Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO
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zzeris
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Probably true. I was knee deep in SK, Bard, Necro, and mage at that point. I didn't look back.
Daidraco
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Rangers may have became much, much better in Velious - but my original guild leader was a Ranger. I vividly remember tanking shrooms in OS with him DPS'ing and shit was just melting. I never felt that way about Rangers in Classic. But thats one of those situations where our gear wasnt scrub shit either, so that could be the difference.
Also, just to reiterate - I dont think anyone truly wants Pantheon to fail, here. We can talk shit all day long and call it vaporware, but the majority of us want to at least try it. As for some random ass clown putting down the community on Twitter? Brad responded to it, so thanks for the free publicity. Bad publicity is still publicity. A persons curiosity is still going to win over some insignificant nobody's warning.
Also, just to reiterate - I dont think anyone truly wants Pantheon to fail, here. We can talk shit all day long and call it vaporware, but the majority of us want to at least try it. As for some random ass clown putting down the community on Twitter? Brad responded to it, so thanks for the free publicity. Bad publicity is still publicity. A persons curiosity is still going to win over some insignificant nobody's warning.
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And Cazic Thule with Rubicite armor. And Unrest for small bronze, and Highpass for the PGT. Also rangers were awesome in Kunark if they were raid geared. High dps and could often tank in the right group.
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American Inventor stop acting like you one of us.
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You are playing the game right now. Pantheon: Rise of the Rere's forum game
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Utnayan
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No, but I've been bored/disappointed with that game for a couple years. Well, you knew that, but I've missed you, Ut, so I don't mind saying it again.
Is anyone playing anything newish? I want a new MMO. Seriously, what's the prognosis for this game?
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Utnayan
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Prognosis. Stage 4 hospice care and all the family members gathering around the bed to say their goodbyes.
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My friend was an asshole and made me roll a Warrior at first.
As for Rangers, once they got EQ and AM3 they were pretty fucking beast. Just needed to download autoshot.
Necros may not have been able to quad kite like Wiz/Druid or endless kite like Bards, but their poisons and diseases were rarely ever resisted and they'd have a much easier time taking on equal+ cons than pretty much any other class. Magicians were pretty good solo, but their fire and arcane spells got resisted fairly often, and they had no way to snare the mob like a Necro could. An air pet backstabbing the shit out of a snared mob would have made life as a Mage pretty god damn amazing.
The prognosis for this game is better than some here want to give it credit for. Yes, they still have a long way to go, in terms of both funding and in development, but most of what they have pushed out publicly thus far has been well received. Many were impressed with their first stream back in the June-ish timeframe, not realizing this was even in real development. Many moreso in the recent stream in early December. They've made solid progress.
The dev team stated in the last stream that they would like to hit alpha testing sometime before this summer if things continue as planned. If that were to happen, my guess would put release sometime around Fall/Christmas 2018. That's just my guess but it seems reasonable enough.
The dev team stated in the last stream that they would like to hit alpha testing sometime before this summer if things continue as planned. If that were to happen, my guess would put release sometime around Fall/Christmas 2018. That's just my guess but it seems reasonable enough.
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The thing about non instanced games like this is all about the content, quality and quantity to satisfy the 800-1000 prime time peeps per server. I cant see them providing that with a skeletin crew, if its in fact a skeleton crew like it supposedly is. I just hope they dont push this out before its fully fleshed out and finished, like vanguard.
The size of their team is a concern but perhaps not as much of one in my mind. For starters, I'm not convinced a large staff is good for this type of game right now. Or for that matter, for Brad to manage. Let them expand slowly and strategically to conserve resources. Their website does suggest they have been adding new people here and there but I say, stay lean and keep the whole process simplified.
Of course, that does mean everything will take longer to develop, which obviously brings additional funding challenges if it goes on too long. Fine line right there. But I think their chance for success is better with a team too small than it is with one that is too large. It reminds e of Shilling and 38 Studios. There was a ton of shit working against that company but at the end of the day, adding too many people at too rapid a pace to a company with shitty leadership and an inability to manage it/them all is a recipe for disaster.
Out of curiosity, I wonder how many people were at 989 Studios with Brad back in the mid-late 90s when they were developing EQ?
Of course, that does mean everything will take longer to develop, which obviously brings additional funding challenges if it goes on too long. Fine line right there. But I think their chance for success is better with a team too small than it is with one that is too large. It reminds e of Shilling and 38 Studios. There was a ton of shit working against that company but at the end of the day, adding too many people at too rapid a pace to a company with shitty leadership and an inability to manage it/them all is a recipe for disaster.
Out of curiosity, I wonder how many people were at 989 Studios with Brad back in the mid-late 90s when they were developing EQ?
zzeris
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My friend got me started on necro because our schedules conflicted and he wanted me to be able to play if they weren't on. He kept informing me that even cons were not to be messed with unless I played my necro which I discovered pretty quickly anyways. I sometimes could kill red cons if they were low health mobs. He tried to PL me a few times but we just stuck with him doing a little of that for my SK. Man, it was tough for people to get past the warrior bias for that class.
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