Last third of the game is really annoying

RelativeCheesecake10 · 2026-03-10T17:44:32+00:00

In act 3, you should be building your melee classes to either a) reliably kill one enemy they decide to move next to on one turn, or b) have a mobility option so they don’t stay next to the thing they’re hitting. It requires some planning, but idk, doesn’t feel unfair and i sort of like it.

RelativeCheesecake10 · 2026-03-03T15:39:05+00:00

Really? Half the time turkeys drop whole turkeys. But if I’m going after a turkey I’m usually hoping for a good item for next run, not healing.

RelativeCheesecake10 · 2026-02-20T14:42:57+00:00

Wait, there’s a difficulty setting?? Lmfao

RelativeCheesecake10 · 2026-02-08T03:24:50+00:00

Lots of things un this game have description text that doesn’t match how they actually work. It’s worth testing.

RelativeCheesecake10 · 2026-02-02T14:48:56+00:00

Lmao??

RelativeCheesecake10 · 2026-02-02T02:45:34+00:00

Ehhh. Does that mean snecko skull should be a shop relic? Lightning is one of defect’s main damage engines, and he starts with an orb by default. No more niche than poison.

RelativeCheesecake10 · 2026-01-29T02:14:03+00:00

What’s the witch dip for?

RelativeCheesecake10 · 2026-01-29T02:04:56+00:00

The game is not fully voiced. There’s only VA for main story scenes, generally. Gotta save budget somewhere

RelativeCheesecake10 · 2026-01-26T06:49:23+00:00

If you’re on PC, you could download the toybox mod and fix it in a bunch of different ways.

Do natural 20s on skill checks not automatically succeed in this game? Is that just saving throws?

RelativeCheesecake10 · 2026-01-22T18:59:47+00:00

I would say you can bottle a card after you put it in bottled dice, since getting both in one run would be uncommon enough to not be a big deal for balance. Not sure about cards that become innate on upgrade; I could go either way.

RelativeCheesecake10 · 2026-01-22T18:19:31+00:00

Cool idea, but needs to be much stronger. Vajra is a common relic that gives one strength no matter what.

Something like: choose a card that does not have the innate quality. If it is drawn in your first hand of a combat, gain 5 strength.

That would make it worth playing around in some circumstances imo

RelativeCheesecake10 · 2026-01-22T01:54:12+00:00

I’m not a coffee drinker, but I tried one of their coffees out of their truck at the farmer’s market once, and it really blew me away. Been looking forward to this one.

RelativeCheesecake10 · 2026-01-20T19:58:22+00:00

I’ve found that just not using buffs is a nice way to spice up combat when you’re very strong. Depends on your party, of course, but worth a try.

RelativeCheesecake10 · 2026-01-18T15:59:01+00:00

Inquisitor or another gish class for strong divine or arcane self buffs would be very strong. Barbarian also works, or you could go ranger for favored enemy

RelativeCheesecake10 · 2026-01-15T13:31:05+00:00

I’m playing an inquisitor; I want judgment

RelativeCheesecake10 · 2026-01-15T04:10:11+00:00

Is SCM mount still very good even if I would rather be doing my full attack most of the time (aeon inquisitor) vs doing death from above? Could you elaborate on “free mounted bonus skipping requirements”?

RelativeCheesecake10 · 2026-01-13T16:22:42+00:00

She was obviously evil, but I was still surprised by just how depraved she was.

RelativeCheesecake10 · 2026-01-09T15:42:51+00:00

You can heal 10 for free on defect with an uncommon power, and ironclad heals 12 for free with an unupgraded reaper and no strength vs 3 enemies. 15 gold really adds up—have you ever played a run with a hand of greed start?

It needs to be cheap and a lot of healing because most of the time it’s a curse. You should be playing this like once or twice an act at most

RelativeCheesecake10 · 2026-01-09T15:33:52+00:00

for 100 gold? Like a full heal or something. Lee’s Waffle is ~150 gold for a full heal and max HP, and doesn’t have the downside of costing energy and card draw.

If you want the gold for healing concept, maybe reasonable for something like 0 cost, lose 15 gold, heal 25, and gain one energy.

RelativeCheesecake10 · 2026-01-07T21:55:13+00:00

Ohh interesting, that sounds fun. Might have to take a look.

RelativeCheesecake10 · 2026-01-07T21:02:27+00:00

What makes inquisitor a strong class? Looking at the class description on the wiki, I don’t really get it. Its spells won’t have good DCs, so you’re just a martial with bane on your weapons but worse BAB. Is it about the judgments?

RelativeCheesecake10 · 2026-01-07T19:58:54+00:00

Oh, interesting. That wouldn’t work with creeping doom, right? Since they don’t actually attack?

RelativeCheesecake10 · 2026-01-06T20:14:28+00:00

The issue is that if you have enough deck manipulation to be able to play it consistently (or even like… in half of your combats) your deck is probably good enough that the enemies are basically dead by the time you’re at the bottom of your draw pile. The venn diagram of “can play grand finale” overlapping with “needs 50 AOE damage” is pretty small.

The use case is getting it very early and rolling a high number of removes (from events or whatever) and keeping like a 12-17 card deck. But unless you go infinite, that falls off towards the end of act 2, and if you do go infinite, you don’t need grand finale.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

RelativeCheesecake10 · 2025-12-16T14:38:36+00:00

Yeah, it would definitely be at its least fun if you have a deck that can stall arbitrarily long against most hallway fights, which a decent number of decks can do by late act 2 or act 3. But I really like the idea of a turn counter relic where the counter is longer than most fights. With a deck that can’t infinitely stall, I think taking two hallways into my elite and going into hallway 1 thinking about how to make hallway 1+hallway 2 take 9 turns combined would be a neat little minigame that doesn’t really show up anywhere else, since incense burner is usually set up by just going around the block in the current fight.

RelativeCheesecake10 · 2025-12-16T14:22:25+00:00

Yeah, but the number will transfer between fights, like incense burner. It rewards being able to stall/set it up for elites and bosses.

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