Talk:Avant Guard
While the announcement message called it Avant Garde, Afterlife Al calls it Avant Guard. May need to rename. --Jef (talk) 01:45, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
Worth noting that you can't adventure without the bodyguard; you can still swap him out. This means you still have access to mimic eggs. --BaronessRatsworth (talk) 04:01, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- How to give the mimic experience though. Three charges from the Apriling band piccolo gives 120 xp, so that's one egg per day. --Jef (talk) 05:43, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- The Shorter-Order Cook ignores Standard restrictions; that's a single boost of 81xp. And you can recall habitats or purple candle the monster you get from the egg. --BaronessRatsworth (talk) 10:33, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- not anymore it doesn't. --Evilkolbot (talk) 17:15, 17 August 2024 (UTC)
Factoids
- Can you get factoids from the bodyguard monsters? --Evilkolbot (talk) 17:15, 17 August 2024 (UTC)
- Absolutely. I've gotten a dozen already. --BaronessRatsworth (talk) 00:05, 18 August 2024 (UTC)
Bodyguards at 1 HP
While most of the bodyguards I've encountered have been scaling to my level, it's not infrequent that one will pop up with 1 HP. Anyone else experience that? --BaronessRatsworth (talk) 00:06, 18 August 2024 (UTC)
- It happens if the defended monster is a scaling one itself and you are above level 5, IIRC. Semenar (talk) 14:48, 18 August 2024 (UTC)
CLEESH
Seems to be completely blocked.
"A nearby bodyguard holds up a "NO CLEESHING" sign. You comply."
Also gotta say, this is the first time I've found myself using Hobopolis spells before breaking ronin. There really should be a section under Strategy for how to handle the wall of bones' bodyguard, as this is going to be a major hurdle for a lot of players. Groveling gravel works great but that's an IotM. --BaronessRatsworth (talk) 14:33, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
- Clubbers get access to Batter Up, other classes can summon a scaling monster as the bodyguard for the WoB, which caps their stats. The latter's briefly mentioned in Divergences, but may be worth echoing under Strategy? --Name Guy Man (talk) 14:45, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
- You're correct (and it should be under Strategy instead/as well) but ... that doesn't seem to be something that a new player would ever think of, and this could easily be someone's second run ever. Summoning a scale monster that doesn't scale to replace a non-scaling monster that does scale also seems extremely counterintuitive to the point that I'd assume it was a bug and report it. There has to be a simpler way that non-Clubbers can beat the Wall's bodyguard or the path is broken. --BaronessRatsworth (talk) 20:45, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
