At the start of the fight, DO NOT MOVE until the fire spawns in the arena. The spot you spawn on is safe initially, but if you run in to engage the boss, the fire will spawn underneath you and kill you instantly.
I learned this the hard way.
Elite
Burnstachio
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This boss is so utterly incredibly cancerous that i'm starting to miss Hexos.
The fire path is so unbelievably hard to keep track of (due to multiple overlaps) that most of the times i can't even get to the first orb
IF there is an orb.
Blizz, fire the developer that made this, fire it and say him that you could have kept him if the orbs at least spawned all the time in the same places!
Suggestion to make this fight work: make orbs spawn in the same location all the times, lower the boss's hp or make water shield last more than 15 seconds.
Edit: apparently there are "clouds" that you can see opening the path through the flames(if your graphycs are good+), for us potato users...tough luck, they are almost invisible with fair or less.
Edit2: the only way to defeat it is standing on a freshly quenched square, and from there follow the rain path once again until you have access to another orb, the tricky part is that you have to sacrifice the last 3-4 seconds of water orb to get to a safe spot, reducing your burst window to around 10 seconds
Edit3: you don't need to run into the orb head on, being on an adjacent square is enough to trigger it.(boss is still mindblowingly hard for a rank 4)
Burnstachio covers the arena in fire patches and cloaks himself in [spell=229025]. Raining clouds clear patches through the maze and you need to move with the openings while dealing damage to Burnstachio.
You can pick up a [spell=228977] that gives you a [spell=228981], which also allows you to damage Burnstachio and move safely on the fire for a short period of time before it falls off and you need to go pick it up again.
If you stand on any of the fire patches, you get hit by [spell=228988] and die.
Details
This roster comes from the current game client's data files, so it is not a complete list of every NPC in the game - older world NPCs that are no longer in the modern client are absent.
Achievement: The Best There Is
Killing Burnstachio counts toward The Best There Is, a 10-point achievement. Its in-game description: “Defeat 15 Challenge Card exclusive bosses.” The Best There Is tracks 60 creatures; the other 40:
- Kirrawk
- Unguloxx
- Nibbleh
- Thog Hammerspace
- Johnny Awesome
- Mama Stormstout
- Fran and Riddoh
- Dungeon Master Vishas
- Ixx
- Leona Earthwind
- Dominika the Illusionist
- Blackmange
- Deeken
- Blind Hero
- Proboskus
- Vian the Volatile
- Akama
- Battletron
- Disruptron Mk. 3R-Alpha
- Millhouse Manastorm
- Millie Watt
- Yikkan Izu
- Ahoo'ru
- Anthracite
- Big Badda Boom
- Doctor FIST
- Hexos
- Master Boom Boom
- Mingus Diggs
- Ro-Shambo
- Splat
- T440 Dual-Mode Robot
- Tyson Sanders
- Ty'thar
- Dark Summoner
- Sanoriak
- Smash Hoofstomp
- B3@7 B-0X
- Grief Warden
- Master Paku
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Achievements whose criteria involve Burnstachio, from the current game data.
Level and Map Tracking
The game data tunes Burnstachio for levels 80 to 90.