Can Root Armor Help In The Plains? - Valheim

[@paulmoulton7248]

I have found that the root armor increased mobility and bonus to Bows, makes it a great option to scout the plains, just prioritize the Shamans and don't melee Loxes, Berserkers or 2 stars

[@quicksandriggs]

Nice! I imagine if you can get a few sneak attacks off, the camp would go pretty smooth!

[@tomykulak7728]

Pretty much die oneshot.

[@oleksandr4371]

I have used to equip troll set even on plains before root set was added, just abyss knife and troll set allow to sneak and loot whole camp, oneshot shaman and run to nearest rock to shoot all others from the bow

[@lflame8637]

@@quicksandriggs gorilla tactics, hit, run, comeback, do it again. Prioritize shamins first, second to deathsquetos and any ranged sort of little guys and or big boi before the rest.

[@quicksandriggs]

@@lflame8637 Good idea!

[@porous9]

Great breakdown, thank you! I wear the Root chest with Padded everything else permanently as I don't like swapping out armour pieces. The other factor is how likely I am to come into contact with dangerous enemies. While some make a habit of clearing out Fuling villages, I only clear out enough to get Flax and Barley. Then I leave the villages alone and focus on Fuling night hunting around my base instead. I don't have to travel to find large numbers of Fulings and get all my Black Metal this way. I also have a technique that makes it very safe to hunt night Fulings around my base. The Shamans don't spawn in random Plains groups at night so the Fire weakness of the Root chest isn't an issue. However, the Pierce resistance against both Spear Fulings and Squitoes is mega. In terms of Poison, nothing bothers me. I don't take Poison meads in the Swamp, nor wear the Root helmet. I've found that armour value does more than enough to mitigate Poison damage so that's all I focus on. I used to fear Blobs, Oozers and Leeches in the Swamp, now they are trivial with armour mitigation. I'm still a bit bemused by the Root legs. What is the purpose of a low armour value legs with Fire weakness but no bonus? Why would anybody wear this?? OK, the Bow set bonus but is that worth giving up all that armour value? Not to me, it isn't. By the time I get to Plains, I'm one-shotting regular Fulings if I hit them unawares with either Frost or Fire arrows fired from my lvl 4 Draugr Fang. That is enough for me. Sure, +15 might mean I'm killing Berserkers in 4 hits instead of 5. But again, not worth giving up armour value imo.

[@Bidorchar]

awesome tips

[@quicksandriggs]

I’m the same way with only using one armor set! Good info across the board, thanks for sharing!

[@treefiddy727]

Root armour is great for farming Plains materials like needles, tar, cloud berries and lox hides in the bronze/iron age. The extra bow damage is useful for picking off the other Plains enemies from a distance as well. You really have to watch out for the shamans though but when you first get the root set there is no need to raid Fuling villages at this stage in the game.

[@quicksandriggs]

Definitely a helpful armor set!

[@Graybeard_]

I love the root armor in the plains. It makes the early days in the plains much less painful. The +15 archery (full set bonus) allows me to one-shot furlings and deathsquitos from a safe distance. Lox, however, will one-stomp you, so be careful around them! Root armor is a game changer in the plains (and of course the swamp), imo.

[@TheZeptux]

my bow skill is 67, so when i equip this armor it's 82, and because of that i can stun loxes with my arrows and do critical damage each time that happens. This makes me able to kill a lox with 6 arrows which is crazy helpful, absolutely love it. But it's a very glass canon type build because if i get hit by a non star fuling with a regular club he takes 60hp in 1 hit! So i always have a shield at hand

[@quicksandriggs]

A lot of risk/reward!

[@joshuarieder2865]

A good thing to bring to counter the physical damage would be Bonemass's blessing (if you got it already). Test that with the root armor and the mixed armor.

[@WolfFireheart]

I love using the root armor to just snipe the shit out of those damn fulings. Changing to Frost Arrows if a berserker gets to close, you can keep it from ever reaching you. Great revenge for the early Plains stage bullying they did to me. As the root set wasn't out back then :p And a good way to lvl your bow!

[@fromeveryting29]

How to get roots easy: Find one or more crypts, make a workbench next to it, alternatively raise the ground a little so you can jump on top of it. When an abomination appears, kite it over to the crypt and jump on top of it. The abomination can't hurt you. Take your axe and swing at it, be careful not to fall off, but if you do, you can enter the crypt for a while.

