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Burns posted:What are recommendations fro melee weapons in the mountain? Sword and board on very high is just not cutting it as even basic wolves do so much damage. Wolf spear. Cheap as hell so it's faster to get out of the mountains. I really, really like throwing it.
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Spear all the way. With a back up club for the swamp.
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Oct 16, 2023 04:21
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Ho ho ho, i do love the sudden power change now that I have wolf armor, bonemass power and an iron sledge. I got the "you are being hunted event" and Luckily i was by a frost cave so i setup by the entrance and just smashed the wolves as they came at me while also having a just in case escape route to heal with the cave. So much delicious wolf.
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Oct 17, 2023 16:31
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Burns posted:Ho ho ho, i do love the sudden power change now that I have wolf armor, bonemass power and an iron sledge. I got the "you are being hunted event" and Luckily i was by a frost cave so i setup by the entrance and just smashed the wolves as they came at me while also having a just in case escape route to heal with the cave. So much delicious wolf. That's a really fun event to get near a fuling village.
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Oct 17, 2023 16:58
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BrianRx posted:That's a really fun event to get near a fuling village. Lol yep! Even funner INSIDE the village.
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Oct 17, 2023 17:51
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Can't recall if I posted about it a few months ago, but I got one while tending a lox farm. I think 30-40 wolves were stomped flat as I stood still and watched.
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Ravenfood posted:Wolf spear. Cheap as hell so it's faster to get out of the mountains. I really, really like throwing it. idk, spear in mountains felt kinda rough when I've tried it - the vertical hitbox is kinda terrible. Once you get parry timing down wolves aren't that hard; iron mace & frostner both do fine
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Oct 18, 2023 06:56
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idiotsavant posted:idk, spear in mountains felt kinda rough when I've tried it - the vertical hitbox is kinda terrible. Once you get parry timing down wolves aren't that hard; iron mace & frostner both do fine Throwing it, even at super close range, largely fixed the vertical hitbox issue for me.
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Oct 18, 2023 07:10
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Silver knife has been a real workhorse for me in both of my runs. Just murders after a parry and swings fast enough that one miss isn't a huge deal. Iron sledge for groups.
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Yagluth is pretty aggressively not fun on hard mode Yeah, no, gently caress this rjmccall fucked around with this message at 23:21 on Oct 22, 2023 |
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Oct 22, 2023 23:19
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I could not beat Yagluth by myself no matter the mode. If you have other people it basically forces the attacks to split which gives desperately needed time to deal damage and heal.
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When I’m feeling less frustrated, I’ll come back with frost arrows. Part of what’s so extremely Not Fun about Yagluth is that the only way to deal significant damage is just to absorb his attacks while you do a couple three-hit combos, and in hard mode, that does so much damage that you’re waiting for like well over a minute before you can go another round. So I’m hoping that being able to do more than negligible damage with the frost arrows while I’m regenerating will stop me from getting bored and reckless. In previous runs, I’ve also been able to make progress despite a few deaths, but it looks like he also regens a lot faster in hard mode.
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rjmccall posted:When I’m feeling less frustrated, I’ll come back with frost arrows. Part of what’s so extremely Not Fun about Yagluth is that the only way to deal significant damage is just to absorb his attacks while you do a couple three-hit combos, and in hard mode, that does so much damage that you’re waiting for like well over a minute before you can go another round. So I’m hoping that being able to do more than negligible damage with the frost arrows while I’m regenerating will stop me from getting bored and reckless. In my most recent game, Yagluth's altar spawned near a beach so I dug under it, stuck a campfire down there, and had a hidey hole where I could stop burning and regenerate health quickly. It still sucked though. As mentioned, I think it's much more manageable when his/its attention is split between multiple players.
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BrianRx posted:In my most recent game, Yagluth's altar spawned near a beach so I dug under it, stuck a campfire down there, and had a hidey hole where I could stop burning and regenerate health quickly. I did a similar thing but on the plains. Dug a pit, put down a layer of rock foundations on top for a ceiling, then a narrow, sloped entrance. I was worried about some of his attacks busting up the foundations but don't remember it happening. Also think I did some landscaping to build up pillars of ground that I could duck behind to avoid his laser beam attack. First attempt I tried to use the Stonehenge stuff around the spawn altar to duck behind and that was how I learned his attacks will burn through that then, when the entire base is gone, the game hiccups while trying to process a million different rock pieces all popping at the same time because they lost contact to the ground. Pretty sure I never even tried to melee the rear end in a top hat, just went full archer on it because dodging his stuff sucked hard enough even at range, then he starts slapping the ground if you're nearby and it just got to be too much for my simple video gamer brain to process all at the same time.
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Would a horde of preplaced loxen make a difference?
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Probably. Wolves do okay too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otKf8KMnUtA
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Burns posted:Would a horde of preplaced loxen make a difference?
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Lox will do a lot of damage in a short time, but the fire will kill them much faster. I think on that run we got the ball rolling and suddenly the lox started to pop one at a time in short order against our favor.
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Molybdenum posted:Probably. Wolves do okay too I think I'll do this next time I want to skip a boss by console-killing them. It seems fun but also profitable.
