Wowbagger_TIP wrote on Sep 27, 2012, 01:24:
That mission was a real pain as Zero, until I got my hands on a good rocket launcher. The one that's got me blocked right now is the damn Badass Pyre Thresher. That thing is just an insane beast and I can't even begin to do enough damage before he pummels me into paste. Plus he doesn't seem to have any elemental weakness.
Hard to give advice without knowing
which Badass Pyre Thresher it is, but yeah, they are, well, fucking insane. I think I've had more deaths to them than everything else in the game combined.
The best "tips" I can give is they are much easier to defeat from a distance with a sniper rifle if you have something you can hide behind, and they aren't chasing you. You just have to dodge the shards they throw your way inbetween shots.
Alternately, you can actually do some considerable damage with a shotgun up close, and revive yourself by shooting the tentacles. The downside there is you die really fast, and your revive timer goes faster and faster each time you do, so you have to be able to dish out a lot of damage insanely fast (hence the shotgun being almost a necessity).
Best option is to kill it with a vehicle, as long as you don't get too close, you can usually outrun it. But a couple of them definitely aren't in areas that you can get a vehicle to.