Salem

When is it safe to start hunting beavers? How high should my humours be?

What about other animals like deer and bears?

At 25 Beavers can almost not kill you. Deer maybe 30. Bears...

If you have fencing you should be good at around 15 B/YB as long as they don't start dancing and agro each other. If you haven't got fencing you should get it asap. You can take on deers at around 20.25 humours, just stay close to them so they don't charge you.

Beavers are fairly easy at 15 humours with fencing. From memory they take two shots. Don't fight one if others are nearby or you may start off a chain reaction of dances. You can probably survive a dance and a hit from one beaver at that stage, but not two, or four. Deers are possible at 30, just be careful to stick close to them to avoid getting charged. March hares can be done at 25-30, maybe less if you are careful. They don't do anything remarkable, they just move fast.

Bears take more like 70+ humours, mainly because of fear, which slowly drains your BB.

I feel the humors people have said here are on the generous side for people with little combat knowledge.

With fencing, and guard, you can kill a beaver with 10~ biles, a deer with 15~ biles, and a bear at about 40~45 biles safely..

The numbers i have given are once you become very confident with the combat system, and can use the environment to assist you in combat, why using stuns, and a combination of thrust and uppercut.

The numbers given by the other players here i feel are Tank and spank stats needed to kill creatures.

I agree with L33LEE, i've been killing beavers since I started, I hadn't even realised they were supposed to be dangerous 'til someone said about them on the forum one day.

Deers I killed by trapping them and then by attack once my humors were in the 20's - but i've never had a problem with deers, so probably could have done it earlier.

Bears, I've been too afraid to try one yet, lol, but i've survived attacks since my humors reached 40+ so it's probably possible now. Not going to try it though 'til i've got all my humors in the 80's, just in case. It's tempting when you know you won't actualy die but it really pains me to lose the skill points, takes ages to get them back up again! If i'd had put as much effort into humors as I did skills i'd be well into three figures by now!

L33LEE wrote:The numbers given by the other players here i feel are Tank and spank stats needed to kill creatures.

There's another way to fight?

Nah, good points raised. I'm really just a combat noob who panics whenever he's attacked by a cricket and starts spamming thrust. I agree with you, I've seen decent players use stomp and thrust to kill bears without being hit once at ~50 humours. That's not me though.