This channel deserves at least ten times more subscribers. Top quality guides for HFW players.

Dodging under the legs is something straight out of a movie! 😂 Thank you for the guide! I really needed this since I absolutely despise fire claws 👍🏻😅

I love love love the timestamps, the footage, the explanation and everything else about this video, this is so helpful and fun to watch. usually this kind of video is just a voiceover and some generic footage (not just horizon content, but games in general). so I really appreciate you including screenshots and gameplay that demonstrates each thing you're talking about.

Ah, fireclaws. Of the big enemies of the game, they feel the fairest in terms of bulk, power, and hit boxes. No weirdly delayed hitboxes, no weirdly short health bars, no running around and sniping you with roll-catching ranged attacks before running underground for invulnerable moments. Just a straight up brawl.

These videos are great, really adds to the enjoyment of the game. The shredder master class video by itself completely changed the game for me for the better

I needed this badly, I pay on easier difficulty and try to take everything out from a distance which doesn't work with these guys. Sometimes I need the reminder that I should try other play styles!

As a bonus, once you get the hang of taking these things down with this method, you can reliably farm the Apex variant and start racking up a bunch of Apex Fireclaw hearts. You need a handful to upgrade certain legendary weapons, but you can sell the rest for big shards.

Your tutorials and tips are so insanely useful! This one in particular will help me so much because I often got ANNIHILATED by fireclaws, particularly the one outside a rebel camp that basically one-shotted me multiple times. I'll go at him right now with your tips! Thank you so much!

Great vid Arktix! Gotta love that Freeze & Boltblaster combo. The close-range coils really tear it apart too. Hope you're doing well! 🤙

Your setup tips to get the machine roped down is really nice to know. I'll be using that in the future for sure! It seems usable in a lot more situations apart from trying to rope down a machine. I'll think of it in future future fights I'm thinking of putting overdraw coils on the rope caster, but every big machine can be tied down with two overdrawn (fully upgraded) shots, but I like to think it is a usable option maybe I'll try testing it in the future

wow Wow WOW!!! Your channel is an absolute Master Class on HFW. Without a doubt, the best of the best. Thanks for doing the homework for the rest of us, and for presenting everything in a clear, concise manner.

Excellent video...again. In the overview of the gear you called the Valiant outfit the Sentinel...but I got it. I always called this approach the "S and M" strategy: Tie them up and punish them. It's one of those other strategies that work well with other machines once you understand the new rules for the ropecasters in this game; it's a classic. I like to shock the canisters and then freeze them...which is fun, but this strategy is more efficient, creative and safer. Thanks for putting in the work, man!

Bro found your channel the other day with GOW content and was impressed but this video about the frost claw webbing is a god send, been trying to get this done and other videos wasn’t cutting it.. I’ve just started playing the game again after putting it down for months and your videos have given me a new love for the game.. New sub and keep up the good work my friend! 👍🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👍🏾

Dude, thank you. These guys were giving me such a hard time! I used your technique and took down two in a row without dying! Easy peasy!

Love your videos. Your strategy definitely helps for the Apex. I have a different strategy for the regular fireclaw, which to me is easier to beat. I put it into the brittle stage right away and the unload my boltblaster. Afterwards i use a smoke bomb and get behind and use its shock canister to put it into shock stage and use a warrior bow to unload it on the leg area where there's no armor. Warrior is easier and fast to use and won't worry about consuming expensive materials. Once the shock meter is about to run out, I shoot another shock canister so it goes immediately back into the shock stage and repeat with the warrior bow. I use burst shot since its more precise on hitting where I want to. When I run out of canisters to shoot, I smoke bomb and repeat first step. Brittle stage and then boltblaster. By this time, I kill it without it ever fighting back. Works every time for me. I play on Ultra Hard so it can work for anyone. But your strategy definitely works for Apex version.

Great tips. Faced my first one in Forbidden West last night, and was excited to see that diving under the legs works as well as in Zero Dawn. I love the challenge of defeating it without going for the belly, but you know all my spikethrowers seem to gravitate towards it lol.

Another great video my guy. Consistently helpful information and made easy to understand.

You are an absolute legend my man, hands down the best put-together Horizon explainer videos I have seen!!

This channel is such a jewel. So professional in all aspects.

