Originally posted by ECHOxxONE:

Originally posted by 76561197979566298:

I have a bronze shield and weapon yet it seems these guys hit me through my block? Also how do i get them to stop spawning? Im stuck in my first crypt

I never use regular block unless I mess something up in my combat mechics and really really need a block, rare times do I ever us block. Rare

Parry is what you want, Get rid of all bronze gear and stick with Padded helmet, Wolf cape or Lox, Troll pants/chest and then polarm and axe and bow. Once you can make all these items of course. Learn how to make two stamina foods and one health food that are good foods, for example Bread is one of the best and easy to access once you start a decent crop rotation, oion soup and or Blood pudding if you have enough materials, then lox pie which I only use in the plains and or when I am in a bad spot. For the swamps I may use wolf skewer the most bread and onion. and then take time to learn and grow in combat mechanics and you will have a blast with that setup. Any gear that has a Negative SLOW to it stay away from like the plague, Unless you really enjoy waering heavey armor and maybe have learned how to move around with it and don not mind the slow, other then that I run all over the place and can outrun anything I came across with my setup.

Back to parry, Learn to parry everything your fighting at melee rang and life with be a whole lot easyier for you in Valheim, You get the knockback and then your first attack after parry is like a damage modifier or backslash attack which will be a nice damage atttack to any npc, to include 1 star fulings and even the Bite attack of a LOX. The the use of the polarm, the spin attack will save your life in most situations and the reash is nice also.

Smeone said above to destroy the spawn nests and you will be fine. Anyways hope that helps. If you got any questions just ask.

How do you get padded when just entering the swamps from the black forest?