Here are some tips here... no big spoilers though or it wouldn't be fun at all.
First, let me remind you we had a few preview pictures there:
- NEWS: Incoming NEW INSTANCE and NEW ARMOR
http://www.athenpaladins.org/forums/vie ... f=2&t=5659
- - The Collector is a high-end instance for a team of 6
- It is designed to be the hardest challenge for a team ever released in AO
- It introduces several tricks and mechanisms never seen before
- The entrance is in Pandemonium, near the portal to instanced Pandemonium (so you need Pande access to play the Collector)
- The developers refer to The Collector as "the basketball instance"... for reasons you'll find below
- The instance is a lot about the "knock back" feature: this means that a mob can violently send you backwards... but in the end you'll get a special temporary perk to knock back mobs too!
- You will have to make 3 different mobs knock you back over some high walls, too high for you to jump over them
- An intermediate female boss has minion plants that heal her.- . When you kill a plant, several other plants will spawn and can cocoon the team.
. These cocoons and those plants will not damage you but you will be stunned until they die. This will happen in around 10 seconds.
. If you can't kill them and they just die naturally after 10 seconds, they heal the boss totally and instantly.
. You need to kill the plants extremely fast, even faster than fanatics in Inner Sanctum.
- Everyone gets the knock-back perk BUT:- . ONLY the person who will use it first will be able to use it again!
. EXCEPT that Engineers, Traders, and NTs can use it when they want!
- It is much easier if you have a mezzer to mez the shades before you knock them back!
- The Collector himself will knock back you every 2-3 seconds when his minion shades are released - . When you kill a plant, several other plants will spawn and can cocoon the team.