Heavy War Drone

War Drone
Designed specifically to kill you. You in particular.
Capturable?	No
Health	350
Defense	0
Touch damage	30
Resistances	80  70  100  -40  50  60  0  0
ID	fuheavydrone

The war drone is a boss type flyer based on the vanilla heavy drones.

It is found mostly on certain cyber sphere mini biomes and is guaranteed to spawn in a certain area of the Precursor Ruins mission through a wired lever.

It is a modular part based enemy therefore it will be drastically different every time you encounter it, sometimes being a pushover and at other times destroying you violently.

It is completely immune to poison damage, additionally, it takes no critical extra damage, and recuperates from knockback 80% faster. It also damages the player for 30 base (impact, physical) damage on contact.

Drops

The heavy war drone pulls from the furobotTreasure, ffmetallicbossChest and fuessence pools. Additionally it has a 10% chance to drop either static cells, spare parts, or laser diodes. It also drops a targeting chip 100% of the time.

This means that in addition to the base drops, it may also drop some amount of essence, robot loot, and the specialized loot of metallic bosses, meaning it might drop augments, pet collars, basic FU resources, random weapon loot, FU stimpacks, and most importantly, it can drop an entire variety of precursor loot.

It might be worth it to farm this boss repeatedly, as he is easy to summon, as you need only speedrun the precursor ruins dungeon till the wired switch arena part, and his drops are really good*.

*note that if you hunt it with a bow, it will simply drop space drone loot, so one is advised not to use one.

Because the actual list is far too big to describe here, you can acess them here:

ffmetallicbossChest ; artifactloot ; furobotTreasure

Fighting

Because of the nature of this boss, there is no clear way to fight him, as the variation of attacks differ from each different war drone. For example, one may have a homing assault rifle type attack and an explosive plasma shot type attack, while other may have a wall piercing railgun and a force cage type denial attack.

There are 12 different variations (6 for each arm) of weapons for its attacks, therefore the combinations that result from those may drastically change the effective means of combat against this boss. The player simply has to learn how to act against them on the heat of the moment.

The only generally good strategy is to keep on the move and avoid running into the drone, as 30 physical base damage is a very serious amount of damage. It is also recommended to bring electric weapons to this fight as they deal bonus damage, and perhaps cosmic/shadow weapons, as they provide good debuffs and are not resisted by this boss.

Category:Bosses Category:Precursor

How to obtain

Exploration

Biome monsters

Biome: Corrupt Asteroids (monsters)

Any 4 of the following: Tentacool 30.77% Peblit 30.77% Tintic 30.77% Servitor Drone 30.77% Micro Defence Drone 30.77% Scandroid 30.77% Skimbus 99% Electric Skimbus 1% 30.77% Icebobb 30.77% Omnicannon 30.77% Omnicannon 30.77% Chiropterror 30.77% War Drone 30.77% Nanobot Swarm 30.77%

Biome: Elder Asteroids (monsters)

Any 4 of the following: Floating Horror 50.88% Flesh Reaper 50.88% Tentacool 50.88% Trifangle 6.54% Ancient Cannon 50.88% Omnicannon 50.88% Omnicannon 50.88% War Drone 50.88% Chiropterror 6.54% Nanobot Swarm 6.54%

Biome: Gleaming Asteroids (monsters)

Any 4 of the following: Tintic 33.33% Servitor Drone 33.33% Micro Defence Drone 33.33% Scandroid 33.33% Trifangle 33.33% Ancient Cannon 33.33% Omnicannon 33.33% Omnicannon 33.33% Chiropterror 33.33% War Drone 33.33% Nanobot Swarm 33.33% Cosmic Ray 33.33% (peaceful)

Biome: Metallic Surface III (monsters)

Any 1 of the following: War Drone 9.09% War Bot 90.91%

Biome: Metallic Surface IV (monsters)

Any 2 of the following: Nanobot Swarm 12.85% War Drone 12.85% Fatal Circuit 99.57%

Biome: Precursor Ruins (monsters)

Any 4 of the following: Chiropterror 5.27% Trifangle 11.94% Omnicannon 53.4% Servitor Drone 11.94% Spider MkI 62.11% Micro Defence Drone 53.4% Ancient Cannon 69.42% Repair Bot 69.42% (peaceful) Nanobot Swarm 5.27% War Drone 5.27%

Used for

Animals

Monster drops

War Bot War Drone

Hyper Targeting Chip ~1x Pool: Furobot Treasure ~4.43x Pool: Ffmetallicboss Chest ~2.66x Pool: Fu Essence ~2.66x Static Cell ~0.89x Spare Parts ~0.89x Laser Diode ~0.89x Protheon Shard ~0.04x