Any hints about how to stop giant machine moving around?

[neunundneunzig]

Need to farm parts such as Tideripper Tail Fin and Shellsnapper Shell Bolt to upgrade gears.
But these two machines moves like crazy ♥♥♥♥♥♥.
It almost impossible to find a good opportunity to shot Tideripper’s tail and Shellsnapper’s back joints.
And Tideripper’s Processing Capsule, it is no way to get them by design.

Is there any good way to pin down those big ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ expect spam Tear Precision Arrows on them?

[GlowWorm]

Apply Shocked state, then use a weapon with big Tear numbers to hit the component you need.

Tideripper Tail is pretty easy.

However, Shellsnapper is especially annoying because it's lengthy underground behavior seems to make it completely immune to applying a new elemental state, no matter how instant you can apply it. At least the front Bolts tend to be something you can directly target.

[Kosevich]

There is 3 mechanics allow you to immobilise hostile machine:
- Shock damage;
- ropecaster, preferably Elite ropecaster from Thornmarsh weapon vendor;
- knockdown (damage machine legs, preferably with drilling spears).

[dragonsclaw]

You wont need the tearblast arrows for the tideripper tail. Stealth + advanced hunter arrows (high tear value) will do the job.

And, for completeness sake (you're probably aware), dont use any explosives! Especially if you want internal parts like the Processing Capsule.

Aim for the gaps in the Shellsnapper's armor - a single tearblast arrow may rip off an entire piece of armor and multiple parts at once.

[Napalm®]

There is a BLUE spike thrower that has innate knockdown power, and with 2 knockdown power coils it drops ANY machine I encountered in 2 drill spikes on UH.
Not sure if it was intended but sure makes things a lot easier.
Gotta aim for the legs tho.
Other than that there's Elite ropecaster but you'll have to farm a lot to upgrade it to the max level.

P.S. the blue spikethrower is Spinthorn Spike Thrower, you get it from a relatively early quest.

[joridiculous]

shock shredder. have fun farming.

[maul]

A lot of the time I don't even need to incapacitate - the tear valor surge + concentration + tearblast or multiple tear arrows usually does the trick.

[neunundneunzig]

Originally posted by joridiculous:

shock shredder. have fun farming.

Tried it on Tideripper, doing well.

But Slitherfang, even the normal one, has high electric resistance. And this stupid snake moves like crazy.
Shock Shredder misses its shot a lot.

[Snake]

If your just farming put it on story and you automatically loot the components when done farming put it back on your desired difficulty this way you don't have to shoot off each component.

[𝔗𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔲𝔰 𝔄𝔠𝔱𝔲𝔞𝔩𝔦𝔰]

Shellsnapper: acid bombs + explosive arrows
Tideripper: zap arrows > shoot components off
Also it's easier to kill the turtle by shooting acid bomb at it's back.

[joridiculous]

Originally posted by neunundneunzig:

Originally posted by joridiculous:

shock shredder. have fun farming.

Tried it on Tideripper, doing well.

But Slitherfang, even the normal one, has high electric resistance. And this stupid snake moves like crazy.
Shock Shredder misses its shot a lot.

Tideripper and shock shredder is like made for each other.
It got some crazy reach, but yeah, its not that fast so can miss easy on all the HYPER twitchy machines. Frost is usually your friend there.

[Evilsod]

Slitherfang is by far the most annoying machine to fight in my experience. Chances are you want Earthgrinders and actually hitting them is a nightmare, damn thing just won't sit still, and even when it does the arrow just hits the body for no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ reason!

Never found Tideripper to be a problem. It has several very long wind up attacks that allow you to sprint around it and get an easy shot on its tail.

I find Stormbird and Dreadwings to be very annoying to strip components too. Even when you shock them or tie them down, they twitch so much the arrows keep missing.

[neunundneunzig]

Originally posted by Evilsod:

Slitherfang is by far the most annoying machine to fight in my experience. Chances are you want Earthgrinders and actually hitting them is a nightmare, damn thing just won't sit still, and even when it does the arrow just hits the body for no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ reason!

Never found Tideripper to be a problem. It has several very long wind up attacks that allow you to sprint around it and get an easy shot on its tail.

I find Stormbird and Dreadwings to be very annoying to strip components too. Even when you shock them or tie them down, they twitch so much the arrows keep missing.

Only cannon and fang are worth farming from Stormbird and Dreadwings.
So tear arrow and concentration will do. For Stormbird, hit the chest. Dreadwing, hit between the eyes.

[[CTU]Jack_Bauer]

Often with Tide ripper i use Frost to "slow it down" and make it brittle, shellsnapper electricity since even if it is frozen it will go underground if it is shocked it will be immobilized.

[Evilsod]

Originally posted by neunundneunzig:

Only cannon and fang are worth farming from Stormbird and Dreadwings.
So tear arrow and concentration will do. For Stormbird, hit the chest. Dreadwing, hit between the eyes.

I'm well aware of how to strip the main components ><
But that doesn't work when you want to maximise your chances for Circulators/Primary Nerves by stripping off supplementary components. The Dreadwing's under-wing containers can be tricky to get a good shot on, and the Stormbird's Wing Thrusters refuse to get hit sometimes.

None of them compare to the Slitherfang though, just because of how incredibly tanky they are and how awkward it is to dodge their shock tail attacks. Dreadwing/Stormbird are complete pushovers in terms of the damage they do.

[neunundneunzig]

Originally posted by Evilsod:

Originally posted by neunundneunzig:

Only cannon and fang are worth farming from Stormbird and Dreadwings.
So tear arrow and concentration will do. For Stormbird, hit the chest. Dreadwing, hit between the eyes.

I'm well aware of how to strip the main components ><
But that doesn't work when you want to maximise your chances for Circulators/Primary Nerves by stripping off supplementary components. The Dreadwing's under-wing containers can be tricky to get a good shot on, and the Stormbird's Wing Thrusters refuse to get hit sometimes.

None of them compare to the Slitherfang though, just because of how incredibly tanky they are and how awkward it is to dodge their shock tail attacks. Dreadwing/Stormbird are complete pushovers in terms of the damage they do.

I can shot down all six Stormbird Thruster on apex, aim a little bit lower right when it flap down its wings. Two shots of three will hit the weakness miraculously.
For Dreadwing I just give up the idea to utilize its parts and grind Circulators/Primary Nerves from other giant machines.

But Slitherfang is always a bia-tch.