INTRODUCTION First off, I would like to welcome you into the great world of Telon, and say that you have chosen to brave one of the largest worlds I have seen in an online game. There is one issue with having a world this massive though: new players need help knowing what, where, how, who, and all that other stuff even more. The world of Telon can be a bit intimidating at first, but with a little bit of knowledge, and some handy tips, you will be well on your way to grand adventure! Back BEFORE MOVING When you first show up in the new world, you need to do a few things before taking your first steps. You will need to optimize your graphics, sound, and layout of items on your user interface (UI). This will allow you to play the game in a much more enjoyable way. The graphical quality of the game is truly astounding, if you have a couple of jet turbines attached to your video card. Unfortunately, most of us have not yet reached that point. The game still has quite decent graphics, even at the lowest settings (think DAoC after graphics upgrade). Hit Esc on your keyboard to open up your menu and select settings. On the first tab you will find your graphics options. Hit Ctrl-P and you will notice in the upper-right of your screen some green numbers will show up. The object is to keep those numbers at this point (right where you start) between 30 and 40, if not higher. We will first be altering the drop down box that currently has “Balanced”. Check out the green numbers and change that box to the following: 80 – 100: Highest Quality 50 – 80: High Quality 30 – 40: Leave on Balanced 10 – 30: High Performance 0 – 10: Highest Performance Of course, once you do this, you will have to wait until everything loads again. If the numbers are within the 30 – 40 mark at this point, then good to go, but if not, then go up another level or down a level to get it closer to those numbers. Once we have something fairly close to those numbers, you can examine the rest of the controls and settings such as grass, trees, LOD’s (load on distance), etc. Possibly scale up or down the screen resolution. Remember though, if you increase resolution, you will have to check those numbers again and possibly move to a different quality setting. After you are done with those settings, move on to sound. If you think sound is completely optional and do not care about it, disable it for a decent bump in performance. Although, I will warn you, Vanguard has several effects that cause sound alarms, such as invisible creatures detected nearby will trigger an alarm so you will know they are there, or if a chain ability opens up then a chain-like sound will happen to alert you to it. Personally, I am alert enough visually usually that I see these things happen, so I play with the sound off, and instead have an mp3 player going instead. If you wish to play with sound, set each setting to what you wish it to be before going further. Then we head to Interface settings. ...

Look around the area where you start and within a few meters of you should be a person with a yellow shield floating above their head, which means they have a quest they would like to offer you. This person has the first quest you will experience, so walk to them and hail them (right click, double click, or press H after targeting them). They will explain a basic beginner quest that you need to accomplish to continue on your journey, so when given the choice, accept the quest. Notice that after you accept this quest, the shield above their head turns blue; this means that you have an active quest with that NPC. Usually this quest will involve something similar to “Kill x/y mobs” so turn around and look, those mobs are usually within spitting distance, so target one, and if you are a melee type (uses weapons more than spells) go whack on it with auto-attack and using your abilities, or if you are a caster (use spells more than weapons), then blast it into oblivion. When it is dead, right click on the corpse or type /loot to open a looting window then right-click on each item you want or click on the “Take All” button to loot everything. A /lootall command also achieves the same thing as “Take All”. I will give you the commands on some of these actions because they are important to know later when it comes to making macros (covered in a different tutorial). Also, you will notice when you killed that NPC that an alert will flash on your screen letting you know how far along you are with your quest. Continue killing and looting until it alerts you that your quest is complete. At this point, head back to that person you talked to earlier, they will have a green shield above there head now, which means that you have completed a quest with that NPC. They will have the quest listed in their dialogue, click on it and they will prompt you to tell them whether or not it is complete. Complete the quest for a chunk of experience and some coin, possibly an item. Congratulations, you have now completed your first quest! Back DON'T STOP YET Now that you have completed that very first step, do not go wandering around, there are more quests to complete to really get going! That same person you talked to for the first quest should offer you a second quest, and possibly more after that. When you are finished with those quests, they should have led you away from where you started and to other NPC’s. The goal at this point is to get some levels and coin saved up so that you can buy new abilities at your trainer, and to get minor upgrades to your equipment. As you are running around doing these quests, do not forget to look around for other yellow shields hovering above the NPC’s. If you see any, talk to those people and grab any quests you find. A few of these quest lines will be described below in other sections (crafting, harvesting, and diplomacy). There are a few other tips for doing quests, also....

Crafting is the art of turning raw materials into a worked product. These products can be for many different purposes: to turn in to an NPC as part of a work order, to use as equipment, to put up for sale on broker, also they can be used as part of another crafting recipe. To find a crafting trainer, simply ask a guard again, and they will promptly send you in the correct direction. The trainer will have you do different quests just like the harvesting trainer did, and at the end of the series you will have a pretty good idea what all is involved in the process. The only difference is, with crafting you have to pick the skill first, and then you do the quests. So it is best to be informed up front about what skills do what. Back DIPLOMACY Have you ever wanted to play a character in an online game where you could do wonders just by talking to people and convincing them of different things. Well, Vanguard has that included. Diplomacy is one of the spheres in the game. It is basically like a mini-game from the final fantasy series. Diplomacy is done by right-clicking on an NPC, and when you see the spot in the dialogue where quests are listed, there will be a special quest of sorts followed by some colorful pictures. This is a diplomatic conversation. Look at the information provided before you click on it though. You will see up to four colorful pictures, if there is less, then that means something very important. The ones shown represent the suits available during that particular conversation. The ones missing represent the suits that are NOT available. This means that if your current strategy is built towards reason, and you engage in a gossip conversation, you will be hard pressed to win because gossip does not allow reason to be used. The easiest conversations to win usually are the interviews since they allow everything, no holds are barred. The second piece of information listed is a number. That number tells you approximately what level of diplomacy is needed to have a good shot of winning, so if you have only 75 diplomacy, and you are looking at a conversation with a level of 200, you may want to think heavily about looking for someone else to talk to. After you have determined that your strategy looks good for the battle and that you have at least somewhere near the level needed, go ahead and click on the conversation to begin your diplomatic battle. In the battle you will see three main things: Your Strategy, the Playing Field, and the Dialogue Box. Do not worry so much about the dialogue box during the conversation; you can read that at the end of the battle before you close out of it. The most important parts are the strategy and the playing field. ...

