I’m working from home today. 

The Switch is staring me in the face...

Which reminds me. I actually dropped the Switch on my face last night cos I nodded off while playing (lying on bed on my back, Switch held above face). Trufax

Just have the tiniest of goes.

Just had an outstanding IC run. Got the unceasing top early on and then the Corruption card to turn all skills to zero. Then got Shuriken and Kunai relics and toke to reduce the deck to zero cards and skills. D&D didn't stand a chance.

Need a bit of luck. Without Corruption it would've been just alright, but one I got that and anger it was easy. Toke was pretty essential for cutting out the expensive attack cards.

That’s a bad way to look at it. Lower card numbers doesn’t automatically mean better deck if the cards aren’t doing what you need them to do. What Class was it? If you had low numbers and weren’t getting the cards you needed it means you didn’t have. a way to cycle through for cards you needed (acrobatics, backflip for silent, shrug it off for ironclad etc) or you didn’t have enough ramping damaging from poison or strength to finish the fight fast enough.

Every boss and every fight challenges your deck in a different way, so it’s a good idea to try to stop thinking about the idea of a one size fits all solution to the game. Small deck is only good with the cards that benefit from it being a small deck, block and attack proportions only matter if you’re doing enough block and damage to win a fight.

For example, the deck I won our weekly challenge with yesterday had 35 cards in, but they were 35 good cards.

Well no, the idea is to pick the best cards for your deck from the choices you are offered. Without a screenshot of your run, it’s hard to see what you had and what choices you made, or what your deck looked like.

There are often times you’ll pass over good cards because they don’t work early on. A good example is Acrobatics as Silent. From Act 2 onwards it’s often an amazing card because it’s very likely you have 4 energy thanks to a relic, so you can spare the energy for the cycling. If you get it in the first half of Act 1 it’s utterly useless because cycling your deck is pointless when you are cycling for cards you likely already have in your hand. Same for relic interaction stuff, there’s very little point taking Well-laid Plans (keep one card in for your next turn, every turn) if you have a Runic Dodecahedron (at the end of your turn, keep your hand) because at that point it’s just redundant and taking up space despite being one of the strongest Silent picks in every other circumstance because of how it lets you hold onto damage mitigation for the turn you need it.

Thanks for the tips. I’ll have to think harder about what I pick up!

Would play right now if I had Switch with me!

All truth from temps. I should say I've won with bigger decks and I do generally end up around the 25 mark a lot. As he says, it's dependant on the combos you have. If you can get through cards quickly, or get big hands, it's amazing what you can do.

I found learning to love snecko eye an (lol) eye opener.

First time I copped that snake I was like FUUUUUCK, but if you've built the right sort of deck, snecko eye is amazing, because card draw hello and cost of cards in average, hello.

Just in case anyone thinks I am good at this, I am still scrubbing around on Asc4 with Silent atm, about 10 straight losses.

I thought it was 600, but it's 500 hrs for me. And only some of that would be idle while putting Ara to sleep.

Ac13 done for all.

Collectors can be a bit tricky for Defect if you don’t get Electrodynamics as you are splitting attention between him and his minions. Advantage of Defect is you don’t suffer from his debuffs quite as much if you are fully orbed up. 

Just did Asc 3 with Defect and smashed Time Keeper great range of relics starting with Ice Cream and a load of charge batteries (yes @Roujin !) meant I had tons of energy and loads of block. Etheral Form is my favourite Defect card, alongside a range of other power cards and mummified hand meant I was rarely paying for most cards. Hologram was also a massive help to bring back more block against those big TC hits.

Died on Collector last night using Ironclad. Thought I was doing ok bit looking back at my deck I did make a couple of pickups I shouldn’t have maybe. Pic below. Tips welcome please on deck and route etc.

Can’t remember card names too well but is heavy blade the one that works off strength too? I regretted picking that up. 

Interesting the B4B and Bomb. Will bear that in mind, thanks!

Okay cool, the next step is that on floor one you need to make sure you pick up at least one serviceable damage card if you're doing elites as Gremlin Nob and Lagavulin need dealing with quickly before they overpower you. The other elite is the 3 Sentinels and ideally for these you would like an aoe damage card but imho as long as you just concentrate on the left or right hand sentinel first you can get through them with an average regular deck.

Will be streaming my attempt at the forum challenge run from 20:15 if anyone fancies a look.

http://www.twitch.tv/mm_roujin