The Collector

The Collector was a new instance introduced in patch 18.3 primarily targeting level 220 characters. The instance is unique in that it introduced no new rewards to the game, rather it provides a random selection of existing game loot from chests dropped by The Collector.

Collected Essence, first mini-boss of The Collector instance

Location

The Collector instance is located in Pandemonium close to the portal. Two instance entrances are located to the east of the Pandemonium portal, the one to the right of these is the entrance to the instance. In order to enter the instance, you must be in a team. Although you may enter if you are in a raid, different teams will enter into different instances.

Mini-Bosses

Collected Essence

Collected Essence is invulnerable. Killing an Essence Fragment will cause Collected Essence to shrink and become vulnerable for a short period of time.

Sister Botanicus

Sister Botanicus is an oversized Exarch from the Temple of Three Winds. She summons Mature Abyss Orchids that imprison players, and Abyss Orchid Spouts that heal herself. Pets will not be affected by Mature Abyss Orchids and thus can be used to destroy them easily.

Immortal Guardian

The Immortal Guardian cannot be killed. Instead, players be kicked by the boss further into the playfield.

To do this, position each player between the Guardian and the lowest part of the broken wall to the East of its initial location. It will be necessary to drag the Guardian West after some attempts in order to have the Guardian's kick attack line up with the gap above the wall.

There will be two more Immortal Guardians and two more walls.

The Collector

After speaking to The Collector's Secretary, players will have a new ability named "Gravity Shift". This ability will replicate the kicking of Immortal Guardians.

Arena

The Collector's arena is a square room with two pillars. The edges of the room are lined with spikes and moats of liquid. There is also a moat of liquid around each pillar. These liquids are deadly and must be avoided.

The Western pillar is blue, the Eastern pillar is red.

Phases

As the Collector's health is depleted, there are points when it will summon additional Shade mobs. Early waves will contain only Frost and Flame shades, then Plague Shades will also spawn, and finally Death Shades. A fight without excess healing of The Collector will spawn five waves of Shades.

• Frost Shade (blue)

 Frost Shades are invulnerable to conventional damage. They must be kicked onto the top of the orange Pillar to be destroyed. When spawned, the Collector can use his area-of-effect knockback ability.

• Flame Shade (orange)

 Flame Shades are invulnerable to conventional damage. They must be kicked onto the top of the blue Pillar to be deawstroyed. When spawned, the Collector will be healed periodically.

• Plague Shade (green)

 Plague Shades will severely decrease the initiatives of players they attack if the shade is in close proximity to The Collector.

• Death Shade (grey)

 Death Shades will stun players they attack if the shade is in close proximity to The Collector.

Shades will spawn in a group directly between the two pillars.

Tactics

As the Collector has an area-of-effect knockback attack, it is recommended to snare or root The Collector when it is not actively being attacked. The ideal location to fight the Collector is any of the four corners of the room, such that being knocked back by the Collector does not cause a player to end up in the liquids or on spikes.

Delegating the responsibility to kick Flame and Frost shades onto the pillars to a one or two players will simplify the fight.

The various Shades can be mesmerised by any sufficiently powerful Mezz nano, but will need to be dealt with to a degree that recasting the Mezz nano on each shade does not become impossible.

Loot

Body

Bronze Chest of the Collector x6

Special DOJA Chip Pandemonium x6

Vairety of Manex social armor

Cold Stone	Burst of Speed Stim	Small Platinum Ingot
Fist of the Dominator (Martial Artist)	Edge of the Tarasque	Jobe Explorer Personal Pistol (Adventurer)
Frost-bound Reaper	Toothpicker	Punishment Rod (Enforcer)
Petticoat of Pest

Many other items are dropped as well.

