On the path of eldritch secrets and techniques in an effort to save lots of Whinny, the Vault Hunter comes up towards one in every of Borderlands 3: Guns, Love and Tentacles’ extra irritating bosses: the Empowered Scholar.
To take out the buffed up model of this already powerful enemy, you’ll want a high-damage or incendiary principal weapon for the primary section of the struggle. I used the Vigorous Scoville from the Handsome Jackpot DLC as a result of its splash injury helps quite a bit with mobs.
Next you’ll want a corrosive weapon that you simply’re snug utilizing at vary for the second, third, and fourth phases of the struggle. I used a Pestilent Vicious Lyuda sniper rifle, however any corrosive weapon that’s not a shotgun will work superb.
Then you want a shock weapon for coping with a defend within the third and 4 phases of the struggle. Again from the Handsome Jackpot DLC, I used the Storming Guttiwuts ION CANNON.
How to beat the Empowered Scholar within the Borderlands 3: Guns, Love and Tenacles DLC
I’ve embedded a video of me beating the Empowered Scholar above so you possibly can comply with alongside.
The Empowered Scholar works somewhat in a different way to a whole lot of the boss fights in Borderlands 3. Usually, you wish to hold the trash mobs (weaker enemies) alive to set off your Fight on your Life.
But with the Empowered Scholar, he’ll clutch the summoned common enemies, make them just about invincible, and run them into you time and again.
To fight this, you both must whack out a high-damage weapon with huge splash injury to wipe them out shortly, or ignore them utterly and deal with the Empowered Scholar. Backpedal and leap away from the onrushing enemy and it’s best to be capable to hit the Scholar nonetheless.
The solely technique to cease them coming is to scale back the Empowered Scholar’s well being, so don’t waste your bullets.
At about half well being, the Scholar will blow up the remainder of the enemies and encompass themselves with a forcefield.
Switch to your corrosive weapon, then shoot the 4 “Shards” round it. Doing so will free the Empowered Scholar and begin up the struggle once more.
Return to your principal weapon and scale back its well being in the identical manner for about one other third.
Now the Scholar will teleport off onto a raised platform within the nook of the map. Switch to your corrosive weapons and ping off the Shards you possibly can see from the primary struggle enviornment.
Next it is advisable leap onto the floating platforms, and journey them round to the again of the Scholar’s forcefield. There’s one other Shard right here to destroy.
This subsequent bit within the air is silly.
It’s very unclear what you’re meant to do and might be the most certainly factor to kill you within the struggle.
Stay on the floating platform too lengthy and also you’ll fall to your loss of life. So it is advisable look down, and leap onto the lengthy, straight a part of the rocky platform beneath.
Skip to 2:10 within the embedded video above for a visible illustration.
Back within the central enviornment, the Empowered Scholar now has an enormous defend that you simply’ll must wipe away with a shock weapon. It’s simply not possible to make use of anything.
Then you possibly can swap again to your principal weapon and chip away at its well being some extra.
Next, it’ll teleport to the opposite facet of the realm and shield itself with one other forcefield.
Repeat what you probably did for the opposite facet. Switch to a corrosive weapon, ping the Shards, journey the platform, then look down over the sting to see the lengthy a part of the platform that it’s secure to leap onto.
This time there are 5 Shards to destroy.
You’re now within the last stage of the struggle, and the Empowered Scholar may have a defend and armor to take care of. Use your shock and corrosive weapons accordingly, then end issues together with your incendiary.
Things can get a bit hectic on this final portion of the struggle, so bear in mind you need to use the weaker enemies to get a Second Wind should you go down. Focus your hearth on the Empowered Scholar and it’ll ultimately go down.
For extra on Guns, Love and Tentacles, here are our pages on that weird pink spider icon and The Cure shotgun.
Otherwise, right here’s a take a look at a few of the new legendary weapons in Guns, Love and Tentacles, as well as some of the best character builds we’ve seen so far.
