Silias posted a development letter talking about some of the things they are planning for Vanguard.

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Here are some of the highlights of new content being planned.

Future

The remainder of the year we are looking at releasing the second part of the Pantheon story which finishes the story and leaves the hook for the nexus story. WE are also looking into some side projects that I mentioned at FF. The earliest one being a revamp of the Salamander caves beneath VT. We are planning on re-itemizing and increasing the levels of these areas. It should flow like an old EQ style and is kind of an experiment with how we want to populate some of our other upcoming dungeons.

Speaking of other dungeons after looking at Nexus and realizing that it needed a good bit of time we made a decision to push it back and spend some time populating some areas that actually exist on Telon first. Here is a list of areas we plan on working on after HOSS is released.

• Pankor Zhi
• Stiirhad
• Shadow Hilsbury
• Old Targonor
• City of Brass 2 (Fear Plane style experience)
• COW

Of the list above we have already started planning out Pankor and Stiir. Both of these areas are a significant part of Qalia’s history and we really want to do them justice. For Pankor we are looking at a plan where the dungeon is mainly 6 man but leads to a final encounter area that is targeted at 12 man much like HOTP is set up. For Stiirhad we are looking at 24 man raid area within the dungeon. My desire is to get Pankor out for Christmas and Stiirhad early next year. The remaining projects we will see as we get closer to them. Old T is another of those significant locations that needs some attention.

Also the players choice list is up for bug fixes in the coming update.  Players have a chance to go and vote on the most important issues to be fixed to help set the development priorities.

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As incredibly cool as the Nexus sounds, I am very glad they will switch focus and complete the aforementioned dungeons first.  They are already incredible looking dungeons, they just need the completed story lines, quests, itemizations and in some cases, raid conversions.

Over, and over and over again people have been clammoring for another massive raid crawl dungeon experience like Ancient Port Warehouse.  I know Bridge of Destiny and Isle of Gazumut are already 24-man raid encounters, but the prospect of Stiirhad becoming a 24-man dungeon raid crawl is very exciting.  Maybe I'll be level 55 by then and have some AAs under my belt :)