Frankly, the difficulty makes it feel like Streamer Bait and not content us regular players are meant to engage with. It feels like carrots being hing to chase so high up only those already chosen to get it can. The whole thing feels Elitist, and only accessible to finish fully by the top 0.1% of players. Edit, this point is largely focused at the timer and score systems in place. Edit 2: also been encountering bugs, namely with Golgoroth just locking in place and staring at the wall causing us to wipe to hit platinum.

Only for Sweats. New Players who haven’t “Raid” before will have trouble learning besides communication (Non-local language players). Would be great if “Raid” & “Dungeons” had in-game tutorials & hints (this ain’t Darksouls).

There’s very little appeal to people that aren’t already familiar with the raids. Due to the difficulty level a lot of people have been understandably reluctant to help people that don’t have sufficient experience. I understand that’s intended but from my perspective Bungie missed a big portion of the community with Pantheon. There could have been an easier version with no adepts, no fancy emblem. It could have offered standard raid gear drops plus the exotic and encouraged people that don’t raid or haven’t in a very long time to participate.

Doesn't really appeal to me. These are the raids I never really liked nor wanted to do. LFG finding a group is a terrible experience. People don't have mics, don't know how the encounters work, no one has the patience to teach a new person. Seems like it was an event built for streamers instead of the everyday player.

Way too difficult and the problem for people who use LFG is this. 1) LFG Must Be Experienced. 2) LFG You get kicked from the former with no experience (group leader checks) and the latter is 6 random guys with no experience on encounters that have been turned up to 11. That is not suitable for learning these encounters and not conducive to encouraging more players to try raiding. It seems to be an offering to raiders who have done it all to death, got all or nearly all the weapons, crafted god rolls, who don't need the loot and are doing it for some emblem and Triumph. Watching a series of Youtubers running through this and not even bothering to check the loot that drops, just deleting it makes me wonder what was the point of Pantheon? I think if it was like Nightfalls with a series of levels, it would encourage much more people to give it a go. A team of 6 newbs learning the mechanics of the encounters and streamlining their loadouts on the equivalent 'Hero' level before stepping up through Legend, Master, GrandMaster. Fair enough, stick the best loot behind GM but not many people are learning these encounters on that difficulty level. No one starts Nightfalls on GMs. Bungie don't even release Nightfall GMs at the start of new seasons, for a very good reason. As things stand, it's too hard to go in and expect to learn in LFG because wipe > someone leaves > back to group finder > find someone new > back to encounter with new guy > have to run through all the tactics/plans/who's doing what again > wipe > someone else leaves > rinse repeat. As someone with no raid experience, who watched a load of streams on the tactics, LFG with 5 others in the same boat was too difficult.

Bungie :- We want your feedback. Bungie :- We don’t listen to feedback we do what we want. Pantheon was made solely for the Elitists .. Even the matchmaking for this activity is the most toxic I’ve seen with people wanting everyone to be crack players and have rare weapons.. Bungie seem insistent on dividing people with everything they touch in game rather than having a cooperative system for the community to come together.

on console this mode feels absolutely awful. attempting to complete this with normal players is a nightmare and playing with pc elitists is even worse. whoever is making this stuff needs to whip out a console every now and again to see how the peasantry is living. or let one of us come play test. i volunteer. i’ll even pay my own way. as of now i don’t find d2 enjoyable anymore.

Shits cancer. Could have at least put all the exotics in week 1 so those of use who could give a f about it could have walked away already.

Experienced, consistent raider and triumph/seal/emblem collector here. Ran all three weeks of Pantheon so far and my thoughts are as follows: Golgoroth = Fun. The double unstable light debuffs were cool. Chill encounter overall. The invisible Minotaurs for gaze pullers spiced it up too. Caretaker = Fun. The adds for the boss-stun team were a surprise. Pushing DPS harder on each week to two-floor the boss has been an enlightening experience on DPS strats. Explicator = Fun. About crapped my pants when the tornado first showed up on my plate. The Tormentor also adds a bit of flair to an otherwise chill encounter. Not looking forward to that on -20 power. Atraks = Fun, but also a bit annoying. Always loved this boss and the different nuking strats teams have. Overall, I get the same enjoyment, but this is where I begin feeling even the most basic add can obliterate me. Oryx = Fun. Definitely enjoyed the constant blight eaters. Made for some wild callouts in my runs. The "bombardment" stage was insane. Definitely some good chuckles. Two shades inside "Thunderdome" was a surprise. They're a bit tanky for my liking, but all in all not that bad. Rhulk = I was indifferent to this encounter. The beginning portion is alright. Just adding Tormentors isn't quite enough to shake up the encounter as is. Now adding the second shadow Rhulk is a big change that I wasn't ready for. I was hoping it would disappear during damage phases, but I found more times than not it would get near the real Rhulk and block a lot of damage. Made the encounter more cumbersome since my team nearly needed to make sure someone was pulling the fake Rhulk away. The timer for each encounter is annoyingly intrusive. Coupled with the scoring it can be downright confusing. Get Platinum time but not Platinum score? Try again. Get Platinum score but not Platinum time? Run it back. Already having the decreasing power per week is a challenge, and having some arbitrary clock added takes away from the encounter and makes it more about the S tier builds versus survivability. That's just me though. The entire Pantheon I know was aimed more to the dedicated player base and not as much to the average player. That became immediately apparent when I LFG'd. Players who barely raid can definitely test their mettle in the Pantheon, but this activity isn't the place to learn...this is the place to master what you know with like-minded players. The rewards are rather bland, as most players grinding this have everything the respective raids have to offer, or running a regular raid will yield greater rewards for less effort. Emblems are nice, but hardly carry enough weight for most players to be willing to play this activity extensively. The title, IMO, is badass, but again, does not carry enough weight by itself. Honestly, the Pantheon should have really showered players with a TON of loot to commemorate their completion(s), but that's just my feelings. Since this is the Pantheon, I do feel like Bungie could have made an entry level activity for new/returning players to try out the encounters by themselves in almost a practice arena to increase player engagement. So players can try each encounter they unlock on an unedited version to hone their skills until they feel confident enough to try the authentic Pantheon run. (i.e. - Think of NFs, where players can start low and work their way up). I know the counter to that may be for players to run the normal raid, but that doesn't necessarily add benefit when running Pantheon since not all raid encounter are in Pantheon. Just being able to target farm a Pantheon encounter would, IMO, help many players/teams. All in all, it's been fun for me, but I can see how it could be made better to be fun for more.

You aren’t going to get any meaningful feedback on here. Kids on these forums expect everything to be handouts and get participation awards.