Heh, kept dropping as end of fight card.reward. damage output was terrible bar.bodyslam

Over 60 hours and I’ve just met an elite I’ve not come across before! Nemesis, some skeleton with a scythe. Just before Act 3 boss and I died.

Yeah. I had spot weakness which then only came up when he was due to cast intangible rather than attack. 

It was a bad run. Well, could’ve been better. Mainly cos I kept forgetting the relics I had. So many times I could’ve attacked again from getting extra energy and card draw from killing one enemy but I rush the cards and forget and press button to end turn. Kept forgetting I had 1 intangible at start and sometimes started blocking instead of just attacking. Stupid.

Facewon wrote:

4x entrench and barricade. Woah. I can't remember if bottled lightning gives you a choice on an attack at start or power card?

Was barricade always in open?

It wasnt hence.my low health on Donu. Went down to 2 hp in fight previous as it was.the last card.to.show

It’s that being on a knife edge that works so well. They nailed the balance perfectly.

Ugh, made some stupid decisions and died in the 3rd act of ascension 1of ironclad. Rather annoying

Tempy wrote:

It’s almost like I was right when we did that article together Jon

Indeed. It's a shame I hadn't played it then.

Just died on the 3rd boss again as Ironclad. Again my own fault for going for an elite not long before the boss and not going in fully healed. I probably would've done it with a chunk more HP.

Finished with Ironclad. Ended up with a build balanced towards offence and some healing.

Trashed the Timekeeper boss with demon form. Regular attacks doing 30 damage when it died.

Went back to this at the weekend after a break and whilst I'm still enjoying it, I feel like I'm not getting any better. I still haven't beaten the game with any of the characters though have come closest with defect.

I suspect I'm leaning too much towards defence when building my decks so don't have many cards that do big damage. I'm getting through the first act easily, battling elites where possible and only upgrading at rest sites. Only getting to act 3 about half the time and when I do, I'm not getting that close to the boss.

More tips welcome. Also, what's the significance of the floors?

I don't what you mean by the significance, it's just a number to track your progress. The first 3, 2 and then 1 floor in each act respectively pulls from a weaker pool of enemies at least.

All I can do is suggest the same thing I always have. I don't play it as much as I used to these days cos I am too busy, but the general idea is to not really build your deck to do a "thing" but build it do beat whatever you need it to beat next.

In Act One you'll know what boss you have to fight, and you'll have picked a path and see how many elites you have to fight next. So you know the pool of Elites on Act One is always the same: Sentries, Gremlin Nob, Lagavullin. They all punish different things - Gremlin nob will destroy you if you rely on skills, so you need good front loaded damage, Sentries rewards AoE and decent targeted damage, Lagavullin rewards the ability to scale and deploy damage that you need when you need it.

So you couple that with what the bosses need. AoE and big single target are good for Slime Boss for example, cos that lets you hit his splits, and dictate when he splits to avoid his big attack.

When picking cards, you focus on those things then. Sentries is a bit of a decoy cos any deck can take them, it's mainly attrition - so you need to fear Lagavullin and Gremlin Nob - different characters fair better/worse against them, which should be fairly obvious from their card pools.

So from there, just task yourself with picking cards that help you solve those problems, as opposed to trying to make synergies happen. Think about which Relics and Cards are just universally powerful for your build. The Silent for example just benefits massively from Caltrops and Bronze Scales because regardless of your build you're always blocking, and they both proc off number of attacks so they solve lots of problems in the game and scale really, really well. 

Backstab is similarly amazing because it is innate,and does 11 damage and then exhausts, so it fucks off forever once used and doesn't clog your deck when you need to powers and blocks more often.

From there, just focus on trying to identify what cards are good at what time? Acrobatics is amazing on silent because it synergises well with the general idea of drawing lots and having a lot of energy, two things Silent can do. But would I take it in Act One? Probably not, because I am never going to have the energy to play it, so it will waste space and take up a card draw, which is precious early on. Instead, cards like Cloak and Dagger are good because they do two things well which synergise a lot with basic things very easily.

That's the building blocks of the game. Don't run after archetypes or ideas, just focus on understanding what cards are generally pretty good without synergise, what works well on its own early on, what you're better off picking up later, and so on.

Just go Ironclad STR scaling if you want a win as soon as, it's easy to build and fun to use

Thanks, chaps.

JonB wrote:

Getting more energy has been the main thing for me so far. You often get a relic after the 1st boss that gives you more every turn, even if it means sacrificing something else. It's all about increasing your options on every turn, I think, cutting down the random factor a little. If you have extra energy and cards that allow you to draw more cards, you'll have more choices.

I've only had extra energy a few times but it has made a sizable difference. Definitely found the cards that allow more draws to be a solid asset in more recent runs.

Every act has pools of enemies, elites and bosses, learning them is really important.

Champion keeps fucking me. Several times in a row now. Cunt.

Would really love to see that, Jorbs is a top streamer