▲ 12 r/valheim

Can someone tell my why a lvl 2 Stormfang would be better than a lvl 4 Spinesnap?

I can only upgrade Stormfang to 2 without black forge upgrades that don't exist yet.

The damage is close, and they're basically the same on their other stats (draw stamina etc).

Stormfang (lvl 2):

  • 86 Pierce
  • 10 Lightning
  • 5 Spirit

Spinesnap (lvl 4):

  • 84 Pierce
  • 20 Spirit

To my way of thinking, that means Spinesnap is better for anything that's weak to spirit damage.

What am I missing? Is Stormfang's chain lightning that OP against groups when it actually procs?

I'm mostly using Root Ripper for first strikes on single targets, and I don't want to be carrying 3 ranged weapons for situational optimization.

[Edit:] Hm. Something about the way I completely shredded that valk just now suggests I'm definitely missing something. I think the lightning stun-locked her?

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u/Ippus_21 — 15 days ago
▲ 13 r/valheim

Not sure how to feel...

Got my first clean fortress assault last night. Cleared the first fortress of the playthrough with no deaths!

Took out the skuggs with the arbalest, built a ramp up to one corner to hop in and grab the cog wheel and escape, then came back with a catapult and laid waste to the spawners instead of trying to wade in and get swarmed...

And then while I'm celebrating, coming back to finish looting it, I completely flubbed a valkyrie fight and got killed. I saw her. I initiated the fight. And somehow missed every block and couldn't get a hit in to save my life (literally, I guess, since I died).

I mean, I came back and finished the job and moved on, but still... lol.

Never change, Valheim. Never change.

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u/Ippus_21 — 17 days ago
▲ 14 r/valheim

Flametal spires sinking mechanics

I feel like I'm kind of getting screwed on flametal spires this game.

Last time (Admittedly well before the last major update) I was able to completely strip-mine entire spires several times before they started sinking.

This time, I'm averaging just under 20 ore apiece for my first 3 spires, and it's kinda bugging me, lol.

Were spire leviathans not sinking at the expected frequency prior to the last update and something was fixed?

Or is it, once again, the RNG gods toying with me?

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u/Ippus_21 — 21 days ago

Did they fix Yagluth vegvisir spawn or something?

Vegvisir for Yagluth used to be legendarily rare. Like, you were more likely to stumble on the actual altar than you were to find a vegvisir.

But on my current game I've found no less than 4 of the things (the first one when I was actually looking, the rest while I was roaming fuling villages trying to get a damn berserker trophy, which I STILL don't have, lol).

Did they update that and I missed it, or is this just a weird RNG fluke?

I mean, it was for the best this time, I guess, since the Yag spawn was WAY further south than I'd been planning to look for it, and it would have taken me absolutely forever to find that way without using the seedmap.

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u/Ippus_21 — 1 month ago
▲ 4 r/French

Help me understand the distinction?

Bonjour a tous!

S'il vous plait, quelqu'un a m'aider comprendre ce distinction subtile entre ces deux phrases?

<<Toute la matinée>> vs <<le matin entier>>

Mes recherches en ligne n'ont pas reussi.

(Also feel free to shred my grammar if you need to. I've been at this a long time but I'm still pretty trash at actually constructing sentences.)

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u/Ippus_21 — 2 months ago
▲ 1 r/Soil

Soil drainage test results - need someone to check me on this.

I need some pros to weigh in. I need to replace a Balaton cherry tree that's on its last legs, and I'm researching rootstock options, trying to decide if I can get away with whatever the nursery has vs looking for something specific to poor drainage. [Edit: The soil's also very calcium-heavy and somewhat alkaline. It's Southeast Idaho, so it's basically sagebrush steppe over a limestone aquifer. The city water is about 8.5 pH and extremely hard.]

I have 12-14 inches of topsoil and then everything under it is this dense yellow clay/silt with rocks all through it (weird geology around here - go any deeper than about 3 feet and you start hitting boulders from the Bonneville Flood outflow; pretty sure my yard used to be in the bed of the river).

The problem is the top google hits (never mind what the AI says) are trying to tell me that ideal drainage is 1-3 inches per hour with this test, and anything faster is too sandy, which can't be right, because my results look insanely fast by that measure.

Method:

  • Dig hole 12inx12in, ~20in deep
  • Fill completely and allow to drain
  • Refill and measure drainage

https://preview.redd.it/qhqpjwdidy2h1.png?width=1034&format=png&auto=webp&s=67f67058485ea15a12de321e3070c1d7315c3ddd

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u/Ippus_21 — 3 months ago

I've noticed it once or twice on trail runs from Trail Creek to Kinport (a route I haven't actually taken in a few years). I swear it didn't look as gross up close as it appears on google maps, lol.

It's more or less along the ridgeline, just N of Michaud creek, about 200-300ft uphill...

Wondered about it for years, and kind of just remembered it this morning and was like... I bet somebody on r/Pocatello knows.

Like, was that hillside there a quarry or being mined for something a long time ago and this is a tailing pond or... what?

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u/Ippus_21 — 4 months ago