Switching to different characters on a lower Ascension let me get back in the habit of playing properly, of taking calculated risks, and building towards 'good enough to win' rather than 'impossible to lose.' You don't need to perfect two bosses at Asc 20 you just need to be able to beat one of them fairly quickly, and then find lethal against the next one a turn before they find lethal against you. And the more I died, the more I was convinced that the difficulty was so high that only this high-risk/reward strategy could possibly be successful. While that's nice when it happens - and this final Defect run certainly qualified - it made me play really sloppy and risky since, hey, if I don't high-roll and get lucky, I'm not going to get a successful run anyways! So I'd just take every possible risk and then die. I think when I took the first couple losses at Asc 20, I internalized a really bad lesson, which was that I had to build something that could almost perfect two bosses. Switched back to Silent, got a win in about 5 runs, then switched to Defect and got it in about 5 runs. Took a break and brought the other classes to 19, banged my head against 20 some more with the Silent, and then finally got a win with the Ironclad. Essentially I was banging my head against Asc 20 with the Defect first, and just losing over and over and over again. The stats above don't really tell the whole story. 6 attempts to get 1 win with the Silent (but it also took 30 something attempts to get an Asc 19 victory, whereas the other classes took 2 and 1 respectively)Īfter having beaten it a handful of times, I'm starting to feel more comfortable with it? It's definitely a big jump from 19 to 20, but it's a weird kind of jump that really unsettled me. 12 attempts to get 1 win with the Ironclad 26 attempts to get 1 win with the Defect Bosses were Shapes and then the Bird, neither of which taxed the deck at all. At that point it was pretty much all she wrote - just kept picking up Stacks and upgrading them when I could, thinning out the deck, etc. That combination probably was enough to cruise easily through Act 2, at which point I also picked up Creative AI (for boss fights, I figured) and the Necronomicon (promptly making the Creative AI superfluous). Took a Meteor Strike from the Act 1 boss, since I was floating energy now and again already, and then took Snecko Eye (heyyy) when it was offered. Got Ice Cream from the 2nd Elite while picking up Stack and Genetic Algorythm. Picked up an extremely early Hyperbeam on sale at my first shop, and bottled it shortly thereafter. Things just lined up nicely on this one, such that I wasn't ever really pressured after mid Act 1. In retrospect, should have removed Cleave too, but whatever.Īnd that's Ascension 20 is down with all 3 classes! :biggrin: Also managed to live the dream of removing every single strike from the deck, which helped a ton. Little keeps up with 80 damage+ Bludgeons. Because the deck needed more power, right?īosses were Time Eater -> Awoken One, both who went down very easily. Which let me in turn buy Chemical X, Du Vu Doll, Torii, Thread and Needle & Pear.

Then in act 3 i got to live the Mind Bloom - I Am Rich/Courier/Omamori dream. Floor 30 was Gremlin Nob who gave me Immolate, and right after i got a shop that let me pick up Whirlwind. But managed to get all the way to floor 30 off that, Disarm and Flame Barrier (plus good ol Meat on the Bone). Bludgeon and Demon Form + Mercury Hourglass (Which did serious work), which is not really where you want to be. Dammit.įor most of Act 2 it's only damage was. Feel bad moment of the day was skipping Bludgeon for Offering after the A1 boss, only to immediately get Snecko. Got an amazingly crap score for it, which is sad, because this was so much fun to play. Season with Feel No Pain, True Grit and Burning Pact, then serve.

Okay, tiny by my standards, but still! Picked up bludgeon from Neow, and basically shaped everything around getting to beat people, birbs, plants and everything else into submission. A nice way to round the night off is with a tiny Snecko eye deck.

New slay the spire seeds released