I made an almost identical comment this morning. I was shocked I have 50 hours in a month, mind you, i am not a gamer. Guess I am now haha. This game is the best and worse ever happened in my life xD
Just for the sake of clarity, the parry bonus doesn't't effect damage. You do get bonus damage for attacking parried enemies but that's a stagger or poise break damage bonus. Parry bonus applies to the armor rating of your sheid. It means that when parrying you can block much more damage than you would in a standard block , which is the main reason that parrying is so important. With a base level bronze buckler with no blocking level bonus the block armor is 16, that's not much for the swamp. However, while parrying with that same buckler, even at 0 blocking skill level, your effective block armor is 40 (16*2.5). You then also benefit from attacking while the enemy is staggered from the parry if they did not out damage your block armor, which will generally result in you being staggered instead.
ouuu thanks for the info, I was actually kind of confused as to why I was still getting staggered when I landed parries, but then you just cleared that up! Nice.
As a guy who has level 3 troll armor, many many FOBs in the black forests, ran around and tagged every crypt, cave, and copper deposit I saw, I can say resources won’t be a problem. And yes, the buckler and parrying is lit. I’ve gotten through fights that should’ve killed me because of keeping my composure and parrying.
I have experienced crypts where there is absolutely nothing at all, all doorways are blocked. The chests are the absolute MVP's when it comes to getting scrap iron, there's so much in the chests. Also as said, pick up the arrows because they are very good to have, not going to spoil why but if you make it through the swamp you'll find out ;] also pick up all the rubies and valuables etc, you might need them later for a little heavy lifting! Very nice video man! Informative with all the useful tips to make the swamp more manageable
@@LekjihThis game has some real weird drops decisions.. like why are tree seeds so rare? Why there are no sheep on meadows? Why some things drop 3 different stuff while other just one?
8:45 Alternatively, build a Portal JUST outside (or on top of!) whatever Crypt you're mining, and use that to both repair your Bronze Pick (which does way more damage and clears out Scrap Piles much faster) and to empty all the not-Iron stuff you're picking up out of your inventory. 13:30 A word of warning about Crypts: they are NOT consistent in terms of you'll find in them. Some Crypts will spawn with very few rooms, or almost no Chests. It's possible to go into a Crypt, clean it all out, and only have, like, 12 Iron in your inventory. Another Crypt, on the other hand, might contains dozens rooms with 15 total chests and yield 4 or 5 stacks of iron. So, don't be too discouraged if you get a "bad Crypt" or two and don't seem to be getting enough Iron - eventually you'll hit on a good Crypt and you'll be able to load up your Karve (or Longboat) with that precious ore. 14:30 If you're going to make any of the Root armor, don't bother with the Iron Armor (unless you're just swimming in Iron somehow). The Root stuff has almost as much defense and way better auxiliary benefits, and once you defeat Bonemass there's a higher-defense, easier-to-farm heavy armor you can make once you do a little Mountain exploration.
yeah damn sometimes you'll find four swamps with 0-2 crypts each and the crypts have a handful of irons. then you'll find one swamp with 14 crypts that each have a ton of iron.
To add to #3, the root harnesk provides invaluable pierce resistance and is often times much stronger than raw defense in end game content. Also less movement penalty.
The fully upgraded wooden club does almost as much damage as the level 1 bronze mace. This can save you a decent chunk of farming while maintaining the blunt damage bonus for most mobs in the swamp. Upgrading the wooden club uses skeleton bones that you'll have plenty of from farming cores and treasure in the Black Forest burial crypts. ;)
@@Saeyanel nah, tombstones will stay forever as long as they have at least one thing in them. From what I understand it hasn't been that way for quite a while, whenever they made every death marker stay until manually cleared they also changed that.
Valheim is a game for AUTISTIC people who like to play building all day. The game it self i actually really bad and underdeveloped. ( yes i know it early access, but when people can make MODS that make the game better than what excuse the devs have??? ) Many mods have been made that make the game way better than its original state. But it amazes me how people defend the bad game play the tedious and pointless farming the game has. But it becomes clear, most fans are AUTISTIC. *They cant think outside of the box.* They dont understand that a the game developer can add some form of UPGRADES to the progression in the game. *UPGRADES that make the tedious parts in the game less tedious.* Example i fine that when you hit Bronze age you have to farm copper ore manually and it takes a long time if you want to get all the ore ( because digging it all out and then digging under it so it finally collapsed, takes a long time, but you get all the copper ore that way ) No problem if you have to do it 5 or 10 times if you hit bronze age I also have no problem that you are forced to use a boat if you want to travel. I also have no issue that with PORTALS you can't teleport ore. *But those LIMITATION should be at the beginning in the game. Later in game you should have the option to UPGRADE to eliminate some of this limitations.* The game should have NATURAL UPGRADES after certain technology advancement or after killing a boss that you can build UPGRADES that help you farm copper ore faster, that lets you discover the map so that you don't have to go in every single location with your boat... ( maybe sending some mythical viking crows that will reveal some parts of the map or something like that ) .. and then a UPGRADE that will UPGRADE the PORTALS so you can finally transport ORE. Stuff like that should be in the game so i player feels a sense of progression and that the things you first were forced to do and took long time, now can be speeded up. _________________________________________________ It amazes me how the big fans of the game can't even imagine that this could be a thing in the game OWN DESIGN. No Mods but build in options. Instead people say if you want to transport ore with portals use a MOD or use COMMANDs to get ore directly. *Why are the big fans of the game so unimaginative* and they are fine with the poor and bad design of the original game???? Reason????? Because most people can't think out side the box and with this game we have just AUTISTIC people who like to build all day but also a combination with low IQ. Autisim + low IQ ... and its sad. ________________________________________________ Valheim could be a so much better game if the fan base would be smart enough to demand it.
