All Posts by Apham

OP gave the game a chance and turned out to like it. This is how I believe you need to walk into this game. You cannot jump into WAR expecting it to be WoW 2.

Dwarf wise Engineer is the most popular dwarven class.

Resize the image!!!

but damn man you look so epic sitting on it. /me Jealous. Congratulations man!!!

Originally posted by tetammoth
ok thnx guys. i had no clue which one of them is EU :)

Yep Halgar is the known EU server imo. Though you will find healthy populations of europeans on Seradon and vice versa a healthy mix of Americans on there also.

Originally posted by demonic87

Im not subscribing to EQ 2, because warhammer is coming out so soon. If it turns out i hate warhammer in atleast a month or less then il resubscribe to Vanguard no problem. Im just playing the EQ trial because the CE closed beta starts around the 15th. If anyone has a key il be glad to play this instead till then though.

Why would anyone waste a key on someone who is only looking for something to mess around with for a short length of time?

If you were honestly wondering how the VG:SOH game play was like and considering playin it then maybe a key would be spared. Anyways good luck with messing around in EQ2 until WAR releases.

I do not think the servers are dead, but that can be because I play on the most populated server, Seradon. The Vanguard server forums are pretty populated if that says anything for server population. Only reason I can think of as to why you would say the server is dead can be that you were on the PVP server.

Seradon always has people blabbering away on general chat and this is on Kojan, the supposedly lowest pop. continent.

I also play on Seradon and the general chat on Kojan, supposedly the least populated area in the game, is always (prime time) full of people chatting away.

He'll be back. If OP loves the PVE nothing like it imo anywhere else.

heh "it has boobs . . . and mature gamers." lol sorry just thought the three things listed as to why we should play do not really belong together.

Originally posted by jiveturkey12

Whats the Number one class these days for vanguard, well let me be more specific,

 

Best Solo class: Warrior

Best Group Class: Warrior

Best All around Class: Warrior

 

Its been a while since I played the game, and I just got back into it, playing a necro.

 

Thanks

-Jive

 

 

Need not read any further just stop right here.

I have played a Warrior to level 10 and am now currently playing a Dread Knight, have only gotten him to level 5.

I as of this moment do not know which class I prefer. I really like my warrior but am also enjoying the Dread Knight very much.

I want the class I stick with to have tanking capabilities but also when needed be able to DPS. I understand that these are melee heavy damage soakers, and I am not expecting their potential DPS to be exactly leet status but I want it to be respectable.

I am not looking for a which class is better per say response, but I am looking for someone, if you have experience with the class, to provide some feed back on the play style, tanking capabilities, dpsing capabilities, and your general experience with the class.

Already it seems as though the Dread Knight would be more of a DOT with Aggro over time type class, compared the the warriors strictly melee oriented you hate me when I hit you type style. Any feed back would be great guys.

I have made it to level 7 today and began my adventures as a diplomat.

I have spent over 3-4 hours today playing the quests for diplomacy and leveling that up, currently sitting on level 4.

100 people? maybe the pvp server?

lol! I was just going to make a very similar post before I left for work.

I had 6 hours last night at 10 PM so thought might as well leave the launcher running to install it.

I wake up this morning thinking I am going to log on real quick to see how the character creation is like, something to leave me looking forward to tonight when I can immerse myself fully into the game and. . .

Still need 15 hours to finish patching... WTF!

I told my GF to not even bother starting her account up, use a free trial to patch the updates to the game first... that might take a whole day in itself

EDIT: I have just restarted it, it should not start over but it does verify what files it already has to know where to start downloading. That might be the case OP.

Ok folks Hello again,

My GF and I both have a copy of the game and are currently debating on what we should be. She has decided that she wants to be an elf of some sort either half or high so I will follow suite.

Anyways After reviewing the different classes together She out of Psioncist and Blood Mage has decided to be a Blood Mage.

