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Well, yes - best eitr, best stamina and best health food you can afford :) It's the only character I have that does that - mix of all three. There are downsides of doing that, it feels like you don't have enough of anything. But it still fun, just need to adjust.

I do use tower shield on this particular character just for when I want to switch things up. Normally, especially with the sword, I'd prefer regular flametal shield over buckler. Reason being that the ashlands round shield has less block force even then the mistlands buckler and block force affects knockback. Stagger time on charred warriors after parry is very short, so it's easier to hit them in time when they are knocked back less.

@ ok cool thanks. i’m doing a one-life no map/portal no bonemass run so i don’t have huge window for a shit build, and was thinking of just going tank mode into ashlands. previously runs i was pure magic which was complete ass in ashlands until i got the vine staff, died probably 30 times, even then i felt like i would spend fights just dodge rolling and re-applying protection staff on repeat. past runthroughs i’ve tried tower shield only up to swamp, there was actually a kind of neat gameplay synergy with tower/spear cuz the block knockback was so far you could only counter attack with a spear throw lol, it was fun but i was like omfg i could just zoom around with a dagger and murder everyone in 5 seconds. but then ashlands yeah… you can no longer do cute dash dodges or maneuver around, everything has way too much range and speed, like the valkyrie head peck even i couldnt run out of it i HAD TO dodgeroll im like omfg my stamina bro. dodgeroll valk, dodgeroll first asksvin, dodgeroll second asksvin, dodgeroll valk spin move, is it my turn to attack yet?……oop nvm my stamina is gone i’m dead. #notfun

Far from max :) I use those skeletons as decoys more than anything else anyway

Yeah, but is it fun beating boss sitting in a hole ???

I'd say thundering is a safer bet. It will work better for most people on most weapons. Blood, because damage increases by some number of percent, is much more weapon skill level sensitive - the more damage you do as the base the bigger damage buff you are getting. Is just that you are getting that buff when you need it most - when you are low health and it's guaranteed, not something chance based.

No quería quedarme atrapado en ellos. El movimiento sin restricciones en esta lucha es esencial (google translate)

@@lifeinvalheim i can read english but not write it. just the basic.

@@lifeinvalheim me di cuenta que cuidabas mucho el vigor! gracias!

Because I already use blood berserkir axes on another character :) Otherwise - yes, could work for this build.

But isn't the whole idea of using the bloodstone weapons that you are constantly damaged to get the buff?

@@randomaccessfemale Well, when you use staff of protection you damage yourself.

@@lifeinvalheim Yes, but I noticed that your health pool is very small, which does not give much damage bonus. Especially since you can't afford to go too low.

@@randomaccessfemale As the description says - this is probably not the most practical build. However playing with blood weapons on both high health and low health characters - I am still not convinced that size of health pool actually matters. Like if I have 250ish health, which is easily achievable with ashlands foods and I am damaged for 200 hp I should be doing 40% more damage. It doesn't feel to me that way. Feels like it is percentage based - you gain 0.2% damage for every percent of your health missing, so up to 20% max. I did not do any proper testing on that, so I might be completely wrong, but that's how it feels.

Sure thing: drive.google.com/file/d/1UnC8ZA21R1uiJAoj5VTDR_wulHHm11rW/view?usp=sharing

@@lifeinvalheim thank you!!

While I do enjoy a good intense fight and at this point - can handle it, I agree. Having a fight like the one in this video once in the while can be fun. But the way things are right now such a fight is something you have to do every step of your way in ashlands. And that just becomes tedious even if you spent enough time in the game for it not to feel very difficult.

Looking at this gameplay it seems even more harder to deal with all the mobs. I can just swing sword and get rid all of them lol

Those towers/pillars framing the stairways down to the dock are filled with dirt inside, which effectively rises the ground level. From there on just diagonal wood-iron beams supporting the arches. Rising ground to the max and hiding that with building around it is probably cheapest and most effective way to add more height to your buildings.

It works at longer ranges too, just it's easier to direct hit up close. And stacking hist is the key with this one.

anyway.. well done 👍nice video

Sailed with the longship to the first rocks and swam rock to rock. It actually was easier than I thought it would be. The most annoying bit is just before reaching the land when it is just bit too far to swim directly to shore, but close enough that so that the waves are gone which makes it much harder to get on the ridges.

It's normal mode. No modifiers.

Its called root harnesk, 3x less dmg even in ashlands

I do have a sort of an assassin character (fenris + knives). Although at this point he is more like a thief than an assassin. In his original world he lives in the hole under a rock somewhere. I'd like to bring him into this shared world, but haven't figured out yet how exactly I want to do that.

Spikes are destructible with any weapon, just need to hit them long enough. I think blunt damage works best. There's quite a few parts of the fortress that are destructible using regular damage, only gates and walls require battering ram or catapult.

@@lifeinvalheim I remember using a pickaxe for 10 mins or so and losing my sanity and giving up lmao.

@@11nith Yeah, pickaxe takes forever - try a mace or the demolisher :)

Parrying is great but there’s still situations where tower shield is preferable. Like when there’s so many enemies you can’t afford to lower your guard to parry. When you don’t have enough breathing room to capitalize on a parried enemy. When you’re first entering a biome and haven’t seen the enemy attack animations yet. Blocking also uses less stamina than parrying, which isn’t a big deal but is something to consider.

I parried my way through the whole game. A tower shield is more relaxing, i never need to run, have the enemies bounce of your shield walk backward get a special sword attack in and 3-5 shot everything. I havent tright it on a 2 Star charred warrior so i can't say if the still bounce off or just do too much damage.

Magic definitely is significantly stronger. As a melee enjoyer it pains me. With magic you not only get high damage, but range, mobility, and versatility as well. Comparatively, melee gets no range, low mobility in most cases, low versatility, AND low damage output because of how much time you spend dodging and blocking.

Blocking is not only broken by stamina shortage. There's also a vertical "stagger meter" in the centre when you block - if it fills up all the way, your block is broken and you are staggered. Need to watch for that. Size of it is determined by your max health. So your max health also plays into your blocking game. And yes - tower shields are not for everyone, I also like more speedy play. But not everyone needs to be a ninja :)

​@@lifeinvalheimYeah, i know stagger comes mainly from that stagger bar cuz i did tons of research about it. I just want to notice the case that blocking can be broken by stamina shortage because i'm describing the stamina aspect of the tower shield, that's why i put "broken by stamina shortage" inside a pair of parenthesis.​ Parrying sometimes can be annoying cuz they requires large amount of stamina to perform, do it with 6-10 stamina can fully fill that stagger bar when receive a single attack that normally can't stagger you 😂

Yes, actually it became so that it works better to parry with magic staffs - you can riposte from the distance. Also dual axes as those have a very fast first attack. This new tower shield is interesting as it gives you just 10% movement penalty unlike almost all the others with 20%. And it makes fighting fairly easy - just hold your block, watch your positioning and for opportunities to strike. Can survive some really crazy situations this way.

Thanks, it's one of the results of my effort to bring all my characters to a single post-ashlands generation world. Do build a lot recently. Probably will do some video about it once complete.

Sizzling berry broth - one of the new cheaper eitr foods. So, two eitr one health.

@@lifeinvalheim ty, ily

Don't worry, you will love it :) Eventually...

Not sure about 3x, but essentially I agree. Given how tricky it can be to load in more intense fight and the fact that it is only effective at close range - should hit harder, imho. It is also not cheap to make.

once you get the hang of enemies animations it becomes easy only thing with valkyrie is that half of your dmg doesnt connect cause she is above you