@@tanelviil9149 on another note, you have serious issues bro. Small indie game literally $20 and ur calling people autistic for enjoying the game. Get a life and go outside. If u dont like those aspects of the game mod it or dont play
I never use Bronze chest and legs in the swamp, only the helmet and Troll armor. The slightly lower defense is worth it for the 10% better movement speed.
My best tip for the game in general is built outposts. I just beat the elder and I can say that bringing just 6 copper and 4 coal to built a forge as well as a workbench just to have a place to sleep, rest, and repair is how you succeed the tactical way. Especially if you cross the ocean! Nothing worst than getting stranded… always have a backup plan, a way back home, extra supplies, etc… I’ve literally just repaired old houses I’ve found and they make excellent little places just to get rested. My favorite is this old stone keep I half rebuilt with the best of my abilities that had the elder’s rune stone! When I unlock the right gear, I’m going to fully repair that place and make one sturdy outpost…
Swamp makes us miss the meadows surrounded by black forrests. When we could easily head out to the woods but come back at the mansion in the evening. I simply hate losing my precious gear when I die
Been watching a lot of valheim youtube movies from other youtubers and even after thinking I saw it all you surprised me by dropping a lot of great tips and tricks! Thank you!
An important notice to everyone on Xbox: If your world save reaches over 50mbs it will become corrupted due to a bug where the Xbox can't read the save file. The devs know of this and are working on a fix. If you load into a world and everything is reset close out of the game. Don't log out. There is a chance your world will be recoverable once the bug is fixed.
Damn...... first time I ever heard of that bonfire trick. Epic !! I only just started exploring a swamp biome and of course I got stomped by an abomination. None of the other mobs are particularly hard but that bugger.............
A bit of misinformation on the parry bonus of the buckler. The parry bonus has nothing to do with the damage you deal to a staggered enemy. It's always double the base damage of your weapon The parry bonus applies to amount of damage your shield can block if you parry with it. Let's say you have no armor on and your shield blocks 50 dmg and has 2,5 parry bonus. An enemy hits you for 80 dmg. 50 dmg is blocked by the shield and you take 30 dmg. But if you parry the attack that parry bonus takes that block value of 50 and multiplies it by 2,5 making it 125 and now it blocks the 80 dmg completely.
@@Earadon Upgrading the bronze buckler is actually something I wouldn't do. That is if you have found a swamp and are planning to go there right after getting your first bronze. You can get iron pretty fast and thus the iron buckler. Upgrading iron tools is much easier than bronze. But yeah definately upgrade your buckler. Iron buckler can last you till endgame if you keep upgrading it.
@@X_Lander That was my plan, I've already switched to iron buckler, and I know I won't get another till at least carapace buckler, running a knife n buckler build atm~
The problem is his info is incorrect. Parry bonus is not applied to your damage to a staggered enemy. Damage on a staggered enemy is always double your weapon damage and has nothing to do with your shield. Parry bonus is bonus blocked damage. So his Block armor on the Buckler is 16. So a normal block will absorb 16 damage. The parry bonus is 2.5x which means it will block up to 40 damage when you successfully Parry (16x2.5=40). If the enemy hits for around 30-35 DMG or so, this means a block will only absorb half the damage (what gets through is then reduced again by your Armor value) but a Parry will absorb all of the damage. This means that even if you are naked, a successful Parry on this enemy with bronze Buckler results in you taking no damage. Of note: He does not make it very clear that you must wait until just before the attack lands before you press your block in order to successfully Parry. He says "when the attack is about to hit, hold Right click" This could be misinterpreted to suggest that you can hold block long before the enemy attacks, but it's important to only press block after the enemy starts swinging but before the attack lands. He kind of explains this but I just wanted to make sure everyone understood what he meant.
Great video! I'm subbing! We just found our first swamp and it's been challenging to say the least, but this video will definitely help us out a lot. Thanks!
