[VGNecro.com] Vanguard Saga of Heroes - Necromancer Community Blog Feed http://www.vgnecro.com/rss/index.xml Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:21:20 -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-Patch-for-Vanguard As incredible as it may seem, we have yet another bug update/patch for Vanguard! Some class specific changes this time around which is a nice change since some of these bugs have been around a looong time. Hats off to SOE for finally giving this game some much needed attention, now stay on it!All... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/OMG--can-it-be--Vanguard-Bug-Fix-Update WOWZER!  The dev's over at SOE working on Vanguard (yes apparently there are one or two) have released a bug patch! Read below for details! Could this be a sign of updates actually being done and coming down the pipeline for this game? Players have been waiting for a mighty long time to... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Necromancer-Class-Update-FINALLY This article is a little late. But better late than never!After two years of nerfs and getting pushed aside, in September 2009 necros finally got a moment in the spotlight and we took full advantage of it! http://forums.station.sony.com/vg/posts/list.m?start=0&topic_id=50370 Necromancer... acebreus Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Pantheon-Update-finally-live--new-content-and-a-level-cap-increase Halls of the Pantheon The Halls of Pantheon is finally here. The first part of the great architect Artera's story has finally been released and now is your chance to prove to the gods of Telon you are worthy of their blessings. Within the halls you will be asked to do many things as you... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Platinum-Faction-Coin-Drops--Monster-Liist Since many of you are still trying to grind your way to buying the high end lvl 50 faction mounts I saw this list and thought it a great reference to have handy.   It is a list by level range of where to find the named monsters that will drop the platinum coins.  Please let... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Silius-on-2009-and-Vangaurd Silius recently posted about what he sees ahead in 2009 for Vanguard.  He also tossed up a poll to see what it is that the community is most interested in seeing developed in the game.  You can see the original post here but I have copied over the article for your ease of reference below... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Interesting-changes-on-test--go-fish Silius posted a list of changes that have  been pushed to the test server.  The highlights of this would be the introduction of fishing... yes fishing like you'd see in pretty much every MMO out there had finallly arrived in Telon!  Perhaps the more interesting change is allowing... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Harvest-Day-still-running--Eat-those-leftovers-and-get-back-in-game Soe still has their Harvest Day events running where you can get some fun illusion items, get a umm. bird leg, or try out one of the  new raid events specific to this Harvest Day celebration.  Here is the latest PR from SOE for this: "Join the Lesser Giant Halgrim family as they... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/FreeRealms-for-free---beta---hrmm Well SOE is trying their hand at making their very own cartoony style game.  Cartoony as in the graphics appear to be WOW-like rather than their more typical attempts at making things look more real.  Did I mention this is geared towards younger players?  Sound utterly... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Play-for-free--no-really-free SOE has extended their come back for free promotion and now anyone with an account that was dormant for more than 60 days can come play until October 18th.  It seems like a good chance to sneek back in and see if changes made in recent months have been enough to alter your gaming experience or... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/GU-6-is-live--new-models-Isle-of-Dawn--fun-fun Isle of Dawn he Isle of Dawn was separated from the continent of Kojan during the cataclysm. A village of battle hardened humans and a band of zealot hobgoblins have warred against each other for centuries on the Isle. Their mutual hatred for one another runs deep and even now they are locked in an... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Vanguard-Game-Update-6-incoming The news from the folks over at SOE is that Vanguard players can expect Game Update # as early as this coming week.  What does this mean?  Well the game will FINALLY have a player test / trial area so that potential new players with interest in Vanguard can try the game out for 15 days or... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Vanguard--to-PVP-or-not-to-PVP I have been hearing quite a bit of chatter lately about Vanguard and PVP or the lack of it really.  When you consider the more popular and widespread MMO's out there as well as the newer contenders stepping into the mix lately, Vanguard is hurting badly in the PVP area.  I am sure... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Upcoming-changes-for-Vanguard  Greetings all.  At the recent Fan Faire in LAs Vegas, SOE proudly announced their plans for the near future as it relates to Vanguard: Saga of Heroes.  Much bragging was done about accomplishments they have made so far but a fair portion was dedicated to what is in the works. ... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Rumored-upcoming-Necro-DPS-Increases k folks.... rumor has it that multiple classes are getting dps boosts, but mostly casters from what I hear. The goal for necros specifically seems to be to improve their dps in high end play only for the most part (aka Raid).  How well they pull that off you will see for yourself... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Play-for-FREE--Wowzer http://vgplayers.station.sony.com/newsArchive.vm?id=614&section=NewsOur buddies over at SOE have extended a hand out to new and old players alike by offering them the gift of FREE game time and even a free mount. Here is their post over on the official SOE Site."Those of you who have opted... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/House-of-Commons-and-General-State-of-Affairs  Greetings all, I wanted to take a moment to spread the news about the recent House of Commons.  If there can be belief in what they say then we can expect to see quite a bir of changes in Vanguard in the next couple months.  Obviously too long for many players but at least there... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 http://www.vgnecro.com/article/Game-Update-5-05-28-2008 Game Update #5 1. Racial Mounts 2. Class Updates 3. Anti-Hitching 4. New Particles 5. Patch Notes 1. RACIAL MOUNTS We have added a unique racial mount for each race in Vanguard! The mounts can be attained through a series of faction based quests that can be started in each... lifebane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -400 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