There's a new forum created on OVF for (Sage of Heroes)
April 22nd, 2008
There's a new forum created on OVF for roleplayers, it's called "The Tooth and Nail Tavern (RP Haven)". You can find it here. …
Vanguard's Game Update 5 preview brings racial mounts into the spotlight
Sony Online Entertainment's latest game update for Vanguard: Saga of Heroes is getting ready to hit the test servers. While we're waiting for it to show up though, the folks at SOE have announced some of the big things coming for Game Update 5.
First off, there'll be new racial mounts in the game. These range from giant spiders to rhinos, and are faction point based. This means that you can actually take the questline for acquiring a specific racial mount once you've gotten into the good graces of a particular race, though you may end up being hated by another while you're grinding for tokens.
Game Update 5 also hosts some fixes for performance and overall coolness. These fixes include a new anti-hitching code that should increase performance, as well as some improved particle effects for certain classes.
Lastly, specific classes have gotten themselves some attention from the devs. We'll let SOE explain that one:
This update we have given significant attention to three more classes. Blood Mages, Psionicists and Sorcerers have all received a lot of developer attention. Abilities that may have been broken before have been fixed, spells have been tweaked and upgraded or updated and all three classes should be more in line with their intended vision in terms of power and utility. Specific tweaks and updates will be listed in the patch notes.
Good news, right? Expect to see some very happy players once the game update hits the test servers. In the meantime, feel free to check the source link below for more information.
Vanguard: Community manager reminders on handling new players 
Have you been good to your resident newbie lately? This appear to be the latest topic of discussion by community manager Dalmarus regarding SOE's recent decision to reactivate cancelled accounts for their Vanguard: Saga of Heroes MMORPG.
As Dalmarus explained, this event saw an influx of once-retired players re-populating the servers. Former players who, on account of not playing for several months, are still getting used to the new stuff that they missed out on.
To this end, the Community boss sent out a reminder to all the game's active residents to try to be patient with their kin. Quoting a segment of Dalmarus' words of wisdom:
Take a second to ask yourselves this question and answer it honestly - How many people reading this were never confused about various things in the game such as, Using Weaknesses, Brotherhoods, The Riftway System, Item Deconstruction, Flying Mounts? Those are just naming a scant few of the multiple game mechanics that can confuse a new player. If no one had been confused by them (myself included), then I never would have posted those guides to help people out. There would have been no need.
Rather than ridiculing new players asking questions, we should be helping them.
As the community manager says, be cool to one another. Those interested in reading up the full letter will want to visit the official Vanguard forums via the source link below.