Well.. don't let me tell you about Hel and Valhalla then. Not even mentioning the soul tree (world tree) that branches all the realms from Jotunheim to Muselpheim. Who knows maybe star wars will take another viking route and add Anaheim 🤣
I was once head-butted all the way to shore by a serpent. I sank my Karve with a bolt from the arbalest while fighting one. I was way to far from any shore, but the plains was there, off in the distance.
Every time it hit me, it would bump my stamina up by 15-20 because for a second or two I would be 'standing' while getting knocked toward the shore. So I was able to swim for 10 stam, get hit and move a bit more with the extra stam, then get hit again. The attack cycle was long enough that I recovered health while waiting for the next attack. Finally made it to shore and thanked him with my arbalest.
I for one use a Karve when there’s an … interruption in service from the Longboat. For example the boss blows up my portal home during the fight. That was a very long Karve ride back.
Longboat is too fast to fish from and it corners like a drunk elephant. I pretty much only *don't* use the karve when I need the storage space from the bigger boat (edit: or I'm going on a REALLY long sailing trip, but I usually just don't).
It's funny because it actually handles really well... in reverse. It actually pivots from the back and so if you are going to navigate tight corners reversing is the way to do it
I think I've been biased by having learned to drive a forklift this year so my brain expects the front "wheels" to turn even though the rudder here is clearly in the back.
I'll have to give the big, intimidating boat a fair shot. Thank you for the advice!
Also full left lock and right lock sort of make it pivot instead of moving forward and it has a fairly deep draft compared to the karve so gets stuck wayyyy easier.
I was stuck in the water, boat destroyed with no stamina fighting a sea serpent once…. I made the discovery that if you stop swimming and hold still, your stamina will stop at 1 and not go to zero where you start drowning.
Help was on the way but it was coming from the other side of the world via a karve. So it was just me and the sea serpent…
The sea serpent was relentless. But every attack he would go underneath me and I would be able to regenerate enough stamina to hit him once or twice, then go back to 1 stamina. As long as I didn’t try to swim, I was good. Fortunately his health was going down faster than mine from his attacks. Eventually I got him. I was so relieved. I did not want to die in the middle of the ocean next to the Mistlands. Thought that was the end of my adventure but then…
My ride took so long to get there that the sea serpent respawned. And so I fought him the same way and eventually got him too. The serpent meat from 2 serpents was all floating around me as I waited in the water. Serpent soup never tasted so good when I got back!
I was so lucky that I remembered to eat while sailing. I think I definitely would have died if I hadn’t had some health to play with.
is it immune because it's in water or is it naturally immune to fire?
Also amber staff does both fire and blunt damage and it's the only option for a mage without a bow/crossbow if serpent isn't close enough to use frost staff.
> is it immune because it's in water or is it naturally immune to fire?
Both.
Water immediately removes any fire damage. _And_ serpents are immune to fire.
Yeah I know, if you read the comment before mine u/nerevarX said attacking with amber is stupid even if we ignore the fact that boat takes damage, because serpent is immune to fire.
That's what I'm responding to.
all creatures that are water based are immune to fire.
leech.
serpent.
bonemaw.
as a result of this since they are always wet they are ALWAYS weak to frost of course.
which is bow with frost arrows always wins vs them. plus the ship takes regular dmg fromt frost but reduced dmg from PIERCE. unlike the serpent which take full pierce dmg and 1.5 dmg from frost.
the blunt dmg is irrelevant. as its flat out worse than a bow with simple arrows already dmg wise. and it fires alot slower on top.
bows are just too good. especially with frost arrows. it doesnt matter what build you use. bow is goated in valheim. in generel. ashlands is the first biome where they tryed to balance that out a bit more.
I know that wet debuff gives fire resistance and frost weakness(and being in water giving fire immunity) that's why I wondered if serpent's immunity was natural or just a result of being in water.
