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Harvesting Vanguard Gold

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:17:55 +0100

Harvesting in Vanguard Saga of Heroes is an easy way to make extra gold. If you're an adventurer, it would be wise to take pick up a harvesting skill early in the game so you can use it to your maximum benefit. You will need to keep your harvesting level along the line of the resources that is available within the areas you are hunting. There are many crafters who has extremely high level crafting but are unable to collect the resources and thus you can make a nice profit selling them the materials you have harvested. To begin harvesting you will need to find a trainer located in any starting cities or villages. You can ask a guard for locations if you are unable to find them. The trainer will provide you with a quest in which you will be rewarded with a set of harvesting clothing. You will also be provided with tools before you may begin harvesting. You will only receive the basic tools at first. As your skill level grows you will need to spend some gold and buy new improved tools and clothing from either a trainer or from player crafters. Each job requires different tools. Quarrying is used for stone & gems, mining is for metal, lumberjacking is for wood, skinning is for animal hides and reaping is for plants. Those are the five harvesting abilities available in the game. All are great ways of making extra gold. You are also able to choose a primary and secondary skill. Keep in mind of what intentions you have for your skill, such as building a house, boat or crafting some armors. There are 3 types of crafters, artificers, outfitters and blacksmiths. If you had already chosen your primary and secondary professions you are able to change them later on but at the cost of losing all your experience you've gained in your specialty. Now that you are fully equipped and ready to run out and harvest. There are resource nodes scattered all over. Trees are found in the forested areas, plants in open plains and fields, stone and metal within rocky areas and you can get animal hides after killing them. This is usually the best part in my opinion. I just enjoy killing things. Upon collecting 20 chunks of a resource you can right click and combine them to save room in your bag. After you've reaced level 100 in each of your skills you will need to speak to your trainer. You will then have to purchase and read a book by the trainer to advance to the next level to harvest better and more valuable resources. I believe that is all you need to know to start harvesting for some extra Vanguard gold. Be sure to pick up the skill early on the game so you can utilize every bit of the ability to collect as much resources as possible. Making Vanguard gold isn't easy so do it right from the start. Good luck and enjoy. 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MISSIVES

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:16:09 +0100

As you wander through the lands of Telon, you will do quests everywhere you go, but sometimes all the quests you find are built mainly for groups. Well, sometimes groups are not easy to find, and sometimes you just don’t feel like grouping. For this, Sigil has included something called Missives. Missives are much like the quests you have been doing all along. They usually include things just like the typical quest, “Kill x/y creatures”. But, usually, you do not have to run back to turn these in, instead they will finish out on their own, and give you a small amount of experience along with a missive scroll. These missive scrolls can be turned in 1, 5, or 10 at a time. If you only turn in one, you get a paltry item, like food, drink, maybe a small potion. If you turn in five at a time, you get a minor item, either a decent potion, a green named (lesser magic) item, or the like. If you turn in ten, you get good items with a chance for rare items. These range from a lesser magic item (blue) on up to yellow, and possibly orange named items. Of course, sometimes you get really unlucky and get a really nice potion instead. A good bit of soloing is done using missives along the way. Back GRINDING In the original MMO games, there really was not a great deal of quests worth doing, so people had to find other ways to level up. They found out that they could wander around killing stuff while they did quests and could tell around how much experience they received per creature they killed. After some time, they would reach that lull in quests and progression, so they went back to the places that they had killed in that had really good experience per creature, and they got a group. Sitting there killing the same creatures over and over for hours netted them many levels, and that is what grinding is. Grinding is necessary at certain points where the game hits a small dip. Either you leveled too fast and the next quests are way above you or too easy for you, or you leveled too slowly so the quests are way too high above you. Word Meaning Maybe there are no quests worth your time at your level. Either way, grinding is your answer to continue leveling. As you advance through the levels, keep an eye out for enemies that you either like killing, or give good experience. If you need to, come back to them and slaughter them by the dozen. A form of grinding is farming. mp3 player Instead of grinding experience though, you are killing mostly, if not purely, for the items and coin. Many people go back to places where the enemies dropped good “loot” (treasure), so that they can rack up a nice hoard of gold, gems, and equipment. This can be a useful tactic if you need to buy upgrades to any of your items or get some of those more expensive skills from your trainer. world of warcraft gold " "Account theft isn't isolated only to those who choose to trade or share their station accounts (ignoring the EULA!) As the internet and online gaming population grows, so does the cesspool of scammers. There are a variety of ways in which people will attempt to gain access to your account, and the list grows everyday. Fear not, there are simple tips to ensure that your account is protected. wow Keep in mind these worn-out (but useful!) words of wisdom: Sharing your account information is never a good idea. Gamers have heard the advice before, yet a lot of people still opt to share their account information with close friends. Having a guildmate complete a quest for you while you're sleeping may seem mostly harmless, but bad things can happen. wow gold While it doesn't always end in catastrophe, you could log back in with a new last name like ""Lovetrollslongtime"" or something slightly worse which might result in a banning. It's not always obvious, malicious attacks that cause good accounts to go bad! I'm sure we've all heard the fateful stories of guildbanks emptied and outfit members booted. Sadly, this is often a direct result of sharing account information. wow gold Not only do you run the risk of virtual strangers reeking havoc on all you've worked hard for, but you make it difficult for SOE's customer service staff to investigate and resolve issues. Be aware of phishing sites! What is a phishing site. Simply, it's usually a website created to mimic a well-known or frequently used site in an attempt to fraudulently gain sensitive account information. wow gold Gaming communities have been targeted in the past via email, spamming a link that takes the reader to a site that, upon first glance, appears to be legit. The imposter site may offer in-game items for completing surveys, or pose as a game representative, warning that your account is in limbo.

