Slay the Spire: B&B GOTY 2018, 2020, 2021, and Forum Pariah 2019 - The Bear and Badger

hylian_elf

I'm struggling with Silent. Took me a few attempts at Asc3 to even get to the Act 3 boss then I died when I thought I had a good shiv based deck. Got Deca down to 30hp, almost there.

b0r1s

Look are the block cards (Blur and Dodge and Roll) and if you can grab after image, upgraded makes you very tough.

hylian_elf

I had After Image (innate) and innate shiv at start of turn card, and Blur. Relic that gives you 0 card if you use a power. Act 3 flew by, I just bodged it on the boss.

It could just be the fact that I’ve been playing as IC for so long, I need to get back into the groove as Slient.

b0r1s

What’s great about this game is the number of new things still to discover.

Just did a Watcher Asc 10 run with 2 x Worship and 2 x Brilliance. Combined with Apotheosis was pretty much unstoppable.

SpaceGazelle

equinox_code wrote:

New combos still happening. Currently got Rupture + (every time you take damage from a card gain 2 strength) and the pain curse (lose 1 hp every time you play a card with this in hand).

Christ, I bet that's a cracker.

voices

I chanced across that combo in my first ever clear. No idea if it works at higher ascensions, but it opened my eyes to what a powerful build actually looked like.

mistercrayon

You can’t just say that!

Facewon

Man, doing, I think, ac16 for watcher. Great, fun run slammed shut on last 2 fights.

Just handed so many good synergies so quickly.

Had sig move as the primary big hitter, managed to get rid of all strikes. Had a few flurry of blows and 1 of the one that gives you more energy if last card was attack.

Lucked out hard with stuff giving me stuff to hit triple damage zone. Relic for one mantra per turn, 2 of the power card that gives you mantra per turn (one levelled up) and the 0 cost skill for 3 mantra.

Absolutely smashed through everything with barely a scratch.

Then second last fight was spaghetti fuck and he hit me hard, final fire couldn't heal me enough, time eater as final boss and I just couldn't quite last long enough to get a good sig move while in uber mode to finish him off.

mistercrayon

Brimstone + any strength + reaper feels like instant wins to me.

The first automatically gives you double strength over the enemy, the second nudges you ahead of that and buffed reaper cancels out any boost the enemy gets from brimstone especially as multiple enemies show up.

Most recent game also got a snecko too.

Actually. The whole run was ridiculous because I had feed too.

Just bananas.

equinox_code

brimstone is one of my fave relics but it makes the heart a real challenge because of those scaling multi attacks

mistercrayon

I rarely go for heart now as I am trying to go up the acensions and losing at a heart feels galling.

SpaceGazelle

mistercrayon wrote:

I rarely go for heart now as I am trying to go up the acensions and losing at a heart feels galling.

Yeah do ascs first and then go back up them with heart.

hylian_elf

Has anyone (here or ever) actually done all heart ascensions with all characters??

Tempy

mistercrayon wrote:

I rarely go for heart now as I am trying to go up the acensions and losing at a heart feels galling.

You pass the ascension if you beat the act 3 boss, heart isn’t required as far as I remember. Check with @Roujin to make sure.

SpaceGazelle

This is correct.

equinox_code

hylian_elf wrote:

Has anyone (here or ever) actually done all heart ascensions with all characters??

yep

mistercrayon

Well there you go. I must have missed going up an ascension when the steam was coming out of my ears after I lost a heart run that I locked in but lost a critical card in one of the question marks.

equinox_code

The one time I managed brimstone heart run. Fastest victory I ever had, too. Def one of the most fun. iirc I won on the last possible turn I could, as I was about to get hit for 200 odd damage or something stupid like that.

I saved heart runs for when I was done with all the ascensions, but now I'm at that stage anything less than an a20 heart victory feels a bit hollow. The nature of the game and the way it forces you to constantly optimise your decisions means that playing at any ascension other than your highest might actually make you worse.

hylian_elf

equinox_code wrote:

hylian_elf wrote:

Has anyone (here or ever) actually done all heart ascensions with all characters??

yep

Wow. Respect. How many hours have you put in?!

equinox_code

866

hylian_elf

I bow to your superiority.

This is one of those games that I absolutely love and just wish I was much better at. I feel I should be better than I am for my 135 hours or so.

equinox_code

It's just perseverance. I have no talent at this. If anything the opposite is true. At the level I find myself trying to play now I often run up against the limits of my intelligence, which can be really frustrating.

equinox_code

135 hours is a lot for any other game

mistercrayon

I have approx that much but my bet is that half is the game on my face as I fall asleep.

Roujin

mistercrayon wrote:

Well there you go. I must have missed going up an ascension when the steam was coming out of my ears after I lost a heart run that I locked in but lost a critical card in one of the question marks.

I think if you die on a heart run you don't clear that Ascension iirc. It's a weird one.

SpaceGazelle

I thought I did one time, very early on.

Facewon

AC16 done with Watcher. Super cool deck.

Got tantrum early, followed by the card that buffs next attack. Then lucked out on so many first move relics it was nuts.

Gambling chip, first attack does extra damage, enemies start with vulnerable. 2 energy after resting.

Had Vault too and scribble too.

I one turned nearly all of Act 3. And took down the rat/bird thing first form on first turn.

Awesome fun.

equinox_code

this mind bloom event where you can fight a boss from act 1 for a rare relic; do you guys always face hexaghost?

hylian_elf

Hmmm. I think more often than not, but can’t be sure if all the time.

equinox_code

I never had anything else but maybe that's normal. I only ask because I think the random number generator at the game's core might have got stuck for my copy. Looking through my run history it seems I haven't had necronomicon in over year, which would surely be incredibly unlikely given the amount I have played this.

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