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DC Universe Online goes Free to Play, is Vanguard next?

Lifebane — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:00:41 +0000

John Smedley, SOE President announced that Their hero themed MMORPG DC Universe Online will be going free to play at the end of October! This move is not surprising when you consider that SOE has already been delving into free to play models with other games in their lineup and games from other developers out on the market are already riding that particular bandwagon. When Smedley was asked by the folks over at Massively about whether or not all SEO games would be going the free to play route he had the following to say:

“The statement I would make is that we view free-to-play as the future, and we’re very interested in it and excited about it. I’m leaving a little bit of room there because business models evolve over time. You can look for some announcements about current games in the future, and we’re really looking closely at it. We like the model.”

Based on this statement, it is not out of the question to think that perhaps they will try to salvage their downward spiraling fantasy MMORPG title Vanguard by going Free to Play as well. Smedley did say “You can look for some announcements about current games in the future” so perhaps this is a ray of hope for Vanguard players.

In the meantime folks, if you haven’t gotten your fix yet of DC Universe Online, then perhaps the end of October will be your chance to give it a whirl. One thing that I hope that SOE does NOT do when they go free to play is excessively penalize the players that have been paying to play (purchased the game at the full retail price, been paying ongoing monthly subscription fees, etc. by limiting what they can use from the things they already obtained when they come back to the game and try the free to play model after taking a hiatus. Champions Online went a similar route as DC Universe Online is heading down now with free to play and making it so that long time paying players could no longer use their existing characters due to costume selection, power sets, etc. was a low blow and hindered the success of that particular free to play migration. Learn from your competitors mistakes SOE!

You can see the full details here of their new free to play model.

Vanguard needs some changes or it will follow SWG

Lifebane — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:34:29 +0000

I have actually begun to worry about SOE’s MMORPG Vanguard lately after reading through various forum threads, blog articles and general rants. Server populations are extremely low with some estimates at around 200-500 players during busy hours although that seems a bit low in my personal opinion. SOE so far refuses to go to a free to play (F2P) model which has proven to be very successful for other MMOs in the market and which would likely give a much-needed BOOST to player population for certain! With the impending doom of another SOE MMORPG product in December it seems like SOE might be looking for ways to cut their losses and focus on the more popular titles. Yes Shutting down SWG (Star Wars Galaxies) is definitely due in part to The Old Republic Launch by BioWare but one has to wonder if that was the main reason since it may also be due to financial reasons. Just which was the greater factor would be the big question.

SOE please look at the reality of this Game.. you can buy it now for around $9.97 yet in order to play you have to pay $14.99 every 30 days! The F2P model has been working and bringing populations back to other games (Age of Conan and Champions Online for example) so take the hint. At this point SOE really should just go with the flow, make the game F2P and when they see the additional players showing up then they can dedicate some staff to actually making more than an update a year as they are doing now. If this does not happen soon then I see no future for this game, that had so much potential, but cancellation.

Bonus XP Weekend for Vanguard

Lifebane — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:17:41 +0000

The kind folks over at SOE have tossed the Vanguard community a bone and granted them a bonus XP weekend in honor of Labor Day. So if you feel the need to grind up some diplomacy, crafting or adventure XP then hop on today and on through the 6th of September in order to take advantage of the bonus. Happy Grinding! The official announcement text can be found below for your reading convenience.

Greetings Heroes! There will be a bonus applied to all experience this weekend. This means Crafting, Adventuring, and Diplomacy. The bonus experience starts at 1:00 p.m. PDT on Friday, September 2nd and will end at 7:15 a.m. PDT on Tuesday September 6th.

Happy and safe adventuring!

Another patch for Vanguard… life support?

Lifebane — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:24:15 +0000

As incredible as it may seem, we have yet another bug update/patch for Vanguard! Some class specific changes this time around which is a nice change since some of these bugs have been around a looong time. Hats off to SOE for finally giving this game some much-needed attention, now stay on it!

All Vanguard servers will be brought down Wednesday morning, 08/24/11 at 4:00 am Pacific, for updating. The estimated downtime is six hours.

Vanguard Bug Fix Update Release Notes Adventuring:

Adventurers should once again be able to visit Prince Julian.