Harvesting in Vanguard Saga of Heroes is an easy way to make extra gold. If you're an adventurer, it would be wise to take pick up a harvesting skill early in the game so you can use it to your maximum benefit. You will need to keep your harvesting level along the line of the resources that is available within the areas you are hunting. There are many crafters who has extremely high level crafting but are unable to collect the resources and thus you can make a nice profit selling them the materials you have harvested. To begin harvesting you will need to find a trainer located in any starting cities or villages. You can ask a guard for locations if you are unable to find them. The trainer will provide you with a quest in which you will be rewarded with a set of harvesting clothing. You will also be provided with tools before you may begin harvesting. You will only receive the basic tools at first. As your skill level grows you will need to spend some gold and buy new improved tools and clothing from either a trainer or from player crafters. Each job requires different tools. Quarrying is used for stone & gems, mining is for metal, lumberjacking is for wood, skinning is for animal hides and reaping is for plants. Those are the five harvesting abilities available in the game. All are great ways of making extra gold. You are also able to choose a primary and secondary skill. Keep in mind of what intentions you have for your skill, such as building a house, boat or crafting some armors. There are 3 types of crafters, artificers, outfitters and blacksmiths. If you had already chosen your primary and secondary professions you are able to change them later on but at the cost of losing all your experience you've gained in your specialty. Now that you are fully equipped and ready to run out and harvest. There are resource nodes scattered all over. Trees are found in the forested areas, plants in open plains and fields, stone and metal within rocky areas and you can get animal hides after killing them. This is usually the best part in my opinion. I just enjoy killing things. Upon collecting 20 chunks of a resource you can right click and combine them to save room in your bag. After you've reaced level 100 in each of your skills you will need to speak to your trainer. You will then have to purchase and read a book by the trainer to advance to the next level to harvest better and more valuable resources. I believe that is all you need to know to start harvesting for some extra Vanguard gold. Be sure to pick up the skill early on the game so you can utilize every bit of the ability to collect as much resources as possible. Making Vanguard gold isn't easy so do it right from the start. Good luck and enjoy. " Account theft isn't isolated only to those who choose to trade or share their station accounts (ignoring the EULA!) As the internet and online gaming population grows, so does the cesspool of scammers. There are a variety of ways in which people will attempt to gain access to your account, and the list grows everyday. Fear not, there are simple tips to ensure that your account is protected. Keep in mind these worn-out (but useful!) words of wisdom: Sharing your account information is never a good idea. ...

When you arrive in Archet you’ll find yourself standing in front of Mundo Sackville-Baggins. Talk to him and he will give you a quest called Intro: Amdir’s Request which requires you to speak with Amdir. (Note: The Ring icon signifies that this quest is a part of the epic story arc. ) To find Amdir, run towards the south. After just a few seconds you will see him sitting against a post. Talk to Amdir to finish Mundo’s quest and he will give you another quest called Intro: Captain Brackenbrook. This quest asks you to go to The Mad Badger and talk to Captain Brackenbrook. The Mad Badger can be found if you turn to the south and go through the door on top of the staircase facing the east. Run up the hallway until you find Captain Brackenbrook. Talk to him to continue the quest which needs you to return to talk to Amdir. Go back and talk to him to finish the quest. You will then be given another quest called Intro: Honing Your Skills for which you need to visit your Trainer and train the skills available to you. To find the Trainers, turn towards the south and run past The Mad Badger. Then you must turn to the west and run until you see several people in front of a building. These people are the Trainers. Your trainer will have a symbol over his head. Talk to him to train your skills, both Active and Passive. When you’ve trained them all, put the ones you want in your Quickslot at the bottom of the screen. Finally, talk to him again to continue the quest and return to Amdir. Talk to Amdir again to finish the quest. Then you will be given another quest called Intro: Seeing to the Defense which asks you to talk to Dirk Mudbrick. When you accept the quest Celandine Brandybuck, the Hobbit standing next to Amdir, will have a quest for you. Talk to her and she will give you a quest called Intro: Remedy of the Old Kings. For this quest, you need to collect four Kingsfoil Leaves. Dirk Mudbrick is outside of Archet. Run towards the south, out through the gates of Archet and down to the circle of rocks, which is actually a respawn point. From there, you should be able to see a man standing in front of a small house southwest of your position. Run to the house and talk to Dirk Mudbrick. Select to continue the quest and you’ll be asked to kill six wolves. Turn to the east and you will see a big open field not too far away. In the field there are many wolves. To the southeast of the field there are ruins, which are called Bronwe’s Folly. On and around Bronwe’s Folly there are Kingsfoil Plants which you can use to get Kingsfoil Leaves to finish the quest that Celandine Brandybuck gave you. When you have collected four Kingsfoil Leaves around Bronwe’s Folly and have killed six wolves, go back to Dirk and talk to him to finish the quest. ...