Forum:The Destroyer * big spoiler warning*

Is it just me that believes that the final boss of Borderlands, the Destroyer, is a bit too easy? When facing him I didn't even fully lose my shield (I am playing Lilith and was lvl 33 at the moment) I just shot the weak spots repeatedly with my trusty SMG and then he just died very quickly. I was actually a little bit dissapointed, since it is such a great game and I expected the final boss to be a little more.. challenging? I'm writing this here since I would like to hear out the opinion about other people.

P.S I am very curious how tough he will be in the second playthrough D.S

//Dramatic Entrance 13:29, October 31, 2009 (UTC)

I agree with this, i beat him with at lvl 32 with my soldier, just shot down the tendrils and everything was fine. Am also looking forward to beating him at 2nd playthrough, although i doubt he will be much harder

Demondares 14:17, October 31, 2009 (UTC

ive beat it on the second playthrough. its easy but he has alot of health

Evz x KaRnAgE 15:21, October 31, 2009 (UTC) Evz_x_KaRnAgE

I have also beaten him on a second playthrough and I was level 50. I thought there might be more of a challenge, perhaps even some better loot. But it was just as easy as it was the first time around, just had to use more ammo. More challenge would have been nice, but it is still a great game. --Braleth 16:29, October 31, 2009 (UTC)

Yeap... Killed him in 10-15 seconds my first time around with a 60x7 damage masher with 2 bullet clip. Clip size stops mattering when my reload speed is like... ~120%. xP What's sad is that Masher was like... level 15. They tend to have amazing lifespans because of the fact they allow you to keep up with your insane RoF while still landing headshots. LaznAzn 16:56, October 31, 2009 (UTC)

The first playthrough I did with a friend, he was a pain, because we were both running out of ammo. ((He was playing Mordecai, I was Lilith))I think what they did to make it more challenging was make the run up to him a pain, throwing lots of bullet sponge baddies at you to make you more malnourished at him. I ended up having to keep phasewalk, melee, phaswalk... It was a pain.

When I played through with another friend, we killed him in about thirty seconds. I stood as far back I could, and pumped him full of Horde Rockets, tearing out about a quarter of his life each shot, while my teamie healed me up.

So I seem not to be the only one... Perhaps Gearbox could release an add-on/downloadable content to make him/it more challenging? Would be a real hit amongst many players! I do agree though that the run approaching the vault was real hell... And since the approach was so difficult, I suspected a tough last boss... Oh well, I love the game too much to stop playing!

My summary though is that Gearbox did the end a little hasty. They increased the pace to much at the end, and really didn't tie up all the loose ends.. But I will say it again: I love the game too much! And I am eagerly waiting for any new related releases to it! //Dramatic Entrance 22:40, October 31, 2009 (UTC)

I was playing Mordecai at level 33 I think. I had my skill points set to maximize sniper damage, critical shots, bullet damage, and magazine size. I was using the "Thwack!" Sniper as it had great critical damage and a clip size of 11 with my skills (and 85% sniper critical hit class mod). I killed him before the chick on the intercom in the corner even finished talking. I just zoomed in and put a dozen shots right into his middle where you could get Critical hits. I didn't even know how he was supposed to attack, he didn't get a chance as he died less than a full clip in (which I unloaded in about 15 seconds). To be honest, it was kind of dissapointing in how easy he is if you have a critical hit of nearly 8,000 damage.

Finished Playthrough 2. This time with a Masher that was level 48... Wow. Killed him in under 10 seconds, but I was shooting like 3 bullets a second and reloading in a fraction of a second. Each shot crit hit for 12K damage... So 36K damage a second... Yeap... Hurrah Revolvers! xD (Lucky his butt was still in the portal because he probably crapped himself) LaznAzn 06:16, November 1, 2009 (UTC)

I took my time with him on the first encounter. Playing Mordecai at about level 35. Shot the eye a couple of times with the sniper rifle, then switched over to some optional weapons I had been carrying just for fun. At some point the eye shoots out a beam which although it visually cuts through shelter (I was hiding behind one of the stone columns) doesn't actually do damage. Likewise, The Destroyer eventually reaches out and wraps tentacles around some of the stone columns, but doesn't seem to do much beyond that. I was really expecting a lot more out of an end boss (well actually I was expecting to find some sort of "vault" that I could enter with lots of goodies, but oh well) and it seems like this boss was supposed to do more, but ultimately didn't. The Rakk Hive was a lot more entertaining.

I kinda just destroyed the Rakk hive when I played... I was kinda underwhelmed by most of the boss fights, but then again, they were usually one big guy pounding on you.

After playing through on play through two, we ran outta ammo again. ((I also found y ammo regening Revolver in the stuff the Destroyer dropped. Would have been handy...)), and that proved to make the fight difficult, as I was loaded for close combat, and my ally was already low on sniper rounds.

