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I like limited slots, it means your knowledge of the class and the dungeon you head i to matter. Of course tbe abilities have to be different and meaningful, not just dpsbutton a, b and c. Heres a rundown of decisions I made before even stepping into most dungeons, depending on zone and...

I guess they expect Q1 and Q2 shareholder reports to look good enough from RoS and Hearthstone alone, overshooting the goal just makes the next quarter look worse. At least thats the line of thought I expect from them these days.

You are right, that is a denial of service. Light the Butlersignal Commissoner!

You are absolutely right, and there are many games that are ideal for it or even made for just that. In MMOs its usually a tacked-on mediocre or worse addition, even if they held PvP up as one of their main goals (WAR, GW2). I prefer #3 being in the background without getting too involved and...

Runnyeye, Blackburrow, SolB, and more from EQ, Blackrock, Uldaman and maybe some more from WoW. It's not that new. Still a good idea though.

Meh, you can let priests do that if your roster doesnt have necromancers, wouldnt be out of place.

Do bags like WoW(EQ) and have a box to check off for showing all slots in one bag frame? I loved the bag mini-game, I am hoping for variety of specialty bags with more slots that only hold specific things. I agree it's not normal but in modern MMOs you take what motivation you find.

I told you half a year ago that Georgeson is the one to look towards if you want this to live up to its full potential! Butler on other hand seems like the folks that raped Ut's dog.

3rd person is easier then 1st person regarding knowledge of your surroundings. Again I think just because it's easier doesnt make it better, just different. If putting away some ease is such a hurdle for people there will be some rage to come in this thread. The problem with an MMO is that...

Wow funny discussion I kicked off there. My point was actually the same as yours. WoW didnt have a PvP system at launch (it did have pvp servers though, and they were fun). Then they came with the honor system and BGs and season points and arenas and whateverthefuck after I left. Imo all of that...

I hope there is alot of environmental danger in the game. Drowning and burning obviously, but possibly actual pit traps with poison spikes and stuff like that. GW2 mini-dungeons have some features like this and its good fun. That said, player induced damage to my character is only acceptable if...

I havent heard what the flying mount is good for except faster and safer solo travel, bypassing content and cherry-picking kills or resource nodes. I thought adding features like that are bad for the game concept we are talking about here.

Well, here is one way to answer that provided in this very thread, maybe you should be more reasonable just like that poster: Yea tagging on flying mounts afterwards doesnt yield a good result, either make the entire world with that in mind or just say No to it. Imo just say No. In the...

As I said I am with zones for practical reasons. But honestly, thinking back to EC and WC and the Karanas or Duskwood and the neighboring zones makes me think that small zone lines are just for player funneling. The art in all those zones wouldnt change by switching between seamless and...

I share the impression that you're too burned by Vanguard when it comes to the topic 'seemless word', Tad10. Vanguard was a textbook example of sinking the ship, that doesnt have to be the case again. That said, I would prefer zones for Pantheon. Not because of costs but because it is easier...

I might remember it wrong because it's been 10 years, but I think WoW open beta was a couple of days mid-november, right before the release. It's not exactly special... they had no NDA for a few months before that I'll give you that. But Blizzard changed big parts of the game back and forth up...

I would prefer free flight to be kept out of player hands. Special occasions that call for it maybe, but not just having your mount, paying the upkeep to use it and fly around whenever you want. It ruins content and immersion.

Yea their goals are good, very much looking forward to Storybricks. I still find it unfortunate that they didnt go with a fresh IP for a new direction for MMOs but what can you do.

I dont know how much you played GW2 but that sounds like a very initial opinion, once you knew the mechanics you stopped running like a panicked chicken usually. Anyway lets not derail this thread in that direction. Doesnt sound much different from WoW. Depending on how elaborate the spells...

This bears looking at, GW1 while not a true MMORPG had great option for making interesting builds. I would put more restrictions on it for Pantheon to keep roles more distinct but the variety of skills was great.

