I have to disagree with you. I like the swamp. Yea the wet debuff stinks and getting poisoned when not prepared does as well but if you take the time to upgrade your armor(I prefer troll over bronze) and eat the appropriate food its not so bad. Draugrs are slow and dumb, leeches can be killed with stagbreaker easily, same with blobs. Use the poison resist and they barely dent you. Wraiths are awesome to see, well at least to me. Once found turnips let you make great food especially the sausages. Aboms are east to kill if you lure it out into a meadows and arrow it down (my way) or as others said take it to a surtling fire speaking of which surtlings are a joke and a great source of cube and coal. However YMMV.