why not just play EQ?

[EverTrek1701]

all the talk and videos look a EQ clone that is 2 years out...

[MaDeuce]

First of all, this game is little to nothing like EQ.
Secondly, a lot of us probably do still play EQ TLP servers, I do.
After 25 years I don't think a fresh take on a classic era is too much to hope for.

[Dudeus]

Originally posted by EverTrek1701:

Originally posted by MaDeuce:

First of all, this game is little to nothing like EQ.
Secondly, a lot of us probably do still play EQ TLP servers, I do.
After 25 years I don't think a fresh take on a classic era is too much to hope for.

looks like old EQ, has combat and trade skills like old EQ. how is it more than EQ?

Simple, it is not EQ. The moon is not Earth, well it's round, it rotates and circles the sun. Man people just stop already.

[Edmund Kemper]

Originally posted by EverTrek1701:

all the talk and videos look a EQ clone that is 2 years out...

EQ is so much better, this game is nothing like it really. I still play EQ. Stop insulting EQ

[thalx]

Originally posted by EverTrek1701:

why not just play EQ?

Why do you think that I don't play EQ?

[nzguzzi]

EQ graphics horrible and game was dead when I went in.
EQ 2 better graphics, so many features but combat was just OTT
Better technology in software should allow faster content and features
Its the new kid on the block
I like Pantheon but end game is level 18 it seems, if I have to grind 4 levels on the same mob...somethings wrong

[Veeshan]

Why not just play both?

[Alderney Womble]

Originally posted by EverTrek1701:

looks like old EQ, has combat and trade skills like old EQ. how is it more than EQ?

Graphics look like old EQ? I loved EQ and played for many years but if the graphics are like old EQ, hard pass

[Tyvolus]

Originally posted by Veeshan:

Why not just play both?

great question...I love shedding light for people who need my Wisdom...someone might only have time for one MMO, or the money for only one MMO.

[Rabbit]

Originally posted by Tyvolus:

Originally posted by Veeshan:

Why not just play both?

great question...I love shedding light for people who need my Wisdom...someone might only have time for one MMO, or the money for only one MMO.

Then you should play that, what you like.

[Tyvolus]

Originally posted by Rabbit:

Originally posted by Tyvolus:

great question...I love shedding light for people who need my Wisdom...someone might only have time for one MMO, or the money for only one MMO.

Then you should play that, what you like.

who said I dont play what I like?

[Underprivileged White Male]

Originally posted by EverTrek1701:

Originally posted by MaDeuce:

First of all, this game is little to nothing like EQ.
Secondly, a lot of us probably do still play EQ TLP servers, I do.
After 25 years I don't think a fresh take on a classic era is too much to hope for.

looks like old EQ, has combat and trade skills like old EQ. how is it more than EQ?

It looks and plays very little like old EQ. It just happens to carry along a lot of the concepts.

Honestly it looks and plays more like WoW Classic set it the world of Runescape which has it's own appeal.

[thanoskulo]

Been decades since I played eq but didnt it have only 6 spell slots for your class?
And soloing was much harder than pantheon as I remember in Pantheon the goal is to have solo for every lvl till cap (not yet implemented)
There probably are tons of differances but its been a long time since I played and I dont remember
The thing is been there done that while Pantheon is a new game so even if there are many similarities I prefer having a fresh experience

[Underprivileged White Male]

Originally posted by thanoskulo:

Been decades since I played eq but didnt it have only 6 spell slots for your class?
And soloing was much harder than pantheon as I remember in Pantheon the goal is to have solo for every lvl till cap (not yet implemented)
There probably are tons of differances but its been a long time since I played and I dont remember
The thing is been there done that while Pantheon is a new game so even if there are many similarities I prefer having a fresh experience

8 spell gems, sitting for med ticks mid combat, melee was typically only auto attack and one or two abilities you hit on CD, faster movement was done via buffs and strafe-walking, there was no climbing, and no gathering. Crafting was manually adding components 1 by 1 and hitting combine with no recipes. There were no real solo mobs, you either cheesed mob pathing, kited things, charmed, or at the lower levels played twinked alts often with second box or an outside fighter level PL'ing you when it came to "solo'ing."

Straight up fighting things solo was something you generally only did to much lower level mobs if you class didn't have a way to abuse the above. Rogues just flat up couldn't solo as an example. The same "solo" methods vs group mobs mostly work in Pantheon as well, it's just you are missing a lot of the jank/cc power from EQ.

[Dennis Evans]

I've been playing EQ2 origins server and it's the best old school experience available right now honestly. They have nailed every aspect of how fast to level and difficulty of mobs etc. The only downside is why Pantheon exists in the first place, the engine is very janky, functional and old school charming but it feels like an old engine. Most of us are wanting that old school polish on a modern tech platform.

[Underprivileged White Male]

Originally posted by Dennis Evans:

I've been playing EQ2 origins server and it's the best old school experience available right now honestly. They have nailed every aspect of how fast to level and difficulty of mobs etc. The only downside is why Pantheon exists in the first place, the engine is very janky, functional and old school charming but it feels like an old engine. Most of us are wanting that old school polish on a modern tech platform.

I never could enjoy EQ2 combat. I tried when it was new, and I tried years later. It just felt like an "MMO on Ice" to me. Way too much running around gathering huge hordes on soloing tanks and spamming AoE.