[@vandavang7]

awesome detailed guide on the new armor set and mixes, keep it up riggs!

[@quicksandriggs]

Thank you! I’m glad it helped!

[@geroffmilan3328]

All this content got a new lease of life after the Xbox release 😁 very useful dude, thanks for the work!

[@quicksandriggs]

Yeah, views have kicked up a lot since the XBox release!

[@geroffmilan3328]

@@quicksandriggs must be funny seeing questions on stuff you made an age ago! 😁 We appreciate it ✌

[@quicksandriggs]

@@geroffmilan3328 Definitely cool seeing the spike in interest!

[@andyknolls8735]

if you wear root armor be careful with goblin shamans and torch bearers. You will take a lot of damage.

[@quicksandriggs]

Yeah, those guys are rough!

[@Dekniz]

I think it's pretty clear that padded helmet outshines wooden mask. A comparison between the mask and the bronze/iron helmet would have been nice, since you're gonna have to fight Bonemass eventually. And you're not gonna have padded armor during that fight.

[@quicksandriggs]

In my opinion the root armor outshines bronze and iron gear pretty easily, with the resistance to poison and pierce playing a big role in the swamp and the weakness to fire not being much of a hinderance.

[@djnorth2020]

Stacking does work, even with Wolf Armour I usually have Frost Resist potions against drakes though they are kind of easy.

[@quicksandriggs]

Yep, stacking the poison resist works wonders!

[@peterlyaskovsky1473]

Totally wrong, that's what Frost mead wiki says: The Wolf fur cape, Lox cape, Wolf armor chest, and Frost resistance mead all provide the same resistance effect which does not stack. That is, past wolf cape frost potions may be thrown away

[@djnorth2020]

I've experienced that no armor only the potion, drake ice hits harder. Maybe it also does normal damage. Need to investigate.

[@Reoh0z]

Great work mate!

[@quicksandriggs]

Thank you!

[@hewhoisme4343]

I'm used to playing with a small group of players, and the root armor shines when playing an archer while another player tanks damage.

[@LoLFilmStudios]

Fire resistance potion overrides/negates the weakness from the root armor.

[@quicksandriggs]

Good to know, thanks!

[@WyoSavage1976]

Nice breakdown, but until they increase the inventory size I won't be bringing Xtra armor pieces. After carrying food, health, stamina, armor, arrows and weight belt there isn't a lot of room left. I have found the fully up graded padded armor to rock in every biome.

[@quicksandriggs]

I would love for them to add an inventory increase item!

[@joet7136]

​@@quicksandriggs or make armor slots separate from inventory just like in minecraft.

[@quicksandriggs]

@@joet7136 That would be a great addition!

[@tristinbulko6786]

I wonder if surtlings are leading to a boss being Surtr, that would be lit

[@quicksandriggs]

That would be a pretty neat boss!

[@tristinbulko6786]

@@quicksandriggs "The Ashlands are possibly a reference to Muspelheim, the realm in the south made of fire and guarded by the fire giant Surtr in Norse mythology." found that in the wiki, I have a feeling it's gotta be as I seen a sneak peak of their work on the Ashlands and it looks very "lava-y"

[@quicksandriggs]

That’d be cool! Mistlands came out very different than it was before it got developed, so I’m betting Ashlands will get some heavy revamps. Concept looks like they’re going more towards undead creatures than fire ones, so it might not be as lava based as it is now.

[@tristinbulko6786]

@@quicksandriggs I've seen what look to be fire/lava crabs aswell, it could be a nice mix :) some cool new caves I bet

[@quicksandriggs]

@@tristinbulko6786 Defintiely! I'd be interested in seeing dungeons that are small volcanoes and they start a timer to erupt once you enter it, so it adds pressure and separates itself from other dungeons. They likely won't do something like this, and it would not be in line with the casual or at your own pace atmosphere, but it would thematically fit.

[@nocti6232]

Root Armor is also quite handy to tackle everyone's least favorite boss: Bonemass. You can either go full set with frost arrows taking advantage of the mobility and bow skill bonus, or just the helm plus iron chest and legs if going with a more melee approach.

[@quicksandriggs]

Good idea!

