Combat questions

[Hollogodis]

So im not sure how this works. I fight like ants and got 27 ua and i use the block moves and then start punching the ant, but it still goes through me pretty fast, even though i am spamming block moves and punching. How do i know when animals break through my defense because it seems the moves icon with the white bar showing how much shield u got left isnt there anymore. Just dizzy and those stuff, using a shield to block the damage wont work either, get hit 1 or 2 times then i start taking damage. Ants are supposed to be easy right so why cant i block their damage easily then? Do i have to mash the block moves to reduce the % of example dizzy to have a block up or what?

[Zachary09]

Usually the best defense is a good offense. You need to kill them ASAP before they do anything to you. Make sure your STR is high, and then the damage is going to flow. Personally what I found working for me was using swords. They deal really high damages, especially when using Sting (for DPS, on-land hunting) or just Cleave (for high single attack damage, boat hunting).

[Myrgard]

Seems that ants will always do a little bit of damage, I still get damage from ants even though I can take down a bear without taking a scratch.

I guess that their spit has a lot of grievous damage to it bypassing armor.

[joojoo1975]

unfortunately that's how the current combat mechanic is.

the blocks eliminate a certain % of your current opening, so if you got an opening against you of lets say 30% and you use a restoration move which cuts 20% off of your opening then what actually happens is you lose only 6% because 20% of the 30% opening against you is only 6%(1/5th of 30% is 6%)

so using block moves earily on isn't gonna help.

[Hollogodis]

Alright so its down to unarmed and armor to soak the damage then to beat animals? Tried to tame a horse didnt go very well got 23 str, 30ua and 20 agi, i even put some armor on and had a shield but they just fuck me up lol.

[xTrainx]

Alright so its down to unarmed and armor to soak the damage then to beat animals? Tried to tame a horse didnt go very well got 23 str, 30ua and 20 agi, i even put some armor on and had a shield but they just fuck me up lol.

chop and shields up do wonders, make a bronze sword too

[waga]

so I stopped playing a few months ago , maybe 6 , but my char was decent enough. (around 120 agi and uc)
I tried to fight ants to try the new system and to my surprise I took a lot of damages Oo ( I did read this thread first) like 20 after multiples ants.
I'm naked tho , or atleast without any armor , and my village being destroyed because of the decay I can't craft one fast to try it myself.

iirc there is no way now to not take any damage at all ? even from ants ? Oo
how do you grind the ant hill early on if it's correct ?
the old way ? run with the ants behind you and come back later to raid ? Oo

I'm worried I'll have to craft 10 set of armors a day .. + the early days without armor won't be fun at all..
Am I missing something ?

[loskierek]

its the ants skill which deals dmg to you, it bypasses most openings and deal consistant 1 dmg so the strategy to kill an ant is to just forget deaf and punch punch punch punch before you accumulate enough dmg.

[HappyBuffalo]

To kill an ant without damage now you have to:

punch 1 time
run circles and use protection with the same color as ant's attack before the open from ant drops to 0
punch 1 more time
repeat

[waga]

aight thx ...
I might try to create a new char to be ready for the 7th.
but the begining looks harder than for w9 where you were immune to ants the first day.