Originally posted by chris.gatton:

The second we step foot in any swap we get 2 of these on us. Best way to kill them is just tank them on a fire spout.... and then they respawn almost immediately. It's ridiculous. They need to be FAR more rare.

The ground is shaking.

They aren't that common and seem to have problems with respawning.

2 or was it 3 swings with a blackmetal axe... dead.

Originally posted by PakaNoHida:

2 or was it 3 swings with a blackmetal axe... dead.

How did you get a blackmetal when you only have Elder and Eikthyr killed?

Originally posted by chris.gatton:

The second we step foot in any swap we get 2 of these on us. Best way to kill them is just tank them on a fire spout.... and then they respawn almost immediately. It's ridiculous. They need to be FAR more rare.

I hear ya. I've encountered two simply walking the area in front of my base, at edge of swsmp, while picking up drops from that night's kills. If they are supposed to be the swamps equivalent of a troll, then they are spawning way too often.
I'm also seeing what I believe is an increase or up-tick in swamp night spawns in general, but still monitoring.

Originally posted by Luward:

Originally posted by PakaNoHida:

2 or was it 3 swings with a blackmetal axe... dead.

How did you get a blackmetal when you only have Elder and Eikthyr killed?

What else am I doing? LOL


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I understand your concerns. Personally I think its better to be harder than to easy. You'd lose players on either spectrum regardless. But at least this way you feel as if your earning something. The swamp is suppose to be scary and dangerous in my opinion.

The second we step foot in any swap we get 2 of these on us. Best way to kill them is just tank them on a fire spout.... and then they respawn almost immediately. It's ridiculous. They need to be FAR more rare.

Yeah... ran into my first one in troll armor. I have a wooden club. Bronze ax and bronze pickax. Took care of the drauger and skels fairly easily found a crypt and this big guy comes up out of the ground. Saw my weapons doing crap and just ran away.

Not sure what they are hostile to though.
I got on a raised platform it would have had to cross water into another biome to get on? It just seemed to run away, think it was attacking other swamp things? Anyone know what biome it is friendly to or was it looking for a mate or something? Odd behavior.

Not really ready for the swamp just got my carrots going but was trying to find turnips... this is going to make it much more difficult.. guess I'll need a bronze sword now, normally don't even make swords. Guess that is what this enemy is for then.

Not that difficult with wolf/iron gear I have now, but I agree if I had bronze/troll gear it would be a problem. You can get two of them following you at the same time. I think the spawn rate should be lowered. Or maybe they only come out at night?

The swamp was a huge spike in difficulty already. Now it seems insane for a new player, barely out of black forest.

2 Stamina Food, 1 Health food, using a shield that can parry. Should be more then enough to be fine in the swamp.

Once you get iron its super easy. I would focus on just getting iron really quick making your armor and it should take like 10+ enemies to even startle you.

Let me guess , you just know sniping when do grey damage on the monster right ? Arrows are crap against him ( spear and polearm too ) , use a sword its the best to kill it

Yeah. I spawned two the first time I entered the swamp post patch. Sure they were easy enough for me to to kill in all my iron gear but that would have been a ♥♥♥♥♥ if I was still with my copper gear and lower food. I would say lower the spawn rate a bit. That way you can just run if you find one before you are ready.

Originally posted by Muggerprime:

Wanted to check out the new abom. Stepped foot just inside the swamp and found one. Took a while to kill it. Finally killed it. Went to leave the swamp, aggroed another one. I was just starting in on him when a 3rd one spawned and I had to fight two at once. Killed them both after a long fight, but I have concerns.

If I was bronze-armored still, just exploring the swamp for the first time, and scared of how powerful draugr, leeches, and wraiths are, aboms might make me think about quitting the game, feeling that it is too challenging. It's basically a huge-health Lox in the swamp, when a normal player wouldn't be Mountains-geared, let alone Plains-geared.

Also, in my experience described above, they spawn far too often. I aggroed three just stepping foot just inside the swamp.

I accidentally hit one with my black sword with 90 skill (yes I practice a lot, if anything, I fight with my sword 90% of times) without it noticing me yet, and it was 1shot, but I imagine as a new player entering the swamp, this would definetily be an issue and you are lucky lol, I only got 2 in a huge swamp...

Haven't found 1 yet. But I am in a swamp with 3 circular formations all within 80 meters of each other. A total of about 7 body piles in that space. Last thing I need is a couple tree golems. Swamps are not much fun imho. Feels like waiting in a dentist office. I feel safest inside a crypt.