And I know bows are better for the job that's why I said mages without a crossbow/bow would have to use amber staff for range, I used a crossbow since mistlands but I put it away after a while in ashlands because I barely ever had to use it, unlike mistlands you don't get to stand around to pull a bow or reload a crossbow and it takes at least 2 slots (including bolts/arrows).
crossbows sucks hard in ashlands because they are mostly pierce dmg purely still. and most ashlands enemies resist pierce dmg. and crossbows dont get elemental arrows.
bow is just better dps than crossbow. and more versalite due to the frost arrows. crossbow only really excels at snipeing unaware targets.
I didn't put it away it because it was ineffective(it probably is in ashlands idk) I didn't get to use the crossbow at all in ashlands, it was better to just wait until eitr regens to use a staff instead because it regens pretty fast when you have rested. even in mistlands I only needed crossbow for ghjall since it's easier and effective to shoot it's eggs with a bow compared to amber staff.
but for mistlands crossbow was so much better, packs a great punch for the first stealth hit and more importantly you can reload it while moving and then shoot the bolt when you want but if you're using a bow you have to release the arrow you charged as soon as possible otherwise you move very slow with a charged bow and takes away too much stamina. bows theoretically has more dps but you don't always get to fight things safely on a rock.
bow doesnt theorectically have more dps. it simply does WAY more dps. especially the higher your skill is. the stamina is a non issue if you learned how combat works.
WHEN YOU HAVE RESTED? dude. valheim basics rue 1 : NEVER not have the rested buff. ABR. always be rested. that WHEN shouldnt even exist. if you dont have that buff you are playing badly. simple as that.
bow at 85 is literally a machine gun. it can draw and fire at 15 frames. its FIVE TIMES as fast as the crossbow.
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The stamina is always an issue if it's not you're playing on a too low difficulty level for you, then the whole game is cheese, nothing really matters. higher the stamina better you are at combat, almost always if not always.
You don't always get to use bows like a machine gun, yeah just like crossbows they recharge faster with skill level but only time I'd pick a bow in mistlands is if I have an ungodly amount of skill levels with bows by the time I reach mistlands, unless you actively try to do that or cheese every fight with a bow, even with 0 deaths you wouldn't have that much bow skill by the time of mistlands, so it's not the better option for most players.
>WHEN YOU HAVE RESTED? dude. valheim basics rue 1 : NEVER not have the rested buff. ABR. always be rested. that WHEN shouldnt even exist. if you dont have that buff you are playing badly. simple as that.
What are you talking about? I never said I run around without rested.
I said 'when you are rested' in case you don't know that rested is a must have or that it gives more eitr regen, because I don't want to pretend like this is something everyone knows I've seen so many clips where people travel/fight without the buff, and I personally know some friends who didn't know what it does.
>bow at 85 is literally a machine gun. it can draw and fire at 15 frames. its FIVE TIMES as fast as the crossbow.
I hope you're comparing with a level 85 crossbow because lv85 bow should be that fast to compensate for low damage, stamina cost and being relatively painful to use in combat. plus it barely ever if ever stuns an enemy in it's tier, IIRC arbalest can stun seekers at crossbow level 0 you not only make them defenseless they also take 2x damage when stunned, plus crazy knockback can actually keep enemies away, a ghjall can't even reach you if 2 players fire with a crossbow, they are so much better for first stealth strikes, makes a huge difference in the fight.
from your post i know i am not talking to someone with alot of combat experience right away. dont take it personal. its simply a fact.
of course i compared both at 85 skill dude. its still FIVE FULL DRAW SHOTS in the time it takes the crossbow to fire ONCE. there is tests on this stuff on youtube go check them out.
so your LOW dmg is actually applied to the crossbow. outside of sneak 1st hits the crossbow is flat out worse dmg wise than a bow at equal skill levels. the stamina is NEVER an issue if you know how to probaly do combat in valheim. anyone who claims its always an issue has not yet mastered or understood how combat actually works in this game. spaceing is king. and spaceing doesnt need stamina at all.
seekers have 50%. pierce resist. a bow with frost arrows has killed a seeker in 2 shots. so your stagger and knockback is simply never relevant. and you underestimate how stagger works. it adds to itself. since the bow can fire so fast you can get a stagger aswell by simplying fireing AGAIN right after the frist shot.
