ame Updates January 31,2007
Vanguard atch Notes 1/31/2007
Welcome to Vanguard: Saga of Heroes!
You are now one of the first to witness the exciting, dangerous, and ever-changing world of Telon. Telon is a living world, and like any world its early days are going to be fraught with turbulence. xpect us to have to “patch” any cracks as they appear for the first days.
We know you are excited to explore the world we created for you, and we are equally excited to have you here. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the landscape… enjoy the freedom… of Vanguard.
MLY NOTS
- level component has been added to your chance to stealth, sneak and hide. This makes gaining skill much easier.
- The stealth, sneak and hide skill gain rate has been significantly increased.
- Melee attacks have had their costs slightly increase.
DVNTURIN
- The Druid, Necromancer and sionicist have had there nuke damage increased.
- Bard – Invisibility song components are no longer maintained.
- Bard – Slightly lowered the movement increase for Tynen’s Components.
- sionicist - Thought ulse now has a 4 second refresh timer.
- sionicist – Mirage is no longer a maintained ability.
- Shaman – Removed two abilities from the Rakurr (wolf) pet that were not intended.
- Shaman – Skin of Rakurr now grants 8% chance to crit instead of 108%.
- Shaman – Skin of Rakurr should now modify chance to crit for auto attack, too.
- Shaman – Skin of Rakurr’s movement speed bonus should no longer stack with other movement speed buffs.
- Shaman – Skin of Tuurgin now properly raises auto attack damage.
- Shaman – You should no longer be able to be in patron form while you have a summoned attendant.
- Shaman – Removed the + spell damage from Skin of Rakurr and lowered the melee damage mod by 2%.
CRFTIN NOTS
- dded harvesting tools to the eneral oods Vendors.
- The outpost locations for the level ten crafting outpost quests have been changed for most starting cities.
- few artificer and outfitter recipes that were missing from certain Thestran basic trainers have been added.
- ttuning dusts have been added to utility vendors.
- Outposts now give double the continental artisans faction of regular cities and towns.
- Outposts now give artisan faction for the city they trade heavily with (if any).
- Outposts now give normal city faction for doing work orders in an outpost that city trades heavily with. If you do enough work orders and gain enough faction with them, hostile cities may become more tolerant of you, allowing access to content inside the city.
- The outpost quest in each city now has directions to get there safely in addition to the already present waypoint.
- Some obsolete recipes have been removed from game.
- rron in Leth Nurae will now properly switch your trade if asked.
DILOMCY NOTS
- layers should find much less frustration parleying with Sylwen, rince Dargand, Keyvan Minoo, etzin the nome, and Hubert Ringsworth.
- “Dreamspeaker” now fails correctly when the timer runs out.
- Deck transmogrification continues.
- Some alterations to the Civic Diplomacy levers in many cities.
- There is now an alternate source of Diplomacy experience in the form of a group of soldiers that need your diplomatic skills! Speak with your local racial trainer to get the lowdown. This content is available only for players below 40 skill.
WORLD OULTION
- Uvela should now properly direct players to the various shrines.
- ltered a roaming (potentially) KOS npc who would sometimes path near the corpse altar in Qa Riverbank.
- Fixed several NCs that erroneously had Khal faction assigned to them
- dded increase to Upside lliance for slaying Ksaravi Rat Men
- Decreased the amount of faction required to gain to become “Not Killed On Sight” in various starting areas and the few outposts that are hostile
- NCs that drop coin will no longer do so at a 100% rate its still quite a high rate, but it was out of whack with other forms of money making
- Many outpost NCs in Jalen’s Crossing are now on the Students of Lao’Jin faction, the students are much more understanding than other inhabitants of the continent
- Challenge Rating on many NCs in the Ksaravi ulch dungeon have been modified allowing more diverse groups of players to experience the content
- ntrepreneur Nargix setup his eneral oods shop at the Tracker Camp within the Wildgrowth Forest.
- Increased the number of spawn points of od Tree Sprouts within the Wildgrowth Forest associated with the quest “What’s in the ods?”
- Uvela now knows about how many wisp corpses are needed to repair the shrines
- Foruil ladesworn now knows the location of the Imperial oacher
- wildlife in the northern plains of Thestra is generaly slightly less dangerous now
- Verdant Lurkers are less likely to notice when their friends are being killed
- Verdant Lurkers are generally less dangerous people than they used to be
- the quest “Breaking The Mindbreaker” is now properly listed as roup
- Mihdi Khadim is now (appropriately) female.
- Martok - ut dot on the map for ort of Martok.
- Rindol Field - Some quests in Rindol Field were incorrectly marked as ‘Solo.’ They are now correctly marked as ‘roup.’
- The Ksaravi Hostage should no longer aggro surrounding mobs.
- Rindol Field - In the quest, “Take Back the Mill,” the waypoint to the Storehouse Mill has been updated.
- Tursh - dded a waypoint to Shimmerleaf Lake for the quest, “No Fish for Tursh.”
- Bind Stone dditions
- dditional bindstones added to the continent of Martok.
- dditional bindstones added to areas surrounding the Village of Three Rivers
- Bindstone added in the general vicinity of the Upside Defense arrison on Skrilien oint
- tlar added in the general vicinity of the Upside Defense arrison on Skrilien oint
- The entrance to Kalendra's Coven should no longer have bunched up mobs.
- Bindstones added to
- Hathor Zhi
- Tanvu
- outpost on side of island
- blighted land outpost
- Leth Nurae
- Northern lains
- Hilsbury/Misthaven
- River Valley
- camp/tents outside the valley
- small village inside the valley
- Kurashasa area
- arena
- Qa Riverbank
CODIN
- Fixed a bug causing the value of max expertise from one item to not show up in the quipment xpertise tooltip.
~The Vanguard ’
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