How to kill a Fireclaw without destroying its Sac Webbing - Melee Build [Horizon Forbidden West]

I found a super fun and unique strat for taking down some of the heftiest boys in the game, and it significantly reduces the chance of accidently exploding their blaze unit and destroying its sack webbing. Usually for the larger machines, melee is a bad idea, but it actually works really well on (non-apex) Fireclaws.

The strat involves repeatedly shocking the Fireclaw by hitting its shock canisters with shock ammo, then critical striking and resonator blasting it as much as possible while it's incapacitated. In this video, I use the Oseram Artificer outfit and Melee valour surge, but the Critical Hit valour surge would also work very well. Watch to the end for a super sweet double-resonator finisher.

Ideally, you'd want the Artificer to be upgraded at least to where you get the Critical Strike bonus, but in this video I hadn't gotten that yet.
This is on Hard.







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