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Comrade Blyatlov posted:I'm not wonderful at this game - up to Ascension level 2 for 3/4 and 3 for the Silent. post some decks. frost orbs are viable up to a20 and probably the easiest thing to do as defect
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You may be focusing on block scaling too early. Block becomes more of a priority later in runs. Damage is more important in the early parts of the run. Get your deck ready to smack stuff hard and fast and then bag some elites. For example, in act 1, I would rather have a Sunder than a Capacitor. That Sunder is gonna kill a Sentry really fast for me, or maybe it will save me from taking an extra hit against Gremlin Nob. In act 3, I would rather have the Capacitor. I may need a bunch of frost orbs to go the distance against Time Eater.
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Dec 30, 2020 08:41
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Yoshi Wins posted:You may be focusing on block scaling too early. Block becomes more of a priority later in runs. Damage is more important in the early parts of the run. Get your deck ready to smack stuff hard and fast and then bag some elites. I'll go further on that: Capacitor is essential to late game orb builds unless you get one of the slot-granting relics, but in Act 1 it's literally worse than a curse. You have less ability to generate orbs and so with extra slots it's much harder to evoke them.
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Dec 30, 2020 14:50
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Another piece of advice on higher ascensions: yes it's good to take offense, but defect starts the most offensive, with ongoing lightning and dualcast hitting for a whopping 16 damage, and least defensive, since silent blocks and ironclad heals. Before your first elite you need to take offense cards and a good block card like charge batteries, leap, reinforce if you can get it.
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Dec 30, 2020 15:02
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:I'm not wonderful at this game - up to Ascension level 2 for 3/4 and 3 for the Silent. Frost is the best deck, but be sure you're A. Focusing on getting good sources of attack, defense, focus (if you can), it can be tempting to just autopick frost cards when you already have enough and B. Try out different cards. A fun game when I was learning was "this card looks stupid, I'll pick it." 2/3 of the time it was pretty stupid but 1/3 of the time it was "oh, wait this card is actually good if I have X and Y" so then I had another tool to increase my deckmaking options
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Dec 30, 2020 17:45
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Thanks for the advice all. It sounds like I was focusing too much on getting frost orbs and focus early on rather than just bringing the hurt. I'll give that a go.
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Dec 30, 2020 18:14
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I play Defect by either collecting all the power cards or all the claws
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Thanks for the advice all. It sounds like I was focusing too much on getting frost orbs and focus early on rather than just bringing the hurt. I'll give that a go. Also, always keep in mind that you play with the cards that the game gives to you, not the cards you want. So build your deck based on what you can acquire, not what you wish you had. That may mean making hard pivots in deck design.
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Dec 31, 2020 00:51
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Perfected Strike decks are viable at A20 folks, don't believe the hype. I bought the Pen Nib and the Mirror at the same time and mirrored my Perfected Strike+. I believed. I believed.
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Dec 31, 2020 03:49
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How did that work? I don't see any scaling. The perfected strikes were doing 39 each with inflame. Was it pen nib wizardry?
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Dec 31, 2020 03:56
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Yeah, if I had vuln applied and used Pen Nib then they hit for almost 100, and I had a ton of vuln.
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Dec 31, 2020 04:19
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9 relics in act 1? dang
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Dec 31, 2020 04:21
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Yoshi Wins posted:Perfected Strike decks are viable at A20 folks, don't believe the hype.
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Dec 31, 2020 04:36
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Yeah, I think the key relics for going perfected strikes are strike dummy, pen nib, necronomicon, and paper phrog. I think it's very hard to make it work if you get one or zero of those. But if you can grab two early, you're pretty much set on damage scaling, and you mostly just need to hunt for block.
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Dec 31, 2020 04:50
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I got banned from Life Coach chat for saying "lets get on with it bro"
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Dec 31, 2020 20:51
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You deserve it. Lurk more next time.
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Dec 31, 2020 20:52
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Im innocent.
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Dec 31, 2020 20:56
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lol You can probably get unbanned if you ask later, but maybe you'd prefer other streamers.
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Dec 31, 2020 20:58
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Baalord is better
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Dec 31, 2020 21:33
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I'm a huge Baalorlord stan. Dude is so creative, such a strong player, plays at a normal human speed, and he's a really nice, humble dude. Seems like he's getting more popular lately, and I'm glad. I hope he can make a good living doing this. He's very entertaining.
