Borderlands

[Phineasfool]

Really handy tip for Mad Mel: just lock on to his vehicle, hold down the rocket button, and drive in circles around the fiery thing in the middle. Worked a treat for me

Not for me, as he kept leaping over the middle bit and side swiping my vehicle onto its roof, so I ended up running around on foot until I died, often.

After dying a few times, I ended up standing at the entrance outside the arena just shooting his car with rockets until he blew up. Worked well, no car needed.

I did something similar except I used corrosive proximity grenades. I'd throw one out there and he would eventually drive near it and take a bunch of damage.

[PVB]

Okay, I'm level 23 and am having lots of trouble killing level 25 Mothrakk in the Arid Badlands.

No weapon I have seems to make much of a dent on him, but his breath of fire wastes me really quick.

Any tips?

[benedictw]

Mothrakk

No weapon I have seems to make much of a dent on him, but his breath of fire wastes me really quick.

Any tips?

Get a shield between you and him. Get a few shots off, take cover, rinse repeat. There's a vehicle spawn place (with a roof!) just down the hill from there so thats a good place to shoot from. It took FOREVER to kill - and I was level 25 at the time.

[CarlBillen]

Mothrakk

No weapon I have seems to make much of a dent on him, but his breath of fire wastes me really quick.

Any tips?

Get a shield between you and him. Get a few shots off, take cover, rinse repeat. There's a vehicle spawn place (with a roof!) just down the hill from there so thats a good place to shoot from. It took FOREVER to kill - and I was level 25 at the time.

Yup, they must've put something with a roof there for a purpose
I killed the bastard by basically emptying a complete clip of SMG or CR into his body, and then ran again under the roof for cover. Sometimes I had to do a bit of phasewalk-healing when I got hit, but that roof is essential for any survival. And quick-fire weapons (whose bullets move quicker than a rocket launcher that tend to miss are quite useful).

[Phineasfool]

Okay, I'm level 23 and am having lots of trouble killing level 25 Mothrakk in the Arid Badlands.

No weapon I have seems to make much of a dent on him, but his breath of fire wastes me really quick.

Any tips?

Use a weapon with explosive damage if you have one. He is immune to fire and corrosive doesn't seem to do much either.

[PVB]

Okay, I'm level 23 and am having lots of trouble killing level 25 Mothrakk in the Arid Badlands.

No weapon I have seems to make much of a dent on him, but his breath of fire wastes me really quick.

Any tips?

Use a weapon with explosive damage if you have one. He is immune to fire and corrosive doesn't seem to do much either.

Got him in the end with a non-elemental sniper rifle and just one shot at a time. Took fucking ages.

[Mayhem]

Well done mate... I was going to suggest not even going for it until you were level 25 or better. Probably the hardest part of the game imo, taking that fucker down... I hate to think what it is going to be like second playthrough though...

[Phineasfool]

Well done mate... I was going to suggest not even going for it until you were level 25 or better. Probably the hardest part of the game imo, taking that fucker down... I hate to think what it is going to be like second playthrough though...

The 2nd playthrough sucks. I think he was like level 47 or something. Was the hardest part of the 2nd playthrough for me so far.

[PVB]

Well done mate... I was going to suggest not even going for it until you were level 25 or better. Probably the hardest part of the game imo, taking that fucker down... I hate to think what it is going to be like second playthrough though...

Once I knew about the hiding part it wasn't hard, just fucking tedious.

[Mayhem]

Yeah, that's part of my point heh. Brother and I just took down Skagzilla on second playthrough, bloody hell did that take a long, LONG time. Rockets were doing jack shit damage and it needed our elemental SMGs to full clip burn repeatedly to nail the sucker. Thank God my SMG has regenerating ammo...!

[chub]

Roll on the DLC... I wonder how we will get access to Jacob's Creek, as there were no spare entrance points on the maps in the normal game.

Eurogamer has mentioned something about the DLC, including this:

After buying and installing the content you will be able to fast-travel to Jakobs Cove using a teleporter. But you can get there without a teleporter as well.

Which doesn't really clear it up, but presumably the DLC will add an entrance somewhere.

The rest is here: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/gearb ... -dlc-works

I do like the sound of the Loot Goon.

[HGFB]

Okay, I'm level 23 and am having lots of trouble killing level 25 Mothrakk in the Arid Badlands.

No weapon I have seems to make much of a dent on him, but his breath of fire wastes me really quick.

Any tips?

Use a weapon with explosive damage if you have one. He is immune to fire and corrosive doesn't seem to do much either.

Got him in the end with a non-elemental sniper rifle and just one shot at a time. Took fucking ages.

Easiest way to kill him is to wander down the hill to the garage and get a car with a machine gun. Drive back and forth to avoid the fire while the machine gun autolock takes him down. If you get scragged you spawn next to the garage anyway and the machine gun takes him down a hell of a lot faster than anything else.

[PVB]

Easiest way to kill him is to wander down the hill to the garage and get a car with a machine gun. Drive back and forth to avoid the fire while the machine gun autolock takes him down. If you get scragged you spawn next to the garage anyway and the machine gun takes him down a hell of a lot faster than anything else.

Now you tell me.

[HGFB]

Easiest way to kill him is to wander down the hill to the garage and get a car with a machine gun. Drive back and forth to avoid the fire while the machine gun autolock takes him down. If you get scragged you spawn next to the garage anyway and the machine gun takes him down a hell of a lot faster than anything else.

Now you tell me.

It's great. The car can't get the angle to actually look at the boss but it locks on just fine. You just drive around shooting until it rains loot. No aiming required If it's any consolation me and a friend died a lot before we figured that one out.

[Deckard]

You lot yapping about this got me interested - so 'tubed it and now its another game to buy before Xmas