My first playthrough was solo, and I decided to build my first base just a little north west of the Mounds. I was aware of the purge system and it’s timing, but had never experienced it. That changed real fast when I logged in one evening just a little to early. Immediate purge warning. 
Not knowing any of the mechanics, my base was instantly filled with bats because where i built was somewhat inaccesible, so inside they spawned. My base was completely destroyed except for the door. I had no chance. My lightly armored corpse bore witness to the destruction. The next thing I saw was sand.
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And, sadly, many players lost interest after that. It was especially annoying when I lost one of my favorite berserkers to a purge I was helping and the clan ended up quitting after that. Essentially, I lost my favorite berserker for nothing. Alas, that was on my old server prior to the merge, so I would have lost her anyway. Still would have liked to keep her for a bit longer though. 
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We run level 10’s regularly without a single Darfari. I have 2 Janos, 1 Lian, 2 Kistis, 1 Berserker (That’s 8 fighters), and 8 archers using Star Metal, Obsidian, Black Ice, and Gas Arrows.
Since I rebuilt the entrance, zero lost thralls and I rarely leave the platform spilling flaming tar. Yes, I do delete the non-essential thralls. I keep Anja the Dervish, Cormag, and Sonja, but not much else.
Gas arrows and flaming tar is the way to go. Throw in a trebuchet with explosives that’s been sighted in to either the door, or the entrance to the raid camp and you’re in good shape.(Raid camp always seems to spawn in the same general area for us) We held back a level 10 purge with 3 players and 7 thralls. All slinging some form of fire or gas. If the raiders make it to the door the tar finishes them off. We’ve never lost a thrall, and only lost the gate once, but they never even got close to the coffer.
I don’t begrudge you that.
I do understand your point.
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Whether it’s worth it or not is purely subjective. I find them fun so the fun is worth it. Many people had the old purge just turned off because they didn’t find it fun. Essentially now you just have a purge if you want one and everyone on the server doesn’t have to live with the server setting. It’s not like purges before had good loot… the presence or absence of loot in the new purge is purely additive.
The thing about the old purge, that made it worth it, was the variety of unique thralls you could possibly knock out and capture. Fighters, Archers, Priests, Capenters, Blacksmithes, ect…
There was a real challenge in trying to knock out a T4 purge thrall… before it got killed. 
The thing I hated the most about the old purge was how buggy it was to get it started. I could go a week with the event log saying “purge has started” <2 minutes later> “purge has ended”.
This new purge… once you’ve done it a few times there’s not much reason to do it anymore. You get the exact same thralls every time. The named thralls you get are pulled from a very small table. And it’s always fighters, archers, dancers, & bearers. And that’s it. Nothing else.
But, at least it’s easier to start this new purge.
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That’s exactly your one mistake!
That’s your second.
The reason the purge is expensive is your mistake, no others.
Give time to train better thralls and gear them strong enough to endure.
But, never forget… This purge is your option, no others. The game does not force you to do it.
I can understand wishes for better loot, even crafters in boxes and i am all down with it, but presenting 1500 obsidian arrows and a Darfari soldier like something big, i am sorry it’s just wrong. Darfari lvl up in a heartbeat and obsidian arrows are really cheap, so technically your loss is zero.
I still haven’t done one of the new purges since it doesn’t work at my main base and I haven’t bothered to build a new purge base yet, don’t know if I ever do it since I am already starting to get bored… The game just keeps getting faster and easier over time and updates
However what I can say is, for me personally it is all about, is it fun to do, and/or is the reward worth it for me?
Purge is sort of like dungeon runs, if the rewards are stuff that I fairly easy can get through normal gameplay then it just doesn’t really feel worth it to me, so it has to be so fun that it is what makes me do it or rewards that may contain things I cannot get otherwise 
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No they are not. You cannot get Sonja on exile lands from dungeons. Neither the stygian recipes or the reinforcement banners the rng merchant sells. Some things are unique in each level you’ll try to do purge. The greatest reason i didn’t search them deeply is their performance, it’s still disappointing.
I didn’t know about the stygian recipes and reinforcement banners, Sonja I guess she is ok, but in my opinion there are better thrall options than her, but still nice that you can get her there.
