Valheim Ashlands | No Armor Fader Boss Kill
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Published 2024-05-27
This was a lot of fun and a continuation of my spur of the moment Queen challenge. The Queen challenge was basically to do the Queen in no armor, with just a greatsword, to mimic Conan the Barbarian. This is probably my favorite Valheim challenge. Around 11 hours or so of progression went into this.
One of the biggest pain points in progression was Fader just going nuts the last 20%, in my first kill with no armor (this vid is my 2nd kill of no armor fader here) I was literally at 10% for 8 minutes (My first no armor Fader kill: • Valheim | No Armor Fader Solo with a ... ), because I would never ever have the opportunity to dps him down and end the fight. He just goes berserk and a lot of it is rng too with what attacks he decides to do. I was at work one night and I was just thinkin about it and I realized if I could bait his fire line breath attack, by being midrange (10-12meters) I could easily jump in and use sword special and then I would be able to trigger his melee attack cycle. Doing this allowed me to not only kill faster, but it's also a safer strategy. It's better to be midrange/melee with fader than absolutely range, because he'll just dominate you at max range.
For 9 hours of the progression, I was running 3x stamina food, and the archers would hit me and stagger me and essentially end the run. @ThreadMenace recommended me to run 1 hp food from the very start, and in the last hour of progression I actually tried it out and it makes the encounter a LOT easier. The extra hp just barely prevents me from getting staggered by the archers 50dmg hits. I was using skoll and hati to kill the adds for 10 hours of the progression, and then for the last hour I gave silver knife a shot and I think it's better, it doesn't instantly kill like skoll and hati does but the charred stay staggered until they die from spirit. Also just big props to him for kinda coaching/problem solving, great mind and we both helped each other out with some different shenanigans. I know there's probably a huge overlap in my community and his but if you haven't heard who he is (which I doubt) go check him out. Also big thanks to him for making the guy in the thumbnail too, I think it's really funny.
One day I plan to do this on Very Hard, but today is not that day. A very hard kill would have to be hitless. No ifs no ands no buts. I have moments of brilliance where I'm able to handle the add phase super well and not get hit at all. Honestly doing this on very hard sounds like a complete nightmare, but 1 year from now I'll look back on this and think it wasn't so hard.
I have a plains village lined up after this, I'm about 1/3 done and I'm COOKING.
ZAZAMODE
The Covenant is far too powerful.
Timestamps
00:00 - First Phase
2:32 - Second Phase
All Comments (21)
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Hey gamers, go check out Threads INSANE Fader speedkill (2 min 10 seconds kill) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO4oibhe_Ho . He does some good shot calling while the fight is going on and gets a crazy time!
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"That thing was too big to be called a sword. Too big, too thick, too heavy, and too rough, it was more like a large hunk of iron" - Fader
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Let me solo her is back in Valheim it seems!?
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Utterly nuts dude! Such a good call staying midrange during his "berserk phase!" The control and precision you demonstrate here is off the charts! GG's!
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Dark souls boss and player right here
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I just killed him first time yesterday. Seeing this fight under 10 min and naked is just insane. Look like child play😮
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Step 1: lock in Step 2: maintain step 1
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Massively impressive! Your stamina hardly dropped below half way for most of the fight, discipline and precision all the way, great job!
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Amazing Scales! Planned to be there for live but for some reason I thought it was an hour later. :( That was an incredible display of skills. Nice job!!
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Dude makes it look easy.
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The only thing more massive than that sword is your balls you have to drag around.
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Good stamina management bro GG.
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HAHAHA 🐉🐉🐉 During a melee of combat, he manages to sort the mead in his inventory!!! ))))) He's bored 3:23 Beautiful jumping strike to the neck! This is the best combat control and beautiful. ... Looking into the sky to see where problems are falling - it looks cool. You were NAKED!!!! Thanks for the inspiration, but I will never be able to do this) ... I'll give the dragon to be eaten by askspigs 2 stars.... It's dirty, but because of the FPS I won't see it. But I'll be naked too)
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that "let's go" at the end XDDDDDDDDDDDD
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This guy is nuts. Let me solo em?
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Your game looks amazing to me
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what a gamer
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Now do it on the hardest difficulty
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Hi! u are a madlad bro, good job! what graphics do you play on? the gameplay is so smooth, i have constant fps drops in the ashlands
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Ah yes, a fellow Tasty Mead enjoyer. A man of culture I see. How many tries did this take until you learned his attack patterns? Asking, cuz me and a few fellow madlads are gonna attempt this in the near future.
