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Edited by AbsolutZeroGI: 5/3/2024 3:16:02 AM
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Pantheon isn't very good

Hello. I have 1500 full raid clears, 500 Sherpa runs, every available raid seal, a day 1 completion, low guardian runs on every raid, and flawless runs on most raids. Pantheon is kind of awful. It's not that the idea is bad, it's the execution. The time trial + the low light makes it inaccessible to most players who aren't like me. The problem with that is that most players are not like me. Which means, in order for me to get this done, and do the time trial, I have to gatekeep my fireteam, and I honestly dont like gatekeeping my fireteam. In a normal raid, I can handle a few people who don't have the best meta or the most experience. No big deal. Teach em, tell em where to find meta, etc. For Pantheon, it feels so elitist. I gotta tell clan mates and friends that they need the latest meta (or something close) since a couple of the damage checks can be rough without them (2 flooring caretaker and 2 phasing planets boss). I don't like that. I want to bring my more casual or less experienced friends in and help them have a good time. I'd be doing 3 of these a day if they were more accessible to people who's entire vocabulary doesn't consist of calling everybody "sh*tter". But, they don't want to because there's no reason to if you can't do time trials, and they don't have the very latest damage meta. And then, on top of that, the time trials don't make sense. You have enough time for 2 full Atraks damage phases, but you have to 2-floor caretaker to do it in time. Why? That doesn't really make sense. The additions aren't bad, like the minotaurs in golgy, but combined with everything else,this is an activity designed to be watched on twitch, not played by even half of your existing player base. This should've been done differently.

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  • Edited by JB187: 5/5/2024 11:26:20 PM
    Agreed. I have over 500 raid clears with my clan, multiple day 1 completions, multiple raid seals. I'm not sure who Pantheon is meant for. If this was meant to get newer players into raiding, increasing the difficulty (and adding tormentors and the fire cyclone in the planet room) isn't going to encourage new player participation. So, is it for us hardcore raiders? If so, this wasn't a challenge at all, my clan was able to adjust our builds on the fly to compensate for the increased difficulties and we breezed through and got platinum on all encounters... so is it for the rewards? Well, we've already gotten all red borders, all exotics and done all master encounters for raid seals... what's the incentive for hardcore raiders to do this besides having the Godslayer title? Maybe if they had put the age of triumph ornaments from D1 into Pantheon that would've been an incentive. As it stands currently, the title is the only thing to play for unless you're missing red borders or adept weapons.

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