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I had luck with the lox but i had a lot of little groups spread out all over the nearby plains, so groups would agro on him regularly as the fight migrated. Provided frequent breathers.
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Took down Moder this morning. Took like 120 needle arrows, 100 silver arrows and around 60 poison arrows. Great success. Died twice to the ice shard attack but using a ruin and kiting her around it worked well. Theres maybe half of the ruin left standing.
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Oct 29, 2023 18:11
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I love how apocalyptic the boss fights sound. “Cracked open a mountain and shattered some castle ruins, but the beast is down!”  The boss music in this game is absolutely perfect. Eikthyr’s and Yagluth’s themes in particular would make some dangerously good workout music.
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Icon Of Sin posted:I love how apocalyptic the boss fights sound. “Cracked open a mountain and shattered some castle ruins, but the beast is down!” Moder also perched on my camp and brought down half the roof and a good chunk of the outer wall. It was hell getting my rested bonus to reactivate. Luckily she didnt destroy my bed.
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there was a dev blog published recently, it showed some interior of Ashlands biome, mysterious device and also new weapons weapons:  dual wielding axes 
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Im more interested to see if the engine updates (patch notes) improves things overall. Im not a fan of overly dark biomes.
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Yeah the screenshots from this update look okay, but some of the older one are way too dark for my taste.
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Burns posted:Im more interested to see if the engine updates (patch notes) improves things overall. Im not a fan of overly dark biomes. there are some interesting updates related to optimization in the latest patch (currently on public test) quote:Fixes & Improvements: Dwesa fucked around with this message at 19:30 on Oct 30, 2023 |
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I took like a month away from Valheim, partly for a work trip and partly just to reset from my Hard Yag frustrations. Came back, farmed up a bunch of frost glands, and readied myself for a fight. Headline: the bastard’s dead. Still murderous, but more manageably so. As hoped, having frost arrows helped a lot: I hit him with over 200 arrows, and while I don’t think it actually added up to all that much of his health bar, it did keep me busy enough while waiting to regenerate that it didn’t feel unfun. And maybe it was enough to overcome his passive regen or something. Strategy was basically:
I still died a few times. Once, it was because night fell and a two-star goblin raiding party came by. Once, I got too greedy about doing combos and got tagged by a meteor (this almost happened at least two other times). Once, I didn’t realize my fire resistance mead ran out. I think that was it; not too shabby. And I did kill off an unstarred raiding party once. I tried digging under his altar to make a resting place, but it was too close to the water, and the water table made it impossible to both be sheltered and keep a fire. So I just rested up at home, mostly by dying but also once by just running away after my food ran low. I think I had him around 50%, and fortunately he didn’t regen much while I was away. It was a long, long goddamn fight.
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Mistlands honestly doesn’t feel any different on hard, probably because it was already tuned to be high enough damage that you just have to eat right and fight properly every time. I did just now finally build Mistwalker, so we’ll see if that gives a little more room for error. With that said, I’ve been playing it differently anyway, building a lot of stone causeways out of my bases (which are all reclaimed dwergr houses) to make it more hospitable. I like how it looks, and it definitely makes me feel much more like I’m mastering the biome instead of just visiting. Also, just making them is a nice environmental puzzle. And of course there’s a massive amount of stone everywhere you go, so there isn’t too much downtime. I have gotten pretty screwed on mines, though. I built a really elaborate causeway over to this one basement mine, and it rewarded me with one (1) core and no fragments. Currently just tearing down my forge anytime I need to refine eitr because I only have 8 cores.
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BrianRx posted:I'm going to post this every hundred pages or so, but killing yourself by dropping a tree on your own head never gets less funny. Doesn't matter if it's Day One or Day One Hundred because you didn't bother to eat before going out chopping.
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Also, working on a large building project and dying from a 2 meter drop because you forgot to eat. It’s gotten to the point where I build authentic scaffolding just to keep the skill drain under control
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I would usually have some "working around the house" food going from a nearby massive farm to avoid those skill drains or to not get instantly merked by a invasion.
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Fruits of the sea posted:Also, working on a large building project and dying from a 2 meter drop because you forgot to eat. E: prior to that I use the farmable sustainable meals like carrot soup.
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Yeah the feather cape is just comically useful.
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Ran into a weird situation: dropped some Eitr to destroy a dvergr ward so I could take over their outpost and one of the rogues upstairs turned hostile, but the mage downstairs did not.
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Well, I did it, I sailed off the edge of the world. I think I was done with this playthrough anyway.
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I hope there's a new source for brain matter in the next biome because those skulls don't seem to turn up very often for me.
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Yeah, it varies a lot. This world, I think I had two, maybe even three skulls that I didn’t even bother tapping, just because I wasn’t building magic gear and I’d had to explore a fuckton of Mistlands in my failed effort to get to 10 cores and find a Vegisir for the Queen. Mistlands is a weird biome that way.
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Eifert Posting posted:I hope there's a new source for brain matter in the next biome because those skulls don't seem to turn up very often for me. Same. All the ones I find are also Dvergr-protected, which both makes me feel bad and makes it a lot harder if I do want them. So far I've been ok skipping them but if this keeps up I'll need to come back and hope a gjall shows up or something.
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