However for me personally the biggest problem with recipe rewards are that, they are usually a one time thing, after having it you can craft as many as you want.
Yes I know it may sound weird, but if there are some things that you only can get in certain places or activities then it makes me want to go back and do them again.
A good example is grey lotus flowers and seeds, for a very long time you could only find them in certain loot chests in specific locations, you couldn’t make seeds from the flowers so you had to go find some more when you ran out of them.
Today they are so abundant in loot chests in many places whether it is seeds, flowers or powder, there isn’t even a need to make or grow the seeds, they are so plentiful that it is absolutely crazy.
I know some will find it too much grind if certain things/resources only can be obtained in small quantities in hard to reach areas, but it does give it the feeling of hunting something rare, sort of like when named worker thralls actually had individually specialities, who doesn’t remember the time where we all hunted some special named thrall because he/she could craft something most others couldn’t do… I sometimes cursed that Legbiter to hell, but I had fun hunting for him, and if I finally got him, it was such a great moment and I felt so rewarded and happy
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It’s just to balance another thing that’s really important. Specific pets have" top food" grey lotus flowers. Some pets, speaking only for greater of course, they endure more damage than Darfari high geared lvl 20. I don’t feel that they are still balanced, but it’s on the way.
She was just an example of many thralls you couldn’t see easily on exile lands. These purges, all the lvls, will give you every single named thrall exists on exile lands, all of them and you cannot imagine how many i skipped all this time.
You’ll love the fire cauldrons 
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True 
. But we had not a lot to do back then, the content was less than half than it is now. Imagine how inconvenient it is now for a new player.
Don’t ever forget, we are still learning after so many thousands hours 
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My greatest problem my dear friend remains in the ability and the performance of these purges. It’s still rough, it needs way too much work to become “ready”.
Closing, at the time you do your purge someone else can kill the stygian commander and steal the loot even in pve servers. This will need a lot of discussion “later”, somehow devs must stop “teach pvp” in pve servers.
Hello, plz sorry for my bad english i have many trouble. I hope it’s the good place to speak it.
1 - why can’t i get purge, i launche a purge a few week ago and it work (and killed, etc ) it wa a purge lvl 1 , i cant claim again purge , again lvl 1 , but it say no place to reach , but i dont understand why because this is to the same place when it work and there is nothing to change since last it work.
2 - why can’t i do upgrade of tome of kurak or R&D in sorcery, i have component , a sorceress 3 or named in the altar of sorcery , but it reply every time it cant do it because i am overcharged but i dont , i am expert maximal lvl.
3- my craft tool for slavery (the “building” to craft tool for slavery) seem bugged , it dont show me mace or rope to craft since few days
4- for doing siege engine , why can we seen the direction of it when building it , or could turn it face the right direction ? Everytime i build it , it do face to wrong direction and be useless.
and about my game : Single player PC : Conan exile, no mod , no add on.
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@Vaga, you should start a new thread(s) asking these questions instead of using existing unrelated threads
YES! Exactly this!
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Tackling level 10 purges in the game should feel like epic loot pinatas 
, not a resource drain 
. Dropping 1500 obsidian arrows and risking top-tier darfari thralls 
for a single legendary and some smeltable goods? Hard pass. 
We need a loot glow-up 
, devs! Give us a hoard of legendaries 
for our efforts, not just scraps. And how about spicing up the thrall pool? Let’s get some variety in our warrior line-up! 
Until the risk/reward ratio makes sense, my archers and their precious arrows are on strike. 
It’s back to Warmaker’s for me. 
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Official servers have become deserted, and leveling up and building have been wiped out by purges. 
Some players exacerbate the problem with massive bases and foundation stacking, causing lag. 
That’s why it’s a relief that purges are no longer mandatory. 
Players often prefer private servers where they can enjoy better-administered gameplay. 
It’s essential for game developers (FC) to understand player experiences beyond god mode. 
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Thank you for saying the exact thing I stated.
I’m still trying to find dead official servers on PS. I keep seeing posts about them but even the pvp servers have 2 to 4 clan scouts on each night waiting to call in the troops if they get attacked
I had the same issue as you (number 1) and I clicked several times, and after a few failed tries it suddenly spawned a purge again.