Killed The Destroyer in one clip with 6 shots from a Crimson Nidhogg rocket launcher in my first playthrough on my soldier. I was very disappointed. --Roumo 02:11, November 7, 2009 (UTC)

Once I got over the initial shock of seeing the Destroyer, I played it pretty carelessly and still never saw a dent in my soldier's health. Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, recharge shield, rinse/repeat. Used up alot of ammo but that's cuz I was using pretty crap guns. 2nd playthrough I'm making sure to farm for better stuff so he should (hopefully) be even more of a breeze this time around. //DZA6010 17:33, November 9, 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, this and the characters back stories were real letdowns for the game for me. --Slyrat 16:26, November 12, 2009 (UTC)

I played as mordecai and I was like, wtf how am I supposed to kill that thing when i saw it. I used a repeater that fire rediculously fast thanks to the tentacles counting towards enemies killed for my skills to increase damage and fire speed. Took like ten minutes, and was pretty annoying, but i was lvl 40ish at the time. Loved the race up the hill. Loot was lame, though. is there any way to fight him again? Only twice is pretty lame, even if he is easy he'd still be great to rush friends on or farm loot on for 2nd playthrough.--Markfriedman 19:45, November 12, 2009 (UTC)

I don't understand how people are saying they killed him in under 1 minute. I played as a soldier and fought him at about level 36 on the first play through. He was easy to figure out how to kill, just hide behind the pillar really far away and keep shooting his eye and the tendril, but I definitely took longer than 5 minutes. I was unloading my machine gun with an 80 bullet magazine doing 1k on avg with crit, and his HP barely moved... From my first playthrough, I would put his HP at upwards of 1 million, and I just don't see how its possible to do THAT much dmg in 1 minute. (DPS upwards of 16000??) Karpov 137.132.250.13 08:02, November 13, 2009 (UTC)

Boss is too easy. I agree. Even just having one of the stone pillars blow up if it takes a few eye-blasts would have mixed things up by having you run frantically to another one.

I think people were lost in the moment and didn't realize how much damage they were dealing or how much ammo they were using, claiming they did it in under a minute... unless they went back to playthrough 1 with playthrough 3 guns.

However, I don't have a class mod for sniper rifle damage, but with a sniper rifle that does about 400 base dmg I was getting crits for around 5-6k for each shot. I could see how this would take off a chunk, but considering on Roland I was spraying my rifle and doing about 1-1.5k for each shot, and wasn't dead in under 100 bullets or so, I think people are embellishing just how much they did with their sniper rifle. Kleptomaniac666 13:18, November 13, 2009 (UTC)

I just fought him by myself in playthrough two. He has an insane amount of health and the fight wasn't even interesting or fun. I rubberbanded my controller after he latched onto the pillars and went to make a sammich. Only arkham asylum had a more dissappointing final fight that this...--Markfriedman 20:23, November 13, 2009 (UTC) --- --- The only guy i found challenging was the guy with the boom shot in play-through 2. I was a level 50 siren and he was able to take out my shield in one burst. I had to strafe and fire at him with my chimera smg to kill him-xbl:Predalienmaul --- i blew him off the side of thor with sledges shotgun made it oh so easy :D

I also found the destroyer much easier than I expected. I got him with a Roland build - hid behind the pillar to the left, picked off the tentacles and then kept unloading into the eye. I dashed out and put my turret in front of him when it was available.

Had more trouble from Bonehead than the "Destroyer". With the back-story they gave this boss, you would have expected A LOT more from him. When I first starting fighting the guy I was crappin in my pants cause he merc'd the commandant like NOTHIIINNGGGGG; just started firing my machine gun at his eye hopin' it would pop and couldn't see me or something. Definitely one of the easiest bosses of the game. Was kinda glad and disappointed that he wasn't tougher. [Skippy]

--- The Destroyer was much too easy for me, I was playing with a buddy and just unloaded with my Double Anarchy the first playthrough, it was pathetic. And considering I just phasewalked past most of the enemies on the run up there I had plenty of ammo. Honestly I had a harder time with Sledge, or even Skagzilla! Which is terribly pathetic. I lol'd at the ending that everyone said was so disappointing, I found it hilarious. Although I was pissed that they never fleshed out the character's storylines. Zylo the Wolfbane

--- He was quite easy in 4 player Co-op, did him with a group that consisted of the following. 2x sirens, I was lvl 34, ther other was level 36. and 2x mordecai, one level 35 and 1 level 33. we took him down in less than a minute, I found my shotgun to be really great at shooting his eye, we mainly focussed on his eye and didn't even get hit once by any of his attacks (was constantly watching our health / shield

~Fire Bullets

- seccond playthrough it had a stupid amount of health i used all my rockets :( and nades almost all of my repeater ammo and half of my sniper ammo