I'm losing my patience with Spriggan Earth Mothers...

[Mati9319]

A poison (Spriggan Spray) able to drain my full health in about 2,5 seconds is pretty ridiculous...

What's even more ridiculous is that neither Potion of Cure Disease nor Potion of Cure Poison are able to cure this stupid bs...

Any tips?

[illum]

Have a follower engage them to weaken them some and take the aggro.

[John]

You need to get stronger, test normal spriggans, if you can handle them with ease, you should be capable of handeling an earth mother. If you struggle with one, you will get obliterated by an earh mother.

Get some better gear, improve it, get some magic and poison resist, you should be having a better time against them.

[terry]

Kill them and you dont have that problem.

[DigginTiger]

Originally posted by illum:

Have a follower engage them to weaken them some and take the aggro.

Agreed, followers are beast when it comes to take OP damage from ennemies, especially on legendary.
You can also use the shout "freeze".When unfrozen, they should start to engage you in melee and stop using this OP attack.
Have fun!

[Sly-Scale]

If in melee, try power attacks with maces for improved odds at staggering opponents.
If using Destruction, consider Frost to slow them down, or Fire for raw damage. Shock has limited effect against concentration spells, like what Spriggans use, so don't try it.

Conjuration and followers are good too. Stealth archery, Shouts, Potions, poison-resist (not to be confused with poison cure,) racial powers...

Potions that both Fortify and Restore Health can be brewed with Blue Mountain Flowers and Wheat. The flowers are commonly found alongside Purple and Red Mountain Flowers along the roads of Skyrim, and Wheat is typically found in farmers' fields or found in barrels/sacks and alchemist shopkeepers (or loose items on their counters.)

[HeLLance]

Run Away.

[mss73055]

To endure their attack you need magic resistance and/or poison resistance. You can't get a decent level of that in the beginning unless you get it as racial. So they cut right through your armour.

Spriggans are vulnerable to fire and they're easier to track when burning.

[Mati9319]

Alright. Thank you guys for your tips! I've decided to stay away from those as*holes for a time being. I'm gonna return to them after getting better equipment, stronger fire-based spells and potions granting magic/poison resistance.

Originally posted by mss73055:

Spriggans are vulnerable to fire

Seems like it must be a REALLY strong fire, because I've already tried fiery scimitar (21 normal + 10 fire damage) and Flames spell and both did little to no damage.

One the other hand, I've recently found out that Spriggan Earth Mother is a boss-level creature, so why was I even surprised?

[Vrakos Anthrakir]

what level are you?

(also just level up/train, vanilla skyrim has really lame scaling)

[Mati9319]

21

What do you mean by "just level up/train".

[Eternie]

Two more tips
Tip one become a werewolf or vampire makes you resistant to disease. So that solves the issue of getting a disease.
Tip two is use ranged weapons either Bows or spells like Lightning Bolt with the perks to knock back enemies.

[thedefman]

I had this problem in solstheim. I used the marked for death shout on it to bring it's stats back and make it killable

[seriousthree]

Put most of your levelling points into health until you get to 400. This might be a problem for magic users but still worthwhile.

My "little girly" is presently level 68 and I'm playing on Legendary. Except for bosses she kills almost everything too easily.

She's also a werewolf and I think gave the dog fleas. So I'm considering creating a new one before she gets to 69.

[Aeryn Stormcrow]

This is why I always go with a stealth archer build. 1-2 shot everything once you get good.

[psychotron666420]

Originally posted by Aeryn Stormcrow:

This is why I always go with a stealth archer build. 1-2 shot everything once you get good.

It's also the most mind numbingly boring way of playing the game imo.