The Vanguard team has announced that a new dungeon will be included when the next game patch deploys. Called "City of Brass", the dungeon is considered a 'progressive dungeon' that will feature thirteen bosses.

Here's what else the team announced will be included in the patch:

o what is in the first upcoming update….

 

· Overland Raid bosses

· New Dungeon – City of Brass

o Massive progressive dungeon with thirteen bosses and new rewards for players that can survive long enough to obtain them

· Removal of Corpse recovery

o This will aid in making the leveling process more enjoyable as well as remove the frustration that can be encountered from suffering a death penalty

· Experience curve decreased

o Experience has been modified to make leveling a new character a bit easier

· Increase in loot drop rates

· “Golden Path”

o Riftways instructing players to ideal leveling areas with new rewards for all levels

Participate in the discussion on the Vanguard forum.

Thanks for the tip, Coolit!

Nice! I Might play some before swtor ;)

cool, the love is starting to come in. I can't say that removing the death penalty is a wanted thing but I'm sure that some might like it.

Oh my...I think I'm going to cry.  FINALLY, some VG news and a nice patch giving EVERYTHING I need to get back into the game.  Less time to level, woot, I love playing tons of alts so this will be nice.  No corpse return, woot, I hated that aspect of this and every other MMORPG.  New dungeon, awesome, it will have to wait till I get to that level though, lol.  Time to reinstall and resub me thinks.

Originally posted by Lord.Bachus
Removing death pennaltiess?

Mmos really becomming a sad lot these days

what he says...

"· Removal of Corpse recovery"

Good ord how sad...... There go' half te rason of being a rogue. MY time spent there as one was so rewarding. Always there to be the guy to recover someones corpe that was 1.5 hrs down in a dungeon. Other than that and the fact the upd xp gain that looks great.

hey as long as they are going to do patches, perhaps grow the game than all is good

why does good news always seem to be shrouded with nerfed mechanics? Why must every game be heading towards the same wowtastic state? Id be suprised there is no x-server LFD tool .. if there were more than 1 server.

Removal of corpse recovery, experience curve decrease, increased loot drops, and this Golden Path all take away from Vanguard and what made it fun and unique... Now, there's a "strict" leveling path, items and levels come by more easily, and dying is a nuisance instead of a challenge.

Well now we know what happened to eq2,  they took our dev team and actually worked on vanguard and that is why were getting an xpac in eq2 with no content.

Happy for the vanguard players for 2 years they been asking for something and there it is.

please make it free to play, please =( 

Might have to head back and give it another go now that the game is seeing updates again. They all sound like positive changes, and the "Golden Path" will lead players of similar levels together so there are more people around, which is necessary, even if it does detract from the overall experience because it won't be left up to exploration.

Originally posted by erictlewis

Well now we know what happened to eq2,  they took our dev team and actually worked on vanguard and that is why were getting an xpac in eq2 with no content.

Happy for the vanguard players for 2 years they been asking for something and there it is.

 

It's a fair tradeoff... I mean c'mon, this should be a lunchbreak patch for the EQ2 team.

So I guess they got a long semester to rest and do a bit work on VG ;)

I am also pretty shure that the 'no content' you are talking about for EQ2 is more than what VG received this patch.

For me I'm a bit sad I didn't picked station acess this time instead of just subbing to EQ2.

· Removal of Corpse recovery

o This will aid in making the leveling process more enjoyable as well as remove the frustration that can be encountered from suffering a death penalty

· Experience curve decreased

o Experience has been modified to make leveling a new character a bit easier.

2 steps in the wrong direction IMO.

did soe fix the clunky mechanics? i want to give this game another shot but i dont feel like paying for clunky mechanics when i can get smoother gameplay somewhere else :/

Originally posted by Sovrath

cool, the love is starting to come in. I can't say that removing the death penalty is a wanted thing but I'm sure that some might like it.

One of the things I loved about this game was that it sucked big time to die..

Removing this is just a big step towards dumbing down the game.. sadly..

Originally posted by Lord.Bachus
Removing death pennaltiess?

Mmos really becomming a sad lot these days

I agree it really pisses me off removing the death penalty,it's the start of dumbing down Vanguard. Having played since release and done all major top level content on 4 characters each level 55 this new content is a god send.

Originally posted by ArcheAge

Originally posted by Lord.Bachus
Removing death pennaltiess?

Mmos really becomming a sad lot these days

I agree it really pisses me off removing the death penalty,it's the start of dumbing down Vanguard. Having played since release and done all major top level content on 4 characters each level 55 this new content is a god send.

i think soe are using some poor strategy making the game easier and giving some updates trying to hold the few fellows subscribed  cos swtor is just 1 month away and they will leave VG for sure

edit: note i said i think, as in opinion

Originally posted by rojo6934

Originally posted by ArcheAge

Originally posted by Lord.Bachus

Removing death pennaltiess?



Mmos really becomming a sad lot these days

I agree it really pisses me off removing the death penalty,it's the start of dumbing down Vanguard. Having played since release and done all major top level content on 4 characters each level 55 this new content is a god send.

i think soe are using some poor strategy making the game easier and giving some updates trying to hold the few fellows subscribed  cos swtor is just 1 month away and they will leave VG for sure

 

edit: note i said i think, as in opinion

 

i srsly doubt the few people still playing VG are at all interested in a game like SWTOR. Some may try it, but SWTOR is nothing like VG. It may as well be the anit-VG.