Another quick guide from our live streams since i appreceate you don't all have 3 hours to spend watching them =D Hope some of you find these tips helpful, a big shoutout to @sevenfangs for his help Check out his videos here: th-cam.com/video/D1a9RsPXT1A/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=SevenFangs
Did you know that you have to press F to use the ability you got from the boss shrine? it lasts a couple of minutes and has about half an hour cooldown.
Additional fun fact for the cheesing method: What you hit when building the staircase wasn't a skybox, but the vertical height limit of your workbench. The second workbench you put down would have allowed you to build even higher if you had wanted to.
I meant the skybox of the workbench, essentually at that point you know your high enough to maintain agro from the boss but not get mobs spawning on you. Thanks for clarifying that its the workbench range to people though, it does sound rather confuseing the way i worded it.
Playing it by myself it really gives me the creeps. I'm just at the Black Forest but I've already seen the Troll, and I quickly ran away from it. Sooo spooky!! And the music is very adequate. This game is marvellous!
I must admit I've already defeated several trolls, but still they can come as a nuisance in the Black Forest, when for example you're digging for some ore and a Troll unexpectedly attacks you, attracted by the noise you make... You can jump on your chair 😆 Not to mention the really naughty Greylings and their kin...
the power scaling in this game is actually really cool, now that I've gotten a ton of iron and a good spear, Trolls dont feel much more difficult than Greydrawf Brutes. Keep on grinding!
@@manuelruiz8813 That's a very good idea. Although, sadly - most metals and pieces of ore are really heavy and not much can be taken at once. Not to mention you can't teleport them but still, a cart can be used instead :)
@@lukevvo5386 yup also be careful with the cart even with it you can’t drag it up a hill if it’s too heavy so even then you have a limit, but if you do what I do I have a base in every biome now and have a portal set up for easy access, so I recommend setting up when u first start ur grind in any biome
My friends and I worked together, I used the abyssal harpoon to drag the boss into a large pit we made in a nearby dark Forrest. Once he was trapped in the pit we pelted him with frost arrows until he went down.
@@lukelandmesser9331 I like that it's no longer effective, way too cheesy method for killing bosses. You get a much better sense of accomplishment by killing him in a real legit battle. My group had to retreat and regroup when we first tried this boss, and went in better prepared the next time with a bunch of frost arrows and iron maces.
Bonemass' poison spit has a really large area so you got to run back pretty far. But I noticed the poison cloud behind him is much smaller. So when he spits, run around him so you can get back to slapping him much faster!
Thank you for pointing out it IS in fact easier to fight him properly. His mechanics are incredibly easy to handle, solo even, and the mace at level 2 took him down in less than a poison resistance potion duration.
East tip going thru maze like dungeons, always hug the wall on your left or right consistently, it’ll guarantee you’ll find every room and will bring you back around to the entrance when your done.
I actually use a similar technique in minecraft when going through dungeons. If you keep potting your torch on the right wall while exploring, all you have to do if you get lost is to find a torch and keep it on your left side to get back out again.
That is an old dungeons and dragons trick from way back. One thing I wish they would add from the old Dand D days is secret doors with cool stuff. We used to say push, pull, pivot, slide and lift to test for secret doors.
I found my first looping sunken crypt the other day, but you still end up back at the beginning when you finish the crypt so the wall hug method still works. 🙂
I find it hilarious how people put so much effort into cheese strats, when fighting Bonemass as intended (using blunt damage and poison resistance) is hands-down the most efficient way of defeating him.
You see its not cheese strats, but rather masterfully planning as Odin would have. You think odin would charge at a slithering mass of waste with a club? Not alone, not a chance. He would have built a platform from which to rain his spite upon his enemies.
Some people think the only legitimate way to beat a boss is melee. Creatively using a perch to kill a boss is not cheese. I shoot deer from my tree stand every fall. Perching is a legitimate tactic for archer players.
I found out that using an iron sledge or even a stagbreaker is really handing to get rid of the Draugrs and blobs inside the sunken Crypts because the AoE goes beyond the corners and scrap piles and unlike the bow, the monsters tries to continue attacking you so they keep getting into your AoE range. Nice video btw
FYI this boss (and subsequent ones) were recently buffed with higher HP (and possibly DPS) stats in the recent beta patch; though the tree-platform-cheese method still works for some people, bonemass seems to be willing to walk away from you if you're too high to hit with potentially new aggro AI.
I believe the poison resist is 75% reduced, not 50%. As a reference, normally Blobs poison ticks for 4 dmg, with the potion it deals 1 dmg. Corpse Run buff giving you the same worded resistance towards physical dmg (Very resistant) states 75% aswell.
No but yes. It reduces the damage by 50% and also shortens the duration by 50% so in total the damage reduction is indeed 75%. However if you're being poisoned again and again the shortened duration won't really have an effect. So I would say the actual effective reduction is somewhere in between 50% and 75%
You can also get obsidian in the mountain region. It isn't impossible to hunt drakes for the freeze glands even before beating the second boss, just can't get hit by their range attack at all and survive.
@@EquestrianAltercationsLLC you can stay basicly on a boat shooting him with frost arrows. Cant be easier, he is even slower in water and you can just spam arrows since you dont even use stamina to run. 90 arrows are enough for the fight.
@@Lechenech2 cheesing this fight is far inferior. Add on to your strategy getting to the mountains and farming materials for frost arrows. A lvl 2 mace and a poison resist potion will beat this boss in less than 5 minutes it's stupid easy. If you can fight a wolf you can beat this boss legit.
