PSA: Sunder is an effect that reduces armor by 50% Amara, be afraid

[Shambler]

Even without the optimal gearset as long as you are a level 9 mercenary with rending strikes and max physique, you can turn amara into a piece of buttery toast, metaphorically of course. This stands as one of the only ways to muscle her down, and mercenary is one of the only classes that can survive her stun-lock of doom anyways with the Juggernaut perk. Hopefully it does not get nerfed.

Any of the other new perks other than the smuggler's alpha strike even come close to being as good as rending strike's sunder? I'd love to know!

Edit: Smuggler also gets a sunder ability, although its only a chance if you get a crit, which means to beat amara as a smuggler rngesus must be on your side.

 

[Emerald]

Inb4 it gets nerfed anyways.
Speaking of Amara, her level honestly should be bumped up higher now (Like maybe level 12, Frostwyrm as well) that we got new levels, if levels 9 and 10 are gonna steamroll her now, despite her supposed to be a hard boss. :/

 

[Shambler]

But honest

Inb4 it gets nerfed anyways.
Speaking of Amara, her level honestly should be bumped up higher now that we got new levels, if levels 9 and 10 are gonna steamroll her. :/

Firstly it would be a sad day if it were nerfed, secondly attempting to muscle her down with a maxed out tech still doesn't work, and smugglers can only get so far before the stunlock of death occurs. So only the merc can currently take her on without teasing.

 

[EmperorG]

Inb4 it gets nerfed anyways.
Speaking of Amara, her level honestly should be bumped up higher now (Like maybe level 12, Frostwyrm as well) that we got new levels, if levels 9 and 10 are gonna steamroll her now, despite her supposed to be a hard boss. :/

Well considering level 8 allows you to steamroll everything on Myrellion, I don't see why Amara needs you to be level 12 to fight one-on-one. She should be hard to anyone who can otherwise handle Myrellion, bumping her up would make about as much sense as buffing Dane on Mhen'ga to level 8. In my opinion the only boss that needs consistant level ups is Dr. Lash since he's meant to be unbeatable for non min-maxers.

 

[Lancer]

Inb4 it gets nerfed anyways.
Speaking of Amara, her level honestly should be bumped up higher now (Like maybe level 12, Frostwyrm as well) that we got new levels, if levels 9 and 10 are gonna steamroll her now, despite her supposed to be a hard boss. :/

Even though the quest is currently one of the hardest out there, it is only meant to be a mid-game level eight quest, it wouldn't make any sense to buff that quest if you look at the intended difficulty curve of the finished game. That is slightly harder to do because of TiTS' slow story development *stares at Fen* but still possible, lol.

 

[Savin]

Inb4 it gets nerfed anyways.
Speaking of Amara, her level honestly should be bumped up higher now (Like maybe level 12, Frostwyrm as well) that we got new levels, if levels 9 and 10 are gonna steamroll her now, despite her supposed to be a hard boss. :/

That's not how overlevelling a quest works.

Amara is a hard boss... for her level bracket. If you go into the Pirate Base 2+ levels over its intended level range, yeah, it's gonna be a lot easier -- bosses included. We're not just gonna keep raising critters' stats right with the PC until level 20 so they can "be hard." The game doesn't have level scaling like that, nor is it intended to.