YYYEEESSS I’ve had the game for a while(practically since release) but I haven’t played much I’m now up to the point where I need to go to the swamp hopefully this will help me
Started this game when if first came out on pc experimental now playing xseries version i find that stagbreaker is a great all around weapon and tool i use it to find iron and treasure before i even get key great tips especially explaining mead and tasty mead def great for stamina 😊
Would recommend learning the attack patterns of the Abomination. Just using a buckler and an axe makes them one of the biggest pushovers in the game. They have one attack that can be easily paired and the stagger lasts a good few seconds
For parrying just time it so that you press block right when the attack should hit you. The parry window in this game is very generous so if you’ve played any other games with parrying you should be able to get it down pretty easily
the root mask does not add more damage reduction towards poison it will be overruled by the mead and the parry bonus is not for the damage you deal but for the extra amount of damage you can block if you time it
When I’m walking around searching for crypts I try to remove all the actual tree stumps, so then I know every tree stump is in fact an Abomination spawn
Been in the swamp for several days now and have been constantly exploring new parts of a massive swamp island. I haven’t seen a single turnip seed. It’s maddening
I was lucky enough to find a turnip on the edge of the swamp while I was still exploring the Black Forest. I now have a couple hundred, and am going into the Swamp much better prepared than I otherwise would be.
Man i literally went thru the game without even knowing turnips are a thing. I was wondering why i didnt get any new food in the swamp besides sausages
Here's a next level tip. Make an opposite world. that has a forge extra items food. Everything you would need for Resupply. You can save, go back to your. Original world and never have to backtrack.
Or just carry the materials for a portal with a portal at your base without a tag so you can instantly teleport back in a pinch. No need to log out into a different world
You can renew rest in crypts by laying down a fire and sitting down for 30sec. It will smoke you out in about 25secs so I'd recommend clearing the crypt first, still be on the look out for skellys coming out of nowhere. The rested buff gives you higher health and stamina regen and xp gain from mobs, so it's worth it to get that rested bonus back up, before leaving a safe place to make your trek back to base.
Fully upgraded troll armour will carry you through till you're at the mountains, bronze and iron might have slightly higher stats but 15% movement speed reduction will hurt you a lot more than the small amount of missing defense
I decided to play a bit of Valheim recently, not for the first time, btw. Everything was smooth until I found a swamp. This particular swamp is one of the most difficult I've faced so far. To enter it you would have to cross a river with a tiny black forest patch about 7 square meters on the other side. Then you have a sea on the left side, plains on your right side and this hell of a swamp line in-between... When I went in it was hard like never before. The swamp itself had 1 square meter patches of land separated by 50-80 meters of chest deep water, where leeches were swarming. Wat I went through is standing on those tiny patches of land barely holding of endless draugrs supported by skeleton archers and abomination and there were 7-9 leeches waiting for me to take a step into water. There were also several deathskitos and a ghost coming to say hello. It felt like event attack back at base except that the waves were endless. When you kill a draugr you get guts or smth as a drop. After 15 mins of this hell I had my lvl 3 mace almost broken and about 70 guts, 44 bladders from leeches. Basically I only barely advanced into the swamp and was forced to run away. Worst nightmare of a swamp I've seen so far in this game.
I try to make a definitive path into the swamp that has several campfires along it in which ever biome borders it. I eventually get chased by an Abomination and when I can lure it over campfires if no Imp Fire is near they help to bring them down fairly quickly. Stopping to parry an Abom while it burns in a campfire is super effective.
unless something has changed, then stacking poison resist potion with the root mask is pointless as same resistances don't stack. at least that's how it has been.
I don't believe the poison resist stacks but the pierce resist of the serpent shield and root harnesk do stack. So food for thought for a tank player in the mistlands.
Started playing, been scouting each biom before I actually get there, been making sneaky tactics to combat enemies even before I'm at the level, I'm at swamp now,
I still recommend the Sword over the Mace even though all Enemys have weakness to blunt. Because of the secondary Attack anbd a Serpent shield granbting Pirce Resist and is easily obtainable - with a Sword and Karve. Just lure it landsides - harpoons help a lot here. The Swords thrust can kill Leeches without getting in their attack range. Also, the thrust kills the Draugr very well and a Iron Sword does it for sure (aside the staryy ones). The Thrust works VERY well for Abominations as well even though pulling them to a Flame is also a valid Thing. The Sword allows also for very easy defeating Ghosts as well as you can have them welcomed with a thrust. For Blunt (mostly for geek Spawners) have the Stagbreaker at ready if you want - I also prefer the Sword here and are pretty muich the same speed than a Friend with the Mace. Also, have a Portal to put on top of the Dungeons as well a a Core Wood for placinf a sitting Log and enough for a Camppfire with you. On entering the Dungeon, you destroy the Torches and place a Log on one and the Fire on the other Side - et voila, comfort 3 and you get dry as inside the permanent wet-condition does not apply. And Matey here did not mention that the Crossbow need a Black Forge (Mistlands, 3 Biomes later) - Forget about that fast.
