Tips on how to beat colletor?

[RavageWaffle]

It seems 4/5 times I reach him, I die.

[NinjaX]

Not sure what's your issue. For me, it's just clear the minions and aim for the boss.

When the boss dies, the minions run away. So if you can go for lethal, you can skip killing minions.

[Handbanana]

Originally posted by NinjaX:

Not sure what's your issue. For me, it's just clear the minions and aim for the boss.

When the boss dies, the minions run away. So if you can go for lethal, you can skip killing minions.

The minions are the main source of damage output in that fight. You pretty much have to kill them especially ith the collect buffing them like every turn.

If you don't have AE skills like cleave or whirlwind or high strength build to the point where you can one shot the adds you won't win this fight.

[RavageWaffle]

Originally posted by Handbanana:

Originally posted by NinjaX:

Not sure what's your issue. For me, it's just clear the minions and aim for the boss.

When the boss dies, the minions run away. So if you can go for lethal, you can skip killing minions.

The minions are the main source of damage output in that fight. You pretty much have to kill them especially ith the collect buffing them like every turn.

If you don't have AE skills like cleave or whirlwind or high strength build to the point where you can one shot the adds you won't win this fight.

That makes sense, I only ever pass that boss when I have TONS of AE skills.

[Pixel Peeper]

AoEs are efficient, but not necessary. As long as you can kill the initial adds in a couple turns, the rest of the fight is cake.

[Handbanana]

Also once the initial 3 adds are dead he only resummons them one at a time. So as long as you can take them out as they spawn after that point its pretty easy. If you do so he spends a lot of his time resummoning them and rarely attacking.

[Lyrin]

Yep, clearing the minions repeatedly and just passing on any extra damage you might be able to output to the boss works pretty consistently. As long as you can clear one add per turn and have surplus damage you're in a good spot. It also baits Collector into spending most turns re-summoning instead of buffing, attacking or debuffing.

[Alkavi]

Kill the minions
Apply weakening to minions you can't kill
Expect to take some amount of damage.

[Jackal]

I never had much problems with him, I always kill all his minions and then hits him alternately and the new minions he summons (he only summons one at a time when you kill them all).

[Mizal]

Have they changed something since this thread was made? Because the Collector always just summons both minions again the instant I kill them. This for me is the most difficult boss in the game, I just never have the defense available to take the hits from all three of them.

[1.2M | Missingno.]

This thread is more than two years old.

[JtDarth]

Originally posted by Mega Missingno.:

This thread is more than two years old.

Doesn't change the validity of his question. I picked up the game a few days ago and have yet to have a run where I can remotely challenge the collector, let alone win.

[1.2M | Missingno.]

Should be able to answer your own question. Why is a two year old thread the first place you look?

[DuckSonata]

The Collector was actually only beatable for a brief window in early 2018, which is why this is the only extant thread containing claims to have beaten this fight. As the first archaeologist observed, Collector now instantly resummons on the same turn, where before it used to take a full turn resummoning. Without that breathing room, it is now impossible to win. Better luck next lifetime, my friend.

For you other newbies, let me save you some time combing through the 2018 archives: there are many fights in this game are actually impossible to win and you're just going to have to make your peace with that. Time Eater, Awakened One, Reptomancer, Transient, The Champ, Bronze Automaton, and yes The Collector, all cannot be defeated without cheating.

Now, some of you may have noticed that that list contains all act 2 bosses, so how do we know that Act 3 encounters even exist? Well, we owe that information to the brave sacrifice of a few noble explorers who relic cheated and save-quit cheated their way into the forbidden zone of Act 3. And when I say "sacrifice," I'm not just talking about their time and the warranty on their underwears: they're dead now. The Time Eater fight is so impossible that it kills you for reals. I was with one of them when it happened and I'll never forget his last words: "should've....gah....learned...to...count...higher than....7....ugh....."

[Zu]

Originally posted by Mizal:

Have they changed something since this thread was made?

Nop. In fact, I recently had a run where collector never summoned a second time.

[DJDiceZ]

Originally posted by faceplant712:

The Collector was actually only beatable for a brief window in early 2018, which is why this is the only extant thread containing claims to have beaten this fight. As the first archaeologist observed, Collector now instantly resummons on the same turn, where before it used to take a full turn resummoning. Without that breathing room, it is now impossible to win. Better luck next lifetime, my friend.

For you other newbies, let me save you some time combing through the 2018 archives: there are many fights in this game are actually impossible to win and you're just going to have to make your peace with that. Time Eater, Awakened One, Reptomancer, Transient, The Champ, Bronze Automaton, and yes The Collector, all cannot be defeated without cheating.

Now, some of you may have noticed that that list contains all act 2 bosses, so how do we know that Act 3 encounters even exist? Well, we owe that information to the brave sacrifice of a few noble explorers who relic cheated and save-quit cheated their way into the forbidden zone of Act 3. And when I say "sacrifice," I'm not just talking about their time and the warranty on their underwears: they're dead now. The Time Eater fight is so impossible that it kills you for reals. I was with one of them when it happened and I'll never forget his last words: "should've....gah....learned...to...count...higher than....7....ugh....."

Actually that forbidden knowledge has been passed on in the Necronomicon on the lower acts. That's why it tries to kill you. This relic is only an attempt at recreating the power of the legendary hero, bevet the antarctic penguin, in order to have another brave hero who someday might reach the rumored Act 4, which we aren't even sure if its existence for various reasons, and where it is so impossible that we presume this is where the legendary hero died and why he never came back.