Tıps on swamp. How to slay a Abomination?

[A-Z]

Thank you guys so much for your previous tips on sailing! Now I am comfortable with it.
Now please tell me how to deal with abomination. I am fine with running away from it, but it seeks out and destroys my boats, portals, and workbenches. Now I build my portals in biomes neighboring swamps, but that prevents me from deep expeditions.
Now I want to be able to slay abomination. It doesn't seem to have particular weaknesses to anything, I don't understand its hitbox and it kills me in 3 hits. And can barely chip it's healthpool. SO what do I do?

[Faceplant]

Originally posted by w.f.schepel:

You can test it quite easily. You will see your crosshairs turn yellow and yellow damage numbers will show up when you hit.

Are you playing with mods? Damage is white for me with an axe, and a quick Google search shows the same thing:

https://www.reddit.com/r/valheim/comments/rcm8ud/abomination_guide_axes_are_very_powerful_against/

[w.f.schepel]

Originally posted by Faceplant8:

Originally posted by w.f.schepel:

You can test it quite easily. You will see your crosshairs turn yellow and yellow damage numbers will show up when you hit.

Are you playing with mods? Damage is white for me with an axe, and a quick Google search shows the same thing:

https://www.reddit.com/r/valheim/comments/rcm8ud/abomination_guide_axes_are_very_powerful_against/

Nope, vanilla. Are you hitting it in the middle? Only figured it out quite by accident when I was chopping wood and had it pop up.

Had a black metal axe at that point. As far as I can tell, it has no secondaries that might account for the yellow numbers. Iti s bed time for me, but just to see if I am not completely crazy my next trip will be to the swamp. Makes a difference from killing ashlands stuff.

[Faceplant]

Originally posted by w.f.schepel:

Nope, vanilla. Are you hitting it in the middle? Only figured it out quite by accident when I was chopping wood and had it pop up.

Yes. You can also see in the video the guy chopping it in the middle and the damage is white.

The video is old, but I haven't seen any indication that they added weak spots to the abomination. Besides, axe does slash damage, so it would have to work the same for other slash weapons.

[Faceplant]

Tried again with a bunch of weapons. This character was swamp-level with knives as main, so pretty much 0 skill i sword and mace. BM axe still did white damage, and I didn't see how long that took, since it's not really relevant.

Parried (with a bronze buckler) every attack for comparison:

Abysal Razor took 4 attack cycles
Iron axe took 4 attack cycles
Iron sword (using secondary) took 4 attack cycles
Iron mace took 8 attack cycles

All of that seems reasonable given skill levels. The axe did better than expected, and the sword worse, but if I had started with sword, it would likely be about twice as fast given skill bonuses. Knife would be slower if you were less proficient, but it's perfectly viable.

I think, if you were running club as a main, mace would be comparable to axe, assuming you had very low skill in axe.

Bottom line IMO is that parry is the most important (personal) skill if you're going to melee the stronger opponents. Weapon type may make it a bit longer or shorter, but the outcome is going to be the same in all cases if you can be consistent on the parry.

[Fading_Drifter]

Originally posted by A-Z:

Originally posted by rubinho:

try to parry and if succes hit with axe but twice only...rinse and repeat

And ıf not success go to respawn mıles away and buıld anew boat.

if it one shots you then you probably shouldnt be in the swamps yet

[Zombits]

So an axe is now better than swords, ,😄.

[bacon]

bronze buckler and bronze axe works fine. you should have these already when you enter swamp.

if you want an even greater advantage, bronze sword.

[ministrog]

wait i thought the bonfire was the meta for those tree dudes. saw a tuber get so excited about picking up surtling cores. i was like what he on about?! the guy then proceeded to run circles around bonfire and waited.

[Quintium]

Originally posted by Soma:

My axe skill never passes 10. The change that made cutting down trees and attacking monsters a seperate skill took axe off my radar for a main or even secondary weapon. BUT..... the duel weilding axes introduced in Ashlands does make me want to give it a try on a future playthrough.

Not sure what you are doing without cutting trees :D I'm always about 40-50 when getting to swamps.
But ok. It still depends on skill between axe, sword, or knife when fighting Abomination that can give the better "edge". In the end, those are the melee weapons best against it. And no matter what, it is not a hard monster in the swamps. I'm more worried about a 2 star Draugr that can snipe you in no time.

[Soma]

Originally posted by Quintium:

Originally posted by Soma:

My axe skill never passes 10. The change that made cutting down trees and attacking monsters a seperate skill took axe off my radar for a main or even secondary weapon. BUT..... the duel weilding axes introduced in Ashlands does make me want to give it a try on a future playthrough.

Not sure what you are doing without cutting trees :D I'm always about 40-50 when getting to swamps.
But ok. It still depends on skill between axe, sword, or knife when fighting Abomination that can give the better "edge". In the end, those are the melee weapons best against it. And no matter what, it is not a hard monster in the swamps. I'm more worried about a 2 star Draugr that can snipe you in no time.

Sadly they changed what you are referring to :( I was bummed when they did it.

Awhile ago they seperated the woodcutting skill from the axe skill. Chopping down trees does not help you fight enemies and fighting enemies does not help you chop down trees. The skills are seperate now.

[Zombits]

Originally posted by bacon:

bronze buckler and bronze axe works fine. you should have these already when you enter swamp.

if you want an even greater advantage, bronze sword.

exact

[HyperLightDrifter]

Originally posted by Faceplant8:

Tried again with a bunch of weapons. This character was swamp-level with knives as main, so pretty much 0 skill i sword and mace. BM axe still did white damage, and I didn't see how long that took, since it's not really relevant.

Parried (with a bronze buckler) every attack for comparison:

Abysal Razor took 4 attack cycles
Iron axe took 4 attack cycles
Iron sword (using secondary) took 4 attack cycles
Iron mace took 8 attack cycles

All of that seems reasonable given skill levels. The axe did better than expected, and the sword worse, but if I had started with sword, it would likely be about twice as fast given skill bonuses. Knife would be slower if you were less proficient, but it's perfectly viable.

I think, if you were running club as a main, mace would be comparable to axe, assuming you had very low skill in axe.

Bottom line IMO is that parry is the most important (personal) skill if you're going to melee the stronger opponents. Weapon type may make it a bit longer or shorter, but the outcome is going to be the same in all cases if you can be consistent on the parry.

What food were you using for this test and your block skill? :) Very important information on your test run. Bear in mind, if you lie to me I will know.

[Zombits]

Many players are under impression axe is better than sword on bobination.

Simply because sword is still at 0 LVL ?

[Faceplant]

Originally posted by HyperLightDrifter:

What food were you using for this test and your block skill? :) Very important information on your test run. Bear in mind, if you lie to me I will know.

That is my point. many factors are very important.

FWIW, deer stew, black soup, and sausages. Skill level 14.

[HyperLightDrifter]

Originally posted by Faceplant8:

Originally posted by HyperLightDrifter:

What food were you using for this test and your block skill? :) Very important information on your test run. Bear in mind, if you lie to me I will know.

That is my point. many factors are very important.

FWIW, deer stew, black soup, and sausages. Skill level 14.

Ok yeah, that is the bare minimum for a bronze buckler lvl 3 to work. You can read back if you want to my first response in this thread when I said that Bronze buckler would not work with the food I mentioned, Deer stew, carrot soup and boar jerky.

I was using foods that a player new to the swamp would have access to. With them, you would need a Banded Shield.