@@EquestrianAltercationsLLC you get the mats for the arrows in 5 min and dont even need the poison met or all the mats to upgrade your mace and armor for the fight
Although I cannot find any big swamp biomes for Iron and also lost all of my iron from said spear goblin, nailed me from 20m while I was sailing my Karve back home.
Bonemass was the easiest boss for me to kill. The Elder was much tougher imo. For Bonemass I just got my HP around 130, pounded some healing and poison resistance meads, hopped right onto the big altar skull and shot the mass with 100+ frost arrows. None of the adds or melee attacks can get to you (although the poison may hit you, but that's no issue with the potions). Boom, Bonemass dead in 5-10 minutes on first try.
That's rather odd because I pulverized the elder on my fist go without getting hit once, but when it came to bonemass I banged my head against it 7 to 10 times before finally prevailing, different strokes I guess.
5 - 10 minutes to kill bonemass? Yeah but you think this easier than eso bosses?! Lol no depending on how much dps you can make.. myself I done with 21 mil health dummy (trial boss) under 6 minutes with my 96k bownerco. 👌🏻 Basic trial boss in eso is lot tougher than bonemass alone.. but pretty impressive that my 96k dps could finish it in 6 minutes unlikely bunch of standard noobs out there with only 16k to 20k dps can’t kill normal boss dungeon in alone 💀
I had killed a sea serpent before going to Bonemass. With that stew, sausage, and cooked meat, I had 192 health. I just tanked him without a shield and killed him in about 4 minutes. I did run around his spawn on a couple of occasions to regain health and did quaff 3 health potions. I used iron armor and ignored the adds except to equip the sledge every 30 seconds to slam. Suffice it to say, it was easy.
I had a mountain biome on my main spawn island and while small, had drakes. The boss island also had a mountain which I had to move through a bit. Drakes and obsidian are both in the mountain and ice arrows are pretty obtainable so long as you can survive the obstacles up there and have the iron pickaxe for the obsidian.
Next to my starting meadows biome, there is a black forest biome, swamp biome, and mountain biome. Literally don't have to leave the starting island up until plains. I still did though because viking.
Another tip to make it a bit easier, if you don't have a base near the boss location anyway, is build a minimal shelter to get a fresh rested bonus. Helps a lot to have more HP and STA recovery at the beginning of the fight. You might even build that little base up in a tree, so you can run up there, take a break and rest up in the middle of the boss fight...
14:48 very valid point about the frost arrows - but consider this amount of bad luck (or good luck?) me and my friends had. We had drakes attacking us in the black forest. Yes there was a mountain very close by. So we got frost arrows pretty early
Parrying bosses doesn't give you any bonus to the damage. Also never mentioned that you really want to get both "Rested" and "Eikthyr power" buffs before the bossfight, this helps a lot.
Parrying still provides a defense bonus so YOU don't get staggered for trying to block a hit stronger than what you could hold, also I think it costs less stamina? With Eikthyr's power and rested 4 though that should be negligible.
Thanks, I'm playing solo and just sailed half-way around the world to get to bonemass (set up an outpost and portal!). I've been playing with iron sword, but didn't think that would work. Getting my iron mace made so I can tackle bonemass soon!
I explored the mountains a bit before Bonemass as the mountain biome was on my starter island. Got 3 drakes with my bow which was very doable, obsidion galore in the mountains so had 60 frost arrows. They helped a lot. Also was using a crypt to kite him around. In the end it was about 20% hp down with my bow and the rest was kiting around the crypt and making use of the terrain (have him take the long way around while you heal) and just smashing him with my mace. Very rewarding 20 minutes 😀.
You make the best guides for games for sure. Thanks for all the hardwork you put into them..must be time consuming. I doubt you will ever see this comment on a old video but cheers mate.
I leveled up my iron armor and made frost resistance potions then went to the mountains before fighting bonemass. Killed some drakes to make around 120 frost arrows and used less than that to kill him with hunting bow :)
Holy crap!!! You went through so many swaps? My map is considered lucky and I find it a chore even when having portals made. Also it's a slap in the head when you stumble on the boss alter that's closer than the one you already killed >.
I used a combination of Frost arrows and Iron Mace and it was slower but it worked! Also you can access the mountain biome pretty easily with frost mead and obsidian is found in the mountains not the plains!
I haven't fought Bonemass and I've already explored the hell out of the mountains and have a ton of frost arrows. Not really hard to access, just stay out of it at night. And Frost Drakes are one of the easiest enemies to fight.
This needs a refresher. They have since added the Abomination. It's a Troll sized, four-legged, tree-like creature in the Swamp areas. It has a wicked laugh.
Note about cheesing it. Frost damage will effect bone mass unlike piercing, so if you craft some frost resist meads, you can farm a few drakes, then you could probably take him down with a stack or two of frost arrows. My buddies and I just used a combo. One face tank with a mace/shield and the rest of us with frost arrows. Went down surprisingly easily.
hi, you make really good guide videos! i really like how you have broken up and labelled the timeline, makes finding the info youre after really easy. Cheers!
For the Bonemass you need a frost arrows. You can craft them with material droped by Dragons in snow biome. Drop is 100% and with 1 you craft 20 of them ( i think with just 1, or was it with 2 ) and you should deal like 60dmg each arrow :)
60dmg not bad eh I got 50 ballistic missile surrounding around bone mass in pillars height plus that forst arrow for myself as well burn bone mass’ health quicker 👌🏻
Not sure if it is a new addition but we found the iron sledgehammer to be a lot more effective in the crypts. you can use it without having to fully open most muddy scrap piles. just open it enough so you can get close enough to the mobs to do damage from the safety of the other room. (Obviously this will not work every time as some rooms are large and the mobs are too far away from the radius of the sledge but it works 9 times out of 10) Also we just completely Bonemass last night... the iron sledgehammer did not do damage to him at all. We may have had some sort of glitch. Three of us fought him for 4 hours and only got him down to 30% health, by which time we were out of food. We had blobs and skelatons dropping from the trees, on the roof of our treehouse about 10 meters in the air, and it was an impossible fight. We regrouped and came back a couple days later and had him dead in about half an hour using the iron mace. CRAZY battle!
