Just had my “plan” fall apart on the last but one fight (the blue fucker with the big bite building up strength). Was moderate strength. Really only demon form and a couple of flexes. But good combo of uppercuts, heavy blows and twin strikes was putting paid to most stuff with Fiend Fire to finish a round. As usual. Didn’t get enough block.

mistercrayon wrote:

For what it’s worth when I say e.g. “perfect strike deck” these are always made in conjunction with a few choice deck cycling cards, flex, trip and so on. But to get to that stage it feels like you need a few key pieces.

My sense is that if you want to beat the last guys you need to be building for the long game? It’s quite easy to go up the wrong alleys though.

It’s interesting how the pros seem to talk about maximising opportunities but those appear to require some advanced knowledge of what is to come (dominion style).

You’re always building to fight the last guy yeah, but typically you want to be able to beat your next fight as you nearly always have the opportunity to take cards out of your deck at a later floor, or get more card draw if you need it. Most act 3 bosses are testing your deck on consistency above anything else, which is different to act 1 and 2.

I get that you need foreknowledge of later events to get truly brilliant at the game, but that’s sort of the point. That’s why people play it for 500-2000 hours, because you’re always learning, you’re always putting new things in to practice and reassessing your assumptions about the game. Like Jorbs said in that interview I did, it’s a game of many peaks, and quite a lot of the game is making sure you’re climbing the right peak, or at the very least you’re able to recalibrate your learning once you’ve realised you were climbing the wrong one earlier.

Potions are stupidly powerful at times, they’re low key one of the most important aspects of high level play

Another cool addition might be a drivatar style multiplayer mode maybe. On the daily challenge you can upload your guy and the computer will control a download of that guy onto friends games for a fight (best of 3 for luck mitigation.

This needs to be on android too, so I can play it all the time.

I am definitely getting worse at this the more I play.

The Daddy wrote:

I am definitely getting worse at this the more I play.

It’ll come back to you. You’re probably just coming across the range of shit that can happen on any run. There is still luck involved, get the wrong ? Room at the wrong time. Take a gamble on not resting at a bonfire to get that juicy upgrade then get a shit room battle. All just part of the fun.

SpaceGazelle wrote:

Headbutt is my fave IC card.

Combined with Spot Weakness, am I right? Right?

I think corruption is also up there for me.

It is a Powerful card, but I've grabbed it on more than one occasion when it wasn't appropriate at all and fucked myself.

Also, a15 is going to be a mofo for me.

I've overrelied on lucking out on question mark rooms, nad it basically shafts that.

b0r1s wrote:

SpaceGazelle wrote:

Headbutt is my fave IC card.

Combined with Spot Weakness, am I right? Right?

Had my IC asc1 win with a Spot Weakness in the deck. Also had inflame+, heavy strike, the card that does 21 damage to all enemies but adds a burn, the card that does 3 x 5 damage (but with high strength that easily is 7 x 5) and the relic that adds +1 strength when you play 3 attacks.

I shall see if I have a screenshot.

Not sure it’s a minor card but never used to use Juggernaut (5/7) damage to random enemy when you add block. Have only recently been adding it to my deck. Combined with Metallicize on one-on-one fights it’s pretty special.

Stupid fucking game. I forgot to get off the train.

Yeah, Strength, Block utilisation, health sacrifice, and Exhaust are the four main mechanics IC has in its card pool.

Low energy, high strength with the spot weakness but surprisingly not much in the way of upgraded cards. We’re you betting on apotheosis or was it bottled? (Can never know which bottle does what card). Ballsy though.

b0r1s wrote:

Low energy, high strength with the spot weakness but surprisingly not much in the way of upgraded cards. We’re you betting on apotheosis or was it bottled? (Can never know which bottle does what card). Ballsy though.

I had Apotheosis come out first hand so it worked wonders for me.

Just threw away a stormer of an IC run on that Elite dude that has intangible every other turn. Was comfortable but strength was well up and wanted to take advantage of Reaper to heal up, not realising that the extra turn put me up against his intangible. Minor heal, major death.