Items

The Vampire Femur should once again have the correct set of attachment slots.
Sacred Solvent has had its price corrected.
The drop rate of rare items from the Bridge of Destiny such as Rage Filled Cloak have been increased.
The Arachnidon Claws should no longer miss more than other claws.

Blood Mage

Pellets of blood now stack up to 10 for blue, green, and red.

Cleric

Boom of Spirit and Replenishing Strike all ranks Refresh from 20 to 10 seconds.
Added a mana regeneration proc on attack when a Cleric is in Healer’s Focus.

Disciple

Inner Light VI (Modified) should now correctly stack with healing modification ability such as Purity.

Dread Knight

Fixed an issue with DC6 that caused some abilities, such as their Pet Abilities to not be usable.

Druid

Druid Epic has had its cooldown lowered to 15 minutes.
Starfall V has had its damage increased and is harder to resist.
Deadly Swarm IV has had its damage increased.
Wild Growth V has had its damage increased.
Solar Flare VI has had its cooldown lowered from 8 seconds to 6 seconds.
Superior Venomous Thorns is harder to resist.

Warrior

Savagery has been upgraded.
From A brutal slicing attack that does 150% weapon damage and causes your target to bleed, taking 275 damage and adding hate over 60 seconds.
To A brutal slicing attack that does 200% weapon damage and causes your target to bleed, taking 600 damage and adding hate over 60 seconds.
The Warrior Epic Mainhand has had its tooltip updated to be clearer on how it works as well as an issue where it would not always work as intended fixed.
The Warrior Epic Offhand will now have a 10% chance on being hit to proc a bonus of 8% block for 10 seconds.

Monk

Monk’s should no longer take out their aggressions on their fellow group/raid members by way of Errant Strikes – Thundering Blows.

Necromancer

Necromancer’s pet ability Sneer and Ghostly Acolyte mana replenishment should both be more effective.
Essence Stone for the Necromancer epic should now stack to 200 as well as fit into graft bags.

Paladin

Epic Two Hander no longer triggers Guardian Might but instead will gain a 5% bonus to melee damage.
Epic Two Hander Block lowered from 28% to 14%. This bonus is also now only available in the Aura of Shielding stance.

Psionicist

Meta Mind should now properly stack with other energy regeneration buffs.

Rogue

Upgraded the bonus damage for using daggers on as a Rogue from Dagger Expertise from 1%, 2%, 3% ,4%, 5% to 5%, 8%, 10%, 15%, 20%.
Shadowblade can now crit.

Shaman

Acuity IV Will now grant 3% Spell Strikethrough instead of 3% Melee Strikethrough.
Hayatet’s Gift of Acuity Will now grant 5% Strikethrough to both Spell and Melee.

Patch for Vanguard finally!

Lifebane — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:22:37 +0000

WOWZER! The dev’s over at SOE working on Vanguard (yes apparently there are one or two) have released a bug patch! Read below for details! Could this be a sign of updates actually being done and coming down the pipeline for this game? Players have been waiting for a mighty long time to see something done in exchange for their monthly subscriptions. Hopefully this is the start of something good.

“All Vanguard servers will be brought down Wednesday morning, 08/10/11 at 4:00 am Pacific, for updating. The estimated downtime is six hours.

Vanguard Bug Fix Update Release Note:

Adventuring

Ichtakhta NPC’s that are not quest NPCs have had their experience enabled.

Meta-Mind: Energy regeneration effect now appears on the regeneration section of the stat tab.
Union of Thought: Energy regeneration effect now appears on the regeneration section of the stat tab.
The Gormal the Gargantuan event can now be run multiple times with out a server reset.
Warrior Order all three abilities can now be toggled as needed.

Items

Touch of Karax proc on The Bludgeoner now deals damage.
Ini-herat the Attendant now offers Sacred Solvent to allow for additional attachments to be removed without being destroyed.
Inner Light with Haelifur disciple armor has been fixed to trigger the heal proc correctly.
Corrected a targeting issue with Psionicist Pantheon Tier three armor five piece bonus.

Quests

Fixed an issue with the Shrine of Zephyr quest where you could repeatedly get a shard by abandoning and reaccepting the quest.
The MEST quest, “Arcane Research” now correctly requires the “Dark Essence of Magic”.”