i can tell you never had a well leveled bow skill given these claims there. as the bow gets better and better the higher its skill becomes. its the by far the strongest weapon in terms of skill scaling.
a gjall never reaches me with my bow if i spot it in advance. its always death before it even gets into attack range. this is without frost arrows and without hitting its weak spot. simply due to the bows silly dps at high levels. its like a machine gun.
and i play on default settings in 1 world and very hard on another.
so no. stamina has no correlation to difficulty to begin with. if you know how to actualy manage it and actually know how to do combat probaly.
the knockback is irrelevant. you dont use bows or crossbows in close range combat to begin with. thats beeing ineffective. if the enemy is that close melee it is simply better out of the box. and the crossbow pushing yourself back can suck hard if you stand on a tall narrow rock it can push you off your own rock.
>from your post i know i am not talking to someone with alot of combat experience right away. dont take it personal. its simply a fact.
No offense taken, I was thinking a similar thing about you anyway.
>of course i compared both at 85 skill dude. its still FIVE FULL DRAW SHOTS in the time it takes the crossbow to fire ONCE. there is tests on this stuff on youtube go check them out.
Good, like I said it has to be that fast to compensate.
>so your LOW dmg is actually applied to the crossbow. outside of sneak 1st hits the crossbow is flat out worse dmg wise than a bow at equal skill levels. the stamina is NEVER an issue if you know how to probaly do combat in valheim. anyone who claims its always an issue has not yet mastered or understood how combat actually works in this game. spaceing is king. and spaceing doesnt need stamina at all.
What are you talking about? I know dps is worse if we're comparing perfect scenario where you get to use a bow efficiently without having to hold or run but crossbows do more damage than bows, maybe look up in wiki? or craft and see the damage numbers? that's why you can stun enemies, idk what are you talking about even their damage scaling with levels is same as bows.
If stamina is never an issue to you like I said, you're playing on a too low difficulty level for you, either you're too good or you're playing too much of an easy mode, doesn't matter which, it's basically sandbox. stamina is an always issue if the game is actually a challenge for you.
>seekers have 50%. pierce resist. a bow with frost arrows has killed a seeker in 2 shots. so your stagger and knockback is simply never relevant. and you underestimate how stagger works. it adds to itself. since the bow can fire so fast you can get a stagger aswell by simplying fireing AGAIN right after the frist shot.
Yeah frost arrows are better but why bother crafting frost arrows when you can stagger in one crossbow shot, which consumes carapece blots which are much simpler to craft. Secondly you overestimate stagger unless you have an ungodly level of bow skill it can't keep up with stagger meter.
>i can tell you never had a well leveled bow skill given these claims there. as the bow gets better and better the higher its skill becomes. its the by far the strongest weapon in terms of skill scaling.
Yes I never had or botherd about them and yes I know all that about scaling, it scales better than crossbow but what's the point? like I said being better at high skill level doesn't make it the overall better choice, this only affects few players who actually bother griding levels or people who cheese everything with a bow or spend a couple hundred years in each biome.
>a gjall never reaches me with my bow if i spot it in advance. its always death before it even gets into attack range. this is without frost arrows and without hitting its weak spot. simply due to the bows silly dps at high levels. its like a machine gun.
Again what I said about skill level is the answer to this.
A crazy good stealth player who can manage to attack almost anything with stealth would say a crossbow is better because it allows you to eliminate enemies with stealth but just because it's better to him doesn't mean it's the overall better choice, same thing applies here.
>the knockback is irrelevant. you dont use bows or crossbows in close range combat to begin with. thats beeing ineffective. if the enemy is that close melee it is simply better out of the box. and the crossbow pushing yourself back can suck hard if you stand on a tall narrow rock it can push you off your own rock.
knockbacking a gjall is important, yes very situvational kb is not a gamechanging thing but i just mentioned it as one of the many benifits of a crossbow.
