Horizon Zero Dawn the fastest, easiest, cheapest way to farm a Thunderjaw
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- This must be the fastest, easiest, cheapest way to farm a Thunderjaw ...and not a tripwire in sight.
Method:
You will need two sharpshot bows; one buffed for damage, one buffed for tear and one war bow buffed for freeze.
Pre-load each bow with 3x precision arrows, 3x tear arrows and 3x freeze arrows. Set the difficulty to the lowest setting. First shoot with freeze, then blast off the armour over his heart with the tear arrows and then shoot his heart with the precision arrows for over 14500 damage in one hit. That's 3 shots, 9 arrows and all over in 5 seconds or less. Just a whisker over a minute per run, all included.
So how is it possible to get 14508 damage with just one hit? It's because there are numerous damage multipliers that are all stacking at once.
If you pause the video on the weapon select wheel, you'll notice I have the sharpshot bow buffed with 3x purple damage mods to give it a base damage of 484. This is very high damage, but the triple shot raises that to 1452. But then there are a further 10x damage multipliers achieved by shooting the Thunderjaw in the exposed heart and also while he is frozen, giving a final damage of over 14500. I think it only takes 7000 damage to kill him.
This demonstration is done on very easy mode to achieve the maximum possible damage, but it will work on higher difficulties. On ultra hard more shots will definitely be required but the multipliers work just the same. However if you are 'farming' the Thunderjaw for mods and resources, it makes sense to do it on the easiest mode to guarantee the fastest kill each time. One hour farming him with this method will give you 180 purple mods and more loot than you can carry. If you are planning an ultra hard playthrough on New Game + for the platinum trophy, this is a great way to buff Aloy prior to that playthrough.
what mods?
@@BottledJoy The method is explained in detail in the description.
Interesting but that sounds like cheating, changing difficulties mid game to get resources is no fun, atleast for me plus i prefer a challenging difficulty and it's fun to grind and more rewarding. Interesting video though might use your startegy of of taking down a thunderjaw without lowering the difficulty.
@@thabangsibanda3282 So play on ultra-hard which locks the difficulty so you cant do this. In fact if you want the platinum trophy, you have to do that ...or you did 3 years ago when I got it. There is no exploit here, these are just standard in-game options and we can pick how we want to play. Great, isn't it? ;)
how did you get dmg to 484? i have all dmg mods at 50/44/44 but its at 143. i did multiply 143 × 3 arrows but its not 484. is there something else you used?
Jesus and people say that you can't be creative with Horizon's combat system. What a combo!!! 10/10
What people?
Xbox fanboys?
idk if im the only one but killing a thunderjaw by the heart is satisfying
Thunderjaw: I fear no man... But this...
*Martyntd5 appears*
Thunderjaw: This scares me
And here I was, spending 2mins to kill the thunderjaw
You're right, they are not hard to kill even on ultra hard. But from first shot to dead with this method takes 5 seconds. It's just over 1 minute to cycle the whole process. When you do it 120 times, the difference between 1 minute and 2 minutes is significant.
@@Martyntd5 It's almost twice as good ;-)
@@davep8221 Exactly. :)
Thanks, once you get the hang of it you can kill a thunderjaw in less than 30 seconds, I only wish that damage and tear mods would drop more often
Killing it in less than 30 seconds requires best weapons,not just "getting the hang of it" .
The OP weapons and mods.
Especially on higher difficulties.
@@GameslordXY Yeah, you need to get to Meridian in the main story first, because you need multiple versions of the bows used. They dont need to be the best, but they need to be pretty decent. Same with the mods, but you don't need the best, again just good enough ...and they get better because you're farming mods.
Basic armor is fine because you shouldn't get hit.
Yeah, it's harder at higher levels, but why farm at higher levels? OK if you're just fighting for fun or the training, then OK. But if you're just farming, you should have the difficulty set to 'story' (I have completed this game on ultra hard and have the trophy for it.).
You don't need much in the way of resources, because it's only costing you precision and tear arrows. Many of those components can be harvested from the Thunderjaw, but if you are running out, fast travel to Meridian, sell a bunch of Purple Mods you dont need and buy what you need for the arrows.
