Vanguard's "Halls of the Pantheon" update goes live

by William Dobson May 20th 2009 at 1:00PM

Filed under: Fantasy, Patches, Leveling, Vanguard

Vanguard has been patched with its "Halls of the Pantheon" game update, which marks the first level cap increase for the game. The new level cap is 55, and we're already hearing from the community that getting through the five extra levels is going to take a bit of work. The titular Halls of the Pantheon will have players proving themselves to the gods of Telon in return for great rewards. The feature list for the patch is fairly long, but here are some of the highlights:

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

The full feature list can be found at the Vanguard community site.

Tags: game-update, halls-of-pantheon, halls-of-shattered-souls, halls-of-the-pantheon, level-cap, level-cap-increase, vanguard

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

torak said on 11:55PM 5-20-2009

The big problem with this game is it is 100% pure, lonely grind until cap...then its a raid grind.

Adding levels isn't going to help it. Making the current world more engaging and interesting will.

Typical SOE, their idea of improving any of their games is slap more levels to grind out and add a new raid.

Deryk said on 12:09AM 5-21-2009

I semi-agree with this. The game needs a bit more diversity in leveling. I think it needs to flesh out by adding more towns and villages and cities. Add more quests that way. Granted raid zones and dungeons are nice, but mix it up a bit SOE.

:)

Deryk said on 12:11AM 5-21-2009

PS: Forgot to add. About time there's a new update for Vanguard! I really liked this game once upon a time, but the updates are so few and far between it's hard to remember what the last one was and it's easy to get bored and distracted by other games that do update quite a bit more frequently; like LotRO.

But still. Nice to see something new for Vanguard. It's just not for me sadly and probably 90% of other players out there. It's basically keeping their current base happy, not building the franchise. Sadly...