Don't need potions until the boss. Just bring 2 hp and 1 stam food, an atgeir, bow, club or mace, build hammer, bonfire materials, and about 10-20 wood. When you see an abomination place your bonfire and keep the bonfire in-between you and it, keep your hammer on repair in case it decides to attack your bonfire, and if you keep just outside it's attack range you can repair while he burns. The atgeir will off balance all drauger and wraiths unless they're 2 stars. Also if you have trouble with the wraiths after that you can set a bonfire, move to the opposite side the wraith and wait to special attack the wraith into the bonfire. All ooze and blobs can be spammed with the stag hammer, just know they like to jump when they're almost in stag range. Also when in the crypt you can kill the spawners and enemies in the rooms before you clear all the muddy scraps piles out. This also works for the towers in the swamps and helps to take out spawns while dealing with the enemies outside the crypts. The fire things idk the name of you just dig below their spawner so they spawn in water and die. If you have trouble with poison like ooze and blobs or boss build the root helm first, if you have trouble with archers build the root chest first, they greatly reduce the damage. Leeches are pretty simple, just don't go in water, but bows and the stags are the way to go. Skeletons are weak to blunt Bows are good to take large chuck off of enemies before theyre alerted otherwise save them for the abomination. Also if you use fire arrows, with the bonfire damage and fire arrows damage they will run, just take a couple shots in their back and let them run. Run up a bit, long range them, then they'll come running back.
Parry bonus doesn't increase damage. It increased the block armor value if you parry the attack. They take increased damage due to being staggered, and that's a static multiplyer. Great video overall, though!
An even easier and cheaper way to fight Abominations is to just hop up on top of a sunken crypt and hit it with your axe. The height is perfect and you won't get hit at all - while his legs will always be in range of your axe. Also, use an axe on guck, not a pickaxe.
parry is good 1x1 but on swamp in 80% moment you will fight 1vs3 or 1vs4 .... and bakler - is bed choise .... better take iron shield, on +3 it will give 60 pure def bonus, coper bakler 28 or 32
Picked it up on pc about a week ago, already have 50hrs logged and I work a full time job. This game is unhealthy
same i put a couple of my co workers on now that’s all we talk about at work 😂
Haha agreed, from 6 to 14 and also did 5 saturdays in a row but still done about 30 hours in a week 😂
hahah same here poisonous to my sleep
I made an almost identical comment this morning. I was shocked I have 50 hours in a month, mind you, i am not a gamer. Guess I am now haha. This game is the best and worse ever happened in my life xD
Fucking sammmeeee me and my buddy started playing maybe a month ago on Xbox and haven’t stopped playing been grinding so much so unhealthy
The swamped absolutely wrecked my entire existence. Thought I was ready, I was not. Had to make three ships to recover my stuff each time
Broooo do it on a new map where the 1st piece of earth, there is some swamp
Sorry for bad english
I know i’m 8 months late but why didn’t you dock up and make a portal?
@@kevin-bv6ggas he said he thought he was ready, he was not, and also probably a mix of overconfidence on the return trips
thats why I have always a "Temp" Portal nearby and a small base in each region before I get to explore a new region.
Just for the sake of clarity, the parry bonus doesn't't effect damage. You do get bonus damage for attacking parried enemies but that's a stagger or poise break damage bonus. Parry bonus applies to the armor rating of your sheid. It means that when parrying you can block much more damage than you would in a standard block , which is the main reason that parrying is so important.
With a base level bronze buckler with no blocking level bonus the block armor is 16, that's not much for the swamp. However, while parrying with that same buckler, even at 0 blocking skill level, your effective block armor is 40 (16*2.5). You then also benefit from attacking while the enemy is staggered from the parry if they did not out damage your block armor, which will generally result in you being staggered instead.
ouuu thanks for the info, I was actually kind of confused as to why I was still getting staggered when I landed parries, but then you just cleared that up! Nice.
As a guy who has level 3 troll armor, many many FOBs in the black forests, ran around and tagged every crypt, cave, and copper deposit I saw, I can say resources won’t be a problem. And yes, the buckler and parrying is lit. I’ve gotten through fights that should’ve killed me because of keeping my composure and parrying.
FOB?
@@V_ranx12 Forward Operating Base, aka outposts
Outpost is more apt
I have been waiting for Valheim to hit XBOX. And woah was it worth the wait. Thank you kindly for helping us Norse Noobs out. Have a great weekend all
I was really getting pissed trying to progress into the swamp until just now watching this video. Thanks
I have experienced crypts where there is absolutely nothing at all, all doorways are blocked. The chests are the absolute MVP's when it comes to getting scrap iron, there's so much in the chests. Also as said, pick up the arrows because they are very good to have, not going to spoil why but if you make it through the swamp you'll find out ;] also pick up all the rubies and valuables etc, you might need them later for a little heavy lifting! Very nice video man! Informative with all the useful tips to make the swamp more manageable
The stagbreaker is also nice for the crypts as the AoE damages all entities in the room you want, but not the scrappiles
I love sausage as much as the next person.
But there is not a chance in hell that I will ever eat sausages made from the intestines of zombies
I really don’t understand why other animals don’t drop intestines
@@LekjihThis game has some real weird drops decisions.. like why are tree seeds so rare? Why there are no sheep on meadows? Why some things drop 3 different stuff while other just one?
Just add butter to it.
