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The feather cape does have the one drawback of actually slowing you down if you are jumping and want to get away from creatures. But, yeah, I'm still always using it!

It's quite easy to get troll armor before Bronze if you are reasonably adept at kiting. With Eikthyr's forsaken power kiting success can be increased, but there is also a creative way to use it to get trolls for their hides. Most Black forests border a mountain zone. I will run along the border of a mountain zone listening for wolves. When I hear them, I know they spawn close to the Black forest zone. I then go and find a troll and agro him to follow me to the border. I lead him into the mountain zone and listen for the wolf howls. Then I click the forsaken run buff and take him to the wolves. Watch your health, as you likely won't have frost protection yet, but the border is close, so hook up the troll and wolf and head back to the forest. The wolves will switch to the troll if you run around him. If unlucky the troll dispatches the wolf in one blow, but two wolves can decimate a troll (avoid trolls with bats!). Even if the troll survives, it will have lost a lot of health. I have even let the troll return, found another wolf and dragged the troll to him. It's fun, and I can start getting hide armor wearing rags. There are tricks to root armor as well. Abominations will chase you quite far, though they can also stop and return, so be patient. Build four campfires spread out on a grassy meadow that adjoins a swamp. Agro the abomination and kite him through the fires. I find it cuts the time to kill him way down. My latest save I discovered a surtling spawn with the fire jet in a pond of water. This meant that the surtlings would die as soon as they spawned. I then dragged an abomination over to the fire jet, and he was dead in under two minutes with no fight, only kiting in circles. It pays to think out of the box early game! The root helmet is super important for the Bonemass fight, and the root chest is super important in the plains. No more deathsquitos one shotting you with the root chest piece. After the swamp, I mix and match armors now.

Tip for getting more armor in Valheim without having to constantly explore more to find swamps--The item you get from the swamp boss does not only work in the mountains to find silver. Equip it in the swamps to find buried iron scrap piles.

The Eitr-weave armor should on top of the faster Eitr regeneration add 100 base Eitr - so you are not completely useless anymore when your food buffs are running out. As food stats are running out so fast this tweak would make playing a mage a less tedious experience.

Enjoyed this video. Good info laid out without any extra fluff. Liked and subbed.

Might be worth noting that the magic helm provides only 20% eitr vs the body and legs that give 40% eitr. If you're itching for a little extra def or you want more movement speed. You can swap out the help with a carapace helm or Fenrir helm. for only minimum mana reg loss. Also, if your going into the mountains and don't wanna make mead. You can potentially spot silver ore from the sides of mountains. After acquiring silver, I prefer to make a lox cape > a wolf cape. As acquiring a wolf trophy can be a pain. You noted the root torso, which is great, but the serpents shield also provides pierce resistance if you wanna go that route instead. It'll allow you to maximize blocking by allowing you to absorb more damage by having higher defense potentially. The resistance from the serpents shield AND the root armor DO stack. It's the only resistance in the game that does. So you could make pierce damage do virtually nothing if you combine the two. Only other thing I'll mention about armor, is if you plan on blocking, it isn't based on the weight of your armor, but rather the damage you take. This means that anything that reduces damage received (such as pierce resistance) can surpass even the heaviest of armors. However, do to heavy armors having higher defense respectfully, they're typically the best choice for blocking and parrying. This also means that on higher difficulties. Blocking and defense become steadily more and more useless, as enemies start dealing such an excess of damage, that even a character fully kitted out can't handle basic enemies in there respective area. (Which imo, should be something that is changed... like granting the player a passive poise increase on higher difficulties) Defense also reduces damage from elemental attacks as well. Be weary tho, DoT effects can stack. So standing in Yagluth's AoE and shaman fireballs, even with max def, will shred you.

I enjoyed the video. I'd have to disagree on the root harnesk, but I tend to catch on fire a lot more often than I'm straight up hit with piercing. I like that you're pointing out that mixing and matching armour sets is the best approach to find the right fit.

Fenris and feather cap makes death box runs a game changer, Also the magic robes disappointed me that they did not offer a bit of mana reserve and you can't choose their colors

Amazing guide!!!

Carapace helm and chest with fenris leggings combo with skoll and hati is lethal. You still get plenty of armor with noticeable speed boost / movement

Mobility is the REAL ac. Those who know, know.

I am personally rocking the carapace armor and leggins + Fenris hood so am not that slow, with feather cape it is really nice fashion souls combo.

