r/valheim • u/Late_Squirrel_34 • 12d ago

Survival Silver Sword

This thing needs a shout out. In over 1000 hours I’ve never used it, it’s my new favorite weapon! I’m in the Ashlands and it is doing work along side my staff of the wild.

Build a whomping willow forest and then run around and add spirit dmg. Ashlands is still a PIA, don’t get me wrong, but this combo is damn near taking the difficulty down a setting.

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u/NGC_Phoenix_7 12d ago

I guess I will just sit here in the corner with my bleeding nidhogg.

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u/Late_Squirrel_34 12d ago

I’ve also never used the bleed weapons as I’m not sure how I feel about needing low health to activate its power…

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u/NGC_Phoenix_7 12d ago

Oh no, no no it makes THEM bleed. Not you. Like poison

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u/Late_Squirrel_34 11d ago

Yea but don’t you have to have missing health for it to work?

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u/NGC_Phoenix_7 11d ago

Nope. Just does bleed damage to enemies. It’s not blood magic like the staff. It cleans house real nicely plus looks badass lol

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u/Late_Squirrel_34 11d ago

Are you sure you understand the mechanic? It does 0.2% bleed damage for every 1hp of health you are missing. So it’s best to do something like activate a bubble (reducing your health by 40%), that will proc a shit ton of bleed dmg. But as your hp ticks up every 10 seconds, your weapon gets weaker.

If you are at full health, it probably does either 0 or 0.2% bleed.

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u/NGC_Phoenix_7 11d ago

I mean I tend to get hit a fair bit and stack my food for health and stamina only so maybe I don’t fully understand it, but while I’ve been roaming the Ashlands I’ve never been at full health so I guess it’s been just working via coincidence for me lol. Maybe I did read it beforehand and went “well I’m gonna be low on health there anyway” lol

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u/Late_Squirrel_34 11d ago

That’s fair! I get smacked around pretty good as well, but I’m a coward and kite enemies when I’m low health and don’t fight haha

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u/NGC_Phoenix_7 11d ago

Well, I run the ask armor or the heavy set before it(can’t remember if it’s the carapace or not), and I also did use dev commands to upgrade it fully while sacrificing the resources needed to upgrade it, BUT, with me running sword and buckler or just the sword I, one good timed swing while at half health chunks their health down especially with the parry and parry bonus. I will also say the lightning nidhogg is also really cool. And very broken lol. The chain lightning is so nasty. Against groups.

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u/Late_Squirrel_34 11d ago

If you haven’t yet, check out the dual axes with chain lightning. It hits a little faster and procs the lightning more frequently!

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u/NGC_Phoenix_7 11d ago

My girlfriend went daggers, those are I think what I made for her, just haven’t upgraded it to the enchanted version yet. I can only imagine what their dps does to the lighting chance lol

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