Tusk Thumper Doma

Grineer

For the Thumper Mod, see Thumper.

For the Archwing Ability, see Thumper (Elytron).

The Tusk Thumper Doma is the final, and toughest variant of the Tusk Thumper encountered in the Plains of Eidolon during daytime.

The Tusk Thumper Doma has 2 weaker variants, one being the Tusk Thumper and the other being the Tusk Thumper Bull.

Tactics[]

• The heavy armor on the Tusk Thumper makes its body impervious to all forms of attack. To deal damage to it, players must destroy the destructible armor plates on the Thumper's knees, which will reveal a glowing bluish-green weakspot on each leg that can be attacked. Each weakspot constitutes a quarter of the Thumper's health, with each leg weakspot closing up if its health pool is depleted, thus all 4 leg weakspots must be destroyed in order to kill the Thumper.
• The Thumper possesses unusual agility for a unit of its size, capable of jumping high into the air to either reposition itself, or attempt to slam down onto enemies beneath it. It is also capable of charging forward at great speeds, knocking over any enemies in its path.
• Occasionally, the Thumper will brace its legs and then use its pneumatic groundpounder on its belly, which it slams into the ground repeatedly to create up to 5 radial shockwaves that deals damage and knockback in a large area. The Thumper in this state is immobile however, making it easier for players to aim for its weakspots.
• The Thumper has two ranged weapons consisting of a large telescopic cannon on its front, and two rapid-fire autocannons on its sides. These weapons have their own hitboxes and hitpoints, which can be destroyed to temporarily knock them out of commission.
• Dormant Thumpers are buried underground, and thus are not visible from long distances. They will only emerge from the ground once players are within striking distance.
• This enemy, along with the Tusk Thumper Bull, has a higher chance of spawning when performing high level Bounties.
• When a Thumper only has half its health left, it will eject a hatch on its top side, opening up a launcher that will allow it to release Tusk Seeker Drones to call in reinforcements.

Notes[]

• Tusk Thumpers can drop most Plains of Eidolon-exclusive resources on death, including common and uncommon fish and animal parts, as well as common to uncommon ores and gems, but only the Bull and Doma variant drops  Seram Beetle Shell,  Sentirum, Nyth, and the blueprint for  Korrudo.
  • This is similar to Exploiter Orb, which drops multiple Orb Vallis exclusive resources and parts.
  •  Nekros can use  Desecrate for a chance to double the drops from the Thumper's corpse.
• Tusk Thumpers have set spawn locations but are randomly encountered only in the daytime. After one Tusk Thumper is killed, another one can spawn in the same session, thus it's not necessary to extract to Cetus and re-enter, but recommended. The following map shows all the possible spawn locations:

Tusk Thumper Spawn Locations Map

(Based on opinion and may not reflect actual spawn rates.)

Route the player can take that has a decent chance of spawning a Tusk Thumper. (Based on testing, but may not accurately reflect actual spawn rates.)

Tips[]

• When doing high-level Bounties or Sorties, these variants become more common, so a good way to find them is by activating a Tier 5 Bounty and search for the Thumpers instead of completing the objective.

• Decreasing the Tusk Thumper's movement speed can make it easier to shoot the weak spots:
  •  Nova's  Molecular Prime can slow the Tusk Thumper
  •  Khora's  Ensnare can stop the Tusk Thumper momentarily.
  •  Rhino's  Rhino Stomp can slow the Tusk Thumper.
  •  Sevagoth's  Gloom can slow the Tusk Thumper
• Stripping the Tusk Thumper's armor can make it more vulnerable to damage:
  •  Caliban's  Fusion Strike
  •  Mag's  Polarize
  •  Nyx's  Psychic Bolts
  •  Styanax's  Tharros Strike
  • Jade's Ophanim Eyes
  • A melee weapon, ideally  Sarpa with  Shattering Impact
  • The following armor stripping abilities have no effect on the Tusk Thumper:
    •  Ember's  Fire Blast
    •  Hildryn's  Pillage, which doesn't strip its armor nor restore Hildryn's shields
    •  Saryn's  Spores
    •  Trinity's  Link modded with  Abating Link
    •  Xaku's  The Lost Gaze
• Abilities that make Tenno invisible, e.g.  Loki's  Invisibility, can help making Tusk Thumper less active. It will not retaliate against invisible Tenno and less likely move around.
• The Thumper is incapable of hitting  Titania with its melee, charge, and shockwave attacks if she is above the ground in her  Razorwing form. While it can still shoot her, it will prefer to attack her Razorflies, which can keep the Thumper busy while  Titania shoots its weak spots.
• A beacon from  Buzlok's alternate fire can be used to tag a weak spot, allowing Tenno to deal damage with ease.
• Operator's Void Beam can also deal significant damage against the Thumper, especially with Prism/Scaffold that has Punch Through and/or area of effect damage.
  • This method is quite ammo-efficient as Void Beam is simply rechargeable, while the Thumper requires a lot of ammo to bring down.
• Stolen Tusk Dargyn can be used to slowly fight the Thumper as well. Though it is recommended to periodically destroy its gun to prevent retaliation as Dargyn is not so resilient.
• Voidrig's  Guard Mode deals massive damage to the Tusk Thumper.
• The following is a strategy the player can take to find and take down a Thumper quickly (see the above image for a visual aid for routing). At any point, if you see and/or hear the Tusk Thumper emerge from the ground, immediately engage, and, once the Thumper is destroyed, return to Cetus to start over. When entering the Plains from Cetus, fly towards Gara Toht Lake and then once you pass it make a large u-turn and head back towards the south side of the map. Travel westward in a zigzag pattern until you reach the shore, then fly north past the Seaside Ruin and beyond The Ribs until you reach the northwest corner of the map. Then, from there, fly once again in a zigzag pattern eastward past Mount Nang and stopping near Renthi Spring. Then, fly around the rest of Gara Toht lake until you land back at the entrance to Cetus. If you didn't see a Thumper, exit and try again. The red circle around the base at Mount Nang denotes an area that is slightly higher level than the areas surrounding it, meaning almost anywhere else along this route a Thumper may spawn, but in that area a higher tier Thumper would spawn instead (e.g.: a Thumper Bull may spawn on the route, but, at Mount Nang, a Thumper Doma would spawn instead).
  • The Thumper's armor plating covering its weak spot count as headshots for Incarnon weapons like  Laetum and  Phenmor (but, oddly enough, the actual weak spots do not count as headshots). The weapons, when evolved, can do major amounts of damage to the Thumper as well as not having the need to reload.
  • Subsumed abilities like  Rhino's  Roar or  Mirage's  Eclipse can increase the damage done as well.
  • Use  Madurai's  Void Strike to deal immensely increased damage for a short amount of time to the Thumper.

Trivia[]

• Tusk Thumper is the first Grineer ground vehicle and second hostile ground vehicle introduced in the game, first being Coildrive.
• There are two inactive Tusk Thumpers of unknown variant in orange in a small base area at the middle point between Ostwan Range and Renthi Spring on Plains of Eidolon.
  • There is a unique-looking console positioned close to each of them, presumably for maintenance purposes.

Patch History[]

See also[]

• Tusk Thumper, the base variant
• Tusk Thumper Bull, the intermediate variant

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