Vanguard

[Rhambuk]

my highest char was bard, loved how they did song composition . that game did so many things right

[Byrjun]

Pretty sure I played on Targonor. Game was amazing and had the potential to be the best MMO ever. But I quit after a couple months due the issues. Like, the game was pretty great at first. It had a lot of technical issues, of course. But it got really bad when they tried changing things. Clerics were balanced around most of their abilities being broken, then they fixed all those abilities and didn't adjust them accordingly and they became the best tanks, healers, and dps in the game. It was the best bad MMO ever.

The quests and general design blew me away. Even the level 5 introductory quests made you feel like a hero.

[Pringles]

Had a lot going for it, but they failed their launch so it never took. Had no idea they were shutting it down, sad to see but oh well.

[Mblake81]

Originally Posted by Ket [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Any former Vanguard folks out there? I'd list a server ...but, well, if you played Vanguard you know how silly that would be.

Tralyan here. Warrior. Sad to see it go away. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yup
-Ket

Played for about one month.

Still got it right with eq 1.

[Byrjun]

That's one of the things that was amazing about the game, I did a lot in the couple months that I played and still probably only saw less than 10% of the world. Towards the end when my room mates started getting sick of Vanguard's shit I would just explore randomly and I came across all kinds of crazy shit hidden away. Imagine if the Feerrott was a thick jungle about 15 times larger than EQ's version and CT was hidden away in the corner without zonelines, some people would travel through the area and still never know it was there. And that would just be like 1% of the world.

[DarkwingDuck]

Originally Posted by Ket [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Any former Vanguard folks out there? I'd list a server ...but, well, if you played Vanguard you know how silly that would be.

Tralyan here. Warrior. Sad to see it go away. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yup
-Ket

Hi I played for years.. Second best MMO of all time next to EQ.

Coadex 55paladin
Notezart 55 bard
Sorcinum 55 sorcerer
And about 12 more chars [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

U playin on the 31st?

[DarkwingDuck]

Agree with all above posts..
Was literally the true successor to EQ.
Awesome races and tons of choices, nicely balanced and awesome fun classes.
Great graphics and open world. Huge raid mobs

[yorumi]

Vanguard really was the game that had all the potential. I played it for about 7 months at launch. Loved the crafting system and the extremely creative class designs. You know what Ace and other said it best, can't really add to that.

[Naprox]

I played Vanguard from launch until about 2 months after they removed Fire Pummel from my wizard (Masterpain). I was the guy who would kite 50 ettins solo for the fun of it. Sometimes I would PL people, but most people who tried to watch me while I was kiting had too much pc lag (or would just crash all together) due to so many mobs in one area.

When they took the spell out of the game for over a month I lost interest and simply stopped playing. Was still an amazing game, but I saw the writing on the wall early when their resources (including staff) were starting to shrink and lost faith in the longevity potential of the game.

As others have pointed out already, Vanguard was the closest thing to EQ with improved areas of functionality and it is a shame that it was mishandled from the start.

[DarkwingDuck]

Can still kite all that on sorc.. W/o pummel