That’s where grace comes in and says hi whilst she melees a scion at wave 50 face on without needing a heal
I’d still argue a melee character is an objectively worse choice than a support or ranged damage dealer on Elite/Insane and upwards, especially after wave 30.
Fahz’ X-Ray doesn’t let his shots bypass Sentinel or Guardian shields though, does it? They will be really painful to get through if it’s not Sentries taking the shield down or JD weakening it with a Boomshot or grenade from his Lancer.
And some careful Overkill aiming does work quite well with Kait against Bastions. Sentinels and Guardians, only really if they don’t have their shield up.
It shoots through the shields as if they’re not there. Aim for the “motors” to get the critical hit damage and you can oneshot a guardian pretty much
At wave 40+ with 2 sentinels swarming you the kait goes down every second and Jack has to permabeam her. Carefully aiming can’t be done there. Its cloaking to get behind them and clip them or hip fire at the turret
Best thing next to fahz against these things is actually a sentry or someone with a trishot taking down the shield and having your JD use a torque bow on them. Guaranteed hit granted your jd can aim decently. High damage. Impact damage + explosion + bleed
I was aware the “eyes” on Sentinels and Guardians would count as a weakspot(and take higher damage accordingly from hits to those), but not that their engines/jets/whatever they are actually did. Certainly wasn’t the case in Gears 4.
As for the Torque Bow, I feel like its damage is just not that great in Gears 5. Certainly did not seem so when I used it against Guardians and Sentinels without headshotting them on Insane with the health modifier on.
Edit : Boomshot with the associated damage skill for JD is definitely a better pick than the Torque Bow imo, if you can’t land headshots with the Torque Bow accurately(I can, but I’m not too sure on its usefulness unless you used some power on JDs headshot damage perk on Inconceivable or Master). Kills Bastions easily and does a lot of damage upon a direct hit or near miss too. Not as much as the Lancer GL though. But that thing is also not great at hitting flying enemies except the Kestrel, and Flock, either.
But the main point: fahz ignores the shield when he’s in xray
That’s all I wanted to know, and it’s good. He’d be useless against them otherwise…
It’s good to note that if you see a guardian you wait with xray till you hit active reload on your longshot. Tmthen cray and he’s hes not been hit by anyone yet so you get your increased damage to unfounded targets
I’ll keep it in mind, thanks. But it’s probably going to be a bit before I get to leveling Fahz considering my current rate of progression on Kait and JD… really need to make the RNG better for Horde skill drops.
Probably should leave this here though. Not really pertaining to the thread topic.
Yeh… only getting 9 cards for 3hours of master is dumb
Not just that but also having 5-7 common skill drops for Insane, just as an example, that’s just downright stupid.