The Glade 4.0

I liked Van, but my PC chugged along at the time and I had no one to play with. That's really the hardest part. If I tried again its unlikely I'd find folks to play with.

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Good one, forgot about that.

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“Strong people are harder to kill than weak people, and more useful in general”. - Mark Rippetoe

And is superior to the "cast through" smart targetting system where you target your target's target if the spell's hostile/friendly status doesn't match up with your target, because it allowed for very neat defensive tank mechanics, too.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Yeah the defensive target thing was pretty useful. I had forgotten about that.

I liked the reactive maneuvers that activated at random intervals. They had nice animations, and every so often you'd get an incredible amount of damage from them.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Most (if not all) combat abilities had a parameter attached to them that would give the target a vulnerability to a different set of combat abilities (usually ones that other classes had). The extra damage was a nice perk, and encouraged varying your skill usage depending on who you were grouped with and what they were doing.

Different combinations of skills would activate short duration buffs, debuffs, DoTs, and other neat stuff.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

you guys are killin' me :p

Now i'm going to have to go log in and play :p

Me too. I had revived my career once or twice but there just was no way to really get into it and EQ2 (or for that matter, EQ) always dragged me back. Now my EQ2 guild is pretty much gone though, and that game got rather silly ever since Sentinels Fate came out, so maybe I'll take a look.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

After reading this thread, I went back to Vanguard ... to mess around over the weekend.

Look for Sophiaa if you're around =)

I logged into VG last night for about 20 minutes.

My characters are still in <Ategenos>.

I last played in 2007. Since then, I have apparently completely forgotten almost everything about actual game play. I managed to geton my horse and run around a bit. I had no idea where I was, and there was mean looking stuff all around...

I Origin'd back to my bind, but apparently I was bound... waaaaayyy over there... no idea where 'home' is, or how to get back to a city.

I may have to make a new character to re-familiarize myself with the game again.

I was surprised to see about 30 people on the server though.. most level 55 (no idea what max is).