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In today's episode, I begin a brand new solo journey on an official PvP server. With the recent release of the new Chapter 2 update of the Age of War, I thought this would be the perfect time to start a new one. On DAY 1 of this new series, I explore some of the new changes that have come to Conan and try come up with an efficient way to power level up to level 60.
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Here are some timestamps if you'd like to skip around:
0:00 Intro
0:42 The plan
0:59 Getting started
2:44 Farming brimstone at Sinner's Refuge
5:52 Farming brimstone at Gallaman's Tomb
7:05 Farming Sinner's Refuge again
8:59 Farming aloe leaves and attuning bracelet at The Dregs obelisk
9:41 Looting chests at Sepermeru
12:28 Buying spicy food and attuning bracelet at the Shattered Springs obelisk
13:42 Farming the thralls (Cimmerian Berserker) at the Mounds of the Dead
17:12 Farming black ice at the Skyfall Ridge
20:31 Farming black ice at The Temple of Frost (and exploring it)
26:33 My speedrun route to level 60 explained
27:24 Reaching level 60
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Music used in today's episode is courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com, unless otherwise stated:
Ryan James Carr - Vague Valley
Redeemin' - Bossa Velha
Cornelio - Feriado
Vendla - Bossa for Baden
Sarah, the Illstrumentalist - true authentic self
Martin Landstrom - Sorvete De Limao
T-Shirts & Sweats - Tongue Tied
Martin Landstrom - Wet Sock
TrackTribe - On The Rocks (courtesy of the KZhead Music Library)
Here's another 2024 updated version of this "Getting Started" video: kzhead.info/sun/n9Z8qLWZfXeueq8/bejne.html
New series is fully recorded! Like and subscribe for DAY 2! ;D
Perfect for ne rn, Started yestersay on the most populated server on console for some pvp fun. After 2,5 hours i managed to reach lvl 60. But now i need ur help to go check the next steps. Really excited for episode 2. If I dont reach lvl 60 from the first run in the frost temple i usually go to vulcano and farm some obdsidian for gold and exp👌
My first playthrough, im on 80hrs and i reached level 60 around hr 50 lol
Yep. More beasties in dungeons and more chests - I do think that FC have to dial the XP for farming back a lot, but hey ho
@@Bobbleye Good luck on your new playthrough~ On episode 2, we're getting geared up and preparing for some fun solo online raids. >:D
@@myview5840The first playthrough is always the most fun. Take your time and enjoy it. It took me around the same amount of time as you to reach level 60 on my first playthrough as well, haha.
It's incredible how at almost no point do you have to stop and fight. You just go about your business while all of the pissed off monsters mill around you. It's wild! Great video, this is my first time seeing playthrough focused on leveling by gathering. Nice work!
Thank you. :) Once you have played this game long enough, the NPCs aren't really much of a danger. The AI definitely needs some work, haha.
Dude i found your channel a few days ago and its great to see someone share their full solo pvp experience, i binged the first season and oh the pain... but to see how you keep at it and grow is really the authentic experience thats good to watch. So keep it coming you deserve much more subscribers and im sure they will come in time. Still watching the siptha series so ill only be coming back to this one a bit later. CHEERS
Oh man, the early days were painful for sure, hahaha. But I have definitely had a good time learning the game. Thanks for watching all the content. Hope you stick around. The journey is far from over. :)
@@Zelosykesyou’re doing something nobody has done for sure. It’s interactive and educational and who doesn’t love that? Keep at it bro can’t wait to see more
Honestly, without seeing this series I would not have understood the changes and how to play this game in a more fun way.
Glad the video was able to help in any way. :) Good luck out there!
I think i started watching you a year or so~ ago, never having played Conan ever- it's crazy how much your editing has changed/grown since! Still love the content, the game is weirdly addicting to watch- glad you stayed around!