Speak for yourself
@@DearAnem0ia yeah I am. That's why it says I in it
My friends and I have recently just started this game and I have to say, your videos have made both mine and my friends time more enjoyable
8:45 Alternatively, build a Portal JUST outside (or on top of!) whatever Crypt you're mining, and use that to both repair your Bronze Pick (which does way more damage and clears out Scrap Piles much faster) and to empty all the not-Iron stuff you're picking up out of your inventory.
13:30 A word of warning about Crypts: they are NOT consistent in terms of you'll find in them. Some Crypts will spawn with very few rooms, or almost no Chests. It's possible to go into a Crypt, clean it all out, and only have, like, 12 Iron in your inventory. Another Crypt, on the other hand, might contains dozens rooms with 15 total chests and yield 4 or 5 stacks of iron. So, don't be too discouraged if you get a "bad Crypt" or two and don't seem to be getting enough Iron - eventually you'll hit on a good Crypt and you'll be able to load up your Karve (or Longboat) with that precious ore.
14:30 If you're going to make any of the Root armor, don't bother with the Iron Armor (unless you're just swimming in Iron somehow). The Root stuff has almost as much defense and way better auxiliary benefits, and once you defeat Bonemass there's a higher-defense, easier-to-farm heavy armor you can make once you do a little Mountain exploration.
Thanks for the tips!
yeah damn sometimes you'll find four swamps with 0-2 crypts each and the crypts have a handful of irons. then you'll find one swamp with 14 crypts that each have a ton of iron.
To add to #3, the root harnesk provides invaluable pierce resistance and is often times much stronger than raw defense in end game content. Also less movement penalty.
The fully upgraded wooden club does almost as much damage as the level 1 bronze mace. This can save you a decent chunk of farming while maintaining the blunt damage bonus for most mobs in the swamp. Upgrading the wooden club uses skeleton bones that you'll have plenty of from farming cores and treasure in the Black Forest burial crypts. ;)
You're not kidding about the bones. I killed myself in my basement the other day just to use my tombstone as bone storage
@@-user_redacted- ahaha super roleplay, but careful if you die again though, you'll lose all of them !
@@Saeyanel nah, tombstones will stay forever as long as they have at least one thing in them. From what I understand it hasn't been that way for quite a while, whenever they made every death marker stay until manually cleared they also changed that.
Valheim is a game for AUTISTIC people who like to play building all day. The game it self i actually really bad and underdeveloped. ( yes i know it early access, but when people can make MODS that make the game better than what excuse the devs have??? )
Many mods have been made that make the game way better than its original state. But it amazes me how people defend the bad game play the tedious and pointless farming the game has.
But it becomes clear, most fans are AUTISTIC. *They cant think outside of the box.*
They dont understand that a the game developer can add some form of UPGRADES to the progression in the game. *UPGRADES that make the tedious parts in the game less tedious.*
Example
i fine that when you hit Bronze age you have to farm copper ore manually and it takes a long time if you want to get all the ore ( because digging it all out and then digging under it so it finally collapsed, takes a long time, but you get all the copper ore that way )
No problem if you have to do it 5 or 10 times if you hit bronze age
I also have no problem that you are forced to use a boat if you want to travel.
I also have no issue that with PORTALS you can't teleport ore.
*But those LIMITATION should be at the beginning in the game. Later in game you should have the option to UPGRADE to eliminate some of this limitations.*
The game should have NATURAL UPGRADES after certain technology advancement or after killing a boss that you can build UPGRADES that help you farm copper ore faster, that lets you discover the map so that you don't have to go in every single location with your boat...
( maybe sending some mythical viking crows that will reveal some parts of the map or something like that ) .. and then a UPGRADE that will UPGRADE the PORTALS so you can finally transport ORE.
Stuff like that should be in the game so i player feels a sense of progression and that the things you first were forced to do and took long time, now can be speeded up.
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It amazes me how the big fans of the game can't even imagine that this could be a thing in the game OWN DESIGN.
No Mods but build in options.
Instead people say if you want to transport ore with portals use a MOD or use COMMANDs to get ore directly.
*Why are the big fans of the game so unimaginative* and they are fine with the poor and bad design of the original game????
Reason?????
Because most people can't think out side the box and with this game we have just AUTISTIC people who like to build all day but also a combination with low IQ.
Autisim + low IQ ... and its sad.
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Valheim could be a so much better game if the fan base would be smart enough to demand it.
@@tanelviil9149 on another note, you have serious issues bro.
Small indie game literally $20 and ur calling people autistic for enjoying the game. Get a life and go outside. If u dont like those aspects of the game mod it or dont play
6:06 That window is very generous. I have always struggled with the timing of parrying in other games but with Valheim it's so easy
I never use Bronze chest and legs in the swamp, only the helmet and Troll armor. The slightly lower defense is worth it for the 10% better movement speed.
I just used bronze everything with a bronze Atgeir. My friend wore full troll and used bow. Worked really well.
@@ofrenic wow me and my duo doing the same thing
My best tip for the game in general is built outposts. I just beat the elder and I can say that bringing just 6 copper and 4 coal to built a forge as well as a workbench just to have a place to sleep, rest, and repair is how you succeed the tactical way.
