PSA: Shooting weak spots on the boss causes rage bar to go up slower

[kw0lf.tw]

Use your tab, look at weakspots, shoot weakspots. The reason the bosses go into rage mode so quickly in pubs is that nobody is shooting the weak spots.

Bonus: when weak spots are yellow, hook on to them and knock them off.

[Kashra Fall]

Doing heavy damage moves off the start (Abilities primarily.) will heavily increase the frenzy meter. It's suggested you don't do this until you have some adds on the field to get ammo/health back during those phases (Quite hilarious to hear people's weapons click during the devourer health phase because gley do what gley do with launchers.)

Instead, take the time to shoot the shoulder pads or chest while they are not frenzied and leave them yellow. Before they frenzy, jump onto their spot and beat it down to one hit before it goes off. Continue riding them (This will force them not to attack and just walk around.) and punch it off before the bar fills, or you run out of stamina. This alone gives your team like 10-15 seconds of free DPS and if you do it right, you can normally bypass the frenzy phase of a lot of colossi.

[Boss]

Just Gley launcher everything and walk around as they rage mode pathetically. Most bosses rage modes aren't at all scary unless you're trying to shoot them out of it, and then tunnel vision kills you.

[JudgeTy]

No use using the dispel module?

[kw0lf.tw]

Originally posted by B R O K E N:

Actually shooting weak points Increases rage meter. FYI.

Grapple off pieces of armor to stop rage meter. To get free dps. When it's staggered.

Is this true? I thought it was the opposite

[Riepah]

Originally posted by omgjpalol:

Originally posted by B R O K E N:

Actually shooting weak points Increases rage meter. FYI.

Grapple off pieces of armor to stop rage meter. To get free dps. When it's staggered.

Is this true? I thought it was the opposite

From doing solo just now, I can confirm that weak points still cause rage, and rage is not generated during stagger. I cannot say whether weak point damage causes less or the same amount of rage as other damage, though.

[alan0n]

Originally posted by B R O K E N:

Actually shooting weak points Increases rage meter. FYI.

Grapple off pieces of armor to stop rage meter. To get free dps. When it's staggered.

This is how you prevent rage mode. ALL damage adds to the bar unless the boss is under a stun.