Ro-Shambo

Ro-Shambo
Race	Crawling hand (Undead)
Level	93 Elite
Resource	Mana
Location	Brawler's Guild
Status	Killable

Ro-Shambo is one of the special Rank 7 Challenge Card encounters in the Brawler's Guild. To fight him, players must use  [Challenge Card: Ro-Shambo], purchased from the card trader in the arena. To unlock the ability to purchase the challenge card, players must first gather crops at Sunsong Ranch in Valley of the Four Winds until a quest-starting item turns up.

Abilities

• Rock, Paper, Scissors! — Rock, Paper, Scissors!
  • Rock
    • Rock - ? health
      •   Rocked — Inflicts 292,500 to 307,500 Physical damage, knocking enemies back. Instant
    • Paper Covered Rock - ? health
      •   Rocked — Inflicts 292,500 to 307,500 Physical damage, knocking enemies back. Instant
      •   Paper Covered — Increases damage taken by 1,500%. Instant. Aura.
    •   Throw Rock — Throw Rock! Inflicts 500,000 Physical damage. Instant. Applies 5-second debuff that also stuns and increases damage taken by 500%
  • Paper
    • Papers - ? health
      •   Paper Wad 100 yd range — Inflicts 43,875 to 46,125 Physical damage. 2 sec cast
    • Shredded Papers - ? health
      •   Paper Wad 100 yd range — Inflicts 43,875 to 46,125 Physical damage. 2 sec cast
      • Bonus damage taken ability
    •   Throw Paper — Throw Paper! Inflicts 500,000 Physical damage. Instant. Applies 5-second debuff that also stuns and increases damage taken by 500%
  • Slicing Scissors Instant. 10 sec aura. Summons a pair of Scissors...
    • Scissors - 42M health
      •   Slicing Scissors — Inflicts 39,000 to 41,000 Physical damage every 1 sec. Instant
    • Broken Scissors - ...
      •   Slicing Scissors — Inflicts 39,000 to 41,000 Physical damage every 1 sec. Instant
      • Bonus damage taken ability
    •   Throw Scissors — Throw Scissors! Inflicts 500,000 Physical damage. Instant. Applies 5-second debuff that also stuns and increases damage taken by 500%

Strategy

Ro-Shambo has one primary ability in hand form: Rock, Paper, Scissors!, where the hand plays one of the three options. The player is put into the vehicle UI and also has the same three choices. The standard rock-paper-scissors rules apply: rock beats scissors, paper beats rock, and scissors beats paper. Ro-Shambo will always play in the name order (rock, then paper, then scissors), but it can start the encounter by choosing any of the three. The first choice comes down to luck, but after that, it is trivial to always choose the winning option.

If the player ties by choosing the same option, Ro-Shambo summons the standard version of its choice (Rock, Papers, Scissors) and proceeds to attack with that version for 10 seconds. If the player wins, Ro-Shambo will summon the weakened version of its choice (Paper Covered Rock, Shredded Papers, or Broken Scissors), which is debuffed to take 1500% bonus damage, but still has the attack that the regular version does. If the player loses, Ro-Shambo will throw the version of its choice (Throw Rock, Throw Paper, or Throw Scissors) for 500,000 Physical damage (before mitigation).

Ro-Shambo's 12.2 million health translates to a DPS requirement of over 102,000 in order to beat the enrage timer.

Quotes

• <Announcer> yells: He's a strategic mastermind, and he doesn't even have a head. Or an elbow, even. It's Ro-Shambo! Let's give him a hand!

Trivia

• "Roshambo" is another term for the game rock-paper-scissors.
• Ro-Shambo's model is an upscaled  [Crawling Claw], a Tol'vir archaeology find.

Patch changes

• Patch 5.3.0 (2013-05-21): Added.
  

External links

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Shredded Papers	Scissors	Broken Scissors
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