Especially if you cross the ocean! Nothing worst than getting stranded… always have a backup plan, a way back home, extra supplies, etc…
I’ve literally just repaired old houses I’ve found and they make excellent little places just to get rested. My favorite is this old stone keep I half rebuilt with the best of my abilities that had the elder’s rune stone! When I unlock the right gear, I’m going to fully repair that place and make one sturdy outpost…
Started Valheim from the beginning recently, this will be an interesting watch to see if I have missed anything
Swamp makes us miss the meadows surrounded by black forrests. When we could easily head out to the woods but come back at the mansion in the evening. I simply hate losing my precious gear when I die
Been watching a lot of valheim youtube movies from other youtubers and even after thinking I saw it all you surprised me by dropping a lot of great tips and tricks! Thank you!
An important notice to everyone on Xbox:
If your world save reaches over 50mbs it will become corrupted due to a bug where the Xbox can't read the save file. The devs know of this and are working on a fix. If you load into a world and everything is reset close out of the game. Don't log out. There is a chance your world will be recoverable once the bug is fixed.
Fantastic video. I'm new and swamps were kicking my butt. After 3 other mediocre videos, this one is the only one I needed to watch on the topic.
Damn...... first time I ever heard of that bonfire trick. Epic !! I only just started exploring a swamp biome and of course I got stomped by an abomination. None of the other mobs are particularly hard but that bugger.............
A bit of misinformation on the parry bonus of the buckler. The parry bonus has nothing to do with the damage you deal to a staggered enemy. It's always double the base damage of your weapon The parry bonus applies to amount of damage your shield can block if you parry with it.
Let's say you have no armor on and your shield blocks 50 dmg and has 2,5 parry bonus. An enemy hits you for 80 dmg. 50 dmg is blocked by the shield and you take 30 dmg.
But if you parry the attack that parry bonus takes that block value of 50 and multiplies it by 2,5 making it 125 and now it blocks the 80 dmg completely.
So upgrading your buckler is actually a good idea then, good to know~
@@Earadon Upgrading the bronze buckler is actually something I wouldn't do. That is if you have found a swamp and are planning to go there right after getting your first bronze. You can get iron pretty fast and thus the iron buckler. Upgrading iron tools is much easier than bronze. But yeah definately upgrade your buckler. Iron buckler can last you till endgame if you keep upgrading it.
@@X_Lander That was my plan, I've already switched to iron buckler, and I know I won't get another till at least carapace buckler, running a knife n buckler build atm~
@@Earadon Sounds good!
Great video -- love the explanation of parrying vs blocking.. can be very confusing for new players
The problem is his info is incorrect.
Parry bonus is not applied to your damage to a staggered enemy. Damage on a staggered enemy is always double your weapon damage and has nothing to do with your shield.
Parry bonus is bonus blocked damage. So his Block armor on the Buckler is 16. So a normal block will absorb 16 damage. The parry bonus is 2.5x which means it will block up to 40 damage when you successfully Parry (16x2.5=40). If the enemy hits for around 30-35 DMG or so, this means a block will only absorb half the damage (what gets through is then reduced again by your Armor value) but a Parry will absorb all of the damage. This means that even if you are naked, a successful Parry on this enemy with bronze Buckler results in you taking no damage.
Of note: He does not make it very clear that you must wait until just before the attack lands before you press your block in order to successfully Parry. He says "when the attack is about to hit, hold Right click" This could be misinterpreted to suggest that you can hold block long before the enemy attacks, but it's important to only press block after the enemy starts swinging but before the attack lands. He kind of explains this but I just wanted to make sure everyone understood what he meant.
Also of note for those who are wondering: block force is how much knockback you do when you Parry.
@@goofywarriorguy2439 i never knew about block force, thanks
I couldn't have asked for a better swamp guide! THANK YOU!!!!
nice video, love the wraiths cheese, would have liked to see this with a stertling spawner as its fun to watch
Great video! I'm subbing! We just found our first swamp and it's been challenging to say the least, but this video will definitely help us out a lot. Thanks!
I use the Stagbreaker for enemies in the crypt behind the muck. It hits through the walls.
very useful video, thank you for making this. More begginers need to see this video from start to finish
YYYEEESSS I’ve had the game for a while(practically since release) but I haven’t played much I’m now up to the point where I need to go to the swamp hopefully this will help me
Very nice Nick...well done. You are the master!
This video was extremely helpful and just what I needed!
This guide is really really informative, I wish it had less spoilers though, right now it's a walkthrough.
Wouldn’t recommend watching guides on specific biomes if you don’t want spoilers about said biome.
