Hooray for this sillyness.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/01/14/slay-the-spire-googly-eyes-mod/

Woohoo! Cleared my first Ascension 5 run with Ironclad just now. Had a sort of okayish juggernaut deck going, dealing damage by blocking. Had some nice synergy stuff going on, had Rage to proc Juggernaut even when attacking, had some Iron Waves to basically hit twice, had barricade to carry over block, had some body slams. Immolate and Reaper were nice for AoE and sustain. 

It only really came good in the last floor where I got to clone Juggernaut in a ? room, got a spot weakness and a whirlwind on the way to the Awakened One as well as a heavy blade so that I ended up having some quite good options building strength. 

I got luckyish against the awakened one because my Chrysalis card generated a limit break as well as an entrench. I got both my juggernauts earlyish and the barricade. Ended up killing the first part of Awakened one with only 3hp left, but in his first turn I got off a disgusting limit break, bash, reaper combo thanks to getting enlightment upgraded during the first phase and buffing some cards. Healed for 56 hp or something silly, then drew into a bunch of block, body slam and the heavy blade which hit for 216 damage. 

I still suck at remembering to work out anything that carries over between turns, remembering to watch any relics that have counters involved and remembering vulnerable extra damage and missing lethal because of it.

I'm still very good at making one stupid decision and failing a run thanks to that. Or misunderstanding cards.

Was so close to the act 3 boss (donut friends) with The Silent just now, only to decide I can take on two sentry things in a ? room. Just couldn't keep my defense high enough, which is weird as that was how I won most things prior. Have poison building up while blocking and throwing a shiv every turn.
I lost by 1 turn and -1 hp, if I didn't have the burn I would have won as the poison was ready to take out the last sentry.

Finding it really hard to feel the synergy between cards, relics and potions. I'm not even good at planning ahead but the synergy thing is the worst. I watch jonrbs and he's so good at that. Knows how to build up pen etc. Was happy to see he's also a fan of echo form and self repair+. But it would never have occurred to me that if you go for that combo every fight, you could pick up one of those relics that prevent you from resting. If you're smart with self repair you don't need it anymore.

A very cheeky smol stream of this will start at 20:30.

Be there or be fucking whack af my dudes!

http://www.twitch.tv/mm_roujin

This bloody Time Keeper. Had a great hand twice and every time I get to him on Ascension 2 he pulls out the big punches. And then he bloody regens just when I thought I had him!

Silent for me is the hardest too. Got her to win one but haven’t managed and Ascension run yet. I think I can only win with a maxed out poison deck. The shiv thing never seems to work for me.

Silent Decks can’t rely on one tool. Archetypes are weak overall because every boss counters one or two of them unlesss they’re insane. Scaling cards and relics help a lot, but she’s definitely tough.

Noxious Fumes is generally pretty good if you’ve got the block. Caltrops is similarly brilliant. Dexterity is amazing. Malaise is god tier.

Dunno, it’s generally not the first thing i’d upgrade, it’s unusual for a power card in that it’s upgrade matters because it guaranteed to play every turn, unlike a lot of them. That said, i’d still have it low down the list.

Interesting. I'll always upgrade Neutralise, free damage and damage mitigation for 0 cost is hella tasty.

I think my issue is I find her ultra weak compared to Ironclad and Defect, hard to get a ton of damage going early. Can see shes the one you can make crazy insane builds on the easiest though with the right RNG

I tried some Echo Form runs last night. Stacking that gets super super powerful. Get two upgraded in your deck and you can play your first three cards twice each. Coming that with the card that gives you a random power and you can get some stupidly powerful hands.

I've been doing loads of silent runs, got to the act 3 boss a couple times now. Main problem is arriving with low health.

Got a fun deck now with a card that does poison damage and when the enemy dies it does damage to all enemies with its max hp. Has been fun in hallway fights.

I'm just trying to get block with The Silent, get rid of strikes and just add poison cards or cards that can draw cards. I don't think the Silent has any option to heal herself, so I'm going for block more than on others. Best card for that of course of the one that does 10 damage and 10 block.

Still need to win anything with The Silent and Ironclad, but I'm not trying too hard yet. I'm often just taking cards to see what they do.


Edit, I might just post a screenshot from the deck I got going now, would be fun to read what you people think needs to be added.

That's yer Ascension 2 done with Defect. Took a chance with a portal pretty early in the 3rd floor. Warped into Deca/Donu with only 52hp, but thanks to a combo of Echo form, Capacitor and loads of ice to hold them off I was able to block most damage. Getting electrodynamics around half way through the fight made it all much easier.