⚔️ Better Meat Shields – Faster Companion Leveling ⚔️

⚔️ Better Meat Shields – Faster Companion Leveling ⚔️

“Your thrall shouldn’t need a 4-year degree just to reach Level 20.”

Let’s be honest.

Leveling legendary thralls and pets in vanilla Conan Exiles feels less like progression and more like:

A second full-time job A medieval internship program Watching Dalinsia slowly earn combat experience through emotional suffering

Meanwhile your companion has: Killed 700 enemies Survived three purge attacks Witnessed horrors beyond human comprehension Reached Level 11

Better Meat Shields fixes the painfully slow follower grind while still respecting Conan Exiles’ vanilla progression hierarchy.

Your elite bodyguards level faster.

Your pets level faster.

Your random homeless river exile also levels faster now.

Unfortunately.

⚙️ How It Works

Conan Exiles uses different XP progression curves depending on follower rarity and tier.

Instead of flattening everything into nonsense, this mod specifically targets the grindy vanilla curves and cuts the suffering in half.

And yes:

This includes ALL pets.

Normal pets. Greater pets. Elite companions. Aggressive emotional support animals.

Everything levels faster.

⚔️ Normal & Default Curves – HALVED

50% XP Requirement

Used by: Named Thralls High-tier Fighters Volcano companions Most standard pets Elite combat followers

Meaning your legendary murder machine no longer requires: three business days per level. 💀 Slow Curve – HALVED

50% XP Requirement

Targets: Heavy elite followers Boss-tier companions Greater Pets Specific slow-leveling animals

Because watching your Greater Sabertooth gain: “+3 XP”

…after eating an entire village was becoming psychologically exhausting.

Fast Curve – ALSO HALVED

50% XP Requirement

Yes.

Even the fast-leveling garbage followers now level even faster.

Meaning: Random river hobos Half-naked exiles with emotional damage That one archer who keeps missing enemies standing completely still Questionable hyenas you adopted at Level 5

…can now achieve greatness at alarming speed.

Are they still terrible?

Absolutely.

But now they become:

High-Level Garbage™

Much faster than before.

Because sometimes you don’t need efficiency.

You need: Numbers Chaos A disposable militia with confidence issues 🔥 Why Choose This Mod?

⏳ Save Your Sanity

Your meat shields now reach Level 20 roughly:

TWICE AS FAST

Meaning less: Mindless grinding XP farming loops Watching your thrall slap crocodiles for six hours Waiting for your tiger to discover basic mathematics

⚖️ Balanced Vanilla+ Progression

A legendary fighter or Greater Pet still requires more effort than a trash-tier exile.

The difference is:

Now the progression feels: Smooth Logical Less like punishment from an angry god

Levels 10–20 no longer feel like climbing Mount Doom barefoot.

⚙️ Clean Backend Integration

This mod only modifies: NPCLevelCurveDataTable

Meaning: No messy scripts No broken multipliers No weird server-side side effects No mysterious “why is my camel level 400?” moments

Small changes. Huge quality-of-life improvement.

📦 Compatibility

✅ DLC & Map Compatible

Fully compatible with: Isle of Siptah Savage Wilds Most custom maps ✅ Follower & Pet Mod Compatible

Works perfectly alongside: Follower inventory mods Behavior tweaks AI improvements Pet overhauls Companion mods ⚠️ Potential Conflicts

Will only conflict with mods that directly modify: NPCLevelCurveDataTable

Because in Conan modding:

Two mods editing the same table usually results in: Confusion Screaming Ancient curses Forum posts written entirely in capital letters

⚔️ Final Words

Your followers and pets exist for one purpose:

"To stand between you and catastrophic bad decisions."

Now they can finally level fast enough to survive them.

Mostly.

https://www.nexusmods.com/conanexilesenhanced/mods/11