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Garioshi
02/16/21 3:43:32 PM
#51:



Winstone strikes YET again

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Jurokeh
02/16/21 5:38:59 PM
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This 'shiv' deck (aka deadbranch) was nuts
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kirbymuncher
02/16/21 6:04:51 PM
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is that just the result of playing like 10+ footworks because if so that's amazing

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PMarth2002
02/16/21 6:52:00 PM
#54:


^ he has kunai, runic pyramid, and storm of steel. i imagine gaining dex was super easy.

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Jurokeh
02/16/21 7:03:37 PM
#55:


kirbymuncher posted...
is that just the result of playing like 10+ footworks because if so that's amazing

I played storm of steal with a full hand and the shivs kept generating more cards with dead branch and dex with kunai. This kept going until I ran out of energy or card draw. Generally just kept rolling face on keyboard until things stopped working.
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kirbymuncher
02/16/21 8:25:29 PM
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kirbymuncher posted...
A2 stuff, I'll watch A3 later
Shop #2: again, buy the defragment

black blobs: forgot to play the boot sequence <_<. Other than that I don't think you should be so hesitant to invoke your lightning orbs when you're replacing them with something else useful instead - the fact that two of them are blocking turn 1 means there is going to be a lot of damage coming your way turn 2 and playing the glacier could help block for that while still dealing out good damage turn 1

shop #3: self repair is a weird pick when you're so high health atm but I guess you take a bunch of avoidable damage later so it could help out I guess. Gotta remember to actually play it though, which you don't do in the next 2

jaw worms: forgot to play the boot sequence again <_<. Also by hologramming back the FTL you kinda locked yourself out of the two really good cards in your hand that both cost 2 energy, gotta be careful to watch how much energy you have left. Rainbow instead of hologram would have saved you 22 health this fight. Also I'd toss the vuln potion since you're barely attacking anyway so it doesn't do much for you, while fairy in a bottle is super amazing

shapes: again, toss the vuln potion. Also the self repair was literally in your hand this time you could have just played it before the rainbow

fruit juice: this is really niche and rather insignificant but it's best to not drink fruit juice until you have to. there are events that scale off your max hp (eg madness event) that might make you want lower health, and if not you can drink it at literally any time (not just during battle) so there's no danger of having to throw it away unused

madness event: not so sure about taking the heal here. it gives you an innate curse which really weakens your starting hand and is just a pain in general with a smallish deck. I'd say that if you're taking it you almost certainly want to remove it... but if you're removing it you're healing at the shop anyway from the meal coupon and you're also spending literally all your gold so you lose the entire chance to shop purchase. just lose the max hp here you've got enough of that already

spaghetti monster: another fight where you don't watch your energy and get stuck on 1 energy with only 2 energy cards left in hand, then take damage since you can't block (could have played glacier over loop). You also get yourself cursed here by attacking with ftl and only gain a single point of damage out of it. In general when fighting this enemy, if you can block its current attack you want to think real hard about whether it's worth hitting it again to potentially roll a stronger attack or a curse, especially when you have no other attacks in hand to reroll with. You've got orbs for damage so as long as you can just block each turn you'll win eventually, don't be afraid to take it slow

shop: you really don't need even more rainbows lol. Here would probably be a great place to remove a curse, especially since you've got two of them (3 if you count the self-repair). or of course you can always buy the defrag :P

transient: you use the weak potion too early here (you're not taking any damage that turn) and it wears off before the turns where you really need it (the last two where the enemy is at its strongest). Although honestly I'd have just saved the potion entire for the time eater fight since it's pretty strong against time eater's multihit attacks

time lord: be careful with the card counter (you can see it displayed below him, your turn will automatically end when it reaches 12). The very first time this happens you get caught way offguard with a bunch of good cards in your hand and take tons of damage for it. And don't just watch for 12 too, also be careful about ending a turn at 10 or 11 since it means you get very few cards to play next turn. In general you really want to make your cards count in this fight so things like hologramming an FTL for 5 damage (2 cards) or playing rebound for 9 damage (1 card) should probably be avoided if possible. Honestly I'd probably just say don't play FTL at all unless you really really need the card draw.

time lord part 2: When this boss drops below 50%, it will use its next turn to heal back to 50% and remove all debuffs. This means unless you can kill it that turn, there is no point in wasting cards to deal damage to it. You also want to be careful with exactly how you cycle your orbs since getting a dark orb into the front spot is very strong with loop active and ideally leaving it there for a few turns (what I'm getting at is you should probably have ended this turn without playing a single card https://files.catbox.moe/f0j10j.png)

I realize I've spent 3 giant posts complaining but congrats on the win!

