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its bullshit imo that summoned minions have 100% hp when you have insect
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I never had an infinite, but scrawl, inner peace, and bag of prep were my draw, which pretty much guarantees a good turn one and/or two. I thought this kind of thin deck just falls over late game without the rushdown to make it infinite, but apparently not.
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Mar 24, 2024 21:59
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ThermosAquaticus posted:Today I learned that the standard Watcher 'infinite' deck can crush A19 with a heart kill even if you never see a single rushdown. What a ludicrous character.
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Mar 25, 2024 10:01
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jesus WEP posted:its bullshit imo that summoned minions have 100% hp when you have insect That's balanced by summoned minions not getting Strength from Philo Stone.
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Mar 25, 2024 10:37
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It's also why summoned minions don't get the burning elite buff.
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Mar 25, 2024 14:28
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Zephro posted:Wrath should be 1.5x damage in / damage out, change my mind. Wrath should've been a flat +damage instead of % boost. Watcher's entire deal is slapping things dozens of times (Bowling Bash, Flurry of Blows, Flying Sleeves, Follow Up, Just Lucky, Talk to the Hand, Tantrum, Weave, Ragnarok, Wreath of Flame, Conjure Blade), Wrath should've played into that instead of being a straight boost. Something like +4 or +5 flat damage while in the stance, while still taking double damage, would've been both much easier to balance around and connect more interestingly with her card set.
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Mar 25, 2024 15:11
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I found an interesting case around the way numbers round. Starting against the byrds with red mask, the 1x6 attacks are reduced by 25%, which is then rounded down to 0x6.  But then playing eruption doesn't double the 0x6 to 0x6 - it increases it back to 1x6.  So it's like the game is storing the actual attack as 0.75x6 (and then rounding down the 0.75), and then after eruption doubling it to 1.5x6 (and rounding that down to 1x6).
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Mar 25, 2024 15:33
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It's not really storing anything, the damage you see is the output of a formula. Byrds deal 1x6 and relevant modifiers are applied on top of that. So it goes from 1 * .75 (rounding down to zero) to 1 * .75 * 2 (rounding down to 1).
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Mar 25, 2024 16:15
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Things also get weirder with paper crane and vulnerability on you.
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Mar 25, 2024 16:16
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That behaviour makes sense to me- it would be more confusing for weakness to have some kind of priority over wrath.
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Mar 25, 2024 16:19
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Arrhythmia posted:That behaviour makes sense to me- it would be more confusing for weakness to have some kind of priority over wrath. Somewhere, a medieval theologian is nodding and carefully taking notes.
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Mar 27, 2024 11:43
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Last night on an ironclad run I killed the transient for the first time. I woke up this morning to find a message from my brother in law that said, “first time doing this feat,” accompanied by a screen shot of him on an ironclad run ready to play a card that will kill the transient. Some times the universe is an extra coincidental. I love this game, and the universe, so much.
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Mar 27, 2024 13:27
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Welcome to the i love this game club!
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Mar 27, 2024 13:34
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I am at the Act 4 shop and I'm trying to figure out if a plan will work vs the Shield and Spear and the Heart. I'm playing on A1 and I'm thinking about buying a Bag of Marbles and Bottled Lightning. I have a Champion Belt (apply 1 weak when applying vulnerable) which compliments the Bag of Marbles nicely when it applies vulnerable at the start of combat. I am thinking of Bottling Shockwave+ to open the fight with a whole poo poo ton of Vulnerable and Weak on every enemy. What kind of artifact do these enemies start with? Ultimately what I'd like to understand is if Bag of Marbles + Champion Belt + Bottled Shockwave is going to be an effective means to debilitate the final two combats on turn 1 or if artifact is going to ruin my plan. There are lots of other juicy possibilities at this shop, but this is my favorite plan, assuming artifact isn't going to block all that.
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Mar 27, 2024 20:40
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Shield and Spear start with 1 artifact (2 at A18), Heart does not start with artifact but will add 2 on turn 4. So for the two jerks, Marbles will hit their artifact and you could Shockwave them... but usually you're better off (at least before A18 when the Spear adds one more fun wrinkle) trying to kill the Spear ASAP. Depending on your deck, particularly on your attacks, you might be better off with the fifth card than guaranteeing Shockwave.
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Mar 27, 2024 20:49
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Champ belt only applies the weakness if the vulnerable is actually applied, pretty sure. Bag of Marbles will strip just one artifact layer, which is fine for up to 117 and your shockwave will do X vulnerable and X+1 Weakness(number depends on upgrade). This will not work as well if you are on A18+ cause they have two artifacts, so you only apply weakness with shockwave
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Mar 27, 2024 20:51
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Wildtortilla posted:I am at the Act 4 shop and I'm trying to figure out if a plan will work vs the Shield and Spear and the Heart. If vuln is blocked by artifact, champ's belt doesn't apply weak. Still worth doing bag of marbles probably; depends what else is in the shop.
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Mar 27, 2024 20:52
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Six months into his current challenge Baalor still hasn't pushed his IC streak past 11 or 12. I kinda wish he had set his sights a bit lower with Ascension 1-20 runs. Easier for sure but some variety as new obstacles come up. I miss last year's challenge. Those runs really were different.
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Mar 29, 2024 07:57
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Tayter Swift posted:Six months into his current challenge Baalor still hasn't pushed his IC streak past 11 or 12. I kinda wish he had set his sights a bit lower with Ascension 1-20 runs. Easier for sure but some variety as new obstacles come up. I feel like he's gonna burn himself out trying grindy challenges like that instead of creative ones.
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Mar 29, 2024 12:00
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im trying to master the defect so i’d really like it if he gave up and started doing more defect runs
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Mar 29, 2024 12:02
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What is Baalor challenging himself to do?
