I picked this game up 2 days ago after I saw Projared play it. It's really scratching that roguelite itch for me and even managed to tear me away from Monster Hunter.
After 16 loses, I finally got my first win. I used a small Backflip - Flechettes - Footwork - Outmaneuver deck to etch out a win with the Silent. Feels good, man. Feels real good.
I guess I'll go back to trying to play with the Ironclad. I haven't made it past the first boss with him.
Terror is one of my favorite cards, I would totally have gone with that. Blur is also really good. Escape Plan is fine but for the chunky decks I usually play it's not especially exciting, it'd be a lot better if I could keep a sufficiently slim deck.
It didn't end up mattering. I got Dead Branch and then a couple Shiv cards, so meme deck incoming :P
Yesss beat Ascension 2 for the first time with this Dead Branch + Shiv deck! Against the Time Eater, no less. I ended up barely picking any cards ever, since my deck was just a random assortment of things ever fight :P
That feeling when you have two Reapers and the cursed book event doesn't give you Necronomicon. Infinite sadness, I tell you. Infinite.
Still won against D&D with full health on Ascension 3 but it would've been so much more fun. Speaking of ascension mode I initially thought I wouldn't want to touch it with a 10 ft pole since I'm usually not into masochistic difficulty modes, but now that I've started playing it I kinda like it. Gives me a reason to try to improve, and the more I play the more I'm admiring the role this game gives to player skill while also looking like it is all about horrible RNG. As somebody who was there for early MtG and then much later Dominion, this feels like one generation more evolved game. I got soon 80 hours played and it's still so good, and they haven't even added the third class yet.
I got Necronomicon in a deck where my only attack that cost two or more energy was Corpse Explosion. I did have it one time with Choke though and let me tell you ten damage a turn for playing a card feels like cheating.
Ok so, I got another 1 turn kill infinite deck last night. It was sweet. Good times. I only got 636 points for that run. I wish I got points for the things I want to be doing in game. I want to roll in and make a OP deck that steam rolls everything.
Basically it went down like this...
Floor 1 I'm keeping the deck pretty small. I have 14 cards. Slowly getting rid of my strikes and defends. It's looking alright. I have 2 poison strikes, a cloak and dagger, and a caltrops, outmanuever and an adrenaline!
Then on floor 1 I found tactician!!! (no discard yet)
Aww yeah... this run is getting amazing.
I picked up astrolabe from the first boss. This relic is severely underrated. I turned 2 strikes and a defend into a noxious fumes+, endless agony+, and outmaneuver+. I already had an outmaneuver that had to then be deleted. But I turned two cards into a power and a 0 cost exhaust card! It was even better than removing 2 cards from my deck. Because of this I ended the run with no strikes and 1 defend left in my deck.
From there things just got better and better. Early on floor 3 I started going infinite on round 1. The entire floor and end boss was a cake walk. Special thanks to the time lord for not showing up.
After driving myself crazy and totally tanking my stats trying to build an infinite deck, decided I'd just have fun again and was gifted a Snecko Eye by the whale. End result:
My first 1k score! Final boss was Awakened One, who got run the fuck over. Was fun picking basically any card that cost 2 or more, and Nightmare copies them at the reduced mana cost (until they get reshuffled) so that was neat.
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Man, I'm having a rough time getting through Ascension level 2 with the Silent. I'm so used to the extra hp and healing of Ironclad. Hopefully I'll find a way to get through. Maybe my strats are wrong though.
I usually go Elite hunting on floor 1 and can clear things fine. Floors 2/3 have me avoiding Elites and doing ? hopping. I'm leaning more towards cards with Block because everything just hits so hard. Any protips?
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So I'm on Ascension 7 and am trying to figure out optimal strategy. Should I go for more stable decks or aim to shoot the moon? I feel like my stable decks tend to lack enough firepower to handle the third floor, but riskier decks can flame out by the end of floor 1 if I get bad relics/cards, crippling my next run.
I'm having more luck with Ironclad because Exhaust is amazing, but my Silent runs have been mediocre at best except for the super lucky block/poison run with 5 blurs that got me Ascension 6. Anyone have advice for higher level Ascensions?
Man, I'm having a rough time getting through Ascension level 2 with the Silent. I'm so used to the extra hp and healing of Ironclad. Hopefully I'll find a way to get through. Maybe my strats are wrong though.
I usually go Elite hunting on floor 1 and can clear things fine. Floors 2/3 have me avoiding Elites and doing ? hopping. I'm leaning more towards cards with Block because everything just hits so hard. Any protips?
I generally avoid Elites just overall on the Silent, since early on her deck is a harder to tackle Elites than Ironclad imo. If you're doing it well, that's fine I guess then?
How are you generally dying? Bosses, or regular enemies, or late Elites? Are you taking lots of chip damage, or is it just one fight that goes horribly?
I had a lot more trouble getting Ironclad to Ascension 3, Silent was easier for me
Man, I'm having a rough time getting through Ascension level 2 with the Silent. I'm so used to the extra hp and healing of Ironclad. Hopefully I'll find a way to get through. Maybe my strats are wrong though.