As far as general overall advice goes, I have 1 defect-specific advice and one multipurpose advice:

Defect - Defect gets a lot of its lategame power and scaling from orbs. It's possible to make a strong defect deck that doesn't really use orbs but it's not easy. You picked up some nice orb generation cards, which is good, but you're missing the orb scaling part of the equation. Defragment (or other focus sources) is good because it makes every single orb stronger, while capacitor (or other orb slot sources) is good since it lets you passively use more orbs at a time. The kinda scale with each other too, in the sense that capacitor lets you fit more orbs and then defrag boosts all those orbs simultaneously. So if you're making use of orbs be sure to try and pick some of these up (defrag in particular is also a very good upgrade choice)

General - You take a lot of unnecessary damage during everyday hallway fights. Like, I'd go so far as to say that the majority of your fights have at least one significant misplay in them. And I don't just mean stuff like having a rough decision between two similar options. I mean things like ending the turn with carsd you can play just sitting in your hand, or playing cards in completely the wrong order, or not watching your energy and ending up unable to play the best card in your hand since you saved it for last. I'm sure you're capable of noticing this sort of thing so maybe just slow down a little and spend a bit of time at the start of the turn thinking about what you want to do before playing a single card. If nothing in your hand draws you additional cards, you have basically all your info for the turn available to you right away so may as well use it to form a strategy instead of playing half your hand and then realizing you wanted to play the other half. Also I dunno if this option exists in the console version but there's a toggle in settings that requires you to hol the end turn button for about half a second to end turn instead of just pressing it that you might find useful.

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Bad_Mojo
02/16/21 8:27:15 PM
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marthsheretoo
02/16/21 11:09:04 PM
#58:


God dammit.

So I picked up the game after you guys said the Android version was stable. Been having fun with it so far. Took a bit of time to figure out the strategy but now I can regularly clear the game (at least for now; I hear it gets harder).

Anyway, I made it to the actual final boss just now and I had a super broken watcher build that abused intangibility and flurry of blows/wrath for massive damage. Cruised through every fight once I got the event that gave me the intangibility to play with. Except it cut my max HP in half...

...and I had no idea that the boss would punish intangibility THAT HARD. I clicked over the boss abilities when the fight started and had to put my phone down for a second; I was so proud of the build I'd made and it was like the game had said "lol no, get here for real."

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Garioshi
02/16/21 11:38:21 PM
#59:



Fucking OBLITERATED this run

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HagenEx
02/17/21 12:22:42 AM
#60:


Kunai, Nunchaku and Shuriken Flurry = OP.

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wiiking96
02/17/21 12:55:47 AM
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If you guys don't mind, please behold the following Watcher run:

https://i.imgur.com/h63SqZV.jpg
https://imgur.com/LL6UwEI.jpg

With this run, I was fortunate enough to get both Blue Candle and Du-vu Doll, which allowed me to accumulate curses for an absolutely absurd power boost. Now, such a build would still have the issue of being cluttered with junk cards, but I also got Unceasing Top, which meant that even drawing five curses in the same turn wouldn't be an issue. And of course Ice Cream doesn't hurt. On top of all that, I got a super strong Mantra build that further amplified the power of the 10 Strength, and I had two Wallops for reliable defense.

This build was so strong I defeated the final elites ON THE FIRST TURN. Beat of Death of course still posed a serious problem with the Heart, and I only barely managed to out damage it.

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02/18/21 2:59:02 AM
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PMarth2002
02/18/21 3:11:30 AM
#63:


wiiking96 posted...
If you guys don't mind, please behold the following Watcher run:

crazy. i tend to avoid the key unless i don't have a 4th energy and its offered after the act 2 boss or i remember that i have blue candle.

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Garioshi
02/18/21 11:53:28 AM
#64:



I'm 6/6/6/6 now

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marthsheretoo
02/18/21 9:58:13 PM
#65:


Woop woop, took down the heart for the first time! Looking back on my run, I now realize just how lucky I got with relics to make the whole strat come together.

Miracle claw defect, fyi.

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Bad_Mojo
02/18/21 10:04:40 PM
#66:


marthsheretoo posted...
Woop woop, took down the heart for the first time! Looking back on my run, I now realize just how lucky I got with relics to make the whole strat come together.

Miracle claw defect, fyi.

Congrats! I haven't beat it yet

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marthsheretoo
02/18/21 10:11:16 PM
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Bad_Mojo posted...
Congrats! I haven't beat it yet

You'll get there! It is a blatantly unfair battle lol.

I had the kunai and the fan, and the anchor to protect me while I laid down my powers T1. Then it was FTL/claw/3 damage debuff attacks all day long, with two copies of draw 3/exhaust and another copy of draw 3/shuffle in a burn. Had two reboots as well, and then the 0 cost energy generators. Add in some swipe and one for all shenanigans and I could generally stumble through 12 attacks or so per turn.

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PMarth2002
02/19/21 1:35:43 PM
#68:


had a bunch of runs that ended in act 1, so getting a couple of wins felt nice.



