Originally Posted by
tomduril
First my opinion about PVE content and difficulty ..
I made a crafter - High DEX, INT, Perception - low AGI, STR, FOR so I dont expect a very high damage output - so with a full swing I achieve about 10.0 points damage - 13 if I manage to get behind an animal. With normal short stabs and swings I make about 3.0 damage...
I can fight a normal coyote and racoons ... a Deer or a Bear are out of reach for me. I managed to lure 2 deers into a river and started to fight them there - after about 15 hits (took me 1-2 minutes) one of them was at 25% health ... so this lovely and quite intelligent deer started to flee - well with low AGI ... I can not really keep it close distance - at least not for the 5-6 swings I have to hit it with. So all I could do is fight those deers for 5 minutes until both fleed (up a slope I could not climb btw) - and so fast that I could not follow. Nevertheless I survived...
If MrDDT (or any other hunter/fighter with Hunting/Fighting gear) says that all animals are solo possible - well not for me and my crafter character - which is probably also due to my low understanding of how combat works in Xsyon (I dont want to learn it - so I dont hunt ...) - but as a Master Basketry Crafter - I need to get grass materials - and the PVE encounters I have are totally sufficient for me.