RANGED ATTACKS

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:14:47 +0100

Ranged attacks are a necessary component to the game. If you do not have one yet, get one. A spell will suffice if you do not have the ability to use any other form of ranged attack, but keep in mind the max range on spells is usually a short distance, whereas a bow or crossbow has a longer distance. Some spells will still have good ranges though. Physical ranged attacks (bows, crossbows, thrown weapons) have damage based on dexterity, so you may want to focus on that some, along with other reasons (parry, dodge, chance to land a critical hit with physical weaponry, etc). Magical ranged attacks have damage based on two different abilities: intelligence and wisdom. Intelligence will affect your overall spell damage, while wisdom will help determine your chance to critically hit with spells. Of course, there is a class in the game that has a specialty in ranged weapons: the Ranger. Rangers have several different special attacks that utilize ranged weaponry: Critical Shot, Deadly Shot, Dawn Arrow, Splitting Shot, etc. Other classes have abilities that use a ranged weapon, but are not nearly as specialized in ranged attacks as the ranger. Ranged attacks are the main way to pull a mob, meaning to get an NPC’s attention then have it follow you back to a safe place to fight it, usually with a group to help you kill it. It allows for you to not have to wander deep into a group of NPC’s to grab one or a few, and to see if you will have too many way before they are actually attacking you. You can buy ranged weapons and ammo from a Ranged Weapon Vendor, but can buy very basic weaponry from a general goods vendor. Make sure that if you plan on using a physical ranged attack that you stock up on enough ammo to last you between visits to town. You may also wish to make the small investment in buying a quiver or bolt case to carry your arrows or bolts. Back HARVESTING There are two main reasons to harvest: to gather resources for use in crafting and to gather resources to sell to others for them to use in crafting. Harvesting is the skill that enables a character to gather resources from the world around them. The harvesting skills are reaping (plants), lumberjacking (wood), quarrying (rocks and gems), mining (metal), and skinning (animal hides). Each skill requires a different tool. Reaping requires a sickle, lumberjacking requires an axe, quarrying requires a hammer, mining requires a pickaxe, and skinning requires a knife. These tools are not weapons, mind you, but harvesting tools only. So that means no matter how nice your dagger is, you still cannot use it to skin that wolf you just killed. This is important because when you go to harvest mode, you automatically switch out your outfit and gear for your harvesting equipment. And vice versa, when you are attacked you will remain in whatever current setup you have until you attack the NPC, at which point you will switch back out for adventuring gear. mp3 players As you gain levels in your harvesting abilities, you will pass through different tiers. Before you can progress to the next tier, you must buy a book and right-click it to read it. These books are skill specific and can be bought off of the harvesting trainer. world of warcraft gold For example, when you reach 85 in mining, you can buy the first book for mining, which will allow you to now harvest tin nodes as well as the basic copper nodes. If you do not purchase and read the book, however, you will not be able to progress past 100 in your particular harvesting skill. To find a harvesting trainer, merely ask a nearby guard for directions (right-click on guard). wow The harvesting trainer will put you on a quest line to go cut down some trees or to quarry some rock or whatever. While you are doing that, you may as well mine 60 units of whatever the trainer is asking for, because the next quest is to combine the raw materials together to make 3 refined materials (which 20 raw = 1 refined, so have 60 already and it saves you some running). The last quest he puts you on is to decide your primary and secondary harvesting skills. wow gold At this point you will need to refer to the crafting section to decide which path is for you. " "Crafting is the art of turning raw materials into a worked product. These products can be for many different purposes: to turn in to an NPC as part of a work order, to use as equipment, to put up for sale on broker, also they can be used as part of another crafting recipe. wow gold kaufen To find a crafting trainer, simply ask a guard again, and they will promptly send you in the correct direction. The trainer will have you do different quests just like the harvesting trainer did, and at the end of the series you will have a pretty good idea what all is involved in the process. The only difference is, with crafting you have to pick the skill first, and then you do the quests. wow power leveling So it is best to be informed up front about what skills do what. Back DIPLOMACY Have you ever wanted to play a character in an online game where you could do wonders just by talking to people and convincing them of different things.