[@jamescheddar4896]

I feel like getting frost arrows before bonemass is more of an ordeal than actually meleeing him. yeah you can slap on frost resistance and go loot chests or get the iron pickaxe and go mine obsidian, but its evading stone golems and wolves vs evading a couple boss attacks. really hard to recover your corpse up a mountain too,

[@DummyFace123]

Probably just carry an extra breastplate when fighting ranged enemies. I’m very rarely surprised by fire enemies and the pierce resist is so good against surprise ranged enemies

[@user-pd6ci6fk1i]

EXCELLENT VIDEO!! Thank you so much dude, an extremely well done and detailed explaination, you've earned a sub :)

[@quicksandriggs]

Thank you! I’m glad it helped!

[@dannycallcut2899]

Great research. Very informative & helpful, thanks!

[@quicksandriggs]

I’m glad it helped!

[@Grubnar]

May the Gods bless Riggs, for doing the math so we don't have to!

[@quicksandriggs]

“There’s only one God, and I’m pretty sure he doesn’t dress like that.” > points at Odin

[@Grubnar]

@@quicksandriggs "I understood that reference!"

[@Archiez2]

9:17 love the testings but i feel like for this test both root and padded should only equip the chest for more close comparison of high armor chest and resistance chest although since all pieces are same armor... it may play out roughly the same

[@quicksandriggs]

Good point! I did the test with only the chest from root and bronze (same armor class) when I checked the effectiveness of the resistance, but I should’ve done it here too!

[@ardentdfender4116]

Incredible breakdown and informative video. Well done.

[@Mr.Handymaan]

Awesome video man, love your work keep it up! :)

[@michaelforsythe4335]

Others have done the math and say the head doesn't stack with potions for additional poison resistance. Who to believe ? Did the devs patch it ?

[@quicksandriggs]

This video is a bit older, so it definitely could've been patched. I would for sure like some clarity in game from the devs on how resistances work and stack.

[@guntherultraboltnovacrunch5248]

Resistances and weaknesses don't stack. Following rules determine which resistances and weaknesses can replace each other: Immunity overrides everything else. Very resistant overrides everything else. Resistant overrides everything except very resistant. Very weak overrides weak and neutral. Weak only overrides neutral. This can be simplified to: immunity > very resistant > resistant > very weak > weak > normal (with the exception being that resistant and very resistant can override the immunity).

[@quicksandriggs]

Good information, thanks!

[@remote24]

I never made iron Armor, since I died in bronze Armor in the swamp so often because of the mobility penalty. After switching to trollarmor the swamp got smooth, so I kept it until I got wolfarmor

[@quicksandriggs]

Yep, I’ve been a big fan of troll armors mobility!

[@remote24]

@@quicksandriggs it's not much worse than bronze and way easier to upgrade when you know how to hunt trolls. Collecting 100bronze pieces is a chore, hunting trolls is fun

[@quicksandriggs]

@@remote24 Very true!

[@westerxxx9220]

@@remote24 Lvl 4 troll armor has the same armor as bronze. So yes it’s very good.

[@ΓιώργοςΣκυλακάκης]

Try padded helmet root chest and fenris leggings for fire resistance and speed boost

[@quicksandriggs]

That’s a good combo!

[@yeast51]

Root armor is one of the best armors against deathsquito

[@RoccoMapua]

You should do one like this for the Root Harnesk in the Mistlands.

[@quicksandriggs]

I will definitely look at it when I get to the Mistlands!

[@andyhoster3902]

Everybody says the resists from armor & mead stack, and yet the Wiki adamantly says otherwise...

[@xzguy3826]

Everyone: “Why you grind to get root armor.” Me: “Too flex.”

[@MrMighty147]

Import detail would be if the armor was upgraded in these test or just the base level? My friends and I don't upgrade iron, silver, padded armor etc but do want to upgrade root and fenris armor to make them viable for the later biomes.

[@quicksandriggs]

Good question! It has been over a year since I ran these tests, and it seems I did not mention anything in the video… But I think both were fully upgraded (that’s how I typically do most of my tests) Sorry I don’t have a concrete answer though.

[@sirbig8292]

"and forgo Iron Armor as it is" Guess that tells me how little I know about Valheim's "meta", since I never look up any info. And maybe i should keep it that way.

