Yagluth???

[Bongoboy]

I played Valheim when it released into Early Access and fought Yagluth back then already. I remember that boss as extreme unfair when I first encountered him. I read up everything I could.

Now I am sitting at Valheim again, and at Yagluth... again. I watch some YouTube on him, get fire resist and so on.
The question is, can you defeat Yagluth fair and square as a melee?

To me it doesn't seem like you can do it. Anyone care to prove me wrong? But you can't have any terrain manipuilation. Just you, him, and a melee duel.

[Bongoboy]

To add to what I said, he just does to much damage, even if you block everything he does, eventually you will run out of HP and the timer for popping a Met is not on your side.

[Fargel_Linellar]

I've never tried solo, as I've always played with friends.

The 3 times we defeated Yagluth was purely melee.
It did cost a lot of causalities every time.

When playing solo, I would assume you have an advantage. You know the meteors are always aimed at you

[Lorska]

You can fight him totally fair by circling around his back. He'll keep turning forever and then you whack him. He'll never attack you.

If you want the super fair fight it's doable but it's gonna take ages because you just run away from all his attacks and the time to actually hit him safely is short.

[Veseljko]

Melee is the only proper way to defeat him. He is resistant to pierce damage and you would need several stacks of arrows to kill him. Not to mention it would take ages to kill him with arrows and you would need to go back to repair your bow several times.


Just try not to stand in the fire. When he raises his right arm with a glowing ball in his hand, he is about to use nova attack. It burns the ground in the area around him and the ground stays on fire for a couple of seconds.
If you stay in the fire, the damage builds up and you can die pretty quickly.
When he raises left arm, he is calling meteor shower - just run away in straight line to avoid it.


So stay away from fire
Use frostner or silver sword
Use fire resist potion

[dmonroeschool]

Its doable solo i have done it a few times on my friends server. its really a matter of skill/practice. Plus like Veseljko said frostner or silver sword are best and fire resist mead is a must.

[BruhBaskin]

if you want to do the boss extremely cheesy you can just farm up spirit arrows using dragur fang takes like 3-4 stacks of arrows and goes quicker with higher archery level

[Exodite-Dragon]

Pop a fire resist potion, equip a silver sword (or frostner), and slice him apart.

Be sure to bring some stamina/health meads with you, too, in case you take too many fire DoTs (they stack) or get an unlucky hit from his meteor swarm spell.

He's perfectly doable solo - easier, perhaps, since afaik enemies gain health/defense boosts the more players within an active zone.

EDIT: Also wanted to add I usually swap to Eikthyr for this fight. Lower stamina drain running around to attack his spine is a welcome thing but YMMV on this being more useful than Bonemass depending on how adept you are at avoiding hits.

[drorbedrack]

yes, he's not so bad
run away from meteors and fire breath, block the hand explosion, hit him with frostnir

[Cattastrafy]

Done him a few times melee. Only if I specialize in clubs or swords though. I'm sure it can be done just slower with low skill though.

Silver sword or frostnir as others have said.

Roll for his ground slam, maybe drag out of immediate fire that is created by it. Or be ready to run around a pillar and use healing mead to compensate. I find i have no time to attack if I don't stand in the fire, and it's little time in the first place.

Basically a lot of hit and runs with melee. But not a problem over all.

Decent bow skill and frost arrows take care of him just fine too.

[knighttemplar1960]

He's often found near water. If you are on fire and jump in water the DoT of the fire damage ends.

[Bongoboy]

All of those tips are a given, "pop a fire resist mead" and "use silver weapons like the Frostner and the silver Sword".

The true issue for me is:

Originally posted by Lorska:

If you want the super fair fight it's doable but it's gonna take ages because you just run away from all his attacks and the time to actually hit him safely is short.

After finally finding two nice videos on this I think the best way is to use terrain manipulation, to be save. All you really need to do is create a "spike" the size of 3x3, which you can run around to kite him while you're regenerating health.
If you do him with two or more players, ideally you create more of these "spikes". Two to three are enough, the space between them should also be bigger then 3x3 because that is his size otherwise I assume he can't crawl between them.

