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   Vanguard's Basic Survival Guide [27/09 12:47PM]   
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. cheap wow gold If you hover over each setting, you will receive a tool-tip describing each setting. If you wish to move anything around, enable “Layout Mode” and you will see grey boxes with titles for each on your screen. This way you can move them around and structure your playing area just how you wish it to be. mp3 players Keep in mind that you have two targets, a defensive and an offensive, that we will go into later on. You may wish to keep both of those targets near each other for simplicity’s sake. Also be mindful of where your group list will be. world of warcraft gold After you are done with settings, apply them and begin looking at your screen, you will see a chest that you can click, which will open every bag you have in your bag slots, currently that is only one bag (your basic one, which you are stuck with forever, but thankfully is a nice size bag). You have quick access keys for character sheet, abilities, options, etc also. I would suggest going through each and familiarizing yourself with each one and what they do for you. wow gold Check out your hotkey bar and see which abilities you have and what they do. Each character starts with certain abilities: Torch for dark areas (can be lit with K and Shift-K also), Recall that takes you back to your last bind spot (you can hover over it and see where you are bound, also refreshes once per hour), Auto-Attack which will start the basic attack cycle (white damage attacks) on whichever NPC is targeted as your offensive target, and Sprint which will add about 25% to your movement speed but only for 45 seconds (this refreshes once every 5 minutes). Other than the basic starting hotkeys that everyone gets, you should have a few class specific and one (possibly three in the case of Thestran Human) racial specific abilities. wow gold The class specific ones are usually reusable once every few seconds. The racial ones are usually reusable once per 15 or 30 minutes, so be very careful with them and use them wisely for they can really save your character’s life or maybe someone else’s in very close situations. Make sure to memorize those class specific ones very well, for class abilities are your bread ‘n butter in this game, they are why you picked your class over the other classes. wow gold kaufen Once you are ready and confident you have a good idea what everything does for now, you are ready to start moving and taking on the first task.


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