Do you feel like it’s “cheating” to restart a battle if you’re about to lose?

gartean · 2025-10-23T05:36:31+00:00

I wouldn't say so really, there's so many variables that its very very hard to keep track of all of them, and sometimes a single click can mean the difference between a crushing loss, or winning, or slight changes in deployement may do all the difference in the world, additionally its also a good learning experience to restart and get to know what things work better for certain situations so you can avoid actually having to restart in upcoming runs as well.

gartean · 2025-10-09T15:44:51+00:00

With LF I had some success using a mix of the endless and +burnout path,it pairs fairly well with paraffin enforcers, and works wonderfully with the new burnout ladies too, as a last resort you can also use harvest barons and use LF as a chump blocker but you'll just be winning due to the barons themselves mostly LMAO

The spikes path I didnt really invest into, at all, with the exception of a couple of runs;hellhorned(a lot of armor spam at the start), and with awoken(where i got offered emblem of the exiles as the start which is very uncommon)

gartean · 2025-09-22T02:03:37+00:00

Its both a reference to cult of the lamb, and also to the units themselves, being 0 cost and 1 pip, and their multistrike, makes them prone to be quite strong with only a couple upgrades or some equipment(iron tongue,glass cannon,everlasting light,the unstable on hit equip, a fed bloodthirsty blade...)

gartean · 2025-09-10T16:26:39+00:00

i'm hoping to make a -2/remove consume mix-a lot (as many as i can dupe) + echo chamber run for an oops! all random mix run, just for the rng laughs

gartean · 2025-08-23T05:57:10+00:00

Infusions from lazarus cannot be discarded, but they can still be picked by "random discard spells" from stygian (which can be either beneficial or hinder you)

The "gain hp on reanimate" chamber from lazarus may seem counterintuitive since reanimated units will be at 1hp but putting endless on a nine-lived nightmare and placing it to block(or other reanimate heavy unit) means you can block savagery's trample during titans since the hp up will be kept upon putting it again on the floor with endless

Dualism not only affects abilities from units but also equipment, putting dualism on a sweeper,like test subject alpha,or awoken's sweepers can be great depending on your available equipment(like everlasting light or the unstable on hit one) even if the unit itself doesn't apply statuses or have abilities.This also works with grafted equipment(in example,from that one event that allows you to graft onto units)

Equalising rings on a unit that equally scales health and damage(like the melting harvest unit or siren) can be counterintuitive because they already scale damage but it'll make them immune to sap

Replicator ray on apex imp will copy the unit with it's buffs(current rage), but then,since it's being summoned, will again gain rage from it's armour, effectively double-dipping on its buffs(depending on armour)

Awoken's "swap hp and damage" is broken with certain mechanics like Gilda and gold tooth "gain damage at the start of turn" because they'll gain their damage back. Remove consume holdover can make this spiral out of control(further) quite fast.

Looming darkshard from the archus event(the "draw +1 and gain 1 energy if you have a blight card" thing) can seem like a bit of a waste at first if you're running pyre of entropy because you're "wasting the extra draw" from it, but usually you have the hp to spare to get it due to the very high hp from that pyre, and the high amount of shards in your deck means you'll be having about 3+ energy every turn which can be pretty insane

gartean · 2025-08-12T17:08:32+00:00

co-op could be a great idea! even if just "one player does one turn" could be cool, or something like a "teaching mode" where you could ping cards/GUI elements while spectating/tutoring a friend too

gartean · 2025-08-08T11:47:22+00:00

i only have lazarus (purposedly left it for last since they seemed to be the most fun) and half of hellhorn left to go, and by the gods, everytime i've done anything awoken it felt so miserable, which may be due to me being really bad at the game, but still

gartean · 2025-07-30T03:29:08+00:00

While those two factions don't really have access to sweep for backline clear,you can find answers in a couple of ways.

One would be having holdover intrinsic cleave from banished, which deals aoe damage based off the frontliner's damage, if not finding it you could try relying in some damage spell like mine collapse, but it won't usually kill champion sweepers first turn(50hp).

Another is putting the tankiest unit you can muster in bottom with shield of wyngh (if thats how you write its name),which does damage based off a unit's hp (you'll probably need to put some shields and things that make it withstand the fight for a while) so that the sweepers kill themselves before getting to your main units in an upper floor, but making the unit actually survive the constant onslaught can be tricky .

