Tips for killing the f***king quarry rockbreaker?

[BaronWilhelm]

This thing is starting to piss me tf off. I can use concussion arrows to knock off components, armor etc. but robo dinos with no armor and guns rampage more to balance their vulnerability to damage; and the rockbreaker's rampage looks like a burrow-leap-burrow attack.

even if I slow it with the ice sling so i can roll dodge, its like I don't roll when I roll. I just take 3/4 damage to my health when the game arbitrarily decides to remove that brief invulnerable save during the roll animation, though I'm clearly out of the way of this stupid rockbreaker.

Should I not be rolling around and scrapping with it? I doesn't seem like the kind of enemy you can keep cheap shotting from on high or in the bushes, due to the nature of the arena you fight it in

[Zahkriin]

rockbreakers are one of the toughest enemies in the game, if you don't have strong equippment yet maybe come back later to this quest.. i know you can get the quest super early but yeah it's not that easy

i usally tend to circle them.. you can kinda see where they are while they're underground
never had much trouble to dodge their leap attack..

than i tend to focus their legs/feed first.. if you break all of htem they lose the ability to dig

this kind of behavior is true with other machines, if you break something off they very often lose some abilities etc.

[BaronWilhelm]

Originally posted by ID Zahkriin:

rockbreakers are one of the toughest enemies in the game, if you don't have strong equippment yet maybe come back later to this quest.. i know you can get the quest super early but yeah it's not that easy

i usally tend to circle them.. you can kinda see where they are while they're underground
never had much trouble to dodge their leap attack..

than i tend to focus their legs/feed first.. if you break all of htem they lose the ability to dig

this kind of behavior is true with other machines, if you break something off they very often lose some abilities etc.

yea so right after I posted this, I saw I could exit the arena after encounter started. So I just ran up on the ramp to avoid its burrod strikes, used the concussion arrows to blast off the armor and sharpshot to blast off the legs and exhaust port. Super cheap but it worked out. I'll try to avoid the next one till I'm high level lol

[zuntan2002]

Myself I beat feet and get off the quarry floor. One choice is to run back to the ramp one comes down to enter the quarry. Preferably I head the opposite direction to the one place I've found where I can climb on to the excavation ledges where there are rocks to find shelter behind. Apparently the Rockbreaker can detonate the Blaze on the quarry floor so moving around on the quarry ledge may lead it into more than one canister. I hit it with a few tearblaster arrows and then snipe, duck and cover.

Fun fact - so long as one hasn't accepted the quest one can repeatedly loot the suspicious rock pile.

[Blaagh]

there is no invulnerability during roll.. you either roll out of range.. or you dont
edit: also.. spamming roll won't work as enemies pre-aim to the direction you run/roll. you really have to EVADE

[Kiffen]

Originally posted by WildHog McReady:

there is no invulnerability during roll.. you either roll out of range.. or you dont

That's just not true at all lmao. The roll has an insane amount of invulnerability frames, easily tested by literally rolling through any machine's melee charge. Dont talk about game mechanics you obviously don't understand.

[lammaer]

Originally posted by WildHog McReady:

there is no invulnerability during roll.. you either roll out of range.. or you dont
edit: also.. spamming roll won't work as enemies pre-aim to the direction you run/roll. you really have to EVADE

Spamming works, just dont spam to always the same direction :D

Its reallly funny to see how OFF the enemy ranged attack when you change directions... roll left - roll right, all attacks evaded :D

@BaronWilhelm: for me the ForgeFire (DLC flamethrower) worked very well, from point blank range... it toasted the mob quickly - and ate up most of my blaze resources :)

[BaronWilhelm]

Originally posted by WildHog McReady:

there is no invulnerability during roll.. you either roll out of range.. or you dont
edit: also.. spamming roll won't work as enemies pre-aim to the direction you run/roll. you really have to EVADE

I mean I rolled while a thunderjaw was slamming around on top of me, or when fireballs have landed on top of me and took zero damage. So I do find that hard to believe. unless the game glitches out constantly and lets you dodge dmg when you roll, then idk man. Especially on a higher difficulty where I'm assuming you die easy af, there would be no way to play without a brief invunerable save for some frames of that animation. Even dark souls has that feature

[GoulactiX]

Easy - buy the War Bow and spam freeze/shock debuff and then use tear arrows to knock out the limbs that the Rockbreaker uses to escape underground + use an armor that gives you protection against ranged attacks as the rocks they throw at you can end the fight at any moment