Raider Bosses

Raider bosses are mini-bosses of the midgame, and are notable for showing up in random places, dropping exo plate scraps, fulfilling a Job and teaching 10-15 raw in their weapon skill.

All of these are in moderate demand. Exo plate scraps are used in making exogear, though both plates and fully formed exogear are sometimes farmed from an endgame boss instead. 10-15 raw is important for most builds,. This can also be bypassed by player-teaching. Finally, the raider killer job is a bit labor-intensive, but it's a fair XP source.

Finding a Raider Boss

Raider bosses randomly spawn in a zone where they wait, occasionally wandering. Watching a TV tuned to the FNN channel will give reports on what raider bosses are around right now (they'll have names like "One-Eyed Breakfast"), but it won't say their location. There can be a limited amount of raider bosses in the game, and if one is killed, new one will spawn shortly after, usually in a different location - if you are looking for a raider boss to teach you your weapons skill, you will have to kill them until one with needed weapon spawns.

To figure out where a boss is hiding, either get a Medium to seek the name you see on TV, or say -john where One-Eyed Breakfast (or whatever name) to Johnny Fiveaces, in Round Corner, Slagtown. The latter costs a $8000 and usually takes 5-10 minutes. To pin down the exact location of the raider, you can track them or get a clairvoyant to find where they are hiding.

Area	Tile
Botany bay	Wanders
Gangland	Apartment 1B
Gangland	Satan's Hollow
Kakuri Island	Wanders
Mount Fisty	Wanders
Mountain Pass	Wanders
Screamer Base	Wanders
Shoreline	Wanders
Stormfront Island	Abandoned Resort
Slagtown	Public Restroom
Slagtown	Top Of The Missile (near the monument)
Sub-Sewers	Pornfill
Weezer Dam	Inside North or South Cornices

Equipment and Tactics

Each raider boss has a chosen weapon skill. This will be the skill that they teach from 10 to 15 raw, and it can be any of the main combat skills except for Flails. Generally, players with 30+ weapon skill should take raider bosses no problem. None of the weapons are particularly difficult to dodge or parry except for guns, which demand good burn armor for the plasma rifle, and good shot armor for the AK-7 or .71 Dhawk (or else Focus and attack speed).

All raider bosses have mediocre dodge and mediocre armor; they wear the equivalent of an unmodified exosuit. They can and will feint dumb opponents, but otherwise have no great tricks up their sleeves.

• Clubs: Combustor hammers, Piston hammers.
• Blades: Shiver swords, Boss and Bruce Springsteels.
• Whips: Flame Chain, Blacklash, Flash whip.
• Rifles: Plasma Rifle, AK-7.
• Pistols: Desert Hawk .71.
• Spears: Assegai.
• Fists: Pata Gauntlets.