And then basically you just keep running around evading all his shenanigans be it the fire smash, the meteors or the breath. With good food and fire protection you can take some hits, the spike helps you to kite him around and around if you need to regenerate health.

In those videos here, they basically do the same, just with the spikes that are already in the area. But those break, hence why making own ones is better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysr-GXcC-pk&ab_channel=LifeOfWise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asZhzkgVGBY&ab_channel=ChristopherShaw

[Husker_85]

My first time fighting him was pre-Mistlands, and I found him fairly easy to spank and tank with melee. Just use the best armor, the right food and mead, and Frostner

[Scooby Doo]

Is this really a thread about how a boss is not easy to kill? The whole reason you can manipulate the terrain is so that you can use your mind to win when you are at the disadvantage. Not every game out there has you the player a god nearly unstoppable against overwhelming odds. Some games have challenge. Now you do have difficulty settings, perhaps EASY is the setting for you. How did you get past Bone Mass without cheesing it? His poison is a lot worse. So many ways to do things in this game just need to thing.
Hint trap the boss on an island made by you or in a hole. For the video that says his belly hangs through floors that has been fixed. Do not bury yourself in a whole with wood floors, it will not go well at all. Been there done that last week. Failed horribly. Friend with Ashland gear had to come and take care of it. LOL

[Bongoboy]

Originally posted by Husker_85:

My first time fighting him was pre-Mistlands, and I found him fairly easy to spank and tank with melee. Just use the best armor, the right food and mead, and Frostner

I fought him pre-Mistlands too, and found him at the edge of unfair as well. Espesially after the pushover Moder is.

[Bongoboy]

I don't like the tone of your post, but... I try to not be aggressive saying my piece.

Originally posted by Scooby Doo:

Is this really a thread about how a boss is not easy to kill?

I play Dark Souls and I am used to "not easy". The previous bosses are "fairly easy" with attack patterns that you can see and work around on the spot.

Originally posted by Scooby Doo:

The whole reason you can manipulate the terrain is so that you can use your mind to win when you are at the disadvantage.

If you spend some time, you would have read what I wrote, I wanted to know how you defeat Yagluth without cheese. Looking at the timing of his attacks, know and knowing you can only drink mead once every 2 minutes it feels overwhelming what he throws at you.

Originally posted by Scooby Doo:

Not every game out there has you the player a god nearly unstoppable against overwhelming odds. Some games have challenge. Now you do have difficulty settings, perhaps EASY is the setting for you.

Especially this right here, I find ultra offensive. You don't know me, yet you assume things and say some offensive stuff at the same time.

Originally posted by Scooby Doo:

How did you get past Bone Mass without cheesing it? His poison is a lot worse.

Bone Mass is really easy. All you really need is the Poison Mead and you can pretty much ignore his poison... there is no real way to evade it when you're in melee with him anyway. And his attacks you can either block, roll or even parry.

[/quote]Hint trap the boss on an island made by you or in a hole. For the video that says his belly hangs through floors that has been fixed. Do not bury yourself in a whole with wood floors, it will not go well at all. Been there done that last week. Failed horribly. Friend with Ashland gear had to come and take care of it. LOL[/quote]
The main thing I was curios was how to beat him without cheese.

You can either do the thing you said, but I seen a video where someone tried and failed, lol.

Another thing you can do, is raise the ground. Create a round plot of raised ground, a little bigger then he is. Then go to attack him and when he raises his arm for the Nova just block the initial hit and run out of the fire, kiting him around the round raised terrain. When he does his Meteors, get the raised terrain between him and you, it should block off most Meteors if you made it high enough, you can also kite him to regenerate HP.
If you have a second or more players, create a second of those structures, so everyone always has something to hide behind. Those pillars can also be used but they break.

You could also just raise the ground around the Altar where you summon him, basically imprisoning him. Then build a nice "Hunters Loft" somewhere further away, with a repair bench and a inventory full of Frost Arrows... to target practice on him.

But I wanted to fight him without too much cheese. To be honest, I find the Meteors kind of bad designed. With two players you never know where he casts them on, and they come from way above hard to see and to evade.
Doing him the first time had me puzzled how to do him, since you seemingly have such little windows to damage him and wasting all the stamina on running around is not fun. He also has super bloated HP.