How to defeat Longlegs in Horizon Forbidden West?

The best way to tackle a fight with a Longleg in Horizon Forbidden West is to target their body parts responsible for some of its most devastating attacks. Targeting and destroying a Longleg's Wing Burner will disable its Fire elemental effect attacks making it a much smaller threat to players.

Longleg's information

Strengths and Weaknesses

Players can attack machines with different kinds of elemental attacks. Elemental attacks in the game include Fire, Shock, Frost, Plasma, Purgewater, and Acid. The Longleg will be weak to damage from Shock attacks. They are strong against damage from Acid attacks.

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Body Parts

There are a few different body parts on a Longleg but each one will drop different loot and deal different amounts of damage to the machine when attacked by players. The body parts on a Longleg are:

• Body
• Antenna
• Concussion Sac
• Wing Burner
• Sparker

Loot

Machines in Horizon Forbidden West will drop different loot items, with many being specific to each kind of machine. Some can be looted from a fallen machine, while others will need to be removed (shot off with an arrow or removed with a hit from the spear) while the machine is still alive. The Longleg will drop a long list of loot items:

• Metal Shards (Common) - Dropped from Body
• Echo Shell (Uncommon) - Dropped from Body and Concussion Sac
• Longleg Circulator* (Uncommon) - Dropped from Body
• Machine Muscle (Uncommon) - Dropped from Body
• Medium Machine Core (Rare) - Dropped from Body
• Longleg Primary Nerve* (Uncommon) - Dropped from Body and Antenna
• Braided Wire (Common) - Dropped from Body and Antenna
• Metal Bone (Rare) - Dropped from Body
• Sturdy Hardplate (Common) - Dropped from Body and Antenna
• Longleg Wing Burner* (Legendary) - Dropped from Wing Burner
• Sparker (Common) - Dropped from Sparker

*Loot items marked with an asterisk are exclusively dropped from the Longleg machine.

Cauldron

In Horizon Forbidden West, Cauldrons allow players to override the machines within that Cauldron once they have completed it. Completing a Cauldron usually means traversing through its dungeon-like corridors and facing off against a boss at the end. The Longleg is a part of the IOTA Overrides Cauldron.

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