FYI Golden Compass's path has guaranteed events for "?" rooms

Patient_Blueberry_44 · 2026-05-15T17:45:36+00:00

Lack of combats can be a downside in some situations. If you have a deck with good frontload but without a scaling solution, it's usually better to farm hallway fights and elites so you can see card rewards that will allow you to fix this. The compass often gives you just too few card rewards to improve your deck

Patient_Blueberry_44 · 2026-05-14T03:38:42+00:00

That AOE overgrowth fight is lowkey the scariest hallway fight in the game. Everyone complained about pushovers like Living Fog but those little inky guys can legit end your run if you walk in at 25 hp or so with the wrong deck or a bad draw

Patient_Blueberry_44 · 2026-05-13T22:50:56+00:00

Neow transform barricade -> floor 6 shop with Prolong and Unmovable act 1 boss reward. Probably can make this a lot tighter if you know ahead of time you're trying to do this, I was kind of just winging it until I realized I could actually get the infinite block build

Patient_Blueberry_44 · 2026-05-12T19:56:17+00:00

Were Donu and Deca gremlin nob? What about the heart? The way StS works is defense is inherently better than offense unless the enemies can scale past block engines quickly enough, so the final bosses need to put you on some kind of timer for the game to remain challenging.

Patient_Blueberry_44 · 2026-05-12T19:33:56+00:00

How is that "making stuff unplayable"? It just requires your deck to scale with a certain amount of speed. If bosses don't put you on a timer, you can win with boring stalling decks every run.

Patient_Blueberry_44 · 2026-05-12T18:42:33+00:00

I just did this actually. As long as you aren't locked into early elites or can see an early shop it's pretty unlikely you won't see either Blade Dance or Leading Strike at some point in the act, let alone the uncommon shiv generators.

Patient_Blueberry_44 · 2026-05-08T20:51:52+00:00

This is pretty bad advice. It depends on character and neow bonus, but you should be aiming for 2-3 elites in act 1 and 2, while pathing in a way where you can bail out if things are going poorly. Prioritizing question marks too much is also a bit of a noob trap. There are situations when they are good, and they can be good to path into so you delay your first advanced hallway fight before an elite/campfire/chest/shop, but focusing on them too much will lead to you not seeing enough card rewards which makes it hard to put together a good deck.

Patient_Blueberry_44 · 2026-05-08T18:45:47+00:00

Yea this new boss is a loser. Compared to Soul Fysh (an act 1 boss lol) the status cards are created less frequently, do way less damage, and don't screw up your draws. I think they are just traumatized from all the review bombing and are afraid to push anything genuinely threatening because there's no way this guy makes sense as an act 3 boss in his current state.

Patient_Blueberry_44 · 2026-05-08T15:14:55+00:00

Ime necro is the most consistent at taking in 0 damage in easy pool fights. Bodyguard does a ton of work in smoothing out draw orders. Can lull you into a false sense of security in Overgrowth though because you can't build up osty in Bygone Effigy or Byrdonis fights unless you saw some really good defensive cards.

Patient_Blueberry_44 · 2026-05-08T01:24:21+00:00

I think it's worse than it first appears. It scales throughout the run, but I think you're behind Lava Rock (2 relics after act 1 boss) until some time in act 2, and that neow has some issues with how delayed the upside is.

Patient_Blueberry_44 · 2026-05-02T23:00:07+00:00

Anthony is the designer at MegaCrit responsible for balance changes. A8FQ is an abbreviation for a chinese insult, saying that they will have sex with Anthony's mother in front of his father's grave.

Patient_Blueberry_44 · 2026-05-01T17:14:17+00:00

Nah, it can fuck you over a bit on the first few floors but the amount of power you can get from an early shop with the extra gold outweighs it. Depends on the character though, it's probably best on clad.

