Things You Don't Know About Profit-Taker Phase 3

[PhotriusPyrelus]

You are wasting gobs and gobs and gobs of ammo.

You can actually do the fight (collect all Biz's "data") with 46 bullets. Damage doesn't even really matter. The last 15 shots need to do at least 1 damage, but otherwise it's irrelevant.

See, it doesn't matter if you hit for 0 (until 65%), 1, 10, or 10,000, every bullet is going to tick up the "data" by 2.08% to 2.1%, and any subsequent bullets restart the ticking, overwriting whatever was left from the previous bullet.

Once you get to 95, the last 5% fills in automatically.

There's at least one spot on the antenna at the top of the enrichment labs you can sit on and you don't actually aggro the Orb Mother (Not the very top, but you should see two ramps one on either side. On the forward edge of the platform at the bottom of the north east ramp, shoot her from there and she stands around like a dummy). You can just sit up there, shoot her every two seconds or so 46 times and fly back to Fortuna, easy peasy.

Yeah, it's kind of boring, but so is sitting through Boon and Eudico yammering every freakin' time you load the mission. And it's way less frustrating than getting knocked around by her stupid shield thing.



Also, hold the freakin' door. I don't know how it's a year since Fortuna, and four since PoE and 90% of people still don't get that's it's in your own self interest of finishing the mission faster to hold the door open for people behind you.

...that said, if you don't actually wait for the bounty reward to come up on your screen, you *can* reenter Fortuna too soon and lose the reward. I've done that a couple times when I'm tired and auto-piloting.

[Mhblis]

People actually farm this mission? Why?

[Archwraith]

Originally posted by Mhblis:

People actually farm this mission? Why?

Usually for Sabot Rounds. Other than that, absolutely no idea.

[PhotriusPyrelus]

Originally posted by Archwraith:

Originally posted by Mhblis:

People actually farm this mission? Why?

Usually for Sabot Rounds. Other than that, absolutely no idea.

1.25% drop rate is *AWFUL*.

[GunsForBucks]

It is pretty obvious when you do farm the job as I think they tell you that stuff... yes I farmed Sabot rounds lol.. super easy job if you stand on the hillside next to the building. Soloed it too many times to count.

Also .. unless they broke it in an update .. it goes in stages. At 65% <I think> you have to start hitting it for same thing the shield is to count as a hit. But they tell you what stage you are on as you do it.

[Kittenpox]

Originally posted by PhotriusPyrelus:

You are wasting gobs and gobs and gobs of ammo.

You can actually do the fight (collect all Biz's "data") with 46 bullets. Damage doesn't even really matter. The last 15 shots need to do at least 1 damage, but otherwise it's irrelevant.

See, it doesn't matter if you hit for 0 (until 65%), 1, 10, or 10,000, every bullet is going to tick up the "data" by 2.08% to 2.1%, and any subsequent bullets restart the ticking, overwriting whatever was left from the previous bullet.

Thankyou! :-D

So what we're after is *maybe* a semi-automatic ranged weapon with a vaguely-low fire-rate? Useful to know!

[GunsForBucks]

Originally posted by Kittenpox:

Originally posted by PhotriusPyrelus:

You are wasting gobs and gobs and gobs of ammo.

You can actually do the fight (collect all Biz's "data") with 46 bullets. Damage doesn't even really matter. The last 15 shots need to do at least 1 damage, but otherwise it's irrelevant.

See, it doesn't matter if you hit for 0 (until 65%), 1, 10, or 10,000, every bullet is going to tick up the "data" by 2.08% to 2.1%, and any subsequent bullets restart the ticking, overwriting whatever was left from the previous bullet.

Thankyou! :-D

So what we're after is *maybe* a semi-automatic ranged weapon with a vaguely-low fire-rate? Useful to know!

Melee works as well so you don't even need bullets.. one advantage of being on the hill is that he sits on you or has a leg up.

Makes it harder to see the damage type in the last stage when he is on top of you though ha ha.

[PhotriusPyrelus]

Originally posted by Kittenpox:

So what we're after is *maybe* a semi-automatic ranged weapon with a vaguely-low fire-rate? Useful to know!

When I just want to veg-out and hold LMB, I use my catalyzed Supra Vandal with both negative fire rate mods and Wildfire and Magazine Warp (as well as other elemental mods for coverage). It's got a magazine of something like 480 and fires about 2.5 rounds per second at full spool.

There's a lot of guns that would probably work, anything with >50 magazine, <10 fire rate, and a 2 second reload. Bratons, Panthera (can get the fire rate to below 1 shot per second!), Tenora, Karak.

The trouble is if you don't have unranked element/status dual mods, you need a catalyst to fit the two negative fire rates (9 each), and 3 elemental mods (8 if you're using unranked, 21 if you're using ranked, 23 if you're using Wildfire for that sweet magazine bonus). ...and this silliness isn't worth wasting a catalyst.

[Totally Innocent Chatbot]

You say this as if ammo costs us anything to waste.

[Forza Piadina]

Originally posted by Archwraith:

Originally posted by Mhblis:

People actually farm this mission? Why?

Usually for Sabot Rounds. Other than that, absolutely no idea.

It's easier to transmute it.

[Ghin]

supra vandal or any bullet sprayer gun

[PhotriusPyrelus]

Originally posted by Totally Innocent Chatbot:

You say this as if ammo costs us anything to waste.

Maybe. But the point was more to educate people on how the fight actually works. People seem to think everyone needs to be shooting her as much as possible, as if it's somehow related to either how many times you shoot her, or how much damage you deal, and it's very much not how the fight works. I thought that was how the fight worked, too, until I had to solo her a bunch because I play at weird times and I decided to experiment.

If one person is shooting her with pretty much anything, everyone else can deal with the adds if, for some reason, you *don't* want to just sit on the antenna and sip your water/coffee/soda and enjoy the Venusian weather.

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thank you so much!!!! I havent tried this but it sounds like it will help me out. I got stuck on this bcus i kept dying! Even with max rhino!

[PhotriusPyrelus]

Originally posted by MaskTheThief:

thank you so much!!!! I havent tried this but it sounds like it will help me out. I got stuck on this bcus i kept dying! Even with max rhino!

Well, did it help?

[Rokk]

Originally posted by Mhblis:

People actually farm this mission? Why?

Isn't that because of the Gyromag systems?

[Totally Innocent Chatbot]

Originally posted by Rokk:

Originally posted by Mhblis:

People actually farm this mission? Why?

Isn't that because of the Gyromag systems?

People generally farm Phase 2 for that, since it can be tackled in around two minutes once you're familiar with the route.