

Lunarium Pounder (Hammer): +40% damage after killing 100 wolves or balverines.Note that they only appear "in Silverpines, Millfields, Mistpeak Valley and Hero of Bowerstone's Tomb".Īs far as defeating them, there are a few weapons that provide bonuses against balverines. I have yet to discover any pattern to their arrivals (I have seen them during the day) so I'm not sure there is any way to avoid them unfortunately. It doesn't really have to do with your decisions, but how far along in the game you are. They increase in number as you progress through the game, and unfortunately there isn't really any way to stop them. Is there rhyme or reason to when I'm confronted by balverines and when I'm confronted by mercenaries? If, for example, balverines only show up at night, I will make a point of only traveling through those certain points where you get attacked by stuff during the day.What is the most effective way to fight a band of balverines? Is there a particular combination of spells that scares them off? Or is it firearms or a sword that will make short work of them?.So, there are two parts to this question: I still encounter bands of mercenaries from time to time, however, so the game hasn't replaced mercenaries with balverines entirely. I noticed that they didn't really show up in the game until after I'd made friends with the mercenaries by visiting their new tourist-trap camp. Balverines are fast and strong and they do that thing where they leap straight up and land behind me so I'm swinging at thin air like some kind of fool. I liked fighting bands of mercenaries much better.
