As the market starts to see more and more MMOGs, Sony launched another fantasy game for the fans. Vanguard: Saga of Heroes features a beautiful world, Telon, and a live universe. There will be not only killing monsters but also some rewarding other features.

Born in a world where World of Warcraft and Guild Wars are one of the top leaders, Sony and Sigil come up with something that they hoped will change the way of MMORPG. They succeed in a small part but let's go on and see what they have in store for us.

For the players wanting to do something more for themselves other than kicking asses, Vanguard offers them the possibility to become harvesters, crafter and diplomats.

Harvest and more harvest

As you roam the lands, various raw materials are encountered. Wood, minerals, plants can be harvested by players and sold or turned into goods. There are five harvesting skills available and each player can have a primary and a secondary harvesting skill. You can choose between Reaping, Skinning, Lumberjacking, Quarrying, Mining, and Harvesting. After choose your desired skill you will be able to harvest the corresponding raw material but only if you have the necessary equipment and level. As you advance in the game, you will find or get more advance harvesting equipment, allowing you to harvest more and more materials. As for the level needed, at each 100 skill points you will need to buy and learn a book allowing you to harvest more advanced material.

At later levels you will need to travel to dangerous areas to harvest rare and expensive material so harvesting and adventuring go hand in hand. Don't think that these material can be found anywhere. No way, you must search for them. The minerals can be found only near the mountains or in the mines, who most of the times are full of unwelcoming creatures. Plants can be found in woods who by no means are a safe place. The list can go on but I will leave you the pleasure of finding yourself the pleasure of looking for one more cotton plant or one more silver.

Crafting the items

From the raw materials you collected you will be able to craft items. Or otherwise were no point to risk your life collecting them, isn't it? The crafter classes are Outfitter (Tailor or Leather-worker), Artificer (Carpenter or Mineralogist), and Blacksmith (Armorsmith or Weaponsmith) and the player can choose only one class so try to choose your class well. At crafting level 11 you will be able to choose a specialization (the ones in the brakes) and you will start learning recipes. If you want, it is possible to switch the specialization, but doing so will permanently remove all recipes of that specialization which is not a nice thing.


You will need a crafter equipment which will give you bonuses to your crafting skills. So keep an eye on the crafting equipment vendors.

I must say that crafting it is both time spending but also exciting. Why? Because being able to craft an item and sell it and your name shown on the item is quite a thing. Why time spending? Crafting recipes are each made up of a different set of actions that must be performed in a particular order. Each of these actions cost what is known as 'action points' and takes from the action pool. The maximum amount of action points available varies with each recipe. While crafting, certain complications may arise which may affect the crafting process. Complications are usually but not always detrimental. The player can attempt to correct complications and resume crafting. Through experimentation, players can discover new recipes and formulas.

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