Warmaster Guide

[Donnyrides]

Great work OP!!! Get this in the Sticky guide list!!

Also, I've had a lot of personal success so far with this perk load out and your choice of Ironclad shield

--protection
Fortitude - 225 extra HP
Thick-skinned - with an Ironclad the 15 second cooldown works out well
Cell armor - the 6% save from his massive attacks adds up, and it's nice to have protections when Thick-Skinned isn't engaged.
--attack
Kill or be killed - with an iron clad, your shields are down for a little while. If you are lucky, the 45% crit boost will be timed just right for hitting the right arm
Hunter's Stance - Extra crit damage
--Reload
Overload - faster reload
single minded - faster reload
--EGO boosters
Quick charge - shorten the cooldown time
Killing machine - extend the duration of Overcharge

I was thinking of adding in bloodlust since you are doing non stop damage anyway, it will shorten your OC cooldown by another 6 seconds giving you your OC back every 33 seconds.

also switching in BlastShield in place of cell armor since most of his attacks are of the exlosive variety.

[Nilxain]

I removed the explosive weapon tips, and do not currently recommend that approach for the following reasons:

It really feels like this is doing more harm than good, because the recharging bombs phase is the best chance to break the armor. If I had a coordinated group where I could prove one way or the other that the crits were actually an effective strategy, and not just score inflation, then I would maybe recommend it again. As it is, the most important thing is to get that armor broken to increase DPS across the board for all of the phases, while also gaining a chance to knock the boss down for a longer burn phase.

[blujoker]

Makes sense. It would be interesting if with a coordinated group would allow for actually staggering him more often or not. But explosive type weapons tend to be so slow firing wise.

[rebtattoo]

Great guide! Thanks Nilx!

[lrf1964]

Thanks for the tips.

[ironcladtrash]

Excellent Guide.

[HVYplusONE]

this needs a sticky, thanks

[GridSufer]

Very well written guide!

[jackdaws_1999]

Very good guide, definately need to see more people targetting the right arm.

Could do with more people being willing to spend the 10k to get the arkfall started, spread the joy peeps. I always try and spend at least one per arkfall, and yes its expensive, but if you kill warmonger, its more than worth it.

[royal]

You can get critical hit damage on the arm when he's hanging with the volge battle rifle. Around 5k per shot with the IV I've got. But, it still "feels" like it's less over all damage due to the slow fire rate than with the SAW.

Have done about four. One thing so far is making sure enough people stay on each side when you're outside to get that done quickly in order to have more time inside.