Thermitage

Thermitage is a Scaylion mini-boss found within Scylla's Grove during the "Professor Nakyama, I presume?" quest in Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt DLC.

Mission
After completing the mission "Savage Lands" given by Sir Hammerlock at the beginning of the Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt DLC, the player will be instructed to protect Sir Hammerlock whilst he repairs the Catch-a-boat station. Once repaired, the player can summon a fanboat and journey to Scylla's Grove. Once at the quest objective, the requirements to complete the quest change to Kill Thermitage.

Behaviour and Strategy
Thermitage appears once the player has defeated a certain amount of Scaylions in his "arena". It first attempts to rush the player, and once in range can lash out with a flurry of melee based attacks. Should the player avoid these, Thermitage continues to rush with a high movement speed. Thermitage then uses a short range attack, which appears to be emitting an acid based attack at the player. The melee attacks do an incredible amount of damage, almost downing a level 50 Gunzerker equipped with the Bee shield. The acid based attack seems to only partially blind the player, with not much damage being inflicted. This "rush" attack style continues throughout the fight until it is defeated.

A strategy that is fairly effective is to let Thermitage catch up to the player, then jump out of the way and whilst he is attacking shoot it's critical hit location, which is the stinger. Almost all attacks from the front will result in dramatically reduced damage, so Zer0's Deception, Axton's Sabre Turret and Gaige's Deathtrap would be useful to distract Thermitage while the player flanks around him, resulting in huge damage being dealt to Thermitage.