Originally posted by sneakyweazel:

Thank you all for the suggestions!

Armor-wise thinking going with the light ones. troll then root and lastly fenring -i heard that is a thing now? Good shield is a must have but atgeir is tempting as went last time with shield and mace. Does atgeir have decent parry against mosquitos or does one just swipe them into oblivion with it?

Axe doubles as a weapon and treefeller so there's that. Sword or mace, really like the smashing effect against carving up my opponents. Do both work well against multiple enemies?

Ship lets me to ferry 4 stacks right now, the longboat has, what, 8 slots? Don't really know this one as one as one shipment with karven basically gives me one upgraded something and really don't mind sailing against the wind, BUT if you tell me that proper ship is better at handling and faster, then i might bite.

Can't remember what i did with the bows last time but can remember it was a good addition

Axe is pretty slow and does slash damage. Sword is much faster and also does slash damage. Mace is slower than sword but more things in the swamp are vulnerable to it as is Bonemass. The stone golems in the mountains have no resistances to it but have resistances to pretty much every other type of damage. The long boat has 18 cargo slots so it holds all most twice the amount that 2 chests hold. That saves lots of time and travel. You can clear out 2-4 crypts and carry all of the scrap in one trip.

The long boat is faster, sturdier, and turns more smoothly. The only issue it has is that you can sometimes lose too much speed when tacking to catch the wind on the other side of the boat and you might have to paddle for a few seconds. Its fast enough that if you see a serpent coming up from behind you, you can kill it with your Huntsman's bow and flint arrows before it can reach you.