how much HP does sandworm have??!!

[VladK02]

I am nearly max skills with bow.
I pumped ~100 flint arrows into the sandworm - on EASY too - with ♥♥♥♥♥♥ bows, granted, but still, 60 damage base, 400 critical...

And the worm lives.

I killed these things before, like a year ago. They got tougher or what?

Im trying to blitz some missions since i lost my toon and now have to re-do everything. Including these boss missions.

I dont remember the sandworm being this tough.

Should I bite the bullet, so to speak, and tech up to hunting rifles for this?

[Leoscar]

I haven't done the worm yet, but I'll try to answer.

When it comes to bows arrows are a large part of the damage. Bows are just a damage and speed multiplier. Flint arrows have fine damage to hunt but there are upgrades you should be using if you're doing bosses. You're essentially using mid game weapons against a end game ennemy.

I always viewed bows as hunting weapons because they're generally slow but silent (as in, creatures around you don't flee when they hear the shot), they're good to abuse the sneak attack bonus but otherwise I haven't had much success actually fighting with them, the draw time is too slow to deal with hordes and the damage is unimpressive without the sneak bonus.


For comparaison, my shotgun with the blue ammo (that requires platinum) shoots for 2400 damage if I hit a weakspot and 600 if I don't. 400 is really low and the shotgun is much faster too.

[VladK02]

Yeah I cleared the sandworm, and the mission. Nightfall it was. Kill 3 bosses.

He has about 15k hp on Easy. The wolf had 3k, and the scorpion had around 5-6k.

I spent some time, teched up to rifles. Also 2 modules of poison resistance this time around. No problem.

But yeah, you CAN do it with arrows I guess, but it gives the worm that much more time to spit poison at you. Better to spend the time and get a rifle for these kinds of things.