Sorry for the late comment, I just saw this. But wow, thanks for sticking with the channel for this long, haha. It means a lot. As long as there is still one person watching, I’ll keep uploading. :)
Very nice, best power leveling I've seen. I love using the bows and you can get some good ones drop in sinners refuge from the Asura guys, even the reach of the red mother if you're lucky. I'm pretty sure in the chest you got the pickaxe from in Sepermaru there was also a tool upgrade mod, you could apply this to the pickaxe as well to increase the yield and speed up the leveling more. Looking forward to seeing how you handle PVP, I'm not very good at it lol
Really enjoying your content. Watching your vids is so chill and I love your Solo playstyle and attitude. Keep them coming!
Thank you! I really appreciate your comment. I just got done editing Day 2 for this series. It’ll be released tomorrow. :)
Love these vids 😊I have played Conan for a while but still learn new tips from watching these
Always fun to watch these! And I love the music. 👍
Recently watched all your conan series. It's good to be upto date. Great content as always
Wow thank you man. Glad to hear you enjoyed the content. It means a lot.
Hey man (Crizal here), nice content, as usual. FYI, at the Frost Giant's Temple, farm all the "stone" outside of the temple too. It is a mix of stone and ice (mostly ice) and it'll help level you up quickly too, and you're not gonna have to dodge all the giants.
Nice bro, thx for sharing. Farming those rocks is a good way to pass the time while waiting for the black ice to respawn inside. I'll try it next time.
Really nice vid as always. You can get hardened steel or even star metal tools in the cave where you learn the spells. It’s a guarantee spawn for those tools
Thank you bro. And wow! Are you serious?! That’s crazy, haha. Ima need to check that cave out.
Nice to see you're back on the Server. I think Maru would PvP you if you ask. I always enjoy the videos man. Can't wait to see this series through again.
Cool new series!!! Ive been playing Ark a lot lately. Conan still better imo but I think Ark keeps you involved more since they have so many maps. But Im sure Ill be back on Conan eventually. Glad to see you got a new series going. I enjoy watching.
I've been getting many star metal tools from the chests in mounds of the dead. Far more than from enemies.
I forgot to check the chests when I was there. Will definitely check next time.
Love your Conan Exiles videos !
WOOO NEW SERIES LETS GOO
Same amount as frost giants, i been going there since the north update came out xD
Great video, very explanatory, and I love the hands on tips. Only one small gripe; I think either the gather xp for black ice has been nerfed in vanilla, or you were playing on a boosted server. Youre getting far more xp than I currently am right now, at the same level. I am curious. Did not get as lucky as you, but I did get a hardened steel pick at mounds of the dead. Does pick quality affect xp? Thanks in advance. Glad I found your channel.
Liked and subed. Excited for hopefully a consistent series.
Thank you! :) Currently editing day 2.
chill and relaxing
since you're starting at sinner's refuge (and struggling to find a weapon early on) you might as well just clear the spider boss. he dies pretty quickly to stone daggers and the respawn rate is decent-you could potentially farm it twice before leaving for seperemu.
Sweet, been waiting for a new video :D
To those that want to add some more easy levels around the river, one side of the sentinels have a bunch of mushrooms, smash them all and should gain a couple levels early game. Also smack the shrooms around the mounds, and pick the red lotuses, they are also nice quick levelers :)
Just subscribed! I’ve never played PvP before, but there is much I can use for PvE as well. Good hunting!
Thanks for subbing! Glad to have you on board. PvP is fun! Let me know if you end up trying it.
one other thing, hitting the crimson lotus while you're at mounds and frost lotus by the bridge is good xp as well, in case you're not doing anything else when passing through there
Yup! That's something I forgot to do on DAY 1 of this playthrough. You gain a good 3-5 levels at the Mounds on your way to the Frost Temple.