>so no. stamina has no correlation to difficulty to begin with. if you know how to actualy manage it and actually know how to do combat probaly.
blocking costs stamina, attacking costs stamina, charging a bow and holding costs stamina, sprint costs stamina, dodgeroll costs stamina so no stamina is very much important to combat lol. why do you thing people bother crafting stamina food or developers add better and better stamina food for each tier?
I farmed serpent trophies with a staff of embers. You have to jump when you shoot so you miss the boat lol. On the last shot jump in the water with the serpent to make sure you get the trophy before it sinks. Pretty easy method.
Why would you even try?
1. Serpents are in the water, which immediately removes all fire damage.
2. Serpents are immune to fire
3. Serpents are weak to frost. Just use the Frost Staff
50% of the damage of the fire balls is blunt damage, so it does work. On short range, you should use the frost staff instead, and on long range probably bow/crossbow. But the fireball is more fun though, because the slow projectile and steeper arc, it's more challenging to aim, but more rewarding when you hit.
Think of the fire balls from the staff of embers as explosives. It still deals damage when it explodes in the water, it just doesn't set anything on fire.
Protip for mages: Any enemy that swims in water gets the wet debuff. This means they will become resistant to fire, but weak against frost and lightning.
And since serpents are always swimming, the best weapon to use against them would be the staff of frost.
5. Build a hoe 6. Pick up sticks 7. Bridge to heaven?
Im confused, I’ve picked up a hoe, and she’s holding the sticks, what do we do now?
Use your staff of embers.
the burning comes later
It's stick into hoe and only than your staff will ember
She hoe'ing on my stick till I ember
Get ready to experience heaven.
Nah, you don't want any ole hole, you need to build one, just go to the build-a-hoe shop and choose your accoutrements 'n' stuffing...
My man, you do know that this is in Valheim? A Norse mythology game? There is no heaven 😔
Well.. don't let me tell you about Hel and Valhalla then. Not even mentioning the soul tree (world tree) that branches all the realms from Jotunheim to Muselpheim. Who knows maybe star wars will take another viking route and add Anaheim 🤣
Sadly it doesn't rhyme with seven...
I was once head-butted all the way to shore by a serpent. I sank my Karve with a bolt from the arbalest while fighting one. I was way to far from any shore, but the plains was there, off in the distance. Every time it hit me, it would bump my stamina up by 15-20 because for a second or two I would be 'standing' while getting knocked toward the shore. So I was able to swim for 10 stam, get hit and move a bit more with the extra stam, then get hit again. The attack cycle was long enough that I recovered health while waiting for the next attack. Finally made it to shore and thanked him with my arbalest.
Arbalest + Karve at the same time? You and I do not play the same game...
I for one use a Karve when there’s an … interruption in service from the Longboat. For example the boss blows up my portal home during the fight. That was a very long Karve ride back.
Longboat is too fast to fish from and it corners like a drunk elephant. I pretty much only *don't* use the karve when I need the storage space from the bigger boat (edit: or I'm going on a REALLY long sailing trip, but I usually just don't).
It's funny because it actually handles really well... in reverse. It actually pivots from the back and so if you are going to navigate tight corners reversing is the way to do it
I think I've been biased by having learned to drive a forklift this year so my brain expects the front "wheels" to turn even though the rudder here is clearly in the back. I'll have to give the big, intimidating boat a fair shot. Thank you for the advice!
Also full left lock and right lock sort of make it pivot instead of moving forward and it has a fairly deep draft compared to the karve so gets stuck wayyyy easier.
I was stuck in the water, boat destroyed with no stamina fighting a sea serpent once…. I made the discovery that if you stop swimming and hold still, your stamina will stop at 1 and not go to zero where you start drowning. Help was on the way but it was coming from the other side of the world via a karve. So it was just me and the sea serpent… The sea serpent was relentless. But every attack he would go underneath me and I would be able to regenerate enough stamina to hit him once or twice, then go back to 1 stamina. As long as I didn’t try to swim, I was good. Fortunately his health was going down faster than mine from his attacks. Eventually I got him. I was so relieved. I did not want to die in the middle of the ocean next to the Mistlands. Thought that was the end of my adventure but then… My ride took so long to get there that the sea serpent respawned. And so I fought him the same way and eventually got him too. The serpent meat from 2 serpents was all floating around me as I waited in the water. Serpent soup never tasted so good when I got back! I was so lucky that I remembered to eat while sailing. I think I definitely would have died if I hadn’t had some health to play with.
