Malc74 wrote:
I could never get on with threshers until I learned to be at least two levels higher than them (otherwise run away, run away!) and pack some kind of monstrous shotgun to take them out at close quarters.
Well this being a boss thresher he's clearly a total bastard. I remember having some measure of difficulty with him in my normal playthrough so I really wasn't relishing the TVHM flavour.
I was at least packing a reasonable arsenal this time round, but was still getting my ass kicked.
You can't go toe-to-toe with the bugger so I was sort of trying to train him around so that him and the robots in the area would fight amongst themselves. Problem with that is the thresher always picks you as his #1 enemy, and the robots are 50/50 at best as to who they'll go for - plus Thresher himself just burrows and spawns above ground all the time, usually right fucking next to you.
Got him very close on one attempt but knobbed up my movement and he got one of those 'one shot kill' moves in on me. GRRRRRR.
I then decided to try something different and headed over to the left hand side of the area where the hangars are, and discovered that round the back of one of the hangars, he basically can't spawn on top of you, as the 'strip' at the back of the hangar is too narrow for him to spawn in. (I think he needs a large sort of 'square' on the map grid to appear from, and it doesn't exist round the back of that hangar.)
Using the 'dead zone' at the back of the hangar I was basically able to control his spawns to an extent, run off to the left and he'd spawn somewhere in a 90 degree arc on that side, over to the right it was even tighter, and he was even more locked down - which enabled me to get a rhythm down with:
1) Sniper rifle with shield element damage to fuck off his randomly and infinitely regenerating shield
2) SMG with slag to get the slag effect on him
3) DEATHTRAP AHOY doing nice electrical damage + the slag on his flesh - toasty
4) Me using a basic but powerful 'normal' pistol with a ridiculous mag (30 or 40 shots IIRC) with slow bullets but high accuracy, perfect for strafing a big static target and hitting reasonably hard.
And basically rinse wash repeat on that, depending on how 'tight' his spawn was sometimes it was more just a case of hide in the dead zone and hope for a better spawn next time, and every time Deathtrap went on cooldown it was just a case of hiding full stop.
The good thing about the spot in general was no robots came out there whatsoever, so even though it took a while, it was just me versus the Thresher.
Took a good few minutes but the kill in the end was fairly straightforward.
Still loving the game to pieces, Level 44 now, think I might go back and see if I'm overpowering some of the Hammerlock DLC now, 'cause that was causing me the most bother.