Slay the Spire

3 eggs in a row before the first boss!

What a wacky run I just had.

On floor 7 I got offered Rainbow, Doom and Gloom, or Equilibrium. My deck needed more offense so I went with the Rainbow although I definitely considered the Doom and Gloom. I even upgraded the Rainbow on the next floor although I didn't know if that was the best choice.

Then on floor 14 I get offered another Rainbow. Do I need it? Probably not, but the other options weren't great and I had just gotten a Defragment so a double Rainbow sounded fun.

When I got offered a third Rainbow after defeating Hexaghost at the end of Act 1, I laughed. But I didn't want the Hyperbeam because my deck was entirely built around orbs, and whether or not the Machine Learning was the better choice the Rainbow seemed more fun.

After three Rainbows in Act 1, the RNG finally stopped offering me them...for the first half of Act 2. On floor 27 I get offered my fourth Rainbow. At this point I don't even care what the other options are. If RNGesus wants me to have another Rainbow I'll take another Rainbow.

So here I am, with a quadruple Rainbow deck. And...it's actually pretty good. I need a little more card draw and energy generation but I get a Compile Driver, another TURBO, and a Fission so those problems are solved.

This was such a fun run. I had a ton of good luck—great maps and a bunch of card removal and card upgrade opportunities but damn, it was fun.

I've been scouring all kinds of resale platforms for an English version of the boardgame to no avail. I found one guy selling the game basicslly new for 85€ and I hesitated for a couple days too long - got snatched by someone else. Now I'm playing 40€ more :') but I'm really looking forward to it - been thinking about buying the boardgame ever since it was teased on Kickstarter.

Let's see when it will be delivered (2nd quarter 2025 is all there is in terms of delivery date) 🤞🏻

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25878106

Fediverse channel handle: slaythespire@dalek.zone

This is me, some videos of my early adventures in Slay the Spire. This is not watching a pro beat the heart after a thousand hours. Looking at Steam this morning, I have all of 25 hours in, at least a quarter of those are the game being open overnight. I will continue to edit and put more videos of my journey out there. This is learning the game, learning Peertube, OBS, and ShotCut all at the same time!

Haven't played on my phone for a while and am sitting on A20 on all characters except Ironclad. Got an A20 win on Watcher some time ago and now, after playing a lot of Silent on my tablet, I got an A20 win on Silent.

Got a lot of good events and cards, and the combo of 3 Apparitions with Apotheosis plus the two Wraith Forms allowed me to just turtle behind intangible for days and just stack up the poison.

I do a defect run, I accrue bunch of skills, then I get nobbed.

I retry, get a claw deck going. But there is no All for one in sight. Avocado bops me with big hit, dead.

Then I meet neow again, transforms a card into reprogram. Gee, with a feeling that run is ruined, I build around the reprogram. Defragment and Biased Cognition shows up couple of times, but I already lost the way of focus. Finding and playing reprogram many times turn out to be incredibly difficult, reprogram often fails to turn up by turn 3. Reaches to boss with little health, dies to the Champ.

Then again, I retry in hopes of something better. In the way, I find key cards of Core Surge & Biased Cognition, and 2 Capacitors. Get millions of orb going with 5 focus, becomes literally unbeatable. Eventually, beat the heart with 7 icy orbs and 2 sparky orbs, cycling them around.

Next moment after credits, I find myself clicking Ironclad and I am back to Neow.. Damn, why is this game so much replayable? I cannot break out of it, Aaah

I've heard and seen a lot of good about it but I'm not sure if he price tag warrants a purchase. I might play a little solo but I'd probably look to play coop with up to four players.

Any experiences?

No ascension level but I've been struggling with this boss for a while so it was pretty satisfying to finally get a victory.

I had a few bad runs in a row including a really terrible one right before this. So I wasn't expecting much when I started a new run and picked the max HP boost out of the two options.

But then this seed just handed me a great shiv deck right from the start. Blade Dance from my first fight on floor 1, Accuracy from my second fight on floor 4, plus another Blade Dance I bought from the shop on floor 5. By floor 12 I was up to 3 Blade Dances with 2 of them upgraded, a Storm of Steel, and a Ninja Scroll relic. Shivs out the wazoo, not to mention the Bronze Thorns on floor 2 when I got the relic in the first try in that event that lets you sacrifice health for a chance to get a relic.

Despite the solid start, I was starting to get a little worried in the back half of Act 3. Between the Ninja Scroll and the high likelihood of 1 or more Blade Dance+ in my hand, the difference between drawing Accuracy+ in my starting hand or not was huge. I was so worried about it I even bought Lee's Waffle at a shop before Donu and Deca because I forgot that the Pantograph was already going to heal me before the boss.

Fortunately I drew the Accuracy+ turn 1 against the Sword and Shield. And just proceeded to wreck them. This deck felt really strong if the Accuracy+ came out early but a bad draw against the Heart would ruin me.

That's where the Bottled Lightning and Bottled Tornado earned from the S&S fight saved the day. Guaranteed a turn 1 Accuracy+ and Blade Dance+ which was a big improvement. But was this deck really strong enough for the Heart? I managed to do some solid damage from the get go but I was concerned about my survivability. The shields let me survive the first few rounds but I eventually needed to use the Wraith Form+. Time to do or die, kill the Heart before the Intangible wears out or lose.

But, alas, the Wraith Form+ wore off before I could deliver the final blow. Not even very close. 48 incoming damage and I only had 44 HP. It was a good run but once again the Heart had defea—hold up, I have Bronze Thorns and an active Caltrops+ and the boss is doing a 4x12 attack! Is this enough to kill the Heart before it kills me?

Well, yes, you already know from the post title. The retaliatory damage managed to take out the Heart before it killed me. I was very excited to have finally accomplished this. After so many attempts that I thought had a chance but eventually failed, it's very satisfying to be able to pull out this win.

Anyway, thanks for reading! Off to higher ascension levels for me now!

I'm not often a fan of Dead Branch runs because of how unpredictable they can be but this run was fueled by Shivs with the Shurikan and Kunai relics generating a ton of strength and dexterity so I was really just trying to play as many cards as possible every turn and see what fun Dead Branch created! Picking up an early Apotheosis certainly didn't hurt either as it meant I was happy to get Fusion Hammer for the extra energy per turn!

One of my favorites was a Defect deck which used seeks, double energy, and a dark orb to one shot Deca & Donu on turn one. Hearing the orb go off like 60 times was incredible.

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/6813726

Finished fanart for Slay the Spire featuring the four playable characters!

Let's continue to slay together!

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/6780750

Some more Slay the Spire fanart, this time featuring the Watcher! I like stacking a bunch of mantra cards and artifacts so that I can set off divinity every other turn or so.

Original WIP here

https://beehaw.org/post/6727515

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/6765303

Some more fanart for Slay the Spire, this one featuring the Silent!

WIP post here!

https://beehaw.org/post/6716734

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/6727515

I've been playing StS again recently and have been doing some more fanart for the characters! This one is the WIP I currently have for the Watcher!

Keep an eye out for other works in progress and finished pieces!

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/6701726

I've been playing Slay the Spire again recently and wanted to make some more fanart.

This one is for the Ironclad. I’ve also got the Watcher and the Silent doodled out and ready to post in the next few days.

Here is the Defect as well!

https://beehaw.org/post/6701622