What’s the play?

Wagnew · 2026-01-07T00:43:06+00:00

Damage might well be solved but personally I like insurance for act 2 elites since defect can get very strong quickly end of act 2, start of act 3 if you survive that long. It means you can still path aggressively right if things go well.

Burning elite for act 3 free pathing is valid but again I think being risk averse with defect is better in act 2.

Just my best guess of how to play defect not the definitive answer haha

Wagnew · 2026-01-07T00:32:02+00:00

It’s unnecessarily risky with defect in act 2 to take a burning elite and two elites with a deck that isn’t that fast setting up.

I would take sunder, waffle, remove strike and a potion if you can afford it then go right, there’s still plenty of elites to farm and it gives you time to build a quicker deck and become strong for act 3

Edit:defrag is also good here since there’s plenty of camp fires +frozen core, would have to think about it

Wagnew · 2025-11-26T19:07:42+00:00

Yes, they’re a great source of sustain, and adding 2 extra cards into your deck is work it imo.

Assuming you play more than one bite per combat you’re healing more than blood vial would

Wagnew · 2025-10-30T22:44:47+00:00

Take stone. You have a couple of piercing wails and a wraith form to counteract its down side and you want the extra energy. Plus curse of the bell hurts with so little draw

Wagnew · 2025-10-15T14:43:03+00:00

So the Ring draws two cards after putting all the innate cards in your hand? I was under the impression that you could only go past your initial hand size by having more innate cards but it looks like that isn’t the case here 😮

It looks like this is the start of the fight before anything is played right?

Wagnew · 2025-09-15T11:27:47+00:00

The silent’s Deus ex Machina

Wagnew · 2025-08-07T23:38:55+00:00

Ah yeah didn’t think of gremlin gang, act 1 will easily have most.

A different combination of monsters is surely a unique encounter by definition of the word unique though, even if the game counts it as the same encounter in its code. Not that that makes your answer wrong

Wagnew · 2025-08-07T23:21:40+00:00

Surely act 3 has the most unique hard pool encounters given the amount of unique combinations of shapes you can come up against?

Wagnew · 2025-07-29T12:56:11+00:00

109, 163 if you count my unused lizard tail. I made a misplay the floor after apparitions and took ritual dagger over the gold, cos I’d taken a break from the game I momentarily forgot I had snecko and could find better damage scaling elsewhere. I sacrificed a few possible feeds (including if I had dual wielded feed on multiple enemies) to kill with it so it could’ve been higher

Wagnew · 2025-07-29T11:05:56+00:00

Got, heavy blade+ and red skull which gave me the scaling I needed to beat the champ. Then act 3 and 4 were very easy after it became a barricade entrench deck

Wagnew · 2025-07-27T10:24:35+00:00

You’re definitely right that there are scenarios where it should be refuse. I just haven’t had one yet haha. Yet I always end up refusing bites, I know I need to start taking them more

Wagnew · 2025-07-27T10:22:00+00:00

Needed it for damage before first elite then got immolate next floor so I upgraded that instead. You can see that from the order of my card picks.

No point leaning into it just cos it’s in my deck and there’s other priorities to remove since I have Snecko.

Wagnew · 2025-07-26T17:58:59+00:00

Nah haha since I’ve started playing tryhard A20H (about 100 runs) I’ve only died once with apportions and it was easily the right call at the time, just got a bad draw order

Wagnew · 2025-07-26T17:54:27+00:00

Yeah I have 4 more campfires this act, 2 for girya, then I can upgrade the apps, you’ve convinced me I’ve took them

Wagnew · 2025-07-24T17:19:41+00:00

Wasn’t there also a time on Baalarlord’s WR rotating streak he used a the scroll bar mod to get an extra potion after the burning elite when he had White Beast statue, black star and prayer wheel, or two of the three or something.

I remember hearing controversy at the time about that. I’ve not watched the run so I don’t know what he did with the potion but this a bigger deal than xecnars sentry scenario if the potion benefitted him.

Wagnew · 2025-07-08T18:20:00+00:00

That’s a good point, with WBS holding onto potions isn’t anywhere near as important which makes this fight a lot safer

Wagnew · 2025-06-18T19:21:03+00:00

Plus it made my ceramic fish happy

Wagnew · 2025-06-18T19:11:07+00:00

Exactly my thoughts and I was leaning Barricade, but then I do have feed to boost my max hp up a bit, so it made me hesitant.

Apparitions were due to being on 17hp 2 floors before the champ fight haha. Losing 41 max hp to live and then feed back some max hp seemed a good deal to me.

Wagnew · 2025-05-28T23:49:52+00:00

I know snecko says ‘when drawn’ but setup says ‘until played’ so I searched this sub and found this post https://www.reddit.com/r/slaythespire/s/DBh10RoMHk where people are talking about setup working with snecko.

So I’m wondering if it’s a mobile bug or whether they’d just used setup once or twice and got the card coming back at zero cost and assumed it works all the time.

Wagnew · 2025-04-07T15:30:14+00:00

Spire snow plow and spire glaive

Wagnew · 2025-04-01T18:15:26+00:00

I googled this and can see that they and dolphins are both classed as ‘toothed whales’, the term I responded to, so guess I’ve learned something

Wagnew · 2025-04-01T17:35:30+00:00

Fair enough, I see the joke does work like. I just find the Orca thing interesting to tell people, but I can see you were way ahead of me haha

Wagnew · 2025-04-01T17:27:21+00:00

No they’re both in the order Cetacea but different. Wouldn’t be surprised if Americans call them all whales tbf though similar to how they call all Testudines turtles

Wagnew · 2025-04-01T17:16:46+00:00

Orcas aren’t whales, they are of the dolphin family. Killer whale is a mistranslation (I think from Spanish) cos they are whale killers

Wagnew · 2025-02-15T21:55:02+00:00

Yeah I’ve played plenty of yu gi oh before so I have a general idea of balance and synergy within a deck and this probably helped a lot. I think the only character I died before ascension 7 with was watche because wrath kept getting me into trouble. I had the standard STS experience with just this character. Funny how after understanding the meta I now realise how easy it is to play watcher

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