b0r1s wrote:

I mean I sort of consider it, but I'm not checking my draw pile all the time like Noxy was.

I like to think it looks as though I am making multiple layers of calculation for every turn; breaking down all the possibilities and permutations into probability packages which need to be repeatedly cross referenced. In reality I just have a sieve brain and sometimes I check my draw pile multiple times per turn because I've already forgotten what I saw the last time. 

I'm definitely prone to making clumsy mistakes if not careful. Especially orichalcum. I don't think I have ever had that relic and not fucked up at least one turn with it.

Heh, I play at 4x speed compared to noxy thus make about 20x mistakes. Which often results in gruesome/hillarious death especially with watcher lol.

I love how this game challenges you to come up with new play styles. Swapped out my starting relic with Silent earlier and got Pandora's Box - ended up with no defence cards. Managed to get to the Champ on a wing and a prayer.

Ac19 with Silent. Wish me luck.

Where he’s going he doesn’t need luck

Facewon wrote:

Ac19 with Silent. Wish me luck.

Got time eater to half health on first attempt. Not bad.

Madness. If I'm really honest with myself, and for some time I  haven't been,  right now I think defect is my fave character. Don't think I've felt this way since the first week of owning the game. I think a lot of it owes to the potential for rapid energy accumulation; things like stacking hologram and turbo for these complex bursts of nifty deck manipulation chains, which all multiply in awesomeness with echo form, or teetering on the brink of infinite turns by throwing in double energy and a bit of card draw. Plus any time I get meteor strike working is always a good time. 

I will try and enjoy this defect love while it lasts, because no doubt eventually I will return to the one true champion, silent. 

Starting to enjoy watcher again too, although I find my decision making with her quite fomulaic. Not sure if the card choices I make- and keep on making- are often the best ones, or it's just my bias showing. For example, I will almost always take talk to the hand, when offered. And naturally when I have talk to the hand then tantrum becomes a no brainer. And then with tantrum you really end up needing a rushdown too. And then naturally with the extra wrath cards you need an empty fist or fear no evil. Without snecko most of the time it makes sense to have a 0 cost card too, so I'll take that flurry of blows when offered. Plus near enough every deck seems to benefit from a cut through fate and a wallop too. Or if we still have the starting relic, surely a crush joints also makes sense. And only very seldom will I turn down vault when I get the chance, or lesson learned if we aren't past half way through, or scrawl if we don't have runic pyramid, or wish  if ive got anything more than 3 energy per turn. And so it sometimes feels like every deck drifts towards having one of everything, with the exception of mental fortress, maybe my fave watcher card for stacking, which I would sometimes take 5 of if I get the chance. 


Anyone else also find this happening?

100% with you on watcher.

Flurry is absolute catnip for me. 

I think that was the hardest thing when she first dropped, tbh, all her cards seem to do something you can think of a use for.

Relics instead of cards and everyone is +3 strength? Even if that's not the same as you, it sounds good to me!

Cool idea. Don't know 8f I could get mine to move from watching to playing.

Finally beat asc4 with Silent. Gambled with the transform 3 cards relic again, this time after act 1 boss cos other 2 relics seemed shit.

Picked and bought some poison cards including corpse explosion. What won the game for me in the end against Awakened One was draw-discard-energy cycle again but with ice cream relic too. I thought I was done for but I inched my way to victory. Applied a little poison here and there and kept drawing and discarding and gaining energy and helped that I could just block lots tiny bit of poison here and there. Second form, used the power cards and eventually did a triple poison on him and boom. 

So satisfying. It never felt an overpowered deck like it sometimes can, just a resourceful well used. I know it’s only asc4, I’m not great, but it felt like a great victory to me.

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Thought I'd mix things up and go back and start heart runs again. Started ac1 with ironclad. Smashed heart on first go.

Lol. Good to remind yourself that you know how to play when you've been bashing against ac20 for a while.

Finally beat the heart with watcher on Asc4, woohoo!!!
Now what?

On it!