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SOE Fan Faire 2010 Info Released

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Save The Date! SOE Fan Faire Set For Aug. 5 – 8 In Las Vegas

3/04/2010 10:00 a.m.

Join us at Bally’s Las Vegas for three days of fun and games at Fan Faire 2010 from August 5-8. If you have never been to an SOE Fan Faire before, this is the time to make the trek to Sin City! Fan Faire is a great place for gamers to mix, mingle and meet with some of the faces behind their favorite SOE titles.

Here are just some of the great activities we’re planning:

• Special announcements and sneak peaks of upcoming SOE titles
• In-game tournaments and live, game-themed competitions and quests
• Developer forums and roundtables
• Cool giveaways and other fun items!

And, that’s just the beginning! Check back for up-to-date information on registration, pricing and schedules. Tickets are expected to go on sale early this spring.

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Game Update – It’s Been a Long Road

MMORPG.com’s Carolyn Koh recently traveled to Sony Online Entertainment’s Fan Faire. While there, she spoke with Vnaguard Lead Designer and Acting Producer Salim Grant about the current state of the game.

At the recent SOE FanFaire in Las Vegas, I made a point to speak with Salim Grant, the Lead Designer and Acting Producer of Vanguard: Saga of Heroes to get an update on the game. He spoke with passion and enthusiasm, if not a little fatigue.

"We’ve worked hard. Very hard in the past two years," he said, "to make Vanguard what it should have been at launch. Finally, we are at a point where we are deciding what to do next instead of asking what we needed to fix next."

Read Game Update – It’s Been a Long Road

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Fan Faire 2009 Player of the Year Winners

SOEhas announcedtheir 2009 Player of the Year winners. Below you’ll find the winners from EQ and EQ2, along with their entries.

From EQII:

Bownzer (alts: Bownz, Seelenschrei, Lazyone) from the Crushbone server!
You can see the entry made on his behalf at TheBrasse.com!

From EQ:

Palarran from The Tribunal server!

Palarran’s entry:

Gather ’round the fire my friends
To hear a tale of yore
By Karana’s hand, a druid began
He changed Norrath evermore

Palarran Taurina is of whom we speak
We’re here to tell of deeds
Big or small, he does them all
All you have to do is ask, and he helps fulfill your needs

In every guild there is dissension
No matter your faction, clique or friends
Love them, hate them or indifferent
With Palarran’s guiding hand and wisdom friction ends

Dragon kill points need to be updated?
Palarran is the man that toils away
Need help to get that flag?
Palarran is the man who’ll lend a hand, so that here you will stay

Who lives in a knothole in Tunare’s tree?
Palarran is the man and he goes meep, meep!
Our shining knight… oops druid
Palarran is here for keeps

Leaders come and leaders go
But Palarran’s mettle n’er becomes unfurled
A decade later, still playing together
(Rest in Peace) will rule the world

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Stop The Vanguard Presses!

Vanguard Players brings us the latest community news, in their spiffy little newspaper format. Included in the latest newspaper… Ask a Dev a Question – May (Poll), Telon’s Next Top Model, Dungeon Plunder, and Advertising Your Crafts!

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SOE Podcast #63 Hits The Web

Official SOE Podcast #63 is now live, stop by the podcast’s official site to listen in on the latest from SOE. Episode #63 features an interview with Alan "Brenlo" Crosby, the new Producer for EverQuest II, hear the introduction to the summer’s podramedy, the Grumpy Old Gamer talks about his upcoming trip to Fan Faire, and they have the top 10 games you won’t see at E3 this year.

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Pantheon Game Update Notes

The folks at Vanguard have posted the patch notes for the major Pantheon Game Update which went live of Thursday.

Halls of the Pantheon

The Halls of Pantheon is finally here. The first part of the great architect Artera’s story has finally been released and now is your chance to prove to the gods of Telon you are worthy of their blessings. Within the halls you will be asked to do many things as you increase your favor with the gods until finally correcting the imbalance of creation and unlocking the path that leads into the halls of shattered souls and the truth behind the gods of Telon and their years of silence. It is up to you adventurers, crafters, and diplomats to unlock the secrets within the halls and prove once again that the inhabitants of Telon are a force to be reckoned with.

Feature Details:

• 200 new quests
• 1000+ new items
• 2 new flying mounts
• Choose your alignment and reap the rewards
• Find out the truth behind the schemes of Kamelott
• Become a god warrior and unlock the way to the Halls of Shattered Souls
• Craft enhancements making them more powerful
• Craft god armor
• Craft a unique epic weapon for each class
• New item mods
• New resistances

Read more here

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Halls of the Pantheon Update Goes Live

Hall of the Pantheon hits Vanguard, the first part of the Artera’s story has been realized. Now it’s time for you to prove your worth! Within the halls you will be asked to do many things to increase your favor with the gods. It’s up to all adventurers, crafters and diplomats to unblock the secret halls.

