Combined with the Veteran Sharpshooter 15% Weak Spot Damage to the already 1737 Damage → 1997 Damage
A Charged Plasma Shot of highest possible Damage vs PoxHound at Difficulty 4 (Heresy) wont kill a hound.
Combined with its new Flying maneuvers its the worst type of target to fight right now.
Poxhound is by far the buggiest and worst designed enemy in the game. They tried to copy paste the assassin from VM2, but it turned out horrible. At least the assassin had low HP, even in Cata (damnation there). Easy to deal with, but deadly to neglect. Worked great, not perfect, but great.
Here, with poxhound, I don’t even know where to start. The high HP is a good start point I guess.
And just for kicks, one of the first Modifiers they add in the game for missions are? That’s right, more poxhounds!! hahaha What a joke.
Dont forget they also have buggy hitboxes, buggy pounces and janky movement animations that throw their hitbox all over the place.
I have no problem with high health on these enemies because, since its nurgle, it kinda makes sense, the bugs though? Not so much. Fix those and they dont feel as bad as they do right now.
Try a helbore instead. At least with a good roll it can 1 shot dogs to the head on heresy without ult, and 1 shot them to the head with ult up on damnation.
Although, hitting them in the head can be quite challenging as well considering their speed and unpredictable movement patterns.
Yeah imagine with all of this bad movement and flying up and down, yet still if you managed to get a precise weak spot of a charged plasma gun, it wont take it down.
also if a teammate got attacked by the hound, you would need a charged shot of plasma + non charged to take it down, that’s about 2700 damage.
Surprisingly, it does more damage, this is the helbore lasgun i got, nearly full Damage & Stopping Power Modifiers, yet still not 1 shot kill, but close enough , 1 charged shot+1 non charged should do the job
Am I the only one that enjoys that condition? Lol. I honestly find it fun fending off the semi regular double dog spawns.
I think dogs are intentionally designed to be fairly hard to kill with ranged weapons. They’re there to punish split up groups, and most melee kills them pretty quick (one DC MK IV Sword overhead to the head one shots them for me on Heresy). I’m more bothered by dodging and pushing them feeling somewhat inconsistent. That said even if they grab someone as long as there’s at least one other person nearby they rarely get the chance to do any real damage.
That said a fully charged plasma gun shot really ought to one shot them. I think that’s more of a problem with plasma charged shot generally than dogs though. It often isn’t worth it over uncharged shots.
1 Its a infested type dont use plasma for it, you not gonna OS everything just cuz you have plasma gun (same goes with bolter)
2 Pox hound and hitbox during game is not the same than animation, exactly like reaper when they fall down from stagger so make the aim during his sprint difficult.
3 Few bullet in his head is not that hard or one good hit even on lv 5
This is the damage table, it should 1 shot the poxhound, its 1784, with Lucius Helbore rifle, 1272 Damage and the hound is nearly 5% HP, here we are doing 1784 without the 15% extra weakspot hit, but yet the weapon is only doing 900 damage, because the weakspot hitbox is bugged , and with a high HP disabler things are even worse. not to mention that poxhound still do enjoy playing kerbal space program
well Lucius is one of the weapons which does lower damage than base in short range. so yeah at long range you should be able to 1 tap “if headshot” a poxhound, but will it be easy?
It depends, if the dog is coming right at you in a straight line, lining up a headshot should be relatively easy.
But if you are trying to snipe out a dog while dodging around a horde, specials and elites, and whatever else is trying to eat your face, it can be pretty difficult to get that headshot.
Normally i just hope i can at least do enough damage to it at range so it will be easier to finish off with a melee attack.
Edit: But yes, i feel the poxhound has to much hp, it needs to many melee attacks to kill, which often leads to the dog surviving your initial attack and running off again.
