Slay the Spire

Stop trying to steal my gold you faggots.

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Red mask is pretty good though so fight them even if you are poor

Just beat the heart for the first time, feels good man
Watcher is fucking OP

Got so fucking lucky this run though, bought Apotheosis early on from the shop and got a ton of good cards
Talk to the Hand x2 is also fucking busted

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If you wanna talk about busted let's talk about pressure points and like water

Pressure Points is alright, works well with Meditate and Scry.
Wouldn't describe it as busted though.

>conditional metallicize
>poison but you have to play the card again to trigger it
>busted

Like Water is infinitely better on a PP deck. And before you diss PP, try drafting four of them with some card draw and calm and talk to me again

Pressure Points is Watcher's only real source of scaling damage. Divinity and wrath only do 3x and 2x damage respectively, whereas Pressure Points scales quadratically basically (11+22+33+44+55...)

5>7 is a lot better than 3>4
Watcher usually wants to end turns in Calm anyway to abuse the energy later on.

I skip pressure points every time, it seems way too slow
Then again i'm a newbie

You don't really need scaling damage in a lot of Watcher decks since her burst potential is so high.
Typically Champ is the baseline scaling test on all characters, but on Watcher the easiest way to beat him is to simply store retainable attacks then nuke him in Wrath or Divinity.
Pressure Points is a solution to a deck that really lacks stance switching I suppose.

It's a bit slow against enemies with artifact, but wave of the hand is good at stripping artifact. Also not recommended against gremlin nob, so you'll still want some attack cards.
That's true. It's pretty easy to take him down from 200 - 0 with divinity. It's for this exact reason that act 1 bosses are usually pretty easy for watcher, especially slime boss.
Anyway, you could also look at it as, rather than seeing PP as a solution if you dont have good stance switch synergies, you can draft several PP (hopefully you find more than two in your run, anyway) and basically ignore wrath or divinity. Keep your deck fairly thin so you see PP more often.

How the FUCK do you beat the game with the Silent? Do you need to get all those three parts on the top right to fight the heart?

>How the FUCK do you beat the game with the Silent?
Poison, Intangible, Dexterity. Abuse her card draw to cycle through your deck to your key cards.
>Do you need to get all those three parts on the top right to fight the heart?
The Heart is technically optional, but yeah. 1 from Recalling at a campfire, 1 for passing up a chest relic, 1 for beating a buffed elite.

Fuck me. I meant the Watcher.

Emerald key - beat a glowing elite (the one that looks like it's on fire), and yes the glowing ones are harder than the normal elites
Sapphire key - forgo a treasure chest relic
Ruby key - forgo rest/upgrade at a campfire

>get to the heart as the defect
>Draw too many high cost carts first turn
>Draw my buffers when he's doing multi hit
>Draw no blocks so the beat of death cleans away my buffers

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>>Draw no blocks so the beat of death cleans away my buffers
RIP

>tfw completed all the achievements
I'm free from these shackles. Completing a run with only 1 relic is fucking hard.

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Try doing that at a high ascension level. You have to give up your gold unless you want to die.

>Have the relic that reduces all hp loss by 1
>Get to heart
>Use Buffer
>Beat of death consumes it right away even though it did 0 damage

DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVS

>debuffs you with -4 dex

Always kill bear first just to see his faggot ass friends cry over him.

>its ok bro i have immolate

Just kill him turn 1 whenever possible.

NOOOOOOOOO NOT THE HECKIN BEARINO!!!!

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Doesn't the heart do 2 damage per card played? It's been a while.

The first beat does 1 damage, he ups it to 2 when he first buffs himself.

>land on shop
>spend all gold
>hit red masks on a ? Immediately after shopping
>”yeah sure here’s 8 gold fuck off”

>still can't win as Defect

this sucks

>not asserting dominance by fighting them anyways

technically he is hitting you every time, your relic is just reducing the amount of damage. I don’t see the problem

Buffer isn't removed when you block, why should it be removed when you take 0 damage?

because buffer prevents you from taking hp damage, and taking 0 hp damage is still taking hp damage

>taking 0 hp damage is still taking hp damage

Alright then shitstain, why doesn't Buffer get removed when you reduce an enemy's damage to 0 with str reduction?