Well, I decided to try my hands at the mountain areas before I ever found a swamp biome. I always build earth walls around my bases. So I built an earthen base at the bottom of a mountain. Then i would walk out into the mountains, placing a fire every few feet, so I didn't freeze. When I saw a wolf, I would shoot at it and run back to my base at the bottom climb up the earth walls and stand on top and shoot the wolves. Once I got far enough up in the mountains to find a nice big solid stone structure, I used my pickaxe to hollow it out and built a home inside with a fire and bed. Then I went outside and little by little I built a wall all the way around the large rock, by raising earth. So yeah, basically I explored way up into the mountains and got the freeze glands, before I ever even saw a swamp biome.
Great guide. Just what I was looking for. I've been playing with the music off and have Pandora playing Viking music (SKALD radio) in the background. It makes for a fun experience.
Inspired by this video, a friend and I attempted Bonemass last night. He as the tank on the ground, me on a high platform as ranged (thought we´d combine your methods as I am squishy). He makes the sacrifice, we watch where the lights go - it´s super hard to see - aaaand: all of a sudden all I see is green and I am taking huge amounts of damage and can´t really move. Bonemass actually spawned UPSTAIRS our platform, AROUND me! I can confirm that you can damage him from his insides out, but not for very long^^ So, that was a fun wth moment...
All the setting up you can make to aid in the boss fight reminds me of Terraria, that said it doesn't seem as useful and harvesting materials takes a hell of a lot more time and whatever rickety wooden structure is well, rickety and easily destroyed. The only time I made use of a structure to defeat an enemy was when I was caught by surprise by a troll very early on when I had my eyes on a tower overtaken by skeletons. The height advantage helped me pepper the bugger about 5 times without needing to constantly kite him getting stuck in geometry in the process, but a couple fists its way and the wooden platforms gave in, it was then that I found out in this game you're incredibly resilient to fall damage if you fill yourself with roasted neck and boar before taking the plunge.
There are two methods of obtaining withered bones: 1) crypts 2) piles of muddy iron hidden in the ground in swamps (but only those in which bones are visible)
A tree house, a fine bow and wood arrows are the fastest way of training bows - you can do lvl 100 on one Bonemass (you do need tons of arrows, though). You can probably macro it.
I usually go and do this boss if I die and I need to level up my bowskill. Just build a little treehouse some place near the boss, summon him and hurry on up there. If you build it high enough none if his attacks reaches you, so you can stand there and shoot him all you want. If you are maxing out your bow skill (which I highly suggest you should) this is a great way to do it. The bow can be fired in full auto mode almost with no draw time.
Just a small addendum, you can obtain obsidian from the mountains too, I have not been to the plains or beaten the bonemass, and found deposits of obsidian in the mountains.
another good weapon you can get(if youre willing to go the extra route and search for the merchant and get a bunch of silver) is the frostner and beat up bonemass with it, not only is the frostner silver and have spirit it also does frost damage AND Blunt which is all of the above for Bonemass' weaknesses
ESO must be so happy he's playin and earning in this game which technically has the same gameplay and type of content as Skyrim, which is not releasing anytime soon. Congrats ESO
I hit the plains and mountains before I killed Bonemass. I actually found a mountain with silver veins sitting above the ground, so I didn't even need the wishbone for my first 160 or so silver ingots. By the time I killed bonesmass I was already working on getting black metal from fulings in the plains.
I killed him twice just shooting him with Frost arrows from my base up in the trees, it felt very unrewarding. Ty for this vid I will try to fight him the melee way
another cheese strategy: build a teleporter near the boss fight but in a area where he cannot destroy the teleport, then bring food with you, then fight him normally until you die. Teleport back to the boss and go grab your corpse immediately as grabbing your corpse gives you the passive corpse run. The passive corpse run will give you super defense and super recovery for over a minute giving you psuedo god mode for while, eat again to have higher health and fight him again until you die, rinse and repeat until defeated. With a mace it took me about 5 minutes. This can be done with every bosses as teleporter + corpse run is OP.
i found a bronze axe, gaining experience with it, works good on the graugr, but will look into mace in the future. thanks for the hint on finding the location stone in the swamps. been to few swamps with no luck so far. but not giving up.. still venturing out and placing safe camps.. found trenches work better the walls.. or even building wall with the hoe also works good against trolls. the tip on getting and crafting a mace is good news.. thanks for the info
Since frost resist is easily achievable before the bonemass and silver being collectable without the wishbone I would recommend to go for Frostner Hammer and maybe Wolf Armor/Silver Shield. The fight is just about trading skill for preparation time. I annihilated my first Bonemass in full upgraded wolf gear + Frostner + Silver Shield and a good collection of tamed Warwolfes. :D
Damn that 3rd boss is super far away. Tip: for the sunken crypts in the swamp i found if you always go left or right it's easier to not get lost. So i skways picked left. Whenever i entered a new room i cleared the gunk on the left and kept going left in the next room snd just work your way that way. Its way easier.
