Visionary Realms has announced that their upcoming MMORPG, Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, will be undergoing sweeping changes in their Spring 2026 update to bring a better balance to the game based on player feedback.
Highlights of the changes include:
Visionary Realms’ Creative Director Chris “Joppa” Perkins has been uploading dev diaries every weekday. There are also more in-depth blogs on pantheonmmo.com that go into detail about the changes. Quick links can be found below:
These changes were announced as a release candidate for these systems. Meaning, this is how they wish the game to function in its 1.0 state. Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is still in Early Access and still considered in active development.
Unfortunately, Joppa mentioned that the changes are so significant that current characters will not be able to utilize the new templates, so a character wipe will be performed with the Spring update. Joppa previously stated that the goal was to avoid any character wipes until 1.0, unless something completely unavoidable arose. This was one of those unavoidable instances. While the announcement was met with negativity, all characters were going to be wiped when 1.0 launched anyway, and character wipes in an actively-developing MMORPG...
