The "God" Crom

[Reeva!]

So in the game there are multiple Avatars to create, all dependant on the god you choose at the start, the one you want to worship, my personal experience is as follows:

YOG is a giant floating octopus, that can... go underground as an attack?

MITRA is a slow as hell giant that can only stomp the ground (which takes nearly 10 secs)

YMIR is like MITRA with an axe, only he has slightly more range which can be problamatic if an enemy is like right infront of you.

SET is a giant snake that is mediumly fast, can go through terrain by the looks of it, go through water (something MITRA and YMIR cannot do) and can actually attack at a reasonable pace.

CROM... does nothing, the tooltip says something about giving a man bravery and the will to fight at birth, or something simular to that, which to me would indicate some increased stats or perhaps an increased level cap (above level 60) but it actually does nothing, it just prohibits you from summoning/controlling a god, which makes it completely illogical to take, as you'd have to learn a religeon from a high priest of (insert godname here) or spend 50 points + the shrine's following upgrades which ain't too cheap either. (adds up to more or less 75 points)

I would gladly spend 50 points if my level cap was increased or I had initial stats to start off with, perhaps 5-10 points in all trait lanes, that's worth 50 points to me, not that I'd even have to spend it, I could just make an archpriest teach me his religeon. At this point picking CROM in a pvp server/raid-friendly server is completely disadvantages and illogical, you're literally giving up your trick-card.

It'd be nice to see some stats/higher level caps added to CROM, there could even be a mechanic that lowers you down to normal stats if you decide to take a religeon, like you learn a religeon (whatever one there is) and then you lose your gained stats that you got from CROM, and you can never go back (because he doesn't like people asking for help, or something like that, check the tooltip, something about weaklings)

The lore behind this could be that he blessed you at birth, and since you decided to worship another god/you forsake him as your current god, he will never take you back. This would balance it out and allow players who like the pvp aspect of the game to be a bit better at it, while still allowing the chance to become a religeon junky for the sake of summoning a god to raid bases. (It'd be permanent, but it's better than literally nothing)

EDIT: Yes I've seen some threads about CROM in the forrums already but they mostly just ask what advantages CROM has, which are none, this post gives suggestions for CROM.

[Kaziklu78]

... CROM has better things to do than give you stats. That is literally the whole point of CROM.

[Nihrahk]

While this sounds nice and all... Crom just doesn't work that way. He doesn't give a damn if you worship him or not, he's not gonna give you the ability to move mountains with your bare hands or anything else for that matter.

[Wolfstriker]

I think the point is that option is useless. I took it and now i need to spend 50 points to get a altar.

[Nihrahk]

Originally posted by Wolfstriker:

I think the point is that option is useless. I took it and now i need to spend 50 points to get a altar.

Not necessarily. You just need to find a NPC that can teach you the recipe for the altar of their god. If you want to have Yog as your god because you chose Crom, you need to find Nanu the Cannibal... Or whatever his name was.

[Wolfstriker]

Originally posted by Nihrahk:

Originally posted by Wolfstriker:

I think the point is that option is useless. I took it and now i need to spend 50 points to get a altar.

Not necessarily. You just need to find a NPC that can teach you the recipe for the altar of their god. If you want to have Yog as your god because you chose Crom, you need to find Nanu the Cannibal... Or whatever his name was.

I see how did you find this out? The game dosent tell me anything if i need to find where a material is i need to search the forum or google it.

[Nihrahk]

Originally posted by Wolfstriker:

Originally posted by Nihrahk:

Not necessarily. You just need to find a NPC that can teach you the recipe for the altar of their god. If you want to have Yog as your god because you chose Crom, you need to find Nanu the Cannibal... Or whatever his name was.

I see how did you find this out? The game dosent tell me anything if i need to find where a material is i need to search the forum or google it.

I just explored a little. I don't remember the exact spot where Nanu is, but I think it was near a cliff somewhere close to the river in the very beginning. Sorry if I can't be more specific, but my memory is a little foggy about this guy.

[Wolfstriker]

Originally posted by Nihrahk:

Originally posted by Wolfstriker:

I see how did you find this out? The game dosent tell me anything if i need to find where a material is i need to search the forum or google it.

I just explored a little. I don't remember the exact spot where Nanu is, but I think it was near a cliff somewhere close to the river in the very beginning. Sorry if I can't be more specific, but my memory is a little foggy about this guy.

That is plenty of info thank you :)

[Erebus]

Having special perks to Crom would like go completely against the IP/lore/whatever to my knowledge.

Hell for a little joke I thought about doing a "Crom altar" at my base... just a wooden sign that says something along the lines of "don't be a wuss"

[Teitaka]

Valor pleases Crom. Those who follow him follow the rule of steel. The strong survive, the weak perish. Why would Crom help someone who is weak? The basis to picking Crom is to show your characters strength, in that they do not need to rely on the powers of a god to settle mortal affairs, and, that if other gods atack you, you have the strength to survive such a puny onslaught.

[Bushwick Bilbo]

Crom laughs at your whining for stats

[Erebus]

Originally posted by Slaieth:

CROM does not give a ♥♥♥♥

FTFY

[Madgamer13]

Crom gives everyone the strength to crawl out of their mother's womb with their bare hands on their birth, regardless of what god they come to worship. Indeed, Crom's gift is what lets every person in the world of Conan to live at all. And that is it; Crom doesn't care about anything else. He doesn't want worship, nor will he give anything more for any reason after birth. The very core of a person is gifted to them by Crom; everything else is what that person chooses to do with that gift.

As such, Crom's inclusion in the game represents someone who didn't scrape for more. They just took the strength they were born with and pressed on without care for the whims of other gods. Choosing Crom as your religion in the game is the same as choosing to be unaffiliated and not worship any. For this reason, Crom should not grant boons to people who 'worship' him, because he does not care, and those who rely on the strength given to them by Crom at birth should absolutely not care about his lack of care.

TLDR: If you are worshipping Crom, you are doing it wrong.

[Solomon Hawk]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crom_(fictional_deity)

"...don't need no stinking gods."

[haevlyn]

http://cdn1-www.gamerevolution.com/assets/uploads/2017/08/ConanExilesMap2.jpg

All religion NPCs are found in the desert:

Yog Religion:
Shaman's Rise (north of the "river bridge")
Nunu the Cannibal

Mitra religion:
Pariah's Overwatch (just south of the black hand ship) The map marker is a black hand.
Jamilia the Pirate Queen

Set Religion:
Mek-kemoses Spire (north of the river T junction on its side so more like a |-- junction in the middle of the desert map)
Mek-kemoses

[WILDCATreactor]

what if players start with 50 skill points- i.e. what would be spent on learning a religion, sans the other starting skills and those who chose Crom turned themselves to better pursuits than chasing after a god's favors? Literally, somewhere between first and fifth level, every player gets 50 points and decides what their religion is going to be, following the teachings of Crom costs 1, everyone else costs 50