the plains

[warcheese]

i find the mosiqutios and the fuling to be just a little over powered

[Phibes_Lonewolf]

Originally posted by warcheese:

i find the mosiqutios and the fuling to be just a little over powered

If they are to strong you are to weak...

[Veseljko]

Exactly that Lonewolf. If you find them over powered, you are not ready yet.

As for the gear for plains. You can go with fully upgraded root armor set and an iron buckler or silver shield. Root armor works great in plains. Mosquitoes deal 10 dmg if they hit you without blocking and an iron buckler will block all the damage from fulings.

If you have tamed wolves, bring them with you on your raids to goblin villages. They are working good against goblins. They suck against loxes and mosquitoes, so you will have to tank mosquitoes and keep your distance from loxes.
A friend and I raided a goblin village last night with seven 1-star wolves. We could just stand and watch wolves doing our job. Luckily, there were no berserkers and shamans so one wolf even survived the raid. They killed 15-20 goblins with just a little help from us.

Also a good advice is to have ooze bombs for groups of goblins. It will not kill them, but will make a good amount of damage over time.

[ToppeLoppen]

Originally posted by Jaunitta 🌸:

The Mosquitos dont seem to attack at night time.

They do, if they don't attack you, then it's a bug :)

I don't find DS that painful, they were in the beginning, but this game sends you on a learning curve too.
Everytime you meet a new mob, then you have to figure out how to handle them, and when you do, then it's easy as long as you've made sure to have the health for it and armor in time.

Make sure to build a kitchen and make recipies for better food and advance your mining to get better armor and you'll get there in time :)

[AlphaTrion]

Originally posted by redgreen999:

its the current end game. Think its meant to be hard at 1st. Its similar to the jump from black forest to swamp.

Oil blobs are worse yet at first go. I haven't had trouble with fulings until there were 6 around me with a beserker. Unless fulings are starred, they don't have a lot of hit points. The atgeir has a secondary attack that is good for crowd control when there are 2 or 3 of them.

Once you get drops you can make a fire resistance potion and work towards padded armor.

Deathsqutios haven't killed me yet. I have silver armor and they only take maybe 30 hp on surprise attack. Then I wait for them to circle around and when they come straight in I use secondary atgeir attack again. 1 hit takes them out. I have not had more than 2 at a time so far.

Oil blobs I have not figured out yet. I think we all need to tame a lox about the 1st thing. Maybe 2 lox. That is my next game goal.

Oil blobs are simple. drauger fang and fire arrows. Yet to try freeze arrows but i assume it would slow them and do some major damage, i know fire does.

[Monique]

Some talk of Silver Armor ??? I am guessing they refer to Padded Armor ?? Have not seen Silver Armor yet but it would be cool.

[TooTall1]

Originally posted by rapier1955:

Some talk of Silver Armor ??? I am guessing they refer to Padded Armor ?? Have not seen Silver Armor yet but it would be cool.

Referring to Wolf armor which uses silver

[intorpere]

Seems like players frequently try to progress into new biomes before they're equipped for it. Since equipment is everything in this game, that can be very punishing. The plains aren't difficult, if you're in upgraded silver tier and then padded, with good food.

Deathsquitos are easy, just wait for them to charge, block, and immediately hit back. They have 10 health. They only do massive damage if you're wearing subpar armor. Fulings can be dangerous in groups, so careful fighting more than 1-2 at a time. Those tar blobs can be tough, but fortunately they don't wander randomly. Be careful getting close to any tar pits. Use poison resist mead. Don't get hit by their big chain splatter attack.

[tes]

I don't think that the plains creatures are overpowered.
At this point you have already strong weapons, armor and food.

I handle Growths (called oil or tar blobs here) with stealth bow attacks.
With draugr fang and needle arrows you can kill them with one shot.
Same applies to non-starred Fulings and Fuling Shamans.

[blankitosonic]

If you are under geared with lesser biome food , monsters from the LAST biome will wreck you brother

[Tangoblue]

Originally posted by redgreen999:

I stayed away from Plains for a long time cause I heard horror stories about Deathsquitos, but I believe those were people that wandered into the plains wearing troll armour. They have been a meh for me. Maybe I am yet to run into a swarm of 6.

I got taken by 2 Dskeeters when I went through a portal. My fault, I didn't eat and was at 25 HP. Another reason I go through fully fed and weapons raised now. Live and learn (or rather, die and learn).

[Happyfunball]

First time I entered the Plains I got destroyed and for a time I was terrified on subsequent visits. But as others have stated, you get used to the attack patterns and honestly the switch from surviving to thriving happens pretty quickly. :)

My words of advice are: 1) Keep your camera angle up. This will aide you greatly in seeing the Deathsquitos from a distance. And 2) Strafe is your friend against the ranged Fulings. You don't even have to sprint to avoid their spear throws if you're Strafing.

Good luck!

[TooTall1]

Originally posted by Happyfunball:

First time I entered the Plains I got destroyed and for a time I was terrified on subsequent visits. But as others have stated, you get used to the attack patterns and honestly the switch from surviving to thriving happens pretty quickly. :)

My words of advice are: 1) Keep your camera angle up. This will aide you greatly in seeing the Deathsquitos from a distance. And 2) Strafe is your friend against the ranged Fulings. You don't even have to sprint to avoid their spear throws if you're Strafing.

Good luck!

And to add to these great points...

Growths (tar mobs) are not that tough. Simply pull them, one at a time, with a bow, back up some and when they land after hopping they will spew. Simply strafe as they land, angling closer, they will miss you completely without even sprinting, and you can smack them silly when you get to them.

When new to the plains, don't sprint in wildly because you will invariably pull too many mobs and easily get overwhelmed. Take your time, stop and scan.

[Tangoblue]

Originally posted by TooTall1:

When new to the plains, don't sprint in wildly because you will invariably pull too many mobs and easily get overwhelmed. Take your time, stop and scan.

I always felt that was the lesson to be learned in the swamp. Hence its upgrade in difficulty.

[TooTall1]

Originally posted by TangoBlue:

Originally posted by TooTall1:

When new to the plains, don't sprint in wildly because you will invariably pull too many mobs and easily get overwhelmed. Take your time, stop and scan.

I always felt that was the lesson to be learned in the swamp. Hence its upgrade in difficulty.

Agreed. Whenever I read a post about mobs being too tough and being ganged up on, I believe its just moving too fast through a new threat area and pulling too many mobs to handle. They probably could deal with things if they just took a bit more time exploring and just step back when they advance on your position, instead of running toward the new mob thereby pulling more to themselves.

[no-no-please]

strongly disagree. comparing to 0.156 plains inhabitants and some bosses are pretty nerfed
i.e. Deathsquito can't one-shot you through bronze armour, even zerkers do only 45 damage through silver armour (which is 1/3 of your hp at the first encounter)
haven't seen 2-starred club fuling - anyone tested it? will it do 150+ dmg through silver?