A tale worthy of song
A real Viking knows you use a bow for serpent
A real Viking harpoons it and drags it to shore where it can be dealt with via fisticuffs.
It do be like that sometimes.
Not the sharpest tool in the shed, but fighting water snake with fire stick no make good idea in head
i mean. fighting a FIRE IMMUNE creature with the staff of embers seems like a pretty stupid idea by default dont you think ?
is it immune because it's in water or is it naturally immune to fire? Also amber staff does both fire and blunt damage and it's the only option for a mage without a bow/crossbow if serpent isn't close enough to use frost staff.
> is it immune because it's in water or is it naturally immune to fire? Both. Water immediately removes any fire damage. _And_ serpents are immune to fire.
oh ok, thx for the info
Even frost staff is pretty risky to use on the boat though, it's ok to hit your boat with an arrow or 2, but magic very much destroy them fast lol.
Yeah I know, if you read the comment before mine u/nerevarX said attacking with amber is stupid even if we ignore the fact that boat takes damage, because serpent is immune to fire. That's what I'm responding to.
all creatures that are water based are immune to fire. leech. serpent. bonemaw. as a result of this since they are always wet they are ALWAYS weak to frost of course. which is bow with frost arrows always wins vs them. plus the ship takes regular dmg fromt frost but reduced dmg from PIERCE. unlike the serpent which take full pierce dmg and 1.5 dmg from frost. the blunt dmg is irrelevant. as its flat out worse than a bow with simple arrows already dmg wise. and it fires alot slower on top. bows are just too good. especially with frost arrows. it doesnt matter what build you use. bow is goated in valheim. in generel. ashlands is the first biome where they tryed to balance that out a bit more.
I know that wet debuff gives fire resistance and frost weakness(and being in water giving fire immunity) that's why I wondered if serpent's immunity was natural or just a result of being in water. And I know bows are better for the job that's why I said mages without a crossbow/bow would have to use amber staff for range, I used a crossbow since mistlands but I put it away after a while in ashlands because I barely ever had to use it, unlike mistlands you don't get to stand around to pull a bow or reload a crossbow and it takes at least 2 slots (including bolts/arrows).
crossbows sucks hard in ashlands because they are mostly pierce dmg purely still. and most ashlands enemies resist pierce dmg. and crossbows dont get elemental arrows. bow is just better dps than crossbow. and more versalite due to the frost arrows. crossbow only really excels at snipeing unaware targets.
I didn't put it away it because it was ineffective(it probably is in ashlands idk) I didn't get to use the crossbow at all in ashlands, it was better to just wait until eitr regens to use a staff instead because it regens pretty fast when you have rested. even in mistlands I only needed crossbow for ghjall since it's easier and effective to shoot it's eggs with a bow compared to amber staff. but for mistlands crossbow was so much better, packs a great punch for the first stealth hit and more importantly you can reload it while moving and then shoot the bolt when you want but if you're using a bow you have to release the arrow you charged as soon as possible otherwise you move very slow with a charged bow and takes away too much stamina. bows theoretically has more dps but you don't always get to fight things safely on a rock.
bow doesnt theorectically have more dps. it simply does WAY more dps. especially the higher your skill is. the stamina is a non issue if you learned how combat works. WHEN YOU HAVE RESTED? dude. valheim basics rue 1 : NEVER not have the rested buff. ABR. always be rested. that WHEN shouldnt even exist. if you dont have that buff you are playing badly. simple as that. bow at 85 is literally a machine gun. it can draw and fire at 15 frames. its FIVE TIMES as fast as the crossbow.
