[VG] The Current State of Vanguard

[Neric]

Friend of mine has turned into a hardcore VG-fan lately. Reason for concern?

[Quineloe]

What is the current endgame of Vanguard?

Originally Posted by tad10

Just remember to pick these up in your adventures.

Edit: Bah beaten by the frog.

If this wasn't a Vanguard thread, I'd think this is an EQ screenshot.
Just how much original content is actually in that game?

[Ashes Emberblade]

That item doesn't exist, it's a joke.

P.S. This thread got me to resub. Damn you all.

[Teclis_Saphery]

Boots are real.
http://vgplayers.station.sony.com/bl...d=111669153999

[tad10]

Originally Posted by Quineloe

What is the current endgame of Vanguard?



If this wasn't a Vanguard thread, I'd think this is an EQ screenshot.
Just how much original content is actually in that game?

There is only one endgame raid dungeon: APW. We've been raiding it pretty regularly since release and haven't quite made it to the basement wing. The top guilds (BoW/Trinity/Pain/+ a few others) have killed the final boss. Other than that there's a few overland raid mobs. Lead dev has said they're working on the next raid dungeon but AFAIK haven't given a timetable. By all accounts, and per MMO SOP, the next dungeon will be progressive requiring the guild to have farmed APW until your eyes bleed to have a shot at it.

There's a decent amount of 6-man endgame content (Rahz, Lucent, Xennumet, Nusibe, plus long ass things like the Griffon Quest) but these days except for occasional Xenn raids I just do APW. One of these days when I have lots of free time I'll work on the griff quest and finish getting my Xenn levitation cloak.

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Oh and as noted the boots and the Ancient Cyclops are real.

[Vinen]

Originally Posted by tad10

There is only one endgame raid dungeon: APW. We've been raiding it pretty regularly since release and haven't quite made it to the basement wing. The top guilds (BoW/Trinity/Pain/+ a few others) have killed the final boss. Other than that there's a few overland raid mobs. Lead dev has said they're working on the next raid dungeon but AFAIK haven't given a timetable. By all accounts, and per MMO SOP, the next dungeon will be progressive requiring the guild to have farmed APW until your eyes bleed to have a shot at it.

There's a decent amount of 6-man endgame content (Rahz, Lucent, Xennumet, Nusibe, plus long ass things like the Griffon Quest) but these days except for occasional Xenn raids I just do APW. One of these days when I have lots of free time I'll work on the griff quest and finish getting my Xenn levitation cloak.

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Oh and as noted the boots and the Ancient Cyclops are real.

Where did the end up placing the AC?

[tad10]

Originally Posted by Vinen

Where did the end up placing the AC?

It's in the Temple of Dailuk area on Qalia (a desert area on the arab themed continent for those who don't play).

[kcxiv]

Originally Posted by tad10

There's a decent amount of 6-man endgame content (Rahz, Lucent, Xennumet, Nusibe, plus long ass things like the Griffon Quest) but these days except for occasional Xenn raids I just do APW. One of these days when I have lots of free time I'll work on the griff quest and finish getting my Xenn levitation cloak.

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Oh and as noted the boots and the Ancient Cyclops are real.

I just got my lev boots off of Shiver. I no longer have to do the lev cloak quest, wuwu.

[kcxiv]

Originally Posted by LexarkT11

Anyone here on Seradon in a raid guild, my cleric was 42 or something like that and I wouldnt mind subing up again if I could find a raid guild on that server.

www.halcyonaffinity.org looking for a cleric. You gotta be level 50 though. Even if your 48, your just going to get owned in there.


For tad. I left BoW a while ago.

[tad10]

Originally Posted by kcxiv

For tad. I left BoW a while ago.

Ah didn't realize. HA is a cool guild too.

[Kobalt]

Gotta ask, do people ask if their jboots are slower every patch?

[kcxiv]

Originally Posted by Kobalt

Gotta ask, do people ask if their jboots are slower every patch?

Well, you get a numbers on how fast you move. So if the Jboots did get adjusted. There's no way the dev's can deny.

[Scorp]

Was it fun because you spent your time exploiting? Because if only travel times annoyed you they added riftshards nearly everywhere.

Cheating, actually. I was cheating. Exploiting is more along the lines of doing something that isn't supposed to be done, but is in the game and requires no third party programs. And yes, woe is me for using speed hax, because thats about all Chromo did. Not like I was getting free EXP, I still had to kill shit. Considering reupping after reading up on these riftshards.

[Blackulaa]

Just to say, I don't if this is a good or bad thing, but I think Wow has made me soft.

Running around Trengal Keep today was a reminder of a comedic episode of What, How, and When to Pull Noob lol.

From roaming guards, to angry spiders, to the wolves on top of the hill, you better know what the hell you want to do before you Ranger snipe draw aggro from your Monk tank who needed to FD because a named spawned...

[AlekseiFL]

Just came back to game week ago and gotta say im Loveing it, In 8 days back now, Not 1 Night Period at all have Crashed Not chunking , Not Rifting.

Game still has Bugs, But its Leaps and Bounds were it should been at launch, they finally have chunking and hitching, lots of Optmizations done and it shows.

Most players can Play on now Max setting to Medium and get kick ass FPS, due to the Optmizations better pcs, out better Video cards etc, drivers.

I our pcs, have everything loaded Max, Max setting to all, and we geting insane fps dont drop even in zones have tons in like TK other day when was on 1 my alts, or towns.

The game is Playable now and that allows players to actually explore not have to chain crash, relog, or mem leaks and so many other bugs that plaqued it at launch.

Like said game is Fun now since gu4 riftways let you get around alot faster if wanna get on alt, head somewhere for group fast can, take rifts to it, if that dont work just after take rift rent Griffon and fly to where ya need to go or atleast get close to it then land and run or mount rest way.


Also since GU4 their are tons of named all over dam place , even on new alt made found couple level 2 ad level 5 named lol of course quickly killed them but it lets newbies to game or alts feel like their geting something done be to gank named even at level 2 etc. gives them fun.

AS said above with all named now, tons of Loot drops on tk run on my alt in less then 2 hours had all my bags full on gear most bind on equip gear that had won in my group greeding again, earlier in vanguard beyond server and graphic optmizations, mem leaks, chunking etc.

We all could agree the drops from 5-30 alot them either didnt happen or they were so shitty was total joke, basically named and regular mobs arent Itemized now they are lets new and old players alts and mains new to game feel like their geting gear early to hook them.

Did Mention on Max setting , Ultra Max can run on any of our 3 desktops or 2 gameing laptops game looks like god dam Movie graphics are insane on some dugeons and places to visit.

haveing said that Models and decision to use UIbody agree with all the said it was stupid but game due to its stable now and high framerate is very playable which means players can do what should been at launch that is play, explore, have fun.

My tk alt group we had atleast 7-8 other 6 man groups all in tk at same time none us lagged due to this we contiued to chain pull all and kill all named we saw were werent questing were doing chain pulling exp route.

So yes check out Vanguard now its stable and playable its actually fun, visually their is not game out their can even come close to game world size and places variety of dungeons and looks, its simply stunning unless ya have computer that is from 3rd world country should be to run vanguard on medium to high to Max easy now.