Vanguard gets another Server Merge

Lifebane — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:15:08 +0000

The loyal fans of SOE’s Fantasy MMO Vanguard: Saga of Heroes were given a shock today when the rumored Server Merge was confirmed to be more than a simple rumor. SOE announced that they would be merging all three of the remaining U.S. servers into a single server effective July 1st. The spin on this is obviously to make it so that the player population is once again more concentrated so that players can more easily find other players.

Unfortunately for SOE, anyone who has been playing in the mmo market for any amount of time really understands that the underlying problem here is low player population. This server merge will not improve that problem, it will only move the remaining fans into one server in hopes of them getting a bit more entertainment out of the game before they too decide to take the long walk out of their game world, Telon by name, and into a new and more successful mmo.

With titles such as DC Universe Online, The Secret World, and the ever popular The Old republic on the horizon, it is almost certain that the end is near for this title. It was a good run while it lasted and I personally enjoyed my stay in Vanguard, but sadly it was never able to recover from its initial bad experience based negative reputation.

Below is the announcement as made by Joel “Raijinn” Sasaki, the SOE Community Manager.

“Beginning July 7th, 2010 at approximately 10:00 AM PDT, we will start the process of merging the three current U.S. servers of Telon into one server. It is our hope that this integration will result in a more consistent and higher player population which will, in turn, lead to an even more enjoyable and beneficial player experience.

Additionally, scheduled in August, SOE is planning to merge the Halgar server into the consolidated server mentioned above. Please read the forums for the specific date and downtime, as it is yet to be determined. Please note that the processes outlined in this email will occur for both the July and the August server merge; if you have further questions regarding the implications of the two scheduled consolidations, please read VGPlayers.com.

We estimate a downtime of 24 hours to complete each of the two the merges respectively.

Help determine Vanguard’s future! We’ll be hosting a poll on the Vanguard forums, beginning Tuesday June 8th, to determine the new name of the consolidated world server. Click on the button below to give your input and vote for your favorite!

http://forums.station.sony.com/vg/p…_id=53367

Characters:
For the first consolidation, we will move any character that is over level 10 or any character under level 10 that has logged in between July 7, 2009 and July 7, 2010. When the Halgar server is merged, we will move any character that is over level 10 or any character under level 10 that has logged in 1 year previous to the date of the Halgar merge.

Character Naming
Character name priority is based on a combination of when the character was first created and last played. Each character that has a duplicate name after either of the server merges and does not have requisite priority to keep that name will be flagged, and upon the next attempted login of that character, the account holder will have to choose a new name before that character can login. If you have a mule character (a low level character used for inventory storage), we respectfully ask that you please delete it and create a new one in case there are other players who used that name on active characters on a pre-merge server so that they will have a chance to keep the character name they play with.

Guild Names
Each Guild has a separate ID and will not be affected by a move. Two guilds with the same name can exist on the server. Should a guild wish to change their name they can petition Customer Service.

Housing
In conjunction with each server merge, housing plot purchase price and current upkeep balance will be returned via mail to the most recently created character on the account owning the house. The building materials required to construct the house as well as the fixtures and items in the house will be returned to the owner via a housing escrow merchant.

Boats
After each server merge, boats will be flagged and upon the next attempted login of the character that owns the boat, the account holder will have to choose a new name for the boat.

VG Players issues
The data displayed in VGPlayers will continue to show the pre-server merge data for a short period of time after the merges occur. Within a few days following the conclusion of each of the merges, the data will update and begin displaying the new stats for all characters. Please be aware that this delay in updating will likely take from 2 to 4 days.

Mail
Mail will stay in the system and transfer over to the new server, so you do not need to do anything!

Corpses
All corpses will be purged and any items left on such corpses as of the date of each server merge can be retrieved at the altar. Experience on such corpse(s) will be returned to you.

Friends List
Your friends list and ignore list will be preserved.

Market Items
Items on the market will be pushed to escrow and any items in escrow will be available after the merge.

For all the detailed information regarding the server mergers, please visit VGPlayers.com “

SOE giving Station Players premium features for free!

