they're mechanically the weakest human enemies.

I think one of the recent overhaul patches made several of the named Darfari characters meta, but I haven't kept up with it too closely after I stopped running a private server for my friends so I'm not sure on the details there. I think it also flattened stats a lot so now the difference in faction is more equipment based?

Who are the strongest human enemies, and the most desirable to enslave and make in to your thralls?

Stalwart muscular white psuedo-vikings.

For a long time at least the meta was the Relic Hunter Treasure Seekers, a cosmopolitan faction consisting of every vaguely middle eastern coded ethnic group, although yeah most of the meta named characters have been Cimmerians who are literally the fascist "dispossessed atlantean ubermench" theory shit.

As a game it's great. There's lots to do, lots of systems, character progression, dungeons, weird mechanics, the art is gorgeous. I have 535 hours in it. Almost none of those hours are in public servers because I don't want to play with the kind of people who would play Conan Exiles.

Yeah. Like it's basically "what if ARK was a better designed game at a basic mechanical level" but obviously loses a ton of points relative to ARK for not having dinosaurs, so it evens up about even with it thanks to being better in every other way. The mods are great too, although I really wish private servers could either force unlock or completely disable and remove all the paid DLC shit. Like if I'm hosting my own server I should be able to force that to allow whatever, I should have complete power over both the server and everything on it, and the game being like "nah 90% of the menu is gonna be greyed out DLC unlocks, wasting space" despite that is extremely offensive. It's like things running on my own computer showing ads, just an intolerable corporate invasion.