How to kill Umbra?

[General Malarky]

That does not involve uninstalling the game.

[Fire Guardian]

you can try to abuse the weakness of the ai. he cant hit and wont follow you if you enter some Rafters and the like or you have to build a better amp if you mean the fight as operator

[General Malarky]

Amp?

As soon as I pop out of my Frame, I get hit with one of his attacks and get sent back to my frame, which he then cuts down.

I maintain my position that DE cannot write a quest that is fun or enjoyable. They have a great game, but their quests are utter trash. Most of them are half-assedly interactive cutscenes interspersed with bitz of mind-breakingly convoluted ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[Fire Guardian]

amp is the weapon name for waht the operator uses to attack and if you cant tank i could possably help you out in a more direct way

[General Malarky]

You could have just said "Have friends kill it for you"

[Quagimus Decimus]

You have to have friends first

[Fire Guardian]

thats not waht i ment. i simply had the idea to get you the operator hp upgrade arcane so you can do it

[fiziologus]

Originally posted by General Malarky:

That does not involve uninstalling the game.

Umbra cannon kill. It is first.
Next. Read what need do on centre scene.
First need only stun Umbra. No need kill mob near Umbra (may even keep alarm). Give almost-you frame some fun or he became sad and try kill you. Just close draw, hit 5 (transfernce) then void blast and 5 again. View cinematic, play board game. (for corpus mission keep distance becauce Umbra pure melee, and burn Umbra with void beam first)
In "obtain Umbra" mission just repeat corpus mission without frame, get ready for many fly-in-void. Keep distance (running or void dash), burn shield with void beam then one void blast and transference.
I obtain Umbra with Mot amp without arcane. It possibly, just move and hit.

[Totally Innocent Chatbot]

You're obviously going to have problems if you're using a completely stock Operator with no Amp, Arcanes, or Focus, just like you'd have problems if you were using an unmodded rank 0 frame and MK-1 weapons. It sounds to me like you're insisting on trying to blame the developers for a problem of your own making.

[jonnin]

this quest is a gear check to ensure that you have spent enough time grinding amps.

[Henry of Skalitz]

Originally posted by jonnin:

this quest is a gear check to ensure that you have spent enough time grinding amps.

Then tell me how is it possible that I and many other people did it with a mote amp, no focus and no arcanes at all.
To OP:
If umbra comes at your operator, void dash through him and shoot him with your amp until he comes at you again. Void dash through him again. Basically do this until his shields are down and you are able to enter his mind. He is not able to damage you during void dash.

[Rokk]

Before you do The Sacrifice quest, finish Saya's Vigil first. Then visit The Quills in Cetus to get your first amp.

Getting an amp not only gives you 250 HP instead of 100, it also allows you to actually use your void dash and void mode, because the Amp's fire does not drain your operator energy, only its own.

jonnin is partially right, this mission is long and frustrating if you don't have an amp at all. Any non-mote amp will get it finished up FAR quicker than a Mote Amp though.

[General Malarky]

I keep trying to trigger the start of Saya's Sigil but it never counts...

[Henry of Skalitz]

Originally posted by General Malarky:

I keep trying to trigger the start of Saya's Sigil but it never counts...

Do you talk to Konzu? You don't start the quest from your codex.

[🅰🅽🅳🆁]

My personal way to defeat umbra was by finding a spot he couldn't reach, and from there i'd just shoot him...it worked that time lol

[Blackout]

Originally posted by Smelly Fish in a Hazmat Suit:

Originally posted by jonnin:

this quest is a gear check to ensure that you have spent enough time grinding amps.

Then tell me how is it possible that I and many other people did it with a mote amp, no focus and no arcanes at all.
To OP:
If umbra comes at your operator, void dash through him and shoot him with your amp until he comes at you again. Void dash through him again. Basically do this until his shields are down and you are able to enter his mind. He is not able to damage you during void dash.

This is exactly what I did. I stood up on the rafters and kept shooting him until he died. After I completed the quest I invested into better gear/better mods and a new amp.