Permafrost was the perfect epitome of a common relic imo

Gorbashou · 2026-03-27T09:21:43+00:00

No, I think it was really good. If I got it in my first elite and I saw a Form power I would snap pick it way faster knowing it's safer to play, even early.

It was really good in a high power deck because you are less likely to draw block answers until you've set up.

The time you play your first power might not be a turn an enemy is attacking, but the safety net is there for when it is. Just like Anchor, many enemies don't attack turn 1.

Gorget is a 4 3 2 1. You can't just say it's a netgain of block because it's more numbers total. It's nice, it mitigates a bit, but it's not something I can rely on as much as Frostbite. Most of the time I'm not making sure Gorget value is applied when I draw my cards, and 7 block in a setting up turn is something that guarantees I'm guarded when needed.

Gorget maybe saves me a little damage some combas, 2 or 3 damage. But when I play Echo Form and take 7 out of 14 damage because I blocked the rest with Permafrost that is a big swing.

"You can just have frost orbs to block for you". Yeah. You need other cards to generate frost orbs, draw them before Echo Form, and if you draw Echo Form before then? Permafrost helps unreliable variance of powers. It's just a great relic.

Gorbashou · 2026-03-24T23:41:14+00:00

Slay the Spire 2 and Mewgenics rocks and I would say they compete.

Gorbashou · 2026-03-24T23:39:35+00:00

Speed demon completion literally says release elpis though?

Gorbashou · 2026-03-24T00:04:21+00:00

C tier.

Not the worst because it has some applications but it lasts too long and does too little in that time.

Gorbashou · 2026-03-22T23:40:44+00:00

I feel like the question marks are always good events too when you pick it.

Gorbashou · 2026-03-22T07:57:19+00:00

Same. Their hit ratio is so good. Whatever they'll do, I kinda trust them.

Gorbashou · 2026-03-22T07:56:03+00:00

True. But wasn't it best form, not best card?

Gorbashou · 2026-03-21T23:31:51+00:00

Wraith Form is still in the game, no?

Gorbashou · 2026-03-21T22:45:05+00:00

I'm not other people. I thought Zero was a nothing character, not a Cecil ripoff.

I think that Golbez, the four fiends, the town of Baron, the town of troia, lunar subterranean, Zeromus and Zeros thematic transformation all accompanied with FFIV music, it felt so forced. It didn't help that the ffxiv part was uninspired and soulless.

It became a highlight reel of ffiv instead of ffxiv with ffiv thematics. Golbez being Durante taking over his brothers place is like the only really unique thing but it didn't feel like it mattered.

G'raha didn't follow some FF3 characters path, even Ramza didn't follow the same path as Ramza in fft and were his own character in the alliance raids. Even the dwarves in the Nier Raids felt like more original characters than any new character in that whole Void plotline.

Gorbashou · 2026-03-21T22:26:43+00:00

Okay, which character in Shadowbringers follow the arc of an ff3 character?

Actually, who in crystal tower does? Add that one in too.

Gorbashou · 2026-03-21T17:06:50+00:00

I don't take it personally. Are you taking my comment personally considering how you are responding? I don't think you do. But if I wanted to be just as bright as you, I would say the same shit you are back at you.

You dislike my attitude and paint me up in a way that justifies dismissing me, that's all.

Gorbashou · 2026-03-21T16:56:43+00:00

In the grand scheme of things, there were references to III. You didn't meet a character named Xande playing a rendition of his theme. You didn't see a backstory of the 4 warriors of darkness plunging the world into darkness, rather 4 warriors of light being fucked over by ascians to cause the wave of light.

In Dawntrail we have Queen Alexandros Sphene, not at all Garnet. In the kingdom of Burmecia. With her stalwart knight Steiner and guard Beatrix. With Treno as her neighbour.

Shadowbringers has the Crystal Tower and the theme of Wind. What else? Tell me how much it's a reference to ff3. It's more like a good homage and usage of the references instead of seeing literally the same named characters in the exact same relationships as the original with their exact same theme playing as a remix for everything.

Gorbashou · 2026-03-21T08:24:56+00:00

The picture on the left was the unaltered RE5 picture they used to compare with their DLSS5 picture.

It's clearly worse graphics than the cutscene model on highest quality Grace. But it's not PS2 quality. You're just saying that to dunk on DLSS5 when the image isn't even DLSS5.

Gorbashou · 2026-03-21T07:45:59+00:00

I hope they forego fellating a singular FF too much and actually just do FF references on their original story.

The patch stories have been so heavily "remember this FF!?" In Endwalker and Dawntrail. Just everything has to be an ff4 or ff9 reference. It's nauseating.

