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 Check this topic often to read the latest Vanguard SOH news and developments. While the listed news is not exclusively Necromancer related, it is always good to be aware of news relating to the game.
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Submitted by lifebane on Jan 22nd, 2009
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 and also plugged in the current % breakdown by option offered in that... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Nov 28th, 2008
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 celebrate Harvest Day in Vanguard Saga of Heroes!*
The Halgrims have opened their doors in the city of Khal to all the citizens of Telon for a Harvest Day feast like no other. Join... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Nov 19th, 2008
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 annoying? interesting perhaps? Well satisfy your curiousity folks. SOE is looking for players to sign up to Beta this game. " We're super excited to announce that... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Oct 6th, 2008
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 not. I am tempted to pop back in just to see how that Isle of Dawn turned out after hearing abotu it for so long. Read below for the original posting over on the SOE news area.... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Sep 6th, 2008
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 whatever for free by playing in the upcoming Isle of Dawn Trial area. For the non new players though, this means the release of the new character models. ... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Aug 28th, 2008
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 that SOE managed to do some market research and based on their findings they did not choose to focus heavily on PVP upgrades enhancements. Now look at the two most recent MMO's with enough... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Aug 25th, 2008
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. This in the works material for Vanguard includes new optimizedf character models, at least one revamped dungeon (Pantheon of the Ancients, as well as the long awaited newbie trial area, Isle of... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Aug 11th, 2008
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 eventually. You can check out the test server to see what is there so far but be warned, it is not all there yet so don't make any assumptions. More is supposed to be there when they get... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Jun 29th, 2008
http://vgplayers.station.sony.com/newsArchive.vm?id=614§ion=News Our 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 to receive newsletters and promotions from SOE may already be experiencing glee over the recent announcement that Vanguard is welcoming players back to the game,... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Jun 27th, 2008
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 are some short term plans for the game. This is what was posted over on the Official SOE... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on May 8th, 2008
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 would be two more (and final) opportunities for eligible players to transfer servers. We're relaxing the rules a little bit and are now... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on May 5th, 2008
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 those lines.
Anyway, I sent an email over to Taliskar and Avair letting them know that I had gotten too busy with real life recently due to a big promotion at work... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Mar 23rd, 2008
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 which game they play on any particular Friday. Currently they are asking for votes for where they will play on Friday the 28th. I think perhaps we should all go and vote, of course with an... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Feb 16th, 2008
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 4 - Flying Mounts
- Riftway Revamp
- Character Optimizations / Helmets
- Overland Raid
- Class... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Feb 2nd, 2008
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 opportunity. This is the information as found on the Official Vanguard Site. "Take a look at what's in store for Game... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Jan 26th, 2008
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 most part. Now if only they'd get those flying mounts in game though, then I'd call it major progress!! There are also rumors buzzing around saying that the trial island for new players is... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Jan 19th, 2008
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 necromancer related item been addressed during those same months. Taliskar has told me that this is now "our" turn and has tasked our Dev buddy Avair with compiling wish lists and... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Jan 19th, 2008
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 chunk, evac, etc. They basically turn into erratic, disobedient, and dare I call it stupid minions that are no longer under our control. Well evil friends, Taliskar says that this has finally... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Jan 12th, 2008
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 week. Ellyra had this comment to say regarding the moves: "Due to an increased amount of requests, we were unable to move all characters that were in the... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Dec 21st, 2007
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 perspective, I still await something more compelling to get more players in, Free Trials to new players rather than just old ones for example. Ah well, what do I know... I am but a lowly corpse fondling... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Nov 25th, 2007
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 contest which unfortunately took much longer than anticipated due to problems with source files, DPI, legal permissions and the like. But at last our store of... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Nov 22nd, 2007
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 probably seen, he is very active on the forums and gets involved in discussions offering help and advice. Great guy to have moderating and participating in the... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Nov 19th, 2007
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 made some changes to the armor set. The changes are not yet "live" on test yet, but they have been made to the internal development servers. Here is the Quote: [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Nov 7th, 2007
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 regurgitation since some do not appear to stomach this very well. This is the original letter as it was posted over at vanguard players: "Let Yourself Free and Make This Game Great!
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Submitted by lifebane on Nov 3rd, 2007
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 since his departure. We have since updated the Graft Depository with all of his new information to make it complete once more. Notleh will likely not leave well... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Oct 26th, 2007
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 no customer support, updates, etc going on right now. This is their official last official update on it: "Limited Technical, In-Game and Account... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Oct 20th, 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 window. The description of the guild you have selected should be properly displayed now.
CODING
- Fixed some issues... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Oct 14th, 2007
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 the auto ON aspect of the new LFG system to auto off. You can then set it to on when you are actually TRYING to get grouped!!! This will not likely make it into Phase 1 of GU#3... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Oct 14th, 2007
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
· Optimizations/Bug Fixes
· Spam Filter 1. Ksaravi Gulch
The low to high teens adventuring area of... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Oct 7th, 2007
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 basically. Well a few members of a guild on Seradon has since proven me wrong. Members of Phoenix Ascension mailed me what amounts to... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Oct 6th, 2007
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 everybody, It's time for some Game Update 3 news! GU3 has been on test server for some time now with Ancient Port Warehouse (APW) being in closed... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Oct 1st, 2007
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 Vanguard" podcast. Thanks for the fun Lumio, that was entertaining.