Lifebane — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:56:42 +0000

SOE has decided to FINALLY stop charging for player stat information. This is not such a generous gesture but more in keeping with the market trend since other mmo’s coming out are giving players access to their in game info online without charging them a premium. This will effect games such as Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, EverQuest and EverQuest 2. The only requirement will be maintaining an active subscription to these games.

It is nice to see them taking a step forward now if only they’d get past their stubborn refusal to allow people to move characters from one server to another without having to pay them 50 dollars!! I personally know of a couple players that would spend time again in EQ2 or EQ IF they could move their characters to more populated servers or simply to the servers their friends are on now. Something to consider there you SOE folks!!

Here is the official announcement from SOE:

“Important Changes to Station Players Premium Features
We are pleased to announce that beginning December 17, 2009, SOE will no longer charge separately for access to Station Players premium features for each of Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, EverQuest and EverQuest II. Access to standard and premium Station Players features will now be included at no additional cost for all subscribers to each of these games (with active, paid subscriptions in good standing.) Station Access subscribers with active, paid subscriptions in good standing will continue to have access to all Station Players standard and premium features.

Station Players subscribers currently in a paid billing cycle will continue to have full access to the Station Players premium features they have already paid for through December 16, 2009. Station Players subscribers who have prepaid subscription time that extends their subscription period past December 16, 2009 will receive a pro-rated refund for any such pre-paid excess subscription payments*. Such refunds are expected to be issued by January 17, 2010.

We appreciate your loyalty and commitment to SOE’s games and look forward to bringing you more enjoyable products and game features in the future.

*Please log in to your Station Account to update your billing address. If a valid credit card is active on your account, refunds will be applied to such credit card. If your account is paid via SOE Game Card or other SOE accepted payment method, we will send a check in the refund amount to your current billing address. No refunds will be given for Station Access accounts as a result of SOE no longer charging separately for Station Players premium features.”

Vanguard’s New Mentoring System

Lifebane — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:40:31 +0000

Vanguard Sage of Heroes was one game which I had a particular passion for and of course the subsequent feeling of sadness when I saw what the game became compared to what had been promised earlier in its development cycle. It does make me a bit less bitter to see that now, when their subscriber base is so small they are still adding features into the game, features that would have been GREAT to have had earlier mind you, but adding features is always a good thing.

One of the biggest challenges with MMO’s is players trying to get friends to join the game and then hitting that level disparity wall. While not something unique to Vanguard, it is a definite plus that they introduced a mentoring system finally!

Read below for the details:

“In the latest update to Vanguard Saga of Heroes the development team has introduced a new game system that helps less experienced Telonians group up with some of the more experienced travelers of the land. The team is proud to introduce the mentoring system to the Vanguard Saga of Heroes players and included in this article is all the juicy tidbits that you need to know in order to get the most out of the new mentoring system.

* You can now mentor friends and adventurers who are lower level than yourself! In order to mentor another player check out the following information:
* To mentor another player you need to form a group
* Once you are in a group with the lower level player, the lower level player need to right click on the group members and select “Request mentor”
* The higher level members of the group can choose to accept or deny the mentor request at this point.
* If the adventurer accepts the mentoring request they will have their level temporarily dropped down to be in line with the level of the person who they are going to be mentoring
* While mentoring you’ll be able to adventure with the mentored player, gain experience, complete quests, etc. so you can continue on your path to level 55!
* A maximum of 5 players can mentor one lower level player (This is limited by the group size).
* While mentoring, your player stats will be reduced to keep it reasonably in line with the level equivalent of the mentored player however you will still be a bit more powerful than an equal level character. This means your friend’s progression should move along a bit more quickly than normal!
* The mentoring session ends when the player chooses to hit the “Stop Mentoring” option in the context menu where you choose to leave groups or if the mentored player is out of the group for over 2 minutes.

And that’s the low-down on the mentoring system, be sure to invite your friends and family to group up with you in Telon as you can now help them out like never before! “

Vanguard gets the last 3 weapon sets finally

Lifebane — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:48:44 +0000

Big news from SOE’s Vanguard… the final 3 missing weapon sets have been announced! Below is the announcement and the images that show the tentative designs for these greatly saught after weapons. Why were these three classes left for last? Not the dev’s favorites I would assume. Feel the dev love people!