Probably the biggest thing needed is the triple shot skill. That takes time to acquire. Basically you cant use this technique as a noob, but it's definitely doable from Meridian and on.
You definitely do need to get the hang of rapidly switching between bows on the weapons wheel, because once you've hit it with the tear arrows, the freeze effect wears off, leaving you with just a couple of seconds.
to get the last shot in before you lose the 'frozen' damage multiplier.
If your not as much of a madlad I have a strategy that is also pretty easy . My first shot I load 3 frost arrows and then keep shooting them until, he is frozen. Then I switch to hard point arrows and spam those while trying to aim for the disc launcher if I can knock it of I use that to finish the fight . Usually it’s heathbar is about halfway depleted when I start shooting the disc launcher. This strategy doesn’t require as many upgrades as the strategy shown in the video so this method can be done slightly earlier in the game. Hope this helps . Ps I suck a the game so I’ve only done this on easy and normal difficulty. A higher difficulty may require a different strategy or u may have to do the frost arrow thing twice
Yeah, that's a good strategy and I think most do something similar early game. But it's long winded and resource expensive by comparison. My video above is really aimed towards people who have either completed the game or are close to it and want to collect copious purple mods and resources in order to buff Alloy before doing a re-run of the game in 'new game+' on ultra-hard for the platinum award.
@@Martyntd5 yep I know I was just giving my strategy but I do get the shards back after the kill
@@brots3 Yep, it's the way to go if you dont have the weaponry to pull this off.
BTW, a tip for improving your combat skills, find yourself a nice quiet herd of chargers and take them on with a low powered bow. Run amongst them taking potshots, rolling, dodging, jumping, diving and wotnot. They are easy enemies to defeat, but defeating them is not the object. The object is to stay calm and develop your dodging and precision. I did a little video of the sort of thing here: czcams.com/video/7me8puvH6_8/video.html ...if you spend half an hour now and then aggroing chargers in this way, you'll be amazed how much your combat skills improve in the rest of the game.
@@Martyntd5 thanks for the tip
Use terablast to rip off disc launcher. One shot dawgs. No need to spam.
I looked for a video like this because I just accidentally exposed redmaw's heart
That’s bad ass but let’s be real fighting thunder jaws for real is fun as hell
Well it would have been nice if the game told you once you load 3 arrows, they remain loaded even when you change weapons.
Yes it would ...honestly, it's a bit of a game-changer, not just for farming Thunderjaws, but if you pre-load every weapon you have before a big fight, you can unload a lot more damage. On the other hand it's kind of nice to discover these things too. The whole combat mechanic of HZD was a very pleasant surprise to me. I wasn't expecting it to be nearly as much fun as it is.
Also you don't have to hold down aim to preload restricting yourself to slow movement. Tap aim and the nock button together and you can sprint while preloading the arrows.
@@Gizmo524 You mean pressing the button to load more arrows and starting to run immediately after? I always load 3 arrows and my handling (even with my powershot/sharpshot bows) is maxed out to 60 (on all my 4 adept powershot bows specifically) so it doesn't make much of a difference to me since my high handling points wouldn't make me wait more than a second for the +2 arrows to be loaded up, but good advice because it makes the runs prior to cool fights more dinamic and straight to the point, and starting to run immediately after the load up button might save your life if ur low on health, and most players won't probably manage to make a sharpshot/powershot bow very high on both damage and handling at the same time, i farmed a total of 11 pristine weapon coils in 11 headache speedruns so i got no problem with maxing out completely the 4 bows anymore
I was wondering how is it possible the video is only 1:14
Did he really kill it in just over a minute!! And to my surprise you only killed it in 30 seconds 😂
Good job man you’re a god
I think that may be over-stating it a little, but thank you. :)
Damn I didn't know you can reload 3/4 bows all at once. Thank goodness I'm still early at my NG+.😅
Yeah, it makes a difference when you're in a spot. :D
How do you get two “Shadow Sharpshot Bow”? Do I have to play NG+ to get it again?
You just buy another in Meridian.
Martyntd5 Much appreciated.
I'm always low on the ice, I'll do this next time.
