Did a patch break the Harrow's alt kill?

[Norf of the spring]

I'm going back and getting items I never bothered to get and next on my list is the lost harpoon. What the hell am I doing wrong. I'm way over geared and running adventures on normal to easily clear through things and for some reason I cannot get this thing to fall over. I've tried everything mentioned in the thread I've linked below and I can burn through half to 3/4ths of its health everytime but it never falls. It doesn't matter if I alternate legs or just hit the same leg twice the bastard just does the same stagger animation over and over again. Just killing it isn't hard at all so having to constantly let myself die to refill its health bar just so I can fail to knock it over again is beyond infuriating. Am I doing too much damage or did they change the condition to get the lost harpoon again at some point?

https://www.reddit.com/r/remnantgame/comments/d0cr2i/ive_spent_3h_trying_to_get_lost_harpoon_from/

[Suzaku]

Not sure what advice to give, but I got this with my cousin literally earlier today no problem. We both just laid into its legs with a sniper rifle and particle accelerator, he kneeled down, and I watched as my cousin became King of the Rhomians as he pulled the Spear from the Creature.

[Norf of the spring]

That's why it's pissing me off so much. There's nothing hard or confusing about this process. I have absolutely no idea why I'm having trouble

[Suzaku]

Besides recommending high-stagger weaponry, I'm not sure what to suggest (and I don't know if that suggestion even matters in the slightest).

[Valithin Drathyr]

I was having trouble with it earlier, swap to the devastator if you have it. I did it almost instantly with it

[Wanderer]

Originally posted by Valithin Drathyr:

I was having trouble with it earlier, swap to the devastator if you have it. I did it almost instantly with it

How do I do it. With the bleeding shot?

[Valithin Drathyr]

Originally posted by Bone Shaman:

Originally posted by Valithin Drathyr:

I was having trouble with it earlier, swap to the devastator if you have it. I did it almost instantly with it

How do I do it. With the bleeding shot?

I just used the regular shot, but the bleeding shot has such a high stagger rate it probably would work even better.

[Norf of the spring]

Well after a bunch of failed attempts I switched to the coach gun and it did it perfectly. Lesson learned trust the old double barrel

[codeaholic]

My buddy and I literally just completed this and it took forever. We found out that you should aim for the meaty part of his legs. Below the armor. And also, pick one leg, stagger him, wait to see if he runs away. If he runs away, let him kill you so you can start over. If he doesn't run away and instead he starts attacking you, focus on the other leg.

And the entire time, try to hit ONLY his legs. So don't use status effects on him or damage other body parts. And when you stagger him, don't do any more damage to him until you see if he ran away or not.

Hope this helps. There's possibly some other unknown element like luck (or a bug) to this fight that seems to make the process more vague than it needs to be.

[Norf of the spring]

Originally posted by codeaholic:

don't do any more damage to him until you see if he ran away or not.

I think waiting a second for the stagger animation to go through like you're saying is what finally made the difference for me. I don't think it's buggy per say it's more that it's just really finicky because of all the different variables going on with the boss with staggers, attacks, running away, and falling down all happening near simultaneously which causes it to be really annoying to get to actually work right