The MMORPG Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is a major hope for many PvE fans. It promises a focus on group content, massive bosses, and aims to bring back the feel of the old MMORPGs like EverQuest. In a new video, the developers spoke for nearly an hour solely about the topic of dungeons.
What is special about the dungeons? Pantheon is set to launch with 15 dungeons. This number may slightly change before the final release, but 15 is the developers’ goal.
However, players shouldn’t sign up for the dungeons through an interface and complete them with a random group in a few minutes. Instead, the game leans more towards “Old School” games, where dungeons are something special and challenging:
- The game is designed so that players should plan for at least two to three hours of playtime for big successes. This also applies to dungeons. Some may take a bit longer or shorter, and the travel time to the instances also plays a role, but everything should roughly align with this time frame.
- There will be entry requirements, such as specific keys for the dungeons. Additionally, there will be requirements within the dungeons, such as a certain skill in climbing, as players won’t progress otherwise.
- The dungeons will generally have a beginning and an end, but the path in between will offer various possibilities. This includes secrets that can be discovered but also overlooked.
- In a dungeon, you can reach certain “safe spots.” Here, new players can be summoned into the dungeon if necessary. However, the summoned player must have already been to this spot themselves.
- There will be no “easy mode.” Dungeons are meant to be difficult, and players must carefully consider which groups to pull and how to keep enemies in CC.
You can listen to the complete roundtable about the dungeons here:
Pantheon is the hope for PvE fans
What makes Pantheon so special? Generally, the new MMORPG focuses on PvE. It impressed during a crowdfunding campaign in 2014. The core features of the game are:
- There will be 14 different classes at launch.
- Exploration is intended to play a significant role in the game world and the dungeons.
- There will be a climbing system that allows players to explore the world vertically.
- Players will need others for most content and cannot experience everything alone.
Where does Pantheon currently stand? In December 2021, it was announced, that 2022 would be spent preparing the game for an alpha and conducting it within the same year – but whether this will actually happen seems questionable.
Because there hasn’t been much cohesive gameplay so far.
We have taken a closer look at the current state of Pantheon here:
Pantheon is the hope for fans of “real” PvE MMORPGs – Where does it stand in 2022?