I prefer fenris chest piece with eitr regen pants and hood with feather cape. +60% eitr regen with some added speed. Perfect combo for hardcore

This video got me more stoked to play Valheim than any hype video I’ve seen so far

tip for easy kills against the abominations is last I knew the surtling spawners would kill them very quickly just from them walking over it so kite them over the flame and it will at minimum take a chunk off its health fast makes farming root easy if you can pull this off especially if you can just block the abominations attacks you can stand so that it stays in contact with the spawner flame and kill it easily

I would still sacrifice armor for that Viking drip

Me personally, I go from no armor to troll armor, and then straight to the full Fenris armor. Done.

In mistlands, very important to balance speed, endurance and defense.

Thanks for the vid mate! Just got into the Swamps for the 2nd time since I started playing, i'm eager to wreck the shit out of mobs and discover those sweet armors combination 😊 👍

Bronze armor is such a disappointment in my opinion: you venture out in the black forest to get materials for it - you're bound to stumble on a troll or two. Not only you're wasting precious bronze on useless gear pieces, instead of crafting tools with it, it also has movement penalty along with having just 6 more armor compared to troll hide set (fully upgraded), and you also get +15 levels of sneak with the latter ...like, what the hell? What's the point of it?

It's a shame the bonuses to skill levels don't over-cap. I noticed with the root armor that the +15 turned to +14 when my bow skill got to 86

I really enjoyed the video and I love to see armor customization awareness, but, for future videos, improve the quality of the mic asap, it will make the videos twice as enjoyable. I am really not hating and I appreicated the video, just giving my opinion on what would help your channel lots in the future. Keep it up!

This is how i progress ---) no armor + bow with fire arrows (kill 1st boss) --) craft copper axe and pick --) make stagbreaker --- ) make bronze and make some mead (and kill trolls meanwhile) --) go to swamp and get some mats for frost resistance mead --) go to mountains and hit stuff with stagbreaker till you find silver (and kill wolfs) --) kill tree boss for a key ---) go into swamp and get just enogh iron to make a pick ---) mine the silver and make armor --) look for merchant and buy mats for frostner --) upgrade --) get some more iron and make a better boat ---) go to mistlands and look for dungeons that are near water (also bait bugs into dwermer buildings so you get that stone) --) place portal and farm some pigs and slimes --) make some poision trow items and enter the dungeon -- ) use bombs on wooden doors so you dont break them and chip health of enemy bugs with stagbreaker (you can also upgrade to iron one) --) once you have the cores bait the big bugs into a ygassil trees so they can make you some wood --) make black forge and now you can craft Krom and Arbalest --) rest of bosses (i prefer to keep dragon killed on same day as slime so i dont end up with drake raids that kill animals)

Ive been trying to run the fenris set but im just so squishy. Fine with a few enemies at once but if there is ever a lag spike, an unforseen mob joining the fight i just get my but kicked. Also have to maximize food for most encounters after mountains where with heavy armor I can get away with cheeper foods with most fights

I've never liked how the game makes you go back into the swamps to get yet another truckload of iron every other biome. With padded armor for example, why didn't they just make you farm the hell out of black iron in the Plains? It feels regressive having to go back into swamp crypts, when you thanked every Norse god under the sun once you were done with it the first time around.

Armor in this game is cool and honestly, it feels rewarding when you get a full set of the new tier armor but I feel it needs more variety. They should also buff the troll armor, its not easy to kill enough trolls to max it and you'd be better off skipping it, the bonus is negligible and fun fact: you can trap a troll by digging a hole underneath it (you might not survive) and then just stay out of its sight and sneak around. I got like 20 levels of sneak in 15 minutes?

fenris set+feather cape+berzerkr axes= god mode in the meadows and black forest biomes lol without using any cheats you could run this gear set and have no fear of anything I even cranked it up to max combat difficulty what helped even more but was op for the biomes too was the lightning upgrade on the axes made cleaning out loot from those biomes fun and fast

Great video once again! I have a question, do you know what happens to the world seed in valheim when ashlands comes? Dose it mess it up somehow? Do i need to start over the game?

I play as a magic user but swap out the Eitr hood for the Fenris hood, sacrificing 20% Eiter regen for the extra 3% speed. It also looks way cool (my brother saw it and said I look like the main boss of the game lol)

I dont like your third option because it provides the same amount of armor as the Fenris set with 8 less movement. Plus you do not want to encounter a Gjall in the harnesk. I avoid a one-fits-all approach and customize my loadout for the mission. Sometimes I like full Fenris and Eikthyr with all stamina foods to forage for mushrooms or hunt hogs. Sometimes I go all Eitr weave to hunt hares with the Staff of Embers and accompany with Queen power. Sometimes a job requires full carapace and Bonemass. I do think its important to pair your power with your armor. Good video though!

It would have been nice to have one recommend set that doesn't require endgame progress.

When you're recommended a video that goes over information that everyone already has and they don't even have windows activated or control hints disabled to boot.