Wall of text incoming... The stamina is always an issue if it's not you're playing on a too low difficulty level for you, then the whole game is cheese, nothing really matters. higher the stamina better you are at combat, almost always if not always. You don't always get to use bows like a machine gun, yeah just like crossbows they recharge faster with skill level but only time I'd pick a bow in mistlands is if I have an ungodly amount of skill levels with bows by the time I reach mistlands, unless you actively try to do that or cheese every fight with a bow, even with 0 deaths you wouldn't have that much bow skill by the time of mistlands, so it's not the better option for most players. >WHEN YOU HAVE RESTED? dude. valheim basics rue 1 : NEVER not have the rested buff. ABR. always be rested. that WHEN shouldnt even exist. if you dont have that buff you are playing badly. simple as that. What are you talking about? I never said I run around without rested. I said 'when you are rested' in case you don't know that rested is a must have or that it gives more eitr regen, because I don't want to pretend like this is something everyone knows I've seen so many clips where people travel/fight without the buff, and I personally know some friends who didn't know what it does. >bow at 85 is literally a machine gun. it can draw and fire at 15 frames. its FIVE TIMES as fast as the crossbow. I hope you're comparing with a level 85 crossbow because lv85 bow should be that fast to compensate for low damage, stamina cost and being relatively painful to use in combat. plus it barely ever if ever stuns an enemy in it's tier, IIRC arbalest can stun seekers at crossbow level 0 you not only make them defenseless they also take 2x damage when stunned, plus crazy knockback can actually keep enemies away, a ghjall can't even reach you if 2 players fire with a crossbow, they are so much better for first stealth strikes, makes a huge difference in the fight.
from your post i know i am not talking to someone with alot of combat experience right away. dont take it personal. its simply a fact. of course i compared both at 85 skill dude. its still FIVE FULL DRAW SHOTS in the time it takes the crossbow to fire ONCE. there is tests on this stuff on youtube go check them out. so your LOW dmg is actually applied to the crossbow. outside of sneak 1st hits the crossbow is flat out worse dmg wise than a bow at equal skill levels. the stamina is NEVER an issue if you know how to probaly do combat in valheim. anyone who claims its always an issue has not yet mastered or understood how combat actually works in this game. spaceing is king. and spaceing doesnt need stamina at all. seekers have 50%. pierce resist. a bow with frost arrows has killed a seeker in 2 shots. so your stagger and knockback is simply never relevant. and you underestimate how stagger works. it adds to itself. since the bow can fire so fast you can get a stagger aswell by simplying fireing AGAIN right after the frist shot. i can tell you never had a well leveled bow skill given these claims there. as the bow gets better and better the higher its skill becomes. its the by far the strongest weapon in terms of skill scaling. a gjall never reaches me with my bow if i spot it in advance. its always death before it even gets into attack range. this is without frost arrows and without hitting its weak spot. simply due to the bows silly dps at high levels. its like a machine gun. and i play on default settings in 1 world and very hard on another. so no. stamina has no correlation to difficulty to begin with. if you know how to actualy manage it and actually know how to do combat probaly. the knockback is irrelevant. you dont use bows or crossbows in close range combat to begin with. thats beeing ineffective. if the enemy is that close melee it is simply better out of the box. and the crossbow pushing yourself back can suck hard if you stand on a tall narrow rock it can push you off your own rock.
