I’m playing Conan for a few years now. And I always liked how open this game is. You can play it however you want. Many different weapons and fighting styles. But after the new update, it feels like devs are moving toward playing in our style instead of playing however you want. In the last update Age of Sorceres, we got a huge nerf on the thrall’s health and damage and in this update, we are getting another nerf again on the thralls. Let me give you an example. In the age of sorcerers, a relic-hunting thrall had 5K+ health now they have 3K+. It is a huge neft even though they already got nerf before. Out of nowhere, we got pet nerf. At this point I could use my character and fight by myself. Wait I can’t because I have less stamina now and I run out of stamina after a few hits and we have a massive change on the legendary weapon. I don’t think too many changes at once was a good idea. Yes, you could say I can use mods if Im on PC, but I have the game on Epic and I don’t want to use mod to make the game more fun. It feels like Funcom is making the game harder and harder for players to keep playing this game. You can not ask people to play the way you want to play. And the fun is getting less and less in Funcom. Maybe one day we all leave the Conan and move to a better game.
Good decision.
My relic hunter, max level, best gear and perks got almost deleted by one skull skeleton boss in Wine Cellar.
I like the new combat system but no one like to lose thralls that take forever to level.
Chances are, the thrall you are using is no longer the ‘best’. It appears some got nerfed and some got buffed. You can try to trial and error it yourself or wait for the wiki to update with new information.
Berserkers are probably the way to go. High dmg and decent hp.
I logged on a few minutes ago to see if are stuff was still there it was we had no Nemedian building pieces. Our named bearer went from 6000 something to 7000 something wish I had taken screen shot previously did not check on other thralls storm coming in. One spot I normally jump off of with out much damage took half of my health. Stamina definitely depleted fast but came up really fast.
The darfari brute deals insane damage now. It can solo bosses.
Just tested a new Thugra, lvl 20, against the Arena Champion. No authority. Good stats, via two Elixirs, in a stolen Cimmerian armor. Quake mace, same as hers. She ate him alive. In less than 10 seconds he was dead. He never stood a chance. She lost about 1/5 of her health. So yeah, he is not as good as I thought.
Sad how thralls were like your personal mike tyson , then they became brick walls and now there just little fragile pieces of paper . Well back up into the clouds i go and look down upon mortals that still try to follow rules for a game that treats its player base like livestock . Make conan great again!
To be fair, the Arena Champion should be able to kill any thrall like that, regardless of gear or authority or buffs or levels. Its a fight meant to test a player. Not the AI. In fact it should probably autokill any thrall it hits to encourage 1 on 1 combat.
What’s fair about that? 1 on 1 is very easy against a player. The AC is an easy opponent for any semi skilled player. Our best thrall should beat her, especially now that she got seriously nerfed.
I test thralls against her, always. I don’t expect them to win. I just see how long she takes to kill them. However, pre AoS, a properly leveled and geared RHTS had a chance to beat her… and why not? Some people can’t beat her, no matter how much they try. They need a thrall to do it. But it was decided otherwise by reasons I don’t agree.
I didn’t expect Thugra to win and he wasn’t on top notch gear. My goal was creating a realistic mid game test. But I didn’t expect him to die so quickly. She destroyed him.
RHTS are garbage now afaik they suffered a huge nerf, I think that Xevyr guy had a spreadsheat I saw on reddit about a week ago and it didn’t bode well for RHTS they’re literally on par with the pirates.
Yeah, they are trash now. As 90% of the thralls. I don’t see the reason behind this (oh, but I do), but hey… you get to be the hero of your own story! 
(but that’s not the reason)
I know man, I’m not a big fan of the thrall nerf it seems excessive and I like pets, I know I shouldn’t since they’re 100% useless but this change has made them 200% useless.
Yes, pets are in a way worse shape. You can still use thralls effectively, but your choice isn’t great. Pets? Purely decorative now. Literally paper tigers. 
Wrong. My Black Hand Captain is over 5k health after this update.
So what? Their damage modifiers are still 1.3 which ranks them pretty low. Who cares if they have 5k HP with good perks btw they spawn out of the box with 1,173. Pirates are still garbage as are RHTS now.
That dude wasn’t wrong when he said 90% of thralls suck.
True, but their survivability is higher, so they’re still better.
Regardless, the point still remains, RHTS got nerfed too harshly. People have built whole defenses and hours of leveling around them. This is absolutely disgusting.
This we can agree on, I’ve been gathering them for years and for years they’ve been a consistently good thrall to have now they’re practically worthless, it was a nerf too far.
Or 10% of thralls need rebalancing in line with the rest.