Lil Puppy replied to What level of weapon skills should you have as minimum pr biom? February 6, 2023 @ 6:31:20 pm PST
Getting killed reduces your skills by 5%, each time unless it is within 10 minutes of a previous death - noted by the No Skill Drain text at the top of the screen.
The minimum skill is player intuition and player skill, character skill means quite little until about 50, 70, 100. Pay attention to your environment, your health, and stamina. Learn your enemies behaviors and weaknesses and use the correct weapon for the enemy. You can look it up on the wiki or you can experiment until you figure it out.
Meadows is tutorial zone.
Dark Forest is a test of your aim and ability to maintain distance from enemies.
Swamp is a test of your eyeballs and whether you noticed them or not.
Mountains is a test of your stamina and aim.
Plains is a test of your armor and parry skills.
Mists is a test of your patience and stamina.
If you're still rocking bronze or less and you can see plains, you should turn around.
Iron/silver armor could be called minimum for plains until you've got your own personal skill up to handle enemies. It's not about character weapon skills, those are almost meaningless until you get high enough in them to make any impact (around 70). It's about what weapons you have and the armor you have and the food you have.
If you're in troll armor and still eating berries and mushrooms, you are going to have a bad time in the plains.
Your son is still at weapon skill 10 because he keeps dying and it sounds like he's still using the wood weapon sets... This isn't a "git 'er done" type of game where you just gogogogogo to the highest tier as quick as possible. If you have the player skill to do it, you can, but if you don't, you're going to have a bad time trying. Slow down, build some stuff, improve your weapons and armor and food. The plains is the first biome where you have to care about those things, other than a temperature tolerant cape for the mountains.
If you've got iron/silver stuff and still suck, you definitely need to slow down and work on your strategies. This game is a grind, it pays, long term, to grind. If you forego the grind, you are going to die ALOT.
The minimum skill is player intuition and player skill, character skill means quite little until about 50, 70, 100. Pay attention to your environment, your health, and stamina. Learn your enemies behaviors and weaknesses and use the correct weapon for the enemy. You can look it up on the wiki or you can experiment until you figure it out.
Meadows is tutorial zone.
Dark Forest is a test of your aim and ability to maintain distance from enemies.
Swamp is a test of your eyeballs and whether you noticed them or not.
Mountains is a test of your stamina and aim.
Plains is a test of your armor and parry skills.
Mists is a test of your patience and stamina.
If you're still rocking bronze or less and you can see plains, you should turn around.
Iron/silver armor could be called minimum for plains until you've got your own personal skill up to handle enemies. It's not about character weapon skills, those are almost meaningless until you get high enough in them to make any impact (around 70). It's about what weapons you have and the armor you have and the food you have.
If you're in troll armor and still eating berries and mushrooms, you are going to have a bad time in the plains.
Your son is still at weapon skill 10 because he keeps dying and it sounds like he's still using the wood weapon sets... This isn't a "git 'er done" type of game where you just gogogogogo to the highest tier as quick as possible. If you have the player skill to do it, you can, but if you don't, you're going to have a bad time trying. Slow down, build some stuff, improve your weapons and armor and food. The plains is the first biome where you have to care about those things, other than a temperature tolerant cape for the mountains.
If you've got iron/silver stuff and still suck, you definitely need to slow down and work on your strategies. This game is a grind, it pays, long term, to grind. If you forego the grind, you are going to die ALOT.
3:13 am, February 7, 2023