So last few days I have been stuck on this boss. I tried many tactics but it seems i need better armor, shield or a weapon. I'm a level 10 tech specalist with: Queen Nyrean Spear, Teyaal’s Heavy Plasma Caster, Business Clothes, Reaper Armaments Mark I Shield Generator, Shield Aug Bracers. That's currently the best stuff I have. Also my storage is filled with stuff I could sell for good credits but I genuinely don't know a good place because the best I could sell them for is 50% of the price it says in inventory. So hopefully someone knows some really good tactics or stuff I could buy.
Trouble defeating Shock Hopper
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Lone Wolf115
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If you talk to Urblog the guy you fight in the hanger you can get a copy of his shield. It's pretty fuckin strong I use it every time. If you fight the Kaithrits on the second level you can get their armor, buy the trick bracer from Urblog it has good benefits. What is your class so I can recommend a ranged weapon?
From the wiki:
So, zapping is a no-no. Burning and corrosive are baaad choices. Pure kinetic less so. Best bet would be Tease damage (she's weak to it, even more bonus damage if steele is sweaty at the time), or freezing damage (normal damage it seems). And perhaps buying flashbangs. And taking the suggestions of the above post and/or shoring up your electrical resistance.
I ended up winning by having my Captain Steele dickslap her in the face with a hyper dong.
Tech specialist, as he said.
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TheShepard256
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If Anno's on your crew, she'll buy anything for 85% cost if she's still with Steele Tech or 80% if not. As for strategy...
Defence-wise, her Shields have 25% Kinetic resistance and 50% Electric, Burning and Corrosive resistance (along with several Tech Specialist shield-enhancing perks), while her HP has 100% Electric resistance and 33% Burning resistance, so your Kinetic + Burning loadout is highly sub-optimal. Her Shields are definitely the stronger part of her physical durability, so once those are down you're more than half-way to beating her.
On the other hand, she has a 33% weakness to Tease attacks (plus a guaranteed 'Really Likes' towards sweat) and no bonus to max Lust, though she needs to be raised to max lust thrice to be defeated so you'll effectively have to deal 250 Tease damage.
Offence-wise, she mainly deals Electric damage (including passive damage each turn, unless you've maxed out her Lust twice or can fly), but some of her attacks deal Kinetic and/or Tease damage, and one deals Burning damage and blinds you unless you pass a Reflex save (or have blind immunity).
For your equipment:
Defence-wise, her Shields have 25% Kinetic resistance and 50% Electric, Burning and Corrosive resistance (along with several Tech Specialist shield-enhancing perks), while her HP has 100% Electric resistance and 33% Burning resistance, so your Kinetic + Burning loadout is highly sub-optimal. Her Shields are definitely the stronger part of her physical durability, so once those are down you're more than half-way to beating her.
On the other hand, she has a 33% weakness to Tease attacks (plus a guaranteed 'Really Likes' towards sweat) and no bonus to max Lust, though she needs to be raised to max lust thrice to be defeated so you'll effectively have to deal 250 Tease damage.
Offence-wise, she mainly deals Electric damage (including passive damage each turn, unless you've maxed out her Lust twice or can fly), but some of her attacks deal Kinetic and/or Tease damage, and one deals Burning damage and blinds you unless you pass a Reflex save (or have blind immunity).
For your equipment:
- Your current shield belt is pretty good, though Urbolg's shield and the ones dropped by the Bored Jumpers are better (the latter has an Evasion bonus, while the former has an Evasion penalty but much more Shields and Shield Defense; take your belt off before you ask him, though, since if your current Shields are too high he won't let you have it).
- Business Clothes are too balanced to be useful for any particular build. You'd be better off with the Augment-Weave Armour (the one Lone Wolf recommended, dropped by the Cyberpunk Security Operatives), or the Gray Goo Armour (particularly with upgrades; if you do the Uveto Deepsea Lab quest with her, she'll gain more Shields and lose her Electric weakness), or almost anything, really.
- The Shield Aug Bracers are also pretty good, but since most of her damage is Electric in nature having extra Shields won't do as much to protect you; for this fight, you'd be better off with the Light Jetpack (purchasable from Nerrasa) to avoid her passive Electric DoT. Unless you grow flight-capable wings, which does the same without taking up your Accessory slot (or the Evasion bonus).