I've stopped playing now, but had an idea about powerlevellling. With the new changes if you can find some easy alchemical and insulated wood, a good Strat might be to use the black ice tools to clear the giant cave. You can get the recipe without killing the box and I have used the forge without kill the three giants. But even then, they should be easy to bleed. Silver coins are easy to get, so just buy the spiced food. Do the stargazer ridge run to the cave. I expect the alchem\insulated wood may be in nord\cim chests, most of which can be looted on the run. Interested to heear if anyone could make this work because I'm thinking you could practically do this right out of the desert.
Finally something worth doing while I'm at work
wow awesome video makes me want to play conan again which I will xD subscribed and liked
Thank you. Appreciate the support. :)
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Cool Vid!!! Something for you to try out is not to level your Vitality...the cold affects are a % value rather than an amount of hp so even with low hp the amount your lose is the same...i have even corrupted myself so that weak pots heal you up fully and you don't need so many pots...there is 1 caveat...don't get hit by the ice giants ;)
Sorry for the late comment. This is great info, bro. Thank you for passing it along.
The chests in the mounds of the dead have a fairly high chance of dropping star metal tools and insulated wood, combined with the alchemical base drop from the bearer you can either get the resources for a black ice pick or loot a star metal pick. Win win.
Nice, good to know! I did forget to loot the chests at the Mounds, but I’ll check next time.
Those chest in Seper meru are very good early because there are level 60 Acheronian pick en hardend steel hatch full durability. Also perfect steel weapons allot. Love your video very much.
Yep, those chests are super helpful for early game. I’m always gonna stop there to loot when I’m leveling.
Haha i where so excided that i drop my message before i look the video where you looting Seper meru chest hahaha sorry for that.
Fun fact the t4 asure guy can drop multiple legendary bows including the bow the red mother drops. also the wine cellar dungeon has tons of gold and silver coins in it now from the chests and the named guy at the beginning of wine cellar can drop buff potions too
Wow, great info, thanks for sharing! Crazy that you can get the Red Mother Bow from an Asura clan, haha.
@@Zelosykes I tested yesterday and you can get isle of siptah legendary bows too, also at the bottom of the dungeon where you learn the silent legion armor under the water the chest hold buff fish, and in the warmaker dungeon you can get grey lotus seeds and grey lotus pretty frequently from the chests in there and they doubled the armor scraps the bosses drop aswell
You can also smack obsidian for xp, great vid!
Thank you! :)
You can mine crystals to lvl as well. I believe it’s about the same as brimstone. That way you don’t have to wait for the red pawn. I can’t wait to run into you. I’ve always wanted to 1v1. Love the videos.
Yep, crystals are very good too! I have power leveled up to 60 by just farming brimstone (Sinner's Refuge) up to level 20ish and then finishing off the rest of the levels by farming crystal at Scuttler's Shortcut. A bit slower, but works great if you're trying to level without running into people.
Just found out this game is on the Xbox pass, and your video pushed me into going back and trying this game again, seems so much easier 😂😂
Yeah, lol. The game has never been easier. Even “target lock/q lock” has been improved so now even PvP combat with q-lock is easier. I like the majority of changes… like improved loot. But combat between players shouldn’t be made easy. It should be about skill.
Very nice! You won a subscriber
Woohoo! :D
Last time I checked the chest at at the ymir teacher it hat a black ice pick and black ice daggers.
I'd also suggest getting the mushroom patches in the noob river near gallamans and crimson lotus at the mounds for extra levels. Furthermore the cimmerian feasts that the cimmerians drop is very good food and provids at +50 armor bonus.
And finally, going into the volcano and farming obsidian nodes also gives good xp.
Oh nice! I gotta check that out next time. Thx for sharing.
@Zelosykes Chests have been added to almost every location, so any old guides are largely obsolete now. Only a few world bosses are remotely worth fighting because they still drop a legendary item on death, sadly most of them just drop skeleton keys now. You shouldnt ignore the journey steps entirely now as some of them give you decent alternate armor sets and weapons plus some craftables, also when in the mounds, each of the buildings has an interactable item somewhere inside that gives you a hardened steel tool. I know of a Hatchet, hammer, pickaxe and battle axe off the top of my head.
