ah thanks guys for your help and blue for putting into context. i honestly didnt pay too much attention to the stats and just presumed all the latest unlocks would automatically have all the best stats.
i should have looked at the stats more and not rushed to upgrade to bronze armor and not noticing the movement penalty.

Originally posted by 76561198013663843:

Is it possible that this was simply your first encounter with an *armed* troll?

Or maybe with an unarmed one, now I think about it. Is their overhead attack still bugged to process two hits?

it might have been both that and my slower movement as when i killed trolls i would trap it behind and object and keep moving to so it would have to go round it while i kept pumping it with arrows, but when i died it got round it before i could get round it and yeah it did do club swings and take me out in seconds.

Is it possible that this was simply your first encounter with an *armed* troll?

Or maybe with an unarmed one, now I think about it. Is their overhead attack still bugged to process two hits?

if you have no armor you have no damage reduction, and no food you will only have 25 HP as I'm sure you're well aware

the enemies themselves don't ramp up, but without your armor you'll start to notice the missing damage reduction you once had with it on that was keeping you alive

if you need help getting your corpse back I could join on you and help out

There are 1 & 2 Star mobs in all zones, but they are usually rare, and very obviously a different color, but as Blue said it does not ramp up. Be really careful near plains or mountain borders, those mobs can and do run into the Forest to a certain point.

Also keep in mind there is more than 1 type of Greydwarf out there, so be careful. If you need more help, talk to Blue above me.

Unlike the meadows, you also now have to deal with mobs that fight at range.

thanks for advise, i was using all lvl3 leather armor without too many issues, but when i changed it to troll pants and bronze vest and got bronze sword, everything was killing me doing huge damage and a troll could catch me wher as before i was out running him if i got into trouble, he killed me in 2 swipes. are you sure its not ramping up?
thanks for the offer to help, but i dont have one of those staues to stop players destroying my base, and although u seem nice i really dont wanna risk losing all the time i put into my solo progress.

It's one of the (many) things I like about the game. Fully geared up, I can roll back through the meadows on my way somewhere and some Greyling or Neck decides that now is the time for it to step up to me. *PEW* and off it goes, flying away far enough I can't be bothered to go get the mats it dropped.

It's the old D&D trope of "Kobolds are Kobolds, Goblins are Goblins and woe be to them if they decide to ambush the 14th level party minding their own business."

Originally posted by KingNigelFarage:

thanks for advise, i was using all lvl3 leather armor without too many issues, but when i changed it to troll pants and bronze vest and got bronze sword, everything was killing me doing huge damage and a troll could catch me wher as before i was out running him if i got into trouble, he killed me in 2 swipes. are you sure its not ramping up?
thanks for the offer to help, but i dont have one of those staues to stop players destroying my base, and although u seem nice i really dont wanna risk losing all the time i put into my solo progress.

full level 3 leather would be 18 armor, 21 if you also had a level 3 cape

level 1 bronze plate, level 1 troll pants, and (presumably) your level 3 leather helmet and cape would be 23 armor, but now with an added 5% movement penalty for the bronze chest piece. so your armor value would hardly change and now you move slightly slower than before

enemy damage won't change unless the enemy was starred, as most enemies can come in 1, and even 2 star variants which massively buff their stats, as an example:

a skeleton has:
40 HP
and does 25 slash damage with a sword, or 20 pierce with a bow

a 1 star is:
80 HP
37.5 Slash
30 Pierce

2 Star:
120 HP
50 slash
40 Pierce

so you may of run into some of those potentially, because otherwise you really shouldn't notice much of a difference in protection, it'll be about what it was prior

Yeah, you'll have to get used to running slower in better armor. You won't be quite as good at outrunning things, but a little better at taking hits. And especially while wielding tower shields! Not that you could necessarily stand toe to toe with a troll while wearing bronze though...

As Blue and the wiki explain, one-star mobs have +100% HP and +50% damage, two-star mobs have +200% HP and +100% damage. That's huge considering the damage vs armour formula that is not linear (please refer to the wiki).