Originally posted by GSK:

Also, nobody is forcing you to make 2 carts...

Well, it's nice to have a Cart and Karve at the same time, but you can't really make ten Bronze Nails lmao, so I just stick with 100 nails total so I can have two Carts and a Karve.

I've seen many people use Troll armor through the swamp and beyond.

Oh, Troll Armor makes Bronze Armor pretty obsolete, and Root Armor makes Bronze Armor completely worthless. Same armor value when fully-maxed, provides Pierce and Poison resistance, and only a 4% movement speed reduction makes it insanely powerful for the Swamps. Honestly, there's not even much of a reason to make Iron Armor at that point.

Sure, it makes you weak to fire, but you're always Wet in the Swamps (which overrides the Fire debuff) and Surtlings are complete pushovers anyway. Fire Weakness only becomes a problem in the Plains, and if you're using Root Armor in the Plains, you're probably an archer, so being weak to fire doesn't mean much since torch Fulings won't make it to you alive lmao.

Alternatively you could use an Abyssal Razor if you're going the troll hide route.

Well, if you're going the Bow route, you just use the Finewood Bow (which doesn't require any metals), skip the Huntsman Bow (it's a complete waste of time and resources), and go straight for Draugr Fang which is completely busted at high Archery levels.

For Bronze weapons, the only one really worth making is the Atgeir, for sure. A Level 1 Bronze Mace won't hurt either, but a Level 3-4 Club could likely also suffice for Blobs until you can get an Iron Mace to beat up Bonemass with.