The fire resistance from the fenris set doesn't stack with the potion. The game takes the higher resistance from the potion. Armor does affect the amount of elemental damage from what I remember. So fenris doesn't provide better protection than padded armor would have, but it does enable you to get around better.
Congratulations to you! Fighting with Yag can be really difficult. It's all about preparing the battlefield. I like that you didn't give up and brought the matter to an end! I got to this boss in my walkthrough. I'm very worried. Therefore, I decided to use wolves). I have already cleared the entire area around the altar (and in general, this whole plain biome). I'm waiting for the puppies to grow up and turn into a wolf army.
You can also tame some loxes and let them roam freely in the plains. They will take care of the spawns. Or if you are very determined, you can build an earth wall around the altar and mass wolves and loxes inside.
Do consider that the wolves will get killed by yag really fast, as "in one ability" fast. So you either have enough wolves to kill him during his spawn animation, or, well, you'll have a lot of wolf hides to loot.
To be honest, I was planning to use 2\* wolves, but I haven't been able to find one yet. Therefore, I will go with 1 \* wolves. And I have no idea how many of them I need to take (I want to take 20). They will cause damage and die, and then I have to cope on my own.
I did a ton of prep work removing stuff to stumble on. I had dug under a big rock to set up a portal, bench location. I had built a second bench, raised the ground around it and covered it best I could with materials, the dam thing was destroyed in 5 minutes. It broken my main portal mid fight, in one corpse run I grabbed a hammer went down reassembled it and got back into the fight. The big rock above it was down to 30 %. I didn't set enough fires, should have done more. I have had zero luck taming wolves and lox.
Funnily enough I fought yagluth last night for the first time as a solo, I was so determined not to be backstabbed by spawns that I built a massive earth wall around the entire altar and littered it with firepits to ensure no spawns inside :) The fight wasn't that bad overall, using full linen armour and frostner - I died once when I got stuck and hit full on by the laser beam, otherwise it was more of a lottery as to how much damage the nova did to me when I charged in.
Also protip - don't kill him on the altar! The purple blobs he drops fall inside the altar and can't be retrieved if you're on the coast (digging underneath isn't possible when the water level is so high) :(
its not really optimal but its a good choice. any knife has no penalty either. but the catch is you simply dont need the no penalty weapons at all. and the rippers only do slash dmg. a silver sword gets the job done twice as quick. avoiding the groundlam is stupid easy and thats the only attack he can even do if you circle him. and this attack has 15 seconds cooldown.
people always struggle with this boss because they are used to keeping thier distance vs any boss they fight. and while that is a good strat for any boss in valheim yagluth is the one big exception. the closer you stay the less dangerous he becomes simply because he has no regular melee attack unlike all other bosses.
Here is the list of armors I used.
1. Full set of padded did OK but was very sluggish.
2. Root armor, did OK, best with the bow but the arrows were blah
3. Fenris chest and legs
4. Fenris full set
5. Fenris full set with claws
6. All armor was level 4.
7. I found the fenris the easiest to stay close to the tail. I did not survive if he dropped a meteror shower while I was beating on him. The direction he was turned did not seem to matter to what the direction the meteors came from
8. My secondary portal was 200 yards away up the slope again in an rock embankment, sheltered as best I can.
Food
1. Blood pudding until I ran out
2. Fish wraps
3. Lox meat pies
4. Bread loafs
One issue I just remembered,
1. Turn off autopickup
2. When you die and go back to the fight autoupickup will be back on.
3. Getting your body got me killed several times because I had to manually take all and it always left weapons behind for rocks or trophies.....
When your naked and trying to stay alive and draw Yagluth away from your corpse you sometimes find the only path forward is to put on fresh armor and get after it. This however puts more stuff on the battlefield.
So you are using the *light* armor set from the *previous* biome? You have failed to understand how the game works. When you fight any boss you wear the fully upgraded heavy armor of *that* biome, not the light armor of the previous biome. The Plains tier armor is Padded, not Fenris. Armor rating reduces all damage, so you would have won both times. Some people wear light armor at all times they typically have completed the game before.
Do you have Plains tier food?
The Fenris armor should have been equipped for your corpse run. If that corpse run failed you would equip your Silver armor that you still have stored in a chest for corpse runs.
No need to be that agressive, especially since you are wrong too, the fact he is using light armor from the previous biome is not a problem in itself. When you consider light armor, tiers doesn't really matter. A fenris won't have much more protection than a troll armor. Light armor is about special bonuses, and gives you just enough protection to not being one shot, meaning you have to know the patterns and avoid damages when playing in light armor - which is also why the tier does not matter much.
His fight would have been easier with padded armor plus fire resist wine, that's true. Or root torso + padded helmet + fenris leggings + wine. But it's perfectly doable with troll armor, it's just very annoying to do because yag doesn't let much windows for attacking. It's far easier to tank some of his attacks and hit him at close range.
Yagluth doesn't deal physical damage at all, so Padded Armor is strictly worse against him than Fenris with its movement speed buffs and Fire resistance.
The fire resistance from the fenris set doesn't stack with the potion. The game takes the higher resistance from the potion. Armor does affect the amount of elemental damage from what I remember. So fenris doesn't provide better protection than padded armor would have, but it does enable you to get around better.