Vanguard Voices #5 hosted by... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Sep 18th, 2007
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. Lifebane
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Submitted by lifebane on Sep 12th, 2007
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 name for the first day or so though hehe. All better now!
Farewell Lifebaene, LONG LIVE LIFEBANE! ![]( "more about Lifebaene leaves Vanguard for good. see ya folks") [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Sep 12th, 2007
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 resident. You can read the interview over at Vanguard Players but be warned.... with a mug shot... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Sep 10th, 2007
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 responses and to have been reassured that there is some needed attention coming on the Horizon.
On with the interview!
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Submitted by arathon on Sep 7th, 2007
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.
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Submitted by arathon on Sep 7th, 2007
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 last 30 days before the merge would keep the name. This worked as intended.... [read more]
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Submitted by arathon on Sep 6th, 2007
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 a bug we accidentally resurrected that old data. It is officially dead now.... [read more]
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Submitted by arathon on Sep 5th, 2007
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, with... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Sep 4th, 2007
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 went back to Taliskar and had him check on the abilities for me since obviously something seemed wrong. The good news is that we know exactly how to get the... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Sep 1st, 2007
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 process. We will be emailing all the participants to let them know who won and to thank them personally. Note: Due to popular... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Aug 26th, 2007
Greetings fellow necromancers of Telon, you who frolic through the fields of the rottingly friendly cadavers. The VGNecro quest for a logo has neared it's end.... after 2 weeks or so of community member submissions, we have closed the submission process and created the VGNecro Voting system... oh yeah, tamper proof unlike some sunshine state voting machines!!! "But Lifebane you said we couldn't vote til Monday!" pfft. You can only vote once so it makes no... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Aug 21st, 2007
Greetings and salutations fellow fondlers of the fallen. If word has not reached your ears yet let me be the one to enlighten you to recent necromancer related developments in Telon... NEW GRAFT TYPES HAVE BEEN FOUND! Necros everywhere have been finding fun new body parts amongst the dead that they perform Necropsy upon. Faces, Brains, Souls and the return of the Heart grafts as well. While we all had already had a heads up regarding the upcoming new graft types, they were... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Aug 20th, 2007
Well my fellow necros, it seems as if the much awaited merging of the servers has arrived. Hopefully this will go off without a hitch but in all likelyhood we should expect some problems at least the first one or two times.. hopefully after that they will have a better understanding of the process. Good luck all! See you on Seradon! As seen at the vanguard players site: The much anticipated server merges will begin on Tuesday, August 28th at... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Aug 17th, 2007
Greetings fellow defilers of dead things. The illustrious Code Monkey (aka Jonaphin) has churned us out a quick enhancement to the Graft Depository. This feature is a Submit a Graft function. When you go to the Graft Depository you will see a text link beneath the title bar that says "Submit a Graft" Click that link and the rest should be self explanatory.
Now we can all begin to update the new grafts that are discovered. The submissions will be live in the Graft... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Aug 16th, 2007
Greetings and salutations dark brothers and sisters. We have gotten some small news from Hasium regarding the infamous update #2. First the good news, rumor has it that we may see the update go live within the next day or two. Second, some previously announced features of this update have been changed or will not go live until after the server merger which is scheduled to be a week after the update #2 goes live. Below you will fine the "changed" portions of... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Aug 15th, 2007
Greetings fellow vgnecro citizens. News from the halls of SOE has arrived that bids farewell to Ellionia. It seems she has gone off to another project and will no longer be our community rep. Stepping up to the plate now is Ellyra. Here is her official "hello" post. "I just wanted to take a moment to introduce myself to those of you in the Vanguard community who have not seen me around before. My name's Julie (aka Ellyra) and I'm the new... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Aug 14th, 2007
Greetings once again brother and sister necrophiliacs. I happened upon an update of some interest over on the official SOE forums earlier that I thought I'd share here.... call it hope or false hope as you desire. It seems Hasium (aka. David "Hasium" Gilbertson - Director of Development - Vanguard: Saga of Heroes ) had an update that many of us have been eagerly waiting for. Read the copy below and marvel at the news........ [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Aug 13th, 2007
Greetings fellow fondlers of things recently deceased. Word has reached my pointy blue ears of something strange brewing over at SOE, and no I don't mean Cylus's Spiced Berry Tea! It seems that SOE has worked an arrangement that would let them create a new fantasy based MMO game off of a Comic Series called Ramayan 3392 A.D. I know, I know...... [read more]
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Submitted by jonaphin on Aug 9th, 2007
Greetings, Vanguardians of all realms! I would like to announce our latest feature, coming right from the deep burning subterranean factory where all things VGNecro are whipped up to life. Did I say whipped? Yes I did. His Evilness Lifebane has reached the minuscule limit of his patience, and ordered me flogged for eternity for not working on the site while in vacation. Nevertheless, in a - very - short twitch of generosity His Cruel Majesty has offered me a deal which, for... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Jul 31st, 2007
Greetings fellow defilers of the recently deceased. I have compiled the many posts, emails, pm's and such that I received and come up with the current necro Top 10 based on extremely scientific methods... stroke count! The more an item was mentioned, the more strokes it received. When all the information was sorted, I tallied up the strokes and used those totals to sort the list.