Something about your videos... Dunno if it's the attention to detail, the lively commentary and engaging personality or the discovery of the finer details of the game, but sir you have rekindled me love for this game; to finally make me make time to dive into the game plus after over a year putting it down. Keep up the great work man. Subscribed and bell notified ✌️

Oh man, I was having *so* much trouble hunting Fireclaws until this. I was using your other favorite go-to, the Ancestor's Return, and it was just *not* working. The discs kept missing, or hitting trees, or I couldn't maneuver enough to catch them, and I just ended up missing shots (and when they did land, the tear damage almost always blew up the giant blaze canister, losing the webbing). As always, your guides are a lifesaver.

your videos are so well made! these guides are a life saver! i hope your channel grows quickly and you get more acknowledgement! thank you so much

Hi.Thank you for this. Fireclaws are not easy to deal with even on normal difficulty with your best gear, if you don't know what you are doing.

Absolute godsend you and this video are! I've been racking my brain over a good strategy to efficiently farm the sac webbing. Was using a 4x upgraded Carja's Bane to get the +25% knockdown and kitted out with knockdown coils to stagger the Fireclaw while still doing damage and using the Elemental Fury valor surge for longer brittle duration. But your method is faster and cleaner for sure. Cheers mate!

I love your videos man!! so useful and enjoyable to watch

Nice! Thank you so much.. Your guides are the best. Now just holding out for the stormbird guide.. And then all my legendary gear will be fully upgraded.

Finally a fire claw guide, I’ve been suffering with them on ultra hard and I finally have a good method

Excellent guide all around - - thanks so much! My kiddo will be shocked and awed when we use this together in copilot mode!

You absolute legend! This really helped me to take down a fireclaw easy to get the sac webbing. Before I was grinding for ages on a single kill and still not getting the sac webbing. Playing on ultra-hard, used "the tie that binds" rope caster, "the sun scourge" for frost arrows, and "eternal vengeance" bolt blaster. It only took three rounds of tying down, freezing, and blasting to kill the beast, and I forgot to use valor surge on the first two, so maybe it could have been done in two rounds. I'm taking more of a laid back approach by the way, not so much for dodging. I hit and run on this thing. Just to the west of the campfire, there is a pond where you can dive down. Usually the fireclaw loses track of you there and goes back to his business quite fast. You can sometimes get hit if it uses the lava ability under water, but it doesn't happen a lot. Thanks for all the tips man, on this and many other videos. I'm gonna go bag myself a couple more fireclaws.

Excellent tipps! Thank you so much for sharing! 💪☺️🙏🙏

Thanks for all these videos. Was struggling to kill then quickly due to lack of good weak spots.

Great video! Please do the dreadeings next

This channel is underrated af Keep up the good work champ

Wow absolutely love your tutorials! Very precise with many options, thank you for your hard work!

I feel like fireclaws are the most difficult machine, so this guide helps a lot, thanks 😊

Definitely agree on the site choice. Much nicer having it be alone for sure. By the way the Icebolt Boltblaster makes for another nice purple weapon to inflict Freeze with Sustained Burst, then switch to your damage based Boltblaster & do the same.

Wow... I normally don't expect much of tutorials for HFW (mainly because of things like "I cannot hit this damned location"), but this one was really good. I had to buy both the boltcaster and the ropecaster and still managed to take down an Apex Fireclaw in my third attempt (the one where I hit "Critical Strike" instead of starting the Valor Surge doesn't count!)... thank you for this great video... Now I am curious, is there a similar trick with the Frost Claws?

I have been WAITINGGGG for this installment lol even with end game gear on new game plus fireclaws are absolute units

Man, this worked SO well. I very much appreciate these videos

Dude....... really..... you are the MASTA! Thank you, you guide is the best ever........ after this guide we can use this strategy on lots of other machines and it works perfectly on Fireclaws!

Nice guide! I found a rebel Fireclaw in the north and while the Frostclaws in the area were relatively easy to kill even in very hard, that Fireclaw was insane with my mostly half upgraded blue gear at that stage of the story. It took as long as a full Apex Thunderjaw to even get it to half life and even after doing that, I had to run away and the entire area reset because I ran a little too far. At least I still had the knowledge on how to avoid his attacks from the first game. Your guide helped me take it down way more easily. It took 4 rounds of tying it down and I had to hide between round 2 and 3 to reset aggro and kill some of the rebels that went poking their nose around because I have blue weapons that aren't even fully upgraded and I hadn't used the weapon technique yet so I didn't know it kind of locked your aiming so I couldn't target the stuff on his back at first but it was still way faster and easier than whatever I was doing before, especially when I got the hang of the weapon technique by the end.

