Guides

31 written guides — class mechanics, patron quests, stat analysis and the systems the game never explained well. Preserved from sites that have since gone offline.

These are other people's writing. Every guide below was researched and written by someone else, most of them for Ten Ton Hammer's Vanguard coverage in 2009. They are mirrored here because their hosts are gone or unreliable, with the author or site credited on each page and a link to the original. We claim none of it.

The official strategy guide

Vanguard: Saga of Heroes — Prima Official eGuide. The commercially published strategy guide, covering character creation, the three spheres, zones and quest walkthroughs as they stood at launch.

We do not host it and it is not reproduced anywhere on this site — it is a commercial publication, and this is a reference only. A copy is held by the Internet Archive, and you can decide for yourself whether to download it from there.

Download from the Internet Archive (.rar)

Hosted by archive.org, not by this site. You will need an unarchiver that handles .rar.

Armor & Weapon Quests

Afrit Weapon Quest — The Telon Project
CIS Armor & Weapon Guide — The Telon Project
Cragwind Weapon Quest — The Telon Project
Griffon Mount Quest Guide — The Telon Project
Hate Armor — Skeletal Illusion Quest — The Telon Project
Imbued Augments Guide (CoB) — The Telon Project
Journey Boots Walkthrough — The Telon Project
Mask of the Feral Warrior — The Telon Project
Panther Mask Quest Guide — The Telon Project
Rahz Inkur Helm Quest — The Telon Project
Swamp Armor Guide — The Telon Project
ToT Temple Flips — The Telon Project
Virak Weapons & Armor — The Telon Project
Wardship Armor & Weapons — The Telon Project

Bard

Bard: Class Information — Ten Ton Hammer
Bard Class Guide — Ten Ton Hammer
Includes percentage figures for several abilities.
Bard Composition Guide — vgbards.com
Forum thread; community-written.

Blood Mage

Blood Mage: Symbiotes How-To — Ten Ton Hammer

Cleric

Cleric Affinities — Ten Ton Hammer

Druid

Druid Attribute Point Analysis — Ten Ton Hammer

Dungeons

Awarr's Dungeon Guide — Awarr, via The Telon Project
Which dungeon to run at which level, and why — written by a player who ran all of them.
Temple of Tehatamani — The Telon Project

Monk

Monk: Harmonious Mastery Skills — Ten Ton Hammer
Monk: Dragon Mastery Skills — Ten Ton Hammer

Necromancer

Necromancer Forms and Bonuses — Ten Ton Hammer

Shaman

Shaman Patron Quests — Ten Ton Hammer
Shaman: Tuurgin Patron Skills — Ten Ton Hammer
Shaman: Phoenix Patron Quest — Ten Ton Hammer
Hayatet — Intensity, Life, Renewal — vgoplayers.com
The Hayatet patron quest itself: dialogue, prerequisites and rewards.

General

Tank Stat Significance — Ten Ton Hammer
Vulnerabilities and Exploits — All Classes — coeurs (home.swbell.net)
The counter system every class shares: which attacks open a vulnerability and which exploit it.

From other sites

VG Walkthroughs long walkthroughs, dungeon maps and screenshots, recovered from the Wayback Machine
Angry Goblins Wiki writs, prestige titles, levers and civic buffs, riftways and the crafting tier quest lines