellow necromancers. Rumor has it that we may soon see many of the less talented (aka non-caster) running about with buckets upon their heads. While I personally have no intention of doing said donning of the bucket, I am certain that many of the uglier ones out there would leap at the... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Hotfix-Notes-January--31--2008 Hotfix Notes January / 31 / 2008 GENERAL- /claim will now give players the choice of one of three special anniversary bags. Enjoy!- Fix for Lull spells not working.- Fix for invis spells not fading when clicked off.- Patched in several art assets for later use, which is why this patch may seem... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Hotfix-Notes-January--25--2008 Hotfix Notes January / 25 / 2008 GENERAL - Fixed a bug with swimming. You should now swim smoothly along the surface of the water instead of hopping along it. - Illusions now persist across chunk boundaries. - Fixed a pet pathing bug that would cause pets to run off into the distance... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/And-some-said-it-wouldn-t-last-this-long A couple short days away from saying "Happy Birthday Vanguard!" Many skeptics never thought the game would last this long based on the rocky start it had. Yet here it is, patches and fixes slowly churning their way out.. I did say slowly right? Raids added and housing fixed for the... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Vanguard-Patch-Notes-1-24-2008 GENERAL- Fixed the rating display issues for Ammo. Ammo also no longer shows its min and max range values as being adjusted.- The Crafting and Diplomacy quest in progress bangs will now be displayed instead of the adventuring in progress quest bang as appropriate.- Fixed an issue with the spam... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/It-s-our-turn-now Hello once more my fellow corruptors of the living and defilers of the dead.  It is with some enthusiasm that I share the news that it is finally our turn.  Other classes have been seeing their issues, bugs, and power disparity levels adjusted in recent months while rarely has a single... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Pet-Zoning-bug-fixed Greetings fellow necromancers of Telon. I have been in contact with the great and mighty Taliskar (aka SOE Dev) regarding our class and our issues. He gave me an update that was to say the least newsworthy.We are all very familiar with the problems out poor abominations have once we cross a... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/We-want-the-faqs-and-nothing-but-the-faqs Greetings and salutations evil ones.  I thought it appropriate and in the best interest of everyone that frequents this site to know about a growing new portion of the community, the F.A.Q. Forum.  Now this is not our typical forum, it has some funky settings to mitigate some potential... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Character-Transfers-not-quite-done Greetings fellow necros of Telon. If you were one of the unfortunate ones who thought that your character transfer had been botched or forgotten, never fear. It would seem as though the folks over at SOE simply fell behind schedule a tad, expect the moves to continue this coming... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Ellyra-says-come-back Greetings fellow defilers of the recently deceased. It would seem as though SOE wishes to let those that left Telon a couple months or more ago come back and try out the world as it is now with the various changes which SOE has done to the Game. While obviously a smart move from a marketing... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Game-Update-3--Holiday-Update-December--12--2007 Game Update 3 / Holiday Update December / 12 / 2007 1. Ancient Port Warehouse 2. Overland Raids 3. Raid Features & Functionality 4. Khal Revamp 5. Optimizations 6. New Player Housing 7. Holiday Content 8. Additional Patch Notes 1. Ancient Port Warehouse The Ancient Port Warehouse... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Just-in-time-for-the-Holidays--VGNecro-Gear-OMG Greetings fellow necromancers. It would seem that there is now a way to drag your Vanguard Necromancer addiction out beyond the boundaries of Telon and into the real world. Yes dark brothers and sisters, VGNecro Gear is finally here! This was intended to have been a quick follow up to the logo... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/New-VGNecro-com-Moderator--buterflyeffect Greetings fellow necromancers on this most festive day of slaying and devouring turkey flesh. I wanted to take a moment to announce that VGNecro.com has enslaved a new necro to be a moderator... buterflyeffect has graciously accepted his fate and is now officially a moderator here. As you have... