Valheim cultists

A complete guide to the Valheim cultist. How it works, where to find it, what it drops, how to kill it, etc.

Contents

1. Intro.
2. Drops.
3. Spawning.
4. Stats.
5. Strategies.

Intro

Cultists are aggressive Valheim enemy creatures found in the mountain biomes inside the Frost caves. Their appearance is very werewolf-like. They only differ from Fenrings and Ulvs for wearing red tattered hoods.

Drops

Cultists have 2 different drops.
They are:
Cultist trophy for a 10% change.
And.
Red jute for 100% change dropping 1-2 red jutes.

Spawning

Cultists only spawn in the mountain biomes inside the Frost caverns.
They have no technical spawn limit in there, but only one spawns rarely in one.
Cultists will always spawn with zero stars.
They can also be spawned through console commands using the corresponding id which is Fenring_Cultist.

Stats

Valheim Cultist.
Health: 200.
Damage: 50-fire. 35(40)-slash(fire).
Abilities: Stream of fire. Claws attack.
Weaknesses: Poison.
Neutrals: Blunt, Slash, Pierce, Frost, Lightning, Spirit, Stagger.
Immunities: Fire, Chop, Pickaxe.
Stagger limit: 50%

Strategies

Cultists are extremely cautious and can easily detect you when sneaking. They also can easily hear any noise made by the player and will move towards the source of the sound. This is bad for the player because the cultist lairs and the natural caves are usually separated with breakable ice and enemies that make a ton of noise.
Cultists can not open doors which you can use for your advantage.
The opening move when fighting a cultist is that the cultist creates a burst of flames with a explosion dealing fire damage. This attack can not be blocked or parried, but can easily be dodged by rolling backwards.
After this attack the cultist will attack with two flaming claw attacks which will set the player on fire for 5 seconds. This claw attack can be blocked and parried, but parrying the cultist will not have a significant effect because cultist have a heavy stagger limit. The fire in this attack can not be blocked.
After this the Cultist will cycle in between the fire attack, two claw attacks, one fire attack, two claw attacks, etc. until the player resets its cycle.
I would recommend using fire resistance potions and poison arrows for this one. You can beat it by rolling backwards away from its attacks and shooting the poison arrows in between its attacks. Even thought the root armor gives you a bonus on archer skills you should NOT in any point when fighting against a cultist risk taking fire damage and taking extra fire damage because of the armor. Instead an iron armor set or maybe even silver armor set does the job. Using the Draugr Fang with the poison arrows in this fight is extremely useful because the Draugr Fang stacks the poison damage and quickly melts the cultist's health down.