I don’t know what to say to that. I just … what the …
I can’t say I didn’t expect some kind of nerf, but this? This is the worst overcompensation and overreaction I’ve ever seen in Conan Exiles.
I mean, is this really how the process goes? You implement an item, you get people using that item in a specific way for months, there’s even a YouTube video about it by one of the most popular Conan Exiles YouTubers, but apparently it all flies below your radar until it’s brought to your attention by an almost incoherent rant by one of the most unhinged people I’ve ever seen on these forums, and that’s when you decide to change it?
Yes, the Nemedian was used to repair items by thralls on PVE-C and PVP servers. People would slap it on their thrall and then beat up the thrall to get it to repair the item. Due to some bug, it would repair 6 points of durability (instead of 3) pet hit when that hit came from the player.
Turns out that was “unintended”. And no answer was ever given to the question about which aspect was unintended. Was it 6 points of durability? Was it the fact that it would repair items when worn by a thrall? Was it that it would repair items when worn by a player with food poisoning or extreme temperature effects? All of the above? Some of the above? None of the above?
Who cares, the solution is to remove the effect altogether.
Really? You couldn’t have disabled it for thralls? Couldn’t have made it repair things only when the player is actually damaged through an attack?
I understand that some of those changes might require more time than you can spend and that just removing the effect altogether is faster and cheaper, but was it really such a burning, game-breaking problem that you couldn’t wait and had to do the cheapest thing right away, before it’s too late?
I try not to rant on these forums, but apparently rants are the best way to get changes. Let’s all just scream very loud and rant about how using a Nemedian is like “encouraging other human beings to murder children in crosswalks”, because that gets results.
Remember all those promises about improving communication with the players and about using a “scalpel instead of a sledgehammer” to balance things? This is how they’re working out.
In all the time since I’ve opened an account on these forums, I’ve never been so disgusted.