Borderlands 2 Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate's Booty Walkthrough Part 9 – Two Easy Things: Killing Sandman

Borderlands 2 Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate's Booty Walkthrough Part 9 – Two Easy Things: Killing Sandman

As you go up the stairs you will get something of a reprieve from fighting. As you go up, be sure to keep an eye out for the Ammo Dump and Quick Change Station. After that head on up the stairs and look to the right to find a loot chest. Grab anything good and sell the rest. Keep following the path to get into the Hot Springs Hideout. You are nearly to your objective now.

Use the balcony you emerge on to your advantage. It gives plenty of cover and only Buccaneer can jump high enough to get up to you easily. Either use some long range weaponry and just fight the whole of the encampment from the balcony or follow the path over to the right. This will at least let you get rid of those that like to charge you immediately.

With those threats gone head over to the right. You will encounter the shielded version of the Swabbie, the Angry Cabin Boy. Just head to the South from there and fight through the pirates. You have Rogues and more Powder Monkeys to deal with. Take your time with the conflict so you can make it through without too much difficulty.

As you head to the South keep to the right-hand wall as it will keep the number of enemies down and you will find more cover along this path. You are almost there, just a few more groups of pirates to go to make it to the very Southern portion of this area. There are a good number of different pirate types to deal with. The good news is nothing else new is coming at you.

When you have made it all the way to the South it is time to start over to the East once again. You will find some stairs to go up, take them. At the top of them you will encounter more pirates, mostly the suicidal Grogmaster and the melee oriented Buccaneer. Keep your distance and deal with each of them as you best can. Be sure to keep to the top of the stairs to limit the flow of the incoming enemies. This is important because when you cross deeper into this chamber a Badass Cannoneer will drop down and join in. Beat the pirates in this area and you can raise the gate that will lead right to Sandman. Just head for the ladder to the East, climb it up and head on over to the switch. Hit it to open the gate and bring on the real fight of this area.

After all that you will find Sandman and his aid “The Big Sleep”. As the Big Sleep is wielding 2 anchors and Sandman is not really packing much, it is obvious which is the immediately bigger threat. Pull out some Shock-type weaponry to tear through their shields.  Unfortunately, just after the fight starts, Sandman calls in even more reinforcements. Focus on the Big Sleep and Sandman just to make your life easier. Just keep the shock incoming until the shield drops. After that change over to a DoT like Acid or Fire. Just firing on the Big Sleep will take him down quickly enough.

Time to deal with Sandman now. He stays up on the platform in the back of the room. This means you need to either move to the entrance of where you came from to snipe him or just charge on in and cut through whatever ranks are between you and him.

When the fighting is over head for the next marker on the map. It is on the far right-hand side of the [platform that Sandman was on. Here you will get the second compass piece. Time to start searching for the Third. Apparently Sandman noted that a Hyperion convoy had grabbed it and is shipping it through Wurmwater. Time to go hunting for it. Be sure to take a little time to loot the surrounding area.