Here is the list of the top 10 necro issues by the necro community . [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Jul 25th, 2007
Greetings fellow necromancers... I bring news! This was posted by Hasium a short time ago on Vanguard Players... it is an update on what to expect from update #2.... some stuff we already knew about, other items.. well, suffice it to say that it is new. Of particular interest to us are the abomination nerfs in PVP. They needed to be done but just sad to see it happen hehe. Here ya go:
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Submitted by jonaphin on Jul 24th, 2007
My fellow VGzens, Allow me to first bow to HIS EVILNESS Lifebane, who - as you may have heard from his far and deep reaching words or from other scary sources - has been promoted to the rank of Necro Class Leader.
To me, this is a sign that the game is facing the right direction.
Believe it from the mouth of a monkey, Lifebane will exercise all his longly craved power to help the whole Vanguard Community, and more precisely the Necro community, be heard... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Jul 19th, 2007
Greetings oh masters of arts most foul. There is new word of Server Merge progress via the test center. The following notice was posted on the Vanguard Players Site today: "Hello everyone, As you know we have the server merge coming soon. We will be taking the test server offline early Friday afternoon to test the merge process. We expect the server to be down most of the afternoon. We appreciate your patience during this... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Jul 11th, 2007
Greetings fellow necromancers. I bring word from Hasium over at Vanguard Players... updated information regarding the server merges. Flor gets the merge it seems. Alas poor roleplayers, you have been condemned to merge.... but fear not, you will be merging with my server so can at least have the chance to say Hi!! *grins evilly* "Hey Everyone,
It's long past time for an updated server merge post. We are still feverishly... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Jul 9th, 2007
Greetings yet again oh delvers in things dead and most foul. Word has reached our sinister ears of another Milestone announcement over at Vanguard Players. Milestone #2 has been announced and in a general sense... it reads much like Milestone #1... Raids, Bugs, Performance, and Trial Island! Oh yes, and someone has begun to work on the Griffin mount quest.. yay flying bird cats!!! Read on friend!... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Jul 9th, 2007
Greetings necro brothers and sisters. Our esteemed SOE Rep Hasium posted on the Vanguard Players site his Milestone # 1 Update. This is their checklist of whatrthey completed out of the items they had committed to fix / create in their first stage of fixing the game.... have a read for yourself and judge it as you may. "Milestone 1 Wrap up Hey Everybody, Here is the long awaited Milestone 1 wrap-up. Overall we ... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Jul 2nd, 2007
Greetings fellow necros of Vanguard. The much awaited server merger is apparently 3 weeks out... then again I could swear I heard that same thing 3 weeks back! Ah well, patience is a virtue and we necromancers are known for virtue.. oh wait a minute, no we aren't.. we are evil corpse fondlers! Bleh! Here is the official word from Hasium: "I apologize but I do not have the Game updates ready this week like I promised. We had some challenges this week getting some... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Jun 28th, 2007
Greetings all. When I first noted this news item at Vanguard Players I had thought it perhaps an expansion for VG. Silly me yes I know. But I did find a positive spin to yet another marketing effort shoved in my face. Perhaps VG will be able to benefit from this game by borrowing / copying their naval combat system! [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Jun 26th, 2007
Greetings oh defiler of the recently deceased. Have you been enjoying your ever growing collection of random assorted body parts that you have gathered? Ever wonder what other grafts might be out there waiting to be ripped from the still warm corpse of your fallen foes? Well wonder no longer for "The Graft Depository" is here! The Graft Depository is a searchable / sortable database of all grafts that have been found to date in the... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Jun 15th, 2007
Greetings once again. The SOE folks have given us a Game Update over at the Vanguard Players Site which lists many plans on their road to fixing the game. Check out the pasted update below: "Hey Everybody, It’s time for an update as I promised last week. I had hoped to get this posted up earlier but the patch gremlins had other ideas. Integration is moving along very well.... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Jun 13th, 2007
Greetings fellow necromancers. it would seem that SOE has announced the tentative server merge plans. Here are the details as they exist right now: Hey Everyone, Here are the details on the server merge. We don’t have a firm date as we are still getting all the back-end details worked out. The intent is to have them done within the next three weeks. We will announce a date as soon as we have it. Please feel free to comment as I know you... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Jun 12th, 2007
SOE has gone ahead and introduced us to another of the dev / design team over at the Vanguard Players site in an article called Meet John Hegner from Vanguard ! After the last butchered attempt at P.R. with a new team member popping into the scene ( LiKe OmG!! PhAtHoM R ThE L33Tn3sS! ) I was a bit comforted to see that this intro seems to have been with far more professionalism. He seems to... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Jun 11th, 2007
Now when I first saw this latest news update on Vanguard Players I was absolutely certain that it must be somehow related to Vanguard... a promo maybe, cross selling initiative or some such. I mean SOE wouldn't be so obviously trying to market and make a buck, even if it was not in the least bit relevant. Noooooo, they wouldn't do that. Oh wait, didn't they try to get everyone to... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Jun 5th, 2007
Greetings fellow practitioners of the darker arts of Telon. The powers that be over at the Vanguard Players Site released a news article or two in the last couple days that deserved a bit of a reply. Let's start off with this:
"Article on Vanguard Players called Introduction to PhAtHoM Hey all!
