If you want to discuss game design and balance, I’m always happy to do so. If you want to discuss different ways to role play in Conan Exiles, I’m also happy to do so. If you want to ask a direct question (e.g. “hey, is there a cure for hangover that isn’t Set antidote”) and I happen to know an answer, I’ll happily post it.

However, I’m not so happy when you frame the discussion in terms of game design, balance, and role-play, and then accuse people like me, who want to discuss that, of being “obsessively bent on winning a moot point” and “ad-hominem attacks”.

And I also don’t think we should spill that discussion into this one, but hey, it’s your thread, you decide if you want to derail it.

I’m not gonna comment on whether his comment was humorous, because that’s in the eye of the beholder, but what you’re consistently mistaken about is the idea that his comment was an attempt at RP. @Barnes wasn’t role playing in his comment, even though one of his subsequent replies is worded in a way that suggests he was. I suspect that was unfortunate wording, that’s all.

What @Barnes was trying to do is suggest a way that you could role play around this problem while waiting for it to get fixed. If you strip what he said of all attempts at humor and say it in the most straightforward words possible, it would be “Hey, while you’re waiting for a fix, why don’t you pretend that your in-game character is too strong for that shield?”

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