I just kited him into the sea and stood safely on my ship raining arrows upon him. When he was one hit, I kited him to shore, so I could get the loot. Easiest fight of them all.
Great videos! Have really helped me out get my priorities together on what I need and where to go! Ty for the guides so much! 1 question, what's the glow on the bow? Is that a special crafted or just from upgrading it?
I think that's the Draugr Fang, you need to touch ancient bark, gunk, and silver, you need to kill bonemass to locate silver, but everything else to craft it is found easily in the swamp
I did it without any potion. Made a bed 100 m away, ran there, hit him 10 times, died 20 times, ran 20 times to him. Was too lazy to make poison resistance haha
Obsidian is obtained from the mountains as well, same as the frozen gland. Just craft a frost resistance mead from the bloodbags from leeches in the swamp, don't need to go to the plains. Frost arrows are easy to craft and can be obtained before fighting bone mass which makes the treehouse method a perfectly easy way to solo it
How to have the most fun against this boss and not be a cheese lord: Note- No silly farming of plains, mountain, frost arrows etc. needed *Food:* Poison resistance mead - remember to pop another one mid-fight! Sausages Deer stew Food of your choice (go meaty for HP) *Gear:* Iron mace or sledge (mace for me) Stagbreaker Optional- spear etc. for stray draugrs Bow and arrows- finewood bow + 100 flint arrow or better (only to prevent regen, not major source of DPS) 53 armour, 5% movement penalty worked well for me *Prep tasks:* 1. Build a portal as close as possible 2. Use a hoe to create easier pathing around boss and remove deep pools (30m radius in more than plenty) 3. Clear nearby mobs and spawners to prevent tougher enemies ruining your rhythm 4. Optional- back up save 5. Summon boss *Strategy:* Let the boss follow you generally around the summon altar. It has only three (all heavily telegraphed) attacks to learn. Use roll to evade arm swipes, retreat against AOE poison attacks and use the ooze throw attack windup (mob spawning ooze) to get mace hits in. Use any other openings to get in mace hits and never run out of stamina totally. Allow mobs to follow you and stagbreaker as needed, do not run around chasing anything unless it's a stray enemy (wraith, draugr) you need gone. Be on the back foot always and engage on your terms. Use stagbreaker particularly on blobs to prevent them poisoning you easily, don't underestimate the lethality of stacked poison effects. The poison from the boss' AOE is not bad alone but a few blob attacks and you're quickly in trouble, take note of the mobs around you! If you find the boss intimidating, spend a while back-peddling and killing mobs while you find your groove. The boss can't do much to you if you play evasively. Eventually, you will find a rhythm and realise this is a really fun fight which is deserving of non-cheesing. To my fellow hollows, you will enjoy this one!
from what I remember when I fought him I had some frost arrows and they did fair damage, not as good as the blunt weapons but still fair and it is not hard to get the stuff to make those before hitting this boss
Another quick guide from our live streams since i appreceate you don't all have 3 hours to spend watching them =D
Hope some of you find these tips helpful, a big shoutout to @sevenfangs for his help Check out his videos here: th-cam.com/video/D1a9RsPXT1A/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=SevenFangs
Even if I did have time to watch all of your streams I would still watch these guide videos too.
appreciate** my friend
Loving all guides for this games, so helpful. Thanks Danny 😉👍
Did you know that you have to press F to use the ability you got from the boss shrine?
it lasts a couple of minutes and has about half an hour cooldown.
@@BiGEdge General knowledge by this point I think, 5mins run time and 20 mins cooldown.
Additional fun fact for the cheesing method: What you hit when building the staircase wasn't a skybox, but the vertical height limit of your workbench. The second workbench you put down would have allowed you to build even higher if you had wanted to.
I meant the skybox of the workbench, essentually at that point you know your high enough to maintain agro from the boss but not get mobs spawning on you. Thanks for clarifying that its the workbench range to people though, it does sound rather confuseing the way i worded it.
Playing it by myself it really gives me the creeps. I'm just at the Black Forest but I've already seen the Troll, and I quickly ran away from it. Sooo spooky!! And the music is very adequate. This game is marvellous!
I must admit I've already defeated several trolls, but still they can come as a nuisance in the Black Forest, when for example you're digging for some ore and a Troll unexpectedly attacks you, attracted by the noise you make... You can jump on your chair 😆 Not to mention the really naughty Greylings and their kin...
the power scaling in this game is actually really cool, now that I've gotten a ton of iron and a good spear, Trolls dont feel much more difficult than Greydrawf Brutes. Keep on grinding!
@@lukevvo5386 I use the troll to collect copper ore
@@manuelruiz8813 That's a very good idea. Although, sadly - most metals and pieces of ore are really heavy and not much can be taken at once. Not to mention you can't teleport them but still, a cart can be used instead :)
@@lukevvo5386 yup also be careful with the cart even with it you can’t drag it up a hill if it’s too heavy so even then you have a limit, but if you do what I do I have a base in every biome now and have a portal set up for easy access, so I recommend setting up when u first start ur grind in any biome
My friends and I worked together, I used the abyssal harpoon to drag the boss into a large pit we made in a nearby dark Forrest. Once he was trapped in the pit we pelted him with frost arrows until he went down.
Haha thats hilarious!
Love clever strategies like this!
savages lol
That sounds awesome. Unfortunately the latest patch makes the harpoon ineffective against bosses so no one can do this anymore.
@@lukelandmesser9331 I like that it's no longer effective, way too cheesy method for killing bosses. You get a much better sense of accomplishment by killing him in a real legit battle. My group had to retreat and regroup when we first tried this boss, and went in better prepared the next time with a bunch of frost arrows and iron maces.
