Vanguard is hard to be recommend unless your a masochist
Instancing, quick leveling and fast travel which has removed a sence of adventure in other mmorpgs are not present in this game.
However whats in this game are all the things that caused problems in the hay days of everquest's exploration of the genre. Such as groups camping or farming of mobs in in-world dungeons, everquest style level grind, lack of worded directions in quests and sometimes word activated quests "rose" "rose!" "Rose" "ROSE"
Leveling your character is very slow doing it solo and more effiecant completing harder quests with groups. Which isnt a bad thing untill you realise a dungeon run doesnt net a good progression in experiance points before you hit your next level.
The leveling curve is quite hellish with harsh XP dedt and mearger XP gain making your level progression frustrating at times.
Bugs. GS reviewer detailed these already
Graphics are super but sometimes grinds to a halt or stutters in some areas on medium settings. Not to confuse this with chunking however which is a term for vanguard when the game freezes for a few seconds (maybe more) as you enter a section of the map that needs to be loaded.
Most of the quests are just kill X mobs or deliver this to X which makes the game evently feel two dimentional While taking some inspiration from other games in this gerne, vanguard fails to understand the keys of making a fun game. In this time of well made, fun packed like guild wars and world of warcraft in hard to recommend this game to anyone. *Minutes of your life wasted reading this poor grammer work is non refundable*