I want leashing in Pantheon. Now, that doesnt mean "copy WoW". I want them to take the time when designing mobs to give each a very rudimentary behaviour pattern. Like Diablo 1 did 15 years ago. EQ itself had a bit of this with some mobs fleeing early and some never. Apply this to leashing...

I agree with this, build a world, not a Mario World where you have a straight zone progression from world1-1 to world4-4. What I liked about GW2 in this regard is that every zone was at a minimum okay to play in even if you outleveled them, and they still had some mobs or events in some zones...

I think collecting loot points to cash in at an npc vendor is a boring way to do loot.

More like straight from EQN amirite But it's still a good idea. Would also be nice to have cross-class stuff coming from some involving quests where it makes sense or gained from factions (like giantsbane nuke though that was wiz only, could have been mage too for example).

This touches a question I have: Is the game designed in such a way that the entire world is available at your fingertips? Do we want the game designed in such a way that the entire world is available to play in at any given time? Personally I dont need that, but this is a point that I might...

Uqua was certainly challenging, especially teaching 70 monkeys to not click on a door. I mean, it's there, that obviously means click it. Right?

Regarding the "nothing to do after 6 weeks" thing, I believe around the time when Carbine announced that they are going subscription-based they also announced that they will support the game with monthly content updates. If they pull that off people who actually like the game itself might find...

That you have to beat to get to level 2.

I dont like the subtitle at all, but what can you do. Pantheon has a decent ring to it but then comes the cringy addition It was kinda lame in EQ because there was only one armor skin before velious and not much after, but that shouldnt be an issue now. In a game that actually textures the...

These scripted zone changes you describe similar to WHO or more recently GW2 would be a nice touch *if* they arent overdone. GW2 failed there by having everything repeat after an hour or so and thus losing any consequence. EQ did that better too through the coldain ring war finale, where failing...

Iirc in GW1 you used to customize weapons for you grip or something which improved them but them unusable by others. Not sure on the details it has been a while but they could design something like that for binding and/or unbiding items. It would be another addition to the economy and possibly a...

I finally had a chance to watch those videos made with the engine they are using (check the spoiler below if you missed them). I have to say most of them look very good, I'd be happy if the Pantheon team achieves the same quality for the live game as those demos. That said, I'm sure any engine...

I think AAs should include some meaningful decisions over how to evolve your character, but you are absolutely right that there can also be a ton of cosmetic or fun stuff included in them. That has the advantage that while a 8 year veteran may have 3k aa, but only a fraction of that are...

I'd bet against that. Pulling some numbers out of my own ass I would say quests and some voice acting -not the entire game, though afterwards TOR said it wasnt that much of the budget- are 10-20m, maybe somewhat more but not 10x unless you have Hollywood doing your bartender voices...

Yea Blackrock was a good one. Imagine it without instancing, the entire Blackrock mountain as one dungeon. Imo that would stand right beside any EQ dungeon without needing to hide. I think this game is better served with levels, but I agree with others that levels are played out and the...

Is there any comment from Carbine on the release window, perhaps even with a link quote? I keep hearing April and June thrown around elsewhere but when questioned the posters always go "uh read it somewhere" or "they have to launch by then or stupidreasonthatdoesntmakesense".

That is your assumption. my assumption is opposite, I think going from "few people bother with trading and mostly for things they consider important" to "everyone throws all their shit into the AH because why not" will lead to the same issue D3 had (well D3 had plenty other issues too). Massive...

Edit by Deaegan: Don't post like an asshole.

Do you mean the slow comment - I meant if I had to put "slow" in a tank/dps/cc trinity. Of course they could put slow in a "support" role alongside strong buffs in addition to the other three or something like that, all depends on how they want to balance stuff.

I'd group slow as a CC ability. Softer then mez sure but it's still powerful. Same with root. That said, the role that should be done away with on a class design level is DPS. Of course you need people that build their character in a way that makes doing more damage their focus. But do we...