Where is a good place to level up Thralls and pets (and not get them killed?)

[EmberStar]

I finally have some time to actually play this game since the big pet revamp. I need to replace most of my current minions. Nearly all of them are "Max Level - Level 0."

Since I play in single player, I have the freedom to roam the entire map without annoying another group of players. Is there anywhere that would be useful for leveling up my new helpers? I assume that tougher creatures are worth more XP, but they're also *definitely* more likely to kill my thralls. Especially since if thralls fight at all they're completely suicidal and will happily attach everything in sight with no way to stop them.

[HALO_run]

try the west wall next to the town should be some dear there next to the water

[akuarmoton]

Gorillas and Ape-men in jungle give tons of xp

[ehyder]

Just be prepared for the opposite problem with your human thralls: having them stand there while you are getting pummeled.

And if you are not aware - feeding thralls/pets different foods while leveling gives them different attributes, e.g., grilled steak to thralls boosts vitality. Wish this were a static spreadsheet but there is a lot of information about the food effects here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iePQ07R_Ng&start=29s

[Namhaid]

Killing beasts in general is much better than humans, the undead hyenas around the Sinkhole give a lot of xp, also as akuarmoton said the apes in the jungle also give a lot, and they are easy to find. Crocodiles are a very good option as well, specially for lower level thralls.

[sycoman2]

Doing the bosses in the unnamed city will level thralls quick, while netting you useful items. I leveled a Janos to 20, was unhappy with his perks, reset him and leveled him to 10, got a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ perk so i reset him again and ended the night with him at 18. Probly 4-6 hours of grinding total.
With epic heavy armor and the occasional healing arrow nothing in the city is a threat to your thrall.

[EmberStar]

Thank you. I guess I had assumed that animals were somehow worth less XP than the human enemies, and hadn't really tried them very much.

I wasn't aware that thralls could be reset. Is that an actual mechanic, or is there a glitch involved?

[sycoman2]

Yea its a mod. Pickup+ Lets you pickup almost any building piece or placeable item without dismantling, and lets you return deployed thralls to your inventory at the cost of resetting them to level 0

[Shaoh_Kahn]

Pummel the enemies down to a twig's worth of HP, and then let the pet / thrall do the coup de grâce. I have a skeleton warrior at level 15 now, and without too much risk at that (*I had to run from some elite rhinos... but, they're OHKO capable enemies with my server configuration).

Fauna -- scorpions, primates, the flamingo thingies, crocs etc. -- and remote, sparsely populated camps, are all relatively safe fodder for levelling buddies.

Schmotips:
- If you have a the "up to six followers" mod installed, level them one at a time, rather than as a gang. It's much easier to manage them individually; even if they're not "helping" one another as such.
- Use healing arrows to, either, fighting inside the healing clouds of, or to stand back an act as healer for your companions as they fight / level up.
- RUN whenever your minions' HP is lower than 50% -- just to be safe.
- Fight atop a steed, and preferably one that has a perk or two unlocked (level 5/10) -- it acts as an effective damage buff, as well as an decent arrow target; plus, it can get you out of trouble faster, in an emergency. Just ensure you're not in a prop-crowded area, or you might get glitched in between objects, get ganged up on, and end up dead in seconds... /speaking from experience v_v

[EmberStar]

I don't have any mods installed. I'm pretty sure that the default setting is that a horse is treated like the other thralls. At least in the sense that in the vanilla game you can only have one and no others following you at once. I'm not completely sure about that, since I don't have room in my fort for a stable.

[Shaoh_Kahn]

^ You may be right -- the horse counting as a "follower", and a single follower being the Draconian limit in the vanilla version of the game.

So, aside from installed the "more followers mod" (*highly recommended -- it also allows for instant summoning of followers, as well as teleporting them back home), you'll just have to do the levelling on foot... like a Wastelands peasant. 😏

[EmberStar]

Do healing arrows work on the undead pets? Or does this game have the system where healing items harm them, and something harmful heals them like some other RPGs? I can't test it because I don't currently have the ingredients to make healing arrows.

I've been testing the leveling on my undead hyena, Howler. Mostly because the undead hyenas are relatively cheap, and not *completely* hopeless like the normal skeletons. I'm still working on getting a handful of named fighter and archer thralls, they take ages to tame. If I find something that works well on a relatively squishy follower like Howler, I was going to level up Silent One (the skeleton legion warrior) and then take it to help collect some of the rare materials to actually start making the Epic upgraded armor for human followers.

So knowing of a method of healing undead followers reliably would be useful. The bandits and tomb robbers have been very helpful for keeping Howler stocked with the... er, correct kind of food and it's up to 3750HP at level 16. Not outstanding, but it seems to do okay as long as I stay away from bosses. Silent one has more HP than that at level eight, so I'm pretty sure anything Howler can survive Silent One can just steamroll.

[Mike Hawthorne]

Hi

The dead Hyenas around the Arena and the skeleton archers give good points for your thralls.

I go there and kill all of them by shooting them from a distance with my bow once, then I move out of the way and let my thrall do all the work.

I can do this using light armor and just keep moving in a circle while my thrall finished them off.

Once they are dead I head north to the river below and then west following the river to the fork and then south killing all the crocks and lizards. Ignore the humans they aren't worth the bother.

By the time I get back to my house near the pool on the river near then big statues they have gained another level. Maybe several if the are low level to start with.

I have killed the big crock and a number of dragons (for the dragon bones) using only an ax with the help of one of my level 20 thralls.

They are really tough. I used to use dozens of arrows to do this.

I equip my thralls with legendary weapons because the never wear out with them using them.

I've only had one thrall get killed and he was only level 10. I've found that they gain different skills and some finished level 20 thralls are like super man.

Mike

[Diemex]

The jehbalsag (sp) dungeon place... the one where you give feral flesh for a potion to midnight grove. The creatures in there are easy, respawn fast and for some reason give higher than normal amounts of XP.

[Shaoh_Kahn]

EmberStar původně napsal:

Do healing arrows work on the undead pets?

Yes... And as far as I know, that's all that works. I use "Undead Horse" mod, plus a "Skeleton Warrior" (or Wright) pet, and the arrow works as well as an be expected (...as long as you don't shoot too many into them).

Or does this game have the system where healing items harm them, and something harmful heals them like some other RPGs?

They do eat "rotten" foods and human flesh for sustinence (as listed in their respective "menus"), which interplays well for Set acolytes (*hearts are used at the altar for crafting).

However, the healing cloud works universally, from my experience with the game. Perhaps they will update it, or a mod made available, where, say, poison arrows heal undeads... Which would make for an interesting mechanic: undeads needing to be healed from afar, yet, having the beneficial offshoot of allowing players to spam poison arrows into melees for damage-dealing and healing...

So knowing of a method of healing undead followers reliably would be useful.

Healing arrows -- that's it. If you find another way, I'm all ears / eyes... 'Cause it does get a bit repetitive to have to keep equip bows and healing arrows mid melee, so as to heal.

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unnamed city is the best place for lvling thralls
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