I started a new character yesterday. It’s my first run since the update. It blew my mind a Jailor drops 3 pieces of Silent Legion heavy. That was Siptah though, not sure about EL.
The loot is nice! Dang, Siptah? Ooof. Is the 1 hit KO mace still a thing there?
@@Zelosykes I’m not exactly sure, I don’t even know where to get skeleton keys on post update siptah yet lol. It’s the only populated siptah server and I’m sure it’ll die in a couple days when the Zerg knows I’m there. They have it out for me lol
- The RHTS "Hero"s in the undead City drop heavy Silent Legion. But only one piece at best. - All Beastmaster may drop the breathing mask, not just Teimos -> going for gold/silver Hunting around the blackhandship and the sunken city is quite worthwhile.Tons of Gold and silver means tons of alchemiy. - Bows are becoming more and more meta. Its so easy to get a legendary Bow now, just by farming bosses and dungeons. Star Metal arrows are lethal enough with the right agility perks.
@@Berek71182 thanks for the tip brother! I’m Doosh if I ever see you in the exiled lands.
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Let's gooooo
Hi man, I love your videos, I'm new to conan I would like to know if you played 20 agility 20 vita 20 exp whit your big axe for raid ? I looked at almost everything I couldn't find this info 😁
Yes, that’s my raid build with the Great Axe. Plus Salted Pork and Black Lotus Potion for a combined 30% increase in Str weapon dmg.
Great! thank you for your answer. just one last question, the fact of using a weapon force with no stat force is ok so with the potion and pig buff it is its?
There are black claws on a bench at Desert Dogs place, at the entrance from the crocodile boss side. I do play on a modded server but they are a vanilla item and the mods don't seem to add loot like that, so I assume it's normal. That aside, I really don't like "middle tiers" that you can easily skip even just looking around. Speaking on practically every single survival game. I mean, why bother with iron or steel weapons when you can just go and rather easily get materials and/or recipes for better stuff. Killing a miniboss is trivial and there are some treasure chests left - found 3 total but I remember where is 1, near Tortured King - on a hill/rock/whatever, visible from afar. I hope they polish netcode because combat could use less of numbers and more speed to actually challenge players with combat. It's trivial, even if lengthy - but daggers and bleed are easy to get either way.
yo what up man, how you feeling about the new combat system where you can move while swinging your weapon. personally i dont really like it when im fighting with the pike. guess its gonna take some getting used to.
Hey bro. So far, I haven’t been able to utilize that new combat feature much since I play with mouse and keyboard and no q-lock. It’s a bit hard to use it with the keyboard, lol. I have seen people using it with spear + q lock and it looks really OP though. I think it’s probably much easier to use for console players cause of the controller. What do you play on?
@@Zelosykes console
@@Zelosykes I never really used the auto-face feature because I was good at free aim before the update
How do you not lose agro from the T4 thrall 16:03, I’m on console and I’m shooting him with arrows and he just runs away and regains his health
So much food drops now that you will never cook again.
Lmao true.
Also everyone is carrying taxidermied animal in their pocket
i dont even know what this game is and i have never played it but i watched the whole thing it was kinda good XD
Where is episode 2? I'm ready for it now sir.
Editing it! ;D
@@Zelosykes where's it at homie?
yoooo, very experienced thanks for all the tips, but can you please start pressing f instead of opening the chests xD, takes less time and you can loot everything without being at risk of hit :)
Let’s go finally
Still the same number of frost giants in the cave but they did add the black yeti
Dang, really? It felt like they added at least 3 more, lol.
Why do you blurred the server message box? Never played this game but enjoyed watching it
The server chat can get a bit toxic/dumb at times, so I just blur it out so my viewers don’t gotta be subjected to that, lol. Thanks for watching . :)
You should hit up the crystal cave under the Yog religion for leveling.
