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If you're a Vanguard: Saga of Heroes player and you're in the queue for a character transfer, then you'd best be warned now. You can expect to experience some downtime in a couple of hours as technicians from SOE move the characters to their new homes and shut down the holiday content they put up previously.

According to the post, instead of having their weekly server restarts on Tuesday, SOE decided to minimize the downtime people would experience by making the server transfers and removal of holiday content coincide later today, Wednesday, at 5:00 a.m. PST.

They did note something of interest to players, which is that the holiday spirit won't completely disappear. As noted in their post,

Randolph the reindeer mount will remain in game, though unable to fly since the Festival of Gloriann has passed. All house and hall items should remain in game, as well as player goodies such as treats and snowballs.

Vanguard tutorial: How to get your level 45 swamp armor
There's lot to do when you hit level 45 over at Sony Online Entertainment's Vangaurd: Saga of Heroes MMORPG. And one of them is making sure your gear is up to par with your grizzled abilities. If you're especially adventurous, that means embarking on the MMO's swamp armor quest.

Vanguard's got three of these sets arranged for players, each with differing attributes that are ideal for a specific playing sytles:

• Gorgalok Armor: This set is focused on offensive statistics like damage, and critical chance. This set requires killing in Ichtakhta.
• Ichtakhta Armor: This set is focused on defensive statistics like mitigation, and absorption. This set requires killing in Flordiel.
• Flordiel Armor: This set is a balanced set, mixing statistics. This set requires killing Gorgolaks in Vsurog Moor.

Wondering where you can get this new gear? The Vanguard site has updated their database with a comprehensive guide, which will help you through the steps you'll need to take to acquire any of the three sets we mentioned above.

Since those sets are separated by factions, you may want to do some pre-planning. Acquiring one set may antagonize you with the other opposing factions, and while getting all three is possible, it's not easy. You will also want to have 2000 faction with your chosen city to complete your quest. The full tutorial awaits over in the source link.