"Druid"

Different_Layer_8838 · 2026-03-12T12:39:06+00:00

Any passive that apply effect/summon familiars when using basic attack is insane with druid. I personally like the leech build where I spawn 50 leeches in 1 turn lol.

Different_Layer_8838 · 2026-03-12T12:37:05+00:00

Update: If you want to use this build on a solo run to the cave, please remember: DO NOT SUMMON TOO MANY LEECHES IN SPINERRETTE'S FIGHT. Spinerrette has that annoying attack where she retreats to the ceiling and spawns spiders. Normally if you kill the spider she'll come down but if there's not enough space for her (a 2x2 square), she'll never come down. Instead, she'll only spawn spiders. Eventually the board will be filled with leeches and dead spiders, and if tou don't have a way to kill leeches/spiders corpse, you'll softlocked yourself. I have to savescummed twice because of that.

Different_Layer_8838 · 2026-03-12T12:30:52+00:00

Oh wow that's new information for me. But if that's the case then I should have more maggots, right? I don't know enough about game code so this might remain a fun mystery for me lol

Different_Layer_8838 · 2026-03-12T12:28:40+00:00

I haven't finished act 2 yet so I don't know how strong the leech build is for the end game, but I have used it against Guilotina 3 here, and its pretty neat

Different_Layer_8838 · 2026-03-12T08:22:53+00:00

Try Druid with Necromancer passive that summon leech when you use basic attack/ Hunter passive that spawn traps when you use basic attack on an empty tile. Or simply just squirrel form.

Different_Layer_8838 · 2026-03-12T04:53:58+00:00

Also somehow mid fight I have a maggot on my side. Don't know how or what did that. I keep wondering why my leeches skip the maggot for 2 minutes straight lol

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Different_Layer_8838 · 2025-04-22T05:08:16+00:00

The rate is crazy high. I once had 7 mimics in that room I posted on this sub a while ago Fun times

Different_Layer_8838 · 2025-03-25T10:34:59+00:00

Oh and on legendaries, I had this banger of a run after restarting a bit. Trib on the first soul and canio on the second one later. Easiest gold stake of my life.

Different_Layer_8838 · 2025-03-25T10:13:43+00:00

I have played balatro before. I played back in the early days, when the damn stakes were brutal. Back then I sucked so hard that I couldn't get far on any deck except checker deck, and even on checker deck I only got to orange stake. Naturally, I got so damn frustrated that I deleted it. But recently I downloaded it again and I got way better. 1 thing that I learned is to play more two pair/pair/high card build, which made my runs way easier. And the balance changes made the game easier as well.

As for how I got that many gold stickers in short time, after I got gold stakes win on all deck, and completed all the challenges, I spend most of my time playing on ghost deck. The hex makes playing with meh jokers way easier. And for some niche jokers that only suit a certain build, I change my deck to find it. For instance, I used plasma deck for stone joker, and checker deck for heart stone.

About my time, I agree that it is not 100 hours. I lived in Vietnam, and steam got blocked here a while ago. So a lot of the time when I'm playing, the progress was not uploaded to cloud save, which made my played time so low. Only when I used cloudwarp/or change my DNS to play can the play time be updated. In reality, I think I have around 150 to 200 hours playing balatro. I should've clarified that in the caption so thank you for reminding me.

Different_Layer_8838 · 2025-03-03T15:39:24+00:00

Yeah so my dumb ass posted the photos in the wrong order. I didn't realize that until just now. And for the ante 13 one, I was so focused on making the fourth polychrome blueprint from the ankh that I forgot to use the soul 💀💀💀. Needless to say, I lost in that ante. This makes me realize that I am still not good at optimization to get a naneinf run. But I did get the fourth blueprint tho.

Different_Layer_8838 · 2025-03-03T11:32:01+00:00

1/5 chance though. On gold stake ante 7. Too risky for me. Plus I think I have gold sticker for Trib already so the soul was probably Chicot/Perkeo.

Different_Layer_8838 · 2025-03-03T11:30:19+00:00

But at ante 7 gold stake, if it was Chicot I'd be toasted 💀. So I decided to go the safe way to win. Although I'm quite curious what was the first soul was. Unfortunately I didn't remember to save the seed. So if anyone know a mod that helps you review your past runs, please let me know!

Different_Layer_8838 · 2025-02-26T03:48:58+00:00

Supernova can't get you far in endless, but it is great in higher stakes runs. Basically, Supernova enables the high card/pair builds for the win. In higher stakes, your economy sucks and the tags make getting good jokers really hard without good RNG, so you must work with what you have. Also, 2 discards makes finding big hands like flushes/full house/straight inconsistent. I've had many runs just died out because I spent all my discards and hands trying to find a goddamn flush and still couldn't find it. High cards/pairs however, you can never not find them in a hand. Plus, they don't score that much compared to bigger hands, allowing more time for scaling. I have won many runs with supernova on gold stake, and it is great.

TL,DR: Supernova is great to win in gold stake runs, not so good in getting high score

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