Vanguard Live. Beginning thoughts.

Post by **Lyion** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 2:09 pm

I have three characters, all on Targ.

Dwayne, my 13 Orc Warrior
Vun, my 12 Blood Mage who I play Wed/Sunday with our group.
and Cynay my 6 Cleric whom I'm levelling to compare with my Blood Mage

Post by **Tossica** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 2:20 pm

Ugh... so why are we not hooking up?

Post by **Lyion** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 2:25 pm

You have been way ahead of our lil group. We are as casual as you, but hopefully will close the gap in the late 20s/30s.

I started over when Rey and OD came to Targ and we have a nice set little group.
Rey's character is Donalbain, and our third is Odouls.

I'll look for you online, Toss. We're generally playing 8:30 to 11:30 Wednesdays EST, and Sunday night a tad earlier.

Post by **Tossica** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 2:37 pm

Same time we are playing. You guys have a guild already or do you want in The Nameless? I know Dwayne was still in last I checked or did you deguild?

Post by **Lyion** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 2:52 pm

Dwayne is still guilded with you. We don't have a guild. I had figured we would hook up with yours, Toss, if that was cool.

Post by **Tossica** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 3:02 pm

lyion wrote:Dwayne is still guilded with you. We don't have a guild. I had figured we would hook up with yours, Toss, if that was cool.

Of course. I will look for you guys this weekend. 3 of our players are way more hardcore and have several characters in different lvl ranges. I started up a disciple the other day too and am willing to play alts until we get a nice well rounded group in level range.

Reynaldo · Post by **Reynaldo** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 3:40 pm

Might add too that our characters are orcs / gobbos so we're in the Martok general area. Not sure yet how hard it is to move a character from continent to continent.

I have a level 8 bard I'm trying to raise as well cause I think that would be more fun than ranger.

Post by **Tossica** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 3:47 pm

My main is an orc. You can port around easy enough but when you find an unfriendly, you are usually dead before you realize the err of your ways.

Post by **Tossica** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 10:30 pm

Tacks and Rey, char names?

I am Tyrone, Troma or Barkay

Tacks · Post by **Tacks** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:53 am

Kezzers, I haven't been able to play lately though.

Post by **Lyion** » Sun May 06, 2007 12:40 pm

Ok, after playing a few weeks of VG with a good group, I'm almost ready to throw in the towel.

The game has some great ideas, but there are way too many bugs. 6 of the 15 quests I tried to do this week were bugged. I managed to go skydiving through the world at least 5 times over this weekend.

I really want to like VG, but currently it is its own worst enemy, not discounting the fact Sigil is broke and seems to fuck up the game worse every time they patch it.

I no longer have a WOW account, and I just can't spend 7 years levelling solo in EQ2 to catch up to anyone I know. Any ideas for a fun, casual MMO out there?

jungilizt · Post by **jungilizt** » Sun May 06, 2007 1:34 pm

I dont care what anyone says, Vanguard turned out to be crap. LoTRO has turned out to be AWESOME. It is slow lvling, you can be casual or hardcore. Has great content, sticks to the lore of the books. Runs great on most machines.

Vanguard was NONE of those. Hell even the monster play in LoTRO is pretty SICK. I am actually playing my monster more than anything. Look up Gnilgnuey on Vilya server monster play(ettenmoors) or Edorin on Vilya regular free peoples.

Post by **Arlos** » Sun May 06, 2007 1:42 pm

Apparently 3 active and KNOWN item/gold dups on VG right now. http://www.fohguild.org/forums/mmorpg-g ... ffect.html

Apparently, it's so bad as a result, that the people of one server are instituting a barter-based economy as a result. Kinda like in Diablo, where no one payed with money; things were costed at so many SOJ's. (Or even pre-Kunark EQ, where people bartered with SSOYs and FBSSs) I'm just amazed that it's THAT bad already from these bugs.

What's really astounding is that Sigil hasn't brought the servers down to fix the problems, and wiped all the dup'ed stuff. Hell, even EQ was responsive on that, if nothing else. Was just about the one thing that would get SOE to jump, fast, was someone finding a new dup bug.

-Arlos

Post by **Lyion** » Sun May 06, 2007 2:00 pm

Honestly, I don't think Sigil has the manpower to do anything, Arlos. They bought back rights to the game for a fraction of what MS was paying, and were able to do a publish deal with SOE that enabled them to retain rights.

Their initial sales were fair, but they are barely breaking even and don't have any cash on hand to fix the train wreck of a game. It's why they are attempting to sell it to SOE, who by all apparent measures isn't going to pay much for it.

LOTRO looked neat, but my multiple forays into beta really didn't do anything for me. maybe the game gets really good after 15, but it just didn't wow me.

The only way I'd buy LOTR is if I had a consistent group.

I picked up Gothic 3 for 20 bucks at target, to give me something RPGish to do

Reynaldo · Post by **Reynaldo** » Sun May 06, 2007 8:52 pm

Did that Arcanium quest ever work Lyion?

I had about 3 days since Wed that I was either going to play Madden, Icewind Dale 2 or Vanguard, and the former won out all 3 days.

I have fun when we play but it just doesn't have that hook like EQ did where I wanted to play every free second I had.

Post by **Lyion** » Mon May 07, 2007 4:30 am

I never could figure it out, Rey. I also had 2 broken crafting quests that night that really irked me.

I also have fun when we play, and I'm willing to keep going a night or two a week.

I think the game has great potential, but right now needs a lot of work. It really does feel like we're paying for open beta to me.

Reynaldo · Post by **Reynaldo** » Tue May 15, 2007 7:34 am

Toss, you have any characters around 10th level near Leth Nurae or however you spell it? You should come join us on Wednesday for some fun in the sun.

Post by **Tossica** » Tue May 15, 2007 9:27 am

wed and sunday are my regular gaming group nights. we are all starting new toons soon to play with a couple other friends that are starting up. it would be a great time to get us all together.

our group is in a place called the pantheon now. very cool and very challenging. lvl 30ish mobs.

sorry no caps, I am on my pda.

Reynaldo · Post by **Reynaldo** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 12:24 pm

So, I read they're merging down to TWO PVE servers, jejejeje.

While that's probably great for community, it's brutal to see happen.

Toss, you still playing? I let my account expire last week, but really hadn't played in a month or so.

Post by **Tossica** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 12:38 pm

My son is in town now for the summer so my play time has dropped down even more. Doubt I'll get to login at all this summer so I might as well let it expire.

Menlaan · Post by **Menlaan** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 2:58 pm

So is VG dead now?

Post by **Martrae** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 3:12 pm

It's being tweaked by SoE, so I think people are just lying low for a bit to see what they do with it.

Reynaldo · Post by **Reynaldo** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 10:29 am

I'm one of those laying low. Prolly resub for a month at the end of the summer and give it one more try after all the server merges and fixes.

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