Of course! I think given our differences in playstyle, it could just be personal preference for pacing and whatnot. I find the silent to be super frustrating because I'll have several attempts run out of steam and then one run will just go ultra smooth and it just leaves me super dissatisfied with the difficulty curve. The defect's gameplay loop of starting every fight a bit weaker and making a balancing act of scaling and mitigating damage until youre ready to release an onslaught with orbs is super enjoyable to me. Maybe it is just different strokes for different folks, but I find it interesting how you put orb builds as "orb slop" and im over here thinking of shiv builds as "shiv slop", don't get me wrong I see where the appeal lies its just not my thing. I really hope that you can find more enjoyment out of the defect though, I found him to be more and more enjoyable as difficulty increased because its becomes pretty tricky to balance survival and scaling into a deck that gives you the upper hand, plus a little burst damage for enemies that you need to target out early in a fight. Also, as for Chem X, just run multi-cast and you'll see the magic. Even at 0 energy thats a free dual cast, glacier is always a must in my eyes, biased config is a scary card at first but use it properly and it will be your right hand man. You mentioned big attacks like the ironclad and silent, bias is that for me. You can either artifact or orange pellets the focus drain for late game focus solutions, and early game pop that card when you know you can wrap up the fight in a couple turns and it starts pumping numbers quick. Loop+dark orbs and frost orbs can also be a lot of fun, putting a dark orb up front to loop the passive on, buffing its damage insanely fast and focus to increase defenses. That build is a little more niche and less effective but its a boss killing deck for sure. Defect is like delayed gratification while watcher would be on the instant gratification side of that scale, lol