Good question, but to be honest, if you've done the Elder, the Abomination should be pretty easy. Get under it with an axe, it goes down quickly.

Personally, if I needed to, I'd rather use the Eikthyr power on this in any case.

Build a bonfire under it, keep it running into the fire and it goes down quickly.

my bow skill is high enough ive killed them with plain wood arrows

Abomination sucks big time.

get him to chase you , find a nearby troll , stand back and watch then duke it out, kill the winner

If you stand on the top of the sunken crypts and fire arrows at them(fire are nice) they're super easy.

Also the bonfire method is pretty easy.

I mostly try to use a nearby Surtling Spawner it is a hugh fire and you need to dig around it anyway to perma farm coal and surtling cores without actually fighting.

Originally posted by cookie:

get him to chase you , find a nearby troll , stand back and watch then duke it out, kill the winner

It'd be a rare day to have Abomination and Troll spawn together close enough to do this. It'd probably be quicker to stab it to death with a knife

Originally posted by benai:

I mostly try to use a nearby Surtling Spawner it is a hugh fire and you need to dig around it anyway to perma farm coal and surtling cores without actually fighting.

A lot of people seem to do that.
Over 20 worlds and characters and I never felt the need and always had a ton of cores and plenty of coal when needed ... not like trees are in short supply.

Stuff like that seems more effort than needed.

Don't get me wrong, I am not above using cheese methods on a boss and think people should play the way they want to... but personally setting up kill farms requiring little to no effort on your part to collect resources just feels too cheesy to me.

Devs even tried to stop that kind of thing by making fire take damage when doing damage.

Like I said to each their own, but I won't go there.

Originally posted by GunsForBucks:

Originally posted by benai:

I mostly try to use a nearby Surtling Spawner it is a hugh fire and you need to dig around it anyway to perma farm coal and surtling cores without actually fighting.

A lot of people seem to do that.
Over 20 worlds and characters and I never felt the need and always had a ton of cores and plenty of coal when needed ... not like trees are in short supply.

Stuff like that seems more effort than needed.

Don't get me wrong, I am not above using cheese methods on a boss and think people should play the way they want to... but personally setting up kill farms requiring little to no effort on your part to collect resources just feels too cheesy to me.

Devs even tried to stop that kind of thing by making fire take damage when doing damage.

Like I said to each their own, but I won't go there.

The abomination will be able to fight back but it will take a lot of damages from the surtling fire.

I understand people will find that cheesy but, to me, that's just pure logic. A few hit of the hoe to level the ground around the fire is enough to kill any future surtling spawns. You're taking advantage of their major weakness.

It's not worth it to wait for them to respawn anyway since it can take a few minutes but it's a nice thing to do when you're clearing nearby sunken crypts since you can just scoop up all the loots once you cleared the area. (and killing surtlings in the swamp isn't even a challenge since you're always wet and taking reduced fire damage while you can easily kill them in one hit)

I love the swamp so much. It scares the crap out of me, but the satisfaction of overcoming its challenges is so compelling to me.

I think the Abomination is well balanced; once you get enough Iron for a Battle Axe he goes down nicely. Before then it's a crazy dash around trees or whatever you can find while your stamina recharges.

The Swamp is one of the best designed areas I've ever seen in a game. The atmosphere is so damn creepy.

Once you're decked out in Iron Armour it's a joke, but for hours that place is terrifying.

I drop a workbench, then build double-wide stairs up to the top of a sunken crypt.
I move workbench to the top of crypt.
Pull/kite Abomination over and I can chop at his legs as he's trying to get to me while I'm standing on top of the crypt. His attacks miss me 95% of the time.
So much faster than arrows, though fire arrows from a tree perch/platform works too.

Originally posted by SomethingCoolBro:

I love the swamp so much. It scares the crap out of me, but the satisfaction of overcoming its challenges is so compelling to me.

I think the Abomination is well balanced; once you get enough Iron for a Battle Axe he goes down nicely. Before then it's a crazy dash around trees or whatever you can find while your stamina recharges.

Even before Battle axe he goes down easily with bronze axe. Lvl 3 bronze buckler can parry his right leg swing and you can land 3 hits while he is staggered. Not sure for left leg stomp and teabag attack, i didn't try to parry that as i know it hits harder than swing. Anyways, i parry his swing attack, land 3 hits and roll to avoid other attacks. While i'm waiting for another swing attack my stamina fully regenerates so i dont have stamina problems this way.

Also, parrying and staggering abomination which is standing on surtling spawner will cause him to take extra dmg from fire. He goes down really fast this way.

Originally posted by GunsForBucks:

Originally posted by benai:

I mostly try to use a nearby Surtling Spawner it is a hugh fire and you need to dig around it anyway to perma farm coal and surtling cores without actually fighting.

A lot of people seem to do that.
Over 20 worlds and characters and I never felt the need and always had a ton of cores and plenty of coal when needed ... not like trees are in short supply.

Stuff like that seems more effort than needed.

Don't get me wrong, I am not above using cheese methods on a boss and think people should play the way they want to... but personally setting up kill farms requiring little to no effort on your part to collect resources just feels too cheesy to me.

Devs even tried to stop that kind of thing by making fire take damage when doing damage.

Like I said to each their own, but I won't go there.

It takes under 1 minute to set up a Surtling farm, and the trophies are just awesome to me. The coal, you cannot make enough to coal to keep up with Surtlings.

Thanks for all the tips and the lively discussion. I have beaten the abomination a few times but I usually get banged up in the process.

I have seen a troll kill off an abomination that I had already beat up pretty good. I am not sure who wins if they are both at full health.

