Originally posted by Dorjef:

Yea, one at a time is not bad with a good shield. But i died to two of them while fighting a wraith. And then they camped my corpse. Died like another 2-3 times just trying to get my stuff. I wish the devs would stop that stupid corpse camping too.
Made the stupid mistake of building a base in plains next to a tar pit. I wont do that again.

Get Root Armor from swamp, use bonemass ability and you should not have any problem next time you do a similar corpse run. As of fighting them directly, do not melee them except if you have high tier heavy armor and shield, but even then you will need poison resistance. The "safest" way is to snipe them using a bow with silver or even fire arrows.