Bonemass' poison spit has a really large area so you got to run back pretty far. But I noticed the poison cloud behind him is much smaller. So when he spits, run around him so you can get back to slapping him much faster!
Side note that I found out. Not putting a roof on structures won’t destroy them, they will go down to %50 durability and stay there
Thank you for pointing out it IS in fact easier to fight him properly. His mechanics are incredibly easy to handle, solo even, and the mace at level 2 took him down in less than a poison resistance potion duration.
Loving the Valheim content. Been super helpful for solo play. Greatly appreciated.
I've played Valheim every day for hours since I bought it... Great tips!
@SharkTank why do you want it??
@SharkTank That's a fair point, I'm playing solo anyway.
@SharkTank lol - I played with mates but think it's more of a solo game, unless ya want to build huge bases I don't see the point
The fire swamp is an uninviting location with three primary dangers: flame spurts, lightning sand, and rodents of unusual size (R.O.U.S.).
Rodents of unusual size? I don’t believe they exist-
As you wish or some junk...
Also recommended not parking your boat anywhere near the swamp.. :’)
This feels like it's said from experience
I parked my boat near the swamp. When I came back the window was broken and I saw some skeletons run away with my rims.
@@1schwererziehbar1 they are white tho
@@1schwererziehbar1 Boats don’t have windows in the game lmao. And skeletons don’t behave like that
I recommend having workbench materials and taking your boat with you :)
Bonemass is straight-up oogie boogie
East tip going thru maze like dungeons, always hug the wall on your left or right consistently, it’ll guarantee you’ll find every room and will bring you back around to the entrance when your done.
My man! Great advice
I actually use a similar technique in minecraft when going through dungeons. If you keep potting your torch on the right wall while exploring, all you have to do if you get lost is to find a torch and keep it on your left side to get back out again.
This is also sound advice for OG Castle Wolfenstein
That is an old dungeons and dragons trick from way back. One thing I wish they would add from the old Dand D days is secret doors with cool stuff. We used to say push, pull, pivot, slide and lift to test for secret doors.
I found my first looping sunken crypt the other day, but you still end up back at the beginning when you finish the crypt so the wall hug method still works. 🙂
I find it hilarious how people put so much effort into cheese strats, when fighting Bonemass as intended (using blunt damage and poison resistance) is hands-down the most efficient way of defeating him.
You see its not cheese strats, but rather masterfully planning as Odin would have. You think odin would charge at a slithering mass of waste with a club? Not alone, not a chance. He would have built a platform from which to rain his spite upon his enemies.
Some people think the only legitimate way to beat a boss is melee. Creatively using a perch to kill a boss is not cheese. I shoot deer from my tree stand every fall. Perching is a legitimate tactic for archer players.
standing where the boss can’t reach you is cheese 🧀
@@Denis--kl1br isn't the whole point of an archer to not get in range of the boss
I found out that using an iron sledge or even a stagbreaker is really handing to get rid of the Draugrs and blobs inside the sunken Crypts because the AoE goes beyond the corners and scrap piles and unlike the bow, the monsters tries to continue attacking you so they keep getting into your AoE range. Nice video btw
FYI this boss (and subsequent ones) were recently buffed with higher HP (and possibly DPS) stats in the recent beta patch; though the tree-platform-cheese method still works for some people, bonemass seems to be willing to walk away from you if you're too high to hit with potentially new aggro AI.
Also he has 5k hp and the burn does like 1.5 damage a second it seems so it will take roughly an hour for him to die from the burn alone
I believe the poison resist is 75% reduced, not 50%.
As a reference, normally Blobs poison ticks for 4 dmg, with the potion it deals 1 dmg.
Corpse Run buff giving you the same worded resistance towards physical dmg (Very resistant) states 75% aswell.
No but yes. It reduces the damage by 50% and also shortens the duration by 50% so in total the damage reduction is indeed 75%. However if you're being poisoned again and again the shortened duration won't really have an effect. So I would say the actual effective reduction is somewhere in between 50% and 75%
You can also get obsidian in the mountain region. It isn't impossible to hunt drakes for the freeze glands even before beating the second boss, just can't get hit by their range attack at all and survive.
Frost Arrows are the best arrows for Bonemass, he takes bonus damage from Frost damage!
Mace crits every hit. Its much easier to melee the fight.
@@EquestrianAltercationsLLC you can stay basicly on a boat shooting him with frost arrows. Cant be easier, he is even slower in water and you can just spam arrows since you dont even use stamina to run. 90 arrows are enough for the fight.
@@Lechenech2 cheesing this fight is far inferior. Add on to your strategy getting to the mountains and farming materials for frost arrows. A lvl 2 mace and a poison resist potion will beat this boss in less than 5 minutes it's stupid easy. If you can fight a wolf you can beat this boss legit.
@@EquestrianAltercationsLLC you get the mats for the arrows in 5 min and dont even need the poison met or all the mats to upgrade your mace and armor for the fight
My bonemass spawn in close to the plains. The boss isn't so hard, but I keep dying thanks to goblins and deathsquitos lol.
ESO you can get obsidian from the mountains. No need to go the plains.
Not to mention getting one shot from 140HP by a spear Goblin. Cuz that’s fair.
Although I cannot find any big swamp biomes for Iron and also lost all of my iron from said spear goblin, nailed me from 20m while I was sailing my Karve back home.
@@Necro718 I went into the plains with Wolf armor, and I nearly got one shot by a level 2 spear goblin. They're insanely powerful...way more hp too
Obsidian is in the mountains, you can get frost arrows well before you would fight bonemass.
