How to defeat Ravagers in Horizon Forbidden West

Ravagers can do both close-up melee damage and accurate long-range damage in Horizon Forbidden West. There isn't much players can do about the melee damage other than avoiding it, but the long-range attacks can be squelched. Taking out a Ravager's Ravager Cannon on top of its back will disable their long-range laser attack, which can turn the tides of a battle against one of these machines.

Ravager'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 Ravager will be weak to damage from Purgewater and Acid attacks. They are resistant to damage from Frost and Shock attacks.

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Body Parts

There are a few different body parts on a Ravager, 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 Ravager are:

• Body
• Ravager Cannon
• Sparker
• Glowblast Canister
• Antenna

Loot

Machines in Horizon Forbidden West will drop different loot items, and many are 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 with a hit from the spear) while the machine is still alive. The Ravager will drop a long list of loot items:

• Metal Shards (Common) - Dropped from Body
• Crystal Braiding (Very Rare) - Dropped from Body
• Piercing Spike (Rare) - Dropped from Body
• Sparker (Common) - Dropped from Body and Sparker
• Braided Wire (Common) - Dropped from Body and Antenna
• Medium Machine Core (Rare) - Dropped from Body
• Ravager Circulator* (Uncommon) - Dropped from Body
• Machine Muscle (Uncommon) - Dropped from Body
• Ravager Primary Nerve* (Rare) - Dropped from Body and Antenna
• Metal Bone (Rare) - Dropped from Body
• Sturdy Hardplate (Common) - Dropped from Body and Antenna
• Useable Weapon (Very Rare) - Dropped from Ravager Cannon
• Glowblast (Uncommon) - Dropped from Glowblast Canister

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

Cauldron

In Horizon Forbidden West, Cauldrons allow players to override the machines that are 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 Ravager is a part of the IOTA Overrides Cauldron.

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