Farming alone vs Farmersonly.com

Conan Exiles General Discussion
#1

Ok so we had some disagreement in my clan about whether one thrall would get more XP than another when farming together, and after some careful testing I figured out what was going on.

This was on Xbox official PvP, so any PS4 and PC people that have/will try this please ring in, also PVE to see if there is a difference.

Killing a frost giant with just me and Thrally McThrallface: 129,600 XP.

Killing a frost giant with me, Thrally, a clan mate, and his thrall: 97,200 XP each.

Is farming together really supposed to net you less XP? Why is Funcom trying so hard to discourage clan play (thrall limits, XP, etc)?

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#3

Farming in group is way faster than going alone even if it is less exp.
Every game where you can team up with buddies has a system similar to this since, maybe, the beggining of times.

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#4

Twice the people and thralls equals approximately twice the rate of killing. If the exp numbers you present are accurate, you’re getting ~3/4 exp rate per enemy, which doubles into ~1.5x exp you’d get if you spent the same amount of time killing alone. Whereas exp/kill is less, exp/minute is actually significantly more. I’m surprised the xp rate is so advantageous towards groups because it’s faster kills and less risk.

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#5

Are you playing on an Official or a Private server? When I kill a Frost Giant on a PvE Official, I’m getting only 32,400 for a solo kill on one of them. Is this why people keep saying they can level a thrall to 20 in only 5 hours?! :frowning:

#6

Mounds / barrow king seems to be fairly consistent if you go for the blue skeletons.

I’m finding it pretty fast.

edit: I just alternate between farming the skeletons, iron ore/ fiber for twine/resin/stone… brought a dismantling bench for weapons/armor.

I think 1 blue skeleton brings them from level 0 to level 2.

#7

That 5 hr thing probably depends which thrall. On my server with everything at default it took me ~ 10 hrs or so of solid kill farming to get Erii to 20 (2 days real time mixing in other stuff) but thugra took 2 hrs to get to 15 which looks finishable to 20 in maybe another 1-2.

#8

Xbox official PvP.

I can get a volcano thrall from 0 to 20 in about 3 hours doing my giant loop, maybe less, haven’t really timed it.

I get that you’re killing stuff faster, but the thralls get so strong that sometimes they kill them before the other thrall gets a swing.

I get that you’re killing stuff faster, but there’s only so much to kill in a given route, so it kinda makes farming alone faster.

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#9

PvP servers have bigger XP rates (x4)

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#10

@LostInTim, @Zandman Thanks for filling-in the missing puzzle piece.

Not sure whether to feel offended, exasperated, angry, or what right now…

Four
Times
the
F***ing
Grind

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#11

Yeah, but the only thing that will kill your thralls is a glitch, so it’s a trade-off I guess. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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#12

It just royally ■■■■■■ me off getting thrown under the bus like this once again just because I play PvE. I’d been scratching my head wondering why they require sooo much damned XP, but if they were balanced around the rate on PvP servers, then it makes a lot more sense.

A 2x difference like with the gathering rates would be one thing, but FOUR TIMES is a slap in the face.

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#13

if you play pve, why do you want to level them asap? what’s the hurry?

#14

There’s this little thing we have on PVE and PVE-C servers, I keep forgetting what it’s called… the Urge? The Surge? Oh, yeah, it’s called the Purge! :stuck_out_tongue:

Also, just because we don’t play PVP it doesn’t mean we don’t have anything else fun to do in Conan Exiles :wink:

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#15

Good. GOOOD. Let the anger SURGE through you, and bring yourself one. step. closer to the PvP Side! #palpatinesbehinditall

Player XP Kill Multiplier is indeed at 4X for us, as are Player XP Harvest and Player XP Craft Multipliers.

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#16

Explains that.

#17

I could set it at that on my server… I could… but 1x is the way it’s meant to be…

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#18

Hey now, we get purged too, we just know it’s nothing compared to a raid… :wink:

I thought harvest was 2x? And that’s the first I’ve heard of craft being different.

#19

Harvest Amount Multiplier on official PvP is 2X. The other three are found under ESC | Server Settings | Progression. :slight_smile:

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#20

Gotcha, thought we were still talking official.

#21

LOL, well, one step closer to renting or hosting my own anyway. :stuck_out_tongue:

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