This is brilliant
I can still get the upper hand 😂😂
Now imagine that with the banuk weapon versions with the 4 mods slots and using the unique mods, how much damage can it get? it may even get close to 100k...
it would literally take the little living shit out of that poor thing...
It is pretty difficult, ive tried that during my game play but the Banuk overdraw make the aiming to shoot at the heart mostly miss. Best i can do is with the banuk striker bow which deal around 4500 dmg
it will do 30000...as this is story difficulty
God damn now that's some arrow '___'
First I was like :...whaaaaat..."
Then I was like "...whoooooaaa..."
can u show the build for the weapons? plz!!
It's in the description "You will need two sharpshot bows; one buffed for damage, one buffed for tear ...and one war bow buffed for freeze." That's basically it. Each bow has a full compliment of high value purple mods, very near the max possible in each slot. In most cases, I was able to use mods with a high handling secondary value, but the most important thing was maxing the bow for either freeze, damage or tear. For this particular method, handling is not very important.
I could show you the build in a separate video, but there is not much point because you wont be able to replicate the exact build, because you wont be able to get the exact same mods. But it doesnt matter, if you follow the principle in the description, it will work for you just the same. :)
Oh, obviously you need to have the skill which lets you pre-load 3x arrows.
Martyntd5 thank you very much
Best way I found to beat thunderjaw is
1. Use tear arrows on both disk gun
2. Pick disk gun and attack it with it
3. Pick other disk gun and attack it with it
No, the best way you've found is the one in this video, you just havent figured it out yet.
Difficulty level? I can see the energy meter, so I assume you're not playing at ultra hard
If you can be bothered to read the description or the pinned comment at the top, it tells you what difficulty level this is done on and why.
@@Martyntd5 I imagined the level 'cause the damage was absolutely OP
@@pagiano2279 Again, read the pinned comment. I explain the damage multipliers and how the damage was achieved and why I did it that way.
@@Martyntd5 The Thunderjaw is no longer terrified
Awesome!!
How a Banuk bow will do in this method?
I dont know I've never tried it. This video was made before the Frozen Wilds DLC was available. Try it and let me know? :)
Banuk bows are more powerful
He stack the damage he used 2 arrows we’ll get some more damage so he did that was damage
I only used one tearblast arrow to uncover his heart, i probably have a tearblast mod installed on my bow
A tear blast mod doesn’t affect tearblast arrows
@@sakshamsinghal5418 yes it kinda does
I forgot you could fire 3 arrows at once.
tried this on the hardest mode it doesnt work
OK, but why would you try and farm a Thunderjaw on the hardest mode? I mean, if you are playing on ultra hard, then you want it to actually be ultra hard, dont you?
But if you really must do this on ultra hard for some reason, then try using a Banuk bow instead of the Sharpshot, they are available in the Frozen Wilds DLC.
@@Martyntd5 nah it was just funny how i tried to replicate it and after the first set of arrows I was like oh shit
@@Hadouken1232 From the sticky....
"This demonstration is done on very easy mode to achieve the maximum possible damage, but it will work on higher difficulties. On ultra hard more shots will definitely be required but the multipliers work just the same."
Just sayin. ;)
That shit was incredible!!
ahhh the another method how to beat Thunderjaw in 2 second, but my way is different, just put the trip wire as much as possible and called Thunderjaw to come over and boom! 😁
How long does it take to set up your trip wires? This method takes just 1 minute from spawning at the campfire to saving and reloading. The other important difference is the resource cost. This method only requires 9 arrows, which are much 'cheaper' to make than the required tripwires.
@@Martyntd5 did I say "how to setup my trip wires in 2 second" ? 😌
@@Demolishor17 No, but if you are farming them, the 'battle time' is less important than the total time to cycle from spawning in to back at a campfire.
I'm definitely trying this. But I'm probably going to mess it up somehow lmfao
So.... Did you mess it up?
@@DaghfalTheFool Yes sadly. I did find different ways to kill it tho just not exactly like this.
pls what Is the name of the armor?
It's called the Shield Weaver Outfit and is only available as a reward in the main quest/story. I'm sure there are lots of videos explaining how you can get it. It's easily the best armour in the first game, though the new game will probably have something better.
