Freya: Verdict

[Cobra101]

After a lot of waiting I finally got to the end of Freya's quest and she is now a permanent companion.

As an aside, games like this have had quests for 25+ years. They can be done a lot better than this. Being permanently unsure what to do next or how long to leave it is just annoying.

Anyway she's a companion, as is Liu Fei who was much easier to recruit. So I took them for a spin. I run the War Party perk so it seemed sensible to take both together. Her gear is odd. She has 22 STR and 1 AGI but her named sword is an Agility weapon. She is wearing plain Vanir Settler garb in all except chest where she has the Aesir medium chest. I think it is the same one you can get from the quest in the Mounds of the Dead, and then be disappointed by.

After a warm up in the Unnamed City we went through Midnight Grove. Liu Fei is annoying. His imp is useless, his mirror image is usually in the wrong place. Worst of all his battle cries are those of a Cimmerian Berserker, including the accent!.

Freya was effective. She did reasonable damage. But she didn't say anything. She may as well be another thrall. In fact because her perks are fixed by the quest she has no surprises in store. Hopefully her health will increase. It is now 2,790 at level 9.

I have upgraded her gear now and will see how she progresses. But I'm not sure about the wizard. He doesn't really fit my playstyle.

[Jaq]

Maybe you already know this, but you can get different perks in each slot by completing the quest in a different manner. Both Freya and Liu Fei have 2 possibilities for each slot.

Freya does normally talk. It's possible that only one will talk if you have both follow you simultaneously.

[Helios]

I noticed she talks when you are near pois and the whole compaion thing is an illusion she is a normal thrall with different perks that can speak maybe if you bring her to a nice spot thats all ( skyrim had that too but imagine you would get the lydia talking lol).

[Bnn1]

OP also forgot the most important things;

She isn't stronger than any other Thrall. She will die against the giant 20 foot tall tree-beast bosses (the ones who walk on all fours and literally look like a walking tree-dog-monkey thing) in seconds, just like every single other Thrall. I tested her extensively. The Arena Champion nearly one shots her, whilst Freya, like every single other Thrall, does do like 1% of Damage to the Champion.

Thralls in general a weaklings these days, thanks to Funcoms nerfs to Thrall HP 3 updates ago.

I just do what I do always; install Conan Exiles Unreal Editor, edit Boss Thralls so they can be knocked out, save my Mod, import it into the game, and from then on recruit boss Thralls to be fighters. Can't be arsed to play with weaklings like every single Thrall out there.

The game feels so much better if you have a Relic Hunter Boss, Arena Champion, Ladagara or a Sobek Follower. Anyone not having 7k-20k HP is just not viable as a follower.