My name is Thom Terrazas and I just... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Jun 1st, 2007
Greetings all of my fellow necromancers... well the ones that haven't run off to play clerics that is. At last there is some official word on the rumored server merges directly from SOE. Read the below article and prepare the incoming merge! [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on May 28th, 2007
Greetings fellow necromancers. The folks at SOE recently posted about the in game teleporter / travel system of theirs called the Riftway Network. The information is good enough and should let anyone who reads it understand hwo to use the Riftway Network so I figured i"d plug it here for our community members to find it easily. The post went as follows: "A forgotten power has returned to Telon. Ancient riftstones have come to life with their potent magic having been... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on May 24th, 2007
Greetings my necro brothers and sisters once more. It seems that the marketing gurus over at SOE have found an ingenious method of making us all want to subscribe to the Station All Access Pass! You can sign up for your all access pass, and yes.. you will be able to.... this is so exciting... wait for it... you ready ?? You will have access to.... not one... but TWO... ONLINE TRADING CARD GAMES! WOW! WOW! WOW! Read the below for the official... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on May 24th, 2007
Greetinsg fellow delvers into the dark arts of Telon. It seems that after a week or so of silence, the new Community Manager has been announced. Check out the official announcement below: "Introduction to the new Community Manager for Vanguard! Michelle Butler joins SOE as Vanguard Community Manager Greetings Fellow Vanguard Players! Some of you might be familiar with... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on May 21st, 2007
Well my fellow necromancers, it seems that the end of an era has come.... bid a fond farewell to the "Official Vanguard Necromancer Affiliate Site". it was a good run and much fun but Alas, the powers that be have deemed it necessary to scrub the Affiliate program despite all the hours and days of hard work that the various fan sites have put into supporting the Sigil Vanguard Community.  [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on May 15th, 2007
Greetings once again fellow necromancers. Smed posted the much awaited update today about the SOE / Sigil deal over on the Official SOE Forums . Here is what he had to say: "Hello Everyone, Today I would like to formally announce that SOE has acquired the assets of Sigil Games Online, including Vanguard: Saga of Heroes. As a part of this acquisition, we are bringing... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on May 14th, 2007
Greetings fellow necromancers. TLC and dropped lower level sspells has been a recent subject of debate and stress for many of us who were over the optimal level to obtain these spells in the dungeons where they are dropping. TLC concerns have been the buzz over this recent reintroduction of these spells. Avair stopped by the forums to clarify how this should be working and had the following to say: "The way it is supposed to work is this:
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Submitted by lifebane on May 10th, 2007
It's that time again dark brothers and sisters... VGNECRO Wants you!!! So you like to play Vanguard do you? A necromancer no less?! Oh yes and you think you know so very much about the class huh, more than many? Well then you obviously need to become a part of the VGnecro Contributor Staff and help out your fellow necros in the vgnecro community! Vgnecro.com is currently looking for knowledgeable... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on May 9th, 2007
Greetings fellow necromancers. For those of you that have noticed that the daily server restarts have not been happening for the last week or so and you have been wondering why.,.. behold an explanation! James "Elrar" Nichols advised us of the following information: "There will be no daily restarts until further notice while we work to improve performance and stability all around."
