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In what seems to be becoming a Fanguard tradition, I had a chance to sit down with Darrin “Talisker” McPherson. Sigil Games Online’s Senior Game Designer and I played tag it seemed all day Saturday January 28, 2006. We were finally able to find each other in the chaos after the closing banquet. What did we talk about among the excited chatter of over a hundred people. Philosophy of course! While we talked, we focused on the unique classes that will be in Vanguard: Saga of Heroes. Everyone has been speculating, hoping and adding their thoughts across the Vanguard Community from the Official Forums to the Fan Sites. In this interview we talked about the Disciple and the Dread Knight. What was the concept behind these classes and what would we be able to look forward to. Darrin tried to shed some light on these two classes. I think he did a great job! We began talking about the Disciple. This class is one of the Healers in Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, but comes at the task from a much different angle than we are used to seeing. Darrin smiled a bit as he began, “It’s more of a self contained healer. He is not a utility class in that he has no buffs. He uses his internal energy to do his job…” What does this mean. It means that the philosophy of the Disciple is that of a martial artist in tune with his internal energy and the energy of the world around him. Moving and flowing with the currents of this energy and with the flow of battle, the Disciple will be able to form bonds with friend and foe alike. The Disciple will be able, through these bonds, to act either defensively or offensively. With a defensive stance, he can share his chi with a member of his party to heal them, or offensively he can debuff a foe. This will help to make the foe easier to kill for his party. Not only will he be able to do this, the Disciple will be able to add to the actual damage done to the enemy by wielding weapons not normally seen on a healer. Swords, staffs, knuckles and handwraps keep this class in line with the concept of the martial healer. According to Darrin, the Disciple will use the bonds he makes with his foes to be an ideal choice for crowd control duties. Dust off those Tai Chi tapes and brush up on your soft martial styles to have an idea how the Disciple is going to move in Telon. He also added that we should get ready to see some new types of graphics for this class as well, “You’ll see things similar to what is found in the movie “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”. mp3 player The way the character holds the swords and moves will be very unique. ” I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to see these graphics in action! We moved on to chat about the Dread Knight. These two words are capable of sparking speculation in historic proportions. world of warcraft gold Happy to have a chance to dispel some of the growing misconceptions, Darrin said, “Think of Batman, or of Punisher, they are similar to the Dread Knight. They do what it takes to get the job done and then go back to everyday life. They aren’t evil per se, they just do what it takes. wow ” The Dread Knight is one of the Defensive Fighters that will appear in Vanguard: Saga of Heroes. It has the distinction of being the most arcane of all the tank type classes. This class will draw upon the dark magic of Telon to make themselves menacing in battle. wow gold Darrin touched on one of the ways that they will be able to do this. He spoke about their aura in battle. “They will have an interesting aura of fear in battle. wow gold It will build up a debuff effect. The Dread Knight’s primary target will be affected the most. The fear effect will build up quickly, while on all the foes within the area of effect though the build up will be slower. wow gold This effect is progressive, meaning that once the primary target is dead and you switch to the next one, the build up will add on from where it had already built to.