I know this may sound harsh, but i feel also need to be said.
If you have trouble with enrage on ANYTHING as a class with bloodlust you need to REALLY improve your game.Period.
On my main (monk) it took me about ~80 trys combined to kill everything on rank8+rank9. On my mage (20 ilvl less) i oneshotted everything from bruce to ahoo'ru including rare challengers (yes, i know, 5.1 stuff). Why you ask? Bloodlust is why.
Now onto your questions: Hexos is probably a wall fight, provided you need to look at your skills to do decent DPS, if you have everything binded + a clean UI hexos simply falls over. The DPS requeriment is a bit under 100k DPS, and anyone can sustain 100k DPS over 2 minutes with double pot (if you don't pot, buy them, brawler's guild ones are dirt cheap, and help a ton).
The fights after him... let's check:
chicken throwing guy - as melee it's hard-ish, as ranged... yeah. Cast while moving.
dual mode robot - as a non healing class you may need to time your CDs with stuns, if you can offheal it's a free kill
anthracite - prepot stun bl ascendance whateverthehellelseyougot, on 10 seconds left on stun kill another water, refill, restun, kill
big badda boom - same deal as dual mode robot, heal a bit and kill, that's about as easy as it gets being a healing-able class.
nibbleh - did i mention casting while moving? Just don't try as melee, as hitbox is TINY
doctor fist - nigh-impossible to wipe there. Stay at range, when he closes in just go out again.
ahoo'ru - well, let's just say that fight is about 1 min long and bl lasts 45 seconds. Queue, kill, buy mount.
EDIT: @Chonar: You are the one that must face the empty spots, forget about the boss, your position is what matters
Id like to know if you used your earth and fire elementals at all? I tried it before, but on that attemp I died to a maze wall so I didnt get to see how low I got him. However I did notice that he was moving around far to much so my elemental seemed to hardly hit him.
So I ended up using my searing totem since then. Ive tried elemental blast, but it was far too annoying for my rotation to use. So ive just been using the unleashed fury talent.
Also, would it be more effective to burn all of my CDs at the start or throughout the fight? Ive never had to plan out a fight like this before.
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Part of the reason is that Battlegrounds are like ducks.
Hexos works mostly like a target dummy, just doing the maze.
Just go to a target dummy, practice for 2 minutes until you can do it without looking, then go to hexos and do the maze while maintaining your rotation. It's that simple.
Almost every brawler's boss is mechanic dependant, the only time when DPS is somewhat required is on ahoo'ru, and even there it can be mostly ignored by perfectly executing phase 1, and a bit of rng on angel's spawns
It's not really a gear check. Stop assuming its everything else but your skill and get better.
Jesus, what ever happened to the days when something was challenging, people kept trying until they succeed. It's not just this thread either. I constantly get whispers from people in Brawlers Guild wanting to know how to kill it.... Figure it out.
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Part of the reason is that Battlegrounds are like ducks.
Per what you mentioned re: elemental blast, if you find it "annoying" to use because Hexos, then you might want to spec primal elementalist. If you find it annoying to use period, you just need to improve your play overall.
Since you don't have an execute and because of how RPPM trinkets work assuming you are taking at least 5 minute breaks between pulls and given that you can prepot Hexos, you want to use everything at the start.
Please... just don't go there. Especially considering your earlier comments/questions.
Rank 9 Nibbleh and whatever rank the fire guy is are two of the stupiest fights. It all RNG based. Nibbleh can spit on himself and enrage and kill you and the fireguy despawns his adds that you need to kill, if he despawns the add that you have at 20% hp, you wont have the dps to kill him.
I think this was obvious before your thread. The point is, no single factor is the reason you can't kill a Brawler's boss, obviously improving your gear is one way to make things easier.
So is improving your rotation, your cooldown planning, and your talent/glyph setup (i.e. realizing that Hexos is a particularly difficult boss to execute a perfect rotation on, unless you cheat, so you may want to prefer passive talents to active ones). Or as you like to put in quotes, "skill."
The regular Rank 8-10 bosses are not particularly difficult and can be done undergeared, some classes such as yours (elemental shaman) have an easier time doing it undergeared than others. The "challenge card" ones can be more difficult, Mingus Diggs is difficult even with relatively good gear (but even he has been done by people who are relatively undergeared).
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Hexos was awful but once you get used to every pattern he sends at you, you learn to react perfectly.
The only way to do it properly is use your mouse to turn. I haven't met anyone who's made it work with their keyboard.
Other than that? The rest of the Rank 8 bosses are a joke.
Rank 9 is when shit gets real.
As an update I killed Hexos last night as a 506 iLevel Monk doing just over 103k DPS
My goal was to try and do it with as little gear as possible and I was pretty close to enrage but hey :P
I found the maze part of Hexos easy but not having played in a while before I started trying I really had no muscle memory for my rotation and was constantly checking for RSK cooldown. WeakAuras fixed that and the kill was fairly smooth!
If you want to feel justified in smashing your keyboard into a million pieces, try doing Nibbleh as a frost mage.
Only fight so far where I've felt my only recourse was to respec fire. 2 tries later, he's dead. I hate that snake.
It's pretty annoying that it's entirely gear based under a timer. I understand with people waiting in queue like, but there could have been a better way. The only thing that has EVER killed me in there is that bastard fire raining timer.
I had no problems with Hexos as 510 ret, but after him there's no other wall except maybe Nibbleh in rank 9, or Ahoo'ru.
Did it like on my 5th try or something, totally cocked up my rotation as I was focusing hard on my position, still got it down though. 520-525 ilevel I think, WW Monk (offspec)
The rest are pretty easy in comparison, the only one that's somewhat difficult I guess is Nibbleh for melee (and casters who can't move and cast).
Ahoo'ru was a bit of a pain, but it's just about optimization.
Now I've killed them all and I'd say that the hardest out of all the fights goes something like this probably: Disruptron > Mingus Diggs > Hexos > Ahoo'ru > Nibbleh > The rest of them
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Hexos was a bitch for me, because I pretty much couldn't use stampede because it'd get me killed everytime due to lag. For me personally if I could get past the first 15 seconds I was golden. Out of my 20+ wipes on him probably 15 were actually around 90%. Once my lag died down the fight was, while still challenging, alot easier. Hexos is probably the second hardest boss in Brawler's Guild other than Disruptron. All the bosses in Rank 8 are a walk through after him, but Rank 9 has overall pretty challenging bosses other than Dr. Fist or w/e his name is.