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Dec 31, 2020 21:53
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its amazing to see the snecko relic work. I always thought you were destined to lose since its inevitable you eventually get a bad draw. I was wrong.
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Dec 31, 2020 22:28
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Snecko Eye is very good! It's one of the strongest relics in the game, along with Runic Pyramid. Sometimes you get screwed when it makes everything expensive, but sometimes you get screwed when you don't draw any good cards, which Snecko helps you with because you draw 7 instead of 5. Drawing 40% more cards every turn is completely loving dope. Overall it lets you play your very strong cards more often and for less average energy (assuming your strongest cards have an average cost of more than 1.5 energy, which they typically do).
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Dec 31, 2020 23:05
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Yoshi Wins posted:I'm a huge Baalorlord stan. Dude is so creative, such a strong player, plays at a normal human speed, and he's a really nice, humble dude. Seems like he's getting more popular lately, and I'm glad. I hope he can make a good living doing this. He's very entertaining. Totally agree, he's a good watch. I think jorbs' doing Amount Us, and not having a regular schedule probably helped Baalorlord's numbers.
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Dec 31, 2020 23:29
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RisqueBarber posted:its amazing to see the snecko relic work. I always thought you were destined to lose since its inevitable you eventually get a bad draw. I was wrong. "make your own luck" is an important concept to grasp in any card game
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RisqueBarber posted:its amazing to see the snecko relic work. I always thought you were destined to lose since its inevitable you eventually get a bad draw. I was wrong. The trick is that it makes your deck so strong that you survive the occasional bad draw.
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RisqueBarber posted:its amazing to see the snecko relic work. I always thought you were destined to lose since its inevitable you eventually get a bad draw. I was wrong. I'vew been hosed by snecko, but I've also had hands of incredibly beauty. Snecko gives, and snecko takes. You just have to change which cards you pick slightly and try to have ways in mind to work around potential bad hands. You'll figure it out, you draw 7 per turn. That's value!
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Jan 1, 2021 12:40
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Odds of a lovely draw is generally a lot lower with snecko than without.
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Mymla posted:Odds of a lovely draw is generally a lot lower with snecko than without. with the extra draw i think so
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I think every StS player goes from a "randomized casting cost? Snecko sucks!" to a quick "holy balls this relic is broken"
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Snecko is powerful, but it's bad because of how much of the "playing the game" it takes out of your hands.
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Nothing's wackier than getting Snecko from Neow and goin' hog wild selecting the highest value cards you can find from minute 1.
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I just did that! I swapped my starting relic for Snecko on Watcher and by the end of the run I had 4 Ragnaroks and 2 Omnisciences. Died to the Heart because I didn't have enough block though 
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Hackan Slash posted:Snecko is powerful, but it's bad because of how much of the "playing the game" it takes out of your hands. similar to how frozen eye is absurdly powerful but adds so much overhead to get value out of it
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I've had more problems with Snecko than I've had winning runs with it. It's very much an alluring way to doom yourself at times. Runic Pyramid, on the other hand...
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:similar to how frozen eye is absurdly powerful but adds so much overhead to get value out of it I like Snecko much better though because you don't have to think harder when playing fights, you just play all the cards the RNG lets you. Frozen Eye, OTOH, turns every turn into an ordeal.
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Jan 2, 2021 11:53
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Just hotkey your deck and flick it a couple times so you know which cards are coming up over the next 1-2 turns. You don't need to go full Lifecoach.
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Yeah, I often just plan for the next turn or two with Frozen Eye. Fun, ridiculous fact about Lifecoach: He plays FASTER with Frozen Eye, because when he doesn't have it, he spends a ton of time imagining different draw orders and how he would play each of them. Shine on, you crazy diamond.
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Jan 2, 2021 17:53
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Note to self: Always take out the donut first. Dammit.
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Jan 5, 2021 09:19
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1-4p co-op TTG version in the makes. https://contentiongames.com/games/slay/
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Glory to Italia!
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ILL Machina posted:1-4p co-op TTG version in the makes. 45 minutes per player? I hope it's good solo, I'm not optimistic that I'd be able to get some friends to sit down for a three hour game of Slay the Spire.
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