ollienor
I've just completed my first solo playthrough of Valheim and wanted to share some advice on how to defeat Fader.
I was dreading him after the many, many... MANY deaths trying to defeat him with a team of armoured up vikings. We had a complicated arrangement of one "tank" with full flametal gear squaring up to him and uppercutting him with an electric mace while another in Ask armour was busy "scouting" around hitting him with beserker axes at opportune moments while another plinked him with crossbow bolts from afar. We all died, LOTS.
We were doing it wrong.
In my solo effort I used three staffs: Staff of the Wild, Staff of protection and Trolstav. Wearing full embla set with the Ashen cape, combined with lingering stamina mead, lingering eitr mead, health mead, ratotosk, lightfoot and barleywine. 2x top Eitr food and 1x top Stamina food.
The tactic was basically to run huge circles around him dropping trolls on his head whilst always maintaining my protection bubble and completely ignoring mobs like they weren't there. Staff of the Wild only comes out at very clear and obvious opportunities to hit him directly with it and not being tempted to hit him with it when it might have been slightly risky.
I died once, and only because I was using so many blood spells my health was so low I actually died from fall damage because I was using lightfoot without featherfall... Perhaps lightfoot wasn't necessary? Perhaps I would not have died had I not been using it? My justification for using it was the stamina use reduction from jumping and I figured I'd need to be jumping through all his fire that he spreads everywhere. In reality the fire was mostly contained to the vicinity of the trolls, so long as I could maintain them. I likely went through 40 or so trolls at a guess so the eitr mead came in usefull here and also timing the SOTW usage with the need to drop another troll.
A pretty picture of "Blorris" in his final days in Valheim
I was dreading him after the many, many... MANY deaths trying to defeat him with a team of armoured up vikings. We had a complicated arrangement of one "tank" with full flametal gear squaring up to him and uppercutting him with an electric mace while another in Ask armour was busy "scouting" around hitting him with beserker axes at opportune moments while another plinked him with crossbow bolts from afar. We all died, LOTS.
We were doing it wrong.
In my solo effort I used three staffs: Staff of the Wild, Staff of protection and Trolstav. Wearing full embla set with the Ashen cape, combined with lingering stamina mead, lingering eitr mead, health mead, ratotosk, lightfoot and barleywine. 2x top Eitr food and 1x top Stamina food.
The tactic was basically to run huge circles around him dropping trolls on his head whilst always maintaining my protection bubble and completely ignoring mobs like they weren't there. Staff of the Wild only comes out at very clear and obvious opportunities to hit him directly with it and not being tempted to hit him with it when it might have been slightly risky.
I died once, and only because I was using so many blood spells my health was so low I actually died from fall damage because I was using lightfoot without featherfall... Perhaps lightfoot wasn't necessary? Perhaps I would not have died had I not been using it? My justification for using it was the stamina use reduction from jumping and I figured I'd need to be jumping through all his fire that he spreads everywhere. In reality the fire was mostly contained to the vicinity of the trolls, so long as I could maintain them. I likely went through 40 or so trolls at a guess so the eitr mead came in usefull here and also timing the SOTW usage with the need to drop another troll.
A pretty picture of "Blorris" in his final days in Valheim
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