Of course there are the... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on May 7th, 2007
For those that may be interested: Test Your Might – Raid Test Signups! If the call of battle and glory thunders in your ears gather your allies and prepare to face mightiest of ... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on May 4th, 2007
Greetings dark brothers and sisters. It would seem that the little imps over at Sigil have been busy little writers this week, yet another article series appears to have been launched. This new series is the Featured Creature articles and the first is the Ulvari. The Ulvari look like something that stepped out of a samurai movie or maybe even escapees from the cast of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". Quite mean looking to be certain and found in and... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on May 3rd, 2007
Greetings once again brothers and sisters of the darker arts of Telon. We seem to have a double dose of news from the Vanguard Players site this day. First the Featured Dungeon articles and now news of a contest of sorts. Apparently Sigil has gotten around to fixing up the fellowship system and now has it on the test server. What is this fellowship thing you babble about Lifebane? ahh yes, glad you asked. The quick and dirty version of it is as follows: A fellowship is a... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on May 3rd, 2007
Greetings fellow Necromancers. The fine folk over at Vanguard appear to have started up a new news article series that will feature the Dungeons of Telon. The information is basic and includes a few screenshots as well as a general idea where to find said dungeon and of course, the level range. The debut of this article series covers Rakhasa Citadel in the continent of Qalia. [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Apr 30th, 2007
Greetings once again. Brad McQuaid makes good on his post to post made earlier. Here is his rather lengthy state of the game and the hints at changes in the works regarding the relationship that SOE currently has with Sigil. What does this mean to us, the actual Vanguard paying customer? Who knows at this point, but I am most certain we will be watching this very closely as the situation further develops. "So here's the first topic,... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Apr 29th, 2007
Greetings fellow necromancers. Strange tidings in the wind. It seems Brad McQuaid, aka Aradune, posted that he would be posting some news about the SOE / Sigil relationship. Nothing of this has been seen yet but speculation leans towards SOE having purchased Vanguard from Sigil or something along the financial lines. This is strictly conjecture at this point but it has most certainly caused quite the buzz. We will have to see what news we have tomorrow from the Lord of Vanguard,... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Apr 19th, 2007
Greetings fellow necromancers. If the previous two news items were not a hint, we have a new featured writer submitting their stories to vgnecro.com. This new writer is called Vanelir and as you will see, his writing style is different than our resident story teller Aarian but so far he seems to have the dark heart of a necro storyteller beating within him. With both of these talented writers telling us their tales it should definitely help to satisfy that hidden... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Apr 10th, 2007
Greetings my fellow necromancers. I have come to chatter about all things Middle Earthish and fuzzy footed. Yes I am talking about those beloved little cutesy and somewhat pudgy Halflings..err.. oops.. I mean Hobbits of Middle earth!! I have been hearing so much chatter about the upcoming release of LOTR Online (Lord of the Rings Online for you acronym challenged people) that I felt the need to Blog!! I was involved in a few phases of Beta, not the most recent one though since I... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Apr 3rd, 2007
Greetings fellow necromancers... so the Vanguard weekly roundup was published once again this past Friday. You can view the details of it at the official Vanguard Players site. A few interesting comments and tidbits as always but sadly the bulk of them were from the same site. Perhaps we can find a way to lure Brad and crew over to visit our little creepy corner of the web. I... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Mar 28th, 2007
Greetings fellow necromancers. The folks over at Vanguard have gone ahead and setup a page where we can go to get an idea of what is in development soon and on a longer term basis. Great info to have and be aware of for certain! This is the link to the "In the Works" page and some copied over the current items in development: In The Works Link Short... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Mar 27th, 2007
Greetings!
We would like to take a moment to thank our players for their assistance in helping us combat the RMT (real market trades), i.e. the gold selling and powerleveling organizations. Your assistance through reports and petitions has been invaluable to us in identifying these individuals and removing them from our game. Please continue to report individuals you suspect are involved in the transactions involving in-game items, money or services. With your help... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Mar 26th, 2007
Greetings fellow necromancers. It seems the devs have been busy trying to fix the woes of our class. In particular there are two updates currently patched to the Test Server that have been major points of discussion and cause for Necro stress in the recent weeks. Here is the necro specific info from this new Test Center Patch: GAMEPLAY NOTES
- Fix for DoTs not working in PvP
ADVENTURING NOTES
- Necromancer -... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Mar 23rd, 2007
Greetings to our fellow necromancers. It is with great pride that we share with you today news of our accomplishment as a community. Sigil - Vanguard has officially granted vgnecro.com the status of "Official Affiliate Site". This means that we will have more access to the designers and we can put up that spiffy looking Seal that says we are legit! Woohoo! Our thanks to all of the vgnecro community for their efforts in growing vgnecro.com into what it is today... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Mar 23rd, 2007
The following two updates will be going live with the next server restart: Adventuring Kill Experience Update Experience rates for killing NPCs have been increased significantly. The experience changes start as a small amount at low levels and scale up to a large amount in the early twenties. From then on, the increase remains fixed. This increase should be very noticeable for players above level fifteen. This change is in response to... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Mar 20th, 2007
Greetings my fellow necromancers of Telon. I was toiling late into the evening this past moon writing down with more detail my experiences while seeking my Undead Form. The previous writings I had on the matter were detailed enough for many to follow but it was not quite what I would have been satisfied with. Feel free to browse the revamped Undead Form Quest Guide and may it guide you well when your time comes to undertake this most unholy of quests. AKA I Hope it helps... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Mar 17th, 2007
Greetings fellow Necromancers.
Are you tired of bugs and posting them in long arse threads of posts?
Have a bug or game issue you wish to make public and present to the devs and class leaders in a neat organized format?
Do you perhaps have a suggestion that you might want to toss out there for the devs and the rest of the necro community to share?