Oh yeah, there’s a few good crystal caves to hit for leveling.
Puedes decir, desde un raideo solo, hasta un pvp 1 vs 5 bienvenido a doctops
Not sure if it's been asked but why do you prefer spears and pikes ?
Spears/pikes have been severely nerfed as of the latest update… but I have always loved the spear because it’s basically a sniper weapon. When you’re using free aim, you gotta anticipate your opponents movements and strike at the perfect time. It just feels awesome, haha.
@Zelosykes oh cool what weapon type would you recommend based off current stats?
Bro, this is not bad levelling, but being new in Connan exile, sinners refuge is very hard to fight the npcs. Is there any other way? Can i go pre 20 to loot the chests? Then come here ?
Yeah, you can make it to Sepermeru to loot the chests before getting to level 20. You’ll get some better weapons there that can help you kill the NPCs at Sinner’s Refuge. If you don’t want to go back to Sinner’s Refuge, you can continue on to the Mounds of the Dead. I forgot to show it in the video, but you can find “grey lotus flower” all around there near the obelisk and if you farm those with a pick, you’ll get some nice levels. Be careful there though! Those NPCs are way stronger and will 2-shot you, so always set a bedroll nearby. Good luck, it isn’t easy when you’re new to Conan.
So do you just farm and drop the the brimstone to level? 🤔
Yeah just farm and drop everything. No need to keep that much brimstone/black ice.
Mushrooms and lotus plants are good XP.
Yup! They’re great for leveling as well.
Let’s go ! 🤌🏻
There also brim not far from the black galleon .
Nice, lots of good places to farm brim. Crystals are also a great source of XP as well.
New player here, what does attuning your bracelet do?
If you attune your bracelet at all the varies obelisk locations, you can teleport directly to the obelisks using a map room. It’s basically a way to fast travel to different locations throughout the map.
Ooh okay thansk
Should get the red louts in mounds will give you 5 ish levels
Yeah, completely forgot about those, lol. I missed out on a few levels.
Go kill relic hunter bosses get free silent legion armor ..revamp is really dope . I got full set except boots in one kill ..L0L....!!!
Sheesh! I gotta check that out, haha. Good armor for raiding.
Here before anyone watched the full video
how are you able to move fast with those weights?
I mentioned it in the video, you need to max out your Expertise attribute and unlock the Beast of Burden perk. This perk allows you to move at all full speed when you’re heavy.
@@Zelosykes I just skipped through phases
When did they add the diving animation? That took like ten years....
A few months ago, they added it with the Age of War update. It’s fun to use it.
hii.. sorry to ask. can I play this offline and looting like in this video?
Yes, this game has offline mode as well.
Can we hide journey steps top right window?
Yes! It's one of the options in the General menu. It's something like "Show journey steps" and you just select yes or no. There's a lot of stuff you can hide from the gameplay interface to clear your screen of unnecessary things. Hope this helps!
@@Zelosykes it does help, thx. But apparently we can't hide chat window or is there another reason you keep it blured?
The chat can be hidden as well. I do need to keep the chat open when I am playing because it helps you stay on top of the server politics. I blur out the chat for the video because the chat can get pretty toxic/dumb at times, so I just blur it so you guys don't have to be subjected to that.
@@Zelosykes oh, I'm playing on PvE-C so I got used to that
Can someone give me a Tipp to find a good discord to find a Mate to play PvP with? I am 32 EU. On which Server do you recommand Playing right now? Thx :)
Nice video. More long videos.