Bronze Chest

Ambidextrous Plasteel Gloves	Awakened Soul Crystal	Beeping Backpack
Deformed Mantidae Abdomen	Deformed Mantidae Antennae	Deformed Mantidae Coxa
Deformed Mantidae Eye	Deformed Mantidae Femur	Deformed Mantidae Head
Deformed Mantidae Mandibles	Deformed Mantidae Prothorax	Deformed Mantidae Tarsus
Deformed Mantidae Tibia	Deformed Mantidae Wing	Diamond-Matrix Mesh
Electrophoridae Gloves	Enhanced Queen Blade	Fancy Stethoscopic Glasses
Frozen Tear of Uklesh	Gift of the Old Gargantula	Glimmering Magnetic Ring
Hacked Medi-Blade	Heavily Padded Overcoat	Hellspinner Shock Cannon
Journeyman Durable Boost	Kevlar Armbands	Low Recoil Diamondine Kick Pistol
Manex Adventuring Protection System - Over Armour (Black Variant)	Mantis Egg	Modified A-4000 NCU-sheet
Modified A-4000 Sensory Panel	Morphing Memory	Nelly Johnsons Little Black Dress
Notum Focus	Notum Saturated Metaplast Shell	Patch of Hard Novictum Spangled Hide
Patch of Soft Novictum Spangled Hide	Poetic Pants	Poetic Sleeves
Purifying Rod	Quick-Draw Holster of Aries	Ring of Memory Loss
Ring of the Nucleus Basalis	Rod of Dismissal	Signet Ring of the Green Knight
Silver Chest of the Collector	Silver ingot	Small Patch of Hard Novictum Spangled Hide
Small Patch of Soft Novictum Spangled Hide	Smart Hood of the Wanderer	Smelly Butcher Gloves
Spirit Bauble of Artillery Expertise	Spirit Bauble of Control Expertise	Spirit Bauble of Extermination Expertise
Spirit Bauble of Infantry Expertise	Spirit Bauble of Support Expertise	Stinging Snake Tattoo
Sturdy Detention Boots	Supporting Carbonan Holster	Titan Viper Tattoo

Silver Chest

Golden Chest of the Collector	Anything	Arithmetic Lead Viralbots
Blackshirt of Zuwadza	Chunk of Living Dragon Flesh	Cloak of the Wandering Knight (Adventurer)
De'Valos Lava Protection Ring	De'Valos Radiation Protection Ring	Enduring Lead Viralbots
Enhanced Dustbrigade Chemist Gloves	Enhanced Dustbrigade Flexible Boots	Enhanced Dustbrigade Notum Gloves
Enhanced Dustbrigade Sleeves	Enhanced Dustbrigade Spirit-tech Chestpiece	Enhanced Safeguarded NCU Memory Unit
Eye of the Evening Star	Fly Catcher's Specs	Frederickson Micro-kinetic Sleeves
Frederickson's Kinetic Sleeves	Gaily Painted Hood	Gall Stone
Globe of Clarity	Globe of Sufferance	Gold ingot
Advanced Scent Sensor	Heart of Tarasque	Iridium ingot
Lava capsule	Lump of Living Dragon Marrow	Master Combat Program
Master Melee Program	Master Nano Technology Program	Modified Aggression Enhancer
Modified Ancient Combat Bracer	Nanobot Infusion Device	Observant Lead Viralbots
Osmium ingot	Patch of Living Dragon Skin	Perfected Infused Dust Brigade Bracer
Piece of Living Dragon Wing	Platinum ingot	Poetic Stretch-band
Protected Safeguarded NCU Memory Unit	Shades of Lucubration	Shard of Living Dragon Skull
Silken Legchopper Gloves	Silver ingot	Sinew of Tarasque
Small Titan Message Container	Spiritual Lead Viralbots	The Expensive Kevlar Vest of Professor Jones
The Third Eye of Daria	Viral Targeting Subunit	Alien Probe

Golden Chest

Alien Combat Directive Controller	Alien Matrix Alpha Box	Alien Matrix Beta Box
Grail of the Virgin	Extreme Low Light Targeting Scope	Omni-Tek Gunship
Robust Backpack	Strong Lead Viralbots	Supple Lead Viralbots
Xan Weapon Upgrade Device