Deck Your Collection: Part 4 - Mingus Diggs

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 of my Deck Your Collection series.

It was months between collecting the cards and completing this fight. The others were all done in a couple of days but this one... just was not my fight. I kept going back for him. Once, twice a week, whenever I got an upgrade or two. I was consistently getting to enrage with -1% on the last statue...

Mingus Diggs
Challenge Card: Mingus Diggs
This fight looks pretty but I hated before I started it because I had to level Archeology on my alt to get the card for it. Then I started it and I hated it some more. I hated it a little more each time I died to it. You need to kill all 4 statues within the arena to break the shield on Mingus Diggs so you can DPS him down! Each statue has 4.4 million health to get through before you can kill Mingus, who only has a pitiful 827.3k HP! The statues will be actively shooting a stacking debuff at you, standing next to one deactivates it so it won't be doing any damage.

I started at The Obsidian Peregrine (SE) keeping it inactive while I popped all of my offensive cooldowns on The Untiring Watcher (NE) and moved across to Remains of Ajassa (SW) to kill The Golden Ram of Nahom (NW), then moving back to deactivate The Obsidian Peregrine (SE) while I killed it before turning back to Remains of Ajassa (SW), finishing it up then moving on to Mingus. Confused much? I used Shamanistic Rage, Astral shift, Ancestral Guidanceand Healing Tide Totem in that order for each statue and I still died on the kill... but IT'S DONE!

Reward: Digmaster's Bodysleeve, Gigantic Sack of Coins (900g) and 50 Valor Points.

They love me! They're throwing glitter confetti at me! Oh, wait a minute...

 Was this shirt really worth it?

'Can you dig it?'

Nope. Maybe Cymre Jones will like hers! :P

Defeating all 12 of the bosses grants an achievement which rewards you with... AMG ANOTHER SHIRT! (That's 13 bag slots people! Think long and hard about this if you are a hoarder...)

'Only rewarded to the top ranking champions of 

the Brawler's Guild.'

Two achievements and two bosses left to brawl. Don't hold your breath for my next Brawler's Guild post!

Deck Your Collection: Part 3 - The 'Fun' Mechanics

Part 3 of my Deck Your Collection (Deck Your Collection: Part 1 and 2) series is about the fights with very unique mechanics. I struggled with some of these, sending frustrated to tells to anyone who would be sympathetic. I needed hugs.

Ty'thar
Challenge Card: Ty'thar
I hate this fight. It's a fun idea but it wasn't fun for me to execute. You need to use your strafe left, right and back keys. I kept trying to use the default keys for those instead of my keybound ones. You attack the boss while using strafe left, right and back to dodge his attacks for 3 rounds.

Reward: Undisputed Champion's Shirt, Giant Sack of Coins (400g) and 50 Valor Points.

Eventually I knocked him out.

Ro-Shambo

Challenge Card: Ro-Shambo

I should have been expecting this. Just like my Crawling Claw, Luxygaga is terrible at Rock, Paper, Scissors. Ironically against real life players I am pretty good at it. It took me 7 attempts to get a good run where I beat him twice in a row and was able to dps him down. It's really about whether you can beat him at Rock, Paper, Scissors.

Reward: Paper Shirt, Overflowing Sack of Coins (700g) and 50 Valor Points.

I chose Paper. He chose Rock!

Blingtron 3000
Challenge Card: Blingtron 3000
I had seen people working on this fight while I was queuing up so I understood the basic idea of it. Make a chain with the Mini-Blings and click on the tesla coil to link up all of the Mini-Blings to Blingtron 3000. Once you have successfully connect them all Blingtron 3000 will have a 900% increased damage taken buff so killing him even with 30 seconds to spare shouldn't be a problem. Sounds easy, right? I couldn't get the Mini-Blings close enough to each other or one was too close and the others were too far. It took a couple of attempts to get it right. Oh, and a note to Ele Shaman... If you haven't glyphed Thunderstorm, don't use it. I punted my perfectly positioned Mini-Blings out of formation a couple of times. >.>

Reward: Last Season's Shirt, Enormous Sack of Coins (600g) and 50 Valor Points. 

An example of how not to position the Mini-Blings.

The Bear and the Lady Fair
Challenge Card: The Bear and the Lady Fair
This fight made me grumpy and sulky. I was not happy. Remember when I said I needed hugs? This was the fight that did it. You need to bounce on the trampolines to gather stacks, it's a very short buff that you gain so you need to be jumping all the time. If you miss a trampoline you have about 1 second to get to one and be in a position to land on the next. All of this while a bear is attacking you. He hurts. At 3 stacks whatever attack you throw at the boss will crit for a lot, then 'she' slaps you off the platform. Then you start the whole tram-am-poline deal again. Rinse and repeat. With the hurty bear still trying to eat you. I spent a good 2 hours on this.

