I honestly have no idea how to beat The Collector

[That Deer]

Summons two 40~ health minions if they aren't already up and kicking your hindend with 7 (and rising) damage every turn, and while you try to kill them off, he's increasing him and his minions strength + giving huge block and smashing your face with 25+ damage when he's not drowning you in stat debuffs. Champ is a good clean fight and Bronze Automaton just seems like a slightly more manageable Collector. You could decrease minion health by 1/4 and his attack by half and it'd still be a challenge.

I also don't understand why I can't win runs anymore. I beat a good handful of runs earlier in my play time, but now it seems every run just ends with me getting bogged down on a Chosen, or dying to a Snecko because, wowie, all your 1 costs cards are consistently 2-3 cost now! I am just getting worse or is the game getting harder?

[Deadman]

Just had a run with stacking pefected strike (I think that's what it's called) ended up doing 54 damage a hit, that's how I got through him.

[Visual Basic]

Just use aoe

[JRex]

Kill the minions. When there are none left he will prioritize getting more, which means you dont need to defend at all most of the time.

[Your cousin, Throckmorton]

The collector is the only boss I can kill consistently.

[Jolly]

I've been destroyed by it a few times too - so much RNG goes into the whole game so I'm sure if things go well it's not so bad.

[Tholomyes]

Usually, once I'm at the end of the second act, I try to have my deck is about 95% of where it should be for the final boss, so I tend to change how many encounters I face in the second act depending on how close I am to a deck that I'd be fine facing the final boss with.

[Merk]

Originally posted by Jolly:

I've been destroyed by it a few times too - so much RNG goes into the whole game so I'm sure if things go well it's not so bad.

i have over a 50% winrate and im always playing on ascension so maybe its just a skill curve and i know how to draft decks but even with 40 card decks its very easy to win if you have the right amount of card draw/cycling. if your going a 40 card deck for ironclad you want at least 2 battle trances and 3 warcrys(upgradded) and a few other things but thats an example of experience.

[kycol]

Originally posted by Merk:

i have over a 50% winrate and im always playing on ascension so maybe its just a skill curve and i know how to draft decks but even with 40 card decks its very easy to win if you have the right amount of card draw/cycling. if your going a 40 card deck for ironclad you want at least 2 battle trances and 3 warcrys(upgradded) and a few other things but thats an example of experience.

I also find Evolve+ a very strong card, great drawing machine.

[Magelan]

Collector used to give me the most problems back when he had 3 adds isntead of two and now it is the champ that is wrecking me. You can see if you will fight him as you enter act 2, just plan ahead and tailor your deck to be able to kill the minions in a reasonable time. First round against collector he will attack with his minions, second turn he always buffs his minions. I find Dash a great value card when you need to both deal and mitigate dmg.

As for snecko and chosen i find that often enough i have picked up an artifact potion to deal with their hex or snecko debuff and chosen is not that dangerous even if he hexes you. Just dont get to scared of his hex as you propably dont have the energy to play all 5 of your drawn cards.

[Zachmark571]

Originally posted by Jrex:

Kill the minions. When there are none left he will prioritize getting more, which means you dont need to defend at all most of the time.

After the new patch, his moveset is more random. He used to be a cakewalk for me, but the last 2 times I've fought him, I would kill the minions, but he would do 3 attacks in a row, so I would die.