9:32 lol, agreed, Fenris is just so good. I'm a bit of a wimp, so I like to swap out the hood for the drake/padded/carapace hat to maximize armour for only 3% less move speed

The mage set except the pants. They are heavy armor. This way I can use 2 eitr food and one stamina food to get a great mix. I am able to withstand a few hits, can spell casts and regenerate eitr while dodging the enemies. Tried full eitr, but this way I am just to vulnerable in closed areas, like dungeons or mistlands

Thanks for the video! it would be really cool if you do a shield vido

If you're playing with other people you don't need armor until the Mountains probably. Weapons/shield and food will carry you until the Mountains. In Swamp you can avoid and parry/block everything until Bonemass. Bonemass gives that DR Eikthyr and that thing is busted if you know what you're doing, it's based on armor, but you don't need that much, you can stay in light armor and use the Bonemass power and be fine. Mountains introduces straight up tanks and very fast, numerous enemies. The Drakes do frost damage and you really don't wanna be blocking their attacks early on, they can easily get you locked down and have you killed by something else. Mountains will drain your stamina faster than you can blink your eyeballs. I would up my armor here until I get the Silver weapons. If your stealth is really good, you can stealth around the mountain tops, but if you mine anything it will draw monsters.

I play valheim like a sociopath, the way i play leaves me incapable of playing alone, as i have so much gear on my person that i simply cant carry any drops, wood etc I was going to comment just what i have above, but i feel like itd be a lot more fun to walk you through what i carry the general idea is to become a literal raid boss and exploit the fact that eitr is essentially a second stamina system for armor i carry a feather cape, a full set of fenris armor, a root mark/chestplate and the eitr weave robes, i try not to use teleporters too much so i find myself in the swamps a lot, hence the root pieces, i will typically be running around with the fenris hood, legs and eitr weave robes on, because my characters name is a shadow wizard money gang reference so i want to look like a shadow wizard for weapons i will carry the fire and frost staffs, i usually use the frost staff to slow things down but it melts creatures weak to frost making it unnecessary to carry a frostner (even though i still do, its too good not to) and the fire staff is very strong against things weak to fire, like, very strong, something about hailing fire on your enemies even when theyre not weak to it feels powerful, and for that reason i also carry bile bombs, though if im honest theyre more of a novelty to pull out when im showing someone my playstyle i use the draugr fang as a bow and run poison arrows (i made an ungodly amount of them this one time, ive been using poison arrows for like 50 hours of gameplay please help me) for small melees i have the frostner and the mistwalker, but i also have the fenris claw - fist weapon thingies, i did some testing and full fenris with those is still stronger than skol and hati I have a himmenwaffle or whatever its called, that one lightning atgeir, atgeirs are very good and ive always had one on me from as far back as the black forest, i tend to only use its mouse3 ability i have the demolisher because fuck you and everything around you, jokes aside these things are insane, ive had hammers since the plains biome and never went anywhere without one, doing the hildrs request mission where you go into a crypt was so easy, i lured the boss to a door, closed the door and just pummelled the ground until it died, they stagger most enemies too which is invaluable purely for style points i have the crystal battleaxe, i could substitute krom but theres something wizardy about a crystal battleaxe, even the animations, but the mouse3 ability is why i have it, it strikes alarmingly fast, like seriously if you have one or can craft one, go and make one, eat some stamina food and just, marvel at how fast the mouse3 can be spammed, staggering an enemy and slamming them with the mouse3 of the crystal battleaxe is one of the fastest time to kills ive seen from a melee weapon (sidenote i just went to check a clip to see what else i had, turns out i also carry krom and couldnt part ways with it, but honestly i dont use it. if you want to accommodate krom you have to be good at dodging, parrying, have full stamina food and full fenris armor, its a lot of investment just to play the big sword, but i do it sometimes) for food i always have at least two stamina foods, mushroom omelette and salad, i have a lot of yggdrasil porridge so thats what i use as my eitr food currently, but im aware seeker aspic is better so im making a bunch of it soon i have a wisp though i dont always carry it, and a belt though i dont always carry it i have poison resists, frost resists, stamina and health potions, but finally what makes this build so busted in my opinion the staff of protection and the dead raiser, i have both of these maxed, so i can summon 3 dead, but its really the protection staff that makes them strong looking at this still of my inventory, i could just about squeeze an arbelist in there (make no mistake its a crazy strong weapon if your bow skill isnt high and it drains your stamina too much i hope you found some enjoyment in this read and maybe try out a similar crazy raid boss playstyle because of it, its genuinely very refreshing and had me trying out all the weapons i never crafted

Would be cool if they added iron mines run by the fucklings in the plains they could add a mine overseer as a challenging miniboss in each mine. With iron veins throughout the mine, mining summons the overseer with a timer of when hell show up to kill your mid ass.