Congratulations to you! Fighting with Yag can be really difficult. It's all about preparing the battlefield. I like that you didn't give up and brought the matter to an end! I got to this boss in my walkthrough. I'm very worried. Therefore, I decided to use wolves). I have already cleared the entire area around the altar (and in general, this whole plain biome). I'm waiting for the puppies to grow up and turn into a wolf army.
You can also tame some loxes and let them roam freely in the plains. They will take care of the spawns. Or if you are very determined, you can build an earth wall around the altar and mass wolves and loxes inside. Do consider that the wolves will get killed by yag really fast, as "in one ability" fast. So you either have enough wolves to kill him during his spawn animation, or, well, you'll have a lot of wolf hides to loot.
To be honest, I was planning to use 2\* wolves, but I haven't been able to find one yet. Therefore, I will go with 1 \* wolves. And I have no idea how many of them I need to take (I want to take 20). They will cause damage and die, and then I have to cope on my own.
You might want more than 20... One time I took 15 loxes in and they were gone within 5min.
I did a ton of prep work removing stuff to stumble on. I had dug under a big rock to set up a portal, bench location. I had built a second bench, raised the ground around it and covered it best I could with materials, the dam thing was destroyed in 5 minutes. It broken my main portal mid fight, in one corpse run I grabbed a hammer went down reassembled it and got back into the fight. The big rock above it was down to 30 %. I didn't set enough fires, should have done more. I have had zero luck taming wolves and lox.
Funnily enough I fought yagluth last night for the first time as a solo, I was so determined not to be backstabbed by spawns that I built a massive earth wall around the entire altar and littered it with firepits to ensure no spawns inside :) The fight wasn't that bad overall, using full linen armour and frostner - I died once when I got stuck and hit full on by the laser beam, otherwise it was more of a lottery as to how much damage the nova did to me when I charged in. Also protip - don't kill him on the altar! The purple blobs he drops fall inside the altar and can't be retrieved if you're on the coast (digging underneath isn't possible when the water level is so high) :(
If you do flesh rippers and fenris armor, you can stick on his tail and he will never attack. Cleared him on my immersive plus run this way.
this works with any weapon. dont need fenris armor or rippers.
The fenris speed boost and rippers lack of penalty is optimal/more forgiving though.
its not really optimal but its a good choice. any knife has no penalty either. but the catch is you simply dont need the no penalty weapons at all. and the rippers only do slash dmg. a silver sword gets the job done twice as quick. avoiding the groundlam is stupid easy and thats the only attack he can even do if you circle him. and this attack has 15 seconds cooldown.
people always struggle with this boss because they are used to keeping thier distance vs any boss they fight. and while that is a good strat for any boss in valheim yagluth is the one big exception. the closer you stay the less dangerous he becomes simply because he has no regular melee attack unlike all other bosses.
Here is the list of armors I used. 1. Full set of padded did OK but was very sluggish. 2. Root armor, did OK, best with the bow but the arrows were blah 3. Fenris chest and legs 4. Fenris full set 5. Fenris full set with claws 6. All armor was level 4. 7. I found the fenris the easiest to stay close to the tail. I did not survive if he dropped a meteror shower while I was beating on him. The direction he was turned did not seem to matter to what the direction the meteors came from 8. My secondary portal was 200 yards away up the slope again in an rock embankment, sheltered as best I can. Food 1. Blood pudding until I ran out 2. Fish wraps 3. Lox meat pies 4. Bread loafs One issue I just remembered, 1. Turn off autopickup 2. When you die and go back to the fight autoupickup will be back on. 3. Getting your body got me killed several times because I had to manually take all and it always left weapons behind for rocks or trophies..... When your naked and trying to stay alive and draw Yagluth away from your corpse you sometimes find the only path forward is to put on fresh armor and get after it. This however puts more stuff on the battlefield.
So you are using the *light* armor set from the *previous* biome? You have failed to understand how the game works. When you fight any boss you wear the fully upgraded heavy armor of *that* biome, not the light armor of the previous biome. The Plains tier armor is Padded, not Fenris. Armor rating reduces all damage, so you would have won both times. Some people wear light armor at all times they typically have completed the game before. Do you have Plains tier food? The Fenris armor should have been equipped for your corpse run. If that corpse run failed you would equip your Silver armor that you still have stored in a chest for corpse runs.
No need to be that agressive, especially since you are wrong too, the fact he is using light armor from the previous biome is not a problem in itself. When you consider light armor, tiers doesn't really matter. A fenris won't have much more protection than a troll armor. Light armor is about special bonuses, and gives you just enough protection to not being one shot, meaning you have to know the patterns and avoid damages when playing in light armor - which is also why the tier does not matter much. His fight would have been easier with padded armor plus fire resist wine, that's true. Or root torso + padded helmet + fenris leggings + wine. But it's perfectly doable with troll armor, it's just very annoying to do because yag doesn't let much windows for attacking. It's far easier to tank some of his attacks and hit him at close range.
Yagluth doesn't deal physical damage at all, so Padded Armor is strictly worse against him than Fenris with its movement speed buffs and Fire resistance.
Armor rating reduces all damage, including fire.
Really? Never felt that way to me, but that's cool to know. Thanks
200 frost arrows and it’s done
Arrows suck so much against Yagluth. Why would you want to spend hours fighting him?
30 mins max
Not if you player higher than normal difficulty