Conan Exiles
Wheel of Pain Taming
Breaking thralls on the Wheel of Pain is mostly waiting, and how long you wait depends on two things: the thrall’s tier and the taskmaster you put in charge.
Wheel of Pain Taming
The type of wheel does not change conversion time, according to the official wiki.
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How the numbers are worked out
A tier 1 thrall takes 15 minutes at default settings, tier 2 30, tier 3 45 and a named tier 4 an hour. A taskmaster working the wheel speeds that up by 25, 50 or 75% for tiers 1 to 3, and 150% for a named taskmaster. The type of wheel makes no difference to the time.
The formula
- base = 900 / 1,800 / 2,700 / 3,600 s for thrall tiers 1-4
- seconds = base ÷ (1 + taskmaster speed) × ThrallConversionMultiplier (taskmaster +25 / 50 / 75 / 150%)
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Common mistakes
Server settings trump all of this. ThrallConversionMultiplier scales every conversion time, and 0.5 means half as long, so ask what a server uses and enter it above before planning around these figures on someone else’s server.
A worked example
A named tier 4 thrall takes 3,600 seconds, an hour, with no taskmaster. A tier 3 taskmaster at +75% brings that down to about 34 minutes, and a named taskmaster at +150% to 24. On a server with ThrallConversionMultiplier at 0.5, the named taskmaster's 24 minutes become 12. A standard Wheel of Pain breaks four thralls at once, so a full wheel of named thralls with a named taskmaster clears in those same 24 minutes.
Where the time really goes
Because the wheel type does not change the time, upgrading the wheel is not how to convert faster. A good taskmaster is: going from none to a named one cuts every conversion by 60%. The rest of the wait is out of your hands unless you run the server, where ThrallConversionMultiplier scales every conversion at once.
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