I also had to cancel the mission and pay for stress relief for the other characters. I still won, but now I have to get another Houndmaster back to level 6 and pay for all his skills and gear. Collector crit a character for 20, a Highwayman head crit the same character for 22, Occultist decided to heal for 0 that time (he did that twice in that fight) and the character failed his first Death's Door roll. He kept critting for 20 damage on his life drain and I stupidly brought in an Occultist to heal, who almost always healed for 4 HP. I lost three characters this playthrough, and one was to the Champion Collector. If you try to whittle his HP down in a sustained battle, he will likely win. Aside from that, all efforts should be spent dealing damage to him. You have to Stun MaA heads whenever they put up a guard, and just plain kill Vestal heads so they don't heal him and he wastes turns summoning them back instead of healing himself.

Stunning the Collector is great if you can manage it, but if your chances are too low (no Stun trinkets, didn't max the skill, etc), you're probably just wasting your character's turn. You have to put out enough damage to break through his defenses and healing. The problem is he gets guards and heals, and also heals himself. I often get the Collector down 30-60% on his first turn. It gives you a lot more time to hurt him and allows your frontline damage dealers to hit him once. Since you only have two characters who could DPS the backline, you should expect a tough fight, but definitely not an impossible one.Īlso, this is very important, if you can stun the Collector on round 1 before he does a Collect Call, do it as an absolute priority.

With the party you had, depending on what skills you had equipped at the time, your Arbalest should have marked the Collector and she and the HWM should have gone all out on him, while the MaA would either stun enemies or protect your damaged Vestal. If you spend too much time attacking his summons you are digging your own grave. If his MaA guards your target, stun him, otherwise keep the Collected HWM stunned and focus down the Collector. The best way is usually to disable his summons while dealing massive damage to him. What strategy are you using to kill him ?

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