Is Vangaurd worth buying?

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• Dizzler Member Posts: 231

  February 2007

  ok number one! what is ur system specs

  and if you liked EQ1 your gonna love vanguard nuff said so yes it is def worth buying i love it not since i first picked up EQ1 have i had this much fun in a MMO and i havent even hit level 20 yet..............

  
• Rover64dd Member Posts: 144

  February 2007

  3ghz pentium 4

  512 mb geforce 7600

  1000 RAM

  Broadband

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• Valarauk Member Posts: 303

  February 2007

  Based on your enjoyable experience with EQ I think Vanguard's certainly worth checking out provided your system can handle it.  I would however advise you to wait for a few major patches.  The game was released prematurely (following the Sony model I guess) and they are playing catchup with a lot of the content/debugging.

  
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• Rover64dd Member Posts: 144

  February 2007

  That's what i keep reading. Is 20 hours a week in game enough to level decently fast? Or is that like 1-2 levels a week? Anyone know what kind of LFG time you can expect?

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• tevans Member Posts: 87

  February 2007

  At this stage of the game, I would say hold off for a couple of months. Right now I think you'll find more frustration than fun from this game. I know I have. The game is just far too buggy to really be a worthwhile replacement to EQ. Before anyone gets the idea that I'm a so-called "hater", I've been playing since Jan. 26 so I know what I'm talking about. Broken quests, broken corpse runs where you can't even recover your tombstone and lag on a system that meets or exceeds all system requirements has made this game very frustrating for me. Anyone not warning potential buyers of these problems is doing them a huge disservice. I'd say wait. This game has the potential to be very good once all the kinks are worked out of it but right now we only have the hope and promise that things will get better. Better to wait and see what happens. I wish I did.
• Badem Member Posts: 830

  February 2007

  When i first started this i spent the first few levels exploring  (it was launch day!)

  Once i had progressed i found myself in a group (spent around 10 mins LFG) and had a lot of fun, at teh end i had to go as i was sleepy and one of  the guys in the group asked if i wanted to join his guild, i joined IO guild on Infinium server and to be honest havent looked back, i can go solo whenever i want and the guild is always moving around we frequently and find plenty of things to do whether its completing quests , doing guild farming (get 6 people harvesting same item and your collection rate skyrockets) or simply hanging out and exploring (we once decided to race from Leth Nurae to New Taragnor, one on horse and me swimming, i won )

  I dont spend much time in LFG as my guild is nice and busy and we have mix of players from American, canadian, Belguim, Sweden, UK, Germany there is always someone online to group with if needed

  I too played FFXI and am currently toying with canx that subscription to play VG fulltime, i currently manage around 20+ hours a week and have hit level 15 after 3 weeks of playing on VG and am currently spending time crafting in preperation of obtaining plot of land to build the Guildhouse upon

  If you get it and playing on a europe server look us up

  EDIT:

  As above post i also agree that there are lots of bugs, they havent bothered me but since the new patch i have lost well over 10K XP due to 'sudden death' while crossing chunks and even a random teleport after CTD which also whiped out a load of XP, If you can live with bugs then jump in if not then wait a while longer for tehse to be ironed

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• JEMcLeod Member Posts: 35

  February 2007

  Wait probably another 3-6 months with the amount of bugs its worth buying to throw in the fireplace for that extra burn.
• alyndale Member UncommonPosts: 936

  February 2007

  To be honest with you, yes.  Buy this game, but with this warning.  It's not a polished perfect game yet.  In a year or maybe less it will be something the "VanHaters" will be sorry they slammed I do believe.  It wouldn't surprise me if by this time next year you will see quite an influx of players.  So, now's the time to get into the game, find a good guild, and get crafting/questing!   This is just my opinion and you asked for that, so I hope it helps you! 

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• sepher Member Posts: 3,561

  February 2007

  Vanguard PvE is essentially the same as WoW; in that you progress from area to area which offloads quests upon you.
  
  
  
  The difference is, Vanguard offloads a lot more 'group' quests, and usually where you do your solo quests, there is group content. So rather than the tucked away optional content of say Scarlet Monastery, Razorfin Down, and other dungeons that you CAN go to in WoW but don't have to at all; Vanguard mixes these types of group content right in with your solo content.
  
  
  
  So if you disliked mob after mob, Vanguard is going to aggravate you way more than WoW did since its less casual friendly and whether you'll level or not is less predictable. If you only have 3-4 hours a night, your whole plan to level could be ruined by dying repeatedly trying to regain your corpse.
  
  
  
  As for grouping, if you liked the camp and pull type of play...it's not exactly that in Vanguard. It's more of a roam and complete quest objectives, camp spawn points for quest NPCs alongside other groups.
  
  
  
  Vanguard's end-game will probably be a lot more flexible than WoW for the following reasons;
  
  
  
  1. Raid sizes are limited to four groups of six.
  
  2. No instancing, so no ability to schedule strict calendars for content. It's back to competing with other guilds like the first- and second-gen days, or even WoW's world bosses.
  
  3. Vanguard really does succeed at permeating a mix of solo/group/raid content at every level range, with group content being predominant. Rather than WoW's optimal way of playing (or what it used to be) being 1-59 99% solo, and level 60 99% raiding.
  
  
  
  It's going to take you forever to level in Vanguard, but keep in mind most of everyone is still a newbie in this game, and second, third, fourth times arounds levelling up always seem exponentially easier and quick. But right now I'd say it's quite daunting, but you should be able to get 1-2 levels a week no matter what range you're in provided you aren't killed a whole lot.
  
  
  
  So in short, there's a lot you'd hate about PvE, even moreso than WoW, but there's probably a lot you'd like about it, even more so than EQ. Mixed bag of goods and bads.
• vylo Member Posts: 149

  February 2007

  If you can cough up the money for another 1gb stick of ram you would be set.

  Bear in mind you could fall victim to bugs.  If you aren't prepared for that wait.