Originally posted by Falaris:

I've noticed that all of you have ever commented on difficulty in posts to tear down others' suggestions of the same, so your opinion is set in stone. You'all engaged purely in nitpicking and not even addressed the point I made.

Nascarman, TooTall1, and Smurf gave you advice on how you can use different strategies.

Yet, in every response you made thereafter, you just kept denying their advice and recycle back to, "Nah, I rather IronGate just listen to me and make difficulty adjustable."

So weren't you just tearing down the advice of others anyway? People are actually trying to help. Perhaps take heed their advice?

I don't know how the shield mechanics work, but I took 18-20 damage through a lvl 2 shield. I didn't expect a lvl 3 shield to be so much different that it would make you immune. Explain how that works?

How shields work post H&H: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw33dzhz21c

More info about shields and damage mechanics:

- https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Shields
- https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Damage_mechanics

Originally posted by Falaris:

Started a new game, and ran into a pretty hard wall - getting surtling stones with a 2-quality club as best weapon is rough when I meet an elite skeleton AND a ghost, in a tomb guarded by 4 skeletons outside.

Now, as for your original post, I created a new character for the sake of this experiment for a different thread some weeks ago. Without killing any bosses, I gathered materials for a club, shield, finewood bow, flinthead arrows, all leather scrap gear, and leveled them to 2-3 accordingly. I got finewood by rolling beech logs against birch trees, which then I rolled them around until they broke. It was tedious, but I made it happen.

Inside the instanced burial chambers, I almost always had my shield up when I enter a new room. I always stayed half a step from the frame of a door and made sure to move back and forth to hit and retreat. If there are archers, I made sure to side step or use my shield. The moment I see 2 star mobs, I exit the chamber, because they're deadly.

We're not expected to be able to take on every single element of the game, even in the starting area until we're stronger. That's what survival games are like. You either use strategy, or recognise when you need to retreat and go back a different day.

Eating the right types of food matter a lot. I normally eat stam/stam/health. I also avoid jumping because that action takes a lot of stamina. I sprint in bursts. If there are trolls, I lure them to narrow places that I can circle around, or take them to ruined towers where skeletons reside, then leave them.

---

Note, I have also suggested that IG allow variables when starting new worlds, such as difficulty, toggle certain features, etc, but until then, we must adhere to better strategy in a survival game such as Valheim. So what better way, than to take into consideration the advice of others?