problem with hound difficulty / fight in general

[Oaa]

hi guys.

i played about 200 days with my char and i see there are coming more and more hounds and some of them are already red. i dont think its more difficulty to defeat them because u cant "fight" them in a normal way, because u wont survive since they make more damage. the only way is to build bee-traps to support you in the fight, run to some pigs / spiders, drop food (so they get distraced and you can hit them) or you just "hit and run" so they cant hit you but you can hit them. basicly u do not fight them in the real way, i dont see that it is getting any harder.

lets say there come 12 hounds in one wave and 50 in another one. i can´t deal with the 12 hounds if i just stand and attack so i have to find a way to help myself. the same thing is with the 50 hounds. the only thing i have to adept between these two waves are that i have to build more bee-traps or place mor spidernests / pighouses in one area.

the other thing is, that there are some monster (big spider and angry tree) whitch i never fought by standing still because they did not get interrupted in their attacks (like pigs, spiders... f.e.); so i always run close to them till they strike, run away so they dont hit me, then back and make 3-4 hits. i think thats not real "fighting" its more like exploiting the ia from the monster.

[Rainbow Knight]

Uhm

Youre not supposed to kill hounds normal way...

Also those monsters require tactics...Or perfect kitting..

[Ran]

I think what he means is that there's little tactic in the tactic. It's just doing more of the same. Personally I haven't gotten far enough to have a good idea, but I can see it getting repetitive and tedious when you're getting a ton hounds at a time.

[Oaa]

there are only a few ways to deal with 15 hounds at the same time:

-many bee-traps

-many pigs who help you

-man spiders who help you

-a lot of meat on the ground to keep them bussy eating while u hit them

-hit + kite

i cant see any other way

[Ora]

I personally just throw on my logsuit, football helmet, and a weapon. When they come at me, I put down the first one to reach me, and when he drops monster meat, all the other hounds go for it giving me time to put down another hound, which has the same distracting effect as the first one. This goes on until they are all dead and I've only taken a couple hits.

EDIT: On another note, it also seems to distract them or otherwise mess with their AI when they are standing in fire, so I try to prioritize the hellhounds so there is fire all over the other hounds, to which they generally respond by kinda... standing there and barking while they take fire damage.

Edited December 27, 2012 by Ora

[McMatthew]

To be honest 5 ways of killing something is quite a lot, so I don't really see the problem.

[vinchon]

EDIT: On another note, it also seems to distract them or otherwise mess with their AI when they are standing in fire, so I try to prioritize the hellhounds so there is fire all over the other hounds, to which they generally respond by kinda... standing there and barking while they take fire damage.

Yeah, that happened to me not too long ago. I thought it was a bug or something since they just completely stopped moving, I had no idea it was because of the fire from the hellhounds.