Vanguard – Saga of Heros

The time has come once again. I have tested a new MMORPG. It is called Vanguard – Saga of Heros. The game was developed by Sigil and distributed by SOE. Due to the involvement of SOE, I had a strange feeling about this game from the beginning and maybe I went into it with a lot of advantages. In the following I would like to describe my opinion and impressions of this game.

In the world of Vanguard the races humans, dwarves, halflings, high elves, vulmanes, varanjars, lesser giants, wood elves, half elves, orcs, goblins, rakis, gnomes, dark elves, kurashasa and varanthari are available. Regarding the race of humans, it should be said that there are different groups of humans that populate the respective continents. Once you’ve decided on a race, it’s time to choose a class. The special thing here is that you can’t choose every class. The classes are divided into four main categories. Defensive fighters, offensive fighters, healers and arcane mages. In the defensive fighter category there are the warrior, paladin and terror knight. In the offensive fighter category there are the Ranger, Rogue, Monk and Bard. The healers include the cleric, shaman, disciple and blood mage. The last category includes the wizard, druid, pioneer and necromancer.

After choosing the race and class, you have the possibility to give your character an appearance. Unfortunately, at this point the possibilities are extremely limited and so the characters are quite similar. It’s a pity that so much potential was wasted here.

With the choice of the race you also decide on which of the three continents you start. The continents are called Thestra, Kojan and Qalia. The journey between the continents is still done by teleporters. However, these are still to be replaced by ships. Also conditioned by the choice of the race is the reputation with the other races. So you can’t just march into a city of another race. The guards could kill you immediately. You have to earn the reputation first, so that you can enter there unhindered.

The quality of the graphics looks very good. Also, the design of the landscapes is of very good quality. The special thing about the landscape design is that there are no zones like in Everquest 2. Theoretically, you could walk across the entire map, if it wasn’t so huge.

The bugs in this game are very negative. This makes playing the game a real pain.

The following characters were in my possession: