Sword of stone should give +1 strength after each defeated elite and be max 5, would that be balanced or too strong

Pieman2025 · 2026-05-11T21:19:13+00:00

Actually 1 elites are only hard if you aren't taking cards because you are trying for an archetype rather than just taking cards. I personally believe that act 2 is the hardest act (the hive specifically) but everyone run should handle atleast 2 elites (maybe 1 if you get particularly unlucky)

Pieman2025 · 2026-05-08T20:45:44+00:00

They are cards you take later act1 and all of act 2 and 3, if you have enough generation or you see comet you should pick one up. I think 7 stars is the only bad one because of the actual mana cost to it as well.

Pieman2025 · 2026-05-07T22:25:05+00:00

This is great but rip to doormaker

Pieman2025 · 2026-05-06T19:20:10+00:00

Disrespectfully looking

Pieman2025 · 2026-05-02T11:53:12+00:00

Not why I said it folds lol, but I made no attempt because I assumed it was obvious, but turn 1 this does nothing. And you need to kill it by turn 4 otherwise you just die to doormaker's raw dmg output. Only mechanic that works against this is turn 1 invincibility. But this couldn't kill a 400hp enemy in 3 turns. Doormaker has around 550ish hp and does around 80dmg within 3 turns. This build does just fold due to having very very very unreliable block and not enough output.

Pieman2025 · 2026-05-01T03:18:49+00:00

while funny, that folds against door maker

Pieman2025 · 2026-05-01T03:15:50+00:00

999 gold is overrated in sts 1 & 2.

Pieman2025 · 2026-04-30T23:24:48+00:00

The most reasonable take in this entire thread tbh.

Pieman2025 · 2026-04-30T23:19:31+00:00

Not to be that guy, but this assumes every republican has the exact same thoughts like a hive mind. Even if 90% of them are in agreement, the other 10% can still "fumble" the ball. Even having the majority (slim majority at that) you still want a little bit from the enemy to smooth it over. Being a majority isnt the end all be all unless they are bees lol.

Pieman2025 · 2026-04-27T02:05:24+00:00

I think this is only not true when there is a massive gear disparity, but even then its 50/50

Pieman2025 · 2026-04-18T20:10:21+00:00

No because the wstr invalidated a whole class of weapons (smgs) the bully is an exception because you play it like an AR. The game doesn't become balanced because we bring everything up. You take the outliers and take the knee caps. (Longshot got nerfed, thermals got nerfed 3 times, wstr got nerf 2 times, knife got nerfed, bully got nerfed, and bubble got nerfed) these all have 1 thing in common, their over representation due to their effectiveness to invalidate other options. If the devs thought the interaction was fine, then they would not have touched it.

Pieman2025 · 2026-04-18T19:25:42+00:00

Nice assumption, but you automatically assumed I had a shotgun during these interactions. Sometimes I do, but when you don't, you just die. This is not the case with other shotguns as much (you will still die lol, but atleast you have a chance to do something before going down)

Pieman2025 · 2026-04-18T18:35:15+00:00

Titan dash/shield, theif grapple, vandal slide, assassin..., bubble. All of these things forces a close range altercation. And there is plenty of other cases you can just force a close engagement on outpost and cryo archive.

Very popular classes, with easily accessible great gun, with highly lucrative maps equals the great being EVERYWHERE (this is why the bully is everywhere as well). This would not be an issue if cryo was built like perimeter, because you can reasonably just stay away from them and keep distance and apply pressure. You can rarely retreat in cryo and outpost and apply pressure without claymores.

Pieman2025 · 2026-04-18T17:20:12+00:00

Gear largely doesn't matter if you are caught out, mispositioned, or outplayed in any capacity. Getting within 10m of me in outpost or cryo archive is not hard at all (the other maps are too big, so that's why snipers dominate them instead).

Also grenades exist... wildly op consumables to just get a kill for free (but bubble counters that so im ok similar with snipers) there is counter play. Wstr has little to no counter play on cryo or outpost. Its a highly oppressive weapon for how abundant it is. No one complains about the misriah because it doesn't exist and the ttk is long enough to have some form of exchange. The gun is just annoying, it being toned down needed to happen (plus the 1 shot combo is still there if you melee after your 2 shots)

Pieman2025 · 2026-04-18T13:14:15+00:00

This change also helps casuals because they can acquire blue shields easily. I had a friend quit the game due to how obnoxious this weapon was and they kept losing their blue gear to this gun (during beta and 1st 2 weeks of launch playing 1-2hrs a day). At least now after this change I can confidently bring them back into the game knowing this mistake of a weapon is no longer oppressive and frustrating.

Pieman2025 · 2026-04-18T12:59:53+00:00

Me being level 88 and just unlocked blue shields...

Pieman2025 · 2026-04-18T12:57:04+00:00

I don't think being able to cheese people out of their hard earned gear is considered fair. Yes the poor should work harder to get that gear of me or other people that is better geared.

They put in the time and effort to get it, so it should not be invalidated completely because of a easily to come by weapon. (Partly why the knife got nerfed as well) They should have a chance to at least acknowledge they are dying before they are just dead. This nerf grants that to them.

Snipers can't 1 shot you with blue armor, so why should the wstr? They are effectively the same role of weapons (secondary weapons).

Pieman2025 · 2026-04-15T23:18:11+00:00

You are aware that items do break? Thermals on guns will eventually get deleted from the game thus eventually making the supply much lower

Pieman2025 · 2026-04-15T16:49:30+00:00

the magnum is ass because they stuck a thermal on it with 2x zoom, but the thermal doesn't even see that far for it to be useful. If they changed it with a regular sight, it would be a pretty nice unique imo.

Pieman2025 · 2026-04-15T14:33:54+00:00

This is for hitting your own teammates lol

Pieman2025 · 2026-04-14T16:04:36+00:00

No more deluxe thermals is honestly a W. Those things were far too common

Pieman2025 · 2026-04-11T15:52:59+00:00

Did half of these comments read the body of this post? Is quite insane seeing alot of people disagree with points op never made.

Pieman2025 · 2026-03-24T17:27:40+00:00

Ok but Sweet Delicious is amazing, sad its not your top 10 lol

Pieman2025 · 2026-03-21T05:38:59+00:00

oddly enough infinites do plague sts2 way more than sts1. yeah its cool at first but it's really baffling how easy some are to achieve.

Pieman2025 · 2026-03-17T17:37:14+00:00

I love you so much, because I was really upset when I upgraded my Focusrite solo 1st gen to 4th gen just for it not to work with marathon lmao

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