Buff the elders power

[Mr.Pessimism]

the elder is super useless. even when you first get it. to be useful this power should allow the player to one shot trees to fell them and the same got fallen lumber when you cut it up. the elder is so useless right now. for anyone.

[Rhapsody]

Inspired by the various suggestion threads about making magic accessible earlier, I had the shower thought of Elder's power providing a small amount (25 range) of eitr for the character. This could be used for automatic (so long as eitr is available) magical effects with existing regular weapons instead of spellcasting, like inducing a lightning shockwave with Stagbreaker (Eikthyr's element) or causing attacks (made or received) to apply spirit AoE DoT effects, as well as making it easier for novice spellcasters to make use of the more expensive blood magic spells later in the game.

The problem I see with associating Elder's powers with magic is that they'd push into the place of the Queen's power... but with some additional features like described above, they could be different enough, Elder's power being more useful for beginner mages and the Queen's power for advanced casters with better resources and spellcasting equipment.

[Wilson768]

Escrito originalmente por Jaggid Edje:

I think the elder's power should stay as it is, but add one more effect, that being to increase how much wood you get per tree. That'd make it worth using if you were going to be gathering a lot of wood.

Agree, maybe increase the rate to drop tree seeds too

[fastforward]

bonemass power is amazing, reduces damage of most, if not all enemies to parryable levels (looking at starred fulling berserkers and seekers)
moder power helps catching sea serpents. if theres a storm and night, i allways sail out into the ocean to my favorite sea serpent spawns, taking my trusty abyssal harpoon and moders blessing with me.
elder power is if I need more coal, its usually a quick trip to the center trough a portal, take elders power and slaughter trees for 5 minutes, makes 400+ wood.
eiktyrs power i rarely take lately, but on my first trips into the mointains it helped me alot, i would argue it may even be good for mistlands, but the enemies in mistlands hit quite hard, and i prefer having bonemass' power there.
so what is left is queen and yagluth, yagluths power is the least usefull right now i'd say, since there are no enemies who actually do lightning damage, and against frost and fire there are potions which are quite easy to craft. but with the future biomes maybe yagluths power might become usefull, especially if they finally allow us to stack resistances from several sources.
cant say anything about queens power.

[Humpenstilzchen]

I think they should give elder another more useful power. If there is one thing that I don´t need then it is a wood chopping buff.

[WingT74]

Escrito originalmente por Mr.Pessimism:

the elder is super useless. even when you first get it. to be useful this power should allow the player to one shot trees to fell them and the same got fallen lumber when you cut it up. the elder is so useless right now. for anyone.

yeah have to agree with this. Huge fan of Valheim, love the game...the first power/sprint and the wind power are really good, but the others are near useless. I dont think it would be OP at all to all players to have all the powers at the same time tbh. That alone would make them viable (and just some better than others)

[Tanyon]

Escrito originalmente por Reften:

Escrito originalmente por Mr.Pessimism:

the elder is super useless. even when you first get it. to be useful this power should allow the player to one shot trees to fell them and the same got fallen lumber when you cut it up. the elder is so useless right now. for anyone.

yeah have to agree with this. Huge fan of Valheim, love the game...the first power/sprint and the wind power are really good, but the others are near useless. I dont think it would be OP at all to all players to have all the powers at the same time tbh. That alone would make them viable (and just some better than others)

Yea honestly if maybe it decreased stam usage, increased stam regen and gathering rate of all harvesting for "x" time.. it would be a lot better.

[Humpenstilzchen]

Escrito originalmente por Reften:

yeah have to agree with this. Huge fan of Valheim, love the game...the first power/sprint and the wind power are really good, but the others are near useless. I dont think it would be OP at all to all players to have all the powers at the same time tbh. That alone would make them viable (and just some better than others)

Bonemass power useless? I suggest giving it another try, it´s the most op thing ever.

[Blahramewe]

I'm performing necromancy on this thread to add my suggestion for the Elder's power. I think it would be a lot more useful if any tree you felled while under its power guaranteed a tree seed, with the other seeds having their regular drop chance.

[!?!]

Or how about we get away from the hyperspecific task of chopping wood that makes it so useless when you do literally anything else and make it a damage buff to everything?
Or boosted stamina regen. Instant rested buff with immunity to cold and wetness.

Literally anything other than 1 task.

[i have 2026 vision fear me]

Escrito originalmente por !?!:

Or how about we get away from the hyperspecific task of chopping wood that makes it so useless when you do literally anything else and make it a damage buff to everything?
Or boosted stamina regen. Instant rested buff with immunity to cold and wetness.

Literally anything other than 1 task.

My suggestion is making it also buff mining power. If it's considered a material gathering forsaken power, might as well make it useful for gathering other materials than just wood.

[Zathabar]

Escrito originalmente por i have 2024 vision fear me:

My suggestion is making it also buff mining power. If it's considered a material gathering forsaken power, might as well make it useful for gathering other materials than just wood.

Logical.
Greys drop Wood Resin & Stone so buff gathering those by double for ten mins maybe? SO every tree gives 2 resin double wood etc. All mining gets 2x stone.

Still weaksuace compared to Ol' Boney but situationally useful at last!