Thanks I picked it up years ago but this really helped
Started this game when if first came out on pc experimental now playing xseries version i find that stagbreaker is a great all around weapon and tool i use it to find iron and treasure before i even get key great tips especially explaining mead and tasty mead def great for stamina 😊
Just in time , we are stuck in bronze age xd
XD I hope this helps
Sameeeee lol
Feels like you skipped a biome when you get to the swamp it's so hard
@@cmac6136 exactly what i was thinking
You're not alone. My friend and I lost all of our stuff in the swamp immediately. Took 2+ hrs and many more deaths to get it back lol
Thanks dude I’ve been looking for a good guide to bone mass and I’m definitely going to use your cross strat since bonemass always gives me trouble. 👍
Thank you man your guides save me to these days
Great video, very informative for valheim newbies
Excellent guide Nick. Great explanations on whys and what fors.
This guide is so good, it helped me immensely!
Great clear and straight-to-the-point content. Liked&subscribed
Missed you - thx for the upload 😌
This is definitely the best guide ive seen thank u really helped me
Thanks for the tips! Really comprehensive and well explained video.
Nice video, but 4:10 Serpent stew? You would need iron and chains to cook it, as far as I know. So how would a swamp beginner have that?
Would recommend learning the attack patterns of the Abomination. Just using a buckler and an axe makes them one of the biggest pushovers in the game. They have one attack that can be easily paired and the stagger lasts a good few seconds
Love your videos, been running through again and it’s great for a refresh
For parrying just time it so that you press block right when the attack should hit you. The parry window in this game is very generous so if you’ve played any other games with parrying you should be able to get it down pretty easily
Such a highly helpful tips and tricks video!
Just the guide I was looking for! Thanks man!
i used to hate the swamp but it has grown on me i kinda like it now
the root mask does not add more damage reduction towards poison it will be overruled by the mead and the parry bonus is not for the damage you deal but for the extra amount of damage you can block if you time it
When I’m walking around searching for crypts I try to remove all the actual tree stumps, so then I know every tree stump is in fact an Abomination spawn
Been in the swamp for several days now and have been constantly exploring new parts of a massive swamp island. I haven’t seen a single turnip seed. It’s maddening
They're way too rare. The good news is once you find one, you can just start planting them and multiplying them pretty quick.
I was lucky enough to find a turnip on the edge of the swamp while I was still exploring the Black Forest. I now have a couple hundred, and am going into the Swamp much better prepared than I otherwise would be.
Man i literally went thru the game without even knowing turnips are a thing. I was wondering why i didnt get any new food in the swamp besides sausages
@@maciejfedak1258 considering how dark and muddy it is, it's hard to actually see the plant
great help good work:)
Hey mate, thanks for the video. Very useful!
How do you are the headtorch you are using?
Here's a next level tip. Make an opposite world. that has a forge extra items food. Everything you would need for Resupply. You can save, go back to your. Original world and never have to backtrack.
Or just carry the materials for a portal with a portal at your base without a tag so you can instantly teleport back in a pinch. No need to log out into a different world
Excelent guide lines!!! cheers mate!! ☺
You can renew rest in crypts by laying down a fire and sitting down for 30sec. It will smoke you out in about 25secs so I'd recommend clearing the crypt first, still be on the look out for skellys coming out of nowhere. The rested buff gives you higher health and stamina regen and xp gain from mobs, so it's worth it to get that rested bonus back up, before leaving a safe place to make your trek back to base.
I was fleeing creatures from the swamp and accidentally ran into the plains Rip 😅
Story of my life.
I usually use the stagbreaker to kill enemies behind the scrap piles
Fully upgraded troll armour will carry you through till you're at the mountains, bronze and iron might have slightly higher stats but 15% movement speed reduction will hurt you a lot more than the small amount of missing defense
I decided to play a bit of Valheim recently, not for the first time, btw. Everything was smooth until I found a swamp. This particular swamp is one of the most difficult I've faced so far. To enter it you would have to cross a river with a tiny black forest patch about 7 square meters on the other side. Then you have a sea on the left side, plains on your right side and this hell of a swamp line in-between... When I went in it was hard like never before. The swamp itself had 1 square meter patches of land separated by 50-80 meters of chest deep water, where leeches were swarming. Wat I went through is standing on those tiny patches of land barely holding of endless draugrs supported by skeleton archers and abomination and there were 7-9 leeches waiting for me to take a step into water. There were also several deathskitos and a ghost coming to say hello. It felt like event attack back at base except that the waves were endless. When you kill a draugr you get guts or smth as a drop. After 15 mins of this hell I had my lvl 3 mace almost broken and about 70 guts, 44 bladders from leeches. Basically I only barely advanced into the swamp and was forced to run away. Worst nightmare of a swamp I've seen so far in this game.
I try to make a definitive path into the swamp that has several campfires along it in which ever biome borders it. I eventually get chased by an Abomination and when I can lure it over campfires if no Imp Fire is near they help to bring them down fairly quickly. Stopping to parry an Abom while it burns in a campfire is super effective.
stagbreaker is the weapon for every crypt, just hit the wall and you`ll most likely kill every mob and the spawner in the room behind
Great overview Nick!
Wow what an awesome guide, thank you man
unless something has changed, then stacking poison resist potion with the root mask is pointless as same resistances don't stack. at least that's how it has been.
I don't believe the poison resist stacks but the pierce resist of the serpent shield and root harnesk do stack. So food for thought for a tank player in the mistlands.