I had originally wanted to be either a Blood Mage or a Necromancer and since she is going to be a BMG I have decided not to. After reviewing the Necro I realized that a lot of what describes them resembles the play style of my warlock on WoW so I have decided not to be a Necro.

I am thinking I might be a Psioncist but not really sure, as I read more guides each class seems very detailed compared to the simplicity I was used to.

IN SHORT: Any suggestions on a class that would duo well with a Blood Mage?

I prefer being ranged but any suggestions will do.

As always thanks in advance guys.

Originally posted by deaddeath

I highly doubt it. First impressions mean a lot when it comes to MMOs, just look at EQ2. 

Look at EQ2. . . looking. Active player base. Expansions being released regularly and selling pretty well. I guess that spells failure.

I have noticed in the past couple if weeks the popularity of V:SOH to raise. I myself was not interested in it, but with all the posts about how it has dramatically improve it is becoming a must see for many people.

Those who were disappointed by AoC have also began to take an interest in this game considering that their AoC ready system is also now more then capable of handling the requirements for V:SOH.

Can it rise to success? Well if those that are playing decide to stick around and bring their friends in, word of mouth can be a very powerful thing. Especially for a game like V:SOH in which there is no where to go but up.

I just want to thank everyone for their replies thus far. It is really giving me a better feeling for the game and an inside perspective that I for some reason cannot seem to find anywhere else on the web atm. I am liking what I am hearing a lot and have went ahead and ordered a collector's edition for myself and am giving the regular copy I had stashed away to my G/F who seems just as excited to join me.

If there are more comments on the game please do post, as each person that is sharing their experience of the game with me I get a better view of Vanguard.

I have started researching on the different races and classes and wow. . . dumbfounded. There are just so many I do not even know where to begin digging up information. There is a nice link for the various classes that I will take a look at soon but I am debating on a race is there specifics as to races that excel as different classes? In WoW it did not matter much as gear late game pretty much balanced everything out. Again any help is appreciated and thanks everyone for your contributions.

I have spent about 3-4 hours on the game so far and am currently sitting at level 8. How is the rest of the game going to play out? Me running around soloing all the quests? Me running solo into instances and being able to own everything in there?

What I am trying to get at is, can this game be soloable through its entirety? I mean I love the game and I love the way they were able to take an mmorpg and put that feel of an action game into it. BUT, it is an mmorpg and I am looking for quests, instances, and bosses that require a full group with the classic roles of "healer", "tank", and "DPS/CC" in order to complete. I enjoy the tactics required from each role to down a boss or clear a dungeon.

Am I looking in the wrong place if I am looking for these qualities in TR? Should I just look at this as what has been for me these past 2 days a single player action adventure where you can occasionally group to get things done faster?

Thanks for any help you guys can provide me.

My only point of reference of how an mmorpg works in its entirety would be WoW. I am not saying I have not played another mmorpg because I have tried quite a few actually, but WoW was the only one in which I have ever reached the level cap and have seen a large chunk of the world.

What I want to know is how does V:SOH operate?

In WoW a typical character will do quests to level then when the appropriate level is reached there are dungeons in the form of instances with bosses to conquer for better loot. These instances also have quests that pertain to them that give pretty good rewards to further advance your character's gear.

End game content consists of raids which are also instanced.


How do these things play in V:SOH? I mean if there are no instances then how do people get a group together for that particular piece of gear they need off of that particular boss?

How do end game guilds set up raids to conquer a dungeon and kill off that raid boss?

I am really looking to immerse myself in the game but have not gotten the chance yet.

Thank you guys in advance for any help.

Originally posted by Moorqueen

I ordered 5 Collector Editions today from various internet sources so soon I will be able to hand out 50 Buddy keys if you haven't found a  box by then.

Wow is there any particular reason why you ordered 5 copies of the CE? I personally picked mine up from the local FYE. They were having a 75% clearance on PC games so got my copy for $7.50. Thought it couldn't hurt paying near 8 bucks to try the game out for a month.