- If you're melee-focused, a good option is to use the FZR (purchasable from Shekka) to apply the Chilled (or was it Frozen?) debuff, then use a Crushing weapon for massive damage. The Saurmorian Hammer (obtained through Chaurmine's content) is best, followed by the Masterwork Yappi Strap (if you don't have enough Physique to use Power Armour weapons) (purchasable from Tuuva); the CSG (can be won from Shizuya) is also not bad despite being part Electric, as it has a chance to stun your opponent and is also an energy weapon.
- If you're ranged-focused, use the Trick Bracers (like Lone Wolf recommends, purchasable from Urbolg) as a stat stick, with the LM-19 Entropy (purchasable from Kattom on Uveto) as your main weapon; it's an energy weapon that deals Freezing damage.
- If you have high Tease Skill, you might just be better off equipping a stat stick for both melee and ranged, and using Tease attacks against her. She always really likes sweat and dislikes (or really dislikes) cum-covered, so if you're still having trouble, get sweaty without getting cum-covered (exercise is a good way to do that). She also has 3-5 other preferences chosen at random, so you might want to reload to get preferences that are more suited to your Steele's body type.
Lone Wolf115
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I read over then. Well I recommend the tri Lazer rifle. But teasing is the easiest way to beat her than brute force and that's the tactic I'm the best at. The enemy I most struggle with is the overseer moth woman (I forgot her name.)
Overseer Maike. Best tip I can give for her is if she wraps you up in her whip, don't struggle.
TheShepard256
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The tri-beam rifle is a good ranged weapon overall for Tech Specialists (base 10 damage each for Burning, Freezing and Electric, so it has high damage coverage, and it's an energy weapon with Bonus Hit Rate i.e. it ignores Second Shot's accuracy penalty), but in this circumstance I think the Entropy is the better weapon. With her resistances to Burning and Electric, the Shock Hopper takes a base of 20 damage to Shields (10 Freezing, 5 Burning, 5 Electric) and 16.67 damage to HP (10 Freezing, 6.67 Burning, 0 Electric) from the tri-beam rifle, but takes a base of 27 damage to both (all Freezing) from the Entropy. Losing 7-10 base damage per shot for the Bonus Hit Rate is probably only worth it if your Second Shot misses a lot.
Overseer Maike? She's also best defeated with Tease damage, though her sexual preferences are fixed and rather comprehensive, so depending on your Steele's body and which Tease attacks they use it might be difficult. Those preferences are:
- Really likes: tail-genitals
- Kinda likes: small cocks (< 7"), big hips (>= 10), big butts (>= 10), feminine, balls, long hair (>= 8") and chitin
- Really dislikes: big cocks (>= 12"), big breasts (>= 5), narrow hips (< 4), baldness, pussies, hyper (cock >= 18", breasts >= 25), neuters and exotic bodies
Since Kattom's inventory is random, you may have to save before meeting him to get him to sell the Entropy. The Tri-Beam Rifle can be bought on Zheng Shi, making it easier to obtain.
I've beaten her with a Melee Tech with the Custom Shock Gear (and Tam-Wolf 2.0). Granted, Steele had Wings at the time, but that Stun was extremely helpful.
If you went for Shields, you could also go back to Myrellion for the Ozone Aegis (20% Electric Resist). Your bonus Shields from Shield Booster, Augment-Weave and Shield Bracers should make the lower base Shields irrelevant.
I've beaten her with a Melee Tech with the Custom Shock Gear (and Tam-Wolf 2.0). Granted, Steele had Wings at the time, but that Stun was extremely helpful.
If you went for Shields, you could also go back to Myrellion for the Ozone Aegis (20% Electric Resist). Your bonus Shields from Shield Booster, Augment-Weave and Shield Bracers should make the lower base Shields irrelevant.
Lone Wolf115
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The way I managed to defeat her was using the grey goo gun that we get from Anno and buy whole lot of grey goo, again from Anno and used it on Shock Hopper.
Lone Wolf115
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