How the hell do I beat the enforcer?

[McJiggy]

This is pissing me off, I spent an entire damn hour trying to beat him until finally giving up. It has way too much defense even when staggered and his stagger bar goes down real fast if you aren't constantly attacking.

[FAT WANZER]

you can cheese it with zimmerman and a songbird,if it ever stops moving it will either be a charged laser shot or the aoe stomp(just jump this one evena mellander leg is high enough jump)

[Blackmage]

Take a break, have some water and calm down, and come back later with a clear head.

[Vistral]

You have to be aggressive. Even if it's trade off hits. Make sure you get the upper edge on it with damage though and don't get out of range or else you'll get punish by his beam rifle and missiles.

[Tentacule Un Seigneur]

I made a light quick reverse joint, used the handheld missile launchers, and two laser cannons, I focused on dodging and firing missiles at mid range, and when he staggered, let him have it with both charged laser cannons, least that is how I beat him.

[Sabaithal]

First off use hard lock. Posted this several times now, but I feel it necessary since the game doesn't tell you this: After you hard lock release the camera joystick entirely. If you're using a mouse try not to move it at all. Your camera will follow the hard-locked enemy no matter what if you do this.

Second, try to stay airborne, especially once it reaches half health. Its melee attacks have issues hitting you while you're in the air.

The rest really is just playing as aggressively as you can, getting in close, jumping over it, flanking it while firing, etc.

[Vistral]

I whooped his @$$ with the starter weapons lol

[PK_Thunder]

I beat him down with double laser shotguns and a pike bunker. .plasma missiles in right shoulder.

[ImHelping]

This might sound like a joke, but I am serious.

Player targeting is ♥♥♥♥ at elevations. That slope is probably ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ with you.

Enforcer might seem """easy""" in hindsight, but that is after the initial ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of staggering them then watching your AC a spin slash a foot over their head because oops they are standing on the ramp.

If you try and fail with the big spike, try going back to the basic blade to try and nail the initial stagger with the first swing, so the second swing has better odds of hitting them without them leaping halfway across the room first (which can happen if you kick them into a stagger).

While huge back guns are stronger, if you feel you can't afford to deal with the momentary pause to fire and don't want to use tank legs/hover mode on quad legs. Try the double split missiles (I THINK those are unlocked by then?) as a punisher, as those are some of the hardest hitting one and done missiles in the game, even if it will not feel like it due to enemy health bloat and ability to side hop away from them. But they have slightly better odds of hitting the boss in their "Technically staggered but already running away" phase. than when they matrix dodge a songbird shot.

[poppindancers]

Go kick him and melee.

[Gerbera]

You have to be aggressive with him. A suggestion for you is to always keep to HIS left as if you go to HIS right he can hit you with those laser shots so get use to the bubbles. Next is to stay a bit close and try to get him to melee you as all you have to do is hover above him during those so you get an easy window to build stagger and punish. Finally, have a good weapon to punish during those stagger phases whether its a melee or some heavy hitting charge gun or shoulder weapon (cannons etc). A good weapon to build stagger is good too unless you are already rocking serious firepower.

In a nutshell, treat this guy like an AC on drugs but if you keep fighting him and observe his patterns, you will be able to take him down.

Or you can cheese him with another generic zimmerman setup.

[McJiggy]

Originally posted by Yian Yan:

Question: what weapons are you using?

I was using the gatling gun and the 10 cell missile launcher for both shoulder weapons along with the default pulse blade you start with. I've gotten it nearly killed a couple times with them but then I get screwed over in the end.

[BookItFaster]

Originally posted by JamestheFreak:

This is pissing me off, I spent an entire damn hour trying to beat him until finally giving up. It has way too much defense even when staggered and his stagger bar goes down real fast if you aren't constantly attacking.

You got this bro dont listen to the noobs giving you meta build since shields are the problem try a melee attack or the HI 18 pulse gun or the lower version of this it destroys shields very quickly making opportunity for attacks while shield is down viable. No meta here pulse weapons ♥♥♥♥ shields up real good Good luck my dude

[REBirthTheEdge]

He's essentially just a big AC, I remember just boost kick him and just shooting him until he dies.
Very cool design tho.

[Namazu]

staying above his head will make him miss 70%-80% of his attacks. shoulder weapons with a lot of recoil will help you stay in the air longer. Hope that helps

[BookItFaster]

Lots of great advice here from other players (ignoring the META build people)