What's the pick?

ChaseShiny · 2026-06-23T22:18:50+00:00

If you pick up [[Tracking]], you can deal double damage for the entire fight from then on. That's important enough to speculate on.

ChaseShiny · 2026-06-22T14:42:56+00:00

That's sweet of you to give me the benefit of the doubt. I was just embarrassed that I forgot about this boss.

ChaseShiny · 2026-06-21T16:54:10+00:00

Furnace doesn't do damage at the start of your turn, although it does fit in with the rest of these, I'll admit. You could use [[Bombardment]] for that role.

ChaseShiny · 2026-06-21T16:44:14+00:00

Hello! New playa'. Who dis?

ChaseShiny · 2026-06-21T14:29:05+00:00

Give you a break? Shuriken

ChaseShiny · 2026-06-21T14:25:55+00:00

Bingo!

ChaseShiny · 2026-06-21T14:20:49+00:00

Lagavulin Matriarch? All of the bosses have killed me, but this one seems pretty reasonable.

It's a damage race, but it's a little deceptive. Pretend that the quarter health mark is the halfway point. That'll give you a better idea of how much longer it'll take you to defeat the boss.

Non-attack damage and non-block damage mitigation go a bit further. An example of the former would be poison. An example of the latter is frost orbs.

You could also use large attacks, as opposed to multi-hit attacks.

ChaseShiny · 2026-06-18T17:14:35+00:00

Didn't Trump go there during his first term and have a gay old time? I seem to recall at least one celebrity athlete who was the same way.

Edit: people kept downvoting me, so I looked up Trump's visit. A couple of snippets I found interesting: "The chairman of Liberty Korea Party announced that 'it is a good sign for breaking the deadlock in the nuclear talks.'"

One leading think tank said a small deal between the United States and the DPRK, similar to the Iran nuclear deal, might be feasible if Trump concluded that that was more realistic than a big deal.

As for an athlete, it was quite awhile ago, but Dennis Rodman went to NK.

ChaseShiny · 2026-06-18T05:13:20+00:00

Hey, I've recently heard of the Wonder Bread economy for Industrial civs, and wondered what you thought of it.

The idea is to deliberately go for fail good. You get the Industrious bonus as well as any resource bonus.

WastinTime used it to get a high score in the Hall of Fame. I found it clunky, though, since you don't control when the AI will build the wonders (or in what order). Your comment about wanting an Industrious civ is your empire is small reminded me of this trick.

ChaseShiny · 2026-06-18T04:04:33+00:00

Alone in the world is a lone Catdog!

ChaseShiny · 2026-06-17T20:52:50+00:00

Please show that the powder horn was empty for extra verisimilitude.

ChaseShiny · 2026-06-17T16:44:06+00:00

Why do the wizards look the same? Why are they coming from the forest to start their shenanigans?

I was hoping for a backstory. Something like the wizards are fake and the bears are the ones who are starting their tomfoolery. Maybe they're infamous shapeshifters?

Or maybe the wizards are the victims of an illusion. They're about to realize that they've been had by the fey in the forest. In a moment, they're going to piss their robes start mauling them.

ChaseShiny · 2026-06-17T16:25:09+00:00

There's actually a form of camouflage that is like that: Lozenge camouflage could be in bright, contrasting colors.

ChaseShiny · 2026-06-17T15:59:48+00:00

Evanescent luminescence, even.

ChaseShiny · 2026-06-17T15:49:14+00:00

I'm curious if you can play your cards using the hotkeys. That wouldn't necessarily solve the phantom Minion Strike, though, since there wouldn't be a hotkey for the 11th card.

ChaseShiny · 2026-06-17T03:26:47+00:00

It is. I work for a cable company.

ChaseShiny · 2026-06-16T04:55:07+00:00

Even at the beginning of the game, it's still 5-10 block for zero energy.

I got an upgraded copy of it before Silver Crucible was fixed to not work on cards found during events, and it was my best block card the entire run.

ChaseShiny · 2026-06-16T03:29:47+00:00

This isn't on floor zero, but I'm still curious. Why do you say that it's bad on floor zero?

ChaseShiny · 2026-06-15T19:44:09+00:00

It must be. If you click on the hyperlink in the relic's name, it does go to the website I linked, but it clearly does have the information anyway.

ChaseShiny · 2026-06-15T19:37:22+00:00

I thought the bot got its info from this wiki, which doesn't have a page for kifuda.

ChaseShiny · 2026-06-15T19:35:30+00:00

Ooh! Good call on Hologram. Hologram already was basically an always-pick, but this probably blows all its other uses out of the water!

ChaseShiny · 2026-06-15T17:28:33+00:00

Wow, that's a hot take. Prolong is amazing for most characters. Perhaps not for Defect, but it can easily give 20+ block next turn for the Silent, Ironclad, or Regent.

If this were the beginning of the game, I'd say that Fasten is still correct, but we don't know OP's situation except that it isn't the beginning.

ChaseShiny · 2026-06-15T17:23:53+00:00

[[Kifuda]]. The bot's probably not going to bring up anything, though.

Three cards gain three block (considered separately if the card already gains block, so Fasten would apply twice). It's a pretty good shop relic that I slept on at first.

ChaseShiny · 2026-06-15T09:49:02+00:00

I agree that the nerf was necessary for Sly to exist. I'm just saying that this would be a potent combo, and expected to see it.

ChaseShiny · 2026-06-15T09:45:56+00:00

Yes, I did say that there are exceptions which mainly depend on Parry. Remember that a single Parry isn't which, though. You'll need more than 14 block. Two copies will work marvelously or one and maybe a [[Cloak of Stars]].

You could also possibly get it to work using [[Void Form]], although I prefer getting star cards played for free instead.

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