Fire damage is the best way to bring down The Elder, and it's going to take a lot of flaming arrows, possibly hundreds. You'll want to be prepared with brass armor, a quality bow, lots of flame arrows, and healing potions if you've unlocked them. With the pickaxe available after defeating Eikthyr, you should be doing a lot of mining and smelting before taking on The Elder. It can also summon vines from the ground around players, which will lash out and attack. It also has a ranged attack where it shoots vines as projectiles. In melee, it will stomp on players with an area of effect attack, which does damage even if he doesn't step directly on you. Burning three Ancient Seeds on The Elder's altar in the Black Forest will summon it. These can be found in drops from greydwarf brutes and greydwarf shamans, and by destroying Greydwarf nests. Summon The Elder by using three Ancient Seeds. You can discover its location by interacting with rune stones in Burial Chambers found in the Black Forest. Rewards: Swamp Key (unlocks crypts in the Swamp), Elder trophy.(Image credit: Iron Gate Studios) Valheim Black Forest boss: The Elder You can have a bow crafted to shoot it from a distance, but focus on blocking with your shield and striking it with a melee weapon like a flint spear or axe between its attacks. No need to chase him, conserve your stamina and let him come to you.Īfter defeating Eikthyr, hang his trophy on the sacrificial stone at your starting point in the world, which will grant you the Eikthyr power, a buff to your stamina while running and jumping. It will also ram with its antlers as a melee attack.ĭespite Eikthyr's size, you can effectively block its attacks with a small wooden shield, so make sure you've crafted one. Up close, it will rear up and stomp its front legs down for an area of effect electrical attack. From a distance it has a ranged electrical attack, shooting lighting from its antlers. To summon Eikthyr, you'll need to place two deer trophies (from hunting deer) on Eikthyr's altar.Įikthyr has three different attacks. He's an enormous stag with chains wrapped around his antlers. Rewards: Hard antlers (used to craft pickaxe), Eikthyr trophyĮikthyr is the first boss you can summon in your starting biome, the Meadows.Boss power: Reduces stamina cost of running and jumping. Valheim is available now on PC and Xbox, and for no additional cost on PC Game Pass and Xbox Game Pass.(Image credit: Coffee Stain Studios) Valheim Meadows boss: Eikthyr The game’s combat isn’t the most engaging on the market either, but it has a certain something to it, a Dark Soulsian clunkiness that keeps it addicting and hard to master." Valheim doesn’t feature slick, high-fidelity graphics – but it’s still gorgeous, with its retro PS1 textures juxtaposed against magnificent sun-lit vistas. "It’s also nowhere near as refined as its peers. "In Valheim, you play as a fallen Norse warrior trapped in purgatory who has to craft and explore their way through the realm, building up to progress-gating boss battles. "It’s quite an unusual game to be sitting so high on Steam’s most-played list, just behind gigantic esports behemoths like DOTA 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds," we said in our feature, Why you should be playing Valheim. With four million players and counting and an ‘Overwhelmingly Positive’ rating after 350,000 user reviews, it doesn’t look like it’s slowing down anytime soon, either. If you haven't come across it before, Valheim is an early-access survival title (yes: it's still in early access) that has comprehensively taken over Steam, clocking in over 500,000 concurrent players at once just 19 days after the game’s launch.
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