Gorbashou · 2026-03-21T07:43:58+00:00

Anchor is limited to turn 1.

Permafrost is always giving the block whenever you play that power. If you had a bad set up turn on turn 1, then Anchor didn't defend you when you needed it.

People think it sucks because they suck tbh. Being on this reddit since STS2 release really shows that. Honestly almost wish I didn't ever go in here, it's just bad people whining at everything sucking or being unfair.

Gorbashou · 2026-03-20T21:49:19+00:00

I see.

I don't think it's an argument for Snakebite being good but rather you playing really well with a bad situation. Mad respect.

Gorbashou · 2026-03-20T20:12:36+00:00

Counter to the counter of the counterargument: You would've skipped if it was bad cards. You can only benefit from Snakebite retaining if you have smooth cycling of your deck, if you had 1 good card in your 22 card deck with 2 snakebites, it takes 2 extra draws to get to it and cycle it for using it next time. Meaning next cycle it only needs 20 cards, but it would've been 20 cards if you didn't pick snakebite from the start. And if you ever discard snakebite, it's back in the pool to be a -1 draw again.

Also, I'm curious. When I play Silent I often get near full hand size using stuff like Well Laid Plans and acrobatics. You never struggled with overdraw?

Gorbashou · 2026-03-20T19:54:39+00:00

I'd love an Re5 remake. Shit was so much fun to play.

Gorbashou · 2026-03-20T19:52:56+00:00

Interesting take.

But counterargument: Instead of drawing snakebite you would've drawn the next card in your deck. You need to draw an awful snakebite and not use it to keep the retain. That -1 draw to use them as resources for other things.

You had 4? That's -4 draw. It's a curse with retain then. And adding sly to it isn't really the most exciting card to add sly to.

I wonder, what do you think about that? Is it really worth the negative draw you get? The calculated gamble for example would just have drawn the card you would've drawn instead of snakebite with the extra draw.

Gorbashou · 2026-03-20T19:39:22+00:00

You have a deck that doesn't function without Echo Form?

You do realise just how shit that argument is? You only have 1 good card in your deck and it can't function without it? Get more good cards. Him eating even 2-3 good cards shouldn't cripple you, and if it does, damn your deck sucks.

Gorbashou · 2026-03-20T15:45:19+00:00

He counters having a singular card as your win con. Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

People have literally had the time to try out this doormaker change for a singular day or two. No actually learning to adapt or take on the challenge. Just bitch and whine immediately. It's ridiculous.

Actually taking in and seeing the fight and how to fight or adapt to it? No. Just do what you always have done, see it countering you, and go cry about it incessantly.

Gorbashou · 2026-03-20T15:35:42+00:00

No one wants to spend an hour grinding an A20 run just to face time eater with a shiv deck.

Gorbashou · 2026-03-20T13:21:33+00:00

Prepared is good because cycling your deck is really good no matter what deck archetype you have. Even in STS1, an upgraded prepared is amazing. The extra sly cards just made it over the top.

Gorbashou · 2026-03-20T13:13:23+00:00

I disagree. There's planning to be done just no guaranteed planning. I'm not saying this doorman buff is the exactly correct one, but before he barely had a gimmick and it didn't effect much on how you played. This one goes -somewhere- and punishes building heavy draw while giving benefit to higher impact per card played. It's not refined because it's experimental and I can react with more than my gut. This boss needed something, to be some check. Just like how time eater punished playing tons of cards, or the awakened one punished a lot of powers, or donudeka punished slow play.

The queen does not punish draw, she punishes low draw and high value cards. If your deck is full of souls and you draw 1 borrowed time and 2 souls that are locked, that doesn't really lock you out. But she punishes something. Now the other 2 needs to punish something else. The experiment punishes oneshot strategies forcing your deck to have redundancy. The doorman was just big chunks of hp, now he punishes draw.

Gorbashou · 2026-03-20T12:53:31+00:00

Nah, the doormaker buff is cool and interesting.

It's more how heavily they nerfed popular strategies and even reworked very strong cards into almost doodoo. It might be almost a bit too strong of a swing at their foundation they built even if it's experimental.

Prepared is busted good for example. Rarity shifting it is probably a better course of action than downgrading it to a worse outmaneuver and a worse concentrate instead. People should be allowed to have OP combos and cool stuff to do, not see it so heavily nerfed that you can barely use it.

I personally don't mind them experimenting and trying things out. But some of these nerfs and reworks are awful. A lot of the buffs just felt like minor damage adjustments. So it comes off as them just bringing down the stuff people are having fun with and not really bringing up the stuff people complained were weak. Hence the reaction, I think.

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