easiest way to kill the sentinel?

[marigoldMoths]

I've trying to defeat the sentinel by myself and I can't. I'm playing as athena and i just can't do it. if you can't hop on to help me then please give me some tips to murder him c:

[EspiOne]

I ended up making a "broken" nisha, but I had to research it and reset her skill set. Maybe there is a broken athena. If you can find a regen, shield or Oz kit, that will help alittle. Also, I found that high fire rate SMG/Assault works good and a Continuous Laser. Try and max out your ammo with Crazy Earl. add me and I can help... my highest normal mode character is 37. Nisha and Wilhelm. I can join you in the mornings. (ck profile)

[rcole_sooner]

Shock, shock, and more shock.

Be the correct level, get good shock weapons and grenades.

His 1st phase takes getting his shields down 3 times, then finally his health will be a target. Hit him with shock, hide behind the pillars, dodge novas, and shoot seras for 2nd winds.

Don't shoot him while he is twirling his staff, or your bullets will ricochet and hit you. Also don't fire when he rises up as he seems immune and it just wastes ammo.

Jump to dodge his novas between shields being depleted. He jumps and slams his staff to create the novas. Just time your jumps.

Once the shields are stripped 3 times, you can drain his health pretty quickly.

Really the 1st phase seems the hardest.

The 2nd phase (the big empyrean sentinel) is 3 faces. The active face is what you need to be shooting. The middle face shield is resistant to shock, but the other 2 are weak to shock. After the shields are off the actual face is weak to fire, but really goes down easy with any weapon.

During the 3 face 2nd phase fight .... Stand under his chin and shoot his face. Jump on the floaty platforms to avoid the floor DOT phases. Butt slam when thrown up to avoid novas from his face. Go around back to heal when needed. Rinse repeat. Hope for 2nd winds from Seras.

I hate the last corrosive dot phase, but usually have fight in hand by that time and the Sentinel goes down in time to get a 2nd wind off of him.

[Duneman]

There will be some repeated info here, but:

He cycles through elements. In the first humanoid phase you simply deplete his shield each time then make sure to jump and boost over the purple nova released when he switches elements.

As mentioned stop shooting if he goes twirly-staff on you. Once he goes gigantor you'll want corrosive to break the masks(use something else when he goes corrosive) and then cryo for the critical hit boost to exposed skeletal face.

When the platforms rise from the ground try to boost up on one to avoid the elemental DoT spread on the floor below. When he slams the ground to send you upward make sure to buttslam if you get launched. Do your best to boost away from the blackhole attack, since it only damages the area in front of him.

If you still have the Fridgia that will rip his skeletal faces apart in a second or two at the most. As long as you pay attention to what he's doing he shouldn't hit you. The add monsters are potentially more dangerous than he is, especially if you go to the higher difficulties.

[rcole_sooner]

Corrosive for all the masks?

I have always used shock on the 1st and 3rd masks, but yes corrosive on the 2nd mask (actually anything but shock on the 2nd mask).

Gonna have to try the cryo weapons on the Sentinel, but AFAIK fire it 2x on flesh and cryo is just 1x. The Sentinel (as most bosses) is immune to freezing, however not sure if any resistance to cryo which could drop cryo damage to 0.4x.

[[S] Kodama]

Make sure you'll have some transfusion grenades just in case (or any shock grenade). Also, I do recommend you owning a cryo weapon which comes handy with 2nd winds. You can kill weaker enemies with shock weapon but it can happen they will jump away and you'll be unable to reach them. So, cryo does come in handy to freeze them and kill them instantly.


For his nova you can easily hide behind the pillar and when he releases it, you can overjump it.

[VeeSPIKE]

Also, if you are playing Athena - for his Nova, use your Aspis. It will block and with some damage absorbption added to it, the nova will fully charge the shield. Use Bleed for regen if you have it. Shock weapons for his shields (I like the Vibra-Pulse.) Stay off the ground, particularly in the second and third masks.

[ninja crouton]

With a gun.

[Maddie Gaming]

1. Get good fire/shock weapons (i.e. Hellfire, Hail, etc.)
2. Max out Unrelenting
3. Get 999 Maelstrom stacks
4. Trigger Unrelenting
5. Faceroll Sentinel

Something like that, anyways.

[Admiral Benjamin]

STEP 1 SHOCK
STEP 2 BE AT LEVEL 26 ATLEAST
STEP 3 DO NOT USE A GRENADE MOD AND USE A CLASSIC GRENADE TO GRENADE JUMP ON THE BIG ROCK THINGS YOU WONT STAND STILL YOU WILL BOUNCE A LITTLE BIT BUT SHE CANT HURT YOU
STEP 4 UUUUHHHHH SHOCK?

[cfteague2]

Yeah, I usually do sidequests so im a couple lvls higher by the time i get to him.

first 3 phases (the guy), I tend to have like a shock pistol, or just blast with some kind of high speed gun. just make sure you have more thna 1 element cause each phase he will be almost immune to a diff element.

the idea of using longbow shock grenades to rip down his shiled is good.

when his shield dropps, time a double-jump so you are high enogh above the blast wave, so you dont take dmg.

last 3 phases - shoot the face once it becomes fully targettable, break the mask. someone above said corrosive, that makes sense, but i almost always use a torgue explosive shotgun or fast-firing explosive assult rifle. explosive will break thru the mask pretty well too.

after the mask, just blast with your best high dmg weapon, honestly sometimes i just keep using the explosive gun.

run + jump a lot, so you're not standing still. for athena, I ended up using my shield whenever my health was low, had the perk that gave me health regen when the aspis was active (left side tree).

the shield is also good to throw to get back up from FFYL.

mostly stay jumping especially whenever he electrofies or acidifys the floor.

and remember you can only damage him on his face (the main one, not the side ones).

check some utube videos if you want to get an idea for how peole do it.

i find it becomes LOTS easier after the first couple tries, once I gain some levels/ depending, you might want to try killing the big iguanna boss in the lava cave (the first map on the moon, forget its name) if you were underlevelled, killing that boss is a fast way to get some possibly good guns + fast exp. depends on which boss you can kill easier.

good luck !

[Herr Sten]

A thing to add to the second phase:

When you break the mask, all hits become crits (rhyming ftw). Use weapons with crit boosts.

[J]

Toby's bright spadroon + Athena = First phase goes down in A MINUTE. You just Ghost Bust it from bihind the shield at 0 range :D

[♫SDF]

i would reccomend use a cryo weapon on the guardians

[CommanderDouchebag]

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i would reccomend use a cryo weapon on the guardians

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[Zen_Disaster]

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i would reccomend use a cryo weapon on the guardians

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