I usually go Elite hunting on floor 1 and can clear things fine. Floors 2/3 have me avoiding Elites and doing ? hopping. I'm leaning more towards cards with Block because everything just hits so hard. Any protips?
Neutralize+ is my starting point for literally every Silent run, and ideally I'll have 2x Blur, 1x Backflip and as many Escape Plans as I'm offered.
If I get an early Bouncing Flask I'll look for Catalyst+ and Burst, otherwise I'll look for Terror (or Phantasmal Killer+). Well Laid Plans, Bullet Time, Adrenaline and Tools of the Trade I always take (unless I'm trying to go infinite like an idiot). Dash is a good early pick and most of the 1 mana powers are good for defining the sort of deck you'll have. Basically any damaging Exhaust card is value.
Paper Crane is absurdly good, if you get your hands on that you're laughing.
The only thing I've never gotten is giving Jaxx to the Jaxx addict.
I missed it once because I wave saving gold for an upcoming shop, and got the Jaxx dealer/ addict events back to fucking back.
Yeah, I miss most of those connected events .
Blood vial for the vampires, corrupting the bird statue thingie? etc.
I think I made an offering of the Golden Monkey or something once.
It's rare to get both the prerequisites and the actual event that uses them. Like Mirkel said, it's one of the cool things about the amount of content in this game.
Man, I'm having a rough time getting through Ascension level 2 with the Silent. I'm so used to the extra hp and healing of Ironclad. Hopefully I'll find a way to get through. Maybe my strats are wrong though.
I usually go Elite hunting on floor 1 and can clear things fine. Floors 2/3 have me avoiding Elites and doing ? hopping. I'm leaning more towards cards with Block because everything just hits so hard. Any protips?
I generally avoid Elites just overall on the Silent, since early on her deck is a harder to tackle Elites than Ironclad imo. If you're doing it well, that's fine I guess then?
How are you generally dying? Bosses, or regular enemies, or late Elites? Are you taking lots of chip damage, or is it just one fight that goes horribly?
I had a lot more trouble getting Ironclad to Ascension 3, Silent was easier for me
Chip damage mostly. The grind just wears me down over time.
Man, I'm having a rough time getting through Ascension level 2 with the Silent. I'm so used to the extra hp and healing of Ironclad. Hopefully I'll find a way to get through. Maybe my strats are wrong though.
I usually go Elite hunting on floor 1 and can clear things fine. Floors 2/3 have me avoiding Elites and doing ? hopping. I'm leaning more towards cards with Block because everything just hits so hard. Any protips?
Neutralize+ is my starting point for literally every Silent run, and ideally I'll have 2x Blur, 1x Backflip and as many Escape Plans as I'm offered.
If I get an early Bouncing Flask I'll look for Catalyst+ and Burst, otherwise I'll look for Terror (or Phantasmal Killer+). Well Laid Plans, Bullet Time, Adrenaline and Tools of the Trade I always take (unless I'm trying to go infinite like an idiot). Dash is a good early pick and most of the 1 mana powers are good for defining the sort of deck you'll have. Basically any damaging Exhaust card is value.
Paper Crane is absurdly good, if you get your hands on that you're laughing.
Cool. I'll look into drafting these cards when they come up.
On a completely separate topic, what do you all prefer with your starting upgrade?
Remove/Upgrade/Transform 1 card
Add Rare card
Lose gold, get Relic
Lose all gold remove 2 cards
Swap starting Relics
Only ones I can remember off the top of my head.
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For the Silent, I will often grab a Boss Relic and lose my own Relic. Transforming cards is another go-to, gets rid of Strikes and maybe helps decide what deck I want to go for
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I take (in no particular order): Remove Cards, Gain Gold (if it doesn't cost me half my hp on Silent, otherwise on Ironclad I'll probably take it), Enemies have 1 hp if there's an Elite I can get to, gain a common relic.
Will never pick gains cards, even rare ones, and almost never trade my starting relic in.
The best choice for me has been lose 7 max hp, gain rare relic. As everything else it's all random what you end up getting though. Worst choice so far has been swapping your starting relic, got a Pandora's Box as Silent and it absolutely destroyed my deck.
I am all about the relics, give me more relics to start with. Or swap starting relic, if I have to. After that, remove/transform starting cards are good.
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The best choice for me has been lose 7 max hp, gain rare relic. As everything else it's all random what you end up getting though. Worst choice so far has been swapping your starting relic, got a Pandora's Box as Silent and it absolutely destroyed my deck.
Yea, this one's decent too. Max HP loss always seemed like a fine trade-off, since the values tend to be relatively low.
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I think I'm in love.
After 16 loses, I finally got my first win. I used a small Backflip - Flechettes - Footwork - Outmaneuver deck to etch out a win with the Silent. Feels good, man. Feels real good.
I guess I'll go back to trying to play with the Ironclad. I haven't made it past the first boss with him.
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Not bad for my very first try, I think.
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Second level Exhaust thinking is stuffing your deck with garbage to burn away for positive effects
Third level is removing actual garbage like strikes, defends, and cards that are not the main 2-5 you actually use
Fourth level is removing everything and then realizing you can't win the fight any more.