Until a pack of wolves run up on you and you’re stuck in a death loop, ahah
Bonemass was the easiest boss for me to kill. The Elder was much tougher imo. For Bonemass I just got my HP around 130, pounded some healing and poison resistance meads, hopped right onto the big altar skull and shot the mass with 100+ frost arrows. None of the adds or melee attacks can get to you (although the poison may hit you, but that's no issue with the potions). Boom, Bonemass dead in 5-10 minutes on first try.
That's rather odd because I pulverized the elder on my fist go without getting hit once, but when it came to bonemass I banged my head against it 7 to 10 times before finally prevailing, different strokes I guess.
Well you got a ton of frost arrows which is like almost impossible to get at this point of the game
5 - 10 minutes to kill bonemass? Yeah but you think this easier than eso bosses?! Lol no depending on how much dps you can make.. myself I done with 21 mil health dummy (trial boss) under 6 minutes with my 96k bownerco. 👌🏻
Basic trial boss in eso is lot tougher than bonemass alone.. but pretty impressive that my 96k dps could finish it in 6 minutes unlikely bunch of standard noobs out there with only 16k to 20k dps can’t kill normal boss dungeon in alone 💀
I had killed a sea serpent before going to Bonemass. With that stew, sausage, and cooked meat, I had 192 health. I just tanked him without a shield and killed him in about 4 minutes. I did run around his spawn on a couple of occasions to regain health and did quaff 3 health potions. I used iron armor and ignored the adds except to equip the sledge every 30 seconds to slam. Suffice it to say, it was easy.
I had a mountain biome on my main spawn island and while small, had drakes. The boss island also had a mountain which I had to move through a bit. Drakes and obsidian are both in the mountain and ice arrows are pretty obtainable so long as you can survive the obstacles up there and have the iron pickaxe for the obsidian.
Thank You!!! been waiting for your guide for 3rd boss so long :)
Next to my starting meadows biome, there is a black forest biome, swamp biome, and mountain biome.
Literally don't have to leave the starting island up until plains.
I still did though because viking.
And trader
Another tip to make it a bit easier, if you don't have a base near the boss location anyway, is build a minimal shelter to get a fresh rested bonus. Helps a lot to have more HP and STA recovery at the beginning of the fight. You might even build that little base up in a tree, so you can run up there, take a break and rest up in the middle of the boss fight...
I'm getting ready to fight Bonemass, thanks for all the tips videos.
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very valid point about the frost arrows - but consider this amount of bad luck (or good luck?) me and my friends had. We had drakes attacking us in the black forest.
Yes there was a mountain very close by. So we got frost arrows pretty early
EXCELLENT VIDEO and info! TYVM, this is my next boss to take down once all my iron gear is upgraded.
Best Bonemass guide on TH-cam...
I love your videos keep on doing it I've been watching you for like 3 years
Parrying bosses doesn't give you any bonus to the damage.
Also never mentioned that you really want to get both "Rested" and "Eikthyr power" buffs before the bossfight, this helps a lot.
Parrying still provides a defense bonus so YOU don't get staggered for trying to block a hit stronger than what you could hold, also I think it costs less stamina? With Eikthyr's power and rested 4 though that should be negligible.
Thanks, I'm playing solo and just sailed half-way around the world to get to bonemass (set up an outpost and portal!). I've been playing with iron sword, but didn't think that would work. Getting my iron mace made so I can tackle bonemass soon!
I explored the mountains a bit before Bonemass as the mountain biome was on my starter island. Got 3 drakes with my bow which was very doable, obsidion galore in the mountains so had 60 frost arrows. They helped a lot. Also was using a crypt to kite him around. In the end it was about 20% hp down with my bow and the rest was kiting around the crypt and making use of the terrain (have him take the long way around while you heal) and just smashing him with my mace. Very rewarding 20 minutes 😀.
You make the best guides for games for sure. Thanks for all the hardwork you put into them..must be time consuming. I doubt you will ever see this comment on a old video but cheers mate.
I leveled up my iron armor and made frost resistance potions then went to the mountains before fighting bonemass. Killed some drakes to make around 120 frost arrows and used less than that to kill him with hunting bow :)
+ obsidian can be found in the mountains too
This game is loaded, and has a huge learning curve. I LOVE IT
This is the best guide I have ever seen. Subscription earned.
Holy crap!!! You went through so many swaps? My map is considered lucky and I find it a chore even when having portals made. Also it's a slap in the head when you stumble on the boss alter that's closer than the one you already killed >.
I used a combination of Frost arrows and Iron Mace and it was slower but it worked! Also you can access the mountain biome pretty easily with frost mead and obsidian is found in the mountains not the plains!
I solo'd bonemass the legit way!
I haven't fought Bonemass and I've already explored the hell out of the mountains and have a ton of frost arrows. Not really hard to access, just stay out of it at night. And Frost Drakes are one of the easiest enemies to fight.
Lmao, I went to the mountain and Pmains because I was stuck and didn't know what to do😂😂 but I'm definitely gonna use th is tactic! Thank you!
Fantastic tutorials! I've watched about 10 of these and they are all really helpful! Thanks so much!
Had all intentions of beating Bonemass using one of the several cheesing methods available but think I will give this a try first. Thanks!
This needs a refresher. They have since added the Abomination. It's a Troll sized, four-legged, tree-like creature in the Swamp areas. It has a wicked laugh.
