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Seems like classes that used to be boring have some interesting mechanics now. I rolled a cleric since our group didn't have a healer and was bracing for boredom but they are much more melee focused than in EQ. They get a spell early on that summons a pretty good mace and then another 1m spell...

Might have to give this one a try again. It looks like they are getting some decent support for subs too https://massivelyop.com/2026/02/20/project-gorgon-is-closing-in-on-6000-subscribers-yeah-an-mmorpg-dev-told-us-its-sub-count/

That would be cool. Maybe have a handful of raid targets like giants, dragons, griffins that appear in various zones so it's not always the same loc in the same zone. It would still be rushed by high end guilds but you'd need to either have scouts or hear about it from people in the zone who...

Agreed. They've shown off a dragon model in their playtests before so I can't imagine they did nothing with it. Pump it full of HP, give it some AE attacks, good loot, and a long respawn timer and you have a raid target. I don't think it has to be rocket science, especially for the beginning.

I think people are overestimating the amount of poopsockers that are going to be playing this game. Let's say it's like 1 in 20 people and they get 5k subs, you're talking about 250 people spread across a few servers. They get to high level fast with all their shared tips and tricks within the...

This is an interesting topic - Qeynos Hills definitely feels like one of the best early EQ zones to me and I think it's because it's a crossroads zone where a lot of people travel through or XP in out of Surefall, Qeynos, and Halas (and people venturing into Blackburrow and out to the Karanas)...

Yeah, the team has been entirely self-funded for the entire span of it's development - I don't understand the logic of adding not-enough income to the equation somehow dooms the project. If they are smart about allocating any income, they should only be adding more hours to the project than they...

I played Vanilla WoW and rarely found a need to socialize with other players - Barrens chat was probably the only time I talked in a global channel and even then it felt hit or miss. I definitely grouped with other players, but it was rare to not be racing through content and then ungrouping...

MnM has a pretty strong solo game for a lot of classes, but yeah considerably slower than being grouped

Steam takes like 30% of revenue though - they'd need ~40% more subs to break even if they moved to steam client, which seems bad. I feel like it's not hard to click a different button to open the game and give the devs more funding *Also, I'm pretty sure most of the dev team already has day...

I'd be fine if they added a "casual" server type with no item-drop deaths (Dark Souls style) and faster XP gain - I think it's fine to recognize people don't have an endless amount of time to play a game like this, but I think a lot of the feel of the game is capturing what I want to see in an...

I don't agree with this. I played a wood elf druid up to level 8 in the starting zone and saw a steady population of 50 - 70 players and an active /ooc of people asking for directions, tips on quests, groups, etc. and general sense of wellbeing in tone and dialogue. I had a bard twice ask to...

Agreed - I followed Vanguard and played some of the alpha when it was around but it didn't really capture anything close to the same feeling for me. Pantheon feels like a smaller scale Vanguard to me and the pace of development feels like a crawl at this rate. I don't think anything is...

Vanguard and Pantheon were failures at implementing the EQ model - Vanguard being completely overscoped and undelivered and Pantheon losing direction almost immediately and floundering past that. Neither of them accomplished the charm and world feel of EQ and certainly don't have the same...

There's a new dev spotlight up on reddit: