Come on funcom. you didnt create the entire sorcery system to just produce garbage did you? Lightning used to be a great alternative to bombing, and now its worthless. The highest tier of sorcery does virtually no damage to sandstone structures let alone hold any weight in a fight against tier 3 structures. It’s a completely wasted skill line and needs to be buffed or removed because as someone who has been running corruption builds since they came out, the system has a lot of potential to be great – but there’s always a drawback that makes these unplayable or uneffective in pvp. I’m not saying lightning has to be rolled back to its original damage multiplier, but it needs to be boosted so the effort put into farming reagents is worth the desired effect.
Not a single offensive spell, god bless age of “Sorcery”.
The “Call of The Dead” spell is extremely weak also. The fog has a stronger effect than the zombies that rise during the spell. The strongest aspects of the sorcery are the corrupted perks, Abyssal Armor, and the True Names. It would be awesome if they made the wisps do some type of damage.
Do you not remember the torrent of complaints about how Lightning was OP and the endless calls for it to be nerfed? And who was it that was asking for this? PvE-C? Nope. PvE? Nope. So take a guess.
In fact, who has complained about every single aspect of sorcery and how it makes PvP unfair and unballanced? 
Between flying and whatnot. Yeah, several spells have been nerfed because of this, so now why the sudden outcry that sorcery is… no good in PvP?
Have you ever read any of the Robert E. Howard stories? Sorcerers did not run around the battlefield slinging spells leaving a wake of destruction around them. They sat their fragile arses in their bases and sent forth their summoned minions to do their bidding for them. They would have been slaughtered on a battlefield if not for their demonic minions, the traps they had set in their homes, and the fear they instilled in people due to the “unknown”. It was certainly not, however, due to their ability to fight!!!
So in fact Funcom has created an entire Sorcery system to produce as faithful a system as they possibly could to the source material in a video game that they could. Whether you think it is “garbage” or not is irrelevant. If you think that it is “unplayable” in PvP, then DON’T PLAY IT. 
No one is forcing you to use Sorcery after all. 
And for quite a valid reason. Try reading the source material. 
But can you honestly say the demonic minions are acceptable to the lore?
It doesn’t have an advantage in any style of play.
The people complaining about OP lightning were the same idiots who were electrocuting themselves for fun during raid hours. There opinion has no value to me.
Howard was actually pretty open ended and illusory about the limitations of sorceries in his world. All we really know is that its powerful and requires blood or soul sacrifice to ritually perform.
And your opinion has no value to them. So wtf is your point?
My point is that my opinion is relevant to players who are interested in the longevity of this game’s health and are concerned that their communities are dying out as a result of poor development and maintenance. My opinion comes from a place of experience and education. And I am interested in sharing that opinion openly with peers interested in the prosperity of the game. unfortunately, i am a console player, so I have to deal with the devs directly instead of making my own pc mods – which I refuse to do for free – ie, i’m not getting paid to do their job for them, i’m not going to. I know what the value of my work is worth, and I’m not going to be satisfied with my own Dalinsia Snowhunter as a substitute for actual financial compensation for my time. Yes, Their opinion means nothing to me – in context with the point i’m trying to prove. that doesnt make their opinions useless, it makes it irrelevant for my argument. and since it doesnt support my argument, i dont endorse the claims. its a psychology i shouldnt have to explain, but you people are just so freaking stupid.
Experience is what separates me from a common troll.
the players who actually buy the DLC’s and play competitively are the players the developers need to pay attention to. we are the committed player base that sticks around for the love of the game without a point to prove and only the drive to expand upon it and watch it grow. you people honestly disappoint me. Lightning was honestly never overpowered. It was an equalizer between God Smacks and Bomb Dupe Spammers. There’s no reason Conan Exiles couldnt have been massively multiplayer and run on mega servers. the bottom line is, the dev team is invested in their next money making scheme. not in developing for the love of the game. and if you’re not developing for the love of the game, why are you doing it at all? There are millions of ways to make money. Why make money doing something you hate doing? because society has tricked you into thinking you’re somehow obligated to make lots of money to be happy? What a farce. I know millionaires and who are way more miserable than some of my more nomadic and homeless hippy friends. If you’re not investing your time into some sense of fulfilment, pride, happiness, something that the world will recognize as uniquely your contribution to this earth upon your departure… you want your legacy to be stained with mediocrity? or do you want to do something great?
in any case, complaining about overpowered mechanics ruined cod summoning, ruined god bubble defenses, and a whole power dynamic that competitive players no longer have in their strategic arsenal because NON-competitive filthy casuals are being catered to for a quick buck instead of investing in their committed customers. I have the right to be pissed at Funcom and their incompetence. we all do. we are tricked into thinking they’re the ones doing us a favor when they finally make a mechanic that works, but when they break the game it’s everyone elses fault. That’s not alpha. That’s not Savage. That’s a weak incompetant cop-out. It’s prideless. Take responsibility for your inadequacies, Funcom, and rise above them. Dont run from them or avoid them. You know you have the potential to be great because you’ve made it this far. So stop doubting yourselves and invest time into critically fixing these glitches, mechanics, bugs; there’s no reason Conan Exiles can’t outlive its life expectancy if the staff actually recognizes it as a labor of love and invests in it. that’s what you lack. Love. You let the stress of the job get to you that you are unfamiliar with the version of you who was passionate about it when you initially started working for the company. Hmm. Did I just call someone out, I wonder? I know you check my emails, because you’re responses tend to be written in the tone of some edgy teenage german kid with a chemical spectrum imbalance, plausibly autistic and not understanding the social dynamics of the American consumer being that the dev team I’ve been in contact with are German and literally, have admitted that they are underqualified to be professional commercialized gaming company. They DO lack the programming experience that old school programmers used to incorporate before GUI (Graphic User Interface: IE, Drag and Drop mechanics to game creation instead of scripting assets directly) world builders were available to us. Dont get me wrong. advancements in these game engines are supposed to make it easier for the everyman to create games independently, giving everyone the chance to artistically express themselves using their platform if they do so choose. but at a professional level, a professional consumer expects professional service. I hope you understand that yes, I’m an a-hole; but I’m not wrong. I’m never wrong.
There, I corrected that for you. I hate to break to to you @Turtleheimer but your opinion is only that, YOUR OPINION. You are nothing special that makes YOUR OPINION any more valid than that of any other persons opinion, and when the vast majority of PVP players spoke out AGAINST what you are now claiming guess what there buddy.
Oh really? In what university were you educated in the ways of sorcery? What degree do you have in PvP mechanics? Please, upload a screenshot of your degree, with a photograph of you receiving said degree and then I will take your claim of of you “opinion” coming from a place of “education” with even a hint of seriousness. Because this is the most laughably ludicrous claim you could make. 
Why you find your own choice unfortunate I have no idea but that was your choice and no one else’s. 
And now we are in full rant mode about mods… for what reason? What the bloody hell do mods have to do with anything? But it is nice of you to admit how full of yourself you are, not that all of your other comments haven’t already shown this attitude.
Of course it doesn’t. You’ve already proven yourself to be extraordinarily self-centered. Nothing on this planet matters to you but yourself and WHAT YOU THINK. So why would their opinion matter to precious little you? 
Ah yes, the good old argument by pigheadedness logical fallacy. Yes, some people truly are just so freaking stupid aren’t they.
So me? You know, someone who has all the DLC’s and has been playing since EARLY ACCESS.
https://forums.funcom.com/t/lightning-storms-ruining-pvp/205102
https://forums.funcom.com/t/lightning-strike-needs-to-be-disabled/206094
https://forums.funcom.com/t/lightning-storm-should-not-do-building-damage/200682
https://forums.funcom.com/t/lightning-spell-should-get-nerfed-all-platforms/205973
I could go on, but you get the point.
IT BARELY FUNCTIONS ON THE SERVERS IT CURRENTLY RUNS ON NOW!!!
Your delusions are off the chart at this point! MASSIVE MULTIPLAYER when it cannot even hold the 40 players it is supposed to?
Uh…yeah. Profits are the motivation factor of every company. That is not necessarily the decision of the DEV TEAM but the UPPER MANAGEMENT who dictates what the DEV TEAM can and cannot work on. That is how companies work. How do you not know something as basic as this?
PROFITS! Already explained that one above. WTF do you think the BLB was designed for? Seriously, do you not comprehend how reality works at this point in time?
Yes, and making video games is one of them.
Who exactly do you think hates doing what they are doing? The developers certainly do not, they may not always enjoy the decisions they are forced into, but the passion for the project and the love of creating is precisely why they are developers in the first place. So maybe you think it is the executives? But they aren’t the ones who are involved in the creation process, they are “suits” who make business decisions. Business is what they do, it is what they enjoy doing. So they certainly do not hate what they are doing. So who exactly are you referring to? I think the only person in this entire discussion who actually hates what they are doing is YOU. So why the hell are you still doing it, especially when you are supposed to be doing it as a source of ENJOYMENT. Sounds to me like the Sunk Coast Fallacy kicking in full force here.
i dont know why you wrote a book on my response like you expeect me to read it. i dont work for funcom. im not the one you need to convince.
Yes, the moron who writes 4 rants in a row without even using paragraphs complains about the length of a post.
And of course you won’t read it. Because you refuse to face reality.
Thank you for just proving every single thing I have said. 
No, I’m the suffer genius who is complaining about your useless responses. that offer no contributing value whatsoever to the topic.
Delusional much?
It’s funny whenever unintelligent people try to prove a point to a stranger on the internet like they have some kind of high horse of superior mental framework to stand upon before humbling themselves to recognize you have assumed my tone, and not heard it. I’m not expressing any hostilities at all. You all imply and assume. Assuming makes an Ass of U and Me is what they say. Delusional? You’re assuming. Don’t push your own insecurities on me. It’s not classy.
No, that is verifiably factual by your own statements throughout this entire thread. And it has been proven (not that you will ever admit to it, or even acknowledge it as you have already admitted to the fact that you do not read anything you do not want to hear).
I do not have any to push on to you. I did not come here to cry about something that the playerbase has already spoken vociferously against and then claimed that my opinion and ONLY my opinion is the authority on the subject matter. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black here!
Lets get one thing straight here @Turtleheimer. I went to University for Marine Biology. So attempting to call me “unintelligent” is rather ignorant on your part. But by all means, rack up those logical fallacies you got running here. You’ve already shown classic examples of:
Arguments by pigheadedness
Sunk Coast Fallacy
Deliberate Ignorance
The Big Brain/Little Brain Fallacy
Really, you have not done anything but rant and ramble off logical fallacy after logical fallacy and yet claim that anyone that does not agree with you is “unintelligent”.