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Updated-info-on-the-Necro-Armor-set-for-APW Greetings fellow necromancers of Telon, yes all of the ones that were dreading the thought of wearing the Friar Tuck Brown colored armor set from APW. I bring most pleasing news from the devs. Apparently our mutterings and grumblings regarding the state of the armor have been heard and they have... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Spell-Stats-for-Dummies Spell Stats for Dummies - Version 1.0 By Notleh the Necromancer Purpose: The purpose of this guide is to educate people on the different components to spells. Disclaimer: I am not an expert on this stuff. The reason I started this post was to educate myself on all of the spell components... notleh Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/PhAtHoM-s-Producer-Letter-and-followup Greetings brothers and sisters of the dark arts of Telon. Some of you have likely already seen the Producer's letter that our old KeWl SOE Producer PhAtHoM released recently. It has become the source of much debate so I figured I may as well toss it up here for digestion and possible... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Guide-to-Attuning-to-the-Core-in-Nusibe-Necropolis Greetings fellow defilers of the not so living anymore. Have you been frequenting Nusibe Necropolis? Chasing down the ever elusive Skin of the Xakrin perhaps? Well then, perhaps you might save yourself some of the looooong path of carnage it takes to get down to the Godking by taking the shortcut... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/The-Book-of-Morfare-Quest-Guide Greetings fellow necromancers of Telon. Are you level 50 and in need of something to do perhaps? A bit bored with Rhaz or Tehatamani Harbor? Need something a little different or if you are of the appropriate level range.. a challenge worthy of your time?! Well then my fellow corpse fondlers,... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Graft-updates-galore Greetings fellow necromancers.  Recently we managed to resurrect Notleh from the land of the deceased and he has returned with much enthusiasm over the new grafts.  So much was his enthusiasm that he went and built out his previous extensive graft list to include all of the new grafts... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Wildfires-impact-Vanguard---the-druids-must-be-sad Greetings fellow necromancers of Telon. On the off chance that you were not already aware of this fact, the main offices of Vanguard out in California have been having issues with those pesky wildfires out there. Their area had to evacuated as I understand it so this obviously means that there is... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Hotfix-Notes-October--19--2007 Hotfix Notes October / 19 / 2007 GENERAL- Feather fall type buffs, such as the parachute one given when you fall off a flying mount, now make you fall straight down as was originally intended. - Fixed a bug with the way the guild description was word wrapping in the Guilds LFM tab of the social... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/UPDATE-3-PHASE-1-October--16--2007-now-LIVE UPDATE 3 – PHASE 1 October / 16 / 2007 1. Ksaravi Gulch The low to high teens adventuring area of Ksaravi Gulch in Qalia has been revamped. It now features new group and solo content, with many quest lines for either type of player as well as an enhanced storyline, additional items and the... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Must-Have-Dropped-Abilities-and-Grafts Greetings fellow necromancers, I have gotten many a question recently regarding where to find our dropped spells and special grafts. To lessen the stress of being the waking necro reference set I have gone ahead and written these down so that they can be referenced more easily in the future. Feel... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/LFG-to-become-default-OFF Greetings once again brother and sister necros of Telon.  For those of you that have grown quite annoyed at trying to sort through all of the people that are "LFG" yet in reality are not actually Looking for a group, good news has arrived.  The powers that be have decided to set... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/UPDATE-3-–-PHASE-1-info Greetings fellow corpse fondlers, a bti more detail has come our way regarding the upcoming phased release of update #3.  Here are some specifics regarding the first of these phases.  · Ksaravi Gulch · Guild Hall Trophies · Player Housing / Guild Housing ·... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/I-guess-there-are-some-perks Greetings fellow necromancers.  I wanted to correct myself.. it seems that in that interview I took part of with Lumio I made a statement that was not true.. anymore that is.  I stated that there were no real perks to being a class lead, only extra work on a volunteer basis... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/GU-3-updates--3-phase-release Greetinsg fellow necros.  for those taht have not peeked over at the SOE forus we bring you this update from those happy people over at SOE that clarifies some of what GU#3 will be all about.  