Frostner vs Bonemass

[StoneMonkey]

Anyone tried this ..? I'm thinking of brewing up some anti-frost, looking for silver without a wishbone (apparently doable), and using blunt + frost against Bonemass (solo) ... I hear frost arrows can be used in a Bonemass cheese so suspect a mace with frost should be handy. Can't see anywhere online where it's been tried though. Skål ...

[N00b4lyfe]

Yeah, I had to do it after I sailed over the edge of the world and it was one of my left over weapons i had in a box. Frostbopper worked well.

I wouldn't attempt searching for silver without the wishbone. I had two mountains that had no silver before I found some. It was pretty awful.

[asanger]

Didn't try with Frostner though I think it would probably be effective.
I went with the frost arrows.

I think spirit damage works against bosses though I haven't tried yet.
Going to make some silver arrows to test against Modar.

If your randomly mining for silver I would recommend trying under stone golem spawn sites. Found a few veins under where they spawn.

[StoneMonkey]

@N00b4lyfe ... not in a rush so happy to explore until I find some, but good to know Frostner is viable. Thx.
@asanger ... great tip re. stone golem spawn sites - will try finding one once I finish fermenting. Cheers.

[Horse of Mass Obliteration]

Finding silver without wishbone is doable, but not easy.

Silver is mostly under ground, and in some mountain biomes it's even non existent.

I've occasionally found it peaking through the ground in steep places near golem spawns.

Good luck!

[StoneMonkey]

Thx, @HMO (thx all posters) ... yeah, I got lucky ... found a vein right at the surface on the very summit of a high mountain near a camp of mine. Got enough silver to make the Wolf Cloak so finding more silver (enough to forge/upgrade Frostner) should be less stressful. Lol ... I did die taking too-long-a fall on the way down, though ... rushing ... coz I was too much of a tight-a$$ to pop another frost potion and thought I could hustle back to the camp in time ... The corpse run was a breeze with Eikthyr's power, though, so no harm done ...

[Wariat117]

bonemass is weak to "blunt" damage
the frostner itself doesn't have high blunt
so I guess it won't be anything great, it will be just about the same as bronze mace?

[Salty]

It works really well against Bonemass, as for Modor, the Draugr Fang with poison arrows while shes flying and switching to a higher base dmg arrow when she lands makes her a total joke

[Asheira]

Bonemass mostly resists Pierce, Slash and Fire type from my experience.
Definitely don't bring a sword, dagger, spear or axe. Or fire arrows. he can out-heal / regenerate those easily.
Frostner is the best thing you could have at that point, good luck finding silver.
Think you can do "oh-kay" with an up'd iron mace, too.
Stamina pots are great for boss fights (Tasty Mead)
With a poison resist pot going, you could even eat 1 of his coulds which give you so much time to make a serious dent.

[Jᴧgᴧ]

Would probably be effective, but crafting Frostner before you fight Bonemass.. wasn't on my list of priorities. Bonemass is doable with just an upgraded bronze mace, good food, health/stam pots, and a judicial use of either parry or dodge.

[Mars]

Before you go digging make sure the mountain has some obsidian nodes on it. In my experience a mountain without obsidian never has silver.

[[ SegafreakOne ]]

Did Bonemass yesterday with my bro. Only had 3 type of meats and no potions and killed him. But took ages to kill him. Used bow made from iron lvl 4 and iron arrows. Both iron bows got broken and we started to use lower lvl bow instead with wood arrows. Took 40min + to kill bonemass! :D

Tip from friend: Frost arrows

[Orakio]

My understanding is frost arrows are only good because he's not resistant, not because he's weak to them. So they're not a "strong" choice so much as they're the least resisted arrow option. But a blunt weapon would still be far superior. An upgraded iron mace was pretty easy to kill him with on my first try.

I mean, you could do well with Frostner, considering you could probably do well with any blunt weapon and it's a later one, I don't think it would be better than an iron mace.

I think there's that misconception about frost arrows that's making you think you're stacking damage to which he's weak, when in fact, you'd be more than halving the damage to which he's weak (Frostner's upgrade doesn't increase it's blunt dmg, so it's still 35, where upgraded iron mace is 73), in order to add damage to which he's neutral.

[StoneMonkey]

Thx to all for bringing the knowledge ..!

@Orakio - "I think there's that misconception about frost arrows that's making you think you're stacking damage to which he's weak, when in fact, you'd be more than halving the damage to which he's weak (Frostner's upgrade doesn't increase it's blunt dmg, so it's still 35, where upgraded iron mace is 73), in order to add damage to which he's neutral." -- I hear what you're saying, so will be sure a pack my Iron Mace as well as Frostner (I still wanna try it him). Cheers

[Serverus88]

Frostner wrecks Bonemass and is very effective on 5th boss as well. Took me all of 45 secs to flatten Bonemass with a maxed Frostner.

[侍Kage]

Moder is super easy due to bad AI. About frostner, good luck finding silver vein without wish bone. I'd prefer just going with a normal mace instead of wasting time trying to find silver vein. Sure might make it easier but a mace and some frost arrows should do the trick.