how do you kill the warriors of the damned?

[C]

Me and my friend are trying t go treasure hunting but most of the time we have to turn back due to the fact that its impossible to kill these things. We are going at them with blunderbusses, muskets, and bows but they either deal little to no damage or they wind up killing us with attacks that shouldn't have been close even if they are area of affect ability. Is there some sort of method or weapon we should be using?

[saber fan]

one more thing you should stay away from maps 15 or higher . last one i went to try out was 19.5 and there was like 20 level 75 that popped out of the ground lol killed me and my level 35 bear

[123]

I just cherry pick the maps that have treasure close (ish) tho the coast.
Pull up in your ship, get the LoTD to follow close to your ship and mo them down with swivel cannon.

[saber fan]

yep that way is the easiest . it was great when you can use them on land , i seen people set it up infront of the spot lol. now you have to spend alot of points to do that

[パンツです]

a bear and a swivel is all you need oneshoot every treasure map npc with easy

[MesCaLiN]

before i did it with bears i used grenades. throw a couples of grenades right when they spawn. 3-4 grenades will take out all the lower mobs and weaken the warriors which u can kill with a bow or saber easily.

not recommended on top of hill^^

[Fatherdaeth]

use pistols to kill the ranged and a sword to kill the melee or they wont take much dmg

[Nokim]

The maps have changed, the strategy has not. Now it's one massive wave depending on quality is how big the wave and the lvl of the wave. I have spotted lvl120 mob waves, just have to take more bears. Having the mettle buff helps a ton and having honest possible lvl bears with 1k hp also helps. As for being high lvl player...no. doesn't take that long to reach l lvl30 which is more than enough to get riding to tier3.
Highway quality I've soloed ship far was 27 and that took 6 max lvl bear. I did another 27 with a friend and we did it easy with 3 bears. 2 bears with melee buff makes a huge difference.

[Major Ducks]

up to fine maps you can do them super easy with 2h mace and plate armour, if you have knowledge of the old ones will make it even easier.

2h mace will destroy every skelleton in few seconds other than the skelleton with a 2h mace aswell.

When that skelleton is the last alive just use pistols or carbines and headshot it.

Tames make your life easier because it would make you as powerful as 2 players in some sense.

Dont bother with bows, spears, shotguns, sword only if you have the skills.

[Scott Chaeney]

so I just encountered them for the first time at lvl 20 and my arrows do no damage. Is there a trick?

[CowboyKillig]

they made a change so the army of the damned can only be hurt by tames or melee weapons. so no ranged weapons will hurt them :(

[Scott Chaeney]

well that is absolutly ♥♥♥♥ .. okay thanks for letting me know!

[SteelFire]

It may suck, but I can totally see why they did it. The vast majority of the maps I've gone after are relatively close to shore, so how easy would it be to just cheese them from the deck of a ship or with ship mounted weaponry? They balanced that out by taking ranged weapons out of the mix.

[Fortunato75]

Get a beer. It is a level 10 map use 2 beer

[Kamen Cider]

if you don't want to use tames:
Get the others to place 3 walls and a doorway with door at the site of the treasure. you'll need a 3x3 zone.
Place an Exploding Keg.
Set timer to 10 seconds.
Close door.
Walk towards map to trigger AoD.
Boom.
Pick off survivors.
Get loot.

[Sanki]

引用自 Spartan_Tank：

they made a change so the army of the damned can only be hurt by tames or melee weapons. so no ranged weapons will hurt them :(

oh Rly ? So I was shooting imaginable physical fists out of my blunderbuss and swivel cannon ? please don't spread false information, there is an issue when A.I is stuck and you can't hurt them but they can hurt you... running from them causing this issue.