In light of https://www.pantheonmmo.com/content/forums/topic/10174/a-cash-shop-is-now-being-considered I would like to know if a cash shop (of any sort) will be implemented in the game so that I know if I should continue to follow the game religiously or forget it ever existed.
Aradune said:Mathir said:Brad, are you guys still feeling pretty good about getting all three continents in prior to release? Is there any scenario you can see where the game might have to launch with just one or two of the continents finished?
Possibly. We may only need two. The sizes of these zones are huge. But maybe a continent feels to big and we want to do 4 smaller ones instead. And sure I'm always worried to an extent, hopefully a healthy one. The team is growing, the project is becoming more complex. There's a lot of vigilance needed. We need to be efficient and smart, not just work hard. But, overall, I feel very good about where we're at.
Does a current map of this game world even exist?
Can I benefit from the Progeny system if, each time I re-start at level 1, I choose to play the exact same class over and over again? I have strong desire to play a specific class, and no desire to try any others... but I'm sure I'll want to "Prog" with my friends/guild when they're ready.
Reichsritter said:I would like to know if a cash shop (of any sort) will be implemented in the game
Jop same for me, will there be any cash shop?
I know, that in the FAQ VR stated out, that there would be no cash shop. However, since it is an old statement and we live in some questionable times (looks at EA, Blizzard), a second reassurance from a dev would be cool.
When reading the faq for PvP it says
"The issue with balance and PvP vs PvE is not one that is that difficult to solve but it does require planning: you just use different formulas and data - you don't cross your streams. That way, if we need to make Paladins in PvE more powerful, we can do that without disrupting PvP balance. And vice versa."
My question: Does this mean the same thing as pvp templates in wow (you always have the same stats in pvp, regardless of gear) or does it just mean that the stat checks and ability formulas or whatever will be different for pvp?
Kratuk said:Chogar said:Will stats/race make a difference when creating a class? Or will stats hit the cap with end game gear (expansions) making race selection cosmetic only?
To add to this, I'd also like to know how the deity choice might affect things.
I'm pretty sure there isn't/won't be any sort of deity choices to be made, at the very least not at character creation. I can't imagine such a choice would affect anything but very limited faction for the most part, given how the gods can't influence the world/races and how each race has entirely different gods.
Iksar said:I'm pretty sure there isn't/won't be any sort of deity choices to be made, at the very least not at character creation. I can't imagine such a choice would affect anything but very limited faction for the most part, given how the gods can't influence the world/races and how each race has entirely different gods.
Here is a quote from Istuulamae: ( https://www.pantheonmmo.com/content/forums/topic/3585/deities-and-alliances )
"We will be releasing that information at some point. Right now we are focusing on how picking a deity will impact char creation, class, etc. (HEAVY CAVEAT: we are also discussing *if* it will impact those things. So please hold off on any "Pantheon Dev sez deity selection will give your class a special bonus and that will adversely affect balancing" threads, if you can)
In short, we want it to matter what deity you select, for obvious reasons. But there's a nuance in Pantheon that may differ from other games: each race has anywhere from 1-?00 deities, or things functioning in a deity-esque role. So you aren't picking from global, universal gods. You're picking from your racial roster, which is likely exclusive to your race. Now, there may still be some crossover between "like" deities, and that's the part we're working through now. So if you pick a God of Death for the Ogres, shouldn't that breed some familiarity with the followers of a similar god among the Dark Myr? We think so.
When we've got those details worked out, I'm sure we'll have releases that help you acclimate and understand the Gods -- or similar beings -- of each race. We want you to know who you're serving, as much as you can.
Apologies on the lore not having a fuller explanation inherently in it. I will work on a post that sheds some light on that, or may just ammend the currently posted stuff.
Thanks!"
Has there been anything official announced that would support the idea that deity choice would not have an impact on character creation? It seemed very up in the air to me. I know you have cited lore reasons before but I think it's possible that this stuff could be worked around or amended. That above quote comes from VR's Loremaster ... so at the very least, they were definitely spending time mulling over how/if these things would matter. It's been about 2.5 years since that post so things could have changed drastically since then. I would love to hear an update from Istuulamae on this.
Iksar said:I'm pretty sure there isn't/won't be any sort of deity choices to be made, at the very least not at character creation. I can't imagine such a choice would affect anything but very limited faction for the most part, given how the gods can't influence the world/races and how each race has entirely different gods.
Huh?? Why wouldn’t there be.
Will there be "World Boss" events ?
Apologies if this has been raised before but I didn't want to dive deep into the threads to find out and end up being told off for necro'ing a thread.
I recall in some games there would be random Bosses who will appear randomly in the world for a limited period of time. This made the players run around like crazy to get into the fight to take down the boss. This seemed like a pretty fun thing to do.
So, will there be such world boss events ?
Syrif said:Huh?? Why wouldn’t there be.
Just seems like an odd thing for there to be at creation given how the gods are set up in the lore. Some races have many many gods and others (like gnome) appear to have no religion at all and of those with deities of some kind religion/worship doesn't seem to be a central role in many of their societies. Then you figure the gods have been almost entirely cut off from the races for hundreds of years to the point people question their existence at all.
I guess I don't see how it would play much of a role beyond a characters faction with different members of ones own race.
Land said:Does a current map of this game world even exist?
You may or may not have seen this, and it is a bit dated so we could use a revision if it's changed. But here is this if you want it.
http://www.pantheonmmo.com/images/atlas-hi-res.jpg
