October 1, 2024 10:43 AM PDT
Well, I´ll be honest. I am very excited with Pantheon because my hope is to experience again what I felt with Everquest 20 years ago, or at least something very simlar. Exploring a huge, vast world with lots of details, hazards, rewards, lore and threats I couldn´t handle on my own without help. Being able to solo and progress at a very slow pace if I felt like it, or way quicker with friends, and with those friends being able to reach places I couldn´t reach solo. Having to actually read texts and think to solve quests instead of following the red flag on a minimap in the typical brainless way of modern games. Having to constantly evaluate what threats I could handle and what I couldn´t, or having to adapt and adjust my role to help my group. Learn about aggro, about pulling, about sustained DPS vs burst DPS, about crafting. Reaching to an area and shout "camp check" or hear "train to zone", participating in a 72 people raid in Planes of Power or leading a raid in the amazing and challenging OoW or GoD raid content.
I am hoping to re-experience something very similar to the above with Pantheon, and also want to take my actual RL friends on this journey. I think many things can change and improve in 20 years, and firmly believe the Pantheon creators have a passion with this. That´s why I fully support this project, and I know they will improve so many things that were not working that good 20 years ago, and they will bring many news ideas that will fit in the spirit. Finally, I hope and want to meet many people that didn´t live the amazing experience that Everquest was, but will live the Pantheon experience. And with friends, is always better.