Gotta love reaper. Took almost over one and a half times my max HP in damage.



bottled fasting + orange pellets is really nice. Gets even better when you throw in tantrum and talk to the hand. had a near perfect act 3 until I hit the boss, then took 55 damage on awakened one. Had a way easier second boss fight against time eater.

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PMarth2002
02/19/21 1:41:06 PM
#69:


marthsheretoo posted...
Woop woop, took down the heart for the first time! Looking back on my run, I now realize just how lucky I got with relics to make the whole strat come together.

Miracle claw defect, fyi.

congrats. not a fan of the heart fight personally, so i've never beaten it over ascension 9 or so, despite just hitting 1100 hours in the game.

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kirbymuncher
02/19/21 1:56:18 PM
#70:


heart is pretty dumb imo

I'll go for it if my deck feels unusually strong by the end but I personally still think of it as a win even if I lose to the heart

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Garioshi
02/19/21 4:34:41 PM
#71:



Limit Break + literally any amount of strength gen is a won run

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wiiking96
02/19/21 4:47:49 PM
#72:


Just had my second A20 victory with The Silent!

https://imgur.com/lEivWD9.jpg

This was a super cool run that made use of Sadistic Nature, poison, and other debuff cards to deal tons of damage. I also got rid all my strikes and defends, had Mummified Hand and tons of Power Cards AND Dead Branch and plenty of Shivs. Runic Pyramid + Storm of Steel also helped a ton.

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KayfabeTactics
02/19/21 6:09:43 PM
#73:


Game drives me nuts

I think the issue why you all can't help me is that I never know the name of the cards, lol. I only know what they look like. I have the same issue in Magic, I know all the cards by picture alone, but know almost none of the names. So when you all say things like, "Runic Pyramid + Storm Of Steel," I will forget as soon as I post this comment what they're called, and will never look them up in the game to see why it's such a great combo, lol

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Garioshi
02/19/21 6:23:23 PM
#74:



Back on PC to play the Hermit mod. Combo is still absurdly fucking broken, and I don't think there's any way to un-break it.

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wiiking96
02/19/21 6:54:51 PM
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KayfabeTactics posted...
Game drives me nuts

I think the issue why you all can't help me is that I never know the name of the cards, lol. I only know what they look like. I have the same issue in Magic, I know all the cards by picture alone, but know almost none of the names. So when you all say things like, "Runic Pyramid + Storm Of Steel," I will forget as soon as I post this comment what they're called, and will never look them up in the game to see why it's such a great combo, lol
I see. I have all the relics memorized and most of the cards memorized. Though Runic Pyramid doesn't exactly communicate its effect through its design. It's just a visually unique relic with a very unique effect. It's also true that the visuals of the relics and cards helps me know what they do right away when playing the game.

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marthsheretoo
02/19/21 8:23:47 PM
#76:


Alright, that's the heart beaten with every character. Of course, this is just A1. I don't know if I have the stamina to keep running through to reach the high tiers.

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PMarth2002
02/19/21 8:55:49 PM
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marthsheretoo posted...
Alright, that's the heart beaten with every character. Of course, this is just A1. I don't know if I have the stamina to keep running through to reach the high tiers.

before i decided not to not do the heart fights, i had a thought to do it on certain level markers. i settled on on 4, 9, 16, 19 and 20. 4, 9, and 19 are the levels that you'll face all of the upgraded bosses on, going from 9 to 16 adds a bunch of misc. modifiers, and 20 adds the second boss.

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Stalolin
02/19/21 8:57:17 PM
#78:


Finally beat A7 Defect. Still hate Time Eater with the fire of a thousand suns.

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KayfabeTactics
02/19/21 8:59:53 PM
#79:


Stalolin posted...
Finally beat A7 Defect. Still hate Time Eater with the fire of a thousand suns.

i hate that fucking Elite boss in the first floor. 3 of them show up, spam your deck with junk, and take forever to die.

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PMarth2002
02/19/21 9:16:34 PM
#80:


KayfabeTactics posted...
Game drives me nuts

I think the issue why you all can't help me is that I never know the name of the cards, lol. I only know what they look like. I have the same issue in Magic, I know all the cards by picture alone, but know almost none of the names. So when you all say things like, "Runic Pyramid + Storm Of Steel," I will forget as soon as I post this comment what they're called, and will never look them up in the game to see why it's such a great combo, lol

do you remember most of the effects, or do you have trouble remembering those too if you don't have the card on screen to read?

KayfabeTactics posted...
i hate that fucking Elite boss in the first floor. 3 of them show up, spam your deck with junk, and take forever to die.

kill the outside sentry with the lowest HP first, and the fight becomes way easier.

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KayfabeTactics
02/19/21 9:21:15 PM
#81:


PMarth2002 posted...
do you remember most of the effects, or do you have trouble remembering those too if you don't have the card on screen to read?