“You might have thought that we forgot about 3 certain classes when we were featuring some of the new weaponry. Never fear, this week we were able to wrangle the final 3 weapon sets up for everyone to check out in all their glory. Enjoy!”

The Druid Set

The Necro Set

The Sorcerer Set

Vanguard, Double XP weekend.. Grind Time

Lifebane — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:00:11 +0000

The folks over at SOE are giving the fans of their Fantasy MMO Vanguard a virtual treat this coming weekend. Double XP will be rewarded for crafting and diplomacy skills. Yes, that did not have any mention of combat xp, you heard correctly. I suppose they want to keep that long grind to 55 perpetually annoying for the players. If crafting or diplomacy is your thing though, hop on and take advantage of it!

Below is the official announcement:

“Double your action, double your fun and DOUBLE your XP!

Join Vanguard: Saga of Heroes™ adventurers in the world of Telon for a DOUBLE XP WEEKEND!

That’s right, get DOUBLE XP in your Crafting and Diplomacy skills all weekend long! Join the action beginning Friday, August 21 at 6:01 AM through Tuesday, August 25 at 5:00 AM PDT to earn DOUBLE XP towards your crafting and diplomacy efforts!

Check out the official Vanguard website for information on a multitude of different DOUBLE XP weekend promotions coming your way throughout the year!

Not a Vanguard player? Check out the Isle of Dawn 14-day free trial at http://vanguard.station.sony.com/isleofdawn/.”

Pantheon Update finally live! new content and a level cap increase!

Lifebane — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:56:48 +0000

Halls of the Pantheon

The Halls of Pantheon is finally here. The first part of the great architect Artera's story has finally been released and now is your chance to prove to the gods of Telon you are worthy of their blessings. Within the halls you will be asked to do many things as you increase your favor with the gods until finally correcting the imbalance of creation and unlocking the path that leads into the halls of shattered souls and the truth behind the gods of Telon and their years of silence. It is up to you adventurers, crafters, and diplomats to unlock the secrets within the halls and prove once again that the inhabitants of Telon are a force to be reckoned with.

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

Items:

* Bow max ranges have been reduced.
* Fixed an issue where the Kamelott Rucksack had slots when it was not supposed too.
* Fixed haste buff on panther mask to increase attack speed and not decrease it.
* KDQ crates can now only be opened in Kamelott's landing
* Fixed an issue with fireseed refresh discrepancy

Abilities:

* All counterattacks now have a minimum endurance/mana cost.
* Stroke of Fervor now has an endurance cost
* Stroke of Conviction now has an endurance cost
* All rogue abilities requiring piercing now properly check for the dagger in the main hand.
* Accuracy buffs should now properly buff spell accuracy
* Fixed an issue where some abilities that were supposed to only modify the refresh haste of modular attacks were affecting other modular abilities
* Fixed the Halfling racial (FINALLY!!!)
* Fixed an issue that prevented minions from assisting properly as intended.
* Dementia now has a max target limit
* Hewing the Mountain now buffs your group for 10 seconds or 1 attack
* The Dark elf racial has been modified.
* Warrior offensive form should once again have its accuracy bonus
* Fixed an issue where abilities affected by zeal would not display added attack damage.
* Time Trick 2 should now work like 1 and 3
* Fixed an issue with quelling winds it should actually work now.
* Treeshape will now wipe hate while it is in effect.
* Many secret chains should now display their icons again.
* The body enhancement buffs from KDQ should no longer wear off

General:

* All corpses now last 2 hours max
* Paladins should now have archery skill
* A camp of KDQ agents has popped up near the Bridge of Destiny.
* All npcs in KDQ should now drop tier 6 skins
* Tier 6 metal can now be harvested in SOD
* Mobile Power suit should work correctly now
* Fixed an issue with caps that has been around for the past few years. Many items and ability caps should now work properly.
* Updated the character sheet to show new resist types.
* Added new hairstyles for most races.
* Thinned out the density of the bridge NPCs just a little.
* Fix for escrow items having incorrect prices show up
* All exp debt has been wiped.
* All exp into 50 has been reset to 0.
* All brotherhood exp has been reset.
* All tombstones have been sent to escrow.
* Adjusted the loot tables of Yerkj & Rinipin. They will now only drop 1 class specific item per kill.
* The Ruined Jharuu Sword and Runed Jharuu Sword are now longswords.
* Synchronize now works with the Summoners Cap of Control version of Time Trick.
* An altar has been added to IOG
* Zyxil and omac have had their pathing adjusted
* Yiminil no longer roams.