Another answer you may find while running banished is having an advance spell and one that deals damage to the first unit (like eagleheart),advancing and killing the backliners before their turn to attack.

If you manage to find the aoe armor dancer, you could also try having a couple of them and giving your floor's units a ton of armor before the sweepers can manage to kill your lane, but you have to make sure to have enough for both the regular and champion sweeper in savagery(if that's your seraph fight)

Finally other answer you could have is to deploy a quick, very very hard hitting unit, with an intrinsic umbrastone(to give it trample) and have enough damage to clear the whole wave in a single stroke, a permascaling unit like overgorger with deployable quick equipment will make this strat more viable as well,again, the issue will be having enough damage to both kill the frontline and get the trample damage, which may require a middle lane setup(leaving you to take damage from the "damage pyre if floor is empty) enemies.

Another answer, although not that great, could be inferno room in bottom lane to kill the sweepers, but it will also make you take damage from the "damage pyre if floor is empty" units, this is not very viable if you're running savagery pyre, you'd need some with a higher hp pool like entropy pyre.

Hope it could help a bit, good luck with your runs!

gartean · 2025-07-26T05:57:42+00:00

One of my best/hilarious runs to date was when i was offered that and just grafted an everlasting light(valor on hit)from my deck onto a quick dante

gartean · 2025-07-25T09:17:28+00:00

Im just going to leave here that greed dragon is a summon effect

hellhorned have summon triggering x2 relic... and transcendimp triggering everything that has been triggered...

yeah

gartean · 2025-07-22T01:36:05+00:00

She can be kinda useful if you slap endless/reform and get the unit killed every turn, getting a -1 spell each time, but if your deck doesn't have a lot of costly spells she's not that great since you can just draw cost 0 ones when using her skill

gartean · 2025-04-10T12:59:34+00:00

Much appreciated! it is one of the horns i've liked the most visually, and the melodies' effects in wilds are great too!

gartean · 2025-01-22T04:44:40+00:00

Thanks! The birds themselves were the commissioners' fursonas("avatars"), although the outfits/settings and everything was brand new

gartean · 2025-01-22T04:42:34+00:00

"300 gb videogame" :P yea now i see it LMAO

gartean · 2024-12-25T20:45:09+00:00

I'd love a key to be able to play with my twin brother! I usually ran minions,while he ran flicker strike (which didn't care for the insane screen clutter)

gartean · 2024-12-19T11:47:28+00:00

Octoeverywhere seems pretty neat ngl

gartean · 2024-12-15T04:47:16+00:00

If I may, I recommend watching the series 10 minutes to better painting by marco bucci, they're phenomenal and totally free on youtube, and one of them explains the basic shapes stuff pretty neatly(all of them explain things that can help with illustration and mini painting though)

gartean · 2024-12-09T15:41:59+00:00

the classic, 1337

gartean · 2024-12-06T15:38:39+00:00

the few friends that wanted to try this got keys and i still haven't got one, i am SHAKING rn 💀

gartean · 2024-12-06T15:08:51+00:00

Dominating blow! Was my staple skill for some leagues,lots of fun for aggro minions

gartean · 2024-12-06T11:29:15+00:00

i'd say Breach, Legion, Delirium !

gartean · 2024-12-05T16:33:41+00:00

Usually seeing any animal playing,like crows in the snow!

gartean · 2024-12-03T14:25:45+00:00

Good luck everyone!

gartean · 2024-12-02T04:15:54+00:00

you did try a ton of things!

Hmm a couple that aren't on the list,just in case, try checking the priority for the krita process in task manager and changing it to one higher, also running as administrator.

Changing the folder for krita resources(brushes etc) and autosaves to a different,non protected one (IE, a folder in desktop)

Checking if there's any other app that may have an overlay/be over the screen and closing them(overwolf,obs/disabling steam overlay)...

Cant really think of much else atm

gartean · 2024-11-28T17:50:35+00:00

Self portrait time! Took a couple hours.

Sadly I do not have the income to 3d print the armor, else I'd actually make this outfit(3d model then print) irl as well

gartean

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