Well then, do I have the thing for you! I formally present to... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Mar 16th, 2007
Greetings fellow necromancers of Telon. It is with some sense of pride I report to you all that we have surpassed 500 registered users and 5,000 posts. This all within the first 1.5 months of our existance. The stronger our community grows the more we will be unified when dealing with our devs and class leaders so that we can ensure that our voices are heard.
Thanks to all of you for helping us reach this milestone and to those that lurk around but never... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Mar 13th, 2007
Vgnecro.com is proud, well mostly proud, to announce the forced servitude ahem.. I mean the promotion of Dominus (Of the Flamehammer server ) to the lofty status of Vgnecro Moderator. Dominus stalks the forums enough as it is so we figure we may as well make it official. Besides, he helps many a necro that post on the forums... well when he isn't posting spam that is. So please join me in welcoming Dominus to the vgnecro crew... his brain pain has just... [read more]
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Submitted by jonaphin on Mar 11th, 2007
Dear Community, As you may have experienced today, several sites have been unreachable, including our beloved VGNecro.com For once, our host was innocent... many of the main internet servers were down today, affecting mostly Canada, California, Florida, Michigan, and Washington. You may find this information here:
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm What does this all mean?
Our friends in Europe, Asia, South America, and Oceania shouldn't... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Mar 8th, 2007
VGNECRO EXCLUSIVE! OMG! Vgnecro.com was able to pull Avair (aka Michael Mann, Sigil Game Designer Supreme) away from his busy schedule long enough to answer some very necro questions that our community had been focusing on. He was very friendly and when not running about in his daily efforts to fix the world he had some great info to share regarding necromancers now and what our future may hold in the world of Telon.
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Submitted by lifebane on Mar 8th, 2007
Fellow necromancers of Telon! Rejoice again for the time of Double Xp has returned! Picture it, another mindless weekend of grinding a thousand turtles or wolves! I like it! Send your spouse out of town! Buy your girlfriend / boyfriend a weekend at a health spa. Drop the kids off at weekend camp or anything you can do to free up that play time! The grind has returned for an encore! As posted at the vanguard players site:
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Submitted by lifebane on Mar 8th, 2007
Greetings once again. I have been busy toiling in the spell section and updating a bit of it based on recent changes in the world of Telon. The biggest tweaks were made to our various finisher spell lines. Those three spell lines: Shadow Feast, Sealed Fate, and the new Bone Chill line have all been organized under their own category, Finishers. Additionally the refresh times and the descriptions have also been adjusted to reflect the changes made to those... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Mar 8th, 2007
Greetings my dark brothers and sisters of the necromancer community; the air brings a new chill recently. I dare say a cold that chills you to the bone. Then again I could just say it gives us a Bone Chill... fine, fine.. Enough with the vain attempt at humor. Bone Chill... we got it! What is it?
Bone Chill is the 3rd finisher spell line that necromancers have. It is a fairly straight finisher in that all it does is damage; no debuff, no dot, no nothing fancy. This may seem a... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Mar 2nd, 2007
Greetings fellow necromancers, Do you smell change in the winds? I do. Vanguard recently announced that on March 6th the weekly patch would be considerably larger than normal. This is because they are adding in additional content, graphics, and creature models Additionally they have revamped to one degree or another various already existing dungeons. Lighting changes will make some of the darker dungeons which people have complained about much more visitor friendly... at least... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Mar 1st, 2007
There has been some debate recently about the quality and power levels of crafted items versus that of quested or adventure obtained items. Crafted items were in some cases considerably more potent than their adventure obtained counterparts. Apparently the crafted items were not following the same rules as adventure items in regards to stat bonuses so they were adjusted. Cylus (aka Silas) stopped by the forums and verified / clarified this for us [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Mar 1st, 2007
Greetings fellow necromancers and in particular greetings fellow dark elf necromancers. It seems that there is cause to celebrate!! The Dark Elf Racial Ability Flames of Haelifur had it's damage buff fixed in the last patch. This had not been announced openly but our hard working necro community tested it out and found there to be a notable damage increase in damage when the group is under the "pet's" influence. Cylus (aka Silas) of Sigil Games... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Mar 1st, 2007
From the Vanguard Players Site: "Sometime this afternoon, players will be able to download the test server launchpad. The test server itself will remain locked for a short while longer (it will be open soon!) but players will be able to reach the character select screen. We will keep everyone updated!" Now as this particular Necromancer recalls, beta characters were to be moved to the test server once the game went live,... [read more]
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Submitted by jonaphin on Feb 27th, 2007
My fellow netizens, The site was down for approximately 20 minutes, and we apologize on behalf of our hosting company. Reason provided by the host:
We are experiencing an unexpected mishap with one of our primary systems. Our support board temporarily crashed. Reason provided by VGNecro.com... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Feb 27th, 2007
Double Adventuring Kill Experience Weekend
It is hard to believe it has already been one month since Vanguard was released! We know it is not always easy to be the first to explore new lands, so as a big thank you to all those adventurers out there who did just that – this weekend will be a server-wide double adventuring kill experience event.
