Originally posted by PghDave420:

before i played valheim all i seen about it or heard about it was, oh wait till you meet the deathsquitos. when i finally did , swung my sword and it died .i was like this what people were afraid of???? the game is not hard maybe on the blind play through as any game should be

Oh, man. Exact same thing happened to me. I was all terrified of engaging them and then I met one and... "What... this is it? That's the whole thing?" The only time they're really a challenge is when I'm on my ship and worried about sinking myself (maybe my ship took a whole lot of damage already) or if I'm already busy pulling a herd of Lox or setting up a raid on a Fuling village and they come and invite themselves to the party while I'm already engaged. Then it can be touch and go.

Same thing with Draugr. I read all these posts about how horribly tough and OP the Draugr were and how they needed to be nerfed and OMG too hard. I read that stuff after I'd already been tromping through the swamps, didn't even put a toe in the forum before and I was like "...What... are these people talking about? Do they not block?"

If an old fart like me can pwn teh mobs...