1- If body vaults are gone, it Will be really hard to fight against alphas… Conan pvp nowadays are not base on skillplay anymore, it’s base on who have more horses and thralls/cats. So if you try to invade a server, body vaults are your best Friends on pvp official servers.
2- it’s already VERY very easy to catch and kill other players. You have the OP horses to follow the enemy, you have kittens to catch and bring them to the ground, archery is in a fine spot now too, throwing axes and finally the new healing potion animation.
3- followers itself are not the problem. (Besides the tigers) thralls are nerfed now and while mounted, you would never be hit by one
On the other side, tigers are OP as hell… It runs at the same speed as the horse, it has a insane amount of damage, it throws you to the ground, stacks bleeding and dismount you easily.
I’ve adressed some of the issues and gave some ideas here: