VSOH - APW Update: 18 man raids and lockout timers! : Vanguard News

SOE's Game Devleoper gave us an update on the new changes to APW design. It will be released for 18-player raids instead of the old 12, and there will be lockout timers to allow everybody a shot at the content. Very exciting news! You can visit the thread here on the official vanguard forum.


Hey all,

We've been testing some pretty big changes to APW on the test server for the last few weeks. We're finally satisfied that with these solutions and are certain that they will be going live, so I wanted to update our community with regards to the direction we're taking things so that this doesn't come as a surprise when we get APW out the door.

First of all, APW has been changed over from a 12 man dungeon to an 18 man dungeon. We felt that gameplay with 18 was more compelling and that the performance improvements did enough for us that we could comfortably increase the max raid size. In addition this allows us a base raid size, as all raid encounters in the near future (overland, apw, etc) will have a max raid size of 18.