A few months ago the news from Vanguard told the story of the "Pantheon of the Ancients". The revamp of the existing dungeon, introducing group and raid content scaled to players at the new level cap. It may have been quiet around our progression inside the Pantheon of the Ancients, but since it's release we have made a steady effort and worked hard to unravel the story behind the Pantheon and to earn the favour and respect of the Gods. We have come a long way since we first arrived at the Pantheon of the Ancients and our efforts finally led us to the first two raid encounters inside the Pantheon. Zaseh the Wise, Protector of the Halls of Order and Ataraxis the Devourer, Protector of the Halls of Chaos.

Two worldwide first kills for Xanadu.



Want to know exactly how our progression fared? Read more to find out...

Raiding guilds in Vanguard unfortunately dont have a whole lot to say, farming the same old content for years, while most of the equipment even upgrades from group content by now.
So despite the devs trying hard to make us quit (/salute and good bye to so many raiders and raiding guilds across all servers by now), Xanadu does still raid and enjoys killing the Overland bosses every week.
Once in a while we even give those odd bosses Karax and Nimaa, that have been bugged/annoying for oh so long, a shot.

While Nimaa was exploited by some guilds in the past, we never touched the mob at that time. Since the fix for that we rarely had the proper class setup online to give it many serious attempts, so it was actually a bit surprising to finally see this mob going down after only few attempts, on Monday Oct 5th! w00t



Afaik it was the WW 2nd legit kill of this mob... and Halgar's first

Well well... It is that time again, time for news from Vanguard. Although our last news update from VG was almost 5 months ago, as usual a lot has happened in VG and in Xanadu since then.

Early 2009 passed by while waiting for the next Game Update and the new content it would introduce. However, the update kept getting postponed time after another and no one was really sure when we should expect it to go live. Until suddenly without any warning on May 19th, after nearly an 8 months wait Vanguard had its seventh "Game Update". This patch introduced the much anticipated dungeon revamp of the "Pantheon of the Ancients" and also brought us the level cap increase from level 50 to 55.



After such a lenghty period with only minor updates, the expectations for GU#7 were high among the Vanguard community. Some liked what the patch introduced, some who had their hopes high up in the sky witnessed them coming crashing down. Several people left the game and a few guilds disbanded as a result - but how has Xanadu survived through the new challenges that the level cap increase brought? Read more to find out...

It has been a few months since the last news, despite that a lot has happened in our Vanguard guild.

For raiders in Vanguard year 2008 wasn't terribly exciting, despite the numerous promises from the dev team it seemed that there would be no new content in sight for the entire year apart from the few overland mob additions. However, in december people were positively surprised in hearing that the dev team is about to populate 2 areas ingame. Bridge of Destiny, tuned for 2 groups and the Island of Garuzamut, aimed for 24 people. A new raid area, in an island where the "eater of worlds" is supposed to be imprisoned, sounds good?




But how did it all go? Read more to find out...

Among the four new overland encounters that went live late october is Varking the Accursed.

From all of the new overland mobs, Varking is probably the name that raiders in Vanguard have seen mentioned more than a few times, as originally Varking was supposed to be introduced in the same game update that would bring the next raid dungeon. Naturally with all the talk about Varking, expectations for the encounter were high and we were curious how it would turn out to be after the disapoinment with Guar. With the pesky little earthern spirit cleared out of the way we focused our attention on Varking.



So how did it all go? Read more to find out.

Its been march since the last raid content (Fengrot and Dresla) was added to the world of Telon, but with todays Game Update, the long wait finally came to an end!
4 new overland mobs were added, the Core Processor (jeezes i still carry that lame trash with me that he dropped on the first kill - btw, its icon also got changed! :p) has gotten a loot table, and also Fengrot's loot table was adjusted!
So it seems like we will have some exciting weeks ahead

After having a quick look around, we decided to dedicate our first few hours to Guar the Earthen Destroyer.

It has been quite a while since the last news I wrote... Over 4 months in fact, so I would say it is about the time Vanguard gets some space on the news page as well. During the summer we have been sticking to the usual routine of farming the Ancient Port Warehouse and some of the overland raid encounters in order to equip the raid force and of course as expected things were going a little slower during the summer. But now that the summer vacations are over, what better way to get the things going than to challenge Fengrot Foulbreath - a terrible giant that to our knowledge only 2 guilds world wide had defeated.




So what happened to Fengrot? Read more to find out

Due to the lack of new content, quite a while has passed since our last news. However, we are now eagerly awaiting GU6 which is supposed to finally bring us some new raid content again!
In order to be prepared for this new content, which will at least partly support 24man raid content, uncle Sondrax and aunt Ayame are looking for people who share our interest in beeing and remaining Halgar's #1 raiding Guild!



in order to not let anymore stuff rot on our weekly APW runs, make sure to check out our recruitment thread and apply!

As the previous news update sparked quite a bit of questions regarding the outlooks of both griffon and wyvern flying mounts I thought it would be a good time to write up small news entry about the wyvern mount and also update the previous news entry with a griffon screenshot. In the meanwhile we can say big grats to Illamay as her black wyvern egg hatched today and she is now a proud owner of her new flying mount, Ivy - the first wyvern at Halgar.

Last month has been quite a busy time for us as Game Update #4 delivered more raid content than it was supposed to in addition to the much anticipated flying mount quests. Most of our raid time has gone to farming up equipment at APW in order to gear up for the new mobs, of course we also killed 2 of the 3 new overland bosses as well. Dresla, the wyvern queen and Nerksawl the ancient cyclops and outside the raid times several people have been working hard on the griffon questline.



So how did Dresla and Nerksawl meet their demise? And how are we doing on the flying mount quests? Read more to find out.