I drop a workbench, then build double-wide stairs up to the top of a sunken crypt.
I move workbench to the top of crypt.
Pull/kite Abomination over and I can chop at his legs as he's trying to get to me while I'm standing on top of the crypt. His attacks miss me 95% of the time.
So much faster than arrows, though fire arrows from a tree perch/platform works too.

Originally posted by SomethingCoolBro:

I love the swamp so much. It scares the crap out of me, but the satisfaction of overcoming its challenges is so compelling to me.

I think the Abomination is well balanced; once you get enough Iron for a Battle Axe he goes down nicely. Before then it's a crazy dash around trees or whatever you can find while your stamina recharges.

Even before Battle axe he goes down easily with bronze axe. Lvl 3 bronze buckler can parry his right leg swing and you can land 3 hits while he is staggered. Not sure for left leg stomp and teabag attack, i didn't try to parry that as i know it hits harder than swing. Anyways, i parry his swing attack, land 3 hits and roll to avoid other attacks. While i'm waiting for another swing attack my stamina fully regenerates so i dont have stamina problems this way.

Also, parrying and staggering abomination which is standing on surtling spawner will cause him to take extra dmg from fire. He goes down really fast this way.

Originally posted by GunsForBucks:

Originally posted by benai:

I mostly try to use a nearby Surtling Spawner it is a hugh fire and you need to dig around it anyway to perma farm coal and surtling cores without actually fighting.

A lot of people seem to do that.
Over 20 worlds and characters and I never felt the need and always had a ton of cores and plenty of coal when needed ... not like trees are in short supply.

Stuff like that seems more effort than needed.

Don't get me wrong, I am not above using cheese methods on a boss and think people should play the way they want to... but personally setting up kill farms requiring little to no effort on your part to collect resources just feels too cheesy to me.

Devs even tried to stop that kind of thing by making fire take damage when doing damage.

Like I said to each their own, but I won't go there.

It takes under 1 minute to set up a Surtling farm, and the trophies are just awesome to me. The coal, you cannot make enough to coal to keep up with Surtlings.

Thanks for all the tips and the lively discussion. I have beaten the abomination a few times but I usually get banged up in the process.

I have seen a troll kill off an abomination that I had already beat up pretty good. I am not sure who wins if they are both at full health.

I love the swamp so much. It scares the crap out of me, but the satisfaction of overcoming its challenges is so compelling to me.

I think the Abomination is well balanced; once you get enough Iron for a Battle Axe he goes down nicely. Before then it's a crazy dash around trees or whatever you can find while your stamina recharges.

The Swamp is one of the best designed areas I've ever seen in a game. The atmosphere is so damn creepy.

Once you're decked out in Iron Armour it's a joke, but for hours that place is terrifying.

Originally posted by GunsForBucks:

Originally posted by benai:

I mostly try to use a nearby Surtling Spawner it is a hugh fire and you need to dig around it anyway to perma farm coal and surtling cores without actually fighting.

A lot of people seem to do that.
Over 20 worlds and characters and I never felt the need and always had a ton of cores and plenty of coal when needed ... not like trees are in short supply.

Stuff like that seems more effort than needed.

Don't get me wrong, I am not above using cheese methods on a boss and think people should play the way they want to... but personally setting up kill farms requiring little to no effort on your part to collect resources just feels too cheesy to me.

Devs even tried to stop that kind of thing by making fire take damage when doing damage.

Like I said to each their own, but I won't go there.

The abomination will be able to fight back but it will take a lot of damages from the surtling fire.

I understand people will find that cheesy but, to me, that's just pure logic. A few hit of the hoe to level the ground around the fire is enough to kill any future surtling spawns. You're taking advantage of their major weakness.

It's not worth it to wait for them to respawn anyway since it can take a few minutes but it's a nice thing to do when you're clearing nearby sunken crypts since you can just scoop up all the loots once you cleared the area. (and killing surtlings in the swamp isn't even a challenge since you're always wet and taking reduced fire damage while you can easily kill them in one hit)

Originally posted by cookie:

get him to chase you , find a nearby troll , stand back and watch then duke it out, kill the winner

It'd be a rare day to have Abomination and Troll spawn together close enough to do this. It'd probably be quicker to stab it to death with a knife

Originally posted by benai:

I mostly try to use a nearby Surtling Spawner it is a hugh fire and you need to dig around it anyway to perma farm coal and surtling cores without actually fighting.

A lot of people seem to do that.
Over 20 worlds and characters and I never felt the need and always had a ton of cores and plenty of coal when needed ... not like trees are in short supply.

Stuff like that seems more effort than needed.

Don't get me wrong, I am not above using cheese methods on a boss and think people should play the way they want to... but personally setting up kill farms requiring little to no effort on your part to collect resources just feels too cheesy to me.

Devs even tried to stop that kind of thing by making fire take damage when doing damage.

Like I said to each their own, but I won't go there.

Abomination sucks big time.

get him to chase you , find a nearby troll , stand back and watch then duke it out, kill the winner

If you stand on the top of the sunken crypts and fire arrows at them(fire are nice) they're super easy.

Also the bonfire method is pretty easy.

I mostly try to use a nearby Surtling Spawner it is a hugh fire and you need to dig around it anyway to perma farm coal and surtling cores without actually fighting.

my bow skill is high enough ive killed them with plain wood arrows

Good question, but to be honest, if you've done the Elder, the Abomination should be pretty easy. Get under it with an axe, it goes down quickly.

Personally, if I needed to, I'd rather use the Eikthyr power on this in any case.

Build a bonfire under it, keep it running into the fire and it goes down quickly.