It's a great pre-planning/ambush weapon. You set up a bunch of traps, start your attack, and then just wait for shit to charge you and fall to their demise. Also helps as a just in case other things join in. I once killed a sawtooth with my traps without even seeing how it died. It just charged into an area with like 5 traps in it.
Of course it is a bit easier if you have the materials / storage space for lots of the better ammo, better weapons, higher quality mods etc., but you can adjust the difficulty if you need to.
The rock packs are another weird (annoying) thing like this. Got so many boxes filled with them that I can't delete, and I never really use rocks anymore for anything at all.
It was a little amusing to see vendors selling packs of rocks. I could maybe, just maybe, see someone wanting to buy some in the first hour or so of the game. And then as you said, weird and annoying when they show up in loot boxes.
If you could sell rocks (lol) or dump entire packs into your resources inventory it'd be one thing, but literally the only way to clear those out is to throw all of your rocks on the ground, open up two rock packs, repeat. Soooo tiresome.
I think the last non-stylish-melee-action game I played where my personal confidence and learning exactly how to deal with enemies made much more of a difference than my stats/inventory - let's call this learning curve vs. power curve - was probably RE4.
They don't like being shot in the ass with shock arrows. That and once you have the right mods you can one shot the damn things with a dual shot of precision arrows. They're not too hard to sneak up on either. I wrecked a pack of them easily once.
Tripcaster and Sharpshot bow, though I do have one handling mod in it.
The draw distance in this game amazes me sometimes, especially for the larger enemies. I was running around Meridian the other night and looked out toward the horizon and noticed a Thundermaw milling about.
Check out the screenshot:
It's inaccurate as hell if you're shooting from the hip. Since you have no handling mods it takes longer for it to aim properly.
We clearly played differently since I just put purple fire mods on the hunter bow and the damage mods on the precision bow. The sharp shot bow is actually a really good damage weapon.
It depends where you land!