What I mean is, I see someone give me advice like, "Use X and then do Y," when I'm reading that, I don't have a f'n clue which cards are being talked about. If I saw the cards, then I would have an easy time understanding what is being said.

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PMarth2002
02/19/21 9:29:02 PM
#82:




goddamn. i wonder if this is the most damage i ever took on a winning run. i added it up. I took over 800 damage this run, a quarter of that damage was on the act 3 bosses alone, both of them did enough to kill me from full health.

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PMarth2002
02/19/21 9:31:23 PM
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KayfabeTactics posted...
What I mean is, I see someone give me advice like, "Use X and then do Y," when I'm reading that, I don't have a f'n clue which cards are being talked about. If I saw the cards, then I would have an easy time understanding what is being said.

would it help if i describe what a card does if i mention a card? if it does, i'll try to remember to do that.


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KayfabeTactics
02/19/21 9:37:49 PM
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PMarth2002 posted...
would it help if i describe what a card does if i mention a card? if it does, i'll try to remember to do that.

Oh, don't do that. I just need to stop being lazy, lol. Thanks, though

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PMarth2002
02/19/21 9:39:16 PM
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KayfabeTactics posted...
Oh, don't do that. I just need to stop being lazy, lol. Thanks, though

not a big deal.

out of curiosity, what level ascension are you playing on?

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KayfabeTactics
02/19/21 11:07:02 PM
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PMarth2002 posted...
not a big deal.

out of curiosity, what level ascension are you playing on?

1 across the board. This is Bad_Mojo, btw, I got put in time out

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Dark_Garioshi
02/20/21 8:48:36 PM
#87:


Warned, but playing nonetheless.

I underestimated the fuck out of Finisher.

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PMarth2002
02/20/21 10:26:58 PM
#88:




wrath stance doesn't really have a downside when you have necronomicon, calipers and 3 copies of wallop. calipers is a great relic when you can generate a ton of block.

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PMarth2002
02/21/21 4:28:22 AM
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either i'm getting really bad act 1s or i need to re-evaluate how i path because nearly half the runs i've played in the past few days have died in act 1.

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Jeff AKA Snoopy
02/21/21 4:48:20 AM
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Is the Android version worth getting if you have it on PC already?

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marthsheretoo
02/21/21 8:14:55 AM
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Oh man, I just had the nuttiest goddamned run. Annihilated the heart so utterly as Watcher that I ended with an unused lizard tail and over half my health. Took so many risks that almost killed me in act 1 and 2 (would have died a hundred times over on higher ascensions) but came out the other side with 33 relics, most of them bonkers. Not to mention I kept spamming lesson learned so my deck was upgraded to hell even though I used my campfires to dig.

I had lightning bottle for three miracles plus gambler's chip (yep, this works!). I had ink bottle, duality, and shuriken with a flurry-based deck. I had tungsten rod and that one relic that reduces damage under 5 to 1, meaning it got reduced to 0. Had unceasing top for divinity stance. Even random intangibility every 6 turns.

I felt like a god and I weep knowing it may never happen again.

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Dark_Garioshi
02/21/21 8:35:29 AM
#92:


Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...
Is the Android version worth getting if you have it on PC already?
There's nothing new, but if you want to play it anywhere other than on PC, I'd say go for it.

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kirbymuncher
02/21/21 12:29:55 PM
#93:


marthsheretoo posted...
I had tungsten rod and that one relic that reduces damage under 5 to 1, meaning it got reduced to 0.
this is my favourite combo of things in the game, it just feels so good to see some weak multihit attack and not even bother blocking

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PMarth2002
02/21/21 10:43:16 PM
#94:




buying chemical x was probably the best decision i made this run. skewer, malaise and doppleganger are so much better with chemical x.

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PMarth2002
02/22/21 9:37:16 PM
#95:


my streak of dying in act 1 seems to have stopped at least.

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Bad_Mojo
02/22/21 9:43:46 PM
#96:


PMarth2002 posted...
my streak of dying in act 1 seems to have stopped at least.

One floor at a time

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marthsheretoo
02/22/21 10:28:56 PM
#97:


PMarth2002 posted...
my streak of dying in act 1 seems to have stopped at least.

Eh, my philosophy is that if you play it safe in act 1, you die in act 3.

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wiiking96
02/23/21 12:32:38 AM
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marthsheretoo posted...
Eh, my philosophy is that if you play it safe in act 1, you die in act 3.
Pretty much, yeah. You want to gain as many relics as you can as early as you can to maximize the chance of getting really good relics. Accumulating gold is also really important.

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Garioshi
02/24/21 2:19:41 AM
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bump

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Bad_Mojo
02/24/21 2:22:17 AM
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I got Corpse Explosion on Iron Clad, had a small deck with a lot of damage, still fucked it up and lost.

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