Event start and end times will correspond with the daily server restarts.
STARTS: Saturday, March 3rd,... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Feb 26th, 2007
We now have our first level 50 necromancer (woohoo Polkadots) and as such one would expect some of the mysteries of our class to have been solved. One in particular has been of interest to many necromancers in our community... the where and the how of getting those 2 upgrades for Rest of the Dead.. aka Feign Death in the world of Telon. I spoke to our Necro Class Leader Scarcius recently and asked about this particular mystery. He thought it interesting himself so went off to... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Feb 25th, 2007
So you like to play Vanguard do you? A necromancer no less?! Oh yes and you think you know so very much about the class huh, more than many? Well then you obviously need to become a part of the VGnecro Contributor Staff and help out your fellow necros in the vgnecro community! Vgnecro.com is currently looking for knowledegable necros with a desire to help their fellow necro members out by becoming more directly involved in their new vgnecro home. We are looking for those who... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Feb 22nd, 2007
Well would you look at that.. a player guide. Many people have been complaining about the lack of a player manual for Vanguard with their digital download purchase. For those that are not aware Sigil / Vanguard has a player's manual hosted on their site. You can download the manual at the following link. Vanguard Player's Manual Hopefully they will maintain that guide and update it as they make changes to the ever... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Feb 22nd, 2007
Memory Leaks
The next patch should fix two major memory leak issues that have been causing many players to crash to desktop somewhat frequently. After the fixes are patched, please let us know on the tech support forums or affiliate fan sites if these issues show up again. Tooltip Fixes
There were several very annoying issues with tooltips (such as them... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Feb 21st, 2007
Greetings and salutations fellow practitioners of the necro arts. I wanted to direct all of our members to the forums for a moment. Scarcius has asked that VGNecro maintain a detailed bug thread for him to help in his efforts to fix our necromancer woes. The Bug thread has all known current bugs which impact necromancer game play. The thread itself is broken down into different sections to help locate any bug you may be encountering. If you are experiencing a bug of some form and... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Feb 20th, 2007
Greetings dark brothers and sisters once again. I have news of a question that had been asked repeatedly by fellow necromancers recently. There was a level 22 beta spell called Spellplague that seems to have gone missing since release. There was speculation as to whether this would be a quested spell or if it had in fact been taken away. I spoke with Scarcius, our necromancer class leader, and he had the following to say on the matter of... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Feb 18th, 2007
Greetings fellow necromancers. I have gone back and done a ridiculously detailed rewrite of the quest guide for our Level 20 Feign Dead ability (aka Rest of the Dead). There were many vague areas of the quest guide previously and a couple items that were borderline inaccurate (wrong named quest mob for example). The new revised quest guide was setup to answer the lingering questions that had not been answered previously and also to integrate as much of the actual game lore as... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Feb 16th, 2007
Greetings dark brothers and sisters, I have a bit of information to share with you all. The demented crew of vgnecro.com has grown in size by one today. Usuldaneriak has been chosen as VGNecro's first Moderator. Usul is a very knowledgeable necro with many an opinion on matters necro-ish.
Usul has been a contributor at TTH and also for the German affiliate site "Onlinewelten" for which he helps out with news and necro... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Feb 15th, 2007
Greetings fellow Necromancers. The Graft list project that I was working on previously has been adopted by an eager Necromancer by the name of Kekisha!!! *Cheers and claps loudly* Kekisha has been compiling all grafts into a list and hopes to build it out to include graft cast and recast times, damages, bonuses, etc. Check out the guide and see if there is any graft you know of that isn't listed and send the info over to Kekisha for inclusion in the next updated list when... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Feb 14th, 2007
Well it seems that our brief moment of fame shot through bandwidth today and hit a previously set daily cap. This caused the site to shutdown around midnight or so. The cap has been removed now, but that still doesn't lessen the annoyance of the site having been down. Our apologies for the inconvenience... Now taking bets on the next site downtime! In all seriousness, once the site grows beyond the current "safe" level of hosting restrictions we will migrate to another... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Feb 13th, 2007
Greetings my evil and vile little necromancers. As I was wandering through the site stats and such for the day I stopped a moment to stare at a sudden spike in traffic from one particular source. Being the conniving necro that I am, I went and investigated this source and was amazed to see... word of our dark abode has spread! We were referenced in an article over at www.destructoid.com, a cross platform gaming news site. I do believe there... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Feb 13th, 2007
tsk tsk tsk... Impatient little Necromancer. How quickly you are to judge the rest of your life from only it's first few years or few few steps you might say. Do you really think that the fate of the necromancer was to be frail and weak their entire careers in the dark art of necromancy? As the old saying goes, good things come with time... I have seen and heard entirely too many new necromancers (level 1 - 4'ish) complaining about the class and disliking it after only a... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Feb 11th, 2007
A quick bit of info from Vanguard regarding recent issues we have been experiencing. The warping in particular needs to get fixed soon.. very very annoying problem Login Issues An issue causing many players to be unable to log into the game has been fixed. If you were previously affected by this bug, please try to log in again – it should work now! NPC Warping Issues
