Lackluster spells

[6Sinclair]

Why do all the spells under perform by every margin besides the gather resource spell? spending all day gathering ridiculous mats to summon a lightning storm that shoots 3 bolts of lighting or a death fog that summons 2 skeletons that die to drafari fighter 1s in 5 hits. none of them are worth it besides the resource collection and the bat glider.

[Joker]

The answer to this question is pvp 'balance'. If you make powerful spells, suddenly that's the meta, and everyone has to use spells. In order to NOT do that, you have to make them either extremely expensive, or underwhelming. Use mods to correct this issue.

[Lord Kouranis]

I think I might go to sepermeru and call lightning. Those market trade4s have had it far too easy, it’s about time they learn their goods need protection

[Legiondorf]

Spellbook collecting dust... while I stick to my warclub lol.

[Madkou]

(Thinking of getting this, with my shiny new PC, but not sure yet, tbh lol) This problem sounds easy to fix, tho lol. The way to fix that is to make them equal, but make a player commit to one or the other. They let you do both, and the PVE has to suffer for it, bc it becomes lackluster.

I'm willing to bet there's also things in this game (currently) that are useless in PVE, but are intended for PVP lol. I've seen this sort of thing before, and it blows, NGL.

This game is marked as being SP, or MP, (can be played both ways) but they seem PVP biased from what I've seen here, which is not good... unless you're just PVPing haha.

[Antineutron]

Originally posted by Madkou:

I'm willing to bet there's also things in this game (currently) that are useless in PVE, but are intended for PVP lol.

trebuchets and avatars

[Madkou]

Originally posted by Antineutron:

Originally posted by Madkou:

I'm willing to bet there's also things in this game (currently) that are useless in PVE, but are intended for PVP lol.

trebuchets and avatars

OOF, I was hoping i was wrong haha.

[Pablo Croft]

Spells could have been a good alternative to fighting in a different way than the usual weapon fighting. Instead of a bow, a ranged spell. Cripple attacks both damage, and slow enemies. An ice-based projectile spell could do that same thing, and not be better or worse than a bow. Just a different way of going about it.

Bleed attacks have a base damage, and damage over time. A fire-based spell could do the exact same thing. isn't it razor arrows that cause bleed and damage at range? Fireball spell.

Power shot, or power cast. Change ammo, or change reagents. Both are limited.

Melee? A magical form to change into that does the same thing as a weapon. As many forms as there are weapons. Claw weapons? A beast with claws that does the exact same damned thing lol. Your weapon becomes usless over time, and there's a time limit on the form. Or, you repair the weapon, or use another reagent to extend the timer, or start it over w/e.

The armour you wear is the armour you wear. It would be hidden by the magical form you've taken, but you could counter that and reveal the players form/armour with the reveal illusion spell.

if players complain about this kind of suggested setup, that's easily countered by play the way you want to play. You could even mix and match. The claim that you can be a sorcerer, a barbarian or something in between would have more validity than it currently has by a long shot. You wouldn't have to commit to one or the other. Some people would prefer bows, others spells. Others melee weapons, or magical fighting forms or w/e. Or, anything in between. Simple changes to a messed up system.

They could even take shortcuts to do things having all the combat features already there to a degree. Less work. NPC's could also be using these spells on you too. Wouldn't be tough. When they get knocked out, any form they have would revert back to their base-form, if they're using that magic.

[Ellorien]

There should not be any sorcery (“anyone can be a sorcerer” facepalm) in a Conan game to begin with.

[Pablo Croft]

Originally posted by Ellorien:

There should not be any sorcery (“anyone can be a sorcerer” facepalm) in a Conan game to begin with.

Well, it's always been a part of the Conan universe, even in the movies. Just isn't as much to sorcery as their could be, ATM, IMO. I'm honestly more concerned about the state of the bugs lol.

[Ellorien]

No, it was not, Conan never did any magic tricks and, as a matter of fact, hated sorcery and sorcerers. There were very, very, VERY few practitioners in the books. Sorcery was something ancient, mysterious and extremely evil, something associated with the dead civilizations. It usually involved mind manipulation.

[BigBombz]

Originally posted by Ellorien:

No, it was not, Conan never did any magic tricks and, as a matter of fact, hated sorcery and sorcerers. There were very, very, VERY few practitioners in the books. Sorcery was something ancient, mysterious and extremely evil, something associated with the dead civilizations. It usually involved mind manipulation.

You are not Conan, you are just an exile.
Besides the whole Conan theme is just lazily slapped on the game because Funcom happened to have rights for that, so it's not based on the actual Conan lore.

[BigBombz]

But yeah, Lightning Storm got nerfed to the ground as by usual Funcom way. They really can't ever find any balance, everything is either OP or just trash.

[6Sinclair]

Originally posted by Ellorien:

No, it was not, Conan never did any magic tricks and, as a matter of fact, hated sorcery and sorcerers. There were very, very, VERY few practitioners in the books. Sorcery was something ancient, mysterious and extremely evil, something associated with the dead civilizations. It usually involved mind manipulation.

Luckily we arent conan so it doesnt matter what conan thinks about sorceries. dumb comment is dumb

[Ellorien]

You mean your comment? Yes, it is.

[Ataxio]

Originally posted by Ellorien:

There should not be any sorcery (“anyone can be a sorcerer” facepalm) in a Conan game to begin with.

How to say idk anything about conan lore in one sentence.

& yeah this games not about Conan specifically, so saying sorcery is out of place here is just dumb. Maybe you don't like it, and that's fine. But you can't just disregard multiple movies that clearly have sorcery in them.