BROKERS

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:13:07 +0100

A very nice part of this game is the broker system. There are brokers in every major city and in some of the secondary cities as well. Exchange Brokers are a special type of vendor who allows players to put an item up for sale to other players at a designated price. This price can be anything the player chooses to sell his items for, so beware of over-priced goods. To put an item on the broker, you first must find one. After that, you right-click (double-click or “H” for hail works also) on him to open the broker window. There are two tabs on the window, found at the bottom. One is for purchasing, one is for selling. Before you put an item up for sale, type in the exact name in the search field on the purchasing tab, and hit search. This will bring up a list of every item matching that name, allowing you to sort through and get a feel for pricing info. Also, you can see how many are up for sale. If there are a good many, you may want to sell your item fairly low price for now. If there are only a few, you might be able to squeeze out a little bit more than it is actually worth. But, in every case, make sure that you look at the item and see what you think it is actually worth, because if it is a plate mail breastplate, and you are an arcane caster, you may think that the armor value you see is awesome since you wear robes and cloth armor, but is really not all that great to someone who actually wears plate mail. To prevent this problem, maybe ask a few random plate classes about it first. Once you have a price in mind, go to the selling tab, drag your item to the box in the upper-left corner, and then look below it at the small boxes for different coins. In those small boxes is where you will type in the price you are asking for the item. After you are done, hit the green button at the bottom to put it up for sale. It will tell you the price it will cost you to do this, and ask for you to accept the price and charges, if you do, then accept, if not, cancel. Purchasing is a different monster altogether. Since the broker has grave difficulties displaying more than 200 items at any one time, it is a must to know how to search properly. First box will allow you to specify the sphere you are searching for, so if you are looking for a weapon, choose adventuring; if you are looking for some new shoes for your diplomatic outfit, choose diplomacy. The second area allows you to pick a type of item for that sphere. Perhaps you wish to find an offhand dagger for your rogue. mp3 players In that case, your first area would say Adventuring; the second one would be Adventuring Weapon. The third part defines the slot, so pick secondary hand for the above example. The fourth specifies the class of the character, in this case rogue, so pick rogue. world of warcraft gold The last slot allows you to pick which rarity of item will be the least shown. If you don’t mind buying a normal mundane item, pick mundane. But most people are looking for good quality. wow We all know there is strength in magic, and every character needs both strength and magic, so most people pick uncommon (blue names) as their least shown. This should allow you to get a list tailored to your likings just for your character’s needs. Another piece of advice, the headings for each column can be clicked to order the list by that type, so clicking on price a couple of times should sort the list by price from lowest to highest. wow gold Back TRAVEL Since Telon is such a massive size, it is important to get a faster mode of travel than “pat ‘n ben” (your feet). There are a few different ways to achieve faster travel, and none of them are without cost. The fastest method is, of course, to play a bard. wow gold Bards have songs they can compose themselves. The components for these songs vary greatly, but they do have speed components that, if mixed properly, allow the bard to run at tremendous speeds. Add in a good drum, and they run even faster. wow gold kaufen A decent bard can usually outrun even the fastest of mounts. The next best method is to buy mounts and equipment for the mounts. Mounts at base speed can run anywhere from 30% faster than walking speed to as much as about 90% faster than walking speed. If you buy some tackle and horseshoes, they run a decent amount faster (about 10% - 40%).

What do necromancers need corpses for?