Another excellent and informative video. Thanks for your hard work!

Sorry late on this video it's the notifications buddy, absolutely banging video, love your work and 7k subs cmon 10k in no time, fire video buddy as always much respect from the UK 🔥💯👍🇬🇧😁

This video is a godsend thank you! Those sac webbings are the most frustrating part to farm and you need so many of them!

Very handy guide. I have struggled with getting these guys down and intact enough. Having said that, it is fun to fight them.

Oh my god! This has been something I've been waiting for my whole life. Thank you so much.

Bro what a video ....never seen such detailed explanation for forbidden west. Well done. SUBSCRIBED!!!!

Thanks so much. I got Forbidden West a couple weeks ago and your videos have been really helpful.

I got my first kill thanks to this guide so that's groovy :) Other than that my main problem right now is getting the ropes to attach. Just now I spent eighteen ropes without tying the fireclaw down so I'm definitely doing something wrong.

This was an exceptionally good guide!

I can’t believe how beautiful this game is . Guerrilla knocked it out of the park with this one and Burning Shores DLC.

Thanks for this video, farming sac webbing for gear upgrades is my least favorite thing to do in the game I love the most.

I wish Guerrilla would give us the ability to set 3-5 custom weapon wheel loadouts, complete with the coils and everything. this loadout you’re suggesting is GREAT for taking down Fireclaws, but it’s so vastly different from what I normally use. It’s such a hassle to go in and swap out individual weapons, then remember where they were in the weapon wheel when I want to switch back to them

This channel has more effort than any other big channel

In the spot on the map where you start closest to a fire claw has some imposing trees that you can hide behind and shoot at the fire claw. The fire claw will be stuck using only ranged attacks.

Best guide video that I needed. Fireclaws are my cryptonite. While traversing through map, if I encounter fireclaw, just a big NOPE appears in front of my eyes.

Always expect quality work when clicking your videos. Very well done as always.

since enemy attacks are cheesy af in this game your tactic of dodging towards the machine is how i do with every machine bigger than clawstrider. The game exploits our reaction patterns. It helps slotting the "Dodger" module as well. You can dodge 5 consecutive times before stumbling. Together with your awesome tip of short slide then dodge it wirks splendidly.

You make it all seems so easy, barely an inconvenience, nice!

Bruh I needed this in my life 👍🏽👏🏽👍🏽👏🏽👍🏽👏🏽

Super helpful tips. I’ve neglected ropecasters till now

You make it look so easy, I’m struggling with my first fireclaw, thanks for the tips hopefully I can take him down next round.

I was just running around like crazy shooting normal arrows avoiding shooting the component. I either got killed or ended up destroying the component. Thanks for this master class, I will try it.

Really worth noting that the main benefit to Freezing is the fact that the negation of damage from armor plating becomes nullified, so your attacks will do full normal damage even to armor. This is how you can literally just unload on the foe and hit any part of them for good damage.

Thanks for the tutorial buddy. I travelled 2000m to thornmarsh, just to get 1 tapped and get sent back 2000m. So I noclipped all the way back. Now watch when I catch him outside again xD

Thank you. That was a quick and in-depth demonstration. It took me a few times but I got him and the Sac Webbing. I didn’t have as much power as you but I got him. I hate this game on ultra hard. 😂

One of the things I do is, instead of running toward the fireclaw, I get in the trees and use them to take the throw damage. The fireclaw can't charge me without getting stopped by a tree. But it also makes escape from the minor volcano attacks it sends a bit difficult. If you can stay aware of your surroundings and dodge trees as you escape, you "should" be fine (with a double tap roll-away).

WoW, this method is so much easier! great video!