I miscounted once and nearly did this but I had a relic that gave me thorns so it was okay!
Yesss beat Ascension 2 for the first time with this Dead Branch + Shiv deck! Against the Time Eater, no less. I ended up barely picking any cards ever, since my deck was just a random assortment of things ever fight :P
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Still won against D&D with full health on Ascension 3 but it would've been so much more fun. Speaking of ascension mode I initially thought I wouldn't want to touch it with a 10 ft pole since I'm usually not into masochistic difficulty modes, but now that I've started playing it I kinda like it. Gives me a reason to try to improve, and the more I play the more I'm admiring the role this game gives to player skill while also looking like it is all about horrible RNG. As somebody who was there for early MtG and then much later Dominion, this feels like one generation more evolved game. I got soon 80 hours played and it's still so good, and they haven't even added the third class yet.
Basically it went down like this...
Floor 1 I'm keeping the deck pretty small. I have 14 cards. Slowly getting rid of my strikes and defends. It's looking alright. I have 2 poison strikes, a cloak and dagger, and a caltrops, outmanuever and an adrenaline!
Then on floor 1 I found tactician!!! (no discard yet)
Aww yeah... this run is getting amazing.
I picked up astrolabe from the first boss. This relic is severely underrated. I turned 2 strikes and a defend into a noxious fumes+, endless agony+, and outmaneuver+. I already had an outmaneuver that had to then be deleted. But I turned two cards into a power and a 0 cost exhaust card! It was even better than removing 2 cards from my deck. Because of this I ended the run with no strikes and 1 defend left in my deck.
From there things just got better and better. Early on floor 3 I started going infinite on round 1. The entire floor and end boss was a cake walk. Special thanks to the time lord for not showing up.
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My first 1k score! Final boss was Awakened One, who got run the fuck over. Was fun picking basically any card that cost 2 or more, and Nightmare copies them at the reduced mana cost (until they get reshuffled) so that was neat.
Game is technically still in alpha. :P
I usually go Elite hunting on floor 1 and can clear things fine. Floors 2/3 have me avoiding Elites and doing ? hopping. I'm leaning more towards cards with Block because everything just hits so hard. Any protips?
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I'm having more luck with Ironclad because Exhaust is amazing, but my Silent runs have been mediocre at best except for the super lucky block/poison run with 5 blurs that got me Ascension 6. Anyone have advice for higher level Ascensions?
I generally avoid Elites just overall on the Silent, since early on her deck is a harder to tackle Elites than Ironclad imo. If you're doing it well, that's fine I guess then?
How are you generally dying? Bosses, or regular enemies, or late Elites? Are you taking lots of chip damage, or is it just one fight that goes horribly?
I had a lot more trouble getting Ironclad to Ascension 3, Silent was easier for me
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Against the boss I used Nightmare on Eviscerate, which normally costs 4 energy per use and deals 9x3 damage.
So the next turn I have 3 Eviscerate cards... and make them free with Bullet Time.
Also, Necronomicon + Choke is fun times. All those annoying enemies with Artifact defense? Yeah, fuck you. Get choked anyway.
God I miss that build already. Inherent block with every card use. Inherent shiv. Inherent backstab.
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Neutralize+ is my starting point for literally every Silent run, and ideally I'll have 2x Blur, 1x Backflip and as many Escape Plans as I'm offered.
If I get an early Bouncing Flask I'll look for Catalyst+ and Burst, otherwise I'll look for Terror (or Phantasmal Killer+). Well Laid Plans, Bullet Time, Adrenaline and Tools of the Trade I always take (unless I'm trying to go infinite like an idiot). Dash is a good early pick and most of the 1 mana powers are good for defining the sort of deck you'll have. Basically any damaging Exhaust card is value.
Paper Crane is absurdly good, if you get your hands on that you're laughing.
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I've gotten it once in 77 hours. The sheer amount of different relics and ? events is definitely one of the factors giving it so much replayability.
I've gotten the book event several times. 2 or 3 times, I got the one that adds a card to your deck every turn. Also a good book!
Once, I think, I got the other book which I can't remember what it does. Never the necro
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I missed it once because I was saving gold for an upcoming shop, and got the Jaxx dealer/ addict events back to fucking back.
Yeah, I miss most of those connected events
I think I made an offering of the Golden Monkey or something once.
It's rare to get both the prerequisites and the actual event that uses them. Like Mirkel said, it's one of the cool things about the amount of content in this game.
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Chip damage mostly. The grind just wears me down over time.
Cool. I'll look into drafting these cards when they come up.
On a completely separate topic, what do you all prefer with your starting upgrade?
Only ones I can remember off the top of my head.
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I'm coming around to an early-enough Snecko Eye. Draft a bunch of high-cost cards and hope that Snecko is in your favor :P
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Will never pick gains cards, even rare ones, and almost never trade my starting relic in.
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Yeah, I just seem to be allergic to shops often. I never plan my route around them...
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Giving the jaxx addict jaxx doesn't even give you a special event relic, it's super lame.
Yea, this one's decent too. Max HP loss always seemed like a fine trade-off, since the values tend to be relatively low.
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I got the last ironclad unlock last night...its...odd.