Great guide!
Very good Guide!
Started playing, been scouting each biom before I actually get there, been making sneaky tactics to combat enemies even before I'm at the level, I'm at swamp now,
Great stuff Nick!
Great video. Many thanks.
Thanks for the video.
I still recommend the Sword over the Mace even though all Enemys have weakness to blunt.
Because of the secondary Attack anbd a Serpent shield granbting Pirce Resist and is easily obtainable - with a Sword and Karve. Just lure it landsides - harpoons help a lot here.
The Swords thrust can kill Leeches without getting in their attack range.
Also, the thrust kills the Draugr very well and a Iron Sword does it for sure (aside the staryy ones).
The Thrust works VERY well for Abominations as well even though pulling them to a Flame is also a valid Thing.
The Sword allows also for very easy defeating Ghosts as well as you can have them welcomed with a thrust.
For Blunt (mostly for geek Spawners) have the Stagbreaker at ready if you want - I also prefer the Sword here and are pretty muich the same speed than a Friend with the Mace.
Also, have a Portal to put on top of the Dungeons as well a a Core Wood for placinf a sitting Log and enough for a Camppfire with you.
On entering the Dungeon, you destroy the Torches and place a Log on one and the Fire on the other Side - et voila, comfort 3 and you get dry as inside the permanent wet-condition does not apply.
And Matey here did not mention that the Crossbow need a Black Forge (Mistlands, 3 Biomes later) - Forget about that fast.
Don't need potions until the boss. Just bring 2 hp and 1 stam food, an atgeir, bow, club or mace, build hammer, bonfire materials, and about 10-20 wood. When you see an abomination place your bonfire and keep the bonfire in-between you and it, keep your hammer on repair in case it decides to attack your bonfire, and if you keep just outside it's attack range you can repair while he burns.
The atgeir will off balance all drauger and wraiths unless they're 2 stars. Also if you have trouble with the wraiths after that you can set a bonfire, move to the opposite side the wraith and wait to special attack the wraith into the bonfire.
All ooze and blobs can be spammed with the stag hammer, just know they like to jump when they're almost in stag range. Also when in the crypt you can kill the spawners and enemies in the rooms before you clear all the muddy scraps piles out. This also works for the towers in the swamps and helps to take out spawns while dealing with the enemies outside the crypts.
The fire things idk the name of you just dig below their spawner so they spawn in water and die.
If you have trouble with poison like ooze and blobs or boss build the root helm first, if you have trouble with archers build the root chest first, they greatly reduce the damage.
Leeches are pretty simple, just don't go in water, but bows and the stags are the way to go.
Skeletons are weak to blunt
Bows are good to take large chuck off of enemies before theyre alerted otherwise save them for the abomination. Also if you use fire arrows, with the bonfire damage and fire arrows damage they will run, just take a couple shots in their back and let them run. Run up a bit, long range them, then they'll come running back.
Amazing. If I could rate it from 1 to 5 I would rate 7. Congrats. Very good production and very good tips. This video surely took you a lot of time.
If you are real good at partying, dagger is your friend. They get 4x parry bonus and attack much quicker than heavy weapons.
Thanks for the fantastisk video 😊👍my BIG Problem is the map. I dont have any and do know how the hell i am going to find Home When i leave the Island.
Thanks again
I've noticed that if you parry an enemy and send them into a campfire the enemy takes increased damage and makes the same hit sound after the parry.
Any damage after a successful parry is increased. Including DoT damage.
That is super helpful😊
Oooooh! Thanks for the new video!
People should add all the stuff up for us so we know exactly how much stuff we need. That would be helpful
I like that you got your equipment from Shrek
great video. Thanks!!
Xbox version is really damn good, I can’t wait to finally venture into the swamp cause I just got some poison resistance potions crafted
Running away from the draugr while explaining the buckler 😂
Nice comment: enjoyable and informative, thanks
new axe special attack can hit abombs from the top of crypts. i think it's the best swamp weapon now
New sub super thanks best content ever!
Hey guys, what about knife as one hand weapon? Topic on 1:35
I like how quick it is + running with it a lot so it’s already high in stats. Any advice?
Parry bonus doesn't increase damage. It increased the block armor value if you parry the attack.
They take increased damage due to being staggered, and that's a static multiplyer.
Great video overall, though!
An even easier and cheaper way to fight Abominations is to just hop up on top of a sunken crypt and hit it with your axe. The height is perfect and you won't get hit at all - while his legs will always be in range of your axe.
Also, use an axe on guck, not a pickaxe.
Great video
Awesome stuff!
how were you building any where was there a crafting bench we didn't see
Bruh just got into this game and this is super helpful. It's kinda late to the bandwagon but...
Never too late to start!
parry is good 1x1 but on swamp in 80% moment you will fight 1vs3 or 1vs4 .... and bakler - is bed choise .... better take iron shield, on +3 it will give 60 pure def bonus, coper bakler 28 or 32
115 days in on Xbox I m going to go to the swamp with this information I been farming troll for the armor upgrades bronze is to heavy