Just got past the opening section today (got the Shieldwing and the first Tallneck) and I can’t wait to try following your guide! I’m only playing on normal for my first playthrough, but I do plan to go for the ultra hard NG+ trophies. I’m guessing this technique works for UH difficulty as well? I’m a long ways off from fighting a Fireclaw, but I’m very excited to have a channel I can come to with very useful guides! Sorry for the short novel. Lol

you're amazing! please continue making such content

Thank you for the tips man. I really appreciate it. even I already defeat the apex fireclaw while me on level 38/39 in hard mode difficulty, still wanna give myself another try to fight this by using ur method

Thanks man. I'm a "shoot it until it dies" kind of player with no strategy... I'll have to try this.

One of the easiest big machines to kill honestly. Freeze, then rope, then unload on the buttox w Sustained Burst = Dead Fireclaw :) Good strategy shown here, although you absolutely should have froze it first before roping, and use the stun time from the freezing to rope it. This will also prolong the time the roping lasts.

Thank you for this guide, currently playing on Ultra hard fresh playthough and just took down a fireclaw with this strategy

Hey Arktix thanks sooo much for this!! I’m late on playing the game but I was stupid and did a first ply through on UH. But this method work great on that difficulty I found. If I could add something to your method, I found myself being low on weapon stamina when I had tied down and frozen the fireclaw late in the fight. I found that freezing him (without tying him down) and throwing drill spikes into his legs is great for getting Crits (which recharges your valor very quickly) and of course does double damage WHILE triggering a knockdown on him! Helped me kill him with three rounds of this added into your method. Thanks again!!! Really was hurting for that sac webbing lol

👌 I subscribed after watching this one video. BTW first time I fought this fireclaw it fell over and got stuck between two trees and I killed it with my spear. It literally just lay there forever. Super lucky. 👌

Thank you, i've been having issues grinding fire laws lol this helps

Love these videos, great information.

Here i was thinking i was the only one enjoying sliding between it's legs.. That is fun

Awesome advice. Even after watching the video I couldn't seem to immobilize the beast. The thing I missed was the sliding-tie-down. That really makes a difference. Also you don't want to miss the opportunity to stab him when he's knocked over. Once I got him pretty destroyed, even though my second pass was a flop with tie downs while he was dancing around, I was able to use drill spikes and position myself behind some foliage and get him close to the end, then polish him off with frost and impact.

Another great video! Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

Thank you. I Don't like to put in so much time in strategy, so this helps a lot! 🎉

Worked like a charm, even on UH. Sac Webbings are such a pain, but not so much now. Thank you again!

This is a similar but different way of taking down these bad boys that I use. I tend to use advanced shock arrows on the Sun Scourge to shock him place then use the delta sharp shot to start taking canisters off of him. When he starts to get up quickly spam a smoke bomb then hit him again with shock arrows to start tearing the canisters that are further up his back between his shoulders. Rinse and repeat until he's down , never forgetting the smoke bombs. It's not an efficient way of doing it but it's fun. I might try your method as I continue my NG+.

Your videos are superb and very helpful to many of us. You have a new subscriber 👍

Good stuff! I’m reaching WINGS OF TEN mission at end game but will definitely use this tactic with New Game+!

Great tutorial! Very detailed and to the point. Thank you!

Wow love it! Super entertaining to watch your mastery of these machines 😊

Glad your channel is getting more subs and views. You 100% deserve it man. Another quick question please; does critical damage affect elemental status build up and tear?

Super useful, thanks for this!

If you have a good shock bow you stun lock the non-apex versions with their canisters, on normal this is usually enough time to kill them.

I love your guides. I was having a hard time defeating a Frostclaw, and your tips helped me kill it while keeping the sac intact. Is there any possibility that you could provide a guide for Thunderjaws and Stormbirds?

Definitely helped me in grinding sac webbings.

Dude I’m so glad I found this channel. All I ever did was try to get back up against some of these machines

Works very well! Another thing that works is Drill Spikes to its legs (I even think you mentioned it). Knocks him down in no time.

This game was really starting to wear on me. I started on very hard, probably shouldnt have, but refuse to lower it and have just wanted to give up on it, lol. This renewed my interested in taking on the machines I had real difficulty with. Thanks.

A note on frostclaws: It works great to tie them down like in this video, but for frostclaws it's better to explode the shoulder sac instead of the weak spot on the behind with the sustained burst. That's because it's the only way to achieve a brittle state except exploding the main sac, which you will need the webbing from.

Incredibly helpful, thank you!

I struggle with these Bear Robots. Thx for the video bro!

masterfully done and entertaining to watch. gonna go try it out now thanks man!