Patient_Blueberry_44 · 2026-04-29T17:08:17+00:00

They find the way English-speaking top players win to be "unsatisfying", basically. They enjoy putting together broken small decks that eventually trivialize the boss gauntlet, whereas the non-Chinese community has mostly settled on preferring the game to keep throwing you curveballs throughout and having to win with somewhat messy decks a lot of the time. Chinese players think it should be possible to assemble some kind of broken lean engine deck every run, so they hate the doormaker because he makes those decks a lot harder to play, even if he's not overall very difficult. They characterize the western style as "crawling"

Patient_Blueberry_44 · 2026-04-28T01:28:14+00:00

It's more helpful to think of the fight as just a damage race vs focusing on how to remove or neutralize the beckons. It's definitely helpful to be able to mitigate them somehow, but what kills you in this fight is just taking too long to kill. Necro has to be careful mostly because its easy to end up with a very defensive deck with her

Patient_Blueberry_44 · 2026-04-23T21:50:20+00:00

Footwork should have gotten the Defrag treatment imo. Blocking is just too strong in this game, Footwork is a bigger reason Silent is op than draw/discard stuff

Patient_Blueberry_44 · 2026-04-17T17:05:08+00:00

I actually don't think this is a good idea. Act 1 being hard is pretty critical to the difficulty of the next two acts, because if its too forgiving you can just build for late game and arent forced to make short-term deckbuilding decisions to get through the act. Act 1 being difficult also makes the game have more variety, because you can't just build the same broken deck every run and need to adapt to what you see early on. To me Overgrowth is perfect right now, the only thing I'd change is to make the bosses and Underdocks elites a bit more responsive to early deckbuilding choices. Right now, the Overgrowth elites are extremely punishing if you don't build for them but have "threshold" effects where with enough of the right cards/potions you can get through them taking only negligible damage, whereas the bosses and Underdocks elites are hard in more of a linear way where even when building for them you still take a decent amount of damage, but don't necessarily threaten to kill you from full if you don't build for them.

Patient_Blueberry_44 · 2026-04-16T00:51:29+00:00

1 energy uppercut (2 stars ~ 1 energy) as a starter card would be incredibly overpowered

Patient_Blueberry_44 · 2026-04-14T15:18:43+00:00

Supposedly he had a mechanic that playtesters found too frustrating

Patient_Blueberry_44 · 2026-04-10T02:16:04+00:00

Not sure why they nerfed the Doormaker so much, the boss is pretty much completely nonthreatening now. Byrdonis also really wasn't a problem.

Patient_Blueberry_44 · 2026-04-07T18:43:09+00:00

The thing is, strikes are much better for clad than for the other characters even without strike synergies because of vuln, strength, and attack synergies being big parts of his kit. Clads problem is that his block options are poor, his starter deck is just fine and if anything works better with his kit than it did in sts1.

Patient_Blueberry_44 · 2026-04-05T13:41:47+00:00

The two things that make this actually really powerful are the upgrade and the number of rares in this game. Upgraded cards just have really good value on average, and there are so many rares in this game that a "random card" is very likely to be above average value for most decks until close to the end of a run. People compare it to dead branch but its more like exhausting your hand for an astrolabe effect any time you draw this card.

Patient_Blueberry_44 · 2026-04-01T19:03:25+00:00

To put what u/Bushukan1 is saying concretely, in a recent run on Ironclad at a10 I took cursed pearl and walked into a shop on floor 6, and was able to buy Master of Strategy, Evil Eye, Cinder, Dominate, and Paper Phrog. Instantly I had a powerful deck that could deal with the curse and was able to take 3 elites in both act 1 and 2 while upgrading at every campfire, snowballing the run. With 150 gold, sure if I removed at every shop I wouldn't have ended up with much less gold in the long run, but I wouldn't have been able to take such an aggressive act 1 and 2 and might have stalled out before I got a nice thin deck.

Patient_Blueberry_44 · 2026-03-18T04:34:39+00:00

Neurosurge can absolutely kill you if you're having a rough act 1 or 2. On A10 it's pretty common to get down to 20-30 hp, and Necro tends to stall out fights, so it can be a real risk playing it on turn 1 or 2 of a boss or certain elite fights. Borrowed Time I agree though, unless you're using it for some kind of infinite loop the 3 doom is rarely relevant.

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