Reward: Gorgeous Blouse, Overflowing Sack of Coins (700g) and 50 Valor Points.

A very mean lady and a bear playing Hide and Seek.

The shirts for these fights are nice! I was really excited for the Gorgeous Blouse. It looks great with my Shaman's (currently being washed) transmog!

"Gorgeous!"

"Undisputed"

"Let's Party!"

"When in doubt, go with Rock"

1 to go! Send your hugs and tissues to Luxypie c/o Brawler's Guild.

Deck Your Collection: Part 2 - The Should-Have-Been One-Shots

Previously I posted Deck Your Collection: Part 1 - The One-Shots. They weren't consecutive one-shots, there were some less fun bosses in between!

Master Boom Boom
Challenge Card: Master Boom Boom
I died a couple of times to this guy because I was making it harder than it needed to be. I was trying to burst him down fast but it actually caused my wipes. He throws dynamite around the room which is easy to avoid. At 70% and 40%(?) he will leap to the middle of the arena and place a bomb which has 4 fuses coming from around the room. Running over the fuses will put them out which is easy enough when it's just the 4 but I was bursting him down too fast and getting 8 fuses at a time! 

Reward: The Boomshirt, Giant Sack of Coins (400g) and 50 Valor Points.

I went back to battle him to get a screenshot. His corpse from the previous battle is still there!

Dippy and Doopy
Challenge Card: Dippy & Doopy
This fight was fairly simple but I reached the enrage timer the first time because I didn't do enough dps while trying to knock both the penguins back. The second attempt I just ignored the big (slow) penguin, kiting him around while I killed the little one, then stood still to finish off the big one.

Reward: Tuxedo-Like Shirt, Humongous Sack of Coins (500g) and 50 Valor Points.

Penguins!

 More Shirts!

"Slippy"

"Boom!"

Part 3 and 4 are still to come!

Deck Your Collection: Part 1 - The One-Shots

After reaching Rank 8, I was excited to keep brawling but I didn't feel ready for Hexos. I was already collecting the quests for (Collect Your Deck) to battle the optional Brawler's Guild bosses Deck Your Collection. I decided to see how I would go against them since they range between levels 4-9, I was sure I could defeat some of them! 

These are the bosses I defeated in one attempt. All fights were completed by Luxygaga, Elemental Shaman.

Grandpa Grumplefloot
Challenge Card: Grandpa Grumplefloot 
Even for a Rank 4 boss I expected to die the first time around. He throws Luckydo's around the room. I just avoided them while pew pewing him. Very simple fight for me as ranged.

Reward: Floot-Tooter's Tunic, Giant Sack of Coins (400g) and 50 Valor Points

What's your Luckydo?

Splat
Challenge Card: Splat
Very much like Blat, I just kited the oozes around the room while avoiding the trails of goo they drop on the ground (it hurts). Not very challenging!

Reward: Ooze-Soaked Shirt, Humongous Sack of Coins (500g) and 50 Valor Points.

Splat went... splat.

Razorgrin
Challenge Card: Razorgrin
This brawl made me feel awful. This sharky is just flopping around while I pew pew him! :( He stayed aggro'd on to my Fire Elemental til he despawned then I popped Spiritwalker's Grace to kite him and it was over. 

Reward: Sharkskin Tunic, Humongous Sack of Coins (500g) and 50 Valor Points.
 

Poor sharky :'(

Mecha-Bruce
Challenge Card: Mecha-Bruce
I wasn't expecting to one-shot Mecha-Bruce! I had been watching other people struggle with him. I popped all of my cooldowns and ran around the arena, making sure I was at the opposite end for his stun. Spectators said I made it look so easy!

Reward: Brucehide Jersey, Enormous Sack of Coins (600g) and 50 Valor Points.
 

Mecha-Bruce got Lux'ed!

The Blind Hero
Challenge Card: Blind Hero
This guy was pretty simple really but he is blind. I felt bad fighting a blind guy and a hero? Shame on me. Another fight where an Elemental Shaman can pop everything and run around in circles. His abilities are very easily avoided and forgiving if you do get hit by him.

Reward: Sightless Mantle, Gigantic Sack of Coins (900g) and 50 Valor Points.

He can't see me!

The shirts rewarded give a buff called Brawling Champion. Each has it's own unique flavour text.

"Splatter of Splat"

"Toot toot!"

"Conqueror of the South Seas"

"BRUUUUUUCE!"

"Look at me!"

I don't know where I am supposed to find room for all of these shirts. With my alt taking over as my main... she is running out of room collecting all the same junk important vanity items that Veluxia is hoarding!