Using an undead slayer spellbook did not raise the damage made against the vanguard significantly from what I´ve seen.

what raise the damage against the vanguard is MYSTIC weapons!
i notice an increase damage when i use my super mystic bow! hehe

Anything bad I've said about the event so far, I take back now. The last couple of hours have been a lot of fun, even though some ____ had been killing the dread horses.

Still, a lot of fun. I have noticed that the greater dragons out damage pretty much everything, and two of them can take down a vanguard controller pretty easily.

And I've noticed that when you see a new controller, the rest of the spawn will follow about half a minute later, so going straight at the controller seems to be a bad idea unless you're one of the greater dragon people and you're working in teams.

That's another thing I've seen a lot in the last couple of hours on Cats. People who have never seen each other healing each other or other people's pets. It makes for a rewarding experience.

And I did get one chaos shield out of it and I've died more today than any other day in the past two weeks as my tamer (which isn't much, really. I didn't lose any gold anyway).

What I don't like is that my mage can't cast EV except on the dock. That limits his ability to work a lot.

I'll have to go back later with my mystic warhammer from hell to see if that helps.

Is the event only going on in cove? or have other cities been seeing the action also??

i think other cities, like delucia, will start in the next days!

We had a Vanguard Controller in Vesper, yesterday.

Vesper? lol I think someone probably pulled it there from cove...

Anyone timed the respawns on there server? Also, are stuck mobs preventing respawns?

Except that if the controllers go to far away from their spawning point, they return. It really makes separating the horse from the controller difficult.

Speaking of which, has anyone tried disarming or dismounting the controllers?

Edit: found my answer. Yes, they can be dismounted.

They NOW have a spawn point that they return to. The first spawn you could drag them as far as you wanted.. at least on Cats. So that's most likely how one ended up in Vesper.

I know they can be dismounted but has anyone tried disarming them?

I just tried that about half an hour ago.

It gave the disarmed message, but it didn't get disarmed. Or it rearmed very very quickly. In either case, it turned out badly for me.