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:11:49 +0100

What do we necromancers need corpses for. Well they are handy to have around on those really lonely nights. umm. to talk to I mean. But I suppose you meant something a bit more. destructive. Powerful. Very well then, listen close and I'll let you know of the many uses a necro has for all those lovely decaying carcasses people leave around. corpses go boom! Yes, you too can cause a targeted corpse to explode spraying those nearby with bone splinters, crusty toenails, kidneys (stones and all), and all manner of body parts. This causes damage to a 10m radius from the corpse itself. corpses stand up and fight! One of the funner things to do to a corpse is reanimate it and have it pummel your enemies. While this trick is not a long lasting one it can be extremely useful and not to mention plain old fun to do. corpses bring minions! While targeting a corpse you can summon any of your 3 minion types. Maybe they climb out the corpses belly, kind of like an alien chest burster. err. yeah, that must be it. corpses taste great! Through spells you can draw energy from a corpse to give to you and your abomination. quite refreshing in a morbid kinda way. You better get used to it since you will be using this often. corpses are full of goodies! When you use necropsy to harvest parts from a corpse you never know what you will get. You may get parts for selling to the vendor (money!) or sometimes the rare grafts. Consider corpses to be the necromancers version of a piñata. corpses make great walls! A corpse can be used to create walls of deprivation and such that grant the necromancer certain advantages such as increases to their energy levels or things like that. Well there you go, many a use for dead things. The only thing I miss truly is the ability to speak through a corpse or animated dead. Now that was a fun trick to do in another world long ago (voice graft anyone. ) " "INTRODUCTION First off, I would like to welcome you into the great world of Telon, and say that you have chosen to brave one of the largest worlds I have seen in an online game. There is one issue with having a world this massive though: new players need help knowing what, where, how, who, and all that other stuff even more. The world of Telon can be a bit intimidating at first, but with a little bit of knowledge, and some handy tips, you will be well on your way to grand adventure! Back BEFORE MOVING When you first show up in the new world, you need to do a few things before taking your first steps. You will need to optimize your graphics, sound, and layout of items on your user interface (UI). This will allow you to play the game in a much more enjoyable way. The graphical quality of the game is truly astounding, if you have a couple of jet turbines attached to your video card. Unfortunately, most of us have not yet reached that point. The game still has quite decent graphics, even at the lowest settings (think DAoC after graphics upgrade). Hit Esc on your keyboard to open up your menu and select settings. On the first tab you will find your graphics options. Hit Ctrl-P and you will notice in the upper-right of your screen some green numbers will show up. The object is to keep those numbers at this point (right where you start) between 30 and 40, if not higher. We will first be altering the drop down box that currently has “Balanced”. Check out the green numbers and change that box to the following: 80 – 100: Highest Quality 50 – 80: High Quality 30 – 40: Leave on Balanced 10 – 30: High Performance 0 – 10: Highest Performance Of course, once you do this, you will have to wait until everything loads again. If the numbers are within the 30 – 40 mark at this point, then good to go, but if not, then go up another level or down a level to get it closer to those numbers. Once we have something fairly close to those numbers, you can examine the rest of the controls and settings such as grass, trees, LOD’s (load on distance), etc. Possibly scale up or down the screen resolution. Remember though, if you increase resolution, you will have to check those numbers again and possibly move to a different quality setting. buy wow gold After you are done with those settings, move on to sound. If you think sound is completely optional and do not care about it, disable it for a decent bump in performance. Although, I will warn you, Vanguard has several effects that cause sound alarms, such as invisible creatures detected nearby will trigger an alarm so you will know they are there, or if a chain ability opens up then a chain-like sound will happen to alert you to it. mp3 players Personally, I am alert enough visually usually that I see these things happen, so I play with the sound off, and instead have an mp3 player going instead. If you wish to play with sound, set each setting to what you wish it to be before going further. Then we head to Interface settings. world of warcraft gold If you hover over each setting, you will receive a tool-tip describing each setting. If you wish to move anything around, enable “Layout Mode” and you will see grey boxes with titles for each on your screen. This way you can move them around and structure your playing area just how you wish it to be. wow gold Keep in mind that you have two targets, a defensive and an offensive, that we will go into later on. You may wish to keep both of those targets near each other for simplicity’s sake. Also be mindful of where your group list will be. wow gold After you are done with settings, apply them and begin looking at your screen, you will see a chest that you can click, which will open every bag you have in your bag slots, currently that is only one bag (your basic one, which you are stuck with forever, but thankfully is a nice size bag). You have quick access keys for character sheet, abilities, options, etc also. I would suggest going through each and familiarizing yourself with each one and what they do for you. wow gold kaufen Check out your hotkey bar and see which abilities you have and what they do. Each character starts with certain abilities:

How can I gain the undead form ability?