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Mar 29, 2024 12:32
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jesus WEP posted:im trying to master the defect so i’d really like it if he gave up and started doing more defect runs Xecnar is trying for a 20 streak defect run and is currently on 14 right now.
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Mar 29, 2024 12:48
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Tayter Swift posted:Six months into his current challenge Baalor still hasn't pushed his IC streak past 11 or 12. I kinda wish he had set his sights a bit lower with Ascension 1-20 runs. Easier for sure but some variety as new obstacles come up. He said he's going to switch to Silent after he takes next week off. It's not as fun as last year's, but I've enjoyed playing IC while listening to his stream and I've gotten a lot better because of it. I now can regularly drop a couple A20 HK wins in a row, but I haven't gotten to 3 yet.
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Mar 29, 2024 14:07
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Wildtortilla posted:Every time I get back into this game it’s really fun for a few to several days then I hit the same walls and I feel stupid and spend a day angry about video games then I don’t play it for a long time. I'm zooming back through my old posts to see how much I've grown to understand this game, and this one from Dec 3 of last year stuck out to me. It was my relationship with this game for almost 3 years. Play for a bit, get grumpy and something that was "unfair", and then don't play for a long time. Now I'm coming up on playing daily for four months and I like it more every day. I'm so glad this game clicked, but it never would have without this helpful and friendly thread. 
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Mar 29, 2024 15:36
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Tayter Swift posted:Six months into his current challenge Baalor still hasn't pushed his IC streak past 11 or 12. I kinda wish he had set his sights a bit lower with Ascension 1-20 runs. Easier for sure but some variety as new obstacles come up. He already did ladder challenges a couple of years ago.
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Mar 29, 2024 16:26
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Wildtortilla posted:What is Baalor challenging himself to do? Twenty A20H win streaks for all four characters, non-rotating. I mean they're fine, I've learned a lot about IC, it's still StS and they're still a great nightcap to fall asleep to (Baalor's the best ASMR out there) but they are more or less hundreds of vanilla IC StS runs and it's a bit monotonous. And I doubt they're ever going to give us this, my favorite StS run in history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_t1sjoJufI
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Tayter Swift posted:Twenty A20H win streaks for all four characters, non-rotating. I mean they're fine, I've learned a lot about IC, it's still StS and they're still a great nightcap to fall asleep to (Baalor's the best ASMR out there) but they are more or less hundreds of vanilla IC StS runs and it's a bit monotonous. Last year’s card mastery challenge was … just so fun.
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Mar 30, 2024 06:55
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Whoa I have a rough selection of boss relics after Act 1 - Frozen Core, Ectoplasm, and Runic Dome. If you have Runic Dome, do cards like Go for the Eyes glow yellow if an enemy is attacking. This is the first time I’ve considered passing on a boss relic.
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Mar 30, 2024 13:09
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Wildtortilla posted:Whoa I have a rough selection of boss relics after Act 1 - Frozen Core, Ectoplasm, and Runic Dome. Yes go for the eyes will still glow Frozen core isn't that bad, it will generate a frost orb once per turn if you end it with an open orb slot. That's a lot more orbs per combat than the starter relic, you just need to adjust your play style accordingly and try to leave an open orb slot every turn you can to maximize it. So yeah, I'd take core there!
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Mar 30, 2024 13:20
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I’m leaning toward frozen core, too. I picked up ice cream and bottled an Aggregate+, so energy isn’t much of an issue because I can make a bunch of it on turn 1 and it’s usually enough to snowball into an energy excess.
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Mar 30, 2024 13:36
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That extra frost orb isnt usually that useful on the turn you get it but the faster you're filling your orb slots the closer you are to evoking them so it pays off future turns.
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Mar 30, 2024 13:44
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On the other hand, Runic Dome is often really good on Defect.
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OctaviusBeaver posted:On the other hand, Runic Dome is often really good on Defect. Can you elaborate? I don’t have enemy patterns memorized so it feels like a bad pick.
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Wildtortilla posted:Can you elaborate? I don’t have enemy patterns memorized so it feels like a bad pick. If you set-up frost orbs in one turn (any combination of things like lots of focus, multiple loops, tons of orb slots ), you are generating a lot of block on any turn and enemy intent is largely irrelevant. Of course, developing a kill strat alongside this is paramount (like dark orb sitting somewhere and going sky high before dualcast or multicast, blizzard,, having frost and lightning orbs together with lots of focus, having creative A.I generating powers till bullshit comes together etc).
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Mar 30, 2024 14:13
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man i really like coffee dripper but i’m not a fan of getting it in a boss swap. the extra energy doesn’t prevent enough chip damage through the first half of act 1 unless i pick up a floor 1 sunder or something
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if frozen core generates more than 1 orb, then you don't have enough orb generation in your deck. trash relic. 
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Mar 30, 2024 20:34
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DontMockMySmock posted:if frozen core generates more than 1 orb, then you don't have enough orb generation in your deck. trash relic. end a turn on a dualcast and you can still count on a frost orb showing up and slap a few extra points of block on top for ya
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Mar 30, 2024 20:52
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Tenkaris posted:end a turn on a dualcast and you can still count on a frost orb showing up and slap a few extra points of block on top for ya yeah, that's how you get the 1 orb out of it. an entire boss relic for that, AND you gave up a lightning orb. rear end
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DontMockMySmock posted:if frozen core generates more than 1 orb, then you don't have enough orb generation in your deck. trash relic. This. I don't know if I've ever taken frozen core.
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A really aggravating Android bug is if save/leave the game after the Neow choice, you return to the penalty but not the reward. Burnt again.
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