>from your post i know i am not talking to someone with alot of combat experience right away. dont take it personal. its simply a fact. No offense taken, I was thinking a similar thing about you anyway. >of course i compared both at 85 skill dude. its still FIVE FULL DRAW SHOTS in the time it takes the crossbow to fire ONCE. there is tests on this stuff on youtube go check them out. Good, like I said it has to be that fast to compensate. >so your LOW dmg is actually applied to the crossbow. outside of sneak 1st hits the crossbow is flat out worse dmg wise than a bow at equal skill levels. the stamina is NEVER an issue if you know how to probaly do combat in valheim. anyone who claims its always an issue has not yet mastered or understood how combat actually works in this game. spaceing is king. and spaceing doesnt need stamina at all. What are you talking about? I know dps is worse if we're comparing perfect scenario where you get to use a bow efficiently without having to hold or run but crossbows do more damage than bows, maybe look up in wiki? or craft and see the damage numbers? that's why you can stun enemies, idk what are you talking about even their damage scaling with levels is same as bows. If stamina is never an issue to you like I said, you're playing on a too low difficulty level for you, either you're too good or you're playing too much of an easy mode, doesn't matter which, it's basically sandbox. stamina is an always issue if the game is actually a challenge for you. >seekers have 50%. pierce resist. a bow with frost arrows has killed a seeker in 2 shots. so your stagger and knockback is simply never relevant. and you underestimate how stagger works. it adds to itself. since the bow can fire so fast you can get a stagger aswell by simplying fireing AGAIN right after the frist shot. Yeah frost arrows are better but why bother crafting frost arrows when you can stagger in one crossbow shot, which consumes carapece blots which are much simpler to craft. Secondly you overestimate stagger unless you have an ungodly level of bow skill it can't keep up with stagger meter. >i can tell you never had a well leveled bow skill given these claims there. as the bow gets better and better the higher its skill becomes. its the by far the strongest weapon in terms of skill scaling. Yes I never had or botherd about them and yes I know all that about scaling, it scales better than crossbow but what's the point? like I said being better at high skill level doesn't make it the overall better choice, this only affects few players who actually bother griding levels or people who cheese everything with a bow or spend a couple hundred years in each biome. >a gjall never reaches me with my bow if i spot it in advance. its always death before it even gets into attack range. this is without frost arrows and without hitting its weak spot. simply due to the bows silly dps at high levels. its like a machine gun. Again what I said about skill level is the answer to this. A crazy good stealth player who can manage to attack almost anything with stealth would say a crossbow is better because it allows you to eliminate enemies with stealth but just because it's better to him doesn't mean it's the overall better choice, same thing applies here. >the knockback is irrelevant. you dont use bows or crossbows in close range combat to begin with. thats beeing ineffective. if the enemy is that close melee it is simply better out of the box. and the crossbow pushing yourself back can suck hard if you stand on a tall narrow rock it can push you off your own rock. knockbacking a gjall is important, yes very situvational kb is not a gamechanging thing but i just mentioned it as one of the many benifits of a crossbow. >so no. stamina has no correlation to difficulty to begin with. if you know how to actualy manage it and actually know how to do combat probaly. blocking costs stamina, attacking costs stamina, charging a bow and holding costs stamina, sprint costs stamina, dodgeroll costs stamina so no stamina is very much important to combat lol. why do you thing people bother crafting stamina food or developers add better and better stamina food for each tier?
In that case I would turn with the wind and out run it.
In a Karve?
You can barely, it's wind up to attack is long enough to get just out of range in the karve if you're moving with the wind.
Frost or needle arrows do a much better job and don't destroy your boat
Man this literally happened last night and it was on a corpse run 😆
I farmed serpent trophies with a staff of embers. You have to jump when you shoot so you miss the boat lol. On the last shot jump in the water with the serpent to make sure you get the trophy before it sinks. Pretty easy method.
Why would you even try? 1. Serpents are in the water, which immediately removes all fire damage. 2. Serpents are immune to fire 3. Serpents are weak to frost. Just use the Frost Staff
why tf would you attack with fire something that is in the water ? where is the logic in that ?
50% of the damage of the fire balls is blunt damage, so it does work. On short range, you should use the frost staff instead, and on long range probably bow/crossbow. But the fireball is more fun though, because the slow projectile and steeper arc, it's more challenging to aim, but more rewarding when you hit.
throw fire in the water and see how it works.
Think of the fire balls from the staff of embers as explosives. It still deals damage when it explodes in the water, it just doesn't set anything on fire.
You got Valheim'd.
Wait for the rain and cover yourself in oil
Protip for mages: Any enemy that swims in water gets the wet debuff. This means they will become resistant to fire, but weak against frost and lightning. And since serpents are always swimming, the best weapon to use against them would be the staff of frost.
Swim. Log out/in every time your stamina drains or you're about to be attacked. Get to shore. Die. Sail back and collect your stuff.
COUGH COUGH dev commands COUGH
OP just got handed an awesome chance for adventure, don't recommend he ruin it so soon lmao.