Your "complete" armor guide left out the fishing hat! :P

so do you think for the mistlands(and just every biome in general that has some level of difficulty)that it would be a better idea to use the root harnesk instead of full carapace? I still feel like there are a lot of things that do other types of damage and you could just use the bone mass power. Is it worth it to have 114 armor vs 94 but without pierce resist? What do you think?

For fighting Moder would you suggest the full root set with the wolf cape for the +15 bow skill or just the full fenris set for the extra defence and movement speed?

Don't even bother with Rags early on - a waste of resources. Just run around in the nude and focus on getting Leather. You'll be fine, as It is very hard to die in the Meadows. You could even skip Leather and go for the Bronze/Troll gear from Black Forest if you're quick on your feet.

You mentioned to get more iron only once. I woukd add: if you got more iron, wait 3 days and you need to go again.

Did this mf really present mixing and matching armor as "out of the box" thinking !? 😂😂

Wait I'm not supposed to just sneak through the whole game only using troll armor?

There should be a Rag Tunic hard mode challenge where you are not allowed to craft new armor and can only wear the starter tunic

I haven't played in a while (Mistlands had only just dropped and they bugs weren't nerfed yet) but you left out the Drake Helm. Also left out how helmets don't reduce movement speed, so they're ideal first piece upgrades. (Unless either of these changed in updates, like how much better the food mechanics were 😢)

you forgot the drake helmet

I have yet to find any case in the game where movement speed has any affect on my ability to complete my tasks in a timely manner, other than when you have a weapon and tower shield equipped and out. Other than that, I've never found a need for "faster" armor.

The Iron ummer , the wolf ummer , the root ummer, ummer ummer ummer ummer

Just play with heavy armor and battleaxe and face everything as it goes. You will learn a lot too. -30% movement speed with the slowest start up primary attack. Good luck :)

Wait a second ... you got weakness against fire from the root harness, but resistance to it from fenris boots. So do enemies inflict normal fire dmg against me or is the immunity stronger than the weakness?

We have been thinking about armour all wrong so you decide to upload video of default armour sets? Garb

Nah, imma keep my carapace armor with my 2h sword, i'm a warrior dammit

so how did we think about the armor "ALL WRONG"? u just talked about the armors as they are :D

I like how you pronounce err-merrr 🤣🤣

How were you crafting Carapace armor on a Workbench? hmm...

I use the highest armor rating. I don't die. it works. Can't see how that is 'thinking wrong'.

is there a way to unspawn something that was accidentally spawned in ?

Fenris & feather cape ftw

There is really not much to talk about. There is heavy armour which slows you down and light armour which doesnt slow you down as much or even makes you move faster. Thats it. Set bonuses are most of the time irrelevant anyway

Its not pronounced Eye-ter Its ether. Its just spelled that way because norse and runes and all that.

The root harnesk is such a busted item. Light armor should never be a best in slot defensive item.

I would like to see this with all dialogue edited out. Except for the word armor.

There is really not much that can match fenris armour. Movement speed is superiour to pretty much everything, unless maybe when you play on highest difficulty level and if you want to cast .

remember to activate your windows 😂

I use the Epic Loot mod, and I found a legendary silver dagger that gives +20% movement speed. With that and full fenris....boy I am ZOOMING.

good video but please activate windows

I wait for upadte

Well, I'm personally not really comfortable using a two or even three biomes old armor sets and I find combining the different pieces dumb (you look like a clown). Valheim would definitely benefit from having more options. The heavy armors progress straightforwardly but the light armors are currently very weird. They barely increase your armor and buff random things you don't want. Why would I want Eitr-Weave if I'm not a mage?

Bro talks at 8x speed Jesus Christ

nice vid. now please activate your windows license

You are pronouncing Carapace wrong. Carapace (rhymes with race)

is it just me or is the headphone audio a bit pain to listen to?

Sadly almost all armors are kind of ugly... Probably the Drake Helmet is the only cool-looking armor piece and then... I can't think of another one.

Remove that extremely annoying subscribe bell nonsense... holy shit that is so annoying.

what a fucking clickbait title

I really wanted to watch this video but that popping sound- I just can't!!!!!!! please stop it!!!!!!

I fuckin hate it so much how you pronounce the word "armor" but nice video tho

This is moronic, just wear whatever highest defense armor you have access to.

This could have been a 4 minute video, nice stretching

But so many of these armors are so ugly.

Well that's a bullshit premise and a clickbait title. I'll definitely be hitting the 'don't recommend channel' button.

u saying word armor doing something to my head

This game really lets me down in the late game when you’re still gaming iron. Need like 2k pieces of scrap for an entire play through. It’s ridiculous.