Feature Details:

• 200 new quests
• 1000+ new items
• 2 new flying mounts
• Choose your alignment and reap the rewards
• Find out the truth behind the schemes of Kamelott
• Become a god warrior and unlock the way to the Halls of Shattered Souls
• Craft enhancements making them more powerful
• Craft god armor
• Craft a unique epic weapon for each class
• New item mods
• New resistances 

Level Increase

• New level cap is 55
• 95 new abilities
• Spell crafting added
• Item levels increased
• New crafting related quest series

Items

• Bow max ranges have been reduced.
• Fixed an issue where the Kamelott Rucksack had slots when it was not supposed too.
• Fixed haste buff on panther mask to increase attack speed and not decrease it.
• KDQ crates can now only be opened in Kamelott’s landing
• Fixed an issue with fireseed refresh discrepancy

 
Abilities

• All counterattacks now have a minimum endurance/mana cost.
• Stroke of Fervor now has an endurance cost
• Stroke of Conviction now has an endurance cost
• All rogue abilities requiring piercing now properly check for the dagger in the main hand.
• Accuracy buffs should now properly buff spell accuracy
• Fixed an issue where some abilities that were supposed to only modify the refresh haste of modular attacks were affecting other modular abilities
• Fixed the Halfling racial (FINALLY!!!)
• Fixed an issue that prevented minions from assisting properly as intended.
• Dementia now has a max target limit
• Hewing the Mountain now buffs your group for 10 seconds or 1 attack
• The Dark elf racial has been modified.
• Warrior offensive form should once again have its accuracy bonus
• Fixed an issue where abilities affected by zeal would not display added attack damage.
• Time Trick 2 should now work like 1 and 3
• Fixed an issue with quelling winds it should actually work now.
• Treeshape will now wipe hate while it is in effect.
• Many secret chains should now display their icons again.
• The body enhancement buffs from KDQ should no longer wear off

General

• All corpses now last 2 hours max
• Paladins should now have archery skill
• A camp of KDQ agents has popped up near the Bridge of Destiny.
• All npcs in KDQ should now drop tier 6 skins
• Tier 6 metal can now be harvested in SOD
• Mobile Power suit should work correctly now
• Fixed an issue with caps that has been around for the past few years. Many items and ability caps should now work properly.
• Updated the character sheet to show new resist types.
• Added new hairstyles for most races.
• Thinned out the density of the bridge NPCs just a little.
• Fix for escrow items having incorrect prices show up
• All exp debt has been wiped.
• All exp into 50 has been reset to 0.
• All brotherhood exp has been reset.
• All tombstones have been sent to escrow.
• Adjusted the loot tables of Yerkj & Rinipin. They will now only drop 1 class specific item per kill.
• The Ruined Jharuu Sword and Runed Jharuu Sword are now longswords.
• Synchronize now works with the Summoners Cap of Control version of Time Trick.
• An altar has been added to IOG
• Zyxil and omac have had their pathing adjusted
• Yiminil no longer roams.

 
Quests

• KDQ quest rewards have had their monetary amount reduced.
• Fix for quests not abandoning properly sometimes when expired

 
Raids

• Karax is now level 59
• Karax loot tables have been overhauled due to his level increase.

 
Crafting

• Kaius Rufish and his excavation team have work for skilled crafters in the Pantheon.
• Shajin Graywine is doing research in the Pantheon and is requesting help from talented diplomats.
• Geoffery Wallsten in New Targonor has a new rumor about an artisan’s treasure from long ago. Interested crafters should seek him out.
• An informant in the Pantheon named Delroz is willing to trade prestige for lore in the Pantheon to diplomats.
• Skilled diplomats can parley the avatars of the gods in the Pantheon.

 
Known issues

• The last hair selection for those races that received new hairstyle has an issue. Please try not to select this or you may see some funkiness with your avatar’s hair.

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Vanguard’s It Takes Two ? Winning Pictures

The "It Takes Two" contest winners have been announced and now we get to take a look at the winners over on Vanguard Players. Pop by for a look at the top three entries.

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SOE Is Now Twittering… Or Tweeting… Or Whatever

I think it’s actually called Tweeting when you are Twittering, but any way you shake it,SOE is doing it! Wowsers, they actually have Twitter pages set up for all of their games and many of their community team members. If you’re a Twitter user you can click the links below to add the folks or games that you want!

SOE games and the Official SOE Podcast are on Twitter!

Community Team members are on Twitter!

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Vangaurd Community News Updated

The Vanguard Devs like to keep us in the know, so be sure to give their latest community news feature a read. Included is Telon’s Next Top Model! Whee. Vote your favourite dungeon, Ask a Dev a question for May and more!

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Official SOE Podcast #62 Is Live

Official SOE Podcast #62 is live and ready to serve your podcasting needs! In this latest episode of the show they interview Candace Ivy, the Brand Manager for Free Realms. They also introduce a new Hamster (err), stump Brenlo and more. You can listen to the show here

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