Note about cheesing it. Frost damage will effect bone mass unlike piercing, so if you craft some frost resist meads, you can farm a few drakes, then you could probably take him down with a stack or two of frost arrows. My buddies and I just used a combo. One face tank with a mace/shield and the rest of us with frost arrows. Went down surprisingly easily.
hi, you make really good guide videos! i really like how you have broken up and labelled the timeline, makes finding the info youre after really easy. Cheers!
For the Bonemass you need a frost arrows. You can craft them with material droped by Dragons in snow biome. Drop is 100% and with 1 you craft 20 of them ( i think with just 1, or was it with 2 ) and you should deal like 60dmg each arrow :)
60dmg not bad eh I got 50 ballistic missile surrounding around bone mass in pillars height plus that forst arrow for myself as well burn bone mass’ health quicker 👌🏻
I'm happy your making Valheim Videos
Not sure if it is a new addition but we found the iron sledgehammer to be a lot more effective in the crypts. you can use it without having to fully open most muddy scrap piles. just open it enough so you can get close enough to the mobs to do damage from the safety of the other room. (Obviously this will not work every time as some rooms are large and the mobs are too far away from the radius of the sledge but it works 9 times out of 10) Also we just completely Bonemass last night... the iron sledgehammer did not do damage to him at all. We may have had some sort of glitch. Three of us fought him for 4 hours and only got him down to 30% health, by which time we were out of food. We had blobs and skelatons dropping from the trees, on the roof of our treehouse about 10 meters in the air, and it was an impossible fight. We regrouped and came back a couple days later and had him dead in about half an hour using the iron mace. CRAZY battle!
Well, I decided to try my hands at the mountain areas before I ever found a swamp biome. I always build earth walls around my bases. So I built an earthen base at the bottom of a mountain. Then i would walk out into the mountains, placing a fire every few feet, so I didn't freeze. When I saw a wolf, I would shoot at it and run back to my base at the bottom climb up the earth walls and stand on top and shoot the wolves. Once I got far enough up in the mountains to find a nice big solid stone structure, I used my pickaxe to hollow it out and built a home inside with a fire and bed. Then I went outside and little by little I built a wall all the way around the large rock, by raising earth. So yeah, basically I explored way up into the mountains and got the freeze glands, before I ever even saw a swamp biome.
Great guide. Just what I was looking for. I've been playing with the music off and have Pandora playing Viking music (SKALD radio) in the background. It makes for a fun experience.
Inspired by this video, a friend and I attempted Bonemass last night. He as the tank on the ground, me on a high platform as ranged (thought we´d combine your methods as I am squishy). He makes the sacrifice, we watch where the lights go - it´s super hard to see - aaaand: all of a sudden all I see is green and I am taking huge amounts of damage and can´t really move. Bonemass actually spawned UPSTAIRS our platform, AROUND me! I can confirm that you can damage him from his insides out, but not for very long^^
So, that was a fun wth moment...
All the setting up you can make to aid in the boss fight reminds me of Terraria, that said it doesn't seem as useful and harvesting materials takes a hell of a lot more time and whatever rickety wooden structure is well, rickety and easily destroyed. The only time I made use of a structure to defeat an enemy was when I was caught by surprise by a troll very early on when I had my eyes on a tower overtaken by skeletons. The height advantage helped me pepper the bugger about 5 times without needing to constantly kite him getting stuck in geometry in the process, but a couple fists its way and the wooden platforms gave in, it was then that I found out in this game you're incredibly resilient to fall damage if you fill yourself with roasted neck and boar before taking the plunge.
There are two methods of obtaining withered bones:
1) crypts
2) piles of muddy iron hidden in the ground in swamps (but only those in which bones are visible)
You can get obsidian from the mountains, even a small mountain will give 100-150 of it. Whatch out for the wolves though!
A tree house, a fine bow and wood arrows are the fastest way of training bows - you can do lvl 100 on one Bonemass (you do need tons of arrows, though). You can probably macro it.
This is a fantastic guide. Thanks for putting it together!
Battle brothers and viking brothers..
Always watch your bannerlord guide and clips.
Now I'm playing this game.
Great guide video keep it up😁
I usually go and do this boss if I die and I need to level up my bowskill. Just build a little treehouse some place near the boss, summon him and hurry on up there. If you build it high enough none if his attacks reaches you, so you can stand there and shoot him all you want. If you are maxing out your bow skill (which I highly suggest you should) this is a great way to do it. The bow can be fired in full auto mode almost with no draw time.
Thanks for the guide!
How about a weapons guide? Weapon base damage and what weapon to use with specific monsters.
Coming up my dude!
Just google it it’s literally like less than 2 sentences to explain it all.
I'd like and sub, but I've been subbing for years, so I'll just like. Ty again! :)
I thought I might use the Iron Sledgehammer for this fight. This vid confirmed it 😎 Thanks Eso
I like what you did in Skyrim and in valheim
Just a small addendum, you can obtain obsidian from the mountains too, I have not been to the plains or beaten the bonemass, and found deposits of obsidian in the mountains.
Thank you for the guide! :)
another good weapon you can get(if youre willing to go the extra route and search for the merchant and get a bunch of silver) is the frostner and beat up bonemass with it, not only is the frostner silver and have spirit it also does frost damage AND Blunt which is all of the above for Bonemass' weaknesses
ESO must be so happy he's playin and earning in this game which technically has the same gameplay and type of content as Skyrim, which is not releasing anytime soon.
Congrats ESO
Just fought bonemass last night with my friends. None of us had iron level gear. None of us had brews. Took us like an hour and 150 arrows each
Yeah, thankfully the moves of Bonemass are telegraphed allowing you to see what Bonemass weill do before Bonemass does it.
