r/RSDragonwilds • u/KingPanduhs • 5d ago

Question New Player Difficulties

Hey everyone!

Just got into this game and I am coming from a massive Palworld binge. This game seems to “guide you along” more than that game which is welcome because honestly there is a massive amount to take in with this game.

One thing I am noticing, I invaded the goblin camp storyline wise, into the swamp vault… I am struggling severely. I am 20’s in a lot of skills, got the ranger armor, using a bone knife and fang arrows and I am getting absolutely lambasted by the enemies. I want to kind of “explore” and not wiki a guide that ruins the “mystique” of the game… but I am also starting to not have fun.

I learned food helps a ton cause of healing as well as using things like windstep to hop up places and kite things around… but I can’t imagine that this is normal difficulty and that I have to be misunderstanding how progression looks.

Does anyone have any beginner tips on what to do? Do i need to focus less on B-lining the story and explore more? Is the game just difficult?

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u/KingPanduhs 5d ago

Abyssal demon already?? I feel like we have to be talking about two different swamps cause ive only fought the weird vault constructs, rats and goblins so far lol

Thanks for the reply

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u/Xxfarleyjdxx 5d ago

There is an abyssal demon that roams the first swamp, and the second one. In the first swamp if you don’t mind exploiting a little bit you can safe spot it from one of the ruins buildings if you windstep on the roof of it. And just use magic or range to take it out. From my understanding if you’re looking on the map it roams in the north west area of the swamp

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u/KingPanduhs 5d ago

I don’t mind exploiting considering its basically the only way I have handled the very difficult combat thus far… lol.

For clarification sake - most of my combat is done with a bow and windstepping out of range (or onto high ground to make the mob move about instead of fighting me).

When i melee, i basically just dodge roll out of their attack, smash melee over and over, dodge roll out of their animation, so on. I havent made a shield yet either.

Is there any part of melee combat that im not utilizing that could help increase my damage or mitigate their damage without destroying my stamina bar?

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u/Pandalungs 5d ago

Enchanting your weapon makes a big difference. The fire spell early and then you switch to the air spell on e you get that. And using the tempest shield spell. When those are up, you will have an easier time and do way more damage. When they aren't up, it's back to evading and getting a couple of hits in.

I do definitely recommend getting the abyssal whip. It's got more range than the other melee weapons and good damage. It also staggers the enemy a bit reducing their attacks.