More on the way. :)
14:54 lies just use the dual wield daggers and they bleed out 17:27 right infront of you there is a path up the mountain there is a chest that have starmetal farming axe 100% drop 18:30 why didt you use the enchantment item you got from the sepermenu chest on the axe? from 10:12
Body vault means you Look for a Like a small hole on a Cliffside to hide your Charakter model with all the loot in
I keep dying in the ice cave no matter how much spicy food I have I don’t know what I’m doing wrong lol
Are you getting hit by the Giants? If you get hit, they’ll cause you to get Frostbite. Another thing, you just need to eat 1 spicy food at a time until the warmth runs out. Gotta keep healing too with aloe potions. Some sections of the frost temple are just super cold.
One thing you could do is go to any of the Heirs of The North camps farm the Thralls to get some Vanir Armour, it has cold resistance.
Can you upload more often, I love your conan content!!!
Why you donr eat those meals!!!???+50armor!
I don’t think I knew I had a food that gave armor. The only food I usually eat is Salted Pork for Strength. Next time though!
@@Zelosykes yep I usually keep a pack in my fridge when I go out..I am also on pvp officials but would be nice to play with somebody so if you up for it..let me know where youa t and we can play even in 1 clan or just have a few fight.
This isnt the updated version, this is like before age of sorcery it looks like
This was recorded a few weeks back. Age of War Chapter 2 update. You can tell cause the loot has been revamped.
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Why do you always play 2x or 4x gather servers
I only play on official servers, they’re 4x gather rates.
@@Zelosykes they have 4x rate servers official but they also have 1x rate servers
I see. 1x harvest rate sounds dreadful though, haha. I don’t think anyone wants to farm that much. For me, I just get on a server, level up, gear up, and start raiding and then get my loot from raids. There’s usually only a few active servers for NA and none of them are the 1x. I pick the most active ones for more player interactions (PvP).
@@Zelosykes ahh okay sorry about that I thought you were USA yeah I get your point I was just wondering cause I can't see no other real way to play a game unless its difficult it gives it a lot more suspense and makes people question their actions in my opinion it's just a lot more rewarding and fun especially with other players in the mix and especially for videos of you wanna go the career path most people enjoy watching the grind and reward and appreciate skill anyway thanks for responding
Is the game dead or is the early game solo?
There are a quite a few active servers atm. I was playing really late at night when the server wasn’t active so that I could level up in peace without having to worry about others killing me.
@@Zelosykes oh interesting do you ever seek out pvp? I’m new to this game and your videos
Yes, once I level up and gear myself up, I’m usually out always looking for PvP. This is a new series covering every day that I play on a PvP server. The raids will start on day 3.
@@Zelosykes awesome I’m excited to watch a learn about the game
Falcata is a steel weapon actually. I have mixed feelings about new loot. On one hand, it's good to actually finally have some goodies, on the other hand as soon as you get Falcata an Hyrkanian bow, or say Steel Ponyards from a lvl 3 Darfari sorcerer, the initial challenge is simply gone.
It is even more absurd in Siptah. You just set up a camp and kill a jailor, bam full set of heavy silent legion armor. Quite literally getting the end-game armor from a 360 hp bozo that spawns every 10 mins or so in a very easy camp.
@@bahadir7677 I will probably never buy Siptah, so I trust you on this
@@bahadir7677 My thalls are all decked out on Siptah.
obsidian'll give u decent xp
Yep! Obsidian is also great for leveling.
u can just press F to Take All inventory, i see u risk a lot to click on Take All lol
Yeah lol, really bad habit I have of forgetting to just press the Take All key.
I played with some people the game and they ruined the experience for me which leads me to regret playing with them at the first place ...
So bad cant play online i get autentification failed all time
I miss this game, but undermeshing makes it unplayable.
People still play this game
Very Nice Video. Maybe you wanna team up with a 32 years old Austrian which just now bought the game?
where is pvp fihting? thisnserver is 1/40 people nex time try server with 40/40 much funny.
Like I mentioned in the video, I’m purposely playing late at night when the server is least active so that I can focus on leveling as fast as possible without being interrupted by people trying to gang me. PvP will start on day 3 with an online solo raid. It’s coming, don’t worry~
Background music is snazzy