Harry Potter calls them wizards and witches. They need wands to cast spells. They also study magic. Sorcerers they are not. Just because your parents are born wizards or witches because of the family bloodline of wizards and witches doesn’t make you a sorcerer. Hermione is a muggle whom can used magic. Both of Hermione parents are muggles. Sorcerers have bloodline magic. Meaning they were born sorcerers and don’t need to study magic. They tested it by casting magic at will. A lot of the Conan movies shows sorcerers using magic freely without ingredients or having to study it. Magic comes natural to a sorcerer like a weapon comes natural to a barbarian.
As in, you need to train really hard in order to be good at using it? However you define “barbarian”, the skill of using weapons is not innate. Even your D&D level 1 barbarian class who has proficiency with all simple and martial weapons has had 16+ years of life and training before starting their first campaign.
(That said, I tried out a Dane axe for the first time a couple of weeks ago. It felt really good in my hand, as if it was made for me, which is probably wrong on very many levels. I felt like going out to find a Northumbrian monastery to raid.)
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You really think that every fantasy story has a mandatory categorization and shared definition on these terms still?
I know you’re absolutely insane but please Harry Potter is not Conan in the slightest
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Actually, yes, I think you can categorize the types of magic used in fantasy stories. The problem here, however, is that neither the “learning magic from books” approach nor the “born with the ability to do magic” approach is being employed. Robert E. Howard correctly uses the “pact with demons” approach (thaumaturgy). And Funcom has correctly tried to capture that essence (getting supernatural beings to do one’s bidding in exchange for something – in this case, corrupting the soul for eternal damnation).
@Jimbo is right that Conan is not Harry Potter. The Conan world has thaumaturgy magic (not wizards or sorcerers in the Dungeons & Dragons sense of the genre).
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Ah the mastery of memes and added some classics too. 
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Everyone forgets there are new games coming out. I worry these games will take more players away from Conan Exiles.
New games taking players away doesn’t bother me. Thats just the cycle of life. There will always be new games coming out.
Small scale pvp games like conan are rare these days, theres a few pve games coming out that might from pve community, but the benefit of pve is you can play both at the same time. Most pvp games are arcade or massive pvp(the worst kind of pvp in my book) i dont think they have much to worry about since everything else in the same category of conan looks like a scam
You forget that there is a big new Conan Exiles update coming out. Those other games worry that this update will take more players away from them. 
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I disagree with your statement. Minecraft,rust and ark are also small PVP and PVE. For PC these games are a dozen a dime. Star citizen is a space one. PC gamers have so many options to choose from.
But theyre not like conan pvp at all. If you disagree with this statement id say you should spend more time in each of them. Mine craft pvp? Ha. Thats a joke. Rust and ark are bullshet games pvp wise. Star citizen is good but very unfinished… the only game id see as a prolonged threat to exiles is nightingale, which isnt on your list, and at that its a different era, different type of combat, nothings really the same as ce, but the benefit of all this, everything on your list shines in pve, which means you can play both, even if launches take away from ce they will be back, unless it becomes greedy or ridiculous
Id like to add that alot of games that were ce like in alpha shifted position by release, it is one of a kind everything that trys to copy it is usually a cash grab… with that out of the way id also say that CE wile not at its optimum in my opinion, has never tanked the game with ■■■■■■ design details that have finished off many games before they started, and thats part of why people like it
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Rust and Ark don’t have a battle pass. Battle passes are bs. Most games with battle pass are for children. Or they are weak. Minecraft servers are full at least. Minecraft also updates a lot. Conan Exiles on consoles are dead Monday- Thursday. You talk about rust and Ark combat as weak? At least they know how to balance PVP without nerfing single player mode and PVE. Healing was nerf heavy. You also forgot a lot of open world survival sandbox games. The top 3 console open world survival games for console don’t count Conan Exiles.
I hate the fact that we are getting a battle pass. Every thing else that is being added I love.
I just wish more people would created modded servers. I like faster xp gain,shorter resource gathering and etc.
I hope they take their time with the test live. But at the end of the day, Funcom has said it themselves. They are a business, they need revenue. I can’t see it being in test live for anymore than two more weeks. Then it comes out to the wild to all of us. Cha Ching baby.
You can hate it all you want, CE is a combination of open world sandbox and skill based pvp that is unmatched, rust is shet has been since alpha, i know i alphad it. The reason its popular is because is a cheap game in a genre that isnt well known and or popular… it has alot of shet mechaincs like periodic wipes, all the good weapons are conissitnelty free to 24 hour clans that can farm them every spawn in the same location, all the time. Wile battle pass may be controversial it might be a necessary evil, its not like it requires much in this game to complete… arks pvp combat isnt balanced in the slightest, if you say it is your either blinded or not bright, i know, again i alpha’d and ive played live it has no skill requirements beyond who has the most ba dinos. On the last point: balancing pve vs pvp… conan apparently has a high skill cap, and i never considered this because when i was young the avg player was better apparently. I can solo the whole game with stone daggers pve, pvp is all that matters balance wise
Edit: i forgot minecraft, i dont know anyone who plays it for its pvp aspects. Everyone i know hops on to build stuff on occasion pvp is only when someones being a dack
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/facepalm. Here we go again. Ark dinos= power. Ark,Conan Exiles, Minecraft and rust large clan=power. Better weapons and armors=power. Healing wraps and healing potions takes time to heal. Healing items and yellow lotus potions were nerf for PVP. PVP has messed this game up. Why do bandages stop healings when moving or taking actions PVP is the reason. Nerfing healing bandages and potions killed solo and offline mode. You have to have God mod in in offline mode. You now need another player if you wish to heal. I already mentioned PVP items for base defense and offenses PVP. I’m tired of repeating myself.
Minecraft has online and offline modes. Majority of online cross platform play is PVP games. Look it up.
I am a single player, and I’m good with fighting alone. The enemies have patterns, and very simple AI, not hard to counter if you know their attacks.
Want to heal mid-combat? First, in combat, people should fight, not run around and heal.
BUT if it is neccessary, climb up on something, heal quickly before the enemy loses aggro, plus eat feasts.
Any potion and higher tier wraps + feasts are golden.
Healing in PVP combat? That’s an other level I can’t talk about, but sure there are people who can say potions and wraps (healing in general) in combat is fine or at least bearable.
By your comparisons, skyrim is conan, better gear and more levels = power
So is call of duty, it has pve and pvp modes after all, oh and you cant heal wile taking damage, and unlocking perks and weapons helps you win
The game hasnt been gimped by having pvp, im pretty sure it was originally marketed as a pvp survival game, hmmnnm… the first button that comes up on screen server type is… omg?!.. pvp 
I could go off on a tangent and list everychange for pves benefit that tanked pvp, the one hitter quitter thrall period for instance, but the fact is either way every update things change and we all adapt or leave
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You insult Skyrim by comparing it to Conan Exiles. Skyrim total sells is 20 million. Conan Exiles total sells are 1.4 million. Skyrim had magic in the game from the start. Conan Exiles is getting it now. Skyrim had a story and an ending. Conan Exiles has sort of a story and no ending. Skyrim an RPG. Conan Exiles is an open world survival game.
P.S. Skyrim magic is balance and weakest of the 3 combat.
Wait, what? Why did nobody tell me you have to activate God mode when playing offline!? I’ve been running all over the place killing all the bosses and exploring all the locations and collecting all the drops and now you tell me I have to have God mode to do any of that? Damnit, how much time have I wasted because I didn’t have God mode turned on?
Yeah, people liked it so much, they bought it five or six times! 
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