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:09:28 +0100

Picture this. you are at a gathering of friends chugging down a few ales in a local Hathor Zhi Pub when one of the gathered revelers suddenly moans loudly, the flesh falling off his skeletal frame in chunks leaving only his standing skeleton where once there was a flesh and blood Dark Elf. Definitely fun at parties! No worries though, our entertaining dead guy is a talented necromancer who knows the form of bones spell. At level 30, the necromancer must undergo a quest for this ability. The necromancer learns one of two paths to undead form, the form of bone (skeleton) or the wraithform (ghost). When pursuing this quest you will decide on one form or the other and there appears to be no way currently to change this once it has been done so choose wisely. As you progress in level your form of bone or wraithform will periodically upgrade themselves as your own power grows (Get it at level 30 then upgrades at levels 40 and 50). Your undead form will also determine the form that your minions have when they are summoned. Form of bones raises minions that are skeletal / zombie-like in appearance. Wrathform will have you summoning ghost-like minions. When in one of these undead forms the necromancer gains certain benefits depending on the form he has take: 1. Form of Bones (aka Lich): Level 30 - Form of Bones: The Necromancer gains a bonus of +100 to armor class, +15% Health, 15% bonus to damage with Physical Spells, He can breath underwater (as with Hallow breath) and see the invisible. Level 40 - Lich Form: The Necromancer gains a bonus of +125 to armor class, +20% Health, 20% bonus to damage with Physical Spells, He can breath underwater (as with Hallow breath) and see the invisible. Level 50 -Demilich Form: The Necromancer gains a bonus of +166 to armor class, +30% Health, 25% bonus to damage with Physical Spells, He can breath underwater (as with Hallow breath) and see the invisible. Physical Spells include: Bone Spike, Bone Spear, Plague of Infestation, Sealed Fate, Poison Burst (AoE), and Detonate Corpse (AoE) 2. Wraithform (aka Ghost): level 30 - Wraithform: The Necromancer gains an 8% damage rune ability, 15% bonus to damage with Spiritual Spells, He can breath underwater (as with Hallow breath), levitate, and see the invisible. level 40 - Form of the Specter: The Necromancer gains an 8% damage rune ability, 20% bonus to damage with Spiritual Spells, He can breath underwater (as with Hallow breath), levitate, and see the invisible. level 50 - Ghostform: The Necromancer gains an 8% damage rune ability, 25% bonus to damage with Spiritual Spells, He can breath underwater (as with Hallow breath), levitate, and see the invisible. Spiritual Spells include: Dark Rebuke, Devouring Shadows, Drain Life, Life Draught, Shadow Feast, and Torment " "Minions you say. Well of course Necromancers have minions, grafted fleshy ones, dead ones, ghost ones, nasty smelly rotting ones. cheap wow gold ahh, you mean the three specific types of minions. Why didn't you say that. !. mp3 players Necromancers can summon additional pets through rituals performed on corpses although these pets are not persistent pets like the abomination and are not as controllable. These pets serve their master for 10 minutes before returning from whence they came. While one might argue that the creatures summoned using out Ritual Animatus I and Ritual Anbimatus II spells are minions, I did not include them in this list since they look like green shaded versions of the corpse you raised and they are not persistent pets due to their very short durations. world of warcraft gold A necro will learn to summon 5 distinct variations of these pets that are classified based on their abilities and purpose. Minions types: 1. Guardian - This is the Guardian Minion which you gain at level 22 and is summoned via the spell Ritual of the Guardian . wow gold This minion is strictly a defender who taunts things off that are attacking you. They don't take many hits so are mainly there to give you a few seconds to do something else to control a situation gone wrong. 2. wow gold Plague Bearer - Lich Necromancer Version: This is the Plaguebringer Minion which you gain at level 30 and is summoned via the spell Plague Bearer's Ritual . This minion can cast a -240 Physical Resistance debuff on your enemy that also increases Physical damage taken by 10%. his is non-combatant pet, no DPS to be gained here from it directly. wow gold kaufen Both versions will inflict anyone hitting them with a disease dot and they both have the same graphic appearance. Wraith Necromancer Version: This is the Plaguebringer Minion which you gain at level 30 and is summoned via the spell Plague Bearer's Ritual .