What do u press to add 3 arrows at the same time ? Im on ps4 though
Triple shot is a skill you unlock in the skill tree.
Hold L2, press R1 two times
@@Martyntd5 but you unlock double shot first
@@Martyntd5 and also you should start uploading again :)
OH...MY...GOD!
How do you do that instant 3 arrows thing? I have to place them manually every time??
If you watch carefully, you'll see I'm loading 3 different bows and then just switching between them. Full explanation is in the description and the pinned comment.
@@Martyntd5 ohh how do you get 2 snapshots or can u buy them twice?
@@Hanitakii You can buy as many as you like in Meridian.
@@Martyntd5 thank you my runs are a lot cleaner now 👍
just. wow
He didnt know that there are banuk weapons in frozen wilds
Frozen Wilds didnt exist when this video was made.
😮😮😮 nice
I can just freeze and kill it with my frozen wilds snapshot how 4244 damage
Good for you. The frozen wilds DLC was not available when I recorded this.
i've completed this and upgraded most of my skills every one but could never work out how to use 3 arrows?
You need the triple shot skill from your skill tree, then aim with your bow and press R1 3 times to load 3 arrows. Honestly, I never used it in the game. It has very limited practical use.
@@Martyntd5 thanks dude👊
Very easy mode?
Yes. If you want to farm thunderjaws on higher difficulty, go right ahead.
@@Martyntd5 yes you cant do that oon ultra hard
@@Martyntd5 cheeeehhhh... for one sec i was gonna be impressed.
@@SiD19884 it’s Obvious this is very easy mode because of that insane dmg but yes that’s a easy way to farm thunderjaw lol tbh i farmed a lot of these before starting the plus mode on ultra hard
@@chitoo6107 even on ultra.. thunderjaws aren't that hard to down. not mere seconds but about a 2 minute fight and it's down.
You can triple preload each arrow type????
You can triple pre-load each weapon with any of the ammunition types that it uses, but only one type. If you wanted another arrow type, just buy another bow and buff it with mods that support that ammunition and pre-load away.
What platform do you play base ps4 or pro?
Old school, base PS4, first edition. Why?
@@Martyntd5 that's weird when im facing thunderjaw it feels like 25fps you feel the lag ang delay.
@@consoletantreviews8181 In game it's actually better than this vid as the PS4 capture seems to leave it a bit choppy on occasion, but I thought the game ran well, even with 2 of em and a bunch of other stuff running around. But this vid was done before any DLC's were available, maybe that's it?
@@Martyntd5 it worst when im facing 2 thunderjaw it lag like hell you can't aim properly i dunno if the or the system.
@@consoletantreviews8181 Not for me. I actually platinum'd this game 3 years ago and as I'm sure you know, that requires a play through on ultrahard. I had no issues aside from taking a long time to load saves. I actually thought the game ran really well on the base ps4. Here's another vid I did killing a thunderjaw on ultrahard with low level weapons, my combat kind of sucks, but you can see there is no lag: czcams.com/video/qkTJ3lS35g4/video.html
now in ultra hard...
Sweet Jesus 😂
what mods do you use
It's in the description mate.
damnnnnnn
Damm
Tearblast made it slower
Do you think so? It's only one shot from it and I cant imagine how it could be done quicker without it? You have to expose the heart in order to get the damage multipliers. Every other method I could think of, would take more than one additional shot. How would you do it?
Edit, I've just seen your fast kill video, yeah that is quicker, good job.
Jogando no Very easy não tem graça ...
Yes, I agree. This is fun, rolling under thunderjaws in ultrahard with regular armour: czcams.com/video/5ADjmKUaRtc/video.html ...or trying to kill them with sticky bombs while riding on their back : czcams.com/video/xZrucwK41hI/video.html ...but having fun is not the point of this video.
Ты-фокусник
WTF !?
At least show the damn location on the map
I thought it was a well known location. It's the plateau to the north-east of Meridian where there is a thunderjaw walking round in circles on it's own. I think it's the first thunderjaw fight you encounter in the story. It's just a convenient farming location because there are no other enemies to deal with and it's near a campfire.