I hit the plains and mountains before I killed Bonemass. I actually found a mountain with silver veins sitting above the ground, so I didn't even need the wishbone for my first 160 or so silver ingots. By the time I killed bonesmass I was already working on getting black metal from fulings in the plains.
Pfft I spent 20 hours getting bow to a 100. Totally worth it. 👌 it changed the game for me
frost arrows saved me on this fight!
I killed him twice just shooting him with Frost arrows from my base up in the trees, it felt very unrewarding. Ty for this vid I will try to fight him the melee way
another cheese strategy: build a teleporter near the boss fight but in a area where he cannot destroy the teleport, then bring food with you, then fight him normally until you die. Teleport back to the boss and go grab your corpse immediately as grabbing your corpse gives you the passive corpse run. The passive corpse run will give you super defense and super recovery for over a minute giving you psuedo god mode for while, eat again to have higher health and fight him again until you die, rinse and repeat until defeated. With a mace it took me about 5 minutes. This can be done with every bosses as teleporter + corpse run is OP.
i found a bronze axe, gaining experience with it, works good on the graugr, but will look into mace in the future. thanks for the hint on finding the location stone in the swamps. been to few swamps with no luck so far. but not giving up.. still venturing out and placing safe camps.. found trenches work better the walls.. or even building wall with the hoe also works good against trolls. the tip on getting and crafting a mace is good news.. thanks for the info
Since frost resist is easily achievable before the bonemass and silver being collectable without the wishbone I would recommend to go for Frostner Hammer and maybe Wolf Armor/Silver Shield. The fight is just about trading skill for preparation time. I annihilated my first Bonemass in full upgraded wolf gear + Frostner + Silver Shield and a good collection of tamed Warwolfes. :D
Damn that 3rd boss is super far away. Tip: for the sunken crypts in the swamp i found if you always go left or right it's easier to not get lost. So i skways picked left. Whenever i entered a new room i cleared the gunk on the left and kept going left in the next room snd just work your way that way. Its way easier.
I love how he says "I recommend crafting a iron mace" And then later in the vid says "we haven't actually gotten iron yet"
I just kited him into the sea and stood safely on my ship raining arrows upon him. When he was one hit, I kited him to shore, so I could get the loot. Easiest fight of them all.
nice video 👍
Your hair perfect man ..
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Great videos! Have really helped me out get my priorities together on what I need and where to go! Ty for the guides so much! 1 question, what's the glow on the bow? Is that a special crafted or just from upgrading it?
I think that's the Draugr Fang, you need to touch ancient bark, gunk, and silver, you need to kill bonemass to locate silver, but everything else to craft it is found easily in the swamp
@@host_arnold6187 Gotchya! Not that far yet lol. Working on boss 2 and finding swamps today to become an iron lad lol. Ty for the info!!
stock up on ice arrows before this fight and you make quick work of him. i did him solo with less then 100 ice arrows and no damage :)
The Frostner Mace just totally wrecks him.
Its surprising how calm he is
Quality content mate.
I love this game’s visuals
I did it without any potion. Made a bed 100 m away, ran there, hit him 10 times, died 20 times, ran 20 times to him. Was too lazy to make poison resistance haha
Best bonemass guide, at least for me. Thanks :-)
thank you for those video's....subscribed :)
honestly the ice arrows on this boss is the best option i think
a team with half ice arrows and half iron mace should be perfect
ESO looks like he should be a character from this game
Obsidian is obtained from the mountains as well, same as the frozen gland. Just craft a frost resistance mead from the bloodbags from leeches in the swamp, don't need to go to the plains.
Frost arrows are easy to craft and can be obtained before fighting bone mass which makes the treehouse method a perfectly easy way to solo it
How to have the most fun against this boss and not be a cheese lord:
Note- No silly farming of plains, mountain, frost arrows etc. needed
*Food:*
Poison resistance mead - remember to pop another one mid-fight!
Sausages
Deer stew
Food of your choice (go meaty for HP)
*Gear:*
Iron mace or sledge (mace for me)
Stagbreaker
Optional- spear etc. for stray draugrs
Bow and arrows- finewood bow + 100 flint arrow or better (only to prevent regen, not major source of DPS)
53 armour, 5% movement penalty worked well for me
*Prep tasks:*
1. Build a portal as close as possible
2. Use a hoe to create easier pathing around boss and remove deep pools (30m radius in more than plenty)
3. Clear nearby mobs and spawners to prevent tougher enemies ruining your rhythm
4. Optional- back up save
5. Summon boss
*Strategy:*
Let the boss follow you generally around the summon altar. It has only three (all heavily telegraphed) attacks to learn. Use roll to evade arm swipes, retreat against AOE poison attacks and use the ooze throw attack windup (mob spawning ooze) to get mace hits in. Use any other openings to get in mace hits and never run out of stamina totally. Allow mobs to follow you and stagbreaker as needed, do not run around chasing anything unless it's a stray enemy (wraith, draugr) you need gone. Be on the back foot always and engage on your terms. Use stagbreaker particularly on blobs to prevent them poisoning you easily, don't underestimate the lethality of stacked poison effects. The poison from the boss' AOE is not bad alone but a few blob attacks and you're quickly in trouble, take note of the mobs around you!
If you find the boss intimidating, spend a while back-peddling and killing mobs while you find your groove. The boss can't do much to you if you play evasively. Eventually, you will find a rhythm and realise this is a really fun fight which is deserving of non-cheesing. To my fellow hollows, you will enjoy this one!
from what I remember when I fought him I had some frost arrows and they did fair damage, not as good as the blunt weapons but still fair and it is not hard to get the stuff to make those before hitting this boss