How come the archgun portion of the Profit Taker fight requires each leg to be killed, but the elemental/ips portion doesn't?

[LariusNefarius]

It seems all too easy right now to kill the profit taker, especially in the elemental/ips phase because you can just shoot at his big dumb head, there's no real skill needed or involved other than setting up your arsenal with different elements and ips stats.

[Katinka]

Different damage types are needed to drop her shields which have cycling vulnerability due to Sentient tech the Corpus have integrated into the Orbs.  It doesn't matter where you hit because all you're doing is bringing down shields that cover the whole target.  After that we use the heavy guns to damage the legs to force her to hold still then focus fire on the body.  Pretty sure The Business explains that during the fight.

[Me.KayOh]

13 hours ago, LariusNefarius said:

It seems all too easy right now to kill the profit taker, especially in the elemental/ips phase because you can just shoot at his big dumb head, there's no real skill needed or involved other than setting up your arsenal with different elements and ips stats.

Because you only have one archgun and can only mod it for a limited number of stats. I suppose this is a way to make sure that one can solo the profit-taker. Because if the elemental/ips portion was limited to archgun, then you would have to have a squad where all required elements are assuredly covered by all four players with their archguns, in some form or fashion.

People would have screamed at DE if it was not solo-able. =|

[Aramil999]

In Shield phase you destroy SHIELD which covers whole body, then you must penetrate battleship class armour with Archguns, to do that first destroy legs so he dropa down and open up his head.

Perfectly logical.