Oh yes and apparently the first of 3 phases will go live next week.  funfun. "Hey... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Lumio-Exclusive-hehe--voice-interview-with-me Greetings fellow necromancers. It seems as though that artsy fartsy fellow Lumio over at the Vault trapped me and forced me to do an interview. I admit that he bribed me with a forum signature so I grudgingly agreed. If you feel like hearing my ramblings go check out Lumio's "Voices of... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Necro-Guide-to-Lumberjacking-101 So, you’re wondering how a poor Nec can afford the 10g for the pimp shadowmobile? You are a nec with integrity and would never buy from a lowlife goldseller, but dang, it’s gonna take awhile with crushed organs going for 3cp a piece…Look no further my friends than this A-B-C... stillheart Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Database-Stress--Blame-Jonaphin Greetings fellow necromancers. We are tweaking some database stuff on the back end so forums may be up and down for a short while this morning. Please be patient and feel free to blame the code monkey for all of this. LifebaneVGNecro.com lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Hotfix-Notes-September--12--2007 Hotfix Notes September / 12 / 2007 GENERAL- Fixed a bug with player chests where placing an item in a chest, moving that item inside the chest, and then placing a second item at the original location will cause those items to stack cause the first one to look like it was lost.- Fixed a bug with... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Lifebaene-leaves-Vanguard-for-good-see-ya-folks Greetings once again fellow necros, I bring news!In his place on Seradon, Lifebane now exists! YAY me! I managed to abuse that merger to get control of the name "Lifebane" in game and GM Moonlite swapped it out for me the day before yesterday. It was still buggy and I was halfway in each... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Thar-be-Cylus--ahoy Greetings fellow Necromancers of Telon. I glimpsed an interview done with none other than our some time visitor and punching bag Vanguard dev type Cylus. Obviously no groudn breaking new infoz for the masses to consume, but if nothing else ti sheds a little bit of light on our part time vgnecro... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Interview-VGNecro-vs-Avair-Round-two VGNECRO EXCLUSIVE! FUN FUN! Vgnecro.com, after some technical difficulties which I somehow blame on Cylus, was able to get Avair (aka Michael Mann, SOE ) to go for another round of necro specific questions that the necro community was wanting more info on. It was great being able to get some... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Character-Move-Schedule According to SoE's Ellyra ( Source ):The first of the character moves is tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, September 18th. If all goes well, then character moves will happen every Tuesday and Thursday subsequently.Any updates or changes will be posted here as well as on VGPlayers.   arathon Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Name-Issues Head GM Moonlite has posted some info regarding the merges and how name conflicts will be handled ( Source ):The announcement regarding how names would work with the server merges was posted on 13th June 2007, giving everyone plenty of notice that the oldest character that had logged in within the... arathon Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Guild-Hall-Upkeep-Costs Along with the Guild Keep fix they implemented yesterday, Ellyra also keyed us in to some updated Upkeep Costs for the plots of land and Guild Halls ( Source ):Hobart posted this information a little bit ago:"The 10% upkeep cost was an error. Those were the plot prices back in beta. Through... arathon Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Downtime--Sept-5th---Guild-Halls-and-Brotherhoods Server and Station Downtime: Wednesday, September 5th As per the SoE announcement: : Tomorrow morning the servers will be brought down for a restart beginning at 5:00 AM PDT. The purpose of this restart is to bring new features to the game. The approximate downtime is estimated at 4 hours,... arathon Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Necro-Learned-Abilities-Found Greetings all... after careful and tedious testing your faithful Necro slave. err.. class leader type managed to visit two mobs that had a new ability for us to learn. And...... well..... it Didn't seem to work!!! There was also something "odd" about the ability names as well. I... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/VGNecro-s-new-Logo Greetings fellow necromancers. The voting to see which of the many talented artists would win the "VGNecro.com Needs a Logo contest" is over!! The winner of the contest was Braxes! Our thanks to all the talented people who participated and to all of those involved in the voting... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400