Forum:Quarry

How do you kill all those deathclaws in the Quarry area? I am trying to finish this quest for that Thorn lady and I eventually just used two stealth boys to crawl in and grab everything, but I would like to kill those damn things. They kill me in three swipes, is there some sort of tactic or area I can climb up on and pick em off from? --Smkingjoker 02:40, October 25, 2010 (UTC)

With a level 17 character, I stood at the top end of a particular one of those conveyor planks on the west side with a Sniper Rifle and killed them all with about a hundred .308 rounds. It seemed like cheating since they could never figure out how to get anywhere near where I was standing. Note: other conveyor belts arent safe, they'll run up them to kill you. -LR

At the left wall up and then hide and kill with a lot of amounition.

Alternative: Get Boone (at Novac), then go there with a scoped rifle. Shoot the deathclaws from far away, and they will run at you one by one. Boone kills them in about five shots. It's rediculously easy with Boone and Rex.

High gun and sneak skill, Anti-Material Rifle, a nice pile of AP .50MG ammo. Have ED-E and Boone as partners (you can bring them with you, but set them to passive, since you mainly want them for their perks) Make sure you get headshots, and stay far, far away. Alternative if you use energy weapons: Gauss Rifle and a pile of max charge MF cells. Either way, approach from Sloan, and take the ledge that starts on the north and wraps around to the West of the Quarry. --65.60.189.43 20:29, October 25, 2010 (UTC)

If you dont have a strong weapon, meaning you need a lot of ammo to kill them , try to shoot them in the feet and cripple them. Once they are limping just unload some lead in their heads :).

If you're feeling you can time this perfectly, All you need is one single gun & 4 rounds. Introduce you to the.. "Euclid's C-Finder

Get a silenced rifle&pistol to lure one deathclaw at a time while sneaking, but first put 5-6 frag mines(depending on your Explosives skill) on a straight line (with intervals so they don't explode at the same time). This should cripple one of the legs, making the deathclaw much slower.

Binbag shotgun ammo knocks out in 3-4 shots even the biggest ones. Then switch to other ammo\guns to finish the unconscious bodies. This way with a Riot SG you can take even on 3 DCs all at once.

For the most part, it's best to take out deathclaws at range, and aim at their legs to cripple them. it's not their claws you have to worry about, it's their ability to close the distance extremely quickly. you get rid of that factor, and they are very easy to kill, even with a 9mm pistol(but took forever). once you get higher in level, you could also use armor with high DT(combat armor mark 2 or power armor), Oh Baby! or Knock-Knock, and the super slam perk. I just love taking them out 1 on 1 with that combo and knock them off their feet before they can even slash at me, while being up-close and personal. XxWillSxX 00:17, December 20, 2010 (UTC)XxWillSxX

If you are not at least level 16 don't even bother going to Quarry Junction, those deatchclaws are diferent from the rest of the game, they are very powefull from the beginning, they don't go levelling with the player like the rest of the creeters. This said, if you have a sneak build - the most popcorn and easy to play build in FNV -, bring Lily and ED-E with you, let them waiting in Sloan, 4 or 5 stealth boys and go sniping every one of them (it's very easy). If you have a normal guns build, bring Cass with you, equip her with a Marksman Carbine and lots of 5.56 ammo and you with All-American and 5.56 AP ammo. If you have a heavy guns build bring whatever companion you want, a Minigun upgraded with High-Speed Motor/Damped Subframe and lots of AP 5mm ammo (don't bring the Avenger, trust me). And if you have a energy weapons build bring the Plasma Caster with lots of MF cells max charge. Watch the deathclaws drop like a sack of potatoes. For full effect put Armored Saint "Dropping Like Flies" on the speakers. :D Brfritos 05:00, December 20, 2010 (UTC)

I'd like to point out this is an old thread revived. Deathclaws are much easier to kill after 1.02, as their DT has been reduced (either to 15 or 20, I can't tell because the page for them got edited twice and I don't know which to believe.) The Quarry ones are still apparently tougher than the 'normal' ones encountered elsewhere, though. Since their DT is lower, and since Max Charge/Overcharge ammo got an armor-piercing effect, this should make all builds (except explosives, lol @ explosives) have some way of dishing out the hurt. Usernametaken 17:14, December 20, 2010 (UTC)

There is a fat-man in a pool of water right next to one of those conveyers. I managed to kill the den-mother( who was much bigger than the wiki-article says, at least the size of a behemoth) with the thump-thump despite a very low explosives skill.