[@quicksandriggs]

Yeah, I have never seen a need to craft iron armor in any of my play throughs, especially considering how important the iron ingots are.

[@joet7136]

I use Root Armor with a Lox cape for all my Valheim travels.

[@quicksandriggs]

That’s a good combo!

[@Aleksei_yanovski]

You can use this armor only like sniper way to capture goblin village for Flax. Otherway its suicide. Goblin kill you fo 2 hit

[@iTzTiMeToJuMp]

Was the final damage number taking into account fire resistance + the root mask/chest since it had such a huge effect on defe ze

[@quicksandriggs]

I filmed this a while back, so I can’t be completely certain. But I don’t believe I did the 2 pieces with the fire resistance mead.

[@squeak5242]

Silver knife op

[@quicksandriggs]

I’m a big fan of the knives!

[@squeak5242]

How about the yagluth power with the root armor

[@quicksandriggs]

I didn’t check that, I can run a test when I get time and let you know.

[@squeak5242]

@@quicksandriggs bet

[@quicksandriggs]

@@squeak5242 Based on my tests the Fire Resistance Potion does not stack with Yagluth's power, but the power did perform slightly better then the potion. While using the power the damage per tick of burning was: No Armor ~ 8-10 Root Armor ~ 6-7 Padded Armor ~ 2-3 These damage numbers are a rough average, but I did see some ticks as low as 1.7 while wearing the padded armor and stacking it with Yagluth's power, which is the lowest I've seen the shamans hit for.

[@LT72884]

so what if i cant get padded armour yet and all i have is root, or troll, or bronze?

[@quicksandriggs]

Root definitely outclasses bronze armor, troll is very situational and still maintains a bit more speed. However I wouldn’t use any of those in the plains, if you are only up to the swamp and you’ve gotten root armor, that is definitely the go to for that biome!

[@LT72884]

@@quicksandriggs well snap. Plains is my favorite biome. Been there lots but i die so fast haha. Looks like ill be chilling in the swamp with my bronze mace and level 1 root armor

[@quicksandriggs]

@@LT72884 Might have a bit more time before the plains are manageable!

[@chuckgame4210]

poison resist got nerfed ?

[@juliusgalik6885]

Yaeh, I came to the same conclusion :-)

[@squeak5242]

Padded helm root chest padded legs sergeant shield and silver sword muah

[@quicksandriggs]

Really good setup!

[@mavhizd]

You stll take full damage for each hit, not just the poison, so it's 20 vs 28 for padded vs padded+root - not half the damage, rather just slightly less than 30% less damage

[@msarilyn7677]

Easy, no. It makes you weak versus fire when the mobs in question use fire. Torchbearers and such will be a challenge. Yagluth will kill you in it. But if you use arrows and don't get hit guess it could work.

[@quicksandriggs]

If you’ve got fire resist potions, it could help with Fuling camps, against the spear throwers. But Yagluth is probably an easy no!

[@garryogries5371]

gud2 kipidap

[@forcedge2302]

if you get hit by a shaman ur fked, not worth the risk imo

[@r2Kd0ugernaut]

armor doesnt matter, only shield and weapon.

[@quicksandriggs]

Unless you miss your parry and/or get flanked.

[@levioor7383]

You havent been in the plains have you? ;)

[@r2Kd0ugernaut]

@@levioor7383 have you been in the plains? even a fine bow will 1 shot a deathsquito. an upgraded iron buckler can parry everything besides a 2 star zerker, abysall razor can back stab almost anything in 1 shot. if youre fighting the whole plains then YOURE doing it wrong.

[@PierreLucSex]

@@r2Kd0ugernaut dude lol don't be pissed, I surely will test a full heavy set 2 handed battleaxe in the plains for fun.

[@brodriguez11000]

@@r2Kd0ugernaut : Whole lot of tamed wolves.

[@luisllanito1865]

Alright I’ll leave the root armor for some of y’all that are okay risking walking back to their body but me; I am running around with max quality silver tier gear and just slapping things around. Except for the Growths I hate those little shits.

[@iamreiver]

So the answer is "no". The root armor is totally outclassed by late game armor.

[@satellite2696]

This is cat fishing. The moment you see the title say is it worth it, yes. Yes it is.

[@quicksandriggs]

I’ve seen some videos titled “is it worth it” that were answered no. At least in regards to buying a game… :P