We are aware of the issues with certain... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Feb 9th, 2007
Ryan Elam from Sigil had some words to say regarding some of the commonly asked questions since the game launched. It's got pretty straight forward answers and is hard to nit pick the fine print as it were. Overall it's just one big reality check as it relates to launching and running a game of this magnitude. The full article is shown below: From Ryan Elam, Director of Technology:
I’m going to answer... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Feb 9th, 2007
Apparently there are a few fellow gaming geeks over at The New York Times. They wrote an article about Vanguard and went to some length describing the development of the game and the role Brad played in it all. It also touched on why Microsoft passed the game on to SOE... kind of made it sound like a corporate game of hot potato. Interesting reading if you have the time. Read the full article [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Feb 8th, 2007
Greetings fellow necros. Our sincerest apologies for the apparent interruption in service which made the community invisible for a short while this morning. We have not gotten a straight answer on why the hosting was not available / down... perhaps the gerbil on the treadmill quit running? Perhaps big-foot charlie tripped on our hosting server's network cable and disconnected it. Perhaps we shall never know.... If you have a moment to spare make sure you join us in... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Feb 7th, 2007
Elrar (Vanguard Community Moderator) was kind enough to add www.vgnecro.com to the links of Adventuring Class Sites over on the Official Vanguard Player's site (http://vgplayers.station.sony.com) We are pleased to... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Feb 6th, 2007
Our fearless Necro class leader contacted Sigil again regarding the sudden death of this dot line. Apparently stories of it's demise which they had told him previously had been greatly exaggerated. Quote: Scarcius
"Its back. One guy says it gone the other says it staying. Guess its staying."
Although confusing this is good news at least. Three cheers for the Cold Dot! It got a Res! [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Feb 6th, 2007
Coming Soon: The Report Command
Unfortunately, GMs cannot monitor every location in the game at all times, so there will be occasions when Customer Support does not see abuse or disruptions taking place. Players who wish to report such abuse should use the report command when it occurs. This command captures the last ten lines of visible text from the player’s text window, sending it to a file on the server.... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Feb 5th, 2007
It had been noted that the "Grasp of the Grave" line of DOT's (The cold based one) was not on the trainers anymore. Scarcius was kind enough to investigate this for us and chased down his friendly neighborhood Vanguard friends and had the following to say: "I asked Avair about this today and he said it was pulled from the game. He didn't think we would be seeing it again."
Farewell our cold... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Feb 4th, 2007
Well our faithful Supreme Code Monkey has finished up the coding for the spell system quicker than expected... ( Note to self: get an extra banana for the supreme code monkey... he done good ) The spell interface is reachable through the top menu and the page itself should be fairly easy to use... we tried to make it as user friendly as possible. Give it a shot and let us know if you have find anything working in a buggy manner... we tested it... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Feb 4th, 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. Active Vanguard Subscription Now Required
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Submitted by lifebane on Feb 4th, 2007
Greetings fellow Necros! I wanted to take a moment to let you know what the next big feature we will be rolling out in the next day or two is. SPELL DATABASE! This will contain all the current Necromancer spells in the game with as much info as I have been able to dig up on my own. It is more user friendly and detailed than anything that I have seen out there so far so you all should appreciate it. You will have some pre-made spell listings to choose from and an additional... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Feb 2nd, 2007
Hello all and thanks for visiting our little piece of Necro Paradise. We are still working on the place, fixing this, tweaking that... the decor lacks a bit of well.. necro-ness still as well. Feel free to browse what is available and visit the forums. We are open to suggestions and requests for making the site the new Necromancer home for the many Vanguard necros recently born. You can use the forums suggestions and bugs forum or simply send me an email... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Feb 1st, 2007
You look a bit battered and tattered my young necromancer. Having a bad day? Biten off more than you can chew more times than you care to mention perhaps? It seems quite apparent that you do not know your dots!! Yes, that is correct, DOTS, and no I do not mean the spiffy space age Ice Cream. I have been asked more than a few times to explain the whole DOT thing as it relates to the target window. I dug around the web and found the "official explanation" of it so read... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Feb 1st, 2007
Well it's been 2 full days since Final Release!
New players are flooding into the lands and as expected this has caused some lag issues for players. The lag for the most part seems to be limited to client side and it is largely based on the power of the individual user's systems. Of the complaints I have heard from other players, the vast majority revolve around this lag or system limitation issue so I guess that speaks well of the rest of the game so far. The... [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Feb 1st, 2007
Great news indeed. The forums are now setup and ready for posts and traffic. They will be undergoing some graphic work and layout tweaks in the near future but this will not impact the messages or the message database so no worries. Go setup your account and join in the discussions. [read more]
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Submitted by lifebane on Jan 28th, 2007
This was my Beta necro flying around on a griffon that I won in a game of teletag during the end of beta festivities. Really neat looking pet and damned useful for exploring those hard to reach places. (Anyone catch the Titan AE song reference) [read more]
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