Quests:

* KDQ quest rewards have had their monetary amount reduced.
* Fix for quests not abandoning properly sometimes when expired

Raids:

* Karax is now level 59
* Karax loot tables have been overhauled due to his level increase.

Crafting:

* Kaius Rufish and his excavation team have work for skilled crafters in the Pantheon.
* Shajin Graywine is doing research in the Pantheon and is requesting help from talented diplomats.
* Geoffery Wallsten in New Targonor has a new rumor about an artisan’s treasure from long ago. Interested crafters should seek him out.
* An informant in the Pantheon named Delroz is willing to trade prestige for lore in the Pantheon to diplomats.
* Skilled diplomats can parley the avatars of the gods in the Pantheon.

Known issues:

* The last hair selection for those races that received new hairstyle has an issue. Please try not to select this or you may see some funkiness with your avatar’s hair.

Silius on 2009 and Vanguard

Lifebane — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:05:07 +0000

Silius recently posted about what he sees ahead in 2009 for Vanguard. He also tossed up a poll to see what it is that the community is most interested in seeing developed in the game. You can see the original post here but I have copied over the article for your ease of reference below and also plugged in the current % breakdown by option offered in that poll.

“Greetings all,

Well the holidays are over and we are very busy around the office now that everyone is back. The Christmas update took a lot of work to get out and everyday we are working on bug fixes related to it and of course older bugs. 2009 looks to be a very nice year for Vanguard as we spend some time looking to our future. We spent 2008 adjusting, tweaking, and bug fixing. In that time we managed to get out some new content but not nearly the breadth of content we wanted to get out. As many of you know we have started working on a level increase and alternate advancement on top of mapping out our content for the year starting with the Pantheon. Our team has changed hear and there over the past year and we are still working some kinks out but I feel very positive about where we are headed.

So with that out of the way I want to get into some details and announcements. First thing is that the Christmas update spread our team a little to thin when considering the other things we were working on. This resulted in Pantheon not getting the attention I had desired throughout November and December. After evaluating where we were I was left with two options, demand unreasonable hours from my team and push out a product that none of us would be happy with quality wise or push the update back and do a smaller update for our anniversary. I opted for number 2 because you all deserve a higher quality product and I want the team to continue to enjoy working on Vanguard as they have over the past year and some change. Does this mean we are pushing it till infinity? Not at all but I do not want to give a date as I am still getting feedback form our QA department on what is realistic for them given some other things we have to do in the background. We will continue to push things to test and ask for assistance as it really is our best tool given the sheer size of Vanguard in contrast to our team. Something else to note is that we will be updating our in the works page. No this is not a joke, and April fools is 3+ months away. I cannot apologize enough for what has happened with this page but it is an item that we will be making an effort to keep up to date.

So now that I have the good/bad news out of the way I want to give you something I hope is taken as good news. When looking at our schedule and how we have to focus our team there are always going to be some things we cannot spend time on do to player demand. Part of our planning for this year we want to involve the community more. So I am going to use this time to poll the community to see where they want our minds to head. We have taken some time to try to categorize things the best we can given feedback from the forums. We are currently working on setting up some player choice updates and we would use this poll as a basis for what we would do with them. Please keep in mind that these updates have to be small updates as we have larger projects in mind.

Below is a basic definition of each poll option to better help with selection.

Adventuring Group revamps: ( 15%)
Solo/Small group
6-Man

Non Adventuring Content: ( 18%)
Crafting
Diplomacy
Housing
Fluff (Fishing, Cooking, etc.)

Raid/Guild Functionality: ( 29%)
Raid content
Raid UI work and bug fixes
Raid functionality
Guild UI work and bug fixes
Guild functionality

PVE Balance: ( 3%)
NPC AI/Difficulty
Class tweaks and fixes

PVP Balance ( 8%)
Class tweaks and fixes

No New Content, stick to bug fixes only ( 27%)