Bronze Automaton

Bronze Automaton
HP	300 320 (Ascension 9+)
In Party With	None
Debut Act	Act 2
Powers	Artifact 3

The Bronze Automaton is a Boss fought in Act 2 of the Spire. It spawns minions to steal the players' cards and uses a powerful move called Hyper Beam to attempt to kill the player. Depending on which cards the orbs steal, this fight can be very dangerous.

Pattern

1. Spawn Orbs

2. Flail

3. Boost

4. Flail

5. Boost

6. HYPER BEAM

7. Stunned! (Does nothing)(On Ascension 19 and higher, uses Boost instead)

8. Repeat 2 to 8.

Name	Intent	Effect	Asc 4+
Spawn Orbs		Spawns 2 Bronze Orbs.	Spawns 2 Bronze Orbs.
Boost		Gain 3 Strength and 9 Block.	Gain 4 Strength and 12 Block.
Flail		Deals 7 x 2 damage.	Deals 8 x 2 damage.
HYPER BEAM		Deals 45 damage.	Deals 50 damage.

Bronze Orb

Bronze Orb
HP	52-58 54-60 (Ascension 9+)
In Party With	Only summoned by Bronze Automaton
Debut Act	Act 2
Powers	None

Pattern

Has a 75% chance of using Stasis, 7.5% chance of using Beam and 17.5% chance of using Support Beam every turn.

After Stasis is used, will now have a 70% chance of using Support Beam and a 30% chance of using Beam every turn. It cannot use the same move 3 times in a row.

Destroying a Bronze Orb that has stolen a card from you via Stasis will return the card into your hand.

Note that cards in stasis are completely unaffected by any effect that would usually influence them. For example, Masterful Stab's cost will not increase if you are hit while it is in stasis.

Name	Intent	Effect
Stasis		Steals the rarest card in the draw pile, or from the discard pile if the draw pile is empty.
Beam		Deals 8 damage.
Support Beam		Gives Bronze Automaton 12 Block.

Trivia

• The Hyper Beam attack is a reference to the Pokémon games, in which Hyper Beam is one of the strongest moves in existence, after which the user also has to skip the next turn to recharge.

Update History

• Patch V1.1: The Dealer
  • Fixed Automaton's orbs preventing scaling of Genetic Algorithm and Ritual Dagger.
• Weekly Patch 42: Reboot
  • Updating SFX for Bronze Automaton summoning an Orb.
• Weekly Patch 41: Chill
  • Adding SFX for Automaton's Orb spawn.
• Weekly Patch 36: Power Through
  • Moving Bronze Automaton and its orbs 50px left so the rightmost orb's powers aren't cut off.
• Weekly Patch 25: Building Blocks
  • Bronze Automaton combat now has enemies correctly attacking from left to right.
  • Eviscerate card now has correct cost when returned from Stasis power.
• Weekly Patch 15: Surprise Patch
  • Fix for Bronze Orb AI getting stuck in an incorrect state.
• Weekly Patch 13: Thinking Ahead
  • Fixed crash when Bronze Orbs' Stasis was used when your draw/discard pile was empty.
• Weekly Patch 7: Setting Up All the Things
  • Bronze Automaton's Hyper Beam damage is increased from 40 -> 45.