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That was changed a long time ago. You don't lose buffers from taking 0 damage hits.

How the FUCK do you beat the game with the Watcher?

Watcher is really hard to get the grasp of, but eventually it'll kinda click. Ironically, watcher might be one of the easier classes to beat the heart once you get good with her. I'm still trash though.
Just keep trying and it'll all make sense eventually. Look for various card synergies, like talk to the hand & multi hit attacks, establishment & meditate/sands of time, wrath/divinity and wallop.

Claw + rebound + that card that brings back zero cost cards
Power builds with storm
Focus builds with a shit ton of frost orbs(probably the easiest to make happen)

God's speed user.

Don't be afraid to use wrath for huge damage and bursting down enemies. Ensure you have enough stance switching cards to be safe on most turns.

Battle Hymn or Signature move are great early on.
Pressure points + Like Water is retard proof.
Conjure Blade / Expunger is great if you can get 6+ energy turns with Deva form or miracles while maintaining defense.
Alpha is also good if you can stall, though it's not enough by itself to beat A3 bosses or the Heart.
Everything else like scry and stance changing has less potential and is more risky, but as always build for what cards/relics you manage to get.

throw in some artifact and glacier and you are golden. if you have oj pellets then feel free to just go crazy with this card like amplify, echo form whatever

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Abuse his deck cycling cards and claw.
Pulling claw back out and using it several times per turn buffs all claws in the deck. So you want a good like 4 or 5 of them if you get lucky to grab them.

so Claws for offense and stack Frost for defense?

Abuse stance switch. Especially calm.
You only want to go berserk if its a guaranteed kill or two and you can minimise the damage taken.

mm honestly if youre going 0 cost then basic block cards are usually better than frost, since you probably wont have a lot of focus, but glacier is still really good

Beating the heart:
>silent
Easy difficulty
>ironclad
Normal difficulty
>defect
Hard-ish difficulty
>watcher
Random difficulty

Act 2 hall fights on A20 are so dangerous it's not really much worse

If you can get it, sure. Your win condition can also be something like getting a bunch of +energy artifacts and creative AI so you can just go crazy all the free cards you get. Stacking Frost orbs and focus is the most stable thing once you've got it rolling though, because you aren't relying on drawing blocks when you need them and can just spend all your energy chipping the boss down.

I would say with claw you might just want stuff like a scrape, all for one, some holograms, reboot, seek.
And anythugn that gives you good chunks of block or freeze orbs.

I would say the defect is the easiest class to beat the heart with.
Mostly because his synergy and ability to redraw cards is almost as good as Silent but scales better in raw damage.

If you have a ton of focus this is 100% the case. Defect scales in both offense and defense with focus, it’s crazy.

I really need to just try and force poison to beat the heart with the silent. Got ironclad and defect done, but watcher and silent successful heart runs elude me.

I disagree.
Ironclad and Silent have strength reduce cards + easy access to weak which lets weaker builds hobble through the heart with a bit more ease.
Meanwhile Defect has to scale Focus with the 3 available cards or eat shit.

I beat the heart without even using many orbs or focus as the defect.
I managed to get claw to like 60+ damage per claw and keep cycling it back into my hand and won within a few turns.
The easiest way to beat the heart is to outrace it and its easier to do with the defect since the best cards to do that are more common.
I would say the ironclad is the hardest one because his best cards are also his rarest.

Silent has best card draw, but defect has best deck manipulation. Seek is just so good.

What are some Yas Forums recommended mods?

It purely depends on what cards he was offered though. I have made mixed claw and focus build before. I had 2 claws and like 1 echo form plus a few orbs related power. Claws is okay on defect because it has cards that could bring back discarded pile (reboot, hologram, all in one). It's just that defect need time to scale with orbs build that sometime claws seems decent. While other characters could scale super fast with strength , poison stack or damage multiplier.

yet defect has the lowest winrate among slay the spire top streak runners. Defect doesnt have reliable burst damage that is easy to set up. Defect is the character that scale slowly and then just unstoppable. Ironclad has huge burst then fall flat because it needs cards to exhaust unless you have dead branch, silent has insane stalling cards which usually help in poison stacking then multiply it while watcher has to be played smartly with cards draw/redraw ckmbination so you wont die while in wrath form although there is alpha beta omega with perma calm stance.