User blog comment:Glflegolas/Biome of the Week -- Issue 8 -- November 16, 2016/@comment-25330335-20161117032450

My suggestions for surviving in this biome:


 * 1) Good horses. The faster the mount you ride, the better chance you have of managing to escape any barrow wights that may happen to notice you
 * 2) Gondorian or similar bow. A strong and fast bow can be your best ally if you need to get rid of a wight
 * 3) If it comes to melee combat with wights, pikes are your friends. Don't ever try to engage a wight with a weapon that has less than 150% reach. Makes your life much safer
 * 4) Travel with friends. One of you can stand guard over horses while the other player goes into barrows and pulls out loot
 * 5) Use wight killing structures in barrows. Keeps you alive, since you can't run away from wights inside a barrow. Use your pike to click the chest, that way you can stand far enough back
 * 6) Probably the best thing I learned from LANing with one of my friends